The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-10-26
LADIES READING.
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ONE or THACKERY's EARLIEST WRIT
Evening Parties.

/ But evening parties! o, milk and
water, bread land butterl mo, no,
the agekis wiser hAThe manly youth
frequents his club for common socie-
ty, and has small circle of amiable
ladies, for friendly intercourse, his
book and his pipe always.
Do not be angry, ladies, that one of
your most ardent and Sincere adj
mirers should seem 10 spaak disper-
agingly Of your merits& or recommend
his fellows to shun the society in
which you ordinarily -assemble. No,
Miss. | am the man who respects you
truly-the man who respects and
loves you-when you are most lovely
and respectable-in j youE~ families,
my dear. "A wife, mother, daugh-
ter-has God made anything more
beautifully A friend-can one ind
truer, kinder, a mora generous one
than a woman often Will be2 All that
has to do-with your hearts us beauti-'
full, and-in everything with which
they meddle a man must be a brute
not to love and honor you.
But Miss Rudge in blue Grape,
squeaking romance at a harp, or Miss
Tobln dancing in a quadrille, or Miss
Blogg twisting round The room in the
arms of LAUNDERING Aifeguardsman
what are these?-so~ many vanities.
With the operations here >described
the hearthas nothing to do Has the
intellectYt o, ye godst think of Miss
Ridges intellect while singing Il
Away, away, to the mopntain's brow.
Where tue trees are gently waving?
Away. away, to the fountains dow,
WHARF, "a zrff w u wiz, n
These are the words of a real song
that | have heard many times, and
rapturoualy applauded, too. Such a
song, such a poem-such songsterl
No, madam, if want to hear a song
sung | will pay eight-and-sixpence
aud listento Tamburini and Persiani.
| will not pay, gloves three-and six
cab, there and back, .efourNshillings
silk stockings every now and then,
say a shilling a time; ] viii not pay.
to.hear Miss Rudge scFeecheAuch dis
guSting twaddle o. thesabove.
If | want to see dkhcing, there is
Taglioni for my money; or across the
wager, MIS-. SerIe and hersforty pu-
pills; or al Convent Garden- Madame
Veay, beautiful Is a hpuri, dark eyed
and agile, as gazelle. | can see all
these in 6omfort, and they dance a
great deal better than Miss Blogg and
Capt. Haggerty .@the great red whis-
kered m0nster, @whos always wears
ankeens because he THINKS his legs
are fne.~ IF I-want conversation,
what has, Miss Flock to say to me,
foFsooth, -betweea the figures of
cussed quadrille That we areall grave
ly-dancing? By heavens% what an
agony it Is. Lock at the Ra dancers,
they looE oppressed withs dreadful
care L6ak at abe cavalier seul. if
the operation lasted Tong the mans
hair would turn@white-heswould go
mad Aad is itfor this thai men and
women assemble in smultitudes for
this sorrypastine?
Nol dance as you will, Miss Smith,
and swin1-throu8b the quadEille like
swan, or flutter- through the gallup
like a sylphidess and have the most
elegant fresh toifettess- the most bril-
liantly polished white-shoufders, the
blandest eyes, the redest, simperirg-
est'mouth, the whitest- neck, the In
fact, I say, be LAS charming as YOU
win, thatis not Che place toswhich, IF
you are worth anything. you are mdst
charming- Yo6A are-+beautiful; YOU
are very much decoilette; your eyfs
are always glancing down at a pretty
pearl NECKLACE, round a pearly mech,
or On a fresh, fragrant boquet, stuckt-
| 6ddlestickl What is-that the mh
admire il you?--the animal, Miss4-
the white plump, external Smith,
which men with thar eye lasseS,
standings-at various : parts of the
! rooms. are scanning Dertly and cur
ously, and of which they are speak
ing brutality. 4 pretty admiratioi.
trulyl But is Impossible that thBe
men can admire anything ete
insyou who have so-much- that lis
really admirable? Crpckne11, in De
course of@the waltz, has just timeEo
pant intd your Gear, = Were you ht
Ascot Races '- Kidwinter, who.
dances two sets of auadrrles W III
yoN, whispers tosyou, :" Do you pweH Ter
thfwaw bewy ithe7aw Wathbewy ithdP p
and asks the name of the gweat END w.
muth fat woman in wed satin, aid
bird of paEadiths? toswhich, you 4 E.
ply Ian. sir, its mammal" u be
rest of the evening passes away lin.
conversation similarlycdifying WI at
can any of the men Admin in yIu.
you little silly creature. : but he
animal? There is your mott er.
nov in red, anda bird of paradise las
Kidwinters says. : Shesh alarge n j.,
which she flaps to and fra acroH a
bToad chest; and. has ane eye directed
tosher Amelia, dancing with KidvEn-
ter beforeamentioned ;sanother watEh-
inr Jane, who is-dancing elsa -Uis v 9TH
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