The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1873-09-11
THE BOSTON YOUNG LADY.
SHE COMES, SHE SEES, SHE coNouERs ELI
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"A. PERKINS ~ b. "a. -
The Boston Young lady has arrived a
Saratoga. I mean the. real literary youns
lady-the siege Of Troy girl. She grew VI
in Boston, and graduated at Vassar ColIeg'
last years She wears Eyeglasses and is ful
of wisdom She scans Homer, rattles tht
verb "lipo" like the.multiplication. sing,
Anacreon to the old Greek melodies and
puts up her hair after the statue of the We
nus of Milo. There is no end to her knowl
edge Of the classical dictionary, and when il
comes to Charles Lamb or Sydney Smith
Sotherns of literature-those who never
wrote much, but got the credit of every good
joke in England can say their jokes as
a Catholic says her beads. If you ask heI
kow she likes babies, she answers: .
,tsHow? Well, as Charles Lamb remark.
ed. T like 'em b-b-boiled.' /" -. g..
| Ask her any thing and she will always
lug in a quotation from some pedantic old
fool like Dr.. johnson, or Swift, or Jack
Bunsby, just to show4that she's up. in litesa-
ture and you are-green. Not, o single ori-
ginal idea, but one constant g Socrates said, .
or @as Pluto remarked" or aas Diogines
observed" - Yesterday, some sharp, shrewd,
original New York young ladies' gothoid of
the pedantic' business and introduced a
paraphras on Miss Boston's language, t,,s
"Do you love music Sallie W ~
"Well, yes as the poet Observed eNi
= 'How many glasses did you drink this
mofhing?" .F9a 4slsses oJr ttE
aSix," as Mr.. Daball pathstically remark
ed in his arithmetic, - -, : n -,
aeDance the round dancesg
: aNo," as the Lord Mayor Of London qui-
etly observed a. Johx Ruskin asked him for
the loan OF foar dollars, e,s A3e,s9 tii~s,
The Boston girl is SO well posted that she
wins triumphs over yon by sort of literary
i'bluff" game. She attributes sharp quo
tations to distinguished men, and, conscious
that you dare not question their authentiei-
ty, of course she 2 bluffs" you rightdowu.
When. you 60. to your fooms and; read up,
and find that she neatly has "hlufeP YOU, Of
course you are too gentle to mention sIt, and
so the Boston girl igocson pluming shefseif
at the expense Of New York gallantryssS
a Yesterday, the Boston girl yas A. it again
Somebody asked her who was, the Oldest,
Methusela or Deuteronomy. =
h''sWhy, Barnes, the commentator, says
Deuteronomy came before Numbers of
course he ID. tooold to, be cemputed.H -SrtS
/. Now, knew she lied, but still I had my
doubts about it. didn't wantto break out
and say Deuteronomy came after Numbers,
and then have those miserable Boston fellows
say with that terrible upward infection, how
are you, Eli Perkins2 Oh, no. But when
| did 90 up to my room sent out to q gen.
tleman in Saratoga who has several bibles
to lend, and got the Pentateuch-and sure
enough, Just my luck, that miserable, pedan-
tic, spectacled Boston girl was right. r...ii,a
If you sit down by this Boston girl and
don't behave like minister, she don't get
mad and pout. Oh, no. She says, Mr.. Tomp-
kins, shall read you afew lines from Scrib-
ner's? and then goes on ls,.eg' '-'sT'is''t
Why can't you be sensible, Harryl aH;l
Idon'l like mems arms on my chair.
Be still! ifyou don't stop this nonsense,
I'll get up and leave you--so there! ls'Is
And when you take out q solitaire ring
or try to ''seal the VOW" or something ofthat
sort, as New York fellows always try to, do
with. almost every Boston girl who comes
here, she looks up blushing, and in the Ian
guage of Swinburne POLITICALLY remarks 'ss"I
There somebody's coming look So
Get up on your own chair again .e.f.s,
Can't you seem as if nothing had happened!
ii. never saw such geese as you men!f }sia!
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