"Yes, Maria, we will give the party ohursday night and I have an agreeable surprise in plation for all our old friends who may be here." The pleasant air about Mrs. Teach as she ehe parlor where her daughter was seated betokehe presence of something on her mind that gave her great satisfa. The daughter had been importuning her mother for a party which after due deliberation she had decided to give and to make the evening more eaining she had determio introduce a new feature which she thought would create some excitement in the circle of her acquaintances and afford them the means of much amusement. She had just hit upon the plan before entering the room and the smile of satisfa upon her face was noticed by her daughter.
"Shall we, Mother? I am so glad!" she answered. "But what is it you are preparing for our friends? Are you going to sing?"
"No, Miss, I am going to do no such foolish thing! And, for your quizzing, you shall not know what it is until the evening of the party!"
"Now, Mother, that is too bad. You are too hardhearted. You know the extent of womans curiosity a you will not gratify me. Are you going to introduce a new polka?"
"There is no use in your questioning; I shall not tell you anything about it, so you may as well save your breath."
"Do you intend showing your album quilt?" perseveringly inquired Maria.
"Now do not provoke me to cel my promise by your pertinacity. I tell you as a punishment for quizzing your mother you shall not know until Thursday what it is."
"M or evening, Mother?"
"Evening, Miss. So no more questions but get about writing your invitations."
Maria proceeded to the bookcase and taking from it her notepaper and envelopes enced writing.
Eight oclo the evening of the party. The first who were ushered into the parlor were Mrs. Jawart awo daughters, who were always the first at the reunions. The younger Miss Jawart was somewhere out of her teens, and the elder, although her face rofusely bedecked with curls -- the inal owner of which, being dead, had no further use for them -- could not ceal that she was much older than she wished to be sidered. Mr. and Mrs. White came , the lady someompous in her manner, and the gentleman quite so. An i in a al boat had placed him, in his own view, among shipping merts, and some of his acquaintances broadly hihat if he were cut up in small pieces aailed out for starch, he would be fulfilling his destiny. The two Misses Jennings and brother came . These young ladies, the oeen and the other twenty, seemed somewhat disappointed, when they ehe room, at the absence of some of their young beaux, whom they expected to find there; this feeling was dispelled in a few moments, when a matched pair of the latter presehemselves.
Mr. Lynch, a bachelor of fifty, was the o claim the attention of the pany. He was a short, thickset man, with a small pair of whiskers that curled up on his cheekbones as if endeav to cultivate an acquaintah his eyes. A few gray hairs in them, overlooked by the owner -- his attention to them was exemplary -- had been, in his toilet for the evening, elbowed, as it were, by the others to the fore, possibly to attract the attention of a few of the same color which peeped from behind the false hair of Miss Jawart. A standing collar formed a semi-wall around his neck, and shoes of the brightest polish graced his feet. At about half past hen, all the guests had assembled, filling fortably both p