Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, September 28, 1873, Page 10

10 PARIS. The Jardin Mabille and the Chateau Rouge. The Grisette-~-Matrimonial Agencies--« The French Marriage-Laws. The Champs Elysces on Sunday=-= Business Women, From Mr, Fulton's Par{s Letters to the Ballimors Awmerican. THE ‘' MADILLE " AND TITE *4ROUGE." London has its *'Argylo Hall” and *Cro- wmorne Garden,” Vionns has ita ¢ Bperlo” and * Alhnmbra," but thoy sre all low and disordorly ‘placos, which aro never visitod oven by respoota~ blo gentlomen. Thoey aro viclous imitations of tho Paris gardens, such as the “Jardin Mabille " and the “Elysco Montmartre," tho * Chatoau Ttouge" and the * Oloserio des Lilse.,” In theso places tho liconso of tho dance is not always conflned to tho limits of proprioty, though thore is nothing to bo scon at any of thom down to the lovel of the artistio dancing on the stage, *or what is callod tho “log drama,” In pummor, tho Parislana rosort to similar cstablishmonts ab Wio villagea of Asnicres, Enghoin, Lecaux, Bt, Cloud, Rombouillot, and Montmorenoy. Wo have visited the *‘Jardin Mabille,” which is the best placo in Parls to meot Americans, and English, too, both Indies and gentlemon, ag but fow il to spond an ovening thore during thelr sojourn in the motropolis, andlnst evening your corrospondent was inducod to accompany a young Baltimorean, whoso curiosity was not st isfled with the Mabillo, over to the Latin Qunre tor, on a tour of observation nt tho * Chatoau Rouge.” He had been reading Mark Twain's doscription of the grisottes, and wished to soo them in the midat of tholr evening enjoyments. }Mark says that aftor scoing thom ho folt sorry for tho studonts, and no longer envied thom thelr folicity. -Wo can truly say that if the ef- hnmlnnm, spindlo-shankoed, and half-made-up spocimens of the gonus homo who woro dancing at the *“Rouge"” last night were students, tho grisettes should have come in for afull share of his pity, The girls wero noarly all ox- tromoly young, full of life and vivacity, neatly but plainly drossed, and, ns a genoral thing, rathor good-looking. ''he men, on tho con- “trary, al thuugb };uod dancers ond mostly young, wnlrol. in both form mud feature, decidedly ro~ ulstve, e The.danco at the ** Ohatean Rouge " was con- ductod with a8 much propriety s at the *Ma- billo Gnrden,” but wns much more exciting, The best femalo dancers nt tho Mabillo aro cyidently paid for thoir sorvices, and but fow othors ap- oar on tho floor, but at the *“ Rouge” thoy all s‘ulnud in tho dance, aud ench tried to excol the other in tho abandon with which they flow through it glddy mnzes. Tho style of dancing is nltogother Spanish, and nono of tho ordinary tamo cotillon * figurca aro permitted. Tho musio i8 rapid, and the doncors take two steps to every note, [{rnaun(m & scono of “rapid epoed " not usually seen in tho ball-room. The Bspeotators formed rings around the bost dancors, ‘who appeared to bo knows, aud wo, being too modest to press forward, hnd mostly to bo contented with what could be soen over tho heads of acrowd of people who were botween us and tho dancors. Every momont s score of ‘neat ladics’ boots, with well-turned anlkles en- cased in striped stockings, could be eeen flying sround the heads of tho-male dancers, ‘who vainly Attompted to got their boots ns high, Whether there was any intended viciousnoas in theso kicks we wore not informed, though weo Baw & cigar fly out of the mouth of a spectator on the too of alady's boot, and o gentloman's lint sent ballooning up among tho chandeliors. Such a jolly set of pm:slo, numboring not less than 8,000, nonrly half of them-females, we have novor geon assombled togothor beforo. Shouts of lnughtor and applause greetod nny oxtraor- dinary feats of ngifity, and when the musie stop~ od all joined in & grand promenado out from un- finr the dAnclng}mvnlion into the gardon, tho troos of which were illuminated with innumerable col- ored lamps, whilst thonsands of gas jets blazed from upright chandoliors throughout the walks, slong which hundreds of rofreshmont tables wero stationed. At tho rear the water poured down over the rocks of o cascade fountain, and at the sides a sorios of little shndy brooks wore filled with parties partaking of wine nud ices. ‘When the music struck up again we secured a more oligible position, closor to the dancers, and wo #aw —— ; well, wo will lot Mark Twain tell what wo eaw and hoard—" shouts, laughtor, furious musio, & bewilderiug chaos of «inrtiug and lnmminilring forms, stormy jerking and rustling ‘Df gay dressos, bobbing heads, flyiug arms, lfihtn\ug flaghos of whito and stripod stocking calves, and dainty slippors, in the air, and then n grand final rush, riot, a torrific hubbub, and n wild stampede. Notbing like it has been seen on carth since trombling 'Cafn O'Shavter saw tho devil and the witchos at their orgies that stormy pight in Alloway's old haunted kirk." 1t wos o sceno of the most vigorous and enr- nost dancing that human feet and limbs could o8sibly be trained to. So algo in tho waltzoa. hey flew round o rapid that at o short distance ,tho twirling couples bowildered the oye, and soerned liko tops spioning in tho air. Thero was jnothing of tho * poolry of motion™ about tho dancing, but rathor the “Eroan of locomotion," 'the highost rato of u&mod eing tho objeot to Do attained. 8till, wo did not sco anything s shock- ing to delicate suscoptibilities ns the famous dansauso performances at our most fashionable thentros. Theso doucers undoubtedly enjoyed ‘the dance, whilst tho profeesionals (gn through {t a8 part of o lahorious dutF, and we don't &tmmx that any of the lattor wero ablo to throw their hools as high aa tho 'grisctton of the Latin Quartor. The best of order ‘was observed, and during tho promenades thore .was littlo to distinguish the company from an ordinary sssomblage of well-dresscd people. There were o great many respectable xi-‘rmml.\ people Erusunt a8 spectators, aud an abundance of Englieh and American gentlomen, but no ladies of oither of those Anglo-Baxon nationali~ ties, At tho Mabille Garden, Lowovor, the Eng- lish end American ladies ontnumbored the on- tlomen, as this is one of the places in Paris which the ladies all porsist on secing * just once.” Among the Jatter wo recognized “the dlu;htex of a Northern Bishop, and any number of ‘‘tnthers and mothors in Isracl,” with their dnughters, Thero is nouse in any ons coming to Europe without seeing the people in all their modes and phases of 1ifo, and to sce Paris with- out visiting tho Mabillo would be like going to Rome &nd not visiting 8t. Petor’s, “Itis naughty, but it is nice," and the etranger, flndhzzf himsolf asirangerin & sirange laud, focls at liborty to come and go to places that they fecl bound to shun ot homo. THE GRISETTE. Itisa common remark among strangors in France that about. uvoay third mon woars a uni- form of some kind, andsuch i almost tho enso bero in Puris. Nearly all of these uniformed men are forbidden by Iaw to marry, and they bo- long to nclass who have nover boon taught to on- tortain such an idoa ns portaining to their future existance, Thug have always found it difficult to get food for thomselvos, and heneo have nover ontortained such a proposterous idea a8 man- sging and supporting o family, Those mon have sistors who have always rocog- nized themeclves us belonging to o class wlio are novor to know tho rolations of husband and wife. Buch o thought never ontors the hoad of a girl or boy belonging to the poorer classcs of Paris. Somotimos they succoed in drawing themsolvos out of their unnatural stoto of exld« tenco, and aspiro to highor things, but the grent mass of ther have for gonoratlons found that the chief aim of 1fo was bread and wine. Thoy have the natural passions of ordinary men and women, and honce tho gristte, They aro not taught, oven by thoir apiritusl coneoilors, that thoro 18 any ein in tho life thoy lead, and are g Pmmmnl in their church attondance as suy class n Paris. Noraro thoy rogarded as degraded, unless thoy fall still lower and become pro- fesslonal courtosans, ‘They sro considered as fulfilting their destiny, and love, and aro boloved ns othor mortnls. Somotimes thoso tios wre permanent, but in the mass of oases thoy aro merely for n time, and when broken, n new one s formod, Thus thoy pass through life, and their children, of whom thoy furnish tha Btato about 18,000 por aunum, ure somotimos kept and maintalnod by $hiemsolves, but oftenor passed over to tho or- phau asylums, just as most of their mothers woro pagscd over In thoir early infanoy, 'I'ho sotte, it will thus bo seen, is n foature of Parisin soolety, that is regavded aw inovitablo, and belng lunvhnblo, thoso who ralse thomselves out of ita slough nro not deemed to huve beon talnted or tarnished in charactor, “'hoso who pass through lifo ns grisettos, are not regarded as * fallen angels,” but ns womon who are filling their usd sud unfortwiate desting, snd whoro THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1873, chancon for honven nro oqually as good as thoso whoso lots aro cnat in ploasanter ways. Ho long a4 youth Insta thoy live o merry lifo. Thoy nro the unfortunato “victims of lilngeratt, - which roquiros standing armies, and draws tho youth of tho country nwny trom tho ordinary purauits of lifo and happinoss, MATRIMONIAL, AGRNGIES, Tho matrimonial agonolos of Paria do n thriv- ing businoss. ‘Thoy nre locatod in nll soctions of tho city, and oro of differont clnssos, nccording fo tio ‘stending ot tho familios of tho partios tioy have to deal with., Young men who nro looking for n wifo with a Fno dowory, tha money considoration bolng the malu incontive, and paronts who have marringoablo daughtors, boing the principal customers. Tho ngonts ‘whon thoy oifoct o martingo, stipnlate that they shinll raceive b por cont of the dowery, and goti- orally manago also to got a good retaining feo from both partlos. Tho Inrgor ostabllshmonta aro In corrospondence with similar nagen. cios in all parts of tho Continent, and bave become & nocossity to paronts who are looking out for oligiblo wiven for their sdna, and responsible husbands for their daughters. The succossful tradesman, who has accumulnted o fortuno, desires hin daughters to marry in o highior gircle than that in which ho nssoclates, honce tho nocossity of an agont to make the nocossary advances. Thon elaborato popors must be preparedand signed before the marringo ia consummated, and unicss the dowoery i mfid down at the stipulated timo the engagement {a oft. To manago all thoso preliminaries roquires practical know! od;fio and oxperionce, which fow wpartios in privato lifo would possess, The ngen- ¢y of Madamo Bt. Just only doos openly what hundrods of others have for ages boon doing se- crotly, nud sho hina at onco risen to the hoad of th;rro(ouslon. Bhe is ono of those business Fu uses who boliovo in advertising, and sho 3, of courss, pushing nside all the old fogics who Lave tranencted thelr busincss as if Bocrocy was necessaay to all thoir movoments. Madamo Bt. Just 8aya tho Fronch law of marriaga rondors a matrimonlial agoncy o nocessity, and in o rocent trinl tho courts hinvo sustaiued tho posls tion she Lns taken. No one undor 26 yonra of ngo, aithor son or daughtor, can marry with- out tho cousout of thoir paronts, and if tho par- ents aro dead, without the consent of their grand parents, if any are ldving. If nono of thom are living, appliconts must substautinto the fact by bringing certiflcatos of thoir death and burial,” Thus It will be soon ihat paronts make all the arrangoments for marringo, and a8 thoy do not know who are the eligiblo partics in tho matrimonial market, they must apply to thoso who make ita business to koepa_rccord, with the pedigroe and pecuniary stauding. or pros- pects of all tho youngmen and girls who aro simi- ]nfly oligible,1f John Binith should have settled on his~ daughter a dowry of 20,000 francs, bo Lina o money {nterest in soouring for hor a husband similarly endowed, and he wants tho guaraiteo of a responsible agent that thaoroe is no falso pre- tonce being practiced u}mn liim. _ How would he be able to ascortsin that Tom Brown, who ap- plied for the hand of Miss Smitk, was all that hio roprosontod himsolf to bo, and whether his fathor wns rosponsiblo for the 20,000 francs which he had promised to give his son on the niorning of his marriage? Or how would ho kuow that thero woro twonty or thirty young mon of good family and good monsy standin, who are anxious to secure a wife with the 20,00 franc charm possossod by Miss Bmith, it thera was not an agont to apply to who kopt a record of all such young aepirants for matrimony? Or how would the paronts or thoso goungmun know that there was such an oligiblo party as Misa Smith in existenco if thoy Lnd not applicd to Madam St. Just for tho information, THE FRENCH MARRIAGE LAWS. ‘Young men over 25, sud women over 21, years of age can mnr{? without the congent of thoir parents, but still they have many dificultics to eucounter bofore thoy can become united. In- deed, tho obstructions to marriago aro ro great that It is not. to be wondored at that thoro aro 20,000 1llegitimato births in_Taris per annum. 'I'o marry, secording to Fronch law, publication of tho marriage must bo twico mado by the Mayor of tho Communo in which ocach of the parties reide, witn an intermiesion of oight ays between oach publication. A preliminary olvil servico is thon celebrated by the Mayor of the Communo in which one of tho parties hns lived for six months. The parties must produce the certificale of their birth. or baptism, or, if not to bo a declaration. of sevon porsons made boforo the Judge de I'aix of the date and [Llncu of birth of tho party, and the couscuntof their paronts proporly authenticated ; and if their parents aro daad, cortiflcates of their burial, and the consent'of tho grandmother and grnndmlmr, it living. If agencies aro nocessary for puronts to disposo of their children, how much snore neces- sary are they to onable a man of over 25 to find out where the girls are with good dowories. e can well afford to give the ngont 6 por cent of thoe dowery, and save time and make monoy by 80 doing. ~ Aud how would it be possiblo to wade through such intricato logal arrengemonts with- out ench party lmvin%n logal advisor at their el- Tow to watehl the other contracting party and isim (tllmt no trickery or rascality is being prac- icod. Theso matrimonial agents, of conrae, having nothing to do with aily marriago contracts in which the heart has u.u{ lot or part in dociding tho destiny of the parlics, somotimes children aro plightod by their paronts for each othor at n tonder uge, aud_are brought up with the tacit understauding that thoy aro to be married at the roper time. ~In theso cases, lovo has, of courso, ?ull chanco fo play his part, and matrimonial agents are unnocessary. Nothing over interferes with tho consummation of such marriages ox- copt & roverao in business, or eome othor causo which may provent the bride's parents from mooting thelr contract as to tho amount of dow- er. Ifthie isnot forthcoming hoearts must go to tho dogs, a8 that is o money consideration for which no prudout father will necept any * promise to pay.” ‘The money must be paid down in hard cme {n the sntisfaction of the logal advisers of the family bofore the ceremony is allowed to proceed. The father of tho groom regards a promise made before marringo ns of tho sumo character as tho promiso of o politician before eloction day. -The lntter are somotimes trustod and always suspectod, but tho French father nevor trusts in auy promises that are to bo ful- filled aftor marriage, The son quictly submits to the docision of his paronts, pulls off his kid loves and rolls them up in tissue paper so that hey may not be soiled, and to have them in rondiness for use whonever ma and pa may call upon him to be rerdy to meot some other young lady whose puternal treasury is in a moro Hlourishing condition, If ho intended to make any bridal prosonts he gathers those up, looks at the bonquet in his buttonkolo, which won't keop for snothor occasion, with endness 88 g0 much money lost, and follows his parents homo, stopping on the way to witness some ono of tho ever-recurring fotes, and to tuko & cream at one of the boulovard cafes. OMITTING THE OEREMONY. With all thoso obstructiona to overcome, it is searcely to bo wondered thot so many young Tronch people *“ omit the coremony,” especially whon the loart bas something fo do with the matter, To carry ont all the provisions of the law, and to_bo married in due form 1s also & vory extensivo undertaking, which neither party may have tho means to meot. The Mayors and otbior ofliclnls all recoive fecs, and it roquires both time and money to got all the cortificatos that aro _roquired properly signed and scaled and attested Dby tho oflicin] nuthoritics, There aro also prelimina; Church ceremonlos to go through with, whicl combine to mako matrimony not only a very so- rious matter, but one that is very troublosomo and vory exponsive, It must bo a bold young man who would undertake to go through” them without a heavy money consideration, aund if thero is any hoart in the matter, and no monoy, they huve neither the time, mmmfl, nor pationce, to conform to the provisious of the law, Whero thore is heart in tho matter, and paronts rofuse thoir congent, they ofton *‘ jump the ceromony," and if love holds out they have the coremon: Parlormod after tlmlf obtain logal age, whicl ogitimatizos tho children, provided they wero, beforo the marringe, rocognizod by the father in an authontic manner, as in tho rogistor of births, or by declaration before a Notary, or even in tho marringe act itsolf, If love docs not hold out, they soparato, and the wife becomes & grisclte of the’ Lnl‘lu Quarter, or a danoing tomptross at the Mabille Gardon sund tho Chatoan Rouge, fior childron golng to the Foundling Ilospital, Whilst living together tho parents Lompt the son with offors of besuty and dowry to abandon her, sud genorally succoed, though sometimes lovo ond attachment are too stroug to ylold to the temptor. THE ONANPA ELYBEES ON SUNDAY, Bunday \was o bright and banumulau{, and tho geono on the Champs Elysoes during tho aftor- noon was viewed with groat interest by tho thousands of strangers now in_tho ecity. To witnoss this displuy of Parislun lifo, a carringo drive glves but o poor idea of its poeuliaritios. I'o viow it properly, it is necessary to join the poople in their Loliday gomos and ~smusc- monts, aud to ramble with' thom through the gplendid gardons, groves, and ornumontal shrub- bery and fountaing with' which this plénsure- ground of the people is adorned. It is a boautl- ful panoramlo sceno from o criringo drivon along tho grand avenue which passes through it, oapeoialiy at night, whon it 1s so brilliantly illu- minated; but having fra(luamly viewed it in this way, both by day aud night, we undortook u_po« dodtrian Investigation of its uttractions on Bun- duy uftornoon, ~ An oxumination of tho map dis- olosod tho fact that flvo minutes' walk would bring us to tho very'centre of its attractions, op- Fonlto tho Palaco ‘of Industry. ~As wo pnssod 'rom Avomuio Marigny, it scomed as 1f wo woro ontoring the rmclnum of ngrand mass mooting of all tha childron of Paris, who were horo by thousands, tho younger of them in obargo of pnrents or nurscs, but tho vast majority taldng earo of thomsoelvos, * It was nt timoa difilenlt to throad our way through thom, All mannor of contrivancos for tholr umusemont woro in {)rng— rosd, tho most popular of which appeared to bo Punch and Judy shows, though on a largor acalo, the litilo stagos bolng fitted up with scon- ory and enrlaing, and tho automatio performors made to hold conversatious and to orack fokes of a soculor charactor, which drow forth shouts of lnughtor from old snd young. 'Thero were' not less than n dozon of thoso littlo thentres in prof,'ruua nround oach of which thoro wore sov- cral hundrod spootators, mostly children, who woro ocoupying tho soats at ten contimes (about two conts) cach, The performauco of onch lastod about a half-hour, ‘whon the choirs wero cloared, and the porformance rosumed ngain Bo #oon a8 a sufliclont audionce wae soatod. Tho standing spectators pald nothing, aud theso always outntimbered those occupying the chaira, Under the groves wero toy and gingorbroad atalls, and othor atiractions for tho rising gen- oration, whilst jugglors and itinerant tumblots wero attracting a willing and evor obnnging throng of epectators. A dozen or moro revoly- ing horso contrivancos, with childron nstride of woodon ponfos, were in motion, and littlo tomples, with scales for ascortaining tho woight of ~ young humnn“;f were doing & succossful businoss. 'Thero aro slao _various concort-gardons and cafes scattored among tho troos on oithor side, whero opon-air concerts wara in progross tolargo audiences. 'T'ho avonuo for driving and promouading, which is & milo and o quartor long, aud fully 200 feot in width, s also throngod with vehicles, while the lively apectaclo was uInF onjoyed by thousands of porsons seated on the iron chairs with which the sidowalks aro lined. Those chalrs are rented for two or throo sous tho hour, thoy boing owned by a company which pnfu 12,000 francs per annum to tha city for tho priviloge. Tho city also rocoived 50,000 francs por annum for ronts from the places of nmusomont. A numboer of little carringes, onoh holding six tonine children, drawn by six onts in harness, wore doing o good business, stho boya ocoupying tho drivers’ scats aud plying tho whip with groat, doxlurltly As night sot in all tho cafos wore brilliantly illuminated, tho lights of tho carrisgos on tho avenuo mado it npposr a8 if being paraded b{ o torchlight pro- cession, and bands of musio in the convent gar~ dons gavo additional animation to the scene. Tho cirous building was also illuminated, and tho doors thrown opon for o grand cquostrian performance, with all tho stalo jokes and clap- trap performances which prove so attractive to young America. DUSINESS WOMEXN, Thero nro o fow cstablishmonts In Paris, wholegnlo or rotail, in which women do nob oc- oupy most of tho lmportnnb positions of trust and rosponsibility, In o grest many of tho largest and most succossful establishments the wifo is the principal busincss manager, and to hor all mattors of importancoe _are referred. An Amorican gentloman who has been exploring the wholesalo establishments assures mo that this is moro_genorally the caeo than in those of o rotail character. Whon purohasing goods all lmqm’laut questions were answered by the fo- malo clorks or snlosmon, and the males ovi- deutly hold subordinate positions. In many canes the wifo waa called upon to nnswer ques~ tions or make ngreoments whon the husband was present, indicating that she was tho prinel- Snl Liead of tho establishmént. Thoro can be no oubt that tho average Ironcliwoman is supe- rior in intolloot to tho nverago Fronchmau, as sho is_superior to him in physical developmens nnd nddross, Passing the Hitlo storos at night, the wifo is seon at tho desk, with pen in hand, keeping tho books, and thousands of the smaller of the Paris storca are kopt by women, They have groater businoss ca- pacity, onorgy, and entorprige, and take moro than their full shate in supplying the moans for tho maintonanco of tho houschold. A Tronghman romarked tho other day that he be- lioved thero woro 68 many wives In Paris who support their husbands as thoro are husbands 'who support their wives, Sho almost invariably mnnn};nu to livo freo of houso rent by renting flat of rooms and eub-renting onough of thom to pay tho ront for tho whole. The American Indios who visit Europo and squandor so much money which thoy bad no part_in earning gen- erally return botfer satisfled with their positions in lifo, and convinced that thoir destiny has beon moro fortunate than that of most of tho sister- hiood of crention. i THE NEW WOMAN'S COLLEGE. Dr. Holland’s Xden of the Way to Nun it. Trom the October Scribner, Thore is to_bo a nosw woman's college at Northampton, Mass, It will bo foundod on a gonerons boquest made by Miss Sopbia Bmith, of Hatfield,—n town adjoining Northampton,— who very sonsibly took it upon horself to ap- oint tho Board of Trustees, This Doard em- races the names of Profs. Tyler and Julius Seelyo, of Amherat Colloge; Prof. Park, of Andover, Joscph White, of Williamstown ; B. G. Nortlirop, of New Haven ; and Goy. Washe burn, of Maesachuseits. Such a Board of Trus- toes “‘menns business,” and the business is, in fact, bogun. A site for the colloge has boon urchascd, and is_overything that it ought to o, Prof. L. Clark Beolye, of Amherst, hus been cleoted tho Prosldent of tho institution, and Les accoplod tho placo. - What romaina lo bo done is to eroct the buildings and dotormine upon theoschemo to be pursued. Exactly hero wa wisl to offor & fow suggestiona. The Board of Truatoes of Bmith College have in their hands the power to solve some very grove quoationa in councction with the highor education of woman. They kmow just what Mount Holyoke SBeminary is, and' whotler an in- sitution copstituted like that will answor thoir purpose. If Mount Holyoko is perfoct, all thoy will wish to do will boto duplicate it as nearly na possiblo. Thoy know what Vassar i ; are thoy satisfled with "Vassar? Ifso, they will repeat Vnesar in Smith, and that will bo the ond of it. It i, howover, only fair to stato that thore is in tho “publio mlndn!dol!nfior conviction, that, with all thoir acknowledged excollences, neithor Mount Holyoke nor Vassar is the idenl woman's college. Wo sharoin this conviction, and for this reason wo write. We do not boliove in bringing large bodics, either of young mon or young women, under a single roof, and keoping them thore for a period of four years, Young men can bo mavaged in & collego liecausa thu{ can bo parcoled out in famis lies, ~ They are able to be outin all kinds wenther, and are kept -hoalthy in body a mind by boing constantly in contact with th! world, ~ Young women cannot be managed in’ this way, They must live within tho college walls, and thus they must be confined to oach other's saclety. 'I'ie miachiofs that are bred by ciroumstaucos liko these nouo know go well o those who_have bad charge of largo bodies of girla under aoy circumstances. Wo arc froo to say that no consideration would induce us to th.-e » young woman—daugh- ter or ward—in a colloge which would. shut Ler away from all famuly lifo for a period of four yoors, Tho system is unvatural, and not one young woman in ten oan be subjected to it with- out injury. It I8 not nocessary to go into par- ticulars, but every observing physician or phyai- ologiet knows whiat wo mosn_ when wo sy that such o system 1g fearfully unsnfe, Thoe facts which substantiato their opinion would il the ublio mind with Lorror if thoy were publicly nown, Men may ‘* pooli! pooh!” theeo factaif they chooso, but ‘thoy exist, Disonses of body, discneos of imngiuation, vices of body and imag- ination,—overything wo would save our children {from,—aro brod in theso groat institutions where life and associntion are circumsoribed, ag woeds are forced in hot-beds, Can wo havo a colloge for women and save ourgelves and thom from these dangors and damngos ? We boliove it i possiblo; and, fur- thormore, we boliove that, it it fy not possible, wo Liad better throw our monay into tho river, and stop building womon's colleges altogether. ‘Women, a8 & rule, are better educatod for their positions than mon are, now, 'here are no groat oxigoncios in the caso, and thore is no reagon for oxposing hundreds of girls to the porils of colloge lifo as thoy at prosont exist, If wo can havo & collogo in which these porils aro mainly aveldod, lot us havo it ; if we caunot, tho’ uickor tho buildings burn down, and the longer thoy romain burned down, tho better. Bmith Colloga will do a groat thing for Ameriea and woman if {t can furnish a colloge education and avold tho college porils, We con think of only ouo way in which this can bo accomplishod, and thut is, fnstead of having the girls sll under ono roof, to_bring thom under twenty. Let the collogo congist of ono contral building, for olnss and assombly rooms, and of tasteful dwolling- housios, cach capablo, ay, of bonrding twenty girls, Lot oachi dwolling-houso be um:f\wtod by o profossor, who, with his wife and_children, whall form the contre of the family, Insist that thera shall be a_real family in every houss, and it will not bo hard for overy young woman to feol that, for tho time, sho l8a ‘member of it Do not shut out mon from the daily conduot of school affaite, Xlave no churoh or chnpel on tho place, Bmith Oollege is looatod almost in tho corner of ono of tho most thriving and beau- tiful of New England villagos, Lhoro aro, with- g hi in oasy walking distanos ot tho collogo Fm“mh' nnlpunt. Mothodlat, Congrogational, and Eplaco- pal churclies, into which the pupils should all |:(u according to their varied predolictions, and in which they should be oucouraged to ougngo in nctive work, The flllhlylbflchtw n of Northarp- ton, overy ono, should bo eurlohiod by thowo i'mm workors., Tho girls would thus becomo n blosslng to tho town, and the effect upon thom- solvos would bo eminontly besutiful, Wo rogard this mnttor ns of primo impor- tanco. Don't shut tho girls up on Bunday to ono snothor, Don't undertako to run any thoologionl munching in conncction with tho inatitntion, Whorovor {t Is safo to do so, lot the ;ilrlu como into vital contact with_socloty, and If thoy can do o at all thoy can do so on Bunday, snd in connection with "tho work of tho chureh, Wo do not know whother tho trustoes of Smith Colloge have fottlod upon thoir plans or not, but wo cnn gafoly ray to thom that the country ox- poots of them somothing which it hns not had. It oxpeots a bold, original movo in tho right di- roction, It oxpcots some plan that shall not shut up throe hundrod women togother, awm from all family Influonco, and boyond tha. possi- bility of family sontiment and !eullngl—nomc plan_that will connoct tho college with the world, If thora s any plan botter than that which we hiave outlinod, lot us haye it; but it wo oust hiavo thio same ovor again, that lins slready been dono too often, wo shiall wish that Bo hia Smith had had loss money, and had loft that to— woll—to ua, FLEAS. A Mianight Conflicte From the Marshall (inn,) Prairie-Schooner, Marsball is full of flons, “Bvery now town liaa them, They aro tho nborl{zlnen of tho cuunhg. Thoy contond for thelr old n!nmplni; grounds with moro porslstonce_ than tho: wily envage. Though = lttlo losa dangorous, floas are of nonrly tho same color né tho Indian, and pos- Bess many Indian traits of charaoter, prin- cipal nmong whioh s thoir unensiness. F}olm hiave n spocinl fanoy for womon, small childron, and dogs, Flens much disliko tho smoll of tobacco and whisky, and honce seldom trouble nman. In their tastes thoy aro much unliko tho Indian, To capture nnd excoute n flo confors moro happiness upon & roproscnta~ tive of thoe fomale sox than wearing o now bon- not in n crowd for tho same longth of timo. Tho ronder will plosss pardon & littlo porsonal expo- rionco with floas, We will first stato that wife aud baby are ab- Bont on o visit, Also that we cannot afford any “luxuries" while running s 7x0 country news- paper. Honco we are no better off, o far ns tloas are concorued, than women and barking quadrupeds. Of coursa wo board. Thinking to save oxponso, wo concluded to furnish our own bed. Put up in a vacant lhouse ronted for housckeeping l{mrpusou when our better-balf roturns. ouss was for- merly occupied by railroad boarders. Aboub fivo minutes aftor rotiring wo oxperienced feoling of a dozen or more neodles pricking dif- foront parts of tho body at tho samo time, ~ Our hands woro possod spasmodically about to ascor- tain tho cause, but wo could feol nothing un- usual. Just theu tho printer who bunked with us bogen & gorios of quick, con- vulsive movomonts, xelmlllngl for Lis shoulder with ono fand .and This loft foot with the other at the sammo time, changing hinuds abont overy second, and twiating his body liko o strenkod ensko in the grass, Thinking ho had an attack of 8t, Anthony’s danco, wo_aroso and lit the lamp, Tho printsr said he felt bot- tor, but thero wns aomo(h(ui in _the bed. Cautiously turning down the bed-clothes, weo discovered what secmed to be & quantily of onion sced nicoly distributed over tho shoot. Immodiately ‘tho seods commonced daucing like kornols of po{m:om ons hot grid- dlo. Sslmultaneanlly wo shonted *‘Fleas!" and rushed to the attack, Thero they wers, great hungry follows that probably had had nothing to eat since the railroad’ hauds left somo threo weeks _before, aud_ they didn't scem at all inclined to run, Not until we had Ikilled sovonty-threo of the varmints did thu{ boat o rotroat. After ‘cloaring the bed aud sighting through ono or two unmentionablo gar- ments for tho twontioth time, we again sought o horizontal position, hoping Boon to forget our troubles in refreshing elecp, Vain ~ hope. Bearcoly lind tho lamp been oxtinguished bo- fore the implacable foo again assembled in myriads and commenced ~ an onslaught upon our porsons comparod with which the first was scarcely n foretaste. All at onco we thought of a mothod of defense which romised succoss, Wo would try lterosene. &uiutly the burner was removed from the lnmp, fingers wero dipped in tho unusually repulsive fluid, and we began our keroscne bath, Tho nock sud one shoulder wore nicely saturated when there camo to our mind the horrid romembrauce of & korosono incident which filled us with dismay. Our big brother once flnm‘ml kerosene upon tho back of a calt to kill cortain insoots less active ond less respected than the flea, and tho result was doad insccts—nlso dend calf. Lucky wo thought of it in timo. With & feeling of roliof at liaving cheated somo editor out of a lorosone itom, we mgain lio down, thinking the dis- ngreoablo smoll of the oil would cortain- ly drive away onything that had life snd & little sense, Nobt #0, lowever, On tho nock and that groased shoulder was whore thoy bit the worst, It geomed to give them an appotite. In despair, the two of us made a for- lorn-hope attack with thumb and fingor. But tho onomy camo in countless numbera aud closod in upon us in front, flank, and rear, Just a8 the printer was coming down hand- somely on s boss flen, he roceived a bito on the grest-too which coused him to turn o doublo somorsault and light square upon the lamp. which had been F’Mud on tho bed. Fortunately the lamp was extinguished ; but tho bed " slats™ gave way, and the next instant two rintors, about 5,000’ fleas, and a quart of Pmruscno oil wero rolling promiscuously on the floor. Whon brimstono was sgain brought to bear upon that lamp wick, there wae rovealod & Rcono for an artigh, On tho floor eat the printer, hia form doubled up in the shapa of a lotter " %," tho cornors of his mouth drawn in opposite diroctions, mnkln(xv it resomble the sound-holo of & violin, while his hands and arms woro wildly deseribing circles in tho alr liko the self-rake goar of n Woods' improved remper. Wo ocan’t rembembor just exactly how we spont the remainder of that ovontful night. Thoro comos at timos o vision of & man, with no superfluous olothing about him, driving o regiment of fleas from s pair of whito linon pants, whero they were pn- Hnnfl{ waiting for their breakfast, and ensconc- mself for an hour or more upon a table o adjoining yoom, with msught bt a.iquilt sbout him, Next morning we saw o sun rico. So did the printer. That day whon frionds nsked tho cause of our constaut gaping wo oxpressod a foar of an immodiate at- tack of faver and aguo; but up to the present timo wo hayo boen unable to fiud nnything that will noutralizo tho scont of keroseno oil. Wo don’t furnish our own bed any more, just to save exponso, - Iow Mr. Reynolds Was Rowarded for an Act of Kindncss, H'rom the Danbury Newa, A Now York party named Reynolds, who had been sponding the summer hers, was at the up- por end of Door Hill avenue, strolling, for his hoalth, yestorday morning, when he obsorved a boy trying to pull o kite from an apple-troo, wlioro it had lodged. ~ As Mr, Ilo[':nnldn came up the atring broke, lenving the kite up thero. With tho natural promptings of a human henrt, the gontleman gave his cont in charge of tho boy, and, crawling over the fonce, was soon up tho troe. Tho boy folt protty bad about tho accident to his kite, but on taking a second look at tho coat, which wag almost now, ho dried his tears, sud scampored off with it, un- porceived by Mr. Reynolds, who was trying to talto au obstinato "twig from tho baok of his meck, Aftor considorable difilenlty o roachiod the kito, and was stretehing forth his hand to take if, whou tho limb he was on sud- donly suapped in two, and he foll somo six foot, splittivg ono of his pautaloon-loge helf way up, and running a twig into his nose_with such yvio- lenco as to malo that organ bleod. Fortunately ho was saved from furthor mishaps by catehing on o stroug limb., e atufl‘md thon tofeol of hiy noso, nnd meditate on the accidont, when a nmgh voice from beluw demanded what ho was doing there, and lopking down he saw & shirt- gloaved, bare-headed man, with a plichfork in higliand and fire in his oyo, Mr, Koynolds ox- plainod about the kite, ‘“‘I'hat won't do," eaid thoman. “I'vo had too many np}flou hooked from that oro treo, and now that L'vo gob tho thief, I intond to mako him dance.” And tho man looked furuclmulz at Roynolds’ facilitios for daucing, Tho uvhappy Reynolds roferred him to_the boy for an indorsemontof his story, “ What boy ?" asked the owner of the orchard, # 1 don't Hoo no bn{. There ain't no boy hero.” Teynolds Jookod out In the rond, but tliore was no boy in sight, o shouted * Bub " two or throe times, but thore was no response, Tho color doserted his face, aud o look of astonish- mont and horror sproad over his faco, * T'his is very extraordinary,” ho eaid, * Vory," colu- olded the farmer, with groat drynoss’ * "Chat boy hia stolen my cont, and Inust puraue him nufi recover it," #ald Roynolds, suddonly becoms ing frantio over his logs, and’ proparing to do- soond, ** O, como down and catch him,” sald the farmor with biting savoasw, chowing Lig tonguo to show how crlm ho was, and placing the fork In such o way s to tnko in tho most valuable | portions of Mr. Reynolds’ body. That.gentle- man anw the Fmpnmuonn In timo to stop. " Why, you wouldn't run that fork into me, you old idiot 2" **Who nro you calling nn old 1diot, you miserablo whippor-enapper,” shouted tha old chap, a8 ho insnnoly danced around tho foot of tho treo, and glnrm{ florcaly at lils vidtim, “Como horo and rob mo, you villain, will -you, snd then stond in my own troo an' \:Iummmu mo, Runtho fork itto you, will I? Yos, I'd run it into 200 of yo.” Mr, lle{nnldu was shook- ed. “ What do you want mo to do?" Lo snd, des, nlrlug of rensoning with the ownor of- the orchinrd. X want you to pay mo £6, and get ont of thisorchard n# fast s yourrascallylogs can take you.” Ar, Royholds hositated. It was bad onongh tolose o coat, ruln his pants, and sphit hia noso to help an ovil hoy out of trouble, with- out being hombarded with o{)lthols, and charged 86 for tho porformance. o thought ho would ilnmp down on the old man and crush him, but 0 lookod at the fork and ropontod of the dosign. Then ho drow ont n 5 Lill and dropped it to his onomy, and humilintingly slid down tho troo, ronching bis foot in time to avold a kick thoirate man aimed at him. Ho was holped put of the orchard with the fork handle, and immediately atarted for the hotol, which ho renched in o conw dition of noryous prostration that at firat throat- onod to rosult nuriouul{; An active soarch hag beon mndo for tho boy, but noither ha nor tho cont has boon discovored. —_——— FARMER DENNIS' STORY ; Or, Tho Pasha’s Moral Sleve. Under tho locuat-trees, ono summer-noon Throo slalwart awains Wore reating from the acytho, And, for the want of othor topic, being young ‘And’overfull of bounding blood, they fold, Each to {ho otliers, just what sort of maid' Wonld sult tholr several fancles for wifo, Ono would not wed 1nices tho girl had woalth, Anothor would hiavo Besuty il nis arms With over-ready dnllianco.” Tho third and last, Doardless and funior of the other twaln,— Who scomed £ carzy, in cach full, frank oy A beating hosrt,—en(d Lovo wna all ho craved ; For was not love both m“vlu[z-mn‘d and queen Of Iinppy homes, content with sorying whom 1t loves, and yot inspiring sorvico from tho samo. Tho farmor Dennis, ownor of the flelde, And master of tho day, bad heard it s} Aud niow arouo among tho Wree, n all tho grizzly glory of a patriarch, Ho was & WalKing:book of tatoa to At ‘Al times and seagons, and o hint would touch Tho coploun tap-spring of his appositenean. #Tiio dial gives us yol ton minutes, boys,” o aid, *If all agroed, I'll toll a tafe.” “Y¥o'ro'all ngroed,” thoy anawered i s breath, And siraight tho fonguo of Dennls started off, Wiso Ozmun All, Pasbn of Dagdad, Upon the hill-sides had long lierds of sheep; Aud many camola trod tho torzid ssnds, To bring him wealth of gold, and urlcn and slaven, From far off coasts and il tho midlund marts, But these to him wora common things of life, ‘Not holding in their dusty claims his heart, 110 had » daughter, falrer thon a flower,— The gift of Allak to his favorite house,— Who moved above these sapors Like o star, And 1id hls being with a ray of love, A8 bulbuls come to court the moon-kisscd roso, Bo came the Princes of adjacent lauds [0 wao tho Pashin’s daughtor, Bhe, disturbed By so much woolng, could not ix Hor thoughta U&l;m a cholce ; for, llke thio passive roso Whoso potals aFo kept trembling all tho whila By conatant waft of wing suceooding wing, 80 fluttered Ler young hoart besot with loves, Yet homeless ‘mid the ploading multitudo, Not much the wonder, then, thiat sho should droop, ‘And have recourse, quite off, Lo sccrat teara 3 Nor that old Ozinun All should ook steru, To aeo 6o many Liorses haltered at Lia gato, ‘Aud nll his ground o court of sorenados By night, and unthln? meI;F of it all, i Light of mine oyos [ Lo crivd, * Why, doy by day, Qomo all thess Princes hither? * Intendoat thon, 0 houoy of my soul] to wed them all? And whereforo on thy checks, that shamo the roge, Bo oft are soen the tell-talo marks of teara$” Blo answored, with o rising gush of soba; #0 siro, beloved of sy utmost soul! 1 ennnot mako a choico among the crowd Of soft-oyed Princes, nll professing lovo ‘Wit equal tongucs, Gud all #o grand and falx By Allali! thon 'l help thee, O my soul " Sald Ozmun_All, whilo 8 frown of nage, Parental wisdom overcame hils face— * “Within my hall, to-night, Iot all bo met ; And lot thy maid proclaim, so all may bear. Thou shalt not wed I—that, if thou dlsoboy, Thou gocst naked to thy husband’a house, Without o robe, & Jowol, or n sheep,— Bave only thou shalt tako o bleating lamb To bo thy portion, &0 the law bo filled " Noxt_morning, soon a8 o'or tho risensnn Tlad chnsed tho carly vapors from the hills, Tho T'ashia mot his dnughter walking out Among tho flowers, yot wot and cool with dow, “Hufl, apouso of tho morning, coms to meot Thy lord) the Bunl How fars tho moon-struck youth 7 e osked, “Liow took they my decrea? " “ Fathor, Anil wlao protector of my simplo soul 1" Slo spake, and blushed, ** A4 thou commanded mo 1t hath beon done, Whilo yot my malden spake, Therowan » muttor, 08 of distant winds, Among my lovers ; when T looked ngoin, Dehold 1 ono mord than Lalf tho whole iad gono 1™ 4 Allah 15 gront, my danghler 17 Al sald, “ Yot still thero is a host ; what shall I do, My fatlier, to decide among tho rest? “This night, bind all thy locks in cloth of tow," Sald Ozmun'All, 8o that ol bo hid, And o'er it draw tha close-clippod wig'T gob In traflo with tho sbaven Frankish infidel, ‘And o'er thino oycs, liko ovoning stars, arrange Tho glasses green bought aleo of tho Frauk ; Ono of thine arms {n bandago to thy neck Tio deftly ; olso, p upan n cru Into ihe cust whoro all thy lovers are ; Theu lot {hy maid prociaim, so oll ey "hear, Bebold our milstress, scarrod with luckless firo, To-day, whila trifling with o Ohincso toy § Thon, stumbling fu bind fright, o full fath wrought Thiotest, Who takes her now takes holplenanoas,— A cripple, blind and charmiess all o lifo, Elon 85 commanded, 8o the thing was dons § Wiso Ozmun Al, from a gardon-walk, Saw all (o wild syed lovers fly to Lotse, Liko mon discomfittod {n rush of wat,— Bavo one, who, tall and firm, and faithful, staycd With arms extended to protoct his love, And eyea that spake otornal sympathy, Noxt morn, his faithful daughter told him all § How all had flown eave one (as ha had seen), 45 Allah bo prafsod | Faleo playing bath unmaskoed Tho falso, - Him tako, O rossbud | and be biest1” Radiant srith fewols, dowored with fully half Hor father's glory, to The Faithful's arms 'The Pashin's daughter went, o perfect bride, I, I OAxrDELL, —_— An African Sparring Match, The Haussas nre the most civilized of the African tribos ; and their langusgo, like French, is & cosmopolitan tongue, 'They, however, are inordinatoly fond of boxing, and in Clapperton's diary the following account i givon of n matoh : “The boxers mirived, attended by two drumas and the whole body of butchors, who here com- Fusu ‘the faney.’ A ring was soon formed by ho mastor of the coremonios throwing dust on tho spoctators to make thom stand baol The drummers entored the ring, and lmfon to drum haatily. Ono of tho boxors followed. o placed himsolf in an attitudo s it to oppose an antagonist, and Dbrought his muscles into action, scomingly fo find out that uvorg awow was in full force for tho approaching combat ; thon coming from timo to time to tho side of the ring, and prosenting his right arm to {hio bystanders, ho said: *Iama byona; *Iam a lion;' ‘I'nm able to kill all that oppose mo.’ The spectators to whom ho prosonted himself Iald thoir haudson his shoulder, repoating: *The blessing of God bo upon theo ;' ‘dhou art ahyous;' ‘Ihou art s llon.! Ho then aban- doned the ring -to another, who showed off in the spmo manner. ‘The right band and arm of tho pugilists wero now bound with narrow coun~ try cloth, hoglnnlu{( with a fold round the nfi’ddlu fingor, und thon passed in many tuwrng round tho flat, the wrist, and the forearm. Aftor about twonty had soparatoly gone through tholr attitudes of deflance and’ appeals to the bystanders, thoy wero next brought for- ward by pairs, If thoy happenad to be frionds, thn{ 1ald their loft bronsts togothor twico an axelaimed, ¢ Wa are lions, wo aro frionds,” One thon loft tho ring and another was brought for- ward, If tho two did not recognize ono anothor a4 friends, tho sot-two immodiately commonced. On taking their atations, the two pugillats first stood ot some distanes parrying with the loft hand open, and, whonever opportunity offerod, striking ~ with the right. " They gonerally aimod at tho pit of tho stomnoh and under tho ribs, Whenover thoy closod, one soized the othor's hoad undor his arm and boat it with his fiat, In this position, with the head in chancery, thoy aroenid sometimes to attampt to gougo or eooop out ouo of tho oyes, When thoy braak laoss, they novor fail to give n swinging blow with the hool undor tho rilk, or somotimon undor the loft oar, It is thero blows which aro so often fatal, ‘I'ie combatants were Immediately soparated by my ordera, as thoy wore begiunin, m&oun their tempors, Whon the sparring-matol was hoard of, the girls Joft tholr pitchers at the wolls, the warket-nooplo throw down their bas- Lots, aud all ran to uoo the fight. Tho whole ur}llnru bofore my house was crowded fo excoss. Altor six pairs Lind gono throngh sovorsl rounds, Tordored thom, to tholr groat sntisfuction, tho prom!juud roward, and the multitudo quictly dis- porsod, ' DISILLUSIONING. How the Process is .Accom- plished. What Remains to Middle-Aged People. Thorois somothing both touching and whimsical in tho respect which grown men and womon, wofully burdened with the cares of humanity and the rosponsibliitios of immortality, still pay to tho ENCHANTMENTS OF CIILDIOOD, Ago has stolen upon thom 80 slowly sud steadily that thoy have simply outgrown tho childish sen- sations, and it {8 not possible to recall them by suy effort of will; yet, In somo uncxpectod 'moment,thoy will return instantaneously, vividly, and, just flashing ncross the conscionsness, aro lost again, Tho businoss-man, hurrying to keop his cngngomant, gives but & short, irritatod rojoinder to tho boyish potition for & now top, or n gally-tinted toy-balloon; but, at night, whon o i8 on the strost-cars returning home, snd it s too Iate for roparation, Momory, with one lightning-like flash, ropro~ duces the grieved, disappointed look in his child's oyos, and recalls to him tho sugnish which filled his own little honrt, yonrs and years sgono, when somobody forgot tho promised play- thing, o romembers well how indifferont ovorybody elso scomed to what was to him so vital n mattor, Hocan nlmost Losr agoin his fathor's half-jooular, half-contomptuous tone sa ho cnlls out, * Crying for n plaything! “Why I'm nshamed of you;" and the gentlo mothor's mild remonstranco: * O flo, my dear! I wouldn't cry.” Ho remembors woll what a vaguo, incom- municablo distross it was, becauso childron cannot anolyzo their sorrows. Ho scoms agaln to feol that strango, child- ish soneation that tho world s all too big for him ; that ho isin thoway of all grown-up peoplo, and yot ho is hero and cannot got away, Ia it possiblo that the dear littlo fol- low, that watched him in pitiful silonce to tho gato this morning, wos fooling all that just ns ho onoe folt it? Ho wishes ho had thought to buy that toy after all. It scoms 8o unnatural that o child should not boliove in Santa Olaus, should not consider a birthday Aomuthlniz to bo proud of, sbould not take it for granted that all grown imopln aro porfectly just and impartial, all-know- ng and infallible gonorally ; or havo any idea but that ¢ play " is tho chiof duty of childron. To be surc, thoy are all the time taking mental photographs of porsons, J.‘)!nuna, and scones ; but It takea years to enablo thom to put the impressions thus derived in words. Thoy auge overybody with whom they come in con- fnet, and aro indifferent to them, or find thom at- tractive or m%nunnt 3 but yet, in all thoso things, they act by instinet, and fiot by resson, Children have impressions, but not opinions. The pleasurca of. childbood ean never bo equaled in their abandon, thoir keenuoss and thelr froshuoss, by any subsequont joys. The senso of ilimitablo wealtl conveyod on tho poseesaion of that first whole dollar,—did that over come again? Will all tho coufections of Paria bogin now with those hard, glassy-looking balls of translucont candy bought by tho penny- worth at tho littlo cornor-stora B0 convonient to tho old school-houso? Could thoro bo found,’ in oll the lovo-letters of Abolard or HTeloiso, such thrilling words as woro gerawled on thoso paper-pollets and tossed to their destination whon the toacher's back waa turned ? Could your adult imagination concoive of s lover's T\““d 80 piquant as that which originated in the ficklo little swoothenrt's accopt- anco of & ride on the slod of another boy, snd was torminated by hor gracious receival of tho suggestivo gift of a sugar-heart? Ah, mol Thoso brilliant bubbles of childhood disappearod forover, and wera followed by tho INFATUATIONS OF YOUTH, " WWho can forget the first delicious draught of admiration which soclety puts to tho lips of tho dobutante ? At homo o young manis ‘' only brother John,”" and a young gitl is * only my daughtor Lyddy;” 'but, ooca lot thom got _away from the neighbors, to whom their gradusl blorsoming has boon au'unnotod chango, and they hardly know thomselves, Their opin- ions are consulted; their Bn{‘inga are quotod ; they are complimented on charms and graces which they never droamed of possessivg, Lyddy says, and bolioves, that her brothors aro the boat brothors in tho world ; and yet, at times, and on cortain subjects, they do nub ber mos Erluviumflyv But, out in Bociety, otlier mrls’ rothors are far from soubbing her. Augustus listons with an air of tonder roverence to hor crude opinions on subjeots far boyond her ken, and oelarcs that *No doubt she i4 right, Woman's intuitions serve her far bottor than men's logio does him,” ote, Then bhoe quotes some besutiful sontiments about women, and wind up with a ‘mere suggestion of & sigh. Lyddy is enchanted, and is not disenchanted till, on namgaflng notes, —ag_girls always do,—sho finds ho has dupli- ented that epecch as many times as thore were [ girla. Buch a protty little spoech as it wasg, too! It is o dreadful shock to two youag people whon one learns that tho other didn't say what he meant, and the other finds out that one didn't mean she eaid. If the first thinF learned by the debutant in Bocisty 18, that Lo is somobody, the second les- son toachos him that ho is nobody. There is always somo ouo who can do all that ho can do, and do it bottor, Ho finde always, in tho higher circlos, .o novolist who is moro popular, or a singor that is more attractive, or a palnter who is moro skillful, or a politiclan who outranks him, Nor dogs he find any of theso colebrities 08 hie oxpooted to find them before he climbed up to his standing among them, Thoe humorist, w“oua jokos are making o nation laugh, sits af the dinner-tablo as unnoticeable and unscintil- Iating 88 o cn}in:urnd Aire-fiy. Tho novelist, whoso latest work is piled in stacks at tho book-storgs, cannot Lo induced to indulfie in any highor conversational flight thaun the morning nowa. Tho great pulpit-orator, whoso spiritunl_sayinga stir men's souls, is found to have a slight dash of the horso-jockey in him. Altogother, the world begins to seem’ like the croation of some rambling droam,—as grotosrgo and incongruous as o Olinese’ painting. Ho roalizes that nothing which may come to him in tho future will be what ho expeouted it to bo, and ho has discovored that all things in the past ware but illusions. He compre- liends, in the baloful light of exporionce, that his nativo town is noither an attractive nor well- known locality ; that its customs aronot & modsl for sll communitios; that his own family are not the most remarkable ono extsnt in respoct to wit, boauty, and calture; and that these, and like artioles of his early orood, can only be pat- doned by renson of his extromoe youth, and lamentable ignorance of the world. is Ir(on(lu, whom he had hoped to carry through life by his side, drift away from Lim on the tide of Oircum-~ stances, and are borne_thither and yon, and he finds always now friends with now work. “When I waa 21," said a witty woman, “I had most docided cflx!nlnus on all concolvablasub- eots ; but I have lived to wish that thers might o & low pasacd thot paoplo under 25 years of ago should not be allowed to expross au opinion,— bocauso thn{ will surely rclgrnt it. those happy days I had a pigoon-hols_stylo of classifl- cation for all the specimons of Humanity I mot ; snd now I cannot find two alike, When I firal married, I was o flrm beliover in porfoct con- eniality ; but, boforo the firut yeor waa over, I egan to bellove that no two human boings oould be perfactly congenial whon the husbaud torgot to ordor tho meats for dinner, and then brought company home; or trod on hils wife's drosg going up the church-nisle; or carried in his coat-pocket for o wook the lotters she had givon him to mail. I am suro I don't lmow what hio bolisved whon we married, but I do know that we both came to the conolusion, founded on obseryation and experienco, that a h‘uppx marriage was ono buge mutual conoos- slon, In thus drawing conclusions from porsonal ox- porionce, one arrivas at the CONVIOTIONS OF MIDDLE-AGE. Emorson says somewhere (if we could only ro- momber whero, #0 a8 to quote it aright)that ono of tho advantngos of growing old is, that *“thingas adjust thomsolves,"—a happy phrase, by which it may be supposed he meant to hint that, after 40 or 60 years of gojourn in this vale of toars, a man has’ rosignod himeelf to not bo- ing & millionaire or & gonius, and & woman has consed to envy belles and brides; aud that peo- Plu in gonoral have, by that timo, seltied down nto the bellof that if, as the hymn declaros, thoy can *“ tarry bub o uight,” it’is not worth while to make & fuss sbout thoir accommoda-~ tions, thoir follow-travelors, and othor temporary arrangoments, “There are 0 many pleasant Fonplu inthe world, 1t doosn't soom worth while to worry onogell’ trylng to Isnt olong with the digagreo- able ones L I let thom alono,” anld a | feminine p Uho more ono drifis {losophor, about in the world, the moro sonsiblo docs tho above romark appoar, You flnd plonsant peopla overywhoro, ''hicy anawer your quostions on F[.u allway ; thoy mako room for you an the stroot- oara; you aroe introduced to them nt a friond's house, nnd havo halt-au-hour's delighitful ohat and nover sco thom on onrth agaln, 1t is snfo to sy on oarth, becaueo, however wa ma Yary in our goncoptions of another world, wo all bo- llovo thore is ono, and that wo shall all got thoe, and that wo poor humans, who think our num- bors countloss hore, will thore be only o small tribo of a great nation. Howover, in the course of centurics, wo may hopo to ronow our ace quaintanco with the winning mortals to whon W0 Wero sln;{:ly introduced loro, without time to got acqualnted. It is truc that, in middlo nge, ono emerges from thoe brillisut atmosphero of youth, and sces all things in tho plain, cold light of roality, without ovon tho sunsot-glow of rogret with which old rgo will lool back upon them, Vet it 18 not. & disheartening view of thislife. Itis n simple roalizatlon that mon and womon are not a8 wo belioved thom to be whon wo read novels. Thug are nono cithor entirely ovil or altogethor good. They have Funuibllltlan for both entiroly boyond tho power of flotion to deseribe. Ibis o ronlization that tho things for which we longod, snd prayed, aud tolled, wero nothing to us aftor all; but tho spiritunl stato, which dictated our pragord and toils, was overything,~and yot wo novor suspected Ih Wirou-HAzEL, — COonductor and Vicc-Presidont, At a cortain poriod, #omo six or elght yoars g0, the officers of ono of our principal railroads bad good rensons for belloving that somo of the conductors upon a particular section of thol rond wero in tho habit of rendorlng inacourate roturns of thoir rocelpts from '* way-passens gers 3 ” and a8 they wero unablo to fix tho dofale cation upon tho Sm‘umflnr individuals, Pinkers ton was employed to investignte tho matter, and tost tho nccuracy of their suspicions. For tho exocution of this dolicate sorvico he solocted a sufficiont numbor of his bost men to fur- nish four for every car in a train, one to bo sontod at ench door sud two in the contro of tho car, tho lattor faciog to tho front and roar, 80 na £0 800 overy porson who went in or out. These men were dirocted not to recognizo cach othor, but to pay tholr fares, and otherwiso do- port thomsolyos liko ordinary travelera. Each one was provided with penciland paper, and in- structed to keop an acourato rocord of every romon that onterod or loft the cars, noting o stationa to and from which they traveled, oto., 80 that if at tho end of tho trip their notes ‘wora in accord, it would bo good evidence of ac- ocuracy, In thls maunor tho Major was onabled, In tho course of a fow days, to make a dotailed report, which showed conclusively that noarly evary conductor upon tho soction of rond under surveillance bad boon guilty of swindling. He 8150 agcortained that ono of those delinquents owned property to a largo amount in Philadel- phia. Wheroupon, as I was informed, Col, 8—, tho Vico-Prosidont, sent for tho man, and the following disloguo cnsued : # Ar, —, how long havo you beon' employed a8 conduotor on our road ? " * About soven yoars, sir," “What pay have you recoived during thab time?" *¢ Eight hundred dollars a yoar."” “Do you own tho house No.— upon — atreot ?"” 41 do sir.” ¢t Havo you other property in this clty 2" 4“1 have.” ‘What is its valuo 2" “Well, sir, I can't tell proclacly, but it ia con. siderablo.” “\Vhat oatimate do you place upon your entire asseta?” “ Bomothing like $40,000,” ¢ \Wero you the ownor of any portion of thia pro})erty when you entered our gorvice ? " '*Not a dollar’s worth, sir,” “You have a fawily to support, L undor- stand? " “T havo a wifo and threo children.” “1yill you do me the favor to inform me how you have been able in seven years to support Jour family and scoumulato o Tortuno of forty thogs?an dollars upon @ salary of eight hun- T havo not the slightest objection to snswor your question, Col. , providod you will suf- for mo first to propound s few pertinent intor- rogatoriea to you.” th" VFo’ry well, Sir, I'vo no objections. What aro oy 7 " *Will you, thon, bo so kind 88 to irform me how long you have beon connected with the — Railroad 7" “Somothing like ten yeara,” ¢ What, allow mo to ask, has boen your ealary duriog that time? " g BUppOsS it may have averagod about $5,000 & yoar.! k You have o family to support, if I am not mistakon 7" “ Yeg, gir, 1 have a family." ‘¢ 17 it is not an impropor question, Col. 8- will you suffer mo to nuE what is tho amount of your fortuno?" “Well, sir, I don't know procisoly, but it ia something handsomo." “Would you estimato it at £500,000, Col- onel 2" ' Yea, I daro say it ia.” “That befng tho fact, sir, if you will do mo the favor to discloso to me tho socrot of the pro- cess by whick you, in ton years, have been able to transmute $50,000 ioto ton times that smount, without any visiblo means outside your salary, T will most cheorfully tell you how I have man- agod, by turning an honest pouny now and then, to amasn the comparatively insignificant amount Ihavo named.” * That iy all yory well, roplied the imperturbas blo Vice President, **but you scem to have for- gotten that thero is a slight difference betweon our status aud mino upon the — Railroad, in uat you are responsible to mo for stealing tho Company's money, whereas I am not accounta- ble to you for my transactions, In viow of this fact, it now boocomes my duty to inform you that youg ‘gorvlcus are no longer raquired upon our rond. Thio facotious conductor_probably snticipated this rosult, and with bis characteristic coolness romarked : ** In that event, sir, it may at somo futuro time becomo necosenry for mo to soek om- Flny'mont upon another road. Would it bo ask- g too much for you to give me a lotter setting forth your estimate_of my ability to perform tho duties of conductor?” = ¢1f you desiro it, I certainly lnve no objocs tions to i‘fing you a tostimonial to tho effect that I loo ipon soti 84 tho most unscrupulous and unblushing knave that has ever disgraced tho catalogue of our omployes, and that any company having anything to do with you will ba morally’ certain to bo robbed."—From ¢ Delve- tire Pinkerton,” by Gen. R. [arcy. in Harps er'a Magazine for Uclobe Mow Eight Ioston Wives Dinner. The Doston Post tells tho following story about & dinner at & famous Boatou restaurant : “Buch o famo 18 Taft's makes dinoor partios 88 Innumerable as they are inviting, and it ‘would be unaccountable on the doctrino of chanca alono, If thero did not now and then bofall a funny Incident to §lvo f! uaucy ns woll ad sub- stantial delights to the Point Shirloy entertain- ments, Taft tells ono that has just ocourred at his cosy quarters, but a sly wink given after tho whisporing was over onjained tho preservation of tho strictest incognito of all the parties con- cornod. It hupponed on the brightost and most doliciously cool day of tho wool, when the at- mosphiore and_tho ekies thomsolves seemed at- Ilad a tuned to the evont which was celobrat- od. Eight married gentlemen of eminently epicurean tastes camo together and sob thoir minds upon hnvir:f' a dinner. Thoro wore four Engliahmun and four Amoricans, all of whom had fested the skill of cooks the world oyer. 'Thoy wished to lave everylhing com- lete, and going to Taft thoy gavo liim carte lancho for msmn(.vI thom up suoh o fenst as thy, wantod, Preparations bogan forthwith, and «ll the resonrces and appliauces of Taft’s cuisine were brought into requisition. But meanwhilo the wives of tho ocight gens tlomen got wind of tho affair, Thoy learned to their just indignation that thoir husbanda woro preparing for & graud foast for their sole edifi- cation, and that MFM plates only were to be laid at thelr tablo. Without waitiug for an explana- tion thoy dispatohed a messouger to Taf's and duplicated thoir husbands® oulor‘ to be servod in a soparato dining-room, The bills of faro wore to bo idontical, with the ex. ception of ulg{nrfl, and tho strictost sllence was ougnlnud. ot oven a hint or a whispor wos to pass botwoou the husbanda and tho landlord, ‘T'hio hour appointod for tho two dinners came, and the husbands sat down to their dinner, and tho wives to theirs, Tho tables .bore the ro. sults of Taft's unriyalod tasto and ekill, and nothing was omitted to make it complato in ev- ory detail. Tish, birds, and all ylolded their Qoliclous mouthfuls, while tho shining pluta aud oxcellont sorvice was tickling to every senso, **Not o word passed botwoen the two splos snd-span-dining-rooms. All unsuspacting, tha husbands drank a bumper to_their wivea at home, while tho wives sippod tho_henlth of their husbands, who never droamed of thoir prosence under thie snmo hos itablo roof,. Din. nor ovor, the wives ordored their bill added to that of their unsuspeoting husbands, and g0 the ruso was dlscovered, 'Ihere is a protty moral to all this, Taft thinks, and perhaps ono hasu't fax to search for i, either," N