New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1853-12-28


gleved hands, melting signs from under Fash
ions white wastcoats; tender glanccs from
Fashions double barrelled lorgnettes; lisps Of
praise from Fashions moustachoed lips when
the wearers of those dresses acted, and sang, aud
danced on Fashions great chalked stage-upon
that stage where there more sinks and rises,
more drops, flats, borders, set pieces, wings, and
floats; where there more changes OF scene,
more going down graves and vampire traps
where there are more music, dancing, gay
clothes, red and white paint, hollow hearts ana
masks for them 10 wear, than you would find on
the stage Of the largest playhouse in the world.
Suspendsa and recumbent, folded up, stretched
out, singiy aud in heaps, in Mrs. Brummus's
bird-cage shop, in dimly distant erypts, and
| parlors, and cranniss, and cupboards, and lurn-
berng old presses, ana groaning shelves, are the
crimson velvet dresses q auehesses the lace that
queens have worn, our graadmothers brocade
| sacks and hoops and high healed shoes, fans,
| feathers, silk stockings, lace pocket handker
Chiefs scent bottles the Brussels lace veil Of the
bride, the sable bombazine Of the widow, en-
broidered parasols, black velvet mantless pink
satin slips; blue kid, purple prunella, or white
satin shoes; leg of mutton, bishop, Mameuks
/ sleeves robes without bodies, and bodies with
| out robes, and sleeves without either; the ma
irons apron and the opera dancers skirt Here
is Fashion in undress, without its whalebone,
crenoline, false hair, paint, and pearl powder;
here she is tawdy, tarnished, helpless, iners,
| disloeated, like Mr. Punch's company in the deal
box he carries strapped behind his back.
If there be article Of commerce which
Fashion delights in more than another, 1t is
. Lace The rich products Of Mechlin, Vacn-
ciennes, Brussels and Liege; the scarcely less
!. valuable wares Of Nottingham and Honiton;
/ the almost priceless remnants Of "old point
"beggars lace''-the lace that Henrietta Maria
loved to wear and Vandyck to paint. Net one,
! therefore, of Mrs Brummuss tattered morssls
ID Of lace but has its history and its moral Here
. is the veil in which poor Clara Rackleton was
4 married to Captain Middleman. They had
o grand estate (grandly encumbered) at Bally-
Ie ragget, in the County Galway. Charley Mid
It dleman kept hounds and open houses; and his
II widow lives now in a boarding house at Tours
d with her two daughters. Clara's Brussels lace
It veil was not sold by the ladys maid nor by the
le bride herself 1t neither lost stolen, but
N Captain Middleman, formerly of the twenty
se 9Th Hussars, privately conveyed Mrs. Middle
A. mans veil, together with two ostrich feathers
10 and carved ivory Chinese fan, to Mrs. Brsia-
-d mus's emporium. He drove the bargain, he
n pocketed the money, and he lost that same mo-
es ney half an-hour afterward at chicken hazard,
n | at the Little Nick near Leicester Square.
he A wedding dress-all white satin, lace, and
~ silver sprigs Methinks can see it now, glist
epinp and sparkling in the August sun, and rust
be ling and crumpling in the August air, IS, at
or the close of the London season, its beautiful
ol wearer jescends that ugy, little narrow stair
Ic case which has been ladder OF delight to
y 80 many, ria dolorosa to 30 macy moro, and
n. which leads from the vestry Of St. Georges
as Mano,s~ Souara into Maddox street The
or hanover square, in.o s.euJA ss M H. .hhr
ler Weafer OF tne saun ufe1c ., SoA.1e NV" se
Oh, steps weddea Drius. ons To,st.o - rnvn,
an bridesmaids in white have wept at the res
de ponses Two have tainted, and one has been car
nd | ried INTO tne sestry, W pe pa, wa
ion nervous ciefgy man mas "a. .sor tavs ,h;s
put expec.ant as, Us iaJna ,;ss ~ Tbs br;derroom
St- man W po .ny "e i..It., ,sn.r,-
q mas been seizeu Win INC us"@. "e'"ty Pee
ot baton, and offers to place the ring on the hnsef
wn of the pew-opener; and the clerk, while gravey
nod correcting the errors of all parties, has viewe
any anthropy At last, somehow or other, tns
ey. right man has married the right women I'M
,eet pew opener and beade have been feed and ti'
wei verger remembered; the clergyman has had "
hat rights and the clerk his dues. The License ma:
You been conned over the register has been sgnee
iyet by the bridegroom in character meant
skin be very valiant and decided, but IN reant
ould very timorous and indistlnct the nriae VII
old no pretence or compromise out In SIMPLY In
hat beetle and hysterical manner; ey tne iatner
ues. the bride in a neat hand should IKE 70 see
rth, the bottom Of chequei and py pig Ieners
IS Of Gwalyor OF the Indian army S.ne auelloh' .a
lid witness) IN nerce mhntary m,nn1.' III, "i.n
the dash at the end ike an oa.n: Ahe n'ee W,
ness have shouted, and the wedding carriage, wit
and its crimson vested postooys anu spahkihs gIey
wall has clattered up; the policemen nave put aow
the | an imaginary riot, throatene" wis', ~
ests, the crowd generally, and menacea with alre
POOR, one individual lamp-pos ana thea, sIuhln
arty out like star among the shver iavors al
will orange flowers, the snowy dresses anu piaS ',
book dress coats, the smiles and tears comes
nke bride: God bless her Is there slsu' hn; lne
ing's beautiful under heaven tnan young or,'
hion, coming out of church Can you icrge1 en-, !
!, out John Sucklings beautiful lines IN ms paii'
- upon wedding! .-
- "Her feet beneath her retticoat
.h Like little i mice &c , stole IN IN ana, ana QUIZ
nm .hen MI sRe dances such wsy.
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