Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1857-07-01

FEMALE FolBLEs.-The ladies, dear souls, in
dulge in numerous little eccentriclties which
are quite ineXplicable to the male gender-who,
to be sure, are not to be expected to fully ap-
preciate and understand woman's delicate ma
ture. One of the foibles of the ladies which we
cannot understand is their passion for making
furniture wareroom of portion. of their houses
for shutting up lot of costly furniture in
room with closed shutters, there to remain Who'll
ly unused except on extraordinary OCCASIONS
Every housewife has such storeroom for fur
niture in brown holland, as every Chinaman has
his idol, and every native African his fetisch.
Now, furniture that has the touch of use upon
it we can understand nay, we have great re-
gard for every article of the living room, espe-
cially when disposed in that graceful, careless
way that use produces. There is something hu-
manizing and sympathetic in such room; it
seems genial with human heart warmth. But
room in which furniture too nice to be touched
is formally arranged, is as cold and unsocial as
furniture warehouse, and we should as soon
think of taking comfort and making ourselves
socable in one as the other.
Another eccentricity of housewives is the
propensity for making nice cake, preserves and
other good things, and then storing them away
until they become moudy or soured. 1t is gen.
orally understood that such things are kept for
company but we could never understand why
home folks were not as deserving fgood things
as this mysterious company
But greatest of all the insane freaks of women
is their love for bonnets Especially is it
strange that the love should be SO great when
there is so little to love! the bonnet nowadays
being in an inverse ratio to the size of the head.
1t is surprising what effects new bonnet will
produce on lady. A gentleman of our ac-
quantance once went home with new bonnet
for his wife and found her quite SICK 'Oh, she
could not look at it-she must have physician
In great haste the husband went for the doctor.
Upon his return in great anxiety as to the state
of his wife's health what was his surprise to find
her before her glass, trying on her new bonnet !
Luckily it suited her, and she thought no more
of the doctor. The bonnet had worked q per-
feet cure We throw this out as hint to hus-
bands, with ailing wives 1t may be cheaper
to buy bonnet than to pay doctors bill.
HOOP SKIRTS AND UMBRELLAS -Whalebone
has nearly doubled in price within the past four
months in consequence of the enormous consump-
tion Of the article in skirt hoops. The N. York
Post, of Saturday says:
"Where the wholesale price was forty or fifty
it is now eighty or ninety cents a pound The
Commercial List of to-day reports sale of eight
thousand pounds at ninety-fve. An umbrella
dealer informs US that at retail he has been OBJ.
liged to pay dollar and half pound for the
manufactured article, and the five dollar umbrel
las of two months ago are now sold for six
Nor is this all. The braces have become greatly
attenuated, being hardly more than half the size
they were in the old-tashioned umbrellas So
that the prospect is, we shall be compelled to
rely wholly on steel braces, which have expe-
rienced no such appreciation"
A LOVE SCENE OVERHEARD AND PnoNoeRApH-
IoALLY REPORTED BY FREDERICK PHINEpuELLow.
-'Pharist of the phair, sighed the lover,
phancy my pheelings when I phoresee the
phearful consequences oph our phleeing phrom
your phathers phamily. Phew phellows could
have placed the music with as much phortitude
as have, and as pickle phortune phails to
smile on our loves phnd must phorego the
phelicity of becoming your husband. Phairest
Phrances, pharewell phorever
Hold, Phranklin, hold phrantically screamed
Phrances, Il will phollow you phorever.' But
Phranklin piled, and Phrances phanted.
To..:n.tor $500 H. L..