Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1859-06-13
Sat- In the Park by Twilight.

How these warm, pleasant spring days bring
out the viOletS and the babies. | am sure l
can't tell which is the prettier. Every mothers
darling now, must have fresh frllled cap
round its rosy face, and be folded in its snowy
white cloak, and carried daintily on its nurses
arm, as it were little princess; and the Silken
parSol must be held over its eyes, and the
gauze veil lowered, if but afrecklinS wind blow
OF course 'snurse" hears all these charges, but
it is question whether she attaches much inn
portancc to freGklc as does mamma; for arms
will get tired, and feet will get weary and Mrs.
Philander Phuss gives her nursemaid dollar
more month than she gets, and 50 down she
seats her charge OH the garden bench in the
Park-"Johm" always knows just where, and
the baby, thank heaven, hasn'ttyet found its
tongue.
after ones self, who would look after one-?-
It is n pushing, showing world. that it is, and
one need 10 be wide awake or be driven to the
wall | dare say, were [ nurse might reason
Just so, especially were my American blood put
to it, by being obliged to go without bonnet
in all weather and wear - muslin cap in the
street. asa badge of my scrvtudc; still, don't
think any degree of proVocatOn could make me
take it out in piac6ing the baby. What like
best to see arc the children whose parents for
turatelv are unable to keep n nurse; who amuse
themselves till their mother has done her
houscworI;, looking forward to q twilight stroll
in the Park when It is done. There is no lace
on their frocks, embroidery on their under.
clothes: but they are clean and whole, and u
white shoulder has way OF looking very pref
ty. even out of calico sleeve. Curls, dmples,
and cherry lips, are not always framed In
costly bonnet or Int; in fact, while looking at
them. one -forgets whether they are or noi so
there the little household grOupsit watching the
bright drops of the fountain as they fall musl-
caIIy into the basin the children looking at tho
goldfish, and ;hvir mother, by her dreamy eyes,
thinking of the long ago.
"Gentle blood" If there is phrase which
nearly makes me forget (what hate as oad,)
"the delicacy Of my sex" it is that; a popular
I3writer who should be chriStened the AristOerdt
instead of the 'tAutOcrat," has lately underta'
ken itsR:defence. He finds in its PosseSsors
more heroism, more ruagnanimity, more love-
ableness than it is possible for tactoTy cotton
ever to cover He need not have taken pains
| so elaborately to say it. His snObblsn adora-
| tion of aristicracy is always patent IN every
| SYLLABLE that he writes, that degree that one
Ii1ouircs involnntary il his father were not
[tinker,or n cobbler. Asnan who could weep
because n beautiful woman, one of fashions
EcIcct. took whim to patronize n middle aged
man who actstnlEv t5.Ls 6iise enough to carry q
,IS5eam red siIL pocket AaRakerchigt, oughtscer-
f,inlv as N ttreward of merit" 10 bc kept sup
lid with the latter article by the class whose
liect he seems but too happy to bathe with hls
teors An me! "The Autocrat" has said such
baantiful things. such good things, such strong
! fbinge tbnt one deploreS all the more both ms
Irabid white-kid-glOvc-iSn, and thatahe shon'u
| felIowship with those men who teach women
that TO he pretty to be graceful. TO 6c 'iashlon-
] nbleLhow deficient sOeyer IN mental'ty-is 10