The Port-Gibson correspondent., 1845-02-05
BuSTLES

BUSTLES.
The newspaper editors have for wear
or two past, been making a terrible bus
ne while cracking their Jokes about
certain article Of dress, worn by the Ia
dies and called ''bustle.'' They speak
.0l il as 4 new thing, when in reality, as
appears from the following treatise on
he subject (which we cut from an ex-
change, it can h0D Of great antiquity,
having existed, as the Odd Fellows and
Masons say Of their respective systems,
from 'lime immpmoraI' The author.
it will be seen, considers st Paul as re
lerring to il, and we might also add, il is
not absolutely certain that when Lots
lie looked behind hers she did not do il
see if she had in her hurry, left her
buslle in the burning Sodom And It is
possible hat the string with which our
first mother tied her apron, was made Of
a roll Of fig leaves. The antiquity,
therefore, is sufficiently established, and
The ladies are treading Tin The steps OF
their iIlustrious predecessors. Bat lei
Us hear what our American antiquarian
by his patient investigation, has diseov-
cred lie says:
Paul was blowing out against them,
when lie told his hearers Ia forget or cast
off the things which were behind them
Very like
Passages from ancient writer's prove
the existence Of huslles in the old classic
times. Hear what one Of them says, as
translated by Dryden:
s,With bustles huge she girt herself about"
Here is a curious passage from Tacitus
who wrote great many years ago:
"The ladies Of rank are accustomed to
wear certain curious shaped articles OF
dress, called bustIes. which are orna.
mented with fine embroidery and needle
work. The wife OF chief wears one
weighing three ounces. The weight q
that worn by the wife Of the emperor IS
one pound Two ounces
4 traveller lately dug up hustle in
Ponpei in 4 good state of preservation
He thus describes i:
s.Iis form IS thar of three equIla.eral
Itrianges, Joined at the base. The sub,
stance with which ii WAS stuffed puzztrr
the visitors for time, but at Length !
was decided 10 be rasped whalebune."
Thus prates an old English poet:
s.Ne was there in all the conatree roun
So fayre made, ne Of 50 high renown;
A hustle great she wore of velvet made,
Which exc with finest silk was hroldered.
And here is passage from one Of tht
older aramatists, and thus introduces th,
busties as the last pledge Of affection rron
4 dying vile 10 her absent husband:
s.Ths hustle take and 10 nv husband bear,
And saw that she whom well lie oY'd hath sen
i token Of her love; and bid him think,
Thatth pulse o her who loved II once
Did throbfor him"
Ofestes Brownson, The great lranscen
denfaIist, thus descants upon these artl
cles, in the following clear and luc
; manner:
'Fheir superiority obviaies 70 eternl
". The cylindrical predominates. Tn
cycloil reduced 70 entity IS ilprrmea
bic. Cotton il dul; bran is dervatiye
, Circumstances combined fortulsousl
preclude investigation. The irrelragI
) BILE confederation derived BY attrtio
supefcedes divinity. Preternaural d
: visions are ob.ique.'
) Sam Slick, too, is truly crazy upon th
subiec', and thus delivers himself:
II swar 70 man, Il gives fellow sol
OF an alI-overish leeln' to see gal wit
!, one Of them things on. I'll be darned
my heart don't jump clear into my mout
every time set my eyes on 'em."
, The ST. Louis Gazette says:-
"a friend Of ours took home one Sa
urday night, short time since, lon
! water melon which growed in the Jei
J. seys, intending TO have It for his Sunda
n dessert. Dinner time came and he coul
moi find the melon. He asked his wife
she krew where it vas. she made q
Y reply, bnt instantly turned pale as deaIl
It The affectionate husband, thinking ST
\ was Ill and about TO faint, cut open he
dress behind for the purpose Of Inosenlr
her cnrsets, when, to his astonisFmel
y out dropped The water melon. She W
9 wearing il as a hustle" e!"-Bo. OF. Brat