Kenosha tribune & telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1856-1859, 1858-07-08
City and Country Bellies.

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Woman has always-from the time
that Eve in Eden glued her cherry lips
to the more masculine labials of Adam
been the great living magnet to whom
man has been attracted with the stron-
gest Of sympathies. 1t was for Helen
that Troy fell to ruins, once the boast
OF Priam and his progeny; for Helen the
almost lnvulnerable Achilles fell by the
hand of Paris; for the virtuous Lucrece.
Brutus threw off his dissimuated lido
cy, and swore by I" the gods," to be re-
venged upon the Tarquins; for Cleopa-
ira, Antony gave up the glittering hon
ors Of Rome; for Josephine the great
Napoleon Notwithstanding his di-
vorcement from her for political expedi-
ency-shed many a tear. If woman,
then, has enlisted mans attention from
generation to generation, why shall not
| make her nv theme, either to extol
her virtues, eulogize her beauty, adore
her crlnolne, or to condemn her frivoli.
ties, denounce her whimsicahties, OF
anathematizc her hoops?
L ask the question, and pause for re-
ply. None Then | am free to pursue
the threads of my discourse. l wish to
show the difference between city and
country bellies; and when I apply the
term to the 6 city butterflies" I wish il
understood that do not speak of those
virtuous, coy and truly sensible women
who waive the friyolities cf high life
and who remain at home learning practi.
cal lessons Of housewifery, instead OF
bobbin' round "town these fine spring
days.
The difference betweencity and coun.
try bellies is as darkness to light, ugli-
ness to beauty, not only in externality
OF dress AMI conv .ntional accomplish
ments, but in physical beauty, intellect
uality, genuine affection, moral charac.
ter, and in all other noble attributes OF
womanhood. The city belle delights in
extravagant dress and expansive crino-
line, the opera, the theatre; to dress as
recherche as . 2Orette that promenadeS
| the Boulevards i'll Paris; to rouge her
face, to chalk her neck, or to meander
through some operate piece of music
which for euphony and dulcet vibrations
is as barren as the whirr of an old-fash-
Toned spinning-wheel, or the humming
Of a Yankee grist-mill, and which, only
for its Italian cognomination, either in
title or authorship, would soon be used
to do up curls with.
The city belle likes periodical tinta.
ton; likes to promenade the thorough
fare, to ogle and be ogled in return;
likes to enter dry good stores and select
samples of goods she never intends to
buy, causing the poor devil Of clerk
the almost herculean task Of rearrang-
ing them again on theshelves, while the
pompous "shop walker" belittles his
salemanship for not efecting a sale, and
intimates that at the end Of the week
his account will be squared. She loves
to go to Trinity Chapel" "Grace,' y
the Holy Zebra" or to some other
fashionable church, with prayer book
delicately poised in her kidded hand,
and humble over the Lords Prayer OF
the Litany, in a loud, monotonous tone.
In Summer, the city belle loves cobblers
and cream; i'll Winter, whisky punches
and soirees. She loves to tete-0. tete you
to death in the drawing-room at Sara
to-gah or the Op-e-rah; loves to gossip
at the dinner table, when her throat is
ludicrously contracted with lobster sal
adj, and comes near being choked to
death in endeavoring to perform two
functions at once, and only for liba-
ton of claret would certainly gag her
self
The city belle can turn an exquisite
pirouette in the waltz, and can throw q
heart-quivering glance of dissimulated
love on those weak minded Lotharios OF
Cppertendom, whose brains an anato-
mist would have to analyze through q
magnifying glass, by which glance she
rallies around her crinoline, scores OF
moustaches, over lips aching to make an
impression" or to receive one. The
city belle loves omance, and pants tol
a romantic life, such as she reads Of in
yellow covered novels in her room from
| A. NJ, until Aurora gilds the eastern
horizon, when she falls into the embrace
Of Morpheus, and snores and sleeps I'M
til the sun is at its meridian.
Such is the life Of a city belle, which
not unfrequently ends IN consumption.
or else skaters her nerves so as tc
change her nature to phlegmatic old
maid, the terror Of her sex-the upas
that men shudder to touch.
Jump aboard of the boat or cars and
take a trip into the country, and after
washing the brick dust out Of youl
mouth by drinking from some
sold oaken bucket,
Iron bound bucket,
: MoSs-covered bucket
| That hangs in the we'll"