The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1857-05-09

Ard It's perfectly plain you not On ly don care,
But YOU do not believe me-" there the nose went
81 suppose If you dared you would call me liar
Our engagement Is ended sir--yes, on the spot;
You re brute, and monster, and i don't know
what"
mildly suggested the words--Hotientot,
Pickpocket, and cannibal, Tartar and thief,
Az gentle expietives which might give relief
But this only proved as spark to the powder,
And the storm had raised came faster and louder,
1t blew and 1t rained, thundered, lighsened and
Interjecions, verbs, pronouns till language quite
failed
To express the abusive, and then Its arrears
Were brought up all Al once by torrent Of tears,
And my last faslt Departing attempt at An obs
Eryation lost in q tempest Of sobs.
WOULD HKs
Well felt for tbs lady and felt for my hat, too,
Improyised on the top Of the latter tattoo,
In lieu Of expressing the feelings which lay
Quite too deep for words, as Wordsworth would
say;
Then without going through the form of bow,
Pound myself in the entry hardly knew how
On doorstep and side walk, past lamp post and
square,
At home and up stairs in my own easy chair;
Poked my feet into slipper, my fire into blaze,
And said TO myself, as / liz my cigar,
Surprising man had the wealth Of the CIar
OF the Russias to boot, for the rest If his days,
On The whole do you think he would have.@uch 10
III he married woman with nothing to wcarf
INTERESTING STATISTICS.
Since that night taking pains that 1t should not lie
bruited
Abroad in society, have instituted
A course of inquiry, extensive and thorough,
TN this vital subject, and find to my horror,
That the fair Floras case is by no means sur
prising.
But that there exists the greatest distress
In female immunity, solely arising
From this unsupplied restitution Of dress
Whose unfortunate victims ire hlling the air
With the pitiful wall of "Nothing to wearn'
Researches in some Of the Upper Ten" districts
Reveal the most painful and startling statistics,
OF which let me mention only afew
In one single house on the Fifth Avenue,
Three young ladies were found, all below twenty
two,
Who have been three whole weeks without an thing
In the way of hounced silks, and thus left in the
lurch
Are unable to 90 to ball, concert or church
In another large mansion near the same place
Was found q dcpIorabie, heaftrendlng case
OF entire drstitu.ion Of Brussels point lace.
In a neigh boring block there found, in three
calls,
Total want long continued, Of camels' hair
shawls;
And y suffering family, whose case exhibits
The most pressing need Of real ermiue tippits
One deserving young lady almost unable
E n
Another confined TO the house when it's wndier
Than usual, because her shawl isn't India
Stll another, whose misfortun,s have been mos,
terrific
Ever since tn. sad loss Of the steamer Pacific
/ La which were enguipLed not friend or relation,
For whose fate she perhaps might have found con.
ISOLATION,
Or borne it, at least, with serene resirnation,)
But the choicest ssortmsnt Of French sleeves and
coilars,
I Ever sent out from Paris worth thousands of dol
lars,
/ And all as TO styles, most REeHERcHE and rare,
! The want Of which leaves her with nothing Il
wear,
I And renders her life so drear and dyxpeptic
! That she's quite rectase, Aud almost . skeptic
for she touchingiy snys than this Mind of grief
Cannot hud In religion the slightest re.ief
And Phi losophy has not maxim To spsre
For the victims Of such oyerwhe mir despair.
/ But the saddest by lar OF all these sad features
/ IL the cruelty practiced upon the poor creatures
! by hus bands and fathers, real Biuebcards and I'll
mons.
Who resist the most touching appeals made for dia
monds
by their wives and their dang hters and leave then
for days
! Unsupplisd with ne " Jewelry, fans or boQuets.
Even laugh at their miseries whenever they have
chance,
And deride their demand, as useless ex,raya
ganee
CASE OF A BRIDE.
One case of bride was brought TO my view
Too sad for belief but alas twas too true,
/ W hose usband refused, as savage as Charon,
! To permit her 10 take more than ten trunks 4
sharon.
! This consequence was, that when she got there,
At the eud Of three weeks she had nothing 4
And when abe proposed to finish the season
At Newport, the monster refused out and out.
For his Infamous conduct alleging reason,
H.. - L.. ysaIl e. -
such treatment a. this was too shocking Of course
And proceedings are now going on for divorce.
AprKAL TO THE FRIENDS OF wosAs.
But Why harrow the feelings by lifting the curtain
From these scenes Of woe Enough, it is certain
Has here been diselosed to stir up the pity
Of every benevolent heart in the city,
| And spur up Humanity into q canter,
To rush ana relieve these sad cases instanter
Won't somebody, moved by this touching descrir
tlon,
Come forward Tomorrow, and head Q subscrir
tion
80 needed a, by these ind gent ladies',
Take charge Of this natter or won't Peter Coon,
! The cornerstone lay of some splendid super
Structure like that which to-day links his name
In the union unending If honor and fame:
And found new charity just for the care
OF these unhappy women with nothing to wear
hich, IN view Of The cash would daily be elaine.
The Laying-oat Hospital we'll might be namedp
Won't stewart, OF some of our dry goods iu por
Take contract for clothing cur wives and OF
daughterl
Or 10 furnish the cash to supply these dstresse.
And lite's pathway strsw with shawis, collars an
dresses,
Ere the want Of them IL akes 1t much rousher an
tlarnier,
Won't some one discover new California?
IwPERTNEsr.
: ladies, dear ladies, the next sunny day
Please trundie your hops just out Of Broad v O.
From its whirl and its hustle, its fashion ai
pride,
And the temples of Trade which towor on eas
To the alleys and lanes, where Misfortune al
; Guilt
Their children have gathered, their city have bull
Where Hunger and Vice, like twin beasts of pre-
Have hunted their victims 10 gloom and des rsir
Raise the rich, dainty dress, and the fine 'broder,
r skirt,
Pick yonr delicate way through the dampness a,
dirt,
Crepe throu Oh the dark dens, climb the ricke
To garrsts where the wretches, the young and Il
old,
iialf starved and half naked, lie, erouched fro
the cold.
? see those skeleton limbs those frost-bitt,n feet
All bleeding and bruised from the stoAcs If Il
Hear the sharp cry II childhood, the deep groa
that swell
a From the Poor dying creature who writhes nm n
floor,
Hear the curses that sound like the echoes Of lie
A. you sicken and shudder, and fly from the doc
Then home your wardrobes, and say III You dare
= spoiled children of Fashion--yuu'ye nothing
wear
9 And oh, II perchance there should be sphere.
Who're MI Is made right which SO puzzles Us her
Mhere The glare and tho glitter, and tinsei Of Tin
Fade and die IN the light u that region ublim
" here the soul, dsenehanisd Of hesh and Of sen.