Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1857-1858, 1857-08-25
Another HOOp-Hubbub-A Lady in Dis
tress-A CrinOIine Hero.

ITess--A CrinOline Hero.
A day or two ago, lady, dressed very elegant
Is, aud in the extreme Of the mode, IS descend
Ing the steps Of the Post Office when her foot Slip
pee, and she fell, breaking OF her hoops, whose
fragments chung to her limbs that she could not
rise
The predicament of the lady may be imagined,
but could hardly be pen-painted, without tresp,s-
sing upon the descriptive domain of Brantome
d., los.
She made numerous efforts to regain her feet,
but all to no purpose. There she was, in a most
ungracelui and unpleasant position he dark ring
lets falling over her face, and hiding her bushes,
and her little CATERS making Intellectual endeav-
20 tx their heaveu-tending soles once more
earth.
This position, at an hour of the morning when
hundreds of our citizens going and coming from
the Office, was not the most agreeable. Gentleman
after gentleman stopped to relieve the lady, or,
baps, to crafty feminine curiosity but she
ed her hand, aud enlreated them TO let her alone
earnestly that they all passed
moment WAS an age, under the circumstances.
What could be done to rescue the subverted crinO-
line and its contents ?thatEometh thing must be,
certain. The farce was likely to b. come a tragedy,
for the damsel from silence and mploring, had be-
gun TO weep-had grown superEtively nervous and
even waspsh. She even uttered several small
screams whenever any one approached her. and
commenced to throw out her feet much alter the
fashion OF trained kicker, by means beautitying
the folds Of her drapery, which began TO be ser-
ousy dsarranged before her vigorous action.
Almost every gentleman attempted &c aid her,
but she would not be aided, and a kick flutter of
crinolne and a scream, were the inevitable effects
OF any such charitable endeaVoT
By this time she was weeping copiously, and hal
crazad with modification, grief, and sorr0w Her
situation demanded hero; some dauntless fellow,
like Swedish Charles, who would storm fort alone,
or contend with host sing demanded. Such beings
are rare and as lord after lord of creation passed.
indig IF he
But ne did come. He the difficulty and the
peril, and determined, all great military geniuses
do, to conquer then at once.
Kicks aud screams did not discourage him, he
rushed upon the lady where she lay all awry, stoop
ed and picked her up-she screaming vociterously,
aud resembling Pythoness, her eyes flashing fire
through her tears, her locks disheyeed, aud her
face burning with the intensity OF opposite feelIug7
Wild from her mishap and its consequences, she
struck the gentleman upon the face, aud tried 10
ran her taper glove-fngers in his eyes. She kick
ed TOO, like spoiled child, but he bore her down
the steps, without Incidents, that SIZE expelled
the breath from pOrtly banker with one Of her
CATERS, and destroyed the equilibrium OF a we'll
known attorney by bringing tue other pedal *
tremity against his knees, causing him to roll over
and over until he reached the pavement.
CROWD had gathered by this time. aud the hero
o. the crnollne bore the lady away aud placed Der
IN a carriage standing on Fourth street, shut the
door, and told the driver to hurry forward.
The whip cracked the horses started, the lady
screamed and sank into one corner OF the vehicl',
the crowd laughed, the hero smiled grimy, and J.,
with damaged toilette, walked rapidly away.
number OF fragments OF whale-bone, a part of
boot-acer the heel OF an unexcy ptionable CATER
bracelet and an OdOr of miYe-peurs were all that
was left TO sh Ow where the criuOine went down in
the presence OF the plying aud sympathzing ma
ny, Of whom but one had heart to tempt the dan
gerous sea, lashed into fury by a wOmaus crinoline
mishap.
IL. r. ~, .E.fi-
collected can be at this office by the friend:
of the late Miss -, the curious ia crinoline, anC
those interested 10 the cause of hoops that Won'
explode.-CiR. Gazette.