To ponder carefully, or perchance you'll miss
What you are striving for. "Not always he,"
So says authority, "the race will gain.
Who at the first speeds fastest; nor those men
The battle win, whose guns the farthest shoot,”-
A homely verse, may be, but full of truth.
Our Young Americans would plume for flight
Ere time to leave the nest. Behold our youth;-
They lead the fashion; what a jaunty air
They carry with them! Consequential boys!
And so our sisters, not content to bloom

In costumes such as did their mothers wear,
They'd "Bloomers" be, and loudly talk of "Rights,"
Throw down their needles, and take up their pens;
Study the "Art of Oratory," 'stead of that
Which teaches them to bake, and brew, and sew.
Well, well, they'll get the better yet of that,
And lose their foolish notions, as comes care
Along with rip'ning years. Then will our sisters find
A "woman's right" is that to cheer her home:
Our youth, that solid studies best engage
The mind that would expand. This age
That not alone of progress talks, but also of
Equality. No man is more than to his brother peer,
When all are honest, now that learning's halls
Are open kept for all who'd enter them;
But while I talk, our "Young Americans,"
And others too not born upon our soil,

is one

Are waiting me. The Black -hot Afric's son-
The drawling Yankee, beef-fed Englishman,
The oatmeal-eating Scotchman, and the son
Of that "Green Isle," whose Emmet fell a prey
To laws with more of blood than justice in them,
Long to express their sentiments, and force,

If so they can, you into their belief,—

So draw the curtain! Hold! when I am off,

And give our friends a glimpse of "Young America." (Exit.)

The Curtain is then drawn to discover the proper position on the Stage, of the Characters forming the third Tableau.

A, Girl dressed in Bloomer costume, shouldering a gun.

B, Boy representing "Young America," having his hat cocked upon one side of his head, a cigar in his mouth, his hands in his pockets, and his pants rolled up.

C, Boy sitting on a stool, nursing a baby, and looking very much ashamed.

D, Boy dressed like an Irishman, standing in an attitude of grotesque alarm at the appearance of the "Bloomer."

E, A ragged Negro, sitting upon the Stage, engaged in blacking a pair of boots one boot upon his hand, the other lying by his side. F, A boy with a woman's apron on; a parasol in one hand, and carrying a bandbox in the other.

DIALOGUE SPOKEN DURING TABLEAU NO. III.

The Bloomer.

We women are the boys! (To the boy holding baby.) Husband, take care of that child, or I'll show you that one of the "Rights" of my sex is to handle a broomstick for the correction of fractious husbands.

Boy with Child. Hush, baby dear!

to leave you, as she has been called

Mamma is obliged

upon to address an audience of the "Strong-minded," at a Woman's Rights Convention.

Irishman. Ow! murther, murther! Look at the clothes

of her! It's short they are, intirely! By the sod of ould Ireland, I'm blushing down to my very toes at the sight of the cratur. And is it a "Bloomer," ye 'z are?

Negro. Yes sah, she's a "Bloomer," sah-a regular Bloomer! Yah, yah, yah!

Young America. Yes, sir, she's a "Bloomer" gal, and I'm a "Bloomer" boy-both regular specimens of "Young America." (Curtain drops.)

NO. IV. A CLASSICAL TABLEAU

OF DEITIES FAMOUS IN ANCIENT MYTHOLOGY, DESIGNED EXPRESSLY FOR YOUNG LADIES.

Justice, Purity, Beauty, Plenty, Liberty.

PROLOGUE TO TABLEAU NO. IV.

Believing that the great object of education is to invest us with a love of the traits personified in the characters we are about to present to you, let me, for your assistance in understanding their excellencies, as I am delegated for that purpose, make a few remarks.

"A thing of beauty is a joy forever," wrote the poet. There is no less of truth than poetry in the sentence; for whatever presents to the mind an image calculated to act upon, to arouse its finer impulses, must aid in strengthening and refining them.

We are easily impelled to admire, when the object presented is one upon which the eye is enabled to dwell with pleasure; and though but indicated when personified, who who does not feel that Purity should be loved, Beauty admired, and Liberty and Justice worshipped?