Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-04-17
wAGNER's DISCIPLES.
An Enslish Writer'S View of FIeshy Girls.
Augusta Sala. in the last number of Tam.

An English Writer'S View of FIeshy Girls.
Augusta Sals, in the last number of Tenn
pie Bar, observes: ..-
Now, of fat girls, there are several varie-
ties; There is Jour fat bsby-girl, delight
tul little dumping of a child, every one ol
whose dimples Is mine of delight, and every
one OF the eEeasss in whose rosy limbs in.
spires you with an irresistible propensity to
tickle it. These are the little baby children
that Rubens painted so gloriously. He made
their little pulled out cheeks celestial roseate:
he curled their haxen locks like unto the
young tendrils Of the vine: he tipped their
little heels and elbows with rich carnations; !;
he took away their sex and made them cpl.
Gene; and when he had added little wings of
green and golden plumage to their shoulders,
they. were NO longer baby-children, but
angels, ministering in the apotheoses OF
kings and emperors, who, sincerely trust,
have reached the destination which the
courtly pencil of Peter Paul ascribed to their
dead majesties. ...
Then, there is your fat school. girl, with
long, fair ringlets, profuse as a Louis Qua
torze perruque, with fixed blue eyes that re-
mind you unpleasantly of the Pantheon Ba-
zaar and Madame Montanaris wax.work
shop, and with dull, listless Rxity of de-
meanor that makes one always wish to find
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 "ma. man
Yet another variety of the fat schoolgirl
is there in the romp, or "tom-boy,n who has
cheeks as ruddy and as hard as a Ribstone
pippin, who is continually grazing the skin
OFF her arms, and tearing the trimming off
the ends of her trousers; who, if she lives In
the country, is in the habit of catching
young colts and. riding them without a sad !.
die or bride round paddocks; who is always
getting into domestic trouble through her
transactions with big black dog fend of the
water and Of chiyying cats; who is always
laughing, has a tremendous appetite, and
once fought with boy and came off victori-
ous.. ..d -a.'f- eH -t.r .....
The decline of the old. fashioned system of
education, and the rise of seminaries and col
legiate institutions, where young ladies at
tend lectures on the 0dic force and the
Therapeutic Cosmogony of Ancient Art, has
made the tom-boy fat girl an exceedingly
rare specimen of temininity; but she is still
occasionally to be met with-nOtably in
Westmoreland boarding schools, and in farm
houses of the West. - l.''r
lament the progressive extinction of the
merry fat girl. She usually grew up to be a
jolly, comfortable matron, with q tribe of
sunny children, all as great romps as she had
been. Her picked walnuts were perfection.
She was one of those admirable women who
always give you something to eat when you
call upon them, and if you are neither hun
gered nor athirst, insist upon your carrying
away a pot Of preserves or a slice of BRIDE
cake with you. 1t was in the golden age,
and England was merry England indeed,
when those fat matrons who had been fat
girls, hOurished. They used to entertain
you at "meat tess"-bounteou repasts,
where there were sausages and pressed beef,
soused mackerel and potato cakes. t.''l'