The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1859-04-20
No: 36.

happened!
Really frightened, now, she began to cry.
and with many embraces and protestaions of
affection demanded to know tie truth
Read this, and hate mel mechanically
exclaimed he, tearing himself from her, and
giving her the letter.
She read it, and, as he, willy man, had fore
seen, flung herself into his arms, declaring that
If that were all, she had--or soon would have
enough for both.
But am ruined-H -Henrietta--I am beg
gar-every cent possessed was invested il
that cursed company"
She only smiled, and said that she was glad
it was nothing worse than money matters. and
after much persuasion on her part, and much
stormy acting from him. she convinced him
that he had better not take porter's situation
at six dollars week. ship before the mast as q
common sailor, nor blow his brains out.
That afternoon he produced The telegram,
informing them Of their required presence at
Daisyyle
',See," said she Il am now rich"
| believe, upon my soul, that her Joy at be-
ing able to support him, outweighed her grief
/ for the loss of Mrs. Elwell who had been al
most as mother to heri
Women are singular creatures and that's a
fact
Whenthe arrived at Daisyyille, the old lady
had already taken leave Of earth's trials, trou
bles, and tnbulations, and the sad eyed little
Leonore had wept herself into state nearly
| bordering upon homliness.
After all the neeessary--or rather. custo-
mary-observances had been gone through
with, and Mr.. Merbone's thousand, together
with a supplementary FIVE hundred. also bor
/ Al NJ IaoI
had pretty well melted away, the old lady's
lawyer and the heirs were assembled to read
the will.
1t did give and bequeathe" all of her pro-
perty, real estate personal goods and chattels,
money, and all and every, etc, etc, after the
manner of other wills, in very round about
manner, to her two nieces, Henrietta and Leo
more. to be divided equally between them. This
property amounted TO the sum Of one hundred
and twenty thousand dollars. Mr.. Merlbone's
eyes glistened-sixty thousand was not bad to
take, very
But there was codicil. added only two
weeks since, and that also must be read
1t said, briefly, that whereupon Henrietta
had just contracted a matrimonial alliance with
a very wealthy gentleman, and was amply pro-
vided for, the whole property was to revert to
Leonore.
Mr.. Merlbone upon hearing this, looked at
his wife. and she looked at him, whereupon he
made use of an expression, which, | acknowl-
edge, was in very bad taste; it was, "Oh, HIP
Ii had just struck me, on looking this story
over, that / havn't anywhere mentioned my
heroines' last name. Well guess won't for
| intend to 60 down to DaisyyiIle myself, next
summer, and as | want to make love to the lazy
little Leonore l don't want to give other folks
too much information.
Henrietta is living with Leonore, (they live
in shape, too, l can tell you) and enjoying just
as much of the bequest as she requires.
Mr. Merlbone, havn't heard Of, very lately.
but rather suspect he has gone to the place he
mentioned when the codicil was read.
A RECEIPT 10 MAKE FASHIONABLE YoUNq
) LADY.-To make really fashionable young la
dy, you should commence with the Miss when
about eight or ten years old. II she can read
with tolerable in McGufy's first reader,
she is then ready to receive the first polish
Take her now to fashionable boarding school,
! rive her permission TO buy as many dry goods
as the merchants will credit you for have her
to attend dancing schools regularly take music
lessons before she can write her name without
spelling it, encourage her to cultivate
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skirts--to flirt with every young man with whom
she becomes acquainted, and beyond all. let her
learn to scream and faint al proper intervals, tits
so captivating! This course of training viii take
about one year, and then she is ready for the
next AS she has now learned to thumb some
tunes on the piano forte and perhaps sighs she
may cultivate her musical G? talent. She must
now attend all the balls, parties. soirees pic
MICS, &c, and dance the new dances till she
will not be so silly as 10 blush when young
man passes his arm around her waist during
the wazing.
Be very particular on this point. for a young
lady who makes any pretentions to fashion must
not blush like foolish country girl at any thing
of the sort. But there are times when she
should exhibit great modesty. For instance,
when young gentleman happens to say leg.
or neck, or breast, or even foot, limbs, &c, or
: when her very unpolished mother happens to
speak OF ruffles shirts. &c, before and in pres
ence of gentlemen. Attend very closely to these
directions, for tits very important to know when
not to blush, and when to blush.
: A mistake would Be highly wrong in fash
ionabe young lady. In her second course Of
; training she should study painting, get smat
tering Of French, read poetry, and lastly, gradu
ate, though she may not he able to parse the
simplest sentence in the English Iansuage.--
; But what fashionable young lady is expected
to be reading dry pages OF an English gram
mar, when Dickens or Thacktray's last novel
is still lying unread upon her desk? During
all this time it is of course understood that she s
carrying on her firtations with the young men.
This brings US now to the third part Of the
, work of making fashionable young lady. She
must now return home and commence serious
lv the great work Of iife-gettng married. No
+ young lady with any pretentions to fashion
would marry until she has broken some dozens
Of hearts Cd and been engaged half dozen
, times OF course she is noE to make herself
ridiculous by prorng constant to one young
. man whole month. But she must be taught
5 not 10 discard one till she has caught another.
This is fatal mistake, and has caused even
some fashionable young ladies to become old
maids Teach her to swap off each time for
one of more wealth and ton, till at last she
climbs as she may without running the risk Of
single blessedness I have known young la
dies, BY judicious swapping, to commence with
/, a Young man in moderate Circumstances, and