Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1859-01-11
[From the Home Journal j

Your friend de Trobri1nd, ! see, has
written paragraph in his French Journal
against our plan Of 'irawing-room contribution
boxes for the Mount Vernon Fund, on New
Years day" But we should thus get few
little stray gold dollars without bcgging-the
gentleman walking up to the contribution box
instead of its being handed round to them and
it is day, too on which PW'se-piratinn is treer,
and on which the airy for our sex (dtolttry,
as sometimes Spelt,) is much more lavish than
its cont. Then do not agree that ''ruoney
Spos the sentiment of everything" Piccolum-
ini is not admired any the less for the dollar paid
at the door. Aud what does that pretty word
matri-moHey end in? Qrrita-bW ity, perhaps
you will sayD Well, shall have the daintest
Of contribution boxes on ny centre-tRble
We ladies are beginning to look abont 10 see
what national matter we shall takeihold OF next.
You are not aware, perhaps, what pleasant
change it mikes in destiny made mp, hithcr-
TO- of only the little uncelerra;el trlles of life,
to have the control Of one of the grand out-dhor
movements, like yoW men! 'AlOunt Vernon
has been to us, in fact, the airing Of long
snothcred ambition. Gracious think Of il
Vomen at the head of it all Puhlic meetings
three day Festivals at the Opera house prin-
ted circulars Buards of Mrs. aud Miss Nan
ageTs--nanes in all the papers-wOman and her
story as well as man and history splendid snmS
Of money to haudle-and, last but not least, the
greatest "0ratOr of the day" for our Spnk kesnan
and trumpeter! OF all the gndleSSes of luyt'lul-
ogy, Gf you gentlemen did but know it0 liz
CATS, (who presided over popular assemblies,
war aud the administration OF justice, y HaS the
nvOrite ideal. Aud to have the tomb of
Washington in our hands! Why, Mount Yer
non is the sex's HEcA TOMB A.! g
But, what excitement IS IN come ncXG Yuur
suggestion, in one of your Virginia letters as to
the tomb of "Washin. toms mother,' was n good
one; (andi by the way, that would hnve been
better ''woman's cause" for besides its apprO-
priateneSS, it might have Shained the male pa
lriutsm of the country into doing the same
honor TO the memory of her son y but, think II
over for us. We must have some other public
matter to go au After flying so high, we shall
want at least, a parachute by which to descend
from our ballo
You want the society news" but what can
that possibly be? One fashionable party Is so
very like another As general thing, it seems to
me that middle aged women are more sought by
the heaux than they used to be. The Sneers at
our doll parties" and 'ynnng America" have
made iuvenility n little unlashlonable, / think.
The consequence is that charming widows and
well-prcScrvcd nammas dressing little
more and at the balls they do not get quite so
much into corners. They distribute themselves
abont where they can be seen aud talked to-
Your lovely friend, Mrs C., understand, alter
years of widOwhoOd and retiracy, Is about To re-
new her belleship.
Among the sidewalk news, there is n current
of charming wo,nent setting towards Brady's
Gallery, to see his last photograph, the Auto
crat of the Breakfast Table'-the seX'S present
favorite, as you well know. The ladies have
fairly adopted the little Doctor And it is de.
liShiful Of course, to see his portrait Hang
him! say where we can always see him-for
it is one of the most genial of human faces, and
this photograph wants nothing hut what 40 pic
ture could give, viz his peculiar way Of tinshinS
out the expression from his eyes like the throw
ing up of a window to u serenadcr. God bless
the dear fellow
hear that the ladies ere going TO start a
paper'' and have a CLUB" The experiment IS
10 be tried, suppose, as to whether we are not
too sweet for each others society-wbcther a
female club, that is to say, is not likely to be
loo much Of n eIoy Ster. Ii would inodiiy it a
little. perhaps, if poets were admitted, every
poet" they say, being "haf woman" Though,
tauery) would your clubs return the compliment,
by admitting tue corresponding hybrid in pett-
coats-the women who are half mem
And now YOU may stop reading, if you like.
for the remainder Of my letter ton hUoTs and
bonnets) is not for your eye particularly, though
tor eyes that are yours.