The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1866-09-12
CAMBRIA, LOUISIANA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER p, 1866
: How They Go to Bed.

Inc young maiden trips gally to her
chamber, and with the cautious timidi-
ty peculiar to her sex, first locks the
doors and arranges the window cur
tains, so that by no possible chance can
Ia passer by or belated nocturnal wan
derer from the pavement can catch a
glimpse of her budding beauty when in
deshabiNe. The task completed she
turns On the gas to its full, and insti-
tutes a general search throughout the
apartment, that she may beslre that it
does not contain a "horrible BURGLAR y
or desperate rutiian in big whiskers
and crisped black hair. Carefully with
her delicate little fingers she lifts the
bed nalange, peers into places where
even Tom Thumb could not squeeze
his diminutive corporation, and takes a
cursory peep into a half emptied trunk,
and not forgetting to glance nervously
under the sofa, the space between
which and the floor is not sufficient to
contain the ghost Of Calvin Edison,
much less an ordinary robber. Having
ascertained that she is really alone, she
leisurely proceeds to diyest her fair
form of the silk and linen conventional
tiles Of society. First she relieves her
glossy hair of the pins and combs which
enthral it, and does it up more com:
pactly. Then off comes the little col
lar and the light vapory clouds she
calls lndersleeves, which all the day
have been elasped around her white
plump a by a pair of India rubber
straps. the love of a spring silk
dress is unfastened in front. Then
sundry waist strings and button straps
are loosened, and 10! what collapse,
like Lawe's big balloon. She stands
like Saturn, the centre Of rings There
they lay upon the carpet, partly cover
ed by the linen under fixings, with no
more expression in them than there is
in the bare floor beneath the carpet.
Sits she now upon the edge of the
snowy bed and begins the unlacing of
CATERS, and the disrobing of those fair
swelling limbs of the stockings. The
pretty little foot is carefully perched
upon the knee-down drops the gaiter,
off comes the elastic, and her thumb in
serted at the top Of the stocking pushes
it downtown over the heel, and the
cotton rests beside the prunel. So with
the other foot, only involving a slight
change of position. There is smile
that peers out from the blushes of her
sweet face, now, as standing before the
glass, she places upon her head the
night cap, and with a quiet twist Of her
finger, ties the bewitching bow. Then
the night gown is thrown over the frill-
ed chemise, coneealing the heaving
bosom and the shoulders in the linen
folds. Then counterpart and sheets
thrown back, the gas is turned down !;
very, very low-and the little form
presses the yielding couch, and the an
gel goes off to The world Of dreams.
Now in the room directly above her
is the great brute off brother. Hecomes
into it, shuts the door with slam,
turns the key with a snap, growls at a
chair which happens to be in the way,
pulls off his boots and throws them in
a corner; jerks his socks from his feet;
drops his pantaloons on the floor, and
lets them lie there, gets out of his coat
and vest with a sort of quick, yindic-
tive sort of a twist of his arms and body,
unpins and lfnbuttons his collar, throws
it carelessly at, rather than on the ta-
ble,, travels to the window in his shirt
extremities to let down the curtain as.
If he didn't care clIss whether the en-
tire population of the street heheld his
anatomy or not, then puts out the light
and bounces into bed like a great calf
jumping into a pile Of hay, ctrls him.
self up, his knees nearly touching his
nose, lies SO a moment or two, turns on
his back, stretches his limbs out,
swears at the tucking in Of the bed
clothes, srunts, gets over on the other
side, and is--asleep. Then comes the
snorting and snoring.
Isn't there a difference in style
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AsIIscEGENATIoN SCENE Yes, Miss,
jist wa wa walk up an walk unda dis
gemman's umbrellagum, an I'll straight
way hab de honato escortch you safe
ly to your habitation, and den We'll hab
sum Pathological sarcnmdelusion on de
great advantages Of miscegenation to
de human system, and de entire human
family at large. You see, in all human
natur's upper works, from de color oh
de lizard, how freely she mixes her
colors, an dat am sartin delusion, dat
she intended de human sexes to- mix
dar colors also, an soften down de
strong colors, from too much white an
too much black, to de beautiful yaller.
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CRUEL. The author OF In Vinculis !"
says that the Pennsylvanians, on the occa-
sion Of Gen. Lees invasion of that State,
blinded their horses by( puucturing their
eyes with aneedle, thus making them use
less to the Confederates for army purposes,
while their value as draft animals, or for
farm uses, was not largely impaired. g In.
many cases. says the book, ave found
tue poor beasts with their eyes still over
flowing With tears and blood, from the
merciless hands of their masters"
GsgA The richest instance of Yankee en-
terprise, says Richmond paper, is said to
have occurred in Fauquier county, Va,
last week, where chap from the land of
wnndan nr,tmans sncceeded IN eroaolnc