The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1860-07-31
NEW YORK LADIES.

We copy the following article from New York
paper: .-s..
"Most of the ladies you meet on Broadway in
the course of sunny afternoon, are beautiful but
it is very unsatisfactory kind of beauty. They
look too pale and languid-too much as if they
grew in the shade. They are no more like our
western women than a plate of dissolving ice
cream is like plump apple dumping"
So says the New York correspondent Of a west
ern paper. Poor fellow! he don't know how to
account for the "moonlighty" appearance of our
metropolitan bellies. He don't know that it is
"unfashionable" for the ladies to rise here before
eight o'clock; he probably isn't that she has
wholesome horror of light, and fresh air and
sunshine, lest they should 'tan, burn or frecke'
the wax-like skin in which she glories. He is
ignorant that all the exercise she gets is that daily
walk on the stylish side of Broadway We rather
suspect that he would not be SO astonished if he
knew as much as we do on the subject
New York ladies are fearfully and wonderfully
made They have a great many unaccountable
crotchets in their pretty little heads. 1t is the
height Of the mode to carry fat, putting poodle
dog about in their arms, or lead by gilded chain;
but if lady carries her baby herself, she loses
caste instantaneously She must not be seen car
rying parcel-certainly not if she buys yard
of ribbon, it must be sent home to her She must
have regular ''reception days." wherein to bedzen
hersefin silks point lace and diamonds, and ex-
change shallow nothings with dear friends who
come, not because they want to see her. but be-
cause she lives in "brown stone front" and keeps
carriage She has the most charming uncon-
sclous way of being excessively rude to other ladies',
in the world She ''shops" to perfection SO far as
buying the most expensive goods and spending the
most money III the least amount of time arc con-
cerned; and then she saunters languidly into some
gllded confectionery temple, draws off her kid
glove to display her sparkling rings, and
calls for ice-cream and pound-cake and few other
lndlgestibles, to refresh her after her mornings
work! She thinks it decidedly interesting TO be
pale and headachy; she wouldn't have cheeks like
harvest apples for the world Her hands are beau
tifuy small and white because she never uses them
except for the piano and parasol and always sleeps
III kid gloves. ict those admire who will-we
see far more lOveliness in the wrnkled aud en-
Drowned hands of many an old grand d-dame-hands
which have lain lovingly on fevered brows and
closed the dim eyes of the newly dead with tender
touch-hands which are always employed for the
service Of others, and have grown hard and rough
with honest work The New York lady, however,
is Of different opinion. She sends her little girls
to dancing school, and Grams them with French
and music; geography and spelling not Of so
much Importance. She laughs approvingly at their
mimic firtations, and retails their smart sayings
to her lady friends in their presence At fifteen
they are ''fnished"-at sixteen married; and the
New York lady considers her duty triumphanty
fulfilled We don't know much about the west
ern ladies, but if they not different from this
sorry for the western gentlemen.