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 rose-bud or two, a woodbine, or a sprig of eglantine, look Fourth 



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well in the braided hair ; and if there be raven locks, a 



lily or a snowdrop may be interwoven with effect. 



Now that the packets are so safe, and make such quick 

 passages to the United States, it would be as well if some 

 of our head milliners would go on board of them, in lieu 

 of getting into the Diligence for Paris. They would bring 

 back more taste, and less caricature. And if they could 

 persuade a dozen or two of the farmer's servant girls to 

 return with them, we should soon have proof positive, 

 that as good butter and cheese may be made Avith the 

 hair braided up, and a daisy or primrose in it, as butter 

 and cheese made in a cap of barbarous shape ; washed, 

 perhaps, in soap-suds last new moon. 



New York has very good hotels, and genteel boarding- Hotels and 



boarding- 

 houses. All charges included, you do not pay above two iiouses. 



dollars a day. Little enough, when you consider the 

 capital accommodations, and the abundance of food. 



In this city, as well as in others Avliich I visited, every 

 body seemed to walk at his ease. I could see no incli- 

 nation for jostling ; no impertinent staring at you ; nor 

 attempts to create a row in order to pick your pocket. I 

 would stand for an hour together in Broadway, to 

 observe the passing multitude. There is certainly a 

 gentleness in these people, both to be admired and 

 imitated. I could see very few dogs, still fewer cats, and 

 but a very small proportion of fat women in the streets of 



