The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-02-10

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sible for the following:
''The ladies, dear creatures, should
see everything that would interest
them, and know everything that
would benefit them. Hence, in THIS
voracious column, We endeavor oc-
casionally to appropriate an exclusive
paragraph OF two to them, and always
try not to offend their taste or dis
turb their equanimity We present
the following waits for their pc
rusal this morning The first is taken
from the last. Ga2acy, and touches
upon a subject of deep interest:
"The eyeing Of women by women
is one of the most offensive manifes-
tations of superciliousness now to be
met with in society. Few observant
persons can have failed to notice the
manner in which one woman, who is
not perfectly well-bred or perfectly
kindhearted, will eye over another
woman who she thinks is not in such
good society, and above all, not at
the time being in SO costly a dress as
she herself is in. 1t is. done every
where--at parties, at church, in the
street. It is done by women in all
conditions of life. The very servant
girls learn it Of their mistresses. 1t
is done IN an instant Who cannot
recall hundreds of instances of that
sweep of the eye which takes in at
glance the whole woman and what
she has on, from top-knot to shoe
tie? Men are never guilty of it, or
with such extreme rarity, and then
in such feeble and small -souled speci-
mems Of their sex, that it may be set
down as o sin not masculine, or at
least epicine. But women Of sense,
Of some breeding, and even of some
kindness of nature, will thus en-
deavor to assert a superiority upon
the meanest of all pretences, and in
hict wound in Il manner most COW
ardly, because it cannot be resented,
and admits of no retort. If they only
kr NV how unlovely, how positively
offensive, they make themselves in so
doing, not only to their silent vic
TINS, but to every generous hearted
man who observes their mannuvre,
they would give up triumph at once
so mean and so cruel, which is
obtained at such sacrifice on their
part. No other evidence than this
eyeing is needed that women, what
ever be her birth or breeding, has a
small and vulgar soul
A singer in Il London concert sa-
loon writes to the Pail Mall Gazette:
ICan you or any of your readers
tell me why ladies Of title are allowed
to wear dresses in society which
the manager of music hall where /
am engaged as singer tells me are
too indecent for his stage? Like
most other members of my profes-
sion, buy all my dresses from u
dealer in fashionable cast-off cloth
ing. l find that they are invariably
very well made, that no fault can be
found with the quality Of the mate
rial, that they are long enough, and
often too long in the skirts, large
enough round the waist, broad
enough across the back, but always
so low IN the neck that i am not
allowed to wear them without add
ing q deep band OF lace or silk to
cover my shoulders. My dresses
come from countesscs. duchesscs
and other la,!ios Who stand well In
the Court Circul@r How is it that
these ladies can wear dresses, sit
ting. on ottomans, with gentlemen
leaning over them, that l cannot and
am not allowed to wear on the stage
OF a music hall, with ten or fifteen
yards pace between me and my
audience?
"a SINGER AT THE ALHAMnRA.