Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1861-09-24

cultivation, would be very like SignOra Mario
Boni, my dear!'' asked Mr.. Jennings Ro-
dolph.
Just exactly the very thing that struck
me, my love-" answered Mrs. Jennings Ro
dolph.
AMI thus the time passed away Mr.. Jen.
nings Rodolph played tunes on a walking.
stick and then went behind the parl0r door
and gave his celebated limitations of actors,
edge tools, and animals; Miss Martin sang
several other songs which increased admira
ton every time, and even the funny old gen
tleman began singing his song had properly
seven verses, but as he couldn't recollect more
than the first one he sang that over seven
times, apparently very much to his own graf
ification. And then all the company sang the
national anthem with national independence
each for himself without re 'erence to the other
and finally separated, all declaring that they
had never spent so pleasant an evening, and
Miss Martin inwardly resolving 10 adopt the
advice of Mr.. Jennings ROdolph, and 10 come
out" without delay.
Now, coming out, " either in acting or sing
ing, or society, or righteousness, or any thing
else, is all very ~ell and remarkably pleasant
10 the individual principally concerned, if he
or she can but manage to come out with a
burst aud being out to keep out, and not to
60 IN again; bu, it does unfortunately happen,
that both concentrations are extremely diff
cult to accomplish, aud that the difficulties of
getting out at all in the first instance, and if
you surmount them, of Keeping out in the
second, are pretty much on a par, and no
slight ones either-and so Miss Amelia Martin
discovered. 1t is singular fact There being
ladies' i'll the case lthat Miss Amelia Martins
principal joibIe was vanity, and the leading
characteristic of Mrs. Jennings Rudoph an
attachment to dress. Dismal wangs were
heard to issue from the second floor front of
No. AZ DrummOnd street George street. Eus
ton square; it was Miss Martin practciBg
Halt suppressed murmurs disturbed the cain
dignity of the White Conduit orchestra at the
commencement OF the season. Ii was the an.
pearance OF Mrs. Jennings Rodolph, in lul
dress, that occasioned them. Miss Martin
studied iacessantly-the practicing was the
consequence. Mrs. Jennings Rodolpl taught
gratuitousy now and then-the dresses were
the result
Weeks passed away the White Conduit
season had begun, had progressed, and was
more than half over. The dress making bns
ness had fallen OIL from neglect; and its profits
had dwlndled away almost imperCeptibly. A
benefit night approached ; Mr.. Jennings Ro-
dulph vie ded To the earnest solicitations of
Miss Amelia Martin, and introduced her per
sonaliy to the Comic gentleman" whose ben
eft it was The comic gentleman was all
expressly for the occasion, and Miss Martin
should sing it with Him. The night arrived
there was an immense roOm--nnety seven six
penn'orIh OF gin andwatar, thirty TWO small
glasses oil brandy and water, five and twenty
bottled ales, and iorty-One neguspS and the
ornamental painters journeyman with his
wife and a select circle of acquaintance, were
seated at one Of the side tables near the orches-
ter. The concert hogan. Sung--seutimen
tal--by a light-hared young gentleman in a
blue coat and bright basket buttons. APP
pause. Another song, doubtful, by another
gentleman in another blue coat, and more
bright basket buttons. Increased applause. I
Duet, Mr.. Jennings Rodolph and Mrs Jen.
niugs Rodolph "Red Ruffian, Retire p
Great applause Solo, Miss Julia Montague
positively on this occasion only )-"I am
Friar " Enthusiasm. Original Duet, COM
ic-Mr. H. paphn 1.-THE comic geutleman) and
Miss Mariiu-"The Time of w." Bray
va = cried tsis-efnamental painters journey
t''@'''s PATTY, as Miss Martin was led in by the
comic gentleman $50 to work. Harry -
cried the comic genllemau's personal friends.
"Tap-tap-tap, went ike leaders bow on
the music desk. The symphony began, and
was soon followed by faint kind of ventrilo.
quilal chirping, proceeding apparently from
the deepest recesses OF the interior of Miss
Amelia Martin--"Sing out''-Shouted one
gentleman III white great-cOat "Don't be
afraid to put the steam on, old gal j." exclaim-
ed another. S-s-s--s -s-s-s"-weut
the five and twenty bottled ales. "Shame,
shame" demonstrated the ornamental paint
er's journeyman's party. "S-s-s--s" went
the bottled ales again, accompanied by all the
gins, and majority OF brandies.
Turn them geese out, cried the ornamen-
tai painters journeyman's party, with great
Indignation.
"Sing out" whispered Mr. Jennings Ro.
poph.
80 do" responded Miss Amelia Martin.
Sing louder" said Mrs Jennings Ro.
doph.
Il can't" replied Mis- Amelia Martin.
"Of, off, off, cried tie rest OF the angry
audience.
Brayvo!' shouted the painters party 1t
wouldn't do-Miss Amelia Martin left the or.
chestra with much less ceremony than she
had entered it; and as she couldn't sing out,
never came out. The general good numor
was not restored until Mr. Jennings Rodolph
had become purple in the face, by initiating
divers quadrupeds for half an hour without
being able TO render himself audible and TO
this day neither has Miss Amelia Martins
good humor been restored nor the dresses
made tor and presented 10 Mrs Jennings Ro-
dolph, nor the vocal abilities which Mr. Jen.
nngs Rodolph once staked his professional
reputation that Miss Martin possessed