Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1859-07-21

taken possession OF her luSt0t that moment, and
grinning horribly ut the idea Of this tar1y re-
tnembrance of the obligation to that convention
al sensibility which bridesmaids are compelled
to exhibit. .'
THE LADIES SHORT Cur CLuB.-Miss Victoria
Livingston, and Miss Helen Travers, both o :
whom have lost their. names, are announced by
the N. Y. iSun as the originators Of the "Short.
CUT Club"-which from New York has spread
over the country. We quote the whole article
Tue 'SnoRT Cur GLuB, AND. IT'S tCoSsEouES=
cEs.-l twas just one year ago yesterday, that
n merry Dung lady of 25th street, bright as
button, and brimful of fun, challenged a fair
couSin5of hers to walk down Broadway to Union
Square, spend fifteen minutes time in looking
at the Washington statute, and return home
all between nine and ten O'Clock at night! Now,
this little feat would have been quite spicy
lro!ic, had begun and ended here, but it went
further aud grew, so their governors said worse,
for It was TO be done in gentlenen9s pants, and
with their tresses cut down to fit gcntleiuen's
hats. Ibis, indeed was the unkindest cutsof
all, for the 'governeSseS' OF the household oven
unto the third and fourth generations did hold
up their hand and raise their voices, aud say =:
'how could you during all subsequent months,
the number whereof is SO great that our memo.
~ runnethz not back to the contrary But the
little witches had gone and cloneit, aud shook
their littlc.abreyiatcd-ri into each others
faces, aud coaXed papa over, and enjoyed the
fun generally, and didn't care fig for the old
ladies, and thought short hair was so nice and
they said they wished it was to be done over
again So they carried the day but it got
talked about, aud wondered over, and it stirred
up such a feminine breeze as ncverwaS and our
two heroines became lnstrouS, aud their names
arc bound 10 go down TO prospcrity,-as AIRS.
Partington would havet.
The olaCk-eyed little chalenger-fOr we shall
nj fklair
ton, whose father salted down a fortune out of
picked mackercl, some eighteen years since
and who resides not thousand doors from 200
West 2oth street. The fair chuIlengec is the
1aughter#of. John n. Travcrs, who made himself
handsomely rich by following the bowie-knife
and cutlery trade, in New Orleans, where he
fought sickness and other mishapS, for some
twenty years. At the end of that time having
| lost his vile and two young daughters by the
}ycllow fever, he cut off all continuance to trade
and came. North to a civilized city to sette.--#
He resides on 2lst street, a few doors from the
cnrnerzof= =4th Avenue, aud Miss llelen=is widely
known as tie queer, frolicsome aud imperious
| little directrLss of his mansion.
And here stands the case in public, while i'm
private, wheels within wheels of social fun con-
tinucd to revolve subterraneousy for many
months afterwards. II the girls looked hand
some as girls, they looked perfectly bewitching
US boys, and had to redress again and again, to-
show the "perfect: t:sweetneSs'1' of the display
Sosthe infection spread; other novces wanted to
be improved; other bellies wanted to be heaux;
owners of other treSseS admired head ventila.=
ton, and finally club Of short cuts" arose.
who met clandestinely each week, to gossip and 8
to admire the cropped round heads of new
members. OF course such things must pro-
gress, and in less than two months time the
club numbered over hundred fetnalc sprites
who were up to ullkin1S OF fun. Had nothing
occurred tor check its enterprise, some two dozen
deaths from teasing alone, would have been adj
ded tothe death list in that neighborhood, four
unhappy marriages would have been consum-
mated, and ffty-four judicious ones carried
out, all within one week alone, fOrsthe clubyas
Influential, as may well be inferred, and attrac.
tive us bright heads and industrious tongues
could make it. But the arrest Of some half
dozen leaders, one night onEreturning from7a
club carnival, their detention at the Police sta
ton, and exposure of.the conSpirators' band
next day, followed by another Police inroad
week latcr-thesc broke the spirit Of the. Aris-
tocratic Short Cuts. The club flickered family
for few weeks aud then, with the close ofthe
year, quickly faded from existence.
So the frolic ended, the fair young bellies who
originated it having both together lost their
Names but not their fun, in the terra incog0ittt
ofmarried life. And now, as #matrons, but Still
wearing the little ringlets of those odensdays,
the blooming wives laugh over their little epi
sode, and over the world Of crop:heads now
following intheir5 train. For belt known TO all
bachelors, and those not yersed in womat.'s
gear, that, for some six months past, the lady
Of modern New York, who wenrs her hair Of