The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 184?-1851, 1845-04-09
RusTLEs.


dams and We Websters! for we have il, and are
about 10 define 10 you the etymOlogy of that
most expressive, most imperious, that hitherto
ncomprehensble in origin, but most compre-
hensive in effect, that word of words, that cabal
stic abracadabta that has stricken down gene
rails, statesmen humbled, disgraced diyines, and
philosophers ridiculed; in short, that combina-
ton of vocal sounds expressed by the letters
H-U--M--B--U--G.
If CaptaiE Tyler were in the Presidential |
Chair, we are sure we would be made Secreta-
Try of State, or Ambassador to the Chinese, for
our erudte discovery. But as our readers may
be getting impatient, particularly the ladies, we
will hurry on with our Specification, and des-
cend from well rounded periods and lofty ina
gery-frOm the fight of the eagle to the prOsy
pace of the duck-hoping that the learned
doctors won't think that we are making PERSONAL
illusions, although qudckery and hanlbag are
cousidared by fools synoneme. Nor dove in
tend to be personal towards the ladies, either,
though doubtless some of them will say that we
are highly SO; and Notwithstanding the scanda-
lous imputaion that the rounded portion of
their fair proportions, we mean that honorable
part that they look not upon, is not their own,
we will declare that it is their own, if they wish
Ius TO do so, bone of their bone and flesh Of ftheI
flesh! Still it is scandalously asserted that they
wear buStJes! and we say that they have as per-
feet right to do SO, as the gentleman have TO
stuff their coat tails with old newspapers and
pocket handkerchiefs. So we will bid adeu to
the ladies, "nature's last best gift" and TO their
lovely symmetry of form, symmetry which
) they have increased from their perception of the
: that the laws of gravitation would draw to a
straight line, in order 10 give it thai beautiful
curve SO much admired on the palette of Ho-
0 garth. We headed oar article Bustles, and then
: we went on to give the eiymology of Humbug,
n now we will engraft the text with the context,
. and at once enlighten our readers by declaring
4 that BUStIes and Humbug mean one and the
l. same thing!-and TO the proofs: Humbug was
r anciently BUMuuG, mere transposition of let
ters, has made it what it is nov; and Bmnlug
E was the ancient name Of the BHStle If anv of
the ladies doubt our veracity, we will produce
v the authority before any court or council that
they may appoint to decide so momentous a
question, IT'S astonishing the mutation Of
words, the most learned philologiss are often at
t their wits ends TO tell how and why these chan
u ges take place. The BumhugS of the ancient
y danes, have been transformed into the Bustles of
> the modern fashionable ladies'; but Humbug, the
sobriquet or nickname applied 10 the little arti-
Gle by the Sir Charles Grandisons of those days
Of olden time, is still preserved, but used in such
" sense that all traces would have been but for
. our discovery forever lost Of its original sgnif-
: cation, The Bumhug was little saddle used
by the beauties of the court of Queen Eliza
: beth, 10 elevate somewhat the trains they wole
behind, as well as keep harmless the dear crea-
J. lures when they came suddenly in contact with
9 the rude mail encased beaux that crowded the
e saloons of the virgin Sovereign. Those Cecils,
and Howards, and Raleghs, and Spencers-and
i Shakespeare perhaps, called the article 'Humbug,
+ little dreaming that the word would undergo
+ assailant ITSELF and that in the nineteenth centu,
y ry no weapon would be more powerful in upset
3 ting man great in his own estimation, or wo-
/ man either as 10 pronounce them "Hunbug' .
Bless the lades we don't like 10 interfere with
their furbelows or their fashions, but at the risk
D of being pronounced obirusive, we would sug.
e gest that in names they should expungate all
o that is not purely Anglo-Saxon and expressive
: Now Bustle is an English word Of questionable
i coinage, but don't express the thing. Bumkue
Il is just the thing itself, and how much more
i classical and euphonious! Hug is fond anc
endearng word; and Bum has been celebrated
in Immortal verse by two of the greatest poet,
! Of any age or nation. Shakespeare says:
. ''The wisest aunt telling the saddest tale,
y Sometime tor three-loot stool mistaketh me-
e Then slip | from her Bun, down topples she."
l. And, again: Dryden says
o From dusty shops neglected authors come.
l. Martyrs Of pics, and relicts of the Bua.p
So, having proved Brpnhug 10 be classical
s. we hope the ladies will be no lenger humbug
n ged with BustIes,
e The ancient fashionable ladies' fastened OIL
& their Bumhugs with wire, and our modern fash
t. ionables. we believe, use tape. The forme
k stuffed the article with wool; the latter use cot
ton, pigs brstles or bran--iust as it happens
AS the quantity used is of serious consideration
at the present time with political economists
Y perhaps the discussion Of the merits the seYe