Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-04-22
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An English writers view Of Bleshy

Girls,
AuGpsta Sald, in the last number of
Temple Bar observes.
Now OF fat girls, there are several varie-
ties. There i your fat baby girl, "a de-
hghttaI little dumpling of child, every
one OF whose dtmPles is a mine OF delight,
and every one of the creases in whose rosy
limbs inspires you With nm Irresistible rro-
pensity 10 tickle It. These are the little
baby children that RRbens painted so gIo
riousiy. lie made their little pulled ont
cheeks celestial rOseatF; he curged their
haxen locks like unto the young teudrils
of the Vine: he tipped their little heels and
elbows with rich carnations; he took AWAY
their sex and made them epicene; and when
he had added little wings of green and
golden plnmage to their shoulders, they
were no longer baby children, Int angels,
mlR'stering the HpOtbeOses of kings and
emperors, who, sincerely trust. have
reached the destination which the country
pencil Of Peter Paul ascribed 10 TIER dead
msjesties
Then there is yonr fat school girl. with
long, fair ringlets, prOGuse as Lnnis
Qnatorze peTruque, with fixed blue eyes
that remind you unpieasantIy of the Pan
tbeOn Bazaar and Madame Montupari's
WAX workshop, and with n dull listless
hxttE OF deineHuor that makes one always
wish N End out whereabouts the string
is, IN order to pull it. and cause the eyes
TO move and the great doll to squeak ''pA-
pa and s.mH-mA."
Yet another variety of the fat school
girl IS there in the rOnap, or atom boy
who has cheeks MS rnddy aud as Iiani as a
Ribstone pIppin, who is contiauallv graz.
ing the skin of her arms, and tearing the
trimming of the ends of her trousers: who.
II she lives in the country, Is in the habit
Of catching young colts and riding them
without a saddle or bridle round phddocks;
Who IS always getting into domestic trouble
through her transactions with hig black
dog fond of The water and of chfyying eats;
who Is always laughing. lIhs a tremendous
appetite, and once fought with boy and
came OF victorious.
The decline OF the old fashioned system
OF education, aud the rise of Eeminarics
and collegiate institutions, where young
ladies attead lectures on the Odic force
and the Therapeutic Cosmogony Of An
CleHt Art, has made the tum-boy fat girl
nm exceedingly rare specimen Of femiuini-
y but she=is still Occasionally TO be met
wilh-notably in Westmoreland boarding
schools, and in farm houses of the West
lament the progressive extinction of
the merry fat girl. Size usually grew mn
TO be n jolly, comfortable matrOn, with n
tribe OF sunny children, NIL as great romps
as she had been. Her picked wa!nnts
were perfection. She WAS one of these
admirable women who always give yoa
something to cat when you call upon them,
nnd if you are neither hungry nor thirst,
insist upon YOur carrying away pot of
preserves or a slice of brIdecakc with yon
II was in the golden age, aud England was
merry England indeed. when those fat
maIrons who had been fat girls, flourish
ed. They used to entertain yuu at .meat-
teAs"-bounteous repAsts, where there were
sausnges and pressed beef, souscd mack
erel and potato cakes.