Sentinel of the valley. [volume] (Woodstock, Va) 1841-1848, 1843-07-13
BUSTLES-TO THE LADIES.

BUSTLES-TO THE LADIES.
The world is at present making a
great bustle-about bustles. The Bos-
ton American asks, in an agony of spir-
it, if there is not law of the city corpo-
ration prohibiting. under very severe pen
aIties, projections of more than "a feet"
in length beyond the sidewalks. The
inducement to asking this important
question is on account Of the enormous
projection of some of our fashionable la
dies bustles, which not only raonopoIze
the sidewalks, but take up no inconsid
cradle portion of the carriage way.
TIE ''American'' man is something of
an antiquarian, and has instituted an in
quiry into the early history of bustles.
He thinks st. Paul was blowing out a.
gainst them when he told his hearers to
forget or cast off things achich acere be-
hind them. Very like.
Passages from ancient writers prove
the existence of bustles in the old classic
times. Hear what one of them says:
set super eius c'uens cingit hustle
lam maya man," which is thus transla-
ted by Dryden:
"With hustle huge she girts herself around"
Here is curious passage from Taci-
tus, who wrete great many centuries
ago:
"1'he ladies of rank are accustomed to
wear certain curiously shaped articles of dress
called bustes, which are ornamented with
fine embroidery and neede-work. Their
weight is prescribed by law. The wife of
chief wears one weighing three ounces. The
weight of the one worn by the wife of the
Emperor Is one pound and two ounces"
A traveller lately dug up a hustle at
Pompeii, in good state of preservation.
He thus describes it:
Its form is that of three equilateral trian.
giles joined at the base. The substance with
which it was stuffed puzzled visitors for long
time, but at length it was decided to be rasped
Uhalebone,"
Thus pirates an old English poet:
s. Ne was there in all the countrie rou:a
So fayre Made, ne Of so high renown;
A bussel CRATE she wore of velvet made,
Which exc with finest silk was embroidered
And here is passage from one of the
Older dxamatists. who thus introduces
hustle as the last memenlo of affection
from dying wife to her husband:
This hustle take. and to my husband bear,
And say that she whom we'll he loved hath
sent
A token of her love; and bid him think
That the last pulse of her who loved it once
Did throb for hm'
Orestes Brownson, the great trans
cendentalist, descants upon these arti-
cles in the following clear and lucid
manner:
"Their superiority orbitates to eternity
The cylindrical predominates. The cycloid
reduced to entity is permeable.
sCotton is dull; bran is deryatiyc. Cir
cumstances combined fortuitously preclude
investigation, The irrefragable consideration
derived by attrition supersedes divinity. Pre-
ternatural divisions are obhquc."
Sam Slick, too, is truI Y crazy on yi4e
subject, and thus delivers HIMSELF
81 swan to man, it gives a fellow sort OF
an all-overish feeling to see gal with one OF
them things on. I'll be darned if nv heart
don't jump clean into my mouth, every time
I set my eyes on 'em."
A friend of ours took home on Satur-
day one of the large water-melons which,
grow in the Jerseys, intending to have ii
for his Sunday dessert. Dinner-time
came, and he couldn't find the melon.
He asked his wife if she knew where il
was. She made no reply, but instantly
turned pale as death. The afi'ectionate
husband, thinking she was i'll and abou,
to faint, cut open her dress behind for the
purpose Of loosening her corset when. tC
his horror and astonishment. out dropped
the watermelon She was aeea,ing 4
for busthe
A printer Of our acquaintance missed
from his office, one Monday morning, ;
short roHsr. On inqulring at the house,
he found that his daughter had worn i
to church the day before, and forsat tt
return .---.Al6aay Microscope.
y Management. You will always ob
serve one thing among inferior Women
They will make more noise in endeayor
ing to keep their children quietshan tn
children themselves, and etSthe littl
ones will be forever in an uproar-.whiI
woman of intelligence not.onIy keep
her family quiet, but herself also.