National Republican., 1873-06-30

leave the Baltimore depot at I:5S and $50 4. m.,
returning early In the evening. Round-tii.I j
tickets, alults 10 cents and children IS cents.
This festival Is In aid OF the new Academy Of the
Holy Cross.
Lincoln Hall.
Aspleudld concert will take place this evening
ct Lincoln hail. The programme includes such
popular pieces As "Away TO the Meadows, away,
cloves Approach" "My Angel" LoI the
Clouds are Breaklng," and many beautiful
DUETS, quartettes and chorlses. The concert
commences at O'Clock. Tickets one dollar,
The concert will be conducted BY Prof. Daniels.
Grand Family Festival.
To-day q grand family festival will be given
At the sohuetzen park To- tho benefit Of 81.
Dominlcs church. A nne baal Of music will be
In attendance. Children accompanied by parents
or friends will be admitted free. The commit
tee Of arrangements have provided for most
excellent and Joyful entertainment.
Mrtropoiiiaa Variety Theatre.
Nj. James Porter, manager Of the Metropoll-
TIN, Ia combining liberal outlay with his talent
and experience TO make his stage entirely ac-
oeptablc TO the large patronage his theatre now
receives. This week Jennie Duyeres name Is
added 70 the list OF performers. A. W. Manin
remains another week, as we'll As the Claire and
Gorenno sisters. The grand act OF contortion
y the Claires Is certainly wonderful per.
very handsome and talented woman, and for 4
long time Marie Gorenno was q pet At Tony
Pastors. senator Brassell Hart Cummings
and Turner are still on the Metropolitan boards.
The Girl Of the Period.
In Louisville, KY, q few evenings ago, Rev.
DR.. Henderson lectured on the "Girl Of the
Period" He sketeked that interesting creature
as fellows; 'False and feeble have been the
common methods OF female education. Things
have been stuck on for show. IKE the chignon
on the head. They were IKE the mere icing
ornaments on the coniectioners cake, covering
up deal OF badly mixed and badly baked dough
underneath. Tue modern belle has been taught
TO paint and her pictures bear about the same
relation 10 true art that the Saracens head on 4
village tavern sign does 10 Raffaell's transngura-
tion; she has been taught French, and true
Partisan could better understand the dialect Of
frog than her few sentences memoriEed from
fiemaque; she has been taught the ornA-
mental branches, and her talent and tattllng
keep good company In society; she can trans
pose few sentences OF poetry the admlra-
tion OF some brainless fOp, and talk few nip
pances that she has managed to remember gar
nered from the Fourth Reader; she has been
taught muslc-any OF her attempts TO play would
give plano the toothache. There was nothing
SO corfoding 70 It's worry as her blundering
touch. He had suffered many embarrassments,
but knew OF none SO great as TO be compelled TO
stand BY plano and turn over sheet music for
some laundering Miss, and be put upon his In
genuity TO tell natterlng lie, when the tortured
Instrument ceased 10 complain Of lis bad treat
ment.
"Such shams we call educated young ladies,
when all they can show 10 prove II are the par.
tlal parlOr accomplishments Indicated, and q
parchment that would do better service raising
q neece upon Sleeps back than pulling the
wool over deluded parentA' eyes.
"The girl OF the period talks In the language
OF the most extravagant hyperbole, Indifferent to
sobriety aud sense; Is In constant quest OF adj
mlrers, counting life by the number OF her ball
room oonquests; dIstTustful Of the glow OF 1ner
beauty she bedlzens her face with paint; she
desplses cookery books and studies Madame
Demorest; she piles burdens upon her mother as
II she were camel TO be loaded; full OF mawkish
sentimentality she polsons her mind with the
painted CONNECTIONS OF ideallsm and fiction;
she leaves souls with the musicians, weeps
over an Imaginary heroine, but has no tears 10
hhed over her wan and wasted seamstress-whO
sews until every nnger-joln aches In an agony
OF despair-making shroud for herself as she
makes trotLsssdu for the bride; she simpers at
church, runs when the minister pays the family
q visit, but has balcony talks for her Romeo BY
moonlight; she has romantic dreams OF rope
ladders and escapadea from cruel parents; thinks
the New YORK Ledger "a charming paper and
her church paper good thing for patterns
aud, In short, this nilliner's manakln Is the
yeriest sham when put IN contrast with the pOr-
traiture which reason draws OF an educated
American woman."