Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1857-07-23

ly cofeed But bless you, you are wrong !!
you are not up to the philosophy" of Piper
vile.
AS you glance over the audience, you think
what an effect a different course of oratory
might have made How that in every beat
ing bosom before you there dwells a glowing
spirit and mind, coursing over world of
| thought as wide as your own and away down
in the depths of each bosom, perhaps buried,
there are deep feelings, which eloquent words
and stirring action might touch, and where
beautiful sentiments and noble thoughts would
meet hearty response. And you tell your
self how easily this is attained by an exhibit
tion," where young men are spurned on to re-
new the eloquence of the great minds of other
times, and young ladies are encouraged to add
the beauty of their forms and the music of
their voices to enliven the scenes. We shall
be rejoiced when every town over our coun-
try, breaking as Pperyille has, from the thral-
dom of custom, shall have its own Ceiebra-
ton" When interloping talent from abroad
with grand orations, shall have been displaced
by our own rational and domestic intellectual
enjoyments.
But our mental has been entertained and
and now we must administer to the wants of
the physical-we adjourn for supper. Your
fancy, if You have a taste for the natural and
picturesque may bring up the refreshing idea
of picnic, with its cold turkey, chicken-pie
and plum cake-and all the accompaniments
of cool shade, boquets and festoons around
rough table Absurd, sir The trouble of
preparing such table in the grove to be sure,
all lending hand, would be lttle-but did
you ever hear of any money being made BY
anybody out of q picnic Preposterous-
don't mention it /! The air of evening is balmy,
the company in fine spirits and supper goes off
we'll Mrs Jones is good cook Patriot
ism takes q sudden turn and speeches are
drowned in gallantry, small-talk and coffee.
1t is well you brought lady with you-bet-
ter you had been accompanied by two-for
let me whisper it in your ear as bit of phil
osophY known to but few outside of PiperEille,
that he who brings trco ladies has his supper
at half-pries, while the unfortunate fellow who
is not favored by the smiles or company Of
dulcina is supposed to eat four times as
much from having no one to wait on, and is
consequently charged doubIePrice. Its way
they have of cynaH-ipg things in Piperville I!
Our government have lately heard of il, and
talk of adopting it into our system of taxation,
whereby rich bachelors, and men without chill
dren are to support the large families of the
poor. Is not this plan worthy of PiperEille,
Mr. Editor, and its philosophizing inhabitants?
After supper come the promenades, which
it is needless to say, are delightful as your So
ciety is delightful, and after the promenades
come the other amusements of the evening
You do not repair reluctantly to the ballroom
when in the sunshine of beauty, and in the
whirl of the dance, the minutes wing pleasant
! y by. Or perhaps you do not dance-Sore
p>opls don't In which case you 20 to another
room where Blind Mans Buff. ' Suap-and-
catch-em" and the Coach Story make you
feel as though YOU were moi a diguifed editor:
aud if for moment your thoughts should wan
der 10 Bunker Hill, the secret Convention, or
the Continental Congress, charming pair of
eyes, or pretty pair of lips soon Danish all
such thoughts But where all this time is the
Madam You have forgotten her. fancy
see her just ahead Of me around the charm
ed circle, (ch0rming, meant but be easy,
sir, shall catch her Did yOu ever play
Moscow" BE careful or you will have 8
pdr-a to pay. and then you will have some hor
rid thing to do to redeem it.
But :" the Fourth is 50 near past that We
shall hardly have time 70 get home before
breach Is made on the ffth-and it closes up
so sgreeably that you vote most decidedly in
favor Of '' exhibitions
Decidedly yours,
East Piperviiler July 9Th. NEo.