The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1857-09-08
ANOTHER HOoP-HUBBUB.


4 Lady in Distress-C rinoline Hero.
A day or two ago, lady, dressed very
elegantly, and i'll the extreme of the mode,
was ascending the steps of the office,
when her foot slipped, and she fell, break
ing two of her hoops, whose fragments so
chung to her limbs that she could not rise.
The predicament of the lady may be i'm
agined but could hardly be pen-painted
without trespassing upon the descriptive
domain of Brantom or Duclos.
She made numerous efforts to regain her
feet, but all to no purpose. There she was,
in a most ungraceful and unpleasant posi-
ton her dark ringlets falling over her
face, and hiding her bushes, and her little
CATERS making Intellectual epdeavors to fix
their heaven-tending soles once more on
earth.
This position, at an hour of the morning
when hundreds of our citizens are going and
coming from the Office, was not the most
agreeable. Gentleman after gentleman
stopped to relieve the lady, or, perhaps, to
crafty feminine curiosity; but she waved
her hand, and entreated them to let her
alone so earnestly that they all passed on.
A moment was an age, under the circum
stances What could be done to rescue the
subverted crinoline, and its contents .
that something must be, was certain. The
farce was likely to become tragedy, for
the damsel, from silence and imploring, had
begun to weep-had grown superlatvely
nervous. and even waspish. She even ut
tered several small screams whenever any
one approached her, and commenced to
throw out her feet much after the fashion of
a trained kicker. by no means identifying
the folds Of her drapery, which began to be
seriously disarranged before her vigorous
action.
Almost every gentleman attempted to aid
her, but she would not be aided, and a kick,
a flutter of crinoline, and q scream were
the inevitable effects of any such charita-
BILE epdeavor.
By this time she was weeping oopiously,
and half crazed with modification, grief
and sorrow. Her situation demanded a
hero; some dauntless fellow, like Swedish
Charles, who would storm fort, or con-
tend with host single handed. Such be-
ings are rare, and as lord after lord of Gre
alton passed there appeared no indication
of tie ''cOming man."
But he did come. He saw the difficulty
and the peril, and determined, as all great
military geniuses do, to conquer them at
once.
Kicks and screams did not discourage
him, he rushed upon the lady where she lay
all awry, stopped and picked her up-she
screaming vociferously, and resembling q
Pythoness, her eyes flashing fire through
her tears, her locks disheveled, and her
face burning with the intensity of opposite
feelings.
Wild from her mishap and its consequent
ces, she struck the gentleman upon the
face, and tried to run her taper glove fin
gers in his eyes. She kicked, too, like a
spoiled child, but he bere her down the
steps, without Incidents saved that she ex-
PEELED the breath from portly banker with
one of her CATERS, and destroyed the equili-
brium of we'll known attorney by bringing
the other pedal extremity against his knees.
causing him to roll over until he reached
the pavement.
A crowd had gathered by this time. and
the hero of the crinoline bore the lady away
and placed her in 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 vehicle. the crowd laughed, the hero
smiled grimly, and, with damaged toilette.
walked rapidly away.
A number of fragments of whalebone, a
part of boot LAGER, the heel of an unexcep-
tionatle gaiter, bracelet and an odor of
milk. fuers were all that was left to show
where the crinGline went down in the pres
ence of the pitying and sympathising many.
of whom but one had heart to tempt the
dangerous sea, dashed into fury by wo-
mans crinoiine mishap.
A few of the fragments of the wreck.
carefully collected, can be seen at this of
fee by the friends of the late Miss --.
the curious in crinoline, and those interest
ed in the cause of hoops that won't explode