Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1860-04-30
ARE WOMEN NATURALLY PoLITE'

By MRS. GEORGE WASHINGTON WTLLFs.
Now we don'tlike to turn States evidence
at all. We shouldn't dare to trust ourselves
within hail;ng distance of bonnet or q
parasoI for six months, if we expressed our
real sentiments on the matter? Bless the
ladies, weknow 'em better than TO incur their
vengeance, when little ny pocrisy will keep
us on the safe side.
But nobody has said that we mustn't ask
questions, and so we can take the Yankee
method of managing matters. Are women
naturally polite, did you ask, dear, good-na-
tured Pubiics
Did you ever know woman to make room
in an omnibus, FIVE on side, when Number
Six was entering, founced and yelveted, un-
til ordered by the Driverf
Did you ever know pair of little gai-
ter boots to turn one inch either to the
right or the left, when they could have
saved you from a streaming gutter by the
operation?-P Patent feathers don't behave 50
mot they.
Did you ever know q woman to say, Il am
sorry to have given so much trouble when
the dry goods clerk had turned the store top
sy turvey, without finding the right shade
of color that never existed!
Did You ever know woman who didn't
think it was outrageous" for another wo-
man to travel with a baby; or who didn't
regard it as "cruel and barbarous" if any
one objected to the crying OF her baby?
Did you ever know two women to talk over
third without ridiculing her, even ifshe was
their .'dear particular friend?'
Did you ever praise one young lady in the
presence of another, without being con-
fidentially told of some enormous fault or
deformity in the former, which you hadn't
dreamed of?
Did you ever tell your wife what beau
tiful new dress her neighbor had got, without
learning that ''it was only that dowdy old
silk dyed over?'
Did you ever know pretty woman to
make an impression, without half dozen
other pretty women running the effect of it the
instant she left the room?'
Did YOU ever know woman to apologize
for having knocked another woman's bonnet
into PIP that's a printerism, but express
sive, notwithstanding, with the corner OF
her parasol?
Did You ever hear of q woman who had
any idea that she was making trouble by her
little airs and graces?
We don't believe you ever did, reader
They are race OF unaccountables, these
women, just as sweet and piquant as June
roses sometimes, aud then, again, bristling
like so many small venomous thorn bushes
There's one thing we've never ceased TO
be inwardly thankful for-that we're not
man, and consequently obliged to marry
one of 'em?
Vlo THE TOBACCO GROWERS OF MARY
i LAND AND VIRGINIA.--Asthe there appears
to be great dissatisfaction about the sale and in
spection TOBACCO ia the City OF Baltimore, |
will say to all, who feel Interested that am now
inspecting of TOBACCO in the corporation Tobac-
co Warehouse, in the CITY of Washington d. c.,
and that those who feel disposed to patronse this
Warehouse can do so and have the same facilities
TO So their TOBACCO rs in Baltimore. am au-
thorized to say by some OF the largest dealers
and shipping houses in Baltimore, thatif the Plsr
ters viii bring their Tobacco and have it inspected
in this Warehouse, they will regularly visit here
to purchase all TOBACCO that may be inspected
here; and further that they will purchase by the
sample drawn here, in Baltimore. This arrange
ment has already been entered into. TOBACCO
can be braught here by water or land, as the Ware
house is near Biagdens wharf, where there is Twen-
ty foot water not fifty steps from the Warehouse.
Persons can inspect their own Tobacco or have it
done at small cost with dispatch. Any commuu-
cation addressed TO me for information will be
Piled to with dispatch and all necessary informa-
ton given. want 1t to be understood that this is
no humhug. This warehouse will hold 1000 hhds.
faesk JOHN E. DEMENT,, Tobacco Inspector,
lfsysgs, 49,, -. Washington City, d. G.
Washington, ap 1S-2m
A LExANDRIA CITY six per cent STOCK
a Registered and Coupon, for sale by