Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-11-15
The UNIQUE Fashions of Bohemia.


The Prague correspondent of the New
York Times says; -.a ... -.....
Many hundred years ago, there was
Queen named Libussa, who lived in Prague,
and in point of fact is said to have founded
it. She wasa famous Amazon, and as the
historians affirm that she was also a priestess,
have no doubt that she wore Turkish
trowsers and made awfully long speeches at
the Women's Right Conventions of those
days. Her moral character was not ire
proachable-in fact, it was rather bad. She
was-not to put to fine point on it--a little
too fond Of the men, falling in love with all
the good-looking fellows of the neighbor-
hood, and inviting them up to her castle
with the greatest possible affability. Being,
as have said prlestess, she had the marri-
age service nice and snug at her fingers end,
and many poor fellow, thinking he had
jumped into good thing of it, vowed and
promised at her request, to love- honor and
obey that very fascinating but unprincipled
female For a few weeks things went ON
pleasantly, and Libussa's husband began to
stretch his legs out comfortably in the great
breakfasting hall, and to count who he
should have for boon companions in the long
winter nights. Hal who indeed2 Little did
he think that at that moment Libussa was
arranging the matter for him. In due time
the honeymoon came to an end, and it was
simultaneously discovered, if am not mis-
taken, that the lady had temper. She be-
came sulky over her coffee, and made ieer-
ing remarks to her partner causing that
gentlemen TO dash his newspaper to the
ground, pull on his boots in rage, and rush
down town without eating morsel of break
fast. Then matters became worse, until one
morning, after an unusual storm. madame
pulled the bell and told the laclkeys to clear
away the things. Whereupon, four stout
fellows, remarkable for the handsome de-
velopement of the lower leg, and smelling
heavily of beer, stepped forward with
knowing wink, and seizing the astonished
husband, cleared him away also, by heaving
him out of the window, where, after falling
Through disag1eeable amount of space, he
reached the bottom of a river, and Joined an
hlustrious army of predecessors.
Libussa, it is to be presumed, selected the
most becoming mourning, and it is certain
soon succeeded in getting another lover,
who, when he became a little stale, was
served in the same outrageous way. Hal
How wonderfully the times have changed
since then. There is probably not woman
in the world, in this present Nineteenth
century, who would treat her husband so
shamefully, even if she could do SO with
impunity. Do you think there is? l am
sure | don't. o. .t IF.-
At any rate this is the veracious origin of
what is called the Bohemian fashion," a
feature of municipal government which has,
as have before remarked, become famous.
In 14l9, the townspeople, being dissatisfied
with the Mayor and Common Council, broke
into the City Hall and pitched them out of
the windows one after another. To break
their fall, number of kindly citizens pre-
pared bed of pixies, upon which the un-
fortunate officials were received. The same
exploit wac repeated in 1883, and again a
few years later; indeed, it seems to have
been an implied part Of the Bohemian Con-
stitution, that when the citizens were tired
Of their rulers, they might-happy people
throw them out of windows.