PERFECTION IN PETTICOATS.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), 19 March 1883, Page 4

PERFECTION IN PETTICOATS.

A corresponpent of a Utica, N. 1., paper savs ._The people of this part of Oneida county never brag, but we have a young lady in this village who hasinerits deserving of public notice. She is a blonde, _of medium height, blue eyes, clear-cut Grecian features, and is acknowledged to bo pretty, even by envious females, and has borne away all the best prizes in school for years. Her education is pronounced by our late School Commissioner as being as good as that of any teacher in the Fourth District. She can bake, wash, iron, make a garden, sing divinely, sew on a button or patch, make and fit all her clothes, spin the yarn, and make her own stockiugs, mop the floor, entertain a house full of ministers, or an assemblage of young people, make tatting, crochet, bevel* a lambrequin, knit insertion on a slipper case, or quilt a pumpkin pie. She never was known to call your attention to the door draper or mat, never spoke a cross word, or had a cold dinner on washing day, never ate a chocolate caramel or chewed gum. She wore none but her own hair and" teeth, and was never nearer a corset than the outside of a dry goods counter. She never had a beau in her life, yet our best young men would be at her feet with the least encouragement. She can row a boat, shoot a gun, climb a tree, and throw a fly or land a trout in a manner to win the admiration of any sportsman. She never gossips and never attempts to take a hand in another woman's knitting work, and is never seen upon the streets in the evening unless going to church or to visit the sick. Her father has been a widower for over a dozen years, a pillar in the church, social, and .sought after by all, yet manifests no desire to change housekeepers. She was never known to torture a piano in her life, manifests no fondness for cats, or poodle.-;, or cur dogs, imd doesn't know George Eliot's best novel from a hen-coop, yet she is thoroughly conversant with the important questions and news of the day, iin-1 can quote history till you can't wink. We are not related except through our respected ancestor, Adam, and no young man must consider this thrown out as an inducement, for the lady in question would not look favorably upon his suit a moment unless she was convinced that lie was the equal of her father, and it wotdd be strong proof that she would require. She is a" thorough going politician with Democratic proclivities, ami would work over the wash-board and soap-suds six months for the privilege of voting for Grovor Cleveland, J. Thomas Spriggs, and the balance of the ticket. We live in the north-cast corner of the county, are a vague, unccrlaiu, inopportune sort of town, and vanity is not our weakness, but—we bring'em on, and let us sec what Oneida county is made of, anyhow.