Marshall County Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1855-1859, 1856-05-15

calliS ulEllef, anu nN my III SOito Va 0i'ii
potato family cares off their minds. Lord
bless you-thc men know nothing at all
about it! Many ladies say they don't like
such publicity Very likely, but only
speak of what I've seen.
A pretty girl at q hotel-table can gener-
ally reckon, without firing very wide of the
mark, that she's making a good many
hearts so bumpity- bump, and setting
good many minds to queer music:
the general tune being the Roguc's March
with greater or less variations. A pretty
woman is something like a writer. Nature
/ does most for her art good deal, and be-
tween the two she turns out work for the
world TO look at and cilicise. | once heard
literary friend of Mr. Clark, of the knick
erbocker, tell that gentleman that the pleas
ATTEST hour he ever spent in his life was i'll
the cars of the Camden and Amboy II. II.
! G.. Il was sitting said he, 'in one seat
and just in front of me was a young lady,
a stranger to me, reading my last book
Sometimes she laughed till her friends
laughed to see her, sometimes she read
passages aloud that pleased her; all the
while she kept praising ito, Lord.'
Now pretty woman at hotel-table
may be perfectly certain that she is just as
well off, far as pleasing folks goes, as
the literary gentleman spoke of was, when
he was in the cars. Yes, and better, for
he only had one admirer, while she prob
ably has dozen-may-be a couple of
score.
There are people to be seen at every ho
tcltable who | really believe are never to be
found anywhere else in the world, except
occasionally in the dark corners of the OPP
era. Leastways | never found 'em. There
was such character near me to-day. Any
sensible man with such face would have
washed it in aquafortis and had it kicked
by young horse, for nothing shorter
would have changed it much, and any
change would have improved it. His eyes
were great starting balls of prim vulgari!y
jumping out from under Il lot of bristles
like II wildcat out of Il pig pen. His COM
plcxion looked as if it had been made Of
the hardest and toughest kind of folds,
which had been rubbed, and yunckW and
schranchcd down into shape like a twist of
clothes IL a scrubbing machine. 1t was
+, easy to SEQ that before Nature got that
face into shape her fingers slipped more than
once, and that to hide her ugly work, she
= made up$o it, rs some painters do, by Il
- little extra richness OF colorin@, for the
. whole affair looked rs if it had been pretty
q well soaked in bad brandy, dried over a
mock auction stove, and rubbed down with
h a sweat cloth But the real horror of the
: man was his hair, which seemed to have
q been skinned from some unknown animal
u that had been scared to death for the pur-
: pose. Altogether his look was that of /;
4 man who had been touched off by gal
: vanic battery, and had been frozen stiff a
Il the same moment. a midshipman, whG
sat near, said aftcrward, in talking about
e him, that he looked like the devil, and ate
V like hog. So he did. Well, 'sposc he's
If had his sweet hearts in his time, like othel
e folks.
&c Though I'm not particularly bright my
y self in the matter of dandyism, never hay
p ing been able to bring it beyond passing
IS pretty well in most crowds, I've alway.
lt taken a great interest in those old an,
vouny fellows who have natural Gift tha
ID way. TO be a dandy man s got to be borl
le so. Money won't make one, Il tailor can
,r bcgin TO make one. a real drcsser-a fel
= low who contrlvcs to give you the idea tha
ID his genius is all over him outside, mus
IS have outside genius; and genius, whcthe
re it strikes out or in, is notHroi and can't b.
'p come by. The dapdies, inmy opinion, ar
IN Il greatly abused and slandcrc1 race. / sa,
'h so because I've seen lots of men with al
IN sorts Ct inside gcnus-grcat flnanclcrs
X great editors, great orators and grca
I'd prcachcrs-wbo tried all their lives long (,
y DC dandios, and couldn't begin to do it
er BY n dandy, | don't mean man VIII,
lie dresses in extravagant style, but rather on,
lc who takes you down by the general i'm
ne prcssiveness of his outside arrangements
L. There is one of that sort whom | see ever,
H. day about town, and sometimes at our ho
rs tel-tablc. He wears an old coat as offer
IN rs Il new one-somctimes he has on patch
ir cd boots-sometime hat that used TO b,
v new. But put him in any crowd yo,
j. choose, somehow or other you'd alwav.
e pick him out rs holding four aces and
e king, as far as rig and style so. He's on
in Of the daudies for whom | have a respect
" About once III fifteen years new sor
of dandy turns up, just as in about til,