The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-11-05
EVANSVILLE IND. SATURDAY MORNING. NOVEMBER s. 1859.
Che Daily 9uurnal.
< New Use for Hoop SKIRTS.


The following good thing 10 from one of
our exchanges-we forget which one, or
should give the richly deserved credit:
Miss Judy O,Mulligan, aged thirty-cight
an elegant creature, except that her pate
Is as red as the COWS on iIer bonnet-her
little pug nose of lager beer hue-her
eyes of a color itwixt yellow and blue, and
her mouth plenty large for her words TO
come through without any extra on it-Miss
Judy O'M., then if rumor be true, has given
us food for a sonnet
Imagine this maiden in toggery fine-in
iaces and fixings of every design-in six
foot diameter crinoline-as she gracefully
swept down the street. There's pride in
her step as she moves DER the pave, and
grace in her hand as she gives it wave,
to a silly old 60 bach who would fain be
her slave, and PROSTATE himself at her feet.
AS she fioated down Dauphin, with airs of
queen, and passed by the "Square" in
its foliage green, 40! what lovely crea-
ture " with rapture exclaimed each one of
the throng which CHANGED at that moment
to be passing along, "what loveliness in
each feature! "
But the proud Miss o. Mulligan needed them
not, and kept on in her course 'twixt walk
and trot; for their fawning expressions
she cared not jot (and we think her senti-
ments proper. For who with maiden
would ever wed, that allowed such trash to
turn her headD Their flattery did not stop
her. 81
She kept on her way-as we stated be-
fore-till her goal was reached, grocery
store, which is numbered (large fgures)
"5O4," where she always " done her tradin."
Into this she turned with smile on her face,
and bowed to the clerks with a killing
grace, and each one of them would have
lost his place, ere he Sighted the lovely
maiden.
The gentle Miss Judy, whilst looking
around, and asking if this thing and that
thing was sound, and pricing lard, sugar,
and bacon per pound, to know how
much she'd be takin, the obliging clerk
turned moment his head, to hear what
another young clerk had just said, when,
quickly the maiden with top-knot of red,
meath the folds of her erin oline dextrously
sped. an entire middling of bacon All
Judy o. 'Mulligan, little you thought when
paying the clever, obliging young fellow
had caught you in the act OF stealing bacon.
But rather ashamed to accuse you of thiev-
ing, he waited to notice your movements
when leaving to see how your load could
be taken).
And telling the clerk where the goods
should be sent, she smiled "good evening.
and homeward she went--not dreaming the
clerk followed after. But the gentle Miss
Judy had lost all her grace. for the weight OF
the bacon impeded her pace, and the young
man behind heT grew red in the face, sup
pressing his inward laughter. There is an
old adage of ''murder will out, without our
assistance to bring it about; and the saying
holds against stealing. For, often the care
which is used to conceal the commission of
crimes which you would not reveal, is the
cause itself of revealing. Thus it was with
Miss Judy, who crossing the street, raised
the front of her dress to exhibit her fret-a
fashion not yet quite forsaken-wten mis-
chieyous newsboy, the bacon espied, dropped
his armfull of papers-"O, criekey," he
cried, "boys, 'ere's q new way TO bang
bacon.
The guilty uMulligan uttered a shrek;
the pallor Of fear blanched her rosy cheek,
and she tainted o'ef and o'er But the clever
young clerk, who had seen her fall, sent the
boy around the corner, u cab to call, into
which she was lifted, bacon and all, and the
cabman drove to the store.
There's but little left of the story to tell
on reaching the store the fair maiden WAS
well, and the theft she fully confessed
She paid for the bacon, and vowed that
ne er more would she carry off meat
from grocery store. And there did the
matter rest. But the clever young clerk
now boldly asserts that charity covereth less
sin than hoop skirts.