Arkansas true Democrat., 1858-11-03
For the True DemocIat

| For the True DemocIat.
 GnnesviUe, Ark, Oct 19, 1858.
 MR. EDIToR-Thar is new fashion lately Introduced into this sexion of country, which do believe the likes of, were never seen afore except in sich large cities as Memphis and Gainesville; germany craminy, 1 wish you cud see one of gals dressed in her whoops, jest to see how darned foolish they look at feller when they happen to come across him, while they hey on thar new dresses with about the darndest site of whoops in em you ever seed, enough at eny rate to make the three breadhs in the skeerts stand out like young balloon filled with gas. Well it does look poticaler d--d funny, to me at any rate. We'll I'll list tell ye how the cussed things cum to be inter- duced inter Gainsvile. were. over to Mem phis not long ago on a pleasure excussion, and on Sunday while promanadin Main street, list opposite Clark's marvel front, in company with Sam R-, who has for long time bin good friend of mine, when 1 seen a feler dressed finer than Canetuk race hoss list ahead of me and Sam, and by his side were somethin movin
 
 it be- cud not tell for the life ov me. Says Sam what in the devils name is that cussed fell Ter got in to thar, can it be anything human Oh yes sez Sam, that's the puttyest gal in the city, that's her bo beside her. We'll declare sez l, so putty, and in sich predicament, why don't he marry her, it seems it wouldn't be nothin butrte. under the succum stances, for I'll ven- ter she'll never get any body else, as she cer- tenly is in bad condishun for young lady. On no sez Sam, she's all right, sez he. We'll hell fuzzy if she is what in thunder is her dress made so. Oh sez he she is dressed in the la- test fashion, and that which looks so strlnge to you IS caused from some spring whoops in her clothn. l will tell you sez he, so you may not agln be mistaken how they ar fixed In the fus place sez he they are invented to fercli- tate free passage of air and tharby mpart com fort to the ladies in heat of summer, also a Myoman need not war so many clothin to keep be- Jst about this time we came suddenly ln-- to a church, whar thar war great many seats but a very few ladies, l war at at flst surprised, but afore the twinkln of a beetles eye seen the cause of A scacety of the glorious commodity, I seed plainly that morn three cudnt set on six teen foot bench, and then the two outsiders had darned hard work to keep from exposn thar ankles When church broken up (and it twas not long) he'd rale good chance of seein the fashion as it were Thar wer a grate variety of sisses, some little small ladies had little of the dangdest biggest hoops on yer ever did see the succumference being about twenty-one feet, l don't know fur the life of me, 1 ever seein any whoops so gall drotted huge afore, cud not tell you what tha did look like, with thar big skeerts, and green rales, unless it wer tater hill, with the young yam sproutn out, fresh and green at top or maybe if you'd seed em you mout hev thought of funnel turned up- slde downwards with decanter stopper on top, till some cuss of Bacchuss trainin took swig at the rot-gut. We'll arter awhile happen to see two ov em meet together to shake hands, and like Crockett when his danged old head wer fast in the forked saplin, and gall przed him loose, cud not help lookin, I can hardly say what they looked like, onless it wer couple of Peacock fouls in combat with head and tail up each strvn for victory, for when thar hands cum in about fourteen feet you orter see how thar skeerts stood out in bold alief, as Squire Biks hes it, thought of sister Sails shimmy when it were hung out to dry, and som how or noth- CT, the wind keetched under it and made it swell, tell eff it hadn't bin of new cloth, it would have busted wider nor Jones' old cows bag when it wer snake bitten, and that were list wide enough to show that sumthn beside the outside rapper was required to make even a cows bag. Well, Sam and beat about awhile and finally we cum to Pope & bros, 1 didn't know Bros, but had hearn of Luther burning Popes bull, and thought maybe, this war the same man, so stepped up to lady thot, and sez, howdy do Mrs. Pope, iS your husband in sine made no answer and 1 begin to think as how she wer too darn ed proud of her whoops to notice me, and I bin kind of passionate was about to address her agin, when Sam says says he SGooks, that thar is nothin but a skillet on skeert. The devil it aint says don't try to make fool of me, ant she got bonnet on.- He seed the devil was getting the better of me, and raised the cussed thing up and sh owed me the hole of its 6xments it bein as he sed, noth- in but skilt on. We'll this raised a consd- erahle laff at my expenses. briled like bull beef stake on hot gritterron, Sam carried me away, or mout have licked some of em about as easv as our p,Son lick ad rouSin lin, Snik as wfes lips, about the third time because she dared him to do it agin. We'll, when I'd seen morn he'd expected, and feelin kind of anx- ious to see my dulcimore as Dan Quick set ses, 1 concluded to leave the hustle of the city on my rare. When got home and he'd answered one thousand and eleven hundred questions, it popped into my mind Ide tell sister Sall about f the whoops, so told her all about em, and don't you think she was fool anuff to say she hay some rite of. 1 was aggravated to think that , Sall, who was putty gall, and the ring leader , of the fashion in our section, and she too, en- gagged to John skroots the squires son should think any thing putty that would swell her purity ,, tiger, to four times its natural size We'll twas ? hot weather shure, the gewholloper extendir 3 two finger lengths above zero, as they call the botomest part of the gewhollaper. or to ninety. 9 six degrees, so you see it bein Sunday Sal had a fust rate excuse for not putin nn many close We'll Skroots, he cum to see her to-day apc en the Thursday folerin they war to be mar ried. Alas, poor Sall, how little did she know