Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1857-09-04

m ANOTHER HOOP UBBUB-A LADY IN DIsTREss-A
CRINoI.INE HERo-A day or two ago, a lady, dressed
very elegantly and in the extreme OF the mode was de-
scendng the steps of the postoce when her foot slip
ped and she fell breaking two of her hoops whose fra-
ments SO chung to her limbs that she could not rise
The predicament of the lady may be imagined, but
could hardly be penpanted 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 most ungraceul and
unpleasant position her dark ringets falling over her
face and hiding her bushes and her little CATERS making
Intellectual endeavors to fix their heavetending soes
once more on earth.
This position, at an hour of the morning when hun
dreds of our citizens are going and coming from the Of
fee was not the most agreeable Gentleman after gen
tema stopped to relieve the lady, Or perhaps to crafty
feminine curiosity but she waved her hand and en-
treated them to let her alone earnestly that they all
passed on.
A moment was an age under the circumstances
What could be done to rescue the subverted crinone
and its contents THAT something must be, certain
The farce likely to become tragedy, for the damse
from silence and imploring, had begun to Weep-had
grown superatively nervous, and even WaSplSh. She
even uttered several small whenever any one APP
preached her. and commenced to throw out her feet much
after the fashion of trained kicker, by means beau
ying the folds of her drapery, which began to be Sc
riously dsarranged before her vigorous action.
Almost every gentleman attempted to aid her, but she
would not be aided and kick futter of crinone, and
scream the inevitable effects of any such charta
BILE endeavor.
By this time she was weeping copiously, and hall
craZed with notification grief and SORROW Her sltua
ton demanded hero some dauntess fellow, like Sweed
sh Charles, who would storm fort alone, contend
with host sngle-handed Such beings rare, and
lord after lord of creation passed. there appeared no ind
cation of the coming man.
But he did come He saw the difficulty and the peril
and determined all great military geniuses do to con
quer them at once.
Kicks and screams did not discourage him, he rush
ed upon the lady where she lay all awry stopped and
picked her up-she screaming vociferously and resem
bling a PythOness, her eyes flashing fire through
her tears her locks dsheveed and her face burning with
the intensity of opposite feelings.
Wild from her mishap and its consequences she struck
the gentleman upon the face and tried to run her taper
glove-fneers in his eyes, She kicked too like spoiled
saved that she expelled the breath from pory banker
with of her CATERS and destroyed the equilibrium
well known attorney by bringing the other pedal
extremity against his knees causing him to roll
til he reached the pavement.
A crowd had gathered by this time and the hero OF
the crnone bore the lady away and placed her car
riage standing Fourth street. shut the door, and told
the driver to hurry forward.
The whip cracked the horses started the lady
ed and sank into of the vehicle the crowd
laughed, the hero smiled grmly, and, with damaged
toilette, walked rapidly away.
A number of fragments of whaebone a part of boot
LAGER, the heel of an unexceptionabe gater bracelet
and odor of mile ers all that was left to show
where the crnone went down in the presence of the
ptying andzsympathisng many, of whom but one hac
heart to tempt the dangerous sea- ashed into fury by
woman's crinoline mishap.
few of the fragments of the wreck carefully collect
ed be at this Office by the friends of the lat
Miss - the curious in crinOine and those interested
in the cause of hoops that won't explode-Cn. Ga1,
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