The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1876-04-13

Bai. dear Mr. Lumkin, cries JeBuiv
Jebks, ! want 10 make my own expert
cnos yoR know AID then Sigh an,
/ say b mysslf, was ever anything else .
eostly 10 he buying, and 80 wsr,hiess il
lbe giving, as ibis same experienced An,
then ny wife lights the gas, and We Al
80 to dinner, and tho dinner is excellent
are no, Mrs. Lampkla's dinners Away
sKoellsnll And s1ll aBd myself pom
dering on the case OF Jennie jerks,
Miss jerks il Of the kitlsnish order o
girls, She 10 round and plump. she hAi
a baby face and innocent eyes. She car
, be swee, and tart and peryersc aud be,
witohing, just as 8 child Is, all at once. .--
In fact, she is full-grown child; physi'
cally q woman, mentally a baby. Baby
likes what IS bright and glaring. So
does she. Baby is sublimely superior 10
reason. SO Is abe. Baby has diaboli-
cal ingenuity in getting itself caught by
the neck and skirts and fingers. She has
the ssme ingenuity for what she calls
'serspes, Baby is sfIlicied with an evil
spirit Of research into every place or
thing that can bite, pinch, nip, smash,
and, In one word, hurt Il. So is she,
metaphorieally. Baby is always trying
to put Its fingers isto the pretty candle.
So is she; metaphorically again! But
here the parallel ends. Baby can be
taken away and quenehea In bed, or in
the nurses lap. Miss jerks has the lib
erty, as well rs the stature, Of woman
hood. We may shout till we are hoarse,
naughty candlel Burn Jenniel Burnt
me once! and she can still say, as she did
1 10 me;
But want TO feel what burn Is like,
for myself, you know.
/ Now, In such a case, what ia q man TO
do? Jennie Is visiting my niece Clara,
who Is as much Of baby as herself
They erimp each others heads, and wear
gowns cut from the same piece OF goods.
They both wear frills, and rosettes for
skirts, and ribbons, and flower for
bonnets. They are tightly girt in at the
waist, and have short curls, and long
curls, and dog-eollsrs, and high heels,
and 3 Grecian bend, and nice ankles,
and ribbon by the piece, and distracting
little wells. They are rosy and saucy and
coquettish; very pretty, in fact, except
ing the Grecian bend; and they go stroll
ing down Fifth Avenue and Broadway,
and think that every fine-looking man
with good gloves and shoulders is hero,
and christen every woman in absurd
train and inaccessible bonnet splendid
Fancy letting loose two such infants in a
city like New York; You know that
extremes meet, and that few old sinners
are more reckless than a baby. And
these girls say and do things, in the in
nocence and ignorance of their hearts,
that make me, a fifty-years-old uncle,
shudder. Still, what am / TO do about
1t, fast in my shop, while Mrs. Lumkin
is equally fast in her kitcnent
You ask, what things? Here is an ex-
ample: For week they have been shut
in the house, for no good cause, you may
be sure. Busy over some enginery of
Misunderstanding suits, was told-snd
only appearing at meals, with hair in
crimping-pins, and threads and snippings
Of some gray stuff sticking all over them
still they were safe in the house, and
breatbed freer; till on certain Friday
heard bouncing and rustling outside Of
nay door, and, opening it, behold Jenny
and Claral
Now l have no more eye for details of
millinery than beetle; but always ex-
perienced from my youth up vague
approving consciousness Of white frills
and cuffs, trim boots, fresh hats, gloves,
and faces, dainty collars, soft curls, flow
ing outlines, and tlimsy things of lace
Consequently, though try to look grim,
feel myself softening, and the irreyer-
ent minxes find me out at once and kiss
me, and dance about me, and go away
flushed, no doubt, with this their first
conquest, and leave me confounded. Full
of malice against my unlucky sex they
get into a stage and ride about. Some
body looks at them; somebody like me
from my youth up, only be 10 in his youth
yet, aud has not arrived at the up
Jenny discovers him--a woman who can
not see through her eyelids is unworthy
of the name of woman-steals look at
the locker, aud observes that he has a
dark mustache. Stranger looks away
Jenny, very curious 10 know II be will
look again, steals another glance, gets
caught in the act, and bushes crimson.
Clara finds il out by this time, and takes
notes. Stranger is curious to see II Jen-
ny is looking. Jenny is curious to see II
the stranger is looking. Both steal
glances, aud their eyes meet. BY this
time the strangers companions have
found Il out also. Jenny is quite resolv.
ed to look that way no more, but does so
want TO know II be Is looking STILL
Looks toward the glass at the upper end
Of the stage. A similar brillian. device
has occurred to the stranger, and their
eyes meet in the glass. Jenny pouts,
turns her back equArely, and for the rest
Of the ride looks industriously down
Broadway. And the next morning Clara
finds IN the paper the following sdyer-
tisement
Will the shorter Of the two young
ladies, dressed alike in gray poplin walk
ing dresses, trimmed with gray satin,
And who rode on Friday afternoon from