The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-09-25

To the Editor of Louisville Courier;
Mary Jane has got it; that fashion
able curvature of the spine called the
"Grecian BEND" She caught It at Sar-
atoga, where she has been on exhibi-
ton during the season. She has re-
turned, however, bringing with her
several trunks full of second hand
clothing-i. C., garments which she has
worn once.
As was passing dry goods store
on Fourth street, Mary Jane was COM
ing out of the door. She was pitching
forward at such a rate that I thought
she was about to fall into my arms, L
held out those implements OF industry
accordingly. She didn't fall worth a
cent. Regarding not the example set
by our first parents, she maintained
her curyiliniar form, and placing the
tip ola gloved finger on my outstretch-
Ell palm, she said=in the fashionable
drawl of a cursed Fifth Avanoodle,
.'Aw,. Yubaw, is 1t you? Deloited."
She picked up that internal accent
and language at Saratoga also.
"Why, Jennie dear, this is an unex-
pected pleasure, tGTabbing both the
little hands, and rolling them up to-
gether.l was not looking for you for
some weeks. You areill. am sorry.
Shall assist you to your carrlage?"
She looked something like the half of
n parenthesls, but more ike an inter-
roRauon point. 1t was certain that She
had been eating unripe fruit, and was
suffering from cramp collie. and 1 won
dered why she did not 90 home and
take something. But she said:
Never was bettaw in ma loife. 1
was fawced to lave that sweet place
because had absolutely nothing to
weaw."
"Nothing to wearI Why what has
become Of all your clothes? Did you
have fire, or did you exchange them
for flower vases and plaster Paris stat
uettes of the apostles?
"Haw stupid I had warn all my
dresses once, and Its nawt the stoyle TO
appear In the same appRwral twoice."
"Confound tho stylol But 1 am
glad you came home, IL you did come
almost naked and SO changed that It is
difficult to realize that 1t Is you. You
| are among friends now, and 1 hope you
shortly recover your speech and your
| figure" \
She was mad, and ex pressed herself
quite naturally and intelligently, as
follows M
"Friendsi I suppose it is the chief
duty of ones friends to find fanlt-with
one. declare am tired Of friends,
and of this little provincial town where
the primitive manners and STYLES ofthe
baGkwoods still prevail. II one goes
for awhile into good society abroad and
returns somewhat civilized, one is sure
TO incur the jeers and ridicule OF the
barbariRns> here. Good morning."
Saying which, she dived into another
/ dry goods trap, and was soon engaged
in t1mbIing and cheapening the lash
ionRble fabrics of the hour. -s5 4
never saw such change in a person
in few short weeks. When parted
with her at the depot few weeks ago,
she was the very picture of health and
the peTsontt1cation OF physical beauty.
4
tenderly administrative as she we'll
could bein crowd composed ofPdteT-
| JdMiEiGS, who instead Of attending to
his business and baggage, thought il
was necessary to see me and Mary Jane
safely deposited on the train, It was
my BELIEF that the old gentleman was
AFRAID that 1-Would secrete myself some
where in that car. / wish now had.
The energy with which Mary Jane
attacked the dry goods convinced me
that / was wrong in my green fruit sup
position, and that she was suffering
from something beyond the reach OF
peppermint. 1 naturally concluded
that 1t must be that terrible. disease
known as the spinal complaint,
brought on by carrying too heavy
PdslHterS and supporting long trains.
i forthwith diligently consulted all the
medical works which treat OF that at1-
ment, and accumuIated all the infor-
nation on that subject I could, by
vague Questioning, extracts from the
medical profession. With a mind
/ stored with useful knowledge and a
heart overlooking with affection, call
! ed to see the little sufferer with the in-
tention ofimparting 20 her goodly
| quantity of both. 80. =. III
She came Into the parlor looking as
though she had been crimped with curl
ing tongs. How Ipitied her. A few
weeks before she was as straight as an
arrow, and q natural emile played
about her rosebud mouth, instead Of
that constrained quicker OF pain (as /
then supposed 80 $3.50. ,.----
"HoW doyou feel now, Jennie dear, .
I said in my most thing tome, - i