. Platform echoes: or, Living truths for head and heart . young ladies. Well, I amshown into the drawing-room andasked to wait a few young lady may have herhair in papers, or there may bea few alterations in her dress toattend to. I am, likely, a loverof pictures, and I lookat the engravings. Hav-ing looked at them, I ^--—^Wfnext look at the take up an , I will see howmatters stand, and what sonnetsare addressed to my Dulcineas eye-brows. I turn the leaves over, and byand by I come to — I read — Wewill not use intoxicating liquors— !==—_=hum — or provide them for o
. Platform echoes: or, Living truths for head and heart . young ladies. Well, I amshown into the drawing-room andasked to wait a few young lady may have herhair in papers, or there may bea few alterations in her dress toattend to. I am, likely, a loverof pictures, and I lookat the engravings. Hav-ing looked at them, I ^--—^Wfnext look at the take up an , I will see howmatters stand, and what sonnetsare addressed to my Dulcineas eye-brows. I turn the leaves over, and byand by I come to — I read — Wewill not use intoxicating liquors— !==—_=hum — or provide them for others— h inn — signed Elizabeth — I should understand the matter at once; not a word is nec-essary, she is a total abstainer. And if I have any sincereregard for that young lady, shall I dare ask her after thatto take a glass of wine? If I am a young man of honor(and I would advise the young ladies to have nothing todo with any except such), I would no more ask her to takea glass of wine than I would think of addressing to her insult-. hum —signed elizabeth. 546 I WOULD LIKE TO CATCH THEM. ing language which would bring the burning and indignantblush to her cheek. Another way in which good was dune bythose albums was in the young ladies asking the young gentle-men to write their autographs in them. Of course they wouldsay Yes, and then ask where they should write. The ladieswere Mire to turn over the pages till they came to the pband then say, Give me your signature here. Do youmean here? Certainly, is the reply. Some would, andsome would not ; but, to show you what may be done in thisway. one bright-eyed young lady in Cincinnati told me thatshe had obtained the names of sixteen young men. Shesaid, I dont believe I could have induced them to do thisunless I had urged them; and now they tell me that some oithese young men are breaking it. She was a beautiful girl,and, as she said this, she drew herself up. her eyes Hashedfire, and she proudly said, I would li
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