The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1861-05-01
MIR. AND MRS. RAsHBis.
BY THE AUTHOR OF "Mrss sLrMMENs."
CHAPTER III.
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CHAPTER III.
SHOPPING.
o LuD, Rasher. Fitz Simmons and have had
such day! Has Thomas announced dinner
vet? I'm tired to death, and so hungry | can
hardly wait to get rid of my wraps. Here.
Rosine, take my furs and bonnet, and then de
scend and command Thomas to ascertain il the
dinner is ready to be served. q always love
to use coed language when I'm speaking Q
Rosine, she's such stylish person for maid.
If there's anything calculated to make woman
tired and hungry, it's going SHOPPING Fitz-
, Simmons and have been shopping from morn
: ing till night, as you might say. She was glad
OF my carriage to get in and out Of before Stew
arts and TifIahy's, and Ball & Blacks, and
Arnold & Constable's, etc, with Patrick in his
new livery, and our coat.of arms on the panels,
and everything; and l was glad OF her good
, taste and experience. La! she's as familiar with
camePs hair shawls as she is with her own
name, and knows diamonds from paste about as
well as the jewellers themselves; and as for lace
she knows every style and quality, which is all
yery useful to me, who don't know anything
about them. The clerks all know her, and
they're klingly polite to her and whoever she
brings with her, for they know that. if she can
not buy much herself she always brings rich
friends along. It's SO queer can't get used to
it, though its very pleasant and agreeable to
have them running out to the carriage to take
our orders, and carry our parcels, and making
footmen Of themselves, you might say, to open
our carriage door for US, and showing us the
very best of everything, at the same stores
where few years ago used to slip in SO mod
estly to buy plain silk or merino, and be ask
ed whether l wanted a cheap article, and my
answers hardly heard, whether did or not
But there's dinner, and let's 60 down. Why
am like the soup? | don't see any resem
blance. Because we're both deer TO yOu5 5,and
both turtle, and you always like to see us both
at the dinuer-table? Dear me-! WE'LL sit
down.
lido admire them clerks so--some of them;
they're perfect SO gentIemanly, and so well
dressed! they bow so elegantly, and have their
hair alwas cut in the very latest iashion.-
What's that? Pity | hadn't married one oil
them? Pshaw, flasher! you know l think
enough OF you; though, | must say, It's The one
trial Of my life that you amt more gentlemanly.
But, il you are plain little man, you're good
provider don't expect tn, m dryGoods clerks
sleep with rose colored silk curtains around
their beds, when they're at home, but you'd
think they did, to see 'em waiting upon Gus.
toners. don't know what we should do with
out them. Some of those disagIeeable refor.
mers, who t,y to make US hink everything is
wrong, and rich people have no business TO
spend all their money on themselves, and poor
women can't find enough TO do If they're dis.
posed to work. pretend TO believe we ought to
employ lady clerks, bnt !, for one, abominale
'em, and | guess the merchants know they
wouldn't sell SO many expensive things if it
was'at for the fascinating manner IN which those
young men recommend them. They're my
| ,jonJp nd M u Shnul1
hear me say it. If theie were only women in
the stores, we would only 60 shopping when
we had something to buy; but, as ii is--Do we
go when we want to buy? What question
INV dear! didn't think you were SO simple.
Why how much do you suppose l have spent
TO day? Not twenty dollars, and I've looked
at thousands oil thousands oil dollars worth o
lovely things How would we spend our time,
when we're bored to death for something to
do. if it wasn't for going shopping. know
lots of ladies' who vow they should go insane il
1t wasn't Tor this amusement. They don't care
about reading, unless there's a first rate new
novel out, and there's nothing to do from break
} last TO dinner three days OF the week, allowing
one day lorfeceiying calls and two for making
em, as it's not very often we have matinee
to help US. ! never used 10 have ony difficulty
passing away the time? VIII you help me to
another slice OF the roast turkey? Thomas
bring some ice water. Il do wish you would
, b. careful what you say before the servants, es.
pecially Thomas. hat fellows the torment o
my house, yet can't get along without him
What do ou suppose heard him telling Mrs
Clai ence Corneils butler, who was over to see
him last night? happened TO be a. The dumb
waiter, and heard him, down in the dining
room, as plain as day. He said, il it wasn't
for the extra wages, he wouldn't stay with us
mon h; hat we were very good people, and
, didn't look any too close alter The eayin's, but
IL We was payUenues; he'd never lived with parve
nues telore! What do yvI see in that 10
laugh AT? The fellows deserving oil a better
place? do believe you laugh just as heartily
when the Jokes against you as when its for
you You can bring on the pudding, Thomas,
He said, also that he'd a dozen bottles o
champagne laid up for the party. inferred it
was to come off the first night we should be
out late.)
DID buy me shawl to-day? Didn't
just say that hadn't spent twenty dollars?
wouldn't wear q camel's hair thal cost less than
seven hundred No, didn't take any, for its
getting rather late in the season for them, but
! looked at two or three hundred in the course
of the day. dill intend TO take velvet cloak,
but Fitz-Simmons pursuaded me to wait until
next week; 'becau'e,' as she whispered to me
just as | was going 10 order it Sent home I'VE
can have the pleasure OF deciding next time;
there's always snch q charming excitement
about purchasing velvet cioak!" Poor dear!
she hasn't had that excitement Ior the last two
years. What little money did spend was Tor
her. She coveted a lace set SO much, and
knew she needed it badly, and so | made her a
present OF it, She'll be in a good humor with
me for the next month; and, 10 tell the truth,
like her best when she's most pleased; she has
a cool kind OF way Of saying things to you and
about you when she isn't. Why is such friend
ship like pork? You can answer that best
yourself, my love. Because it has q marketa-
BILE value? 10 be sure it has; she and under
stood that thoroughly. AS she says herself,
'she Is my letter Of introduction; couldn't any
more get along without her than stranger in
foreign land could without his passports."-
That was such funny idea about the foreign
land; she thought didn't understand it fully,
bu, did. There's a mighty distance, can
tell YOU, between B. Street and three
! story brick and the Avenue and four story
! brown stone; it's as lar as from here to Paris,
though, to be sure. person can travel it in H.
: teen minutes by stage. And, for your part, you
= don't tee any more to home in 1t than you
would in Paris; il you could get back to the
old place, you'd be happy as pig in clover p
LIS astonishing what difference in tastes there
10! Now, Fitz- Simmons, She Blast Mrs. FitZ-
!, Simmons? How can you be so wicked as to
! use such language, Rasher? You'd like tv blow
0 her up. you mean! I'll warrant you! You
: can even let me have q fsma.e friend In petcs
! You hurt my feelings, sir, speaking in tha man.
. ner oil q woman who---.Ought to be b,rIeled