A PRACTICAL YOUNG LADY.

Thames Star, Volume IIII, Issue 1703, 18 June 1874, Page 2

A PRACTICAL YOUNG LADY.

A writer in the Vie Parisienne is now publishing, a series of sketches which, he claims, are faithful portraitures of American life. We translate a chapter, in which he tells how he visited a young American lady to whom he had been previously introduced. . . One evening, says he, I found Alice alone in the parlor. Her pousins had started out for a walk with their beaux.. I .was surprised to notice that she was not in her usual elegant toilette; and when I asked the reason, she said she was warm and tired. "Let us go to Hoboken," I proposed. "The fresh air from the water will do you good." . , ' - "No I* she replied. "Will you go out and take some roast oysters and a lobster salad ?" ••No, I am not hungry." ,:. IFS 1, 1 ' ,then' " I suggested,/'let us go to Maillard s and have an ice." "No, I tellyou, "she said. " But wait! if I should go out with you, what would the whole affair cost you, including the supper, the theatre,'and aH the usual expenses P" ";i hardly know," I answered; "besides, what difference does it make ? It's of no importance. Come on, please, and do not worry yourself about my purse." "Just listen to me," said she; "you .would spend aboat fifteen dollars. Bow, instead of going out, let us remain at home, and take a cup of tea, and you tan give me the fifteen dollars!"