Rutland herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1823-1847, 1843-09-28
A SHORT CHAPTER ON BUSTLES

| There are n poody number of huscs in this
world of ours, that's fact, but none as we are
aware, which are not designed for some desr.
Bile end For instance there is good deal Of bus
tie about the ladies' BUSHES bu! answers the good
purpose Of bctraying the emptyness of those who
are making it. We never knew an insuf,n
able coxcomb who was not incessant in bis dispar
aging comments on the peculiarles OF the ladle,
dress, while INDUCING himself in those that were
ten fold more nexcuscable and ridiculous We
see no gross improperly IN the wearing Of bosIes
by the ladies' They born in a buslc, (Nsy 20
out Of the world in a hustle and we see no pis
sible reason why they should be denied one IL
going drought it. they choose TO make them.
for the life of US we can't see why they shouIda
back the responsibility Ifa hustle be sin lie, i, at.
tach TO their skirts since they are willing to bear
the bran, it is no affair of ours; aud so much
noise about the things that are behind, is in exceed
ing bad taste.
We are for allowing the other sex TO regulate
their dress according to their own taste, but flhcr
must be censorship let it BE- com posed Of scnsi.
bic men, or, at. least of men who, if they have no
brains, know enough to conceal the de6ciecy BIZ
keeping quiet. We protest against self construed
committees composed Of equal parts Of hair, whale
bone and cotton waste, and so utterly destitute Of
ballast and brains as to require Swapping down
Whatsdo such bipeds know of the matter True
they might discuss it with the gravity of goais bot
in reality they are themselves little else than cO0a
bales, endowed with the attributes Of ,oInon-
Strip them of their supernumerarv hair aud colon
and there would not be enough of humanity lch Of
them to perpetrate an audible snccze without dan
ger Of breaking assunder at the middle. Anl
these are the men who talk of quantities Of coHol
consumed in The manufacture Of ladies' buses -
Out upon them for vllainous hypocrtcs that they
are for not one of them wakes our streets BY
daylight but has cotton enough about his dehca'
BILE person TO make more diabolica array OF baS
ties than was ever congregrattd at Fashionable
boarding school, or gazed at in consefnal@
through key-hole, by proiane but InqoI'n"
bachelor. Cotton wadcing forsooih What 10
the name OF the Talors in chrisondom has g"h
such plump and damlIke roundhy 10 Their ofea"
and such admirable symmetry Of proportion 70 }"
entire trunk OF our fashionable gents, OF lalr -
| What but some ten or n dozen sheets Of cHl0
waddlng, 50 disposed as to Gil every unsefmly CIV
ny, er overay every uDgraceiuI prolnbfIa'.
an appliance to atone for every SIN oi omls'% ~
commission Of which Nature in her haste (" ~
wantonnoss has been the author?
We are not sufficiently vrrsed 10 fcmaf '"'V
my to determine whether bustles are worn W ~
practical utility by she ladies but we can "'',
peremporily as to the object Of similar arP,l".
in masculine arrangements II Is 10 conc''' ''t
natural or supposed defect that all tbs va"
cotton is applied. We it hold to be noIa''y '"
possible that men
"Sh"uld grunt and sweat beneath = "s''
/ Oi cotton waste, hut that consrv'aShss'
or something lacking 10 the Iofi- '""'
Some open proof Of bnnging wodkRN''.
Iuzzles the will, and makes them saioef !, ~
The cotton waste, than bads OF fidicus'
We would advise those Of oar msk reaN y ~.
are padded to the las, extremely OF human W. d,
and strapped to the eriden, danger Of seam -,
have as little as possible to do with bpnl9 ", IA
dogda sols,iee is over, for il is difficult 10 P,,,,
what catastrophe viii result from 90 0fI1
course.