The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1873-01-17
LETTER FROM NEW YORK.

LETTER FROM NEW YORK.
From an Occasional Correspondent
New YORK, January Is, 1872.
GREETINGS TO THE TYpRsErrERs.
Dear typos, have borne with your
mistakes ever since l began to write for
the REGISTER, and have never uttered a
remembrance; sometimes you have
me say yes, when l intended to say no /!
at other times l have attempted a joke
and you have left the joke out in my
letter of DECEMBER 80, are two mistakes
quite laugbable; in speaking of lady
"prsferring request" you make me say
preparing q request. Speaking Of bills
after New Years l wrote, "the papas,
meaning the Taddy paddies, as the
fond young mothers call the parent
belonging to the masculine persuasion
receive those laconic epistles, called
trsdesmen's bills,"-and you make me
say the Papers receive, &c. But bore
these aud divers other mistakes and
uttered not a groan until ! received my
letter dated January 6. In which you
make me describe dress Of rich gros-
grain silk as being covered with velvet,
when l wrote it corded with velvet
Think Of the trouble you might bring
into the family o. Mrs. Fashion. at-any.
cost, if she set her mind on having a
dress covered with velvet instead OF
being simply corded with the same!
Think, l repeat, of the woe you would
introduce into the household and be
more careful next time. Remember,
You may make mistakes about politi,
cal, social, scientific and religious mat
tiers, with impunity, provided you are
always correct about the fashions
THE BILLS.
promised to say something about
the January bills, and now hasten to
make good my word. Whoever in
vented the first week Of January as pay
day, or quarter day, or whatever it may
be called, is a foe to humanity. He
must have been a crusty old bachelor,
who delighted to get the family by the
ears. He knew the bills for dresses and
groceries are always twice as much in
December as in any other month during
the year, and he ought to have had
quarter day come the first OF December,
then the holiday bills would have come
due some time in March. As it now is,
nothing is to be heard all over the land
Just after New Years but groans, and
mutteripgs, and seedlings over the
amount OF the bills, bills, BILLS Re-
trenchment commences forthwith.
Grocers and butchers are snubbed un.
mercifully, if they dare to come for
orders; no more shopping expeditions
are undertaken; the chambermaid or
waitress is discharged; everything is
cold, cherries and plain. By and by
the trying ordeal Is over. Have they
learned lesson The pspss, l mean.
No! If they had, they would not
again allow their wives and daughters
TO run bills, but would consult with
them about the purchases to be made
and furnish them the required amount
of money with which to make them.
Then peace, safety and JOY would reign
in the place Of discord and misery. l
knor whereof l affirm when I say q
woman will make fifty dollars in money
60 az far as one hundred dollars on
credit. Dear young married people,
just commencing life, try the "out OF
debt out of danger" rule Of life, and
Joy and peace will be yours. If you
have not the money to pay for thing,
do without it. Shut your ears to what
others may say, close your eyes to their
winks and jeerng mods, grit your teeth
and bear everything in order TO keep
out of debt.
Last week was an unusually fine
week for skating. Thousands visited
the ponds and lakes OF our parks
either to skate or to look at the skaters.
l prefer the latter occupation since l
had nv bump OF inhabitiveness en-
larged because of the obstinacy OF a
pair OF skates which q friend gave me.
The thir &c would not remain under me,
they would and did 20 faster than did
and arnics was used by me for several
hours afterward, and l "loaned" nv
skates and hope they will stay loaned"
1t is remarkable how easily and how
often the young ladies fall who have
cavaliers attending them A slide
little shriek.-up goes the arms and
down goes the lovely creature slmoet
The fall being broken BY the arms Of
Charles or Fred or -. Then the
getting up! How she protests she never
can get up, knows her ankle is sprained
or she is killed" (rnost of them ought
to be, but do not say l said SOY, but
Fred coa1es and lifts and she is soon
upright, and leaning lsnquidly on bis
arm is convened to the refreshment
saloon where she soon RECEIVERS hel
spirits, and gets over the sprained
ankle and comes to life again,-at least
I suppose 80, for l soon see her sgain
on the lake repeating the same scene
I never see elderly females. or wives, OF
unattended females fall more than once
the same evening. When either o.
these fall she picks herself up as
hastily as possible and has something
very urgent to call her home.
MEMORIAL OF ALICE AND PHGBE CARY.
have been reading the memorial o.
Alice and Phoebe Cary, by Mary Glenn
mer Ames, and would cheerfully recon-
mend it 10 everybody, but especially to
the young. The lesson OF their life
for they were % intimately connected
there seemed but one life between them
ia one Of especial value to the Young
Their perseverance,, their honesty, IN
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