Show froin frota life lita III ili 5 TILE XO deri DEEM moung YOUNG LADY f lw i the cump complexion lexion of the modern youn glady is a 8 dul dull id dead eadeh white bite like tallow or discolored wax her eyes look as though they had been bo boiled pled pied and ar are e about as ae devoid devold of expression 1 as the optics of any wax doll dolt in a shop win I 1 do dow her hair which she bhe gene generally pally wears w ears in a profusion of bushy ringlets is screwed up lip in V v bits of old newspaper all night and half the next day her lips are pale paley ancher teeth i blackann blac black kand and decaying the of eating too loo much candy ciol clovea ea and cardamom see seeds if of t which the modern young lady carries a goodly supply in her ber pockets her shape chape is esqui j bite eite so all her female friends say by which we eare are to understand tha she is tall and arid slim like an overgrown celery stalk and about as mr large larga e around the excruciatingly little waist a as 8 th the e diameter 1 ameter ot a moderately sized bean pole she is extravagantly fond of reat reau reading ing ting 1 f knows all byron and tom moore bloore bolleart byll byli by heart eart and peruses peruses all the he yellow ellow covered literature i as fast last as it issues from fram the press indeed she i s sometimes writes poetry herself of abich we can devise no better betten comparison than a quantity of thrice diluted milk she considers f shakespeare cabore babore fa a bore and rational reading makes her lier head achell f her health is extremely delicate strange to say she ia is almost with wlm those hor rid headaches in the morning whenever she has danced and sipped water ices until mid night the evening before she is afflicted with strange feelings and unaccountable flutter ings of the heart and any little excitement throws her into strong hysterics of course the modern yc young lady dont believe ballee in daily exercise it would kill her to walk half a i block unless there is a prospect of meeting theodore exquisite on oil broadway and the then 11 s shell go half halt way down to the battery with outa murmurs murmur she thinks it vulgar to know anything any lhing about 1 household duties never was in the kitchen but cilc once e and then saw a spider and nearly fainted away she dont know whether sakip soup is made in a frying pan an or a teakettle tea kettle cant make bre bread braad clont enow know the use of a dishpan dish pan and arid could nc roast a turkey if her life depended oil on lu it it is so refined to be ignorant on these sub jestal she site never sews this part of the household economy together with the kitchen response bili hili ties reels upon the much enduring sh a of her tired looking mother who never complains however for arabella is so gentzell gente ell eil elP eld if jf ifa a button comes off he paternal garments papa never thinks of asking arabella to bew sew it on if it peters toes make a breach in the stocking department he never dream requiring his sisters aid and if boti you ask aak where tae mother ia is your are told she ehe is repairing Ara Arabella arabelia bellas 3 clothes she ashe dotes on music spends three or four f hours every day in strumming on the piano plano and warbling sentimental ballads ballade she draws divinely and there thele are several monstrosities jn in crayon and water colors Iari tang ging ingup up framed sand and glazed on the parlor walls walli in everlasting evidence of her ge genius she makes wax flowers and dubs dues crotchet vork rork work york she was finished at madame s fashionable ae seminary where she learned to speak ungrammatical french frena and to dance sweetly 11 theres no denying that she has r received bevery evers every advantage she cant catt bear the country it isso IB is SO bulland dull duli and stupid she abominates a quiet domestic evening in at home because it is so when her weary old father asks her to play a tune for him she dla diA disposes poses of the subject summarily ind and sharply 1 theia rhela hed too tired but when mr air Jl Xe everley verley brainless comes in a few minutes afterwards redolent of frangipanni and rose oil and repeats the ibe request she complies witha ith emiline alacrity and singa sings and strums until vou would think the piano waa wan coming literally to pieces she goes to church regularly every sunday be bearing rino ring 0 a prayer book look bound lound in finest gold and belvet and while the minister ii is preaching breaching bhe she ahe takes an inventory of eircil every bonnet dress aad and collar in iq the sacred edifice she should think mrs jenkins jankins would je ashamed to c ome come week eak after ipek in that old leghorn bonnet is sure that it lehor hor her father d asar ar was as rich as the misses aliases atkins allans papa she wear those horrid old dyed ayed y over bilks eilks to church wonders why tb m sward seward dont look this way and is forced to hava re coarse recourse to her sm smelling ellig bottle when the two iwo poor bliss miss brownes go b by her pew pow in Q neat gingham dress ea how vy vuc garl she never thanks who gives up tip hia his seat to her in a railroad car is very angry because tha infirm old odi gentlemen who 0 sits siti next ineat dont squeeze himself up into a fraction obio of no room roam at all to give her crinoline a fairer field and puts her perfumed handkerchief to 0 her aristocratic nose if simple calico approaches lier her rustling silks and gossamer lacel lace adores children whenever she can get up a picturesque effect by so doing but is very cross to her little brothers and sisters at homel home the modern young lady always grows delicate by degrees eesi as the saratoga season ap roaches and talks about molan melancholy choly dooms and early deaths whereupon papa looks incredulous heya hes been caught more than once in that but dut he is at length subdued by a skillfully got up geries series of hysterics vapors sobs bobs and entreaties and miss arabella goes olt off to saratoga while the rest of the family pitifully at home and an on extra wrinkle grows by degrees on papas forehead down in his dusty little counting room on fulton street here she meets a young gentleman equally well ivell stocked stacked with sentimentality and ard stillness she fails falls ip in lom loo love iove with I 1 1 his bis distingue 1 ingue graces and h in 1 e 1 ii ur in quotations of alexander smith and his agreeable conversa lions about moonlight music and io BO forth and arid be he with her aptitude at the and the simmering simpering sim smiles with which she listens to hiir whispered nothings after a berles series of preliminary softness be he falls tails on one knee inee in a romantic manner and declares his everlasting passion then follows an episode of white ribbon shopping snow colored kid gloves and orange blossoms bloe and the young couple both of whom put together know about as much muth as ah an intelligent calf start handin hand hana n hand on the journey of life how tbell thell get along together as traveling I 1 compari companions ions lons we leave the public to im a agine ill gr reader 1 eder ader thib ibis is an ari accurate delineation sketched from lite dont you admire the exquisite character olour of our modern young lady SHIl shii shirley shrrley tiEY |