The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-04-20

forms them that Julia thinks so much OF them,
and thinks that they are each patterns of pro-
priety, that she wishes she could be like them
and she wonders that the gentlemen OF the
family are not more gallant than they are; but
young men are so brusque sometimes. The M.
M. gives staict iniunctions that what she has
told in confidence must not be repeated-whIch,
of course, il is at the first opportunity.
When Julia is requested to play, her M. NJ,
with loving smile, drawls out: Julia my
love, do sit up straight; you Will soon be round
shouldered." OF course Mr.. Y. who is to be
leai.turner, instantly observes that Julia is as
straight as ramrod.i Then when the piece
has been executed the M. M. takes occasion to
remark that, "You are looking pale, dear; you
must be iatigued.n Julia, who seems as fresh
as pink saucer, Is looked at and complimented
, by the young man for her rare color in these
close and heated rooms. The M. M. complains
that though she likes to see Julia smile, yet she
would rather not, as people would say she
wished to show her teeth, which are natural,
though many from their regularity, would not
think so. The M. M. takes care to add that she
could allow no child of hers TO wear false teeth,
or any other falsity. Though her daughters are
perhaps not so attractive looking as some, they
are what Heaven has seen fit to make them.
This information makes glad the heart of Julia's
lover, who, like most men, is not very sure how
little of a graceful woman is natural; and how
much manufactured. In this way she calls
attention to all the good points of her daughters
conotur. .. rH r- ifEKH
The NJ. M. insists on learning from ner
daughters all that their lovers have said and
done in their company, even to the minutest
detail; and having learned the budget of trihine
nothings, she retires to her room to unravel
their meaning, and to construct a plan for
bringing the flies who are buzzing about her
daughters into the matrimonial net. After a
long reflection she resolves to lecture her daugh-
tiers into course OF action which will be
coquettish without appearing so. And in con-
sequence, male lovers are often astonlshed by
the peculiar behavior OF their feminine atinites,
and despairingly cry, Woman is mystery p
when the puppet daughters are only obeying
the wiTe-puller behind the scenes. H9
If her daughters cannot bring the lovers. 10
make proposal, then the M. NJ takes the
affair in hand and many young man, who
was merely passing the time, has been aston
ished at the curses of Heaven brought down on
his unwaTy head for his destroying the peace OF
q loving mothers guileless child. BAAs;AaaEIEIEIs
Sometimes the NJ. NJ thinks 1t fitting to clear
her housesof all young gentlemen visitors at one
swoop, and get a new set. This she does
through her daughter, in the your-visitsaIe-no-
longer-agreeable-sir manner - to the great as.
tonishment OF sundry very green young men,
who think they have given, unwlttingly, serious
otfense, but who are denied the chance OF apo
| logy or explanation. Ssc..sSf
At last the M. M. has the satisfaction of nav.
ing her daughters married. though not to the
men, or rather the wealth she had first chosen.
When her daughters are brides, they are pes.
tered by her directions for the management oi
their husbands, which are by no means graci
ously received. And the poor woman who has
intrigued worried, and saved, at last is told by
her own daughters that all she did was rather d
hindrance than benefit to them.
Such is the deserved fate OF all plotters.
-THIRLwoL BRAMLARD.