The Yazoo City Whig and political register. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1842-1844, 1843-07-21
From lhe Albany MIerOseope.
Bustles.-To The Ladies.


BustIes.-TO the Ladies.
This world is at present making great
busIe about bustes. The Boston American
asks in an agony Of spirit If there is not
law Of the city corporation prohibiting, under
very severe penalties, projections of more
than Ga feet'' in length beyond the side walk.
The inducements 20 asking this important
question is on account Of the enormous pro-
lection Of some Of our fashionable ladies'
bustles, which not only monoPoIize the side
walks but take up no inconsiderable portion
OF the carriage way.
The 'American" man is something of an
antiquarian, and has Instituted an inquiry
into the early history of bustles. He thinks
St. Paul was blowing out against them when
he told his hearers to forget or cast off The
things which s0ere behind Them. Very like.
Passages from ancient writers prove the
existence of bustles in the olden classic
times. Hear what one of them says:
SET super eius clunes cingit b1tstelam maginum,''
which is thus translated by Dryden;
"With hustle huge she girts herself around,''
Here is another passage from Tacitus, who
wrote great many centuries ago:
"The ladies frank are accustomed to wear
certain curious shaped articles of dress, called
bustles, which are ornamentod with fine
embroderery and needle work. Their
weight is prescribed by law. The wife Of
chief weals one weighing three ounces, the
weight of that worn by the Empress is one
pound and two ounces"
A traveller lately dug up hustle at POM
lpsi in good state of preservation. He thus
describes it.:
"Its form is that of three equilateral TRAN
giles joined at the base. The substance with
which it was stuffed, puzzled visitors for
Ii, a.. - Il.
Ibe rasPed WhaIebone."
Thus pirates an old English poet.
''Ne was there in all the countree round,
So fayre Made, ne or so high renown;
4 bustel great she wore of velvet made,
Which exc with finest silk was broidered"
And here is passage frem one of the old
Ter damatists, who thus introduces the hustle
as the last memento of affection of a diving
wife TO her absent husband;
1Ths 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
Doth throb for him."
Orestes Brownson, the great transcenden.
talist, thus descants upon these articles in
the following clear and lucid manner.
fTheir superiority orbitates to eternity
The cylindrical predominates. The cycloid
reduced to entity is impermeable. Cotton is
dull, bran is derivative. Circumstances COM
} bined fortuitousy preclude investigation
The irrefragable confederation derived by at
triton supersedes divinity. Preternatural
divisions are oblique."
Sam Slick, too, is truly crazy upon the sub
iect and thus delivers himself
81 swan to man, it gives fellow sort of
an all overish feeling to see gal with one
of them things on. I'll be darned, if my
heart don't jump clean out of my mouth,
Z every Tina | set my eyes on 'em."
A friend of ours took home on Saturday
: might one Of the long water melons which
lgrow in the Jerseys, intending to have it fol
]. his Sunday dessert. Dinner time came and
d The couldn't find the melon. He asked his
= wife if she knew where it was. She made
: no reply, but instantly turned pale as death
: The affectonate husband thinking that she
q was i'll and about to faint, cut open her dress
u behind for the purpose Of loosening her cor
IS set, when to hishorror and astonishment, GU
- dropped the water melon. She was soearial
1t for hustle.
k A printer ofour acquaintance, missed fror
th Ibis Office, on Monday morning a short roller
he On enquiring at the house. he found that h
rs daughter had worn it to church the day Be
~, fore and forget to return it.
We have on hand few mere 6usfIe-in
~ inside-dents to dish upfor the qualification
zen our female readers, which have fallen undl
ars our personal inspection. We will fix the
ton out in week or two.