Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1857-11-26
CONTRADICTION.

"a cold, clear evening, this; Oh, how
beautiful the slaB jem tie sky" was 70.
marked the other night a little after sun.
set, by miss Of about seventeen summers
to one whose magRus corpus was about
three times her own size. The sentence
uttered sounded on my ear sweet AZ the
fairy tones OF the KoTan harp, and be.
fore l was aware. - if by magic struck. |
iound myself near the ladies in question,
when ! caught up the sentence: dWell, /
really 6elieUe that the remark is becoming
proverblal, that Carrollton has haudsomer
girls than most other county towns" And
then the dear little thing gave such an ap-
probatiye move Of the body and airy toss
OF the head, that really feared for her
safety. That sentence and that movement
was enough: l felt that | was 'sold2 and
IN short time | found myself quietly seat.
ed 70 my room, soliloquizing as follows:
Why Is it that among our ladies We find
so little interest manifested inrsgard to
matters pertaining to the uUte useful and
imPortant coneePsp po6 lifei Why are
they seemingly g we'd stkGed to make
20 olhey eYe'nops than mainly to keep
pace With ,ne Bedu Moade5 What were
the tfGIts Of our last Fair, o. TIE part Of
our young ladies? Was there fruitful
exhiNdop ip the culinary mt9 Iu the
useful domestic RaAnihctoryl Or in any
thing that would have indicated to the eye
of the observing stranger, that we have
goodly number Of that high order Of ma
ture, woithyof the name woMANl True,
we must confess that the fashion of the
Princess Of France was well exhibited;
and We wonder not that the young ladies'
department was deficient, if their expan.
sionists were manufactured at home. /
congratulate our young ladies in their won
deriul, grand and successful display of
rouge, gew-gaws squirms, flrts and hoops.
No longer ago than last Saturday night
my sympathies were wrought to their high.
est pitch Of feeling and indign alton, as We
witnessed one to whom is intrusted the fu.
ture destinies of our youth, little fellow,
who, while yielding the pavement fer two
or three uncouth like beings to pass, was
unceremoniously knocked three or four
feet below into the ditch at Tolan's bridge,
by coming in contact with one of the Ia
dies hoops. "Poor fellow" exclaimed
one. "you have muddied him." ala!
bal bal" bavled out the big, double-bus-
lied, fifteen feet crinoined daInseIi "lts
like the old woman's grease, twill all rub
Oft again" Now, are such and similar in
dlgnities to 60 unpunishedl Is there no
redress! We say there nsuStbe are-dresS
and a taking down of these suspensions
andlinhumaG expansions 80 5E
While thus soliloquizing, my thoughts
turned to some of the "young bloods"
about town. From whstl have heard of
some OF them and their actions Of late, /
wonder if they are really going to turn the
Patton House into a hotel deUitlaaDd total
" follow French customs. | understand
that the cooks, at that establishment, have
been much troubled, Of late, in serving up
breakfast to these gents fIom the hours Of
8 to l05 o'clock a. m. Some of thom,
indeed, are fine specimens of batchelol
dandies. If we wanted to make Barnun
a present, by which he might recover BIZ
lost fortune, we could not desire bette
present than Gagged pair, made up 0
some one of these hotel gents and one u
our flirting crinoline expansionists. l thin
they would surpass Barnum's babies ana
make a fruitful scene for the gaze Of sucl
as love to spend picayune to see sights
DIsGUsTEBUs.