The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-07-23
How 'They Go 10 Bed.

The young girl trips gaily up TO her
chamber, and, with the cautious timidity
peculiar to her sex, first locks the doors
and arranges the widow curtains, so that
by no chance ii passer by, or belated
nocturnal wanIerer from the ravamnnt-
can catch glimpse of her budding
beauny when en- dishabills. This task
completed, she turns on the gas to its
full, and institutes q general search
throughout the apartment, that she may
| be sure it does not contain horrible
"bugbear," or desperate ruffian," in
big whiskers and crisp black hair. Care
| fully with her delicate little fingers, she
lifts the bed valance, peers into places
where even Tom Thumb could not
sqee2e his dimInutive corporation, and
takes curso'y peep into the half
emptied trunk, not forgetting to glance
neryously under the sofa, the space be-
tween which ard the floor is not sufi-
cient to contain the ghost of Calvin Ed
son, much less IN ordinary robber. Hay-
ing certained that she is really alone,
she IL surely proceeds to divest.her fair
form Il the six and linen convention
alities of sOci, ty" First she relieves
her glossy ham of the pins and combs
which, enthrall 3, and does it up" more
comp;sctly. Tl,pn off comes the little
collar aud the title vapory cloud Of lace
she calls UNDER eeves, which all the day
have been ella ned around her white,
plump arms, b! couple of India rubber
straps,
Next the low, of spring silk dress is
unfastened in front. Then sundry waist
strings and but3sn straps are loosed, and
10! what collapse, like loves big bal
loon. She stands like Saturn, the centre
of rugs Thee they lie on the soft
carpet, partly covered by the linen IN
derfxings and "vertixings, with no more
expression in hem than there is in the
bare floor beneath the carpet. Sits she
now upon the ,dge of the snowy bed.
aud begins the unlacing of CATERS, and
the disrobingot these fair swelling limbs
of their stockings. The pretty little
foot is CAREFUL, perched upon the knee
down drops The gaiter, off comes the
elastic, and her thumb. inserted in the
top of the steci,ing, pushes ii down
down over the heel, and the cotton rests
beside the prumella SO with the other
foot, ouly invo' wing u slight change OF
position. Their is a smile that peeps
out from behin, the bushes of her sweet
face, now as 81 anding before the glass
she places upon her head the nightcap,
and with the qnick twist of her finger
ties the hewitt hing bow. Then the
night gown is thrown over the fTilled
chemise, eonoe.ling the hesving bosom
and tho Shoulders in the linen folds
Then the couuLerpane and skeets are
thrown back, the gas turned d0wu-
very, cery low and the little form
presses the yielding couch, and the angel
goes OH into tb" world of dreams.
Now, IN the room directly abeve her,
is the great bIuls of a brother He comes
into 1t, shuts The door with a slam, turns
the key with snap, growis at chair
which happens "a he in the way, pulls
of his boots and throws them in corn
| or, jerks his socks from his feet, drops
his pantaloons on the floor and lets them
lie there; gets out of his vest and coat by
a quick, vindict,ye twist Of the arms and
body, unpins and unbuttons his collar,
throws it carele sly with the tie at rather
than on the table; travels to the win
dow in his shirt extremity to let down
the curtain, as il he didn't care cuss
whether the entire population of the
street beheld his anatomy or not then
puts out the light and bounces into bed
like great cali jumping into pile of
hay-curls; himself up, bis knees nearly
touching his nose, lies q moment or
two, turns on his back, stretches bis
limbs ont, swears at the tncking in of
the bed clothes, grunts, gets over on the
other side and is-asleep. Then comes
in the snoring aud snorting.