The Placer herald., 1866-06-16
Important Revelations Of the Temper of
the South.

gulshed officers examination. | violate no
confidence in giving it as follows:
Q. What kind of shrts did you wear dur
ing the wars
A. Calico, sometimes and sometimes
woolen.
c. You are married, are you noll
A. Yes, am.
G. Well, state to the committee what
kind of underclothes your wife wore during
the unhoy strifei
A. was'not at home much of the time.
and can't say.
@. What color WAS it.
A. don't know.
Q. Wasn't it gray.
A. never took notice.
G. Don't you know that the ladies' of the
South formed secret cabsI for the wearing
Of gray petticoats during the war.
A. | do not.
@. Don't you think they wore more gray
than blue in the article Of clothing to which
we refer
A. do not know. Never investigated
the subject.
Q. Is it true that the women of the
South wear jeff. Davis pictures in their
bosoms.
a. never took notice Should not be
surprised if some Of them did,
c. Do you think freedman's bureau
agent would be allowed to marry into II first
family of Virginia.
A. If young lady belonging to a first
family were willing suppose he could
Q. How long will it be before pumkin pies
become favorte dish in the lately re bell
Ious districts.
A. do not know. Some people like
them now
Q. Is there not great aversion to Goldfish,
as Yankee staple of diet.
A. do not know that there is.
c. Do they not like pork and beans in
Virginia.
A. Some people do.
c. What's your opinion Of the Fenisus.
A. have not given the subject much al
tention.
Q. How are you on Scbleswig. Ilo|stein.
A. have not made up my mind on that
subject either.
Q. Which side do you sleep on.
A. The right side, generally.
Q. DO southern men generally continue
to sleep in arms, notwithstanding the cessa'
ton Of the rebellion.
A. Those who are married do | believe.
@. Do those who are not married abstain
from doing SO.
A. cant say that they all do.
A New York WOMAN OF FAsHIoN.-"Sat-
AMELIA writes to the Call as follows:
No more cholera! Only one more case
reported in town during the week, and that
supposed to be questionable. We begin to
feel in consequence, quite easy in our gaiters
though, by the way, gaiter boots are no
longer worn here except by women in the
lower walks Of life. Tilling hoops are the
acme of fashion now. These hoops spread
out behind, to produce the effect of a long
train on the dress. The least obstacle to
up behind 20 surprising height. This COM
pes every lady to wear the most impeacha-
bly, white undergarments in the street, and
as it is vulgar to have the lace bottom draw
ers to come lower down than the pink rub.
Der garters, the clock stockings must be fine
and the artificial veal" (f the natural be
detective,) symmetrically attached thereto.
Then come the Polish boots, of black moroc
co, which extend entirely above the ankle,
say to the commencement of the "veal" and
have little tasse in front and are scolloped
out slightly in the back. As the "tilting
hoop" exhibits all this studied arrangement
to the most careless eye, it cannot be indeli-
cate in me to describe The points so minutey
though it might be under more old fashioned
circumstances. Women whose prudery nev.
or allowed them to say "legs' while ago,
without bushing, now show their own in The
street with the utmost effrontery, and it is
quite impossible for any man, should think
to walk out without having forced upon his
observation an exact Inventory of every pass'
ing lady's underclothug. 1t is positively
dsgracefu! Just add this to the present
abomnable system Of frizzling the hair and
pling it up high in front until it drops over
the forehead like a pent house roof, long ear,
rings, short waists, gored dresses, aud so on,
and you may have a pretty good idea of
what woman Of fashion resembles in New
York, at this current moment.
A HARD OLD PLAcE.-The editor Of the
Marinosa Frep Prpxs writing To his panar