Boon's Lick times. [volume] (Fayette, Mo.) 1840-1848, 1843-12-30


room and the horse bazaar!-is there much
difference? Do we not hear the same crit
icisms applied to women as horses. Well.
why not?-next to women horses are of all
breathing things the most beautiful to tn >
animal eye. Yes the horse bazaar and the
ball room. We see as many colts in the
one place as the other. The wall flowers
of the ball room will DO for the purchasers
of the quadrupeds. A horses qualities are
Judged by outward appearances-and so
are woman's. To be attractive woman
must be well developed; her hips and shout
ders must be broad--her bust swelling
gracefully and neutrality-suspicious. form 1.-THE
and symmetrical--face expressive of all
the tender passions--ove, pity. benevoence.
etc.-her complexion must rank blonde or
brunette, (grey or bay)--her gait must b"
firm, even, mercurial and commanding she
must be clean lmbed and sure footed: that
is something of chief recommendation
with a woman as with a horse. A .faur
pas on the part of either is productive of
much intolerable anguish. Ones wife or
mistress mis-sieps and ones heart is broken.
1t is difficult to say which is the worst
misfortune. A man may stump it through
the world without leg, or with a famed
shoulder to very little advantage; but To
our notions he goes thro' his part on the
stage Of life all the better for the lack of a
heart. Hears are not always lrumps III
the game of being. Women and horses
certainty resemble each other when the one
genus - in the auction mart and the other
IN the auction mart also ball room. Wo-
men and horses. ah! yes! We drive horses
and we drive the ladies, and yet in both ca
ses they take the lead of us.
We pay for this; we saddle horscs-and
women, with our commands and dress
them in pretty expensive harness, use the
curb and the rein, and often times the spur.
Ahem. we feel beyond our depth. They
are under us. which. according to the laws
of nature. is stern and divine justice; as tn
maker of all things has declared thai wo-
men are the weaker vessels, and have their
proper position as we find them. Many oi
these vessels contain absolute denominations.
We appreciate physical elegancies in
ballroom, exhibiting the utmost contempt
for mental beauties. Bah! what has mind
to do with dancing beyond the conception
Of the voluptuary. A never-failng fund
IF 'smaIl-taIk; dash of the sentimental
which is absolutely necessary for the proper
exhibition Of grace, and manner. and win
ming expression of feature, with liberal n"
lions, are the stock in trade of ballroom
beauty. If you squeeze her hand she will
look roguish and return the pressure; if
you clasp her waist in the heat of compli-
ment. she will rest her hands upon your
shoulder and peer, half anxiously and in
quiringIy, and half tenderly into your eyes;
and if she be perfect in her ROLE, percep-
tiby increase the heaving of her bosom.
You are up TO the manner of the things
and cast down your optics-not from mod
esty, although il is supposed she believes
50; but to gain peep of PARADISE partly
concealed, like the heavenly beauties of
The stage, behind so many inches of fine
white lawn. And the tete-a-tete ends with
an designation or hout on both sides.
This is the season for all this sort OF
thing.