Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1857-09-11
NOTHING TO WEAR" "

! The end Of the nose portentously tipped up,
And 10th the bright eyes shot forth Indignation,
And she burst upon with fierce exclamation,
II have it three times at the least calculation,
And that and the most OF my dresses ripped up"
Here riprci ost something, perhaps rather rash,
/ Quite innocent, though; but to expression
More striking than classic, it settled my hash.'
And proved very soon the last act ofo session.
..FiidIe.t!cks is it, sir! wonder the ceiling
Doesn't .. down and crush you-Oyou men have no feei
ing.
You selfish. unnatural, nlberal creatures,
Who set yourselves up patterns and preachers.
Your silly prrtguse-wi.y what a mere guess it isl
Pray, what 10 YOU know of wOmau's necessiiesf
have told you and shown you Tsc NOTHING To WEAR;
And its crfectly plain you not only don't care,
But you don me- here the vent still higher
Il suppose if you dared you would call me . liar.
our engagement is ended, Sir-yes, on the spot;
You're brute, and monster, and-1 don't know what
l mildly suggested the wori--"liottentot,
Pickpocke;, and caunihal, Tartar, and thief"
As gentle expletiy"s which might give relief;
But this only proved : spark to the powder,
And the storm had raised came faster and louder,
II blew and raine1, thunjercd lghteuei and hailed
Interer;ons, verbs rronouns till Language quite failed
To express the abusive and then its arrears
Were brought up all at once by torrent of tears,
And my last faint. dcsparing attempt, at an obs
Ervation was los; in tempest of sobs.
Well I felt for the lady, and felt for my hat too,
Improvs-d on the crown Of the latter tattoo,
In lieu Of expressing the feelings Which lay
Quite too deep for words, Wordsworth would say;
Then, without going through the form Of bow,
Found myself in the entry-I hardly knew how
On door step and sidewalk, past lampp and square,
At home and up stairs, in my own easy chair;
Pokcd my feet into slippers, my fire into blaze,
And said to ny self, as lit my cigar,
'.Supposing man had the wealth Of Car
oftbe Russias TO boot, for the rest of his days,
On the whole you think he would have much to spare
II he married a with nothing to wear!'
Since tina. taking pains that should not be bruted
Abroad in society, I've instituted
A course Of inquiry, extensive and thorough,
On this vital subject and find, To my horror,
That the Fora's is by means surprising,
But that there exists the greatest distress
In our female community, solely arising
From this unsuIplicd dcsttution Of dress,
Whose unfortunate victims filling the air
With the pitiiul wall of Nothing to wear
Researches in of the "uppcr Ten" districts
Reveal the mos, painful and startling statistics,
OF which let mention only a few:
In one single house, on the Fifth Avenue,
Three Young ladies found all below twenty two
Who have been three whole without any thing
In the way founced silks and thus left in the lurch
Are unable to 90 bali, concert, or church.
In another large mansion, near the same place,
Was found a depIoTable. hear trending case
OF entire dcstitu.ion Of Brussels point lace.
In neighboring block there found, in three calls,
Total want, long continued, Of cameis-ha shawls;
Aud a suffering family. whose exhibits
The most pressing need OF real ermine uppets;
One deserving young lady, almost unable
To survive for the want Of a new Russian sable;
Another confined to the house when its windier
Than usual, because her shawl isn't India
Still another whose tortures have been most terrific
Ever since the sad loss of the steamer IszJde,
In which were engulfet not friend or relation,
For fate she perhaps might have found
Or born. it, at least, " iih serene resgnaiion)
choicest assortment ofFrcnch sleeves and collars
Ever from Paris worth thousands Of dollars
And all as to style most recherche and rare,
The want which leaves her with nothing to wear,
And renders her life so drear and dyspeptic
That she's quite a rccIuse, ana aiurv>. -.r.;-
For she tnurhingly says that this sort ofgrief
Can not find in Religion the slightest relief,
And Philosophy las nota maxim to spare
For the victims Of such overwhelming despair
But the sadi.st by far Of all these sad features
Is the cruelty rractced upon the poor creatures
Nv husbands and fathers real Biuebcarjs and Timons,
ko resist the touching appeals made for diamonds
y their wives and their andieave them for
Unsupplitd with j-welry, fans or boluets,
Even Laugh their miseries when they have chance
And deii!e their dema nds useless extravaganza;
One case Of bride was brough, To my view,
Too sad tor belief but alas, twas too true,
who.e husband refused, as savage asCharon,
To permit her to take than trunks to Sharon
The consequence was, that when she got there,
At the end Of three weeks she had Nothing to wear,
And when she proposed to finish the season
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