. Wit, humor and pathos . ping down the stairs, building fires, andsuch other labor as may be considered unbecoming in a lady. A 39 gentleman of color will be in attendance to wash doer-steps, scrubstairs, clean knives and dishes, carry water and run on young ladies will have Sundays and Saturday afternoons tothemselves, and can use the back parlor for evening company duringthe week, provided the advertiser can use it in the morning. Incase the young ladies desire to give a party, the advertiser, aftergiving up the keys of the wine-cellar and larder, will spend thenight at the hote
. Wit, humor and pathos . ping down the stairs, building fires, andsuch other labor as may be considered unbecoming in a lady. A 39 gentleman of color will be in attendance to wash doer-steps, scrubstairs, clean knives and dishes, carry water and run on young ladies will have Sundays and Saturday afternoons tothemselves, and can use the back parlor for evening company duringthe week, provided the advertiser can use it in the morning. Incase the young ladies desire to give a party, the advertiser, aftergiving up the keys of the wine-cellar and larder, will spend thenight at the hotel. If the young ladies have relatives, they cansupply them with flour, chickens, and vegetables from the commonlarder. Presents will be exchanged on Christmas, and the youngladies can have a set of jewelry or a point lace underskirt on Eastermorning. Candidates will please send address to No. — Lexington avenue,when the advertiser will call on them with her recommendationsand certificates of good character. ELI PERKINS ON SHODDY PEOPLE HE MOURNS BECAUSE HE IS NOT RICH. Last night I made a fashionable callon a fashionable young lady—not one ofyour intellectual young ladies, who takespride in brains and literature and traveland music, but one of our real swell girls, who dotes on good clothes and dia-monds and laces, and who bathes daily in abath tub of Caswell and Hazards cologne;who keeps a Spanish poodle, dyes herhair yellow, wears a four-inch Elizabethanruffle, and has her face powdered withreal pearl powder, specked with black court-plaster. My dear Julia sat under the mild light of an opalshade,* fanned herself with a twenty-inch Japanese fan,and discoursed—oh, so sweetly ! By her side sat EugeneAugustus Livingstone, of the Jockey Club. She toldme everything—how the Browns had sailed for Paris;how the lace on Mrs. Fullers dress cost $3,000; how• Jones had a new Brewster landaulet; how MissFielding was flirting with Mr. Munson; how all the girls
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