sMA1.L-TALK FOR THE LADIES.
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There arc a parcel of people in society who are adopts in what is called smalI. talk"--skilful to descant upon the state of the weather--mcteorologic calendars .who find a subject for an hours talk out of rainy day; others discourse eloquently upon la- ccs, ribbins, casssimers and sewing silk shawls, and arc erudite tn all the mysteries ot millinery: while not a few think to mala themselves agreeable by scandalizine every one but the party with whom they are con- Vcfsing, and who, of course, in her turn. ;s not spared when seasonable opportunity arrives. In conversing with a ladv few 1, evenings ago, the discourse fell upon the bad taste of such persons, and the in com pIimcnt they paid to woman of sense bv such bold and disjointed trifling. In this country, where female education is SO care. fully snperintcnded, and where the amount ot solid and useful information is sunerior.

 ootl' 'n quality and quantity, to that of any

 "'n'r country, ltls positive libel to a

 'adys mlnd to engage her in a talk upon

 such subjects as are only fitted for the toilet. and should only be held with the modiste or merchande des modes. It indicates either a shallowness in the gentleman, or a suppo- sltion,on his part, that females are not qual- fled for rationafand instructive talk '; in the one case, he ought moi to- talk at all :; in the latter he should confne himselfto children. A well educated lady in this happy country, can talk upon every subject well and perti-s, nently; aEd there is always something to be learned from her, either in the originality of her ideas. or in the grace and freshness of her expressions; and she must be most distrcssingly annoyed by the small talk of the generality of the idlers and danglers of the day. who carry canes, cultivate nousta- ches, and seem, by their talk and manners in society, to have come to the conclusion that they have monopolized all the sense in the world, and are the sovereign arbiters of wit and :ashion.-N. Y. Mirror. saE