Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1873-08-29
From the Graphic.
THE ROSTGN YOUNG LADY.
She Comes, Sees and C"h4"ers
Perkins.

The Boston young latiy HIS III
at Saratoga. / mean the real literary
young lady-the Siege-of-Troy, girl
She grew up in Boston, and graduated
at Vassar College last year. She wears
eyeglasses, and is full Of WISDOM
She scans Homer, rattles the verb
.sIipo' like the multiplication table,
sings Anacreon to the old Greek meio-
dies, and puts up her hair after the
statue of the Venus of Milo. There
is no end to her knowledge OF the cias-
steal dictionary, and when 1t comes 10
Charles Lamb or Sydney smith
Sotherns of observation-disclosures who
never wrote much, but got the credit
of every good Joke in England-she
can say their Jokes us a Catholic says
his beads. If you ask her how she
likes babies, she answers
"How? Well, rs Charles Lamb re-
marked. T like 'em b-b--bOilcd.
Ask her anything, and she will al
| WAYS Ing in a quotation from some pc
dantic old fool like DIR. johnson or
| Swift or Jack Blnsby, Just to show
| YOU that she is up i'll literature, and
| that Won are-green. Not IA single
original IDEA, E4t one constant. AS
Socrates said" or as f:lq4Q remark
| ed" or "as Diogenes onser.en' res
terdav, some sharp. shrewd, original
| New York Young ladies got hold OF the
pedantic business, and introduced Il
| funny parapl rase on Miss TO Iton $ Ian
guage.
DO Won love mu <. Sallie?'
| "Well, yes, as the poet observed.
"How many glasses did you drink
this morning?"
six, as Mr.. Daban pathetically re-
| marked in his arithmetic.
s.Dance the round dances p
ono, as Ae LORD Mayor of London
quietly observea IS John huskin
asked him for the lean OF al"
| The Boston girl is SO yell posted that
she wins triumphs over you by sort
of literary "bluff' game. She attrib-
utes sharp quotations to distinguished
| men, and, conscious that you dare not
question their authenticity, OF course
she "bluffs" you right down. When
YOU go to yo,lr room, and lead up, and
! lind She has really "bluffed'' you, of
course you are too gentle to mention
it, and so this Boston girl goes on
| pluming herself at the expense of New
York s4tli9slpq1tryy.. -,
Yesterday &is 40 *Qn girl was at it
again. Somebody askeo t.e. ~lhl.nc was
the Oldest, Methusela or Deuter-
onomy?
"Why, Barns, the commentator says
deuteronomy came before Numbers
l-of course he's too old to be COM
puted."
Now, I knew she lied, but still had
doubt about it. I didn't want to
/ break OFT and say Deuteronomy came
after Num- err, hn4 then have those
miserable Boston IeloEi sly with that
terrible upward ipfectio4, How are
you, Eli Perkins? OH no. lSut when
I did go up to my room sent out to a
gentleman in Saratoga who has several
Bibles to lend, and got the Fentateucll
land, sure enough, just my luck. that
miserable. pedantic, specialized Boston
girl was right. .,
If you sit down by this Boston CIR
and don't behave like minister she
don't get mad and put. o !! no. She
| says, Mr.. Hopkins, shall 1 repeat you
few ssiasss from Scribner's and Their
she goes on
Why can't you be sensible Harry
don't like mem arms on my chair.
Be still if you don't stop this nonsense,
I'll get up and leave you-so there!
i And when you take out a solitaire
ring, or try to ''seal the vow" or some
thing of that sort, as New York fellows
/ try to do with almost every Bosto1
girl who 4eac3HHes here, she looks NJ