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FASHIONABLE SHOPPING IN BRoADwAY.-Be
and fashion in New York have three grand theatres
Of display-the dress-circle at the opera, the gen
teel church uptown, and the elegant dry-goods
store in Broadway at the opera, very warm and
smiing-in the pew, rather chilling and sedate--in
the store, gay, lively, smiling, serious, chilling,
warm, res less-every thing. shopping is indeed
the one great business of the New York fashion
able lady. 1t is her morning visit, her drive, her
promenade, her dream at night when she is laid in
soft repose, and the engrossing subject Of her
thoughts on the dawn of every tomorrow that is
not Sunday, and on which it does not rain


And, indeed, when we get glimpse Of the Gle.
gance, endless variety, and infinite facilities Of
gratifying female curiosity, which many Of our
magniicentdry goods stores present, we can hardly
wonder that the dear creatures fnd such enjoyment
in "shopping" Just, for instance, let US look in
at Beck's famous store in Broadway, and see what
wilderness Of silks, and satlns, and aces, and
shawls, and bridal robes, andexpensive fabrics Of
all descriptions! And then the crowd of elegant
woman, dressed in the first style of fashion, chat
tering away, and tumbling over the goods, and
critcisng each others bonnets, and retailing the
freshest gossip What with the bright eyes, and
the rus;ling Of silks-and the graceful movements
of a hundred lovely forms, multiplied into ten
times that number in the costly Trrors-not to
speak Of the delicious harmony Of the silver streams
and the gentle murmur Of falling biAs heard at the
elevated and mysterious enclosure in the centre OF
the place, within which, as on throne, SITS the
presiding genius-the whole seems like some en-
chanted scene. Such is the interesting and ex-
citing scene which an artist has very successfully
depicted by his pencil in this days Weekly Herald
Just get it, and see how it answers our descrip-
ti0n