Delaware inquirer. (Wilmington, Del.) 1859-18??, 1859-12-31

he sees the summer approach, which he hai
hitherto welcomed with pleasure; for he mus
lay by his cloak, which has been such goot
friend to him during the winter, assisting hin
in every way to circumvent the prying eyes o.
his friends from discovering that his clothes
were worn more than they ought to be, con-
sidering his grade in society, which is, if he
were not bitten with the general mania, some
thing within three times his income.
The consequence of all this is, that he gets
into debt, and in his attempts to appear very
respectable he in reality, becomes not at all
SO. His quarters salary, though much in
creased since his marriage, is bespoke twice
over. The baker turns morose, and the butcher
savage. He gets nervous and timid, and is
afraid of bis own mockery, and he undergoes
an hourly torture, because he will keep up
appearances. He will have a larger house
than he wants-he will give wine 10 his friends
when they dine with him, although he mental
ly calculates the value of each glass as his
dear friends swallow it, with the full belief
that the more they drink the more he is graft
fed; for, from appearances, he is well able to
afford It.
His wife, although good one, knocks her.
self up both mentally and bodily in providing
a more profuse dinner than ia necessary, be-
cause people should think that they were very
well off; and sees them to the door, on their
departure, with the most reckless faring OF
wax candles; when, IL any one of the party
were to return for his umbrella, he would be
greeted by the smell of their rapid extinguish-
ing, which she is sure to perform before the
echoes of their footsteps have ceased to sound
down the street whilst her husband is turning
the bottoms of wine into one bottle to be care
fully put by. After tedious putting away,
and the selecting the borrowed from their own
they crawl off to bed, solaced in their fatigue
by the hope that they have astonished their
friends, and kept up appearances.
An old lady, some years ago, who belonged
to family of some standing, voluntarily BAN
ished herself for field from the locality where
she was known, that she might have part of
her stipend to remit to her elder sister, who
still lived in the house that the family had oc-
cupicd in more prosperous times. She paid
her regular visits, few and far between, as if
she were as rich as ever, which she managed
to do by coming by the cheapest conveyance
to the nearest posting town, and rafting in
from thence to her native place in style Here
for n short time, she lived in the luxury of
keeping up appearances as they used to be, by
which she was repaid for all the rest of her
time being spent in almost penury. AT last
her sister died, and she came, in her turn, a
lone woman, to reside in the family house.
She gave her sister, of COURSE a splendid flu
neral, worthy of the family, and invited all the
highest of her acquaintance to follow, in honor
of her ancient name.
After the interment she left her two old SER
wants to keep house, who were as jealous OF
her honor rs herself, and proceeded to her dis
tant home to settle, as she said, her affairs
there, ere she took permanent possession of the
family house. She was absent for some
months upon this errand, merely to economize
after the dreadful expenditure incurred by her
sisters funeral.
DHt EtluFucui HOhGNttI hpPoiShtAy Noh9SANA
for her loss, and gave her stiff ceremonious
parties exactly as her sister had done before
her. Time wore on, and she died, but not be-
fore she had provided for appearances, which
she did by selling her house and costly furni-
ture to distant purchaser, that the people
Immediately adjacent might think he inherited
it, and leaving her cottage far away, with
small annuity, to the old married couple who
had served her family so faithfully. She then
devoted the remainder of her effects to her own
funeral, which was to be as splendid as the
money could provide. Thus, having made
preparation to be deposited in the family vault,
she died. fully satisfied that she had kept up
appearances to the last
Some fifty years ago, a young man, who
found himself the last of his family, with the
small remainder of once splendid fortune,
which had been squanderod by few SNOWY
generations, until it descended to him in the
shape of about six hundred year, shuddered
as he looked at the paltry sum that was to keep
him in the fashionable circle to which he was
so much attached, and out of which he would
have ceased to exist. His carriage mnst be
nut down. That admirable conveyance, the
envy of his brother beaux. His embroidered
coats the admiration of the world--the fash
ionable world-would be ridiculous without
all the luxurious adjuncts Of servants, carria-
ges, &c, Six hundred year could not do it.
Despair seized him at the idea Of cutting off
SINGLE domestic from his establishment or one