ARTIFICIALITIES.
Artificial Flowers.- The Pink of Fashion is flower that generally is extremely artificial.
Artificial Memory.- The knots in one’s pocket-handkerchief, or drawings in chalk, such as one’s milk-score, or the cartoons and cabalistic signs drawn by beggars on those houses that are not favourable to their culling. Artificial Memory is also the recollection of favours that have been received. It is so artificial, that it is only the expectation of favours to come that manages to keep it alive.
Artificial Ice.- The reception one meets with when, dropping-in, self-invited, one happens to be the thirteenth at dinner.
“Feu d’Artifice.”- The old Greek Fire, the artifice of which was so knowing, that the trick has not exploded even to the present day. A fire of compliments, let off by a fashionable Frenchman, may, likewise, be compared to a “Feu d’Artifice,” the artifice being merely the transparency of a false flame; and so ridiculously transparent, that every young lady, who has her eyes and sences about her, must instantly see through it.
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