The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-03-28
A Woman a. . Lectare.

II you want to see q woman act more like
goose than she need, watch her when she enter.
place Of public performance, where the seat
are at the mercy of first corners. Notice her pro
found survey of the situation, as she stands, pre-
ceding her John, who is supposed to know nothina
about such things. poised on one foot, while she
measures distances. drafts and acoustics with the
eye Of connoisseur. Now she decides. At last
she swoops down upon the seat In all the house
which she prefers. John follows, with the sha vi
and family umbrella. He family suggests the
possible obstruction OF pillar between the seat
sne mas choeen and tho speaker, but follows. Di-
reouy she Is seated, and the shawl and umbrella
located without Inconvenience TO themselves or
infringement on the comfort of their neighbors
when che coolly remarks: John, tits true, thai
pillar is right between me and the speaker !,
Johns ears redden, but he is 10 public. so he don't
say Didn't tell you sol" but rises with shawl
and umbrella, the former catching by the fringe
on every seat as he passes and the latter slipping
70 the floor while he tries to dsentsnge the shawl
Meantime my lady is on her triumphal march for
that T" best eeatn
Now she alights 1t won't do. There's tall
man In front of her. she is always fated TO sit be-
hind a tall man. She tries another there's the
phantom pillar again. Yet another; that's the
end seat, and every horrid man that comes along
viii be treadng on her dress and knocking her
bonnet over her eyes ell the evening" Meantime
John gets redder In the face; he can't even ease
himself with customary growl. An now she
has got the seat at last, and stands beckoning to
John to follow. Her friend, Miss Frizzle, is be-
side her, and she is happy. There is only one seat
TO be sure, but John can find one some where
else, or perhaps he would ike to take walk out
side and call for her when the lecture is over
only be must be sure to be back in time.u So
down she sits, while John wsnders Off for q pos.
slble stray seat. Now she draws of the glove
that hides her one diamond ring. and settles the
bracelet on the wrist Of that hand. Then she
tumbles up her front hair, lest IL might have got
smooth coming. Then she picks out the bows OF
the natty little ribbon under her dimpled chin II
was that chin that victimized John Then she
draws from her pocket the scented pocket-hand-
kerchef and gives it little incense watt into the
air, magnetzing young man in front, who turns
around TO find the owner of that delicious gale
from Araby the blest. Then she takes out her
opera glass and peeps about, not so much that her
sight Is defective, but that her diamond ring and
gold bracelets CLEAN prettily In the operation.
John, meantime, has found seat in q draft
and Is sitting with bent brows and a turned. ND
coat coilar-which last Is sufficient to make ruff
Tan OF a man without any woman's help-in the
back part Of the house. Confidence, millinery,
mantua-mskery, and mstine-y are meanwhile ex-
changed between his wife and dear Miss Frizze,
who Is an acknowledged man killer, and keeps a
private grave yard for her own deceased lovers.
Now the lecturer rises. Pooh ., he's an ugIv
man. Well. they needn't look at him; and per-
haps he'll be funny-who knows?" He isn't fun
ny. He IL talking about Plato and Epictetus;
who The goodness are theyg But there's an end to
u
John is wanted and TO tell the truth for the first
time thought OF All, there he is ! but how sulky,
and how ugly he looks with bis coat collar turned
up! He might have some regard 90 appearances
when he goes with her. People will think she
has such horrld taste in husbands.
why don't you talki' says the little woman,
when they got outside. at was too bad you
couldn't sit oy me, John; missed you 90, but
you see there was but one seat.n Now, Just in
that locality, suppose muttered John But
iuef han sh0n hot min
little dImpled chin, and its owner said. cosxingy,
81 Oh. now, John. don't be cross with its little
wife" and it's my private opinion he wasn't.
Would you have been, sir, FANNY FERs.
TIE MARQUIS OF HAsrIss's LIBRARY-Mr.
Wexford writes from London to the Book Buyer
1.-The sale OF the Marquis of Hastings library vas
q curious affair. deserving OF few words. II ex.
emplifes IN what narrow grooves intelligence runs
10 England. There turned out to be slowed away
In bennington Park, brought together in the
course of two centuries or more. the accumula-
tons of the Rawdons and the Old Earls Rawdon of
Huntingdon, over twenty-four thousand volumes,
weighing more than twenty tons. Apparently
not book had been added since the days of the
Lord Rawdon Of the American Revolutionary War.
better known afterwards Is Earl OF Moirs and
Marquis OF Hastings. The disposal Of such col
lection, If properly managed, would take up two
or, perhaps, three weeks, with sufficient cata-
ogue. Instead Of this, they were, ignoranty, all
bed up In bundles. according to very brief and
list. and sold of in four days. |
The result was perfect scramble among the |
book sellers, whom the apparent chance of a sac.
Iifce bad brought together In large numbers.
they had 70 buy the lots unseen, and their com.
petition pushed the sum realized to f55OO as the |
proceeds Of the sale, though, as they combine not
to bid against each other, and sell over again |
among themselves the choicer articles that sum /
ID no Indication Of what the book really we're |
worth. Among the lots Of books worth fl0 or |
ESQ lied mp with others. mere waste paper, some
sharp eyes discovered . copy Of John Eliot's In.
1ian Bible, the second edition, clear and perfect
1p volume Of Tracts lin Germany from Beujsmin |
Frankiin's prsss-perhsps unique Original plans |
md drawings Of Lord Rswdon's campaigns in the /
southern States were also found BY lucky indi-
7iduals."