Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1868-10-18

/ "With pleasure, sir" ''Have you be
trothed? ~ She eyed him moment ia sur
, prise, and said then, with blush an,
, smile, mo sir. "Would you like. to hav,
| one p "That depends on circumstances,
she said, laughing. "Well, then, wonic
r you take me 2" So saying, he handed kei
his card. She was greatly astonisbed, and
finally stammered out she would give hin
an answer next day. On the following
morning he called at her house, the reply
was in the affirmative, and to-day Mile.
Luzgel Is a Princess aRd happy wife.
COLOR IN THE NEW YORK soRosIs.
The question of color has got into the
New 1ork Sorosis. A prominent member
of the society, at the last meeting, offered
a resolution that all women, of any nation
or color should be eligible to membership.
Whereupon another member opposed it,
and said she would, perhaps, not object
(and.was not quite sure in her mind yeti to
receiving into fellowship an intellectual
and accomplished woman of color, but she
was not prepared TO consent to her adniis-
sion because Of her color. As well might
they particularize the Chinese or Mongo-
lians, as TO specify women OF color. She
did not approve Of batting for women of
any color or condition 10 offer themselves
for membership. The protesting sisters
remarks created hubbub, and for a few
minutes The gentle as ISOLATION, in confusion,
rivaled Radical convention. But harmony
was soon restored by voting down the ob-
noxious proposition.
THE PROPER SIZE OF A LADY's FOOT.
Boots, ladies boots, are the subject of a
letter from Mr.. Bouomi to the London
Builder strange medium for such a
| topic, by the way He has been measuring
the foot of the Venus de Medici, or rather
| lit amounts to the same thing OF an accu-
| rate cast of the statue. The erect height
of the figure is, as is well-known, five feet
two inches, and he finds the length Of the
| foot TO be exactly nine inches, or as nearly
| as possible one-seventh Of the height. The
breadth of the widest part of the sole is
| three and three eighths inches, fraction
over one-eighteenth Of the figures stature
From these data, and knowledge of her
height, every lady can determine the size of
her boots; she may exceed The dimensions
given in the formula if she sees tit but woe
TO her health, and according to Mr..
Bouomi, good-by TO the symmetry of her
pedestals, if she tries TO squeeze them into
anything less. But does the Venus, or any
other idealzatiou, represent every case of
the humanity it typifies? II, as is certainly
the case, some feminine extremities exceed
the sculptor's proportions, others as GER
tainly fall within them; and it is hardly
likely that the possessors of these will wear
boots TOO big for them merely for the sake |
Of conforming TO fancy standard.
~ spApCtT on rrpl-Trr rr>Drp DrrrrCrrr
TIES.
A correspondent of an English paper !
writes from Aix-les-Bains, Savoy: Let me |
describe the health-seeking proceedings of
patient at AK for one day. / will take
a lady. By the way, you go there for
rheumatism and govt, diseases of the skin,
throat, gestiOn-eyery description of
malady, as far rs can make out by the
Indicaieur) Well, at Eve o'clock in the
morning a servant knocks at the door; the
lady is already supposed to be in her
morning robes. Two men put the patient
into a sort Of sedan chair, which is n seat
surmonnted by canvass roof and screen
ing cuIt ains. The lady finds herself sud
denly shrouded in this yellow and red
stripped drapery, like an Eastern Princess
on her travels You are taken off by the
official p0rters downstairs, through the
streets until You get 10 the watering es
adjustment, large building most elabO-
ralely constructed for every conceivable
description of bath, dOuchc and vapor APP
plicatiou. Screened and hidden from the
world in your palanquin, the careful por-
ieurg place you in n chamber, where ap-
pear two females in short blouees, with all
the upper paris Of the form nude and look
irg red and brown from the continual action
Of the water. The patient enters second
vaulted chamber, intrO1Hc hy the d0uchf
women referred 10, precisely in the condi-
ton, as regards toilette, as your first fe-
male parent took her bath. Here the lady
is placed in A chair; aboge and about are
mysterious pipes and receptacIes for water,
aud ropes, and India-rubber tubes with
metal-pierced mouth ;syringe7, queer look
ing pumpI, and.a shelf holding some bot
ties containing restoratives. All these
media for squirting keep up a peculiar
of their Diminishing, faint
dribbling sounds, originating in
an intense anxiety on the part of The water
to be let off The bathing women, accord
ing to the orders Of the medical man, ma
the cftfe limb or toe whilst the
dgucIe is simultaneously applied, hot OF
cold. or both After ab0u. fifteen Minutes
of the furious rain and kneading, the pa
tient is wrapped mp in blankets without
dressing again, put into the sedan chair,
well screened, then carried to the hotel,
and hv The porters in this state put into
bed The half-mullled respiratory organs
and enveloped body soon cause the patient
to perspire, and this is certainly proved
remedy for rheumatic affections such a
originate in accident, and are not constiiu-
tional. The maid ere long unrobers her
mistress mummy, dresses her in a very
fashionable costume it may be- and she
goes down to a breakfast of fish, flesh, fowl
aud frnits at 10 Oclock, meeting hundred
other fashionable bathers, who have all
that morning been bathing or steami ng, or
undergoing the pleasing sensation Of fierce
injections from sAaky tubes by
A REMARKABLE WOMAN.
In n low, tumbled-down building in the
old Faubourg ST. Mary, New Orleans, reek-
ing with perpetual damps, and with the
mould Of nearly 4 century on its roof, lives
an old woman, whose career il one Of the
most remarkable in the history Of the
Crescent City. Once brilliant and beauti-
lul she yet retains traces though dimmed
aud fading, Of that exquisite lOveIine75
which made her the belle and leader of
fashion in her native city. An only child, |
born TO immense wealth and educated 10
every accomplishment which the most
learned European seminary could supply, |
at eighteen she shOne upon the world of
fashion here, without a rival. COurted and
nattered, with innumerable suitors, she dis
Carded the advances of men, and appeared
only anxious to enjoy the society in which
she moved so conspicuous and brilliant an
ornament Bat it was not destined for her
to remain So 1t is said that no woman
can exist without loving, and she proved
no exception to the generality of her sex.
Her attachment was, however, unworthily
bestowed and lamentable in its results.
Passionate and Jealous, she unfortunately
found in her husband too much cause
for their indulgence Neglected, her
love turned to hate - scOrned, her re-
sentiment was impIaclble. In moment
Of feIcely stimulated passion, she abau-
doned her home and friends, and shortly |
afterward appeared in 4 foreign court in
that most disreputable of all characters, a
female adventures. But if her calling was
disgraCetul her career was distinguished |
She became the ruling spirit that guided !
and controlled the actions Of monarchy. |
At her nd, brilliant meteors faded from |
the galaxy of fashion, and armies swept |
over hostile borders But a revolution |
arose il the land and She became The in |
mate of prison. Escaping thence by the |
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