The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-08-22
NEW YORKISM,S.
M.om O,.r o,on oorrespondent.

realize it are, am sorry to say, generally fail
ures. Listen. The Greciau Bend, OF which so
much is being said and written, is that exquis-
itely flexible curvature of the female form so
perfectly indicated in the attitude of so many
q Grccian statue. 1t would be too much, per-
haps, to say that ladies who possess it to perlec-
zion born with 1t, and that to attain it is an
1mpossibiity. Still the gifts of nature are the
great assistants here, and no amount of pad
ding and other arrangements which 1 dare
not particularize will suffice TO get up
a successful imitation. Ristori possessed it
TO perfection. HerEattitude as PhGdra was full
of 1t, so that the whole house would be in an
ecstacy of applause during the silence of her
tragic pantomime. The Grecian Bend is the
great object Of every young lady's ambition in
and around New York, and consequently the
Grecian Bend will extend North and South, and
East and West, until this last ripple of fashion
breaks itself upon the shore of obsoeteness and
another takes its place. The Greciau Bend is a
very cruel fashion TO an Informed woman; to
one who is short or dumpy, or scrawny in the
arms and neck STILL let us not laugh at the
unbeautiful, who are striving after beauty in
spite of nature, and with all the aids of art.
Think for one moment what would be the effect
of Roman Bend, let us say, were it to become
confusion of countenance and the confusion of
legs that the most imperturbable OF lady-killers
would be put to, aud then laugh at the uusuc-
cessful Grecian Bend if you can.
If there are any ladies in Philadelphia who
attend swimming school there, advise them to
take warning by the sad case of Mrs. Nessen,
in this city, who claims TO have been assaulted
by the keeper of natatorium at the foot of
VIZ ivfh ho hoo tuo
Sides Mrs. Nessen's side is that the keeper OF
The natatorium, Henry Geohard, by name,
charged her with having taken her sister with
her to the swimming school and there regaled
her with bath, without paying therefor, and
on her assuring him that this was not the case
he grabbed drawn sword lying conveniently
near and commenced a murderous assault
upon her, when her husband came to her relief.
Mr. Gebhard's side is that Mrs. Nessen was in
the habit in express violation of the rules Of
the establishment, of bringing her female friends
there without permission or introduction, and
of aiding and abetting them to take baths on
her own season ticket. He says that
on his demonstrating with her, she called him
nasty man, or mean fellow, or a low fellow, or
something TO that effect; and that he merely
retorted by suggesting that there was an 'inti-
respect. He furthermore charges that, so far
from picking up a drawn sword he picked up
fencing foil, which foil had button OF it, which
button he merely flourished harmlessly before
the eyes of Mr.. Nessen, when the latter rushed
up In defense of his wife. Nevertheless, the
injured Nessens took out a warrant for the
arrest Of one Henry &c bbaTd, in that he did
maliciously assault, etc. The magistrate, blandiy
dismissed the case, however, intimating at the
same time that the word Nessen was not pro-
perly a noun of multitude, signitying many, and
that a season ticket made out in that name
could only be construed as applying to one
individual, unless otherwise expressly stipu-
lated.
Perhaps you may have heard of Mrs. Mar
garet Gamble, who was recently buried at
Greenwood Cemetery. This Mrs. Gamble was
wealthy, and had been twice married. At the
time of her death her second husband was
living and likewise her two brothers. Some
time before her death she executed will be-
queathing a portion of her property to her
brothers and the remainder to her husband.
SChanging her mind however, she revoked the
first will and executed second, leaving all her
property to her husband. Very soon after this
she died. The shortness OF the interval between
her execution of the last will and her death
together with other suspicious circumstances
aroused her brothers distrust and they in
sisted upon the immediate disipterment o.
the corpse. The dreary work was per
formed, and the contents of the stomach
was submitted to medical tests. The subtes
chemistry that was applied. however, failed tc
detect the slightest trace of poison, and the
brothers we're quite as much foIled with respec
to the dead Mrs. Gamble, as the public and the
press have been in regard to the dead Mr.
Spicer. Lord Lytton, in one OF his prefaceS tC
his 'Lucretia," benevolently intimates tha
throughout the work he has nowhere hinted a
the names of the poisons by which his Children
of Night accomplished their murderous pur
poses. The reporters the physicians, and the
Coroner have been equally considerate witt
respect to the possible poison that may lark IL
the re-entombed remains of the unfortunate
Mrs Gamble. If the suspicious in regard to he
husband be correct, he must be an extremel.
accomplished meddler among drugs, or else, q
Is more probable, the medical men applied onl
the best chemical ferrets they knew of, aud no
the best existing.
Going, going, gone, is the present state c
things with respect to the cattle disease. Bu
how long it will remain gone can only be ma
ter OF conjecture. The Board of Health seem
10 have done all it can in this respect, and t
have somewhat atoned for the criminal ndilfel
ence it has shown in other respects DR.. SwiI
burne, the health officer at quarantine, is {
present making the tour OF the State for tE
purpose of applying and perfecting the arrang