The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-06-26

II 10 wise provision Of Providence that
:, tbo verjest gala DAYS os life there should
no n molrner; that in tse hilarious aeStlVt-
t;es that have Tor their motto carPe daehs,
there should be breathcA above inexperienced
hrcatb Of flowers and shc sweet murmur~
So ~ lu,cs The nee6fssl mefneHso ~ orr. 1t
;snnt welcome: i: is the WORN III the
reach: the blight in the grape; the ny IN
iife's pof ei ointmcHt; ana, heWe'er uii-
rine the peach, or soar the grape, or 0lrty
the ointment, it cSirks ana worries us,
Nothing IS so fur rs 10 escs!s II. L,eN
tboso bright gatherings that ef!llSe on thc
,l,,I,Iic ,,criodicalt, at the female college
ao,,ma-romcptS ere not without black
Snots on their ESe The pablo may not
san them. for, enchanted by abe sweet fury
NJ the yriano. or lost in Stsniration at the
Jorynrcal caracsiing of the eslr-piercing so
nranos the public gives 3tSelf up to the
hour. Here. it says, X happiness; but
here il we mag be allowed to Interrupt ats
felicity. is its mistake, and here, too, NC
may add. is the main peibs OF difference be-
tween the public and The giant intellects
tbst rim newspapers. The public takes the
neat programme and the list OF graduates,
and its place luXuriouIy on the cushioned
seat in the !irpnt OF the stage, and says IN ITS
heart. let the thing GO ON, While the SlanE
Intellect who has priasHsd both, and who has
writhed under the mary interlineat,ons and
corrections of the professors long nights be
fore all th9E beauty has assembled for 5uGg-
ment. SAWS in his aosrt-well, never miro
what he says in his hcsrt, but that Is eway
he comes to know tti;E among aiS tHss SiNoes
there is q .mOurner.
That:nmone ailtae MinnieS. and lenniesp
and Mol6es. and .Fannies, and Mares, and
Ressies. and -Matties. and-aD that sort Cd
thing. there should he any gira so deserted
OF Heaven as to be written down Betsy, and
likewise printcd.in Fiat unspeaka1ly vulgar
wav is beyond comprehension What bad
she dome? What Htrre her feeinSs2 What
was tito herthat-she had obtained che prize
for Thorough bass. esr the certificate for her
performance OF the ''Ninth Symphony -
or a real four-dollar bouquet whea she lin
ished her aria from Wagner's gcyaSchtung
des RretzcpS2" What was it to her that the
newsuspers should have said OF her vale
dietory that.it was - chaste and elegant in
dictien," or that VIXEN the Rev. Belshaz-
Ear Dunder, in his annual address be-
fore the young latfes- had described pei
feet woman, he had looked at hef7 y!
what did it matter aalat She had pressed
forward to the high prize OF the saereo
GOLDEN .dust-pan Whirh the angels might
in Heaven who, during their earthly pill
grimage, never received for Greatness In
their rooms" fact that must make them
wretchedlv low-spiried when they look
down on commencement nights, As we
have no doubt those thinly-clad citiZeus OF
another world do, with envyings frequent
and bitterness of heart often. What, We
say, could any OF these things be to girl
named Betsy! How she must have WINGED
when the other names were read out; fol
your dullest girl is not 1nsenslble to the
effect OF games on mcEs ears, or now
that weak~headed sex, caught by the
thinnest al,urcments, fall easy victims to
q pretty sound, How man who hears
OF Margaret with indifference will buy
tickets With avidity for Maggie; how
the willy Catharinc when she an
dounces herself Us Kate increases her
chances huudred-fold; how the neglect
ed Ellen becomes Il pet as Nellie; how the
syllable Henrietta steals her way into a
mans heart Us Nettie; how Martha, though
embalmed in the sweetest Of Bible stories,
is powerless till she becomes Matte; and
how the man who will fly from Betsy will
walk miles to take Bessie under his wing
How all these thoughts must have passed
through the heart that beat under the No.
"a corset-if it was that No.-whose owners
name was plain Betsy, and how she must
have cursed the day she was born iii ayoung
lady graduate can be supposed TO indulge
in a little iustifable profanity, or at least
the day OF her christening. With what bit
terness she must have recollected those pa.
rents who started her into the world with
such name, or, indeed, worse than with
out any! There is no future for her as she
looks anxiously forward. No minister will
ever say, "Betsy, wilt thou have this man
for thy welded husband?" or words
to that effect, and the best she car
hope for is that, at her funeral, the
minister will speak Of her as pious mai
den lady, who played the Ninth Symphony
in her youth and sung the Destruction Of
the Pretzel," and who, in her old age, wa.
full OF good works, such rs church fairs ant
talking with yirtuous severity OF her neigh
boris shortcomings, and who has gone tt
receive that golden dust-pan, which is the
reward of the just, where neither the cheru
bin, who has been named Nellie, nor the
seraphim, who has been named Matte, shall
be able to look down upon her.
Poor Betsy !-Staunton Vindicator.
The BOSTON Girl