The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1867-02-09

In the first place, it is essential that In
fair pupil should be able to use her foot free
~, aud this can only be done bv rccliing NJ
the pettrcoatS ank lc.high, after the hsiio,
Of IL Swiss maiden. If, rs was the case will
our Icnobia, nature has carefully finished
/ her work from ankle to toe, it is Il great
treat to all men Of elegant tastes to cno,
this innocent exhibition, which comes but
once year.
Is it not also delightfully."- suggestive to feel
how thoroughly the pretty trembling crea.
tnre Is dependent upon you for her safety ?
How precious you have become in her sight /!
II You leave her but for an instant her eyes
follow you sorrowfuly, and her voice pleads
.coaxingly as she tottcrs. She besecches,
she entreats you to return. The modest
beauty, who an hour since bushed as she
shook your hand, now clings to your arm as
if you were her only hope in life and let
me tell you, Sirs, to be squeezed about and
cuddled by little hands no bigger than paper
weights will, if continued for long, affect
the brain, and make you see double"
The greatest luxury 0. love is its sense of
protection, and curiously enough it both
precedes and follows love. That the fragile
innocent is so entirely at your mercy makes
the heart tender and careful. Absorbed by
her fear, she forgcts all the governess has
taught her as to her proper behavior before
gentlemen; her coaXing appeals are en-
treating enough to be thought af'ecionate ::
and before twenty minutes have flown the
heart tiizzes on the grill, and your destiny
is cooked.
On the cventiul morning when the nervous
Lenobla, sacrificing herself to her mamma S
wishes, ventured on the ice it seemed to her
as 1t she had exchanged her legs for two
highly tempered foils. which bent and wrig-
glcd under the weight Of her body.
When left to herself her ankles began to
twist in and out, while the wind, rushing
with violence against her full skirts, forced
her to describe a half circle and placed her
with her back toward the gay Lieutenant,
who was ilourishing figure of eight in the
distance.
Unable to behold the only creature who
could help her, alarmed at the sudden fit of
bobbing which ierkcd her body into hun
dred attitudes, she exclaimed, in piercing
accents;
=" Lieutenant Hallen, come! come! l.
want you! Oh, quick! quick"
Jet he came not. She felt she must fall
" Dear Mr.. Halen,' she cried again.-
"Oh, please do. You must: oh, do-now."
Still her appeal is unanswered. Already
her body bent forward so that she could
distinctly sec her skates her arms and iing
crs were extended when, forgetting every
thing but her hopes for assistance, she al
bowed these pathetic words to bctray the
secret Of her heart;
''Oh come! come. dearest Mr.. IIallcn
| am sure shall fall Make haste Oh,
Mr.. Charles, dear Charles, | know shall
fall Please Oh, dearest Charley, I'm
certain shall Oh oh ! oh =
A manly arm was round her waist, and
raised her tenderly. 1t was the first time
she had uttered his Christian name, and the
effect electrified his very knees
Another great peril which the professor Of
skating must be prepared TO encounter arises
from cold fingers. The young lady, fatigued
with having to twirl her arms and Jerk her
body about like boy walking on wall, or
exhausted by the violence of her attitudes
now bending suddenly forward as if the mid.
die joints had suddenly given way, aud now
throwing herself backward as though Il wasp
had flown at her nose--at Length struggles
toward some object for support, and clings
to it with the clutch Of despair. Then the
fingers begin to freeze.
BY the time her professor comes to her
aid she could not though y thousand yards
Of the richest silk were ;hc wager iasen his
shirt button. The most reasonable and cx,
ped!cnt way to warn cold fingers is to press
them between two warm palms. AS the
grateful girl feels the heat return, she mur.
murs-'' Oh, how nice e.
The professor is apt to miScon5ruc this
expression, and take it us a personal con-.
ptlment, and there have been cases when he
has been so 10th to part with the pretty iing,
crs that he has proposed keeping the littIc
hand for the longest period man can call his
own.
Several times did the gallant Lieutenant
yield himself up to the sweet influences Of
the skating lessons.
The sprightly Ienobia was Il quick scholar,
and in a short time she could run races with
her tutor and roinp with him in the delights
Of the sport. On one occasion they ran
against one another, and had to cling tightly
to each other to save the fall and the posi-.
ton was so poetically suggestive that the
brave soldier felt how much better it would
be to make q clean breast Of his troubled
bosom and end his sufterng3
lie taught her - to do u the inner and
outer edge of the circle; they practiced
quadrilles, and she learned how to skate out
her own name in the snow drift. AS she
executed these difficult performances one
leg slightly elevated a III 1ag'ioni, the arms
waving gracefully, and the body undulating
to the alternate skate, the Lieutenant gazed
in silent wonder, while his heart bounded
like IL foot ball.
Bat the crisis did not declare itself until
Que afternoon when the straps on dear Zen's
left toot-her prcttiest foot-causcd her such
intense pain she was obliged to sit upon the