Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1867-11-01
BOblnetts BerlOps.

I Prince Jack kissed her hand, and Bob,
inette was assuming q look of reproO
lined with a smile (if Milton tailored
the clouds I suppose I may "dress-
makeD a look. when what should she
see but her fairy godmother
But first you should know that some
weeks before, as B0binette Berlops nib
/ bled at her breakfast, she heard a SHARP
little rap at the door; and before one
could say "COme fn'5 her fairy god
mother Whisked through the keyhole.
fGood morning gOdmOther, said
/ BOhinette, in that tone which means
4 'fVVhy in the world did yO9E come P''
'f84Oruing, . returned her gOdmother,
/ resting herself on her cTuteh "and ]
/ hope, Bobinette, that you have properly
4 reelected on your serious position"
''Eb % said Bobinette.
tfFor my part, (" continued the fairy,
/ ftI sm positively shocked when / reflect
I that this is your twentieth birthday"
"Wby ?" asked Bobinette, opening
/ her large black eyes.
'fWhy Z" echoed her gOdmOther.
/ ''Hear her Could she be more serene
1 if she had lived several hundred years
1 ago, when girls had only to keep a
sharp lookout at the windows till the
! Fairy Prince rode in at the castle gate.
| Bobinette, you need waking up. Re
/ fleet, my child This is New York
where, if the Fairy Prince does not
come after the marriageable damsel,
the damsel must 60 after him. Twenty
years old Good Heavens, BObinetts
| Suppose you should meet Mrs. Grundy
without SO much as an engagement ring
about you. How long before she would
/ transform you into an old maid "
''But what can dot" bleated Bob
inettes wiping away lszEo tears with her
IT am here to tell you that" return
/ ed the fairy godmoeher, promptly. ;
"and you viii do well to listen with
attention, for the modern young
woman must hustle about her, and
/ have her wits in her hand. She is beset
/ by many difficulties. First, she must
! find her Fairy Prince"
"And how am 20 know him, god
mother ?" inquired Bobinettes much in
terested.
''By his money, child; by his money.
When you see man with house IN
town and one in the country, this is
your Fairy Prince; but beware how
| you look and laugh with man before
you have weighed his purse. Many a
nineteenth-century girl in this way has
Bobinette tossed her head, and smiled
in derisiOn.
'sYou viii then set your cap for him, -
pursued her gOdmOther "but remem-
Der this is an operation which requires
the incest discrimination. The art,
Y
I it that it shall CLINT in your Princes
eyes till he shall catch himself thinking
about it when he is eating, and
walking, and smoking, and posting his
ledger, and talking about the attraction
of graVitatiOn, and whatever else has
least to do with it. While, mark, Bob
inette, it shall be so set that the rest of
the world shall not discern in it the
slightest tip north, south, east, or west,
but shall see it resting fair and maiden
ly on your head, rather hiding from
your eyes any stray admiration that
may meet You as you walk. It is a
difficult and delicate art, my BObi-
nette ~
'DificuIt indeed!'' sighed Bobinette.
''FOr your wardrobe"
"Ahi" murmured BObinette, ''unless
you can make coaches out of pumpkins
and robes in twist Of your crutch-"
"Child % interrupted the fairy, with
dignity, ''the pumpkin-cOach days are
indeed gone by but'-turning and
seizing on the father and mother Ber-
lops-''with proper management
(squeeZing them both hard, 1--WE can fit
out our niueteenth-century princes
yet" releasing the parental Berlops,
both quite purple, while before Bobi-
nette stood a tai, Well-packed Saratoga
sruuk.
thank yOu?" cried Bobinette, in a rap
ture.
'sIy Bobinette," +" returned the fairy,
with emotion, sin all things conduct
yourself like a business girl. Proceed
with caution, remem bering that in
these days Fairy Princes are as easily
/ startled as antelopes, and much too
well advised of their own value. OBJ
! serve, also, that you are to run down
| your game under an elaborate pretense
! of not knowing its whereabouts and,
whenever you go, forget not TO say that
you are down in your Uncle Junipiter's
/ Will for seventy thousand dollars ~
''But that is not true, gOdmOther," "
/ observed BObinette, innOcently.
''Did I say that was, Miss 2" snapped
1 her gOdmother, cOloring through her
I wrinkles "but it is a charm that will
stop the mouth OF nineteeth-century
| lion and now go my Bobinette, and
l look well after your trunk"
| To come back now to our beginning.
4 BObinette blushing, and looking away
| to hide the blush from that too earnest
/ gaze, met gaze of a very different sort;
a furious look, in fact, from the small,
/ tWinkling eyes of her fairy gOdmOther,
| hObbling toward her as fast as her
crutch would bring her. What had
! Bobinette done She could not have
/ told you herself; but though she clear
! ed her throat, and held up her head and
| tried to look at her gOdmother with
! smiling confidence, her heart beat as if
/ it would burst out Of her white bosom,
and her cheeks grew distressfully red.
/ She felt instructive that she must ac-
/ count for her tall friend before her god
mother opened her mouth.
"Godmother," she said, tremblingly,
! ''this is Prince Jack"
! "Humph - said the fairy and Il
| suppose You know that she dated from
/ the days of Cinderella, and had old
fashioned ideas of pOliteness) she made
Prince Jack a cOurtesy-pro for
50 small body. eff you knew any
thing of the world you would under
stand that a handsome young fellow
can find better amusement than dancing
attendance on bread-and-butter chits
like you. No doubt Prince Jack was
dying an hour ago to get away And
with another Of those astonishing cOur-
tesies she tucked BObinette's reluctant
little hand under her arm and hurried
her of.
"a fine business you have made Of It,
Miss, - commenced the fairy, scornful-
ly; you and your Prince Jack I"
"But what have done, godmOther P'l
asked Bobinette and distressful tears
began to roll down her cheeks. "Could
I find finer Fairy Prince than Prince
Jack He has-H
Chow much money ?" broke in the
fairy. ghnrraiW.