New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-05-01
JOHNNY BOUQUETS WALKS.
APT AND NATURE IN CONTRAST

LIFE IN THE SIXTH AVENUE BAZAARs-A STORY
OF GENERAL LIE AND THE MURDER OF AhhA-
HAM IINCOIN-A GEOLOGICAL fAlS-EFi-
YFFEcTs or THE DKLUGE-GKOL"G'ch eVR
yEYs AND DISCOVERIES IN THE Ci2lEp STATES
Thor ia too much competition in the posy bust
mess NJ this time Of the year. PoSies, poetry
rodisbes and sIad now do he spontaneous. My lit
.rary business. too has brought into the field a
swarm of couuterfets, standing on broadway WIN
n tray of blooms and affecting 70 he reading La'in
grammar. Thus every rcsuscitation, every good
example, is punished.
A Lady said to me Yesterday: I" Johnny say mort
about the ladies in your travels. Man re""s HIS
newspaper and throws IT down WITHOUT
word Woman reads it and then lhhlcts IL vi 'o
husband or other fellow she loves And always
gets the material pint wrong" added. Never
m,,uds saws she. &" II You want 10 be popular win
both sexes butter the lady parsnips more Lazy
sinners is the word, madam and then being
poor vagabond like a kings fool turned Tor "oiii-
ans inspiration to n lady's grave
WOMAN IN TIE CITY.
There is 2 time when the rhetoric of Jefferson
that men are created equal. seems true aud 1t Is
xbep If the honest mother is born the healthy SON.
Wrauped in his fTst garment sleeping ms hIst
sleen cackling his first crow, the prince OF the
household arrives without an enemy and believes
the whole world to be only his playtmng. Another
baby is a part of his amusement. Another nurse Is
no great change lie swallows his toe rs II To say
Whoop-laY and regards the hiccoughs as the long
desired epidemic His yell Is the testimony OF ms
good lungs: his temper is taken To be conclusive ol
a manly will. No egotism, no selhShneSs no cum
ming. no greedincss he can do III ms cradle Is not
his mothers assurance of a perfect man; lor
mothers however brief their experience rather like
man rs he is and would not omit from ms aggregate
even his tyranny. As the Lord viewed man after
His work, ana pronounced HIM good woman III
wardly remarks that there may Ice something oe'''I
than man, but size hasn't come to IT..
Such is the baby man. wherever pToduc'd
member of the RIVAL family. But the baby girl Is
another thing Its mother hears the softer sex an
nounced. and looks az the father with little tuid-
ity and disappointment asiftos say" have added to
his burdens instead of TO his strength. hut gencraly
in the fathers heart the girl child finds an easy
Judgment though the mother half believes IT, ana
often finding ont fears she has brought her n'a
into the family with her child. rs years proceed the
father has hundred fears for his daughter. because
she is 10 have so slight an agency in her own dlec
ton and development and bears to the son the
relation of a flower To a shrub-thc flower L. liable
TO die ut every iiost the shrub II hardy all WINTER
the shrub may be transplanted 10y storm amt VIII
alieht upon its root but a breath of ialscho0d viii
daughters injuries but the boy requires no
avenger and it is rather his njuring other people
that calls for the parental interference HE son
to the father is like tough orchid grown 10 block
of wood and sawed from the stem by the fact that
II i how His marriage and settlement are rather
10 De desired and it is OF mild consequence what
respectable wife lac takes As for the mother She
is little distressed at the marriage OF her SON. but
rather favors admirers for her daughter, and knows
nothing of the steady antagonism in her mshan" s
mind 10 any man his child may love. Herein tae
woman is sensible and material and the father an
unjust sentinentalist, because he has raised ms
child i'm fancy, or even in faith. above her normal
humanity.
This is nv text to-day, men and brethren upon
the proprety of taking more reasonable and mum
dane view of female life. If receive generous
patronage. and can get of this aunful Of ior7'niTc
and table bouquets that embarrasscs me. will LET
food of freshness as from my -pIinSlmV pot, upon
the great subject of Women in the CITY, httir
room for the aged Carthaginian! Put IN another
sub-head that hc may get his breath!
TIE sIXrn-AvENyE CHI.
Persons familiar with the frequent changes Of
New-York channel and habit lave noticed the Use
of a recent creation that may call the SHth-aye.
C;l Where She was born and where she dWC.ls
nobody knows but size recruits her forces at -Four
tcenth-st and FOurth-aVc and proceeds ~ "a ucat-
ing and irregular way along IOurteenth--t To
SiNth-ave. never noticing Broadway as she croNse-
il more than if it were geographical term. Ike the
Ecpic or the Tropic of Cancer. She turns mp SNih-
ave. with her mouth wide open and her hand ami
belt full of brass ornaments rcu,ule or chains OF
charms and she stares and stops ard lodges in and
out Of shops, till She arrives at Iwenty-thrd-st''
when another current from the west drives LeI
IL. Il to NM ispu eung
the last point the SiXthavc. girl seoms to sink into
the earth and disappear.
The route have described is n nearly unhrokcn
series of shops and stores, generally managed on
the principle of everything in sight and little OF
everything The old fashioned. discreet system OF
keeping everything on the shelves and having the
counters clean for each individual customer. and
making the price Of goods confidential possibly AZ
occult matter with cipher prices on each article iol
The instruction Of clerks and to try the faith ana
supersttion of bargainers has had to yield, IN thG
case of the Sixth-avc girl 10 an open exhibit, bnl
liant countcr display and wild versatility of wares
from parasols and button CATERS 10 zinc bronze
staturttcs and monthly magazines. Once 1t was The
voung clerks complaint that Miss or Madam woulc
have half the shop pulled down TO satate her curl
osi,v and spend her sixpence but now half the sboI
il alrcady down and lying about TO be felt and
looked at and Miss or Madam is the clerk as wei
rs the customer, there being a wonderful resom
blance between the young girls behind and betor'
the counter. and lest there should be any youni
girl lonesome among the customers. the clerks an
of assorted ages in the most part Cuttings, her
and there a matron's face, but densely between a
If waiting to receive a charge OF Amazon caVaIl
and drawn up in line and carrying her bayonet II
her back hair. her cartridge box and ramrod ut he
girdlc. the great infantry element OF the hazaa
establishment is the regiment Of the SiNih-ave
Girl, the very duplicate Of the swarm before th'
counter whence the clerical force has been NJ
doubt. recruited. long period Of shopping dissipa
ton. turning over a thousand gowgaws day ha
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