Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1875-01-15
nary care. He who does not know
this, and calculates to do as his fathers
did, had better let fruit trees alone"
Partisan Market Women.

Mrs. Hooper writes in ARpletom's
Journal:-"Here sits a picturesque
looking old body, with her head tied
up in variegated kerchief, and busily
employed in preparing Ju1ienne for
soup, and a wondrously pretty prepara-
ton it is, with the piles of golden hued
carrot shreds, and snow white shredd-
eHi' tt1nt,rnips, and the bright green sf the
young cabbage leaves to heighten the
whole, all so deftly and dexterously
cut up and mingled. See her now as
she takes first a pinch of one vegetable
and then pinch of another, and adds
them to the heap that is rising in front
of her on the centre of the table; with
what seeming carelessness she does it,
yet she never takes either too much or
too little. And here | must remark
that the danes de la halle are very
different from the picture our fancy
usually paints Of them, stimulated by
the descriptions of writer's who drew
their ideas from the market women Of
a by-gone age. Most of them are
young and many of them are pretty,
and the elderly DANES among them
are not the fierce old harridans of
whom we haze heard so many stories,
but rather comforrtels. grand mother
ly-loekingssasa%abstiies--n o>aehaa,
even a face of almost sanity sweetness;
so gentle and placid in its expression
under the parted folds of her silvery
hair. Yon tall girl. proclaiming so
eagerly the excellence of her fresh
gathered mushrooms, is as perfect
specimen as one would wish to see of
ia low born beauty-plump and we'll
shaped, with cheeks as rosy as apples,
teeth like drops of milk, and pair Of
black eyes that sparkle like twin dia-
monds. A little farther on we pass q
young girl with silvery fair hair and
that wonderful complexion of Opaque
white and pink that French blondes
usually possess: her features are not
handsome, but the coloring is mar
vellous."
Speaking Of women Of another class,
the writer says:-'f, descending lower
in the social scale of Partisan woman
hood, We take look. at. the actual
working CLASSES, we come across race
of which, its extremes, We find no
counterpart at home. The dainty
little ourriere, in. her white cap and
neat dress, fitting so perfectly her trim,
little figure, and the equally pleasant
looking and tidy house servants are
unfortunately, unknown quantities ta
us in working out our social problems
Fanchette or Albertine, in her grace,
her dainty ways, her pretty little po-
liteness of speech and demeanor, and
her deft and rapid method of doing
things, is very different creature from
the hard handed. heavy-footed Bridget
or pert Dinah of our kitchens. But,
drop one peg lower in the scale, and
we come across class of beings the
like of which do most honestly be-
lieye exists nowhere on our continent
at least not of American race. The
woman of the lowest class in France
is dreadful being. Large and power
full Of frame, with broad shoulders,
brawny limbs and bearded lip,sin her
maturity she retains nothing of her
sex about her save her petticoats.
Her head, bound in solied, bright
colored handkerchief, from beneath
which escape the grizzled locks of her
unkept hair, second gray handker-
chief crossed over her massive bosom,
her hands planted on her hips, her
arms akimbo, she is, in her wrath, a
creature to flee from-and, even in her
pleasant moments, being to avoid"