Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1858-04-17

At q r. ney-
Is IA conplstsdi dis ON
s,,,r The keys6 his desk his cafe oT M Glory
dS,or then atisea the vision stEaightwaF eyeu
ine p,araiiss. Then for home Tor wife And babies
for dinner He aghts e his gate about five o'clock,
and goes up through 1 lawn green O. e,nersid over
walks smooth IS marble, and through shfubbsry %
car.fnlv trained and tended as blooded racer for
the DERBY day. The house ID Of yellow Portland
stone or else Of brick. stuccoed to cream colofi
This makes fine contrast With the green Of the To-
.pe At the door, John Bull is let in by the rosiest
and most wholesome Of servants very tidy and
.handy very obligng and obedient, but little too
obseouious in manner. In England, the laboring
classes are as subservlent certain class of Anne
rican help is saucy and impudent.
"What a bright glow breaks upon one in entering
an English home The walls are papered with q
warm tint the CRATE is blazing with rudy flame,
(no black holes in the floor for the hot air db infer
ms y the carpet is ankle deep in Wilton softness;
the good genius of hospitality floats in the very at
mosphere. By six o'clock halt dozen friends have
been set down at the door, and duly announced
by whitc.cravated footman. The gentlemen are
we'll dressed; the portly women sensi6ly dressed,
which is more than can be said of dinner.party in
Paris or at the hundred dollar feeds of Mrs. Poti
pher. When, as tho guest of the evening, you have
handed the lady of the house to the dining.room,
Won will find that everything that is stiff frigid in
John Bull or his woman kind is rapidly thawi"e
o's: rne dinner is bountiful and genuine Not tit
bits on three-score dishes, as on the continent. No
half.cooked experiments of new cooks and young
bousekeepers. 1t is solid roast-beef and plum
pudding affair. When Mr.. Bull wishes to honor
draft on his hospitality, he dresses his salmon and
roass his beef and toasts his grouse, and brings
his old Burgundy, which his grandfather bottled up
full five. and-twenty years ago. All these good
things punished through two mortal hours
and, in despite of Solomon and Neal Dow the com.
pany 'tarry long at the wine.' Not so bad though,
are the drinking usages as in days of yore. The
wine bottle is passed SO brsky, pressed upon
you so pertinaciOusly before the temperance re.
form SHE'D stone at the decanters' May live to
see the day when the last one is shattered.
"a French lady can give splendid entertainment
on two lemons. But it takes time, and toll, and ter
ribe sword exercise upon ribs and headquarters,
rounds and sirloins, before your are through with
an English dinner. At haltpast seven the ladies
withdraw to the parior, and then comes a short
grace and long talk over news, trade politics.
The Indian mutiny is discussed for the twentieth
tme-the suspension of the Bank charter-the new
reform project-the winner of the cup at the ST.
Leger race-the last serial of Boz-the proposal to
grow cotton in 1ndia-the Juror over Spurseon-
the launch of the unlaunched Leviathan. As an
American guest you will be asked scorce of oues-
tons about the men and movements ON this side Of
the water A vast deal of curiosity is felt in re-
gard to the very things that you will be least likely
to expect cross-questoning on. The vicar of the
parish \Nuo ConStdht SuSSI al Tic laOeS OF MS
hock) will inquire about the workings of the VOL
ountary system in American churches, and whether
our publicschool system comes up to our expecta-
tion?' Mr. High Tory says that he doesn't believe
any such system will answer at all in old Eng
LAND Captain Full Bottle will inquire of you wheth-
er there really is such a thing the Maine Law in
American Young Mr.. Ftztunny wishes you to
tell him what Mississippi sawyer is, and wheth-
er the border ruffiians are still troublesome in the
neighborhood of New York? On all sides you will
be beset with inquiries about the Mormons for this
most outlandish people are perpetual riddle and
mystery to our Anglican cousins They cannot
comprehend them, why we should let them exist
among us.
"When the dinner and the grapes disposed OF,
the remainder of the evening is passed with the la
dies in the drawing-room. In externals the Eng
fish woman is superior to her American cousins.
Not in sprightliness, culture, force of character
In these traits the New World boasts superiority
American grlhood is also far more lovely than Eng
fish. But after twenty. five, American beauty begins
to fall off like rose-leaves in shower just then
English beauty is approaching its prime! The
British live slower and live longer, and last longer
than we ever have ever can in this severe climate
and under the high pressure of constant excitement
Indoors is fatal health. Out doors freshens
English cheeks, and gives vigor to English limbs
A Cunard captain once said to me, 8 If you will send
your beautifully modelled steamers for US to
put Glasgow engines in, you will see the most per-
be true; but in humanity the rule is reversed. A
stout English frame makes the best hull,' but The
Yankee brain is the superior motive power"