Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1853-08-18
AGecsea People.

Alexander the Great was wry-necked
and his courtiers, in compliment to him,
always carried their heads on oneside.
1t was the fashion to be wry-necked.-
1t may not be generally known, but
nevertheless it is fact that, the high
stocks so much worn fifteen or twenty
years ago, were first used by George
the Fourth, to conceal the serofulous
sore on his neck. We ehave little reason
now to laugh at these absurdities, be-
cause we are guilty of those equally as
ridiculous. The common fashion of
wearing eyeglasses, among people who
have no defect of vision, is not less
ridiculous than it was in the courtiers of
Alexander to stimulate wry y-neckedness.
We have often wondered how physi-
cal defect should ever be esteemed a
fashionable beauty-yet, so it is. 1t is
little singular, too, that almost every
person who suffers really from an i'm
perfect vision, would give the world to
be rid Of it, and dispense with the use
of mechanical aids-whilst those who
are sound in their eyes, use every
means in the world to convey the i'm
preston that they are short-sighted.-
If prickly heat should come in fashion
-and why not as well as weak eyes?-
we should have a chance of being a
leader of the ton.
Why is it that the people will not be
more natural in their conduct and be-
havior? There is great lack of integ-
rity appearing in the world always in
disguise. Literary men, who have been
thoroughly enjoying themselves over a
new book in their studios, sometimes
make it point of appearing in society
and particularly where there are ladies
with languid and exhausted air, as
though the labors of their minds had
been too much for their delicate frames.
The fashionable affectation of the cler-
gymen is bronchitis, or delicate lungs;
the cure, a subscription from the con-
gregation, and the tour of Europe
Many young ladies, in excellent voice
and health, wh9 go to party, bent on
singing, always have cold when asked
to enchant our ears. The best cure Of
such stupid affectation is to make point
of never asking one of these ladies
second time, but affect to have a deep
sympathy for her sufferings. The next
time she comes to your house, she will
leave her cold behind her in the ice-box
at home. Painting was very fashiona-
bic among ladies at one time, but it is
some time since we have seen it
practised. The sudden appearance of
spider, or any harmless animal of
that kind, would bring on fit, in COM
pany: but we have seen one of these
ladies, on the sly, amuse herself by
putting flies to a SPIDERS web, in order
to enjoy the fight between the two
Ladies know very well that. the de-
pendent condition of woman upon the
strength and manhood of the sterner
sex, is one Of the attributes we all love:
but great many viii make the mistake
of exhibiting this dependence, by pro-
Tossing physical weakness. This IS
great mistake. 1t is the deferential
learning of the mind and heart upon
mans frmness and courage, that is the
beauty we admire.
We do not want a woman who is
constantly complaining of being sick, to
win our sympathy-who is constantly
on the brink of despair, or continually
trumbling into faint Sal volatile and
burnt rags are the best remedies in such
cases; and true man will keep his af-
fection for more becoming occasions.
Young ladies, too, who like to be
kissed, often make great fuss about it.
We have no patience with this kind Of
affectation. We have read an aneedote
within a day or two, somewhere, but
where we don't remember, of lover
who attempted to kiss his sweetheart,
but she said don't and he naively says
he dom ted He served her right.
Eg The Memphis Wing has the fol-
lowing:
DEsERrED.-The pilot Of the St.
Nicholas reports but one steamboat at
the levee at New Orleans when they
left there. By this he did not mean
that there was only one boat there bound
for st. Louis, or the Ohio river, but
that there was only enc steamboat at the
levee bound for any port, which was
the Dresden. In an experience of over
twenty years in the trade he had never
seen the Ike before, even in years when
the yellow fever ragged with almost ten
fold more fatality than at present. On
their trip up they met some four or five
bound down, all of which will probably
hurry away from there as rapidly as
possible.