The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1857-06-24

Doctor is now AZ years Of age, as beard
less as a youth of l6-of slender mAks,
erect form, light skin, blue eyes, hue au'
burn hair, cut short--dresses in reapeot-
able style, aud talks fuently on all top.
les which generally engage the attention
of men. Her dress copsists Of shirt, .
collar and neck.tie, calf boots. . blue
frock coat, figured vest, and coduroy
pants, and with fur hat and gloves, shs
makes quite genteel appearance, and
often receives very meaning gianos
from strange ladies. Her character Tor
chastity is spotless and improsohsbls.
We inquired Of the Doctor her reasons
for not dressing in female attire, and On.
gaging in female employment. The re-
ply was that male costume and out Of
door employments were much more
congenial with her feelings, and accord
ed better with her notions Of health and
longevity, She said it was matter OK
choice with her, and that it was clearly
within the circle Of her rights, to dress
and work how and where she pleased.
She held herself responsible only to her
maker for the rectitude Of her coufss.
We hurled few jokes at her relative 70.
marrying wife and setting up hauss-
keeping. She parried them of wittiiy,
and gloried in her freedom and sisgle
blessedness" The Doctor is compe-
tent Judge of property, Of which she owns
fair share, has an eye for good horse,
aud is an admier of fancy sheep, and cat
tie. She is a republican, and takes
special interest in the great battle now
being fought between Universal Free
dom, and American Slavery Her voice
is fine and soft, and her delicate hands
and tapery fingers, so genteclly formed.
clearly betray the sex to which they
belong. Her weight is about lis lbs.
(avoirdupois.) Altogether we never
before met with so singular porsonass.
Once we heard lady say living in the
west, that sho often regretted that che
was not a man, aud gave at once her
reasons for the desire, but we never BE-
fore met a female who in spite OF her
sex, resolved to reverse the lava
of custom, and to oil intents and
purposes so far as dress avocations and
company was concerned, set up to os "
man.
One drawback on the Doctors repu-
tation in our view is that she is an in.
veterate tobacco chewer, and delights in
squirting its JUICE at all such targets ~
appear to her to need coloring and var
nishing. 1t is reported that she onos
offered her hand to lady in marriage,
and was accepted. The marriage prov.
ed to be an unfruitful one, and was final
ly dissolved by mutual agreement. The
Doctor contradicts the report and eou-
siders it slander upon her fair fame.
From habit, or natural disposition.
she prefers the society of men to that Of
women, (though in this respect ws are
slow to perceive that her constitutional
make differs from most other ladies' and
is generally found with The men engaged
in work, or conversation upon farm-tsp-
les, or the current news of the day.
1t is a universal custom here espes-
tally among the middle and lower clas
ses of females, to use scotch snuff, ss
men in New England use tobacco. u 10
taken into the mouth or rubbed upos
the teeth, and it is habit that attaches
to nearly every family. If the Store
keeper in the town runs out, the whole
female population are nearly crazy, I'M
til be is supplied again with several bar.
rels of scotch snuff Doctor Niblock
does not bother with chewing snuff she
prefers to draw forth the plug aud nice.
ly cut and shape her quid with her knifs
and do as other Doctors dove have
confidence in the Doctors judgement ID
matters of this kind.
s. B. ROCKWELL.