Year: 1874

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A correspondent of the ProrideHee
Journal writes to that paper that he
has succeeded in finding that being,
hitherto supposed to be non-existent,
for whom Mr.. Edmund Sparkler sought
so assiduously, "the woman with no non
sense about her." The discovery Is
one of even more Importance than
that of Coggia's comet. Many have
made the search but In vain, and in
despair have referred the object of their
search to the same visionary catalogue
which contains the alchemist's stone,
perpetual motion, the fountain of eter.
nal youth, and other paragOns which
have distracted man from time imme-
mortal. This woman with no nonsense
about her lives In Rhode Island She
was about to graduate this summer
from a seminary, and was chosen 10 de-
lvier the valedict5ry address to her
class, as a mark Of her scholarship and
an Endorsement of her Intellectual
ability. She quietly but firmly, how
ever, declined the appointment, be-
cause it would cost her too much. The
etiquette Of the school required that
as the valedictorian she should be
dressed in white, not in sim
pie, enduring cambric, but in
a gauzy fabric, all puffs and founces.
which would be very expensive, and
good for nothing after once having
done service. Upon being reasoned
with, the gul replied: Il cannot
afford he dress; l shall in all proba-
bility never have occasion to wear it
after leave school / need books and
other helps to further culture, and l
must choose between the books and the
dress. / choose the books" The re-
salt was that she did not deliver the vale
dictory, and that some otter woman,
with nonsense about her. did, and
probably delivered a valedictory which
waspre-eminent fOrnOnsense. There is
one class, and quite large one, which
will be inclined to regard the heroine
of the school as having a great deal Of
nonsense about her in choosing to
spend her spare money for books in
stead of a dress, and for voluntarily
losing the opportunity to make an in
tcresting exhibition of herself The
h"r Hlass. wbich.is composed of sensi-
bic people, howe or, will regard her not
on y as a girl without any nonsense
about her, but W th a good deal of
moral courage, and as a girl who will,
in all likelihood, be heard from at sore
future time-if she has No other non
sense about her. There are undoubtedly
many parents denying themselves and
practicing a rigid economy to give to
give their daughter good education,
who would bedelighted to discover that
they had no nonsense about them of
this description IN commencement seas
ons. The most surprising feature of
the whole matter Is that a young girl
about to graduate, who has the means
to purchase a drew dress, should vol
unfairly deny herself the privilege, re-
noucne all the delights which
appertain to bepufed and
behounced gauze, the thrills which
such a garment is calculated to
arouse in the aggregate female breast,
and the emotions which it always pro-
duces in the male breast. and devote
her money to books The average
young woman of the present day who
graduates from seminary completes
her education, and at once arranges
her miscellaneous stock of music,
drawing, painting, and the languages,
with matrimonial prospects in view.
The young woman with no nonsense
about her evidently believes her educa-
ton is Just commencing, and can con-
sole herself with the reflection that her
future studies will not be likely to be
disturbed by competitors.