The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1865-03-24
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am exercised, this week, as they
say in Jersey, Unto my mind"
can stand good deal. My long
experience as a soldier; my familari.
ty with terrors and dangers; my un.
successful vaccination; my natural
courage and cndurance--al these
tend to render me impcryious to the
minor ills of every day life.
But there is Il point bey yond which
And that point has now been reach
ed.
Sometimes wien the human mind,
wrought up by suffering to the high.
est pitch-if it turns TO n familiar OBJ
ject for that relief which, were it not
thus attainable, would cease to he tie
boon that any other circumstances
than those which surround it at such
moments as these that arc TO be pres.
emily considered becomes unbearable.
Do / make myself understood
In word, she headgear is the
bane of my embittered life.
When womau--God bless her
adopted bonnet the shape Of clam.
shell, ant four inches from crown tc
front in size, j merely smiled ut hei
eccentricity.
When the bonnet assumed the
shape of coal scuttle, and engulfed
her lovely head in direct shadows,
merely frowned.
But when she stopped TO folly in
the form OF hats, the shapes of which
are too monstroUs for belief and too
wild for description, l tore my Hype.
rion locks and wept
Then asked myself, "What are
we coming to?'
Then I answered myself, Really,
] don I know =
Now go about, a harmless luna.
tic in Broadway, averting my gaze
from horrors that / cannot face.
Last Saturday I saw pretty blonde
with q green bug in her hair.
Two days after, & lady stopped tc
speak to me, but she had velvet
wash basin on her head, and Oh one
side thereof was worm eaten rose
with a spider in it.
was afraid had a slight attack
of mama a p0ia, Mt first. but discov
eted that the milliner had, instead.
Yesterday saw lizards-sliny
looking reptiles-chasing each other
round hat that bore the form of 9
soup dish.
The crow, the hawk, the turkey,
buzZard and the hopscoot all perch
above the brows of our maids and
matrons.
took my favorite pointer out for
an airing, and he found so much
game in the ladies' bonnets and hat,
that it kept him pointing all the time
much to the impedimcnt of my prom.
enade.
There ought TO be first-rate shoot
ing, just now, in Broadway.
Stuffed quails, rice.birds, par
triges and other edibles are in i'm
mense favor. Why not stuffed breast
OF lamb, l wonder?
| offered, last week, TO make Aimee
Chou chou present of humming
bird for her new hat.
"What should I wear o humming,
bird Tor 7" said she.
"Wear it, my dear child" said /,
"for lark !"
"IfI wore it on account of the Civ.
err" she replied, ~ should surely
wear it for great goose"
Aimee has too much taste, of course
to rush into this sort of menegerie,
business. She sports very quiet,
but killing, little hat and leather, and,
better yet, does her hair up very sim
Iply
Pardon me, but have you observed
the things that women do with their
hair this Winter?
Have you shuddered at the awful
articles OF the single curl1
Have you paled before the wen,
like lob that deforms the back oil
nearly every American danes headi
If you have, sympathise with me!
I should like to inquire of some
high legal authority If there mightn'
be an enactment made against this
sort of thing. 80 AVr a
| !, Thara abnuId ha II I uara tha Gan