The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1866-06-23
FUN AND PHILOSOPHY.
G. Washington Bricks Goes to a
Watering Place and gets Wa
tered.
From the Mobile Register.]

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When I entered the ball room at
seventeen and half minutes to eleven,
on the evening of the third, Miss VIC
ToRlA VIRGINIA JINKINsoN-the young
lady from Central Alabama, was about
to dance the mazurka with young SYL-
vEsTER ADoLPuus FANTADDLING. At
least that was what / heard somebody
call him. She was unquestionably the
most divinely beautiful specimen of
girlhood my eyes had ever beheld.
With form that would have shamed
the celebrated Venus of Milo-a form
so wonderfully faultless III its proper
tions that the beholdcr could scarcely
believe it other than the creation of
some inspired sculptor--a form, in
short, which the faircst, proudest god
dcss that ever firtcd by moonlight
amid the roses of her Olympian home
would have resigned her sccptre and
her Immortality to possess; with eyes
that flashed more brightly and beauti-
fully than the united rays of a constel-
lation of midnight stars. and made un
resisting vassals Of a thousand hearts
at every glance; with hair more Iowa
bly iustrous, but very strongly rcscm-
bling the golden st-fabrics woven IN
the rcarly looms of the dawn; with
lips whose slightest touch must have
been swecter than Beauty's lingering
kiss; with voice as musical as the
murmur Of the silvery fountains ol
Fairyland; with step and motion in
the dance which made her seem the
very genius of poetry; and, in one
word, with q cotton plantation cultiva,
ted by an effective force of one hundred
and fifty seven hands, who never heard
ofthe Freedmen's Bureau; and bank
account whose last scmiannual state
mcnt exhibited clean balance of nine
teen thousand six hundred and forty
three dollars and half in her favor
with this grand combination of attrac
tions, | do not hesitate to repeat that
Victoria Virginia Jinkinsou was the
most magnilicently beautiful woman j
ever beheld.
When entered the ballroom, as
have already remarked, Victoria Vir
ginia Jinkinson was about to dance the
mazurka with young gentleman oftht
name of Fantadling. l remember as
pleasing incident of the evening, thai
she wore what the ladies now cal
filters" I used to think them {
weak invention of the enemy, but
confess now that ! rather like them
Behold dozen of them in the bcwild
cring convolutiOns Of Polka or Schot
tische -
BY Juno! It's goodly sight to see
| To him who has no friend or sister there.
I But let us proceed. At the momen
Of nv entrance, Victoria Virginia jim
kinson and young Fantadling were tn
only couple on the floor, and no soone
did the band strike up and send then
whirling down the hall than my atten
ton was irresistibly attracted to tn
classic lovelness Of Victoria Virgin
, las foot, and the exquisitely graceful
manner in which she handled it. | no
ticed too that the silken hose which en-
viously attempted to conceal It was 0
r the exact hue and quality OF some
saw retailing on Dauphin street tn
, other day at seven dollars and six bit
, per pair. This. however, by the way.
With one jeweled hand, fair as lily
reposing like fake of snow within tw
{ inches and half Of the collar Of Far
$ tadling's coat. with the other sh
r fought back her rebelliOus staple an
fancy dry goods, floating on and ava
at the same time in that style of delit
, ious and enchanting ravishment whic
: recalls St. Simon's poetic idea Of
!. goddess on the Clouds" and nev'