The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1858-04-23
For the Jasper Courier.
Scarlet PeculiaritieA

Scarlet PeculiaritieA
| MR EplroR:--I have made up my mind
that you are decidedly : very social gent.
Y1u seem 70 have great liking for social
doincs and social HIS. and now 70 cap the
climax, YOU want 10 transfer Us 70 the social
department Of skirsicoats. Since the esrii-
est appearance Of the Courier" we are liz
orally showered with vilIanous ccncoctions
on this subject. Every graduate Of eorne
grocery; every country pumpkin; every silly
ped seogue, or supsrannuat,d doctor, mag
ines that he 10 inspired BY the muses.. and
mounting an imaginary great brute Of Pa
gassus. goes tearing away In most insane
manner, leaving hundreds Of jackass daisical,
verses behind. on department OF domestic
life which he cannot possibly know anything
about except BY The merest hearsay. Those
born 10 be tormentcd wretches, the spinsters
are from week TO week fairly bombarded
with these execrable scrawls. ill they are
actually smothering beneath u load Of ry,h-
imical abomination. The continued perusal
Iof such horrible distortions has made Us 90
nervous that we quake with terror when The
Courier is brough. to our door. and retire Of
night only to dream Of hundreds Of night
mare Ines, on fooiscap. preparing for The
Courier. Now, sir, cannot you let these
mushroom poets know tha, il would be high
IS becoming 10 them TO hold up their Pa
gassus, and rest for few weeks! Let the
iuhuman pensiers evsporate! There is no
music in their souls. Besides Dir. Editor,
) such conduct is really as cruel as presump-
,uous. II is positively nhumsn.
Matters have come to hard pass with us
indeed. How are we 10 appear before 50
many aspiring young widowers, sniptious
old bachelors. and flashing dsndies! I've
half mind 10 quarrel with you for giving
place TO such pratings. II il were not 80
, unlody like, would say-no-sif-ee. shall
! consent to lie, youof only on one conditions
liz is this-ihat you place me next TO the
I handso NEST Of your correspondents.
= But, Mr.. EdisSr, should like 10 know
livery much your own candid opinion abou'
these much talked Of red skirts For N.Y.
self have long been a decided convert q
!, the new fashion. consider the new ar
rangement grand, desirable, delicious. ] am
{ in favor Of all matters pertaining to clsanIi.
ness and taste, and il appears 10 me that ths
Balmoral has superior advantages. Nothing
lie more repulsive on : wet day, than for ons
10 reveal a white skirt despatched with mud
Y and silk dress with stained trail. The
u new fashion relieves ail ihis--the dress be
D. ling tucked up a intervals. il saved from
,eI dragging, while the Bamoral does not show
Il so plainly the outrageous mud. Besides th
We must have change; one fashion canno
always prevail; innovations are the order Q
= The present day; and crinoline must col
r apse. Give W then then the BalnorsI-
ar not for the simple ckanee Of creating sen
q. sation in the bon ton. or attracting the q
~ tenlion Of brslnIess loaiers at the corners Q
81 our streets--but as a tasteful innovation
adapted 10 a rainy April or . sunny May
q adopted by the elite generally. vive
- Balnoral. TlLLlE.
7" p. S.-By the way, Mr.. Editor, wha, ba
- become o. "vindex"! You must look afte
your correspondents IittIe. and not suff'
them 10 be taking French leave. and Pla
rs trusnt 50 long. vindexl vindex. where a
ng thou! Amt the game Of hide and see
~ played out yeti Or has he been fairly a.
'en initiated by the home thrusts Of that tn
m and gallant knight, PRO Bono Publicor
es he has actually resolved 10 give in beat v
spinsiers are not going TO much trouble
evoke him from the dead, as You may
80 sure we have precious lille sympathy, a.
nat s,il less love, for him or any Of his aniqu
tn. I'd class. T..
ng Important from Washington.
yer A dispatch 70 the Cleveland papers,
Monday evening. from Washington says: