The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-06-21
THE GAL OF THE FEsTIvAL.-We have

THE GAL OF THE FEsTIvAL.-We have
all of us heard good deal OF the uiri
of the Period" dnring the past TWO
wears. but she, as Rotterdam AnSter-
dam or some other dam poet once said,
is ousoaspeil. The Gal of the Festival
now reigns supreme
parbons Won don't know the Gal OF
the FESTIVAL. Let us introduce her'
She is a fragile creature, arrayed go''
coorsIv in a Turkey red underskirt
trimmed with Kentucky jeans, and an
overdress of curtain calico, edged with
noirt lace. On her head is new
three cent postage stamp trimmed
with alapaca and paper cambria
Tn her hand she waves three-ply
Rrussels handkerchief, with her initials
in chain stitch la Sausage worked In
tho northeast corner. This kerchief is
fragrant with Bouquet du Onion, now
the fashionable perfume. We met her
frst at the first festival of the season
and sbe has attended ali since. She is
lean. but good. shei thin, but q hearty
ea.er She dresses in the height OF
fashion. and looks languid, bat the
quantity of ice cream, Strawberries
cake. CONNECTIONS, sandwiches and coffee
abe can hold is appalling. She never
refuses to take anything hsr escort may
choose to buy, though she may have
eaten clean through another chaps
pocket- book ten minutes before. When
we first saw her we thought she had
been keeping herself on starvation diet
for a week or two, going into training
for the festival as bruisers do for prize
fight, but after three weeks patient and
particular observation we are satisfied
that she needs no previous preparation;
she goes it on principle.
She argues with herself thus: The
society for preparing red flannel shirts
moral pocket handkerchiefs and fine
tooth combs for diminutive darkies IN
the interior of Africa, are about tS.. give
a festival. What is my duty as Chris
tan woman? Why, of course, to make
as much money for the cause as l am
capable of. How can this best be
donei l haven't sufficient strength to
stand behind table all the evening,
and besides it's too confirming will not
sell bouquets-the colors of the flowers
set off my complexion to disadvantage
| am weak, but l can wrestle eatables.
That's my forte. can eat.
And she does. Good heuvings! She
does.
No sooner does young Greenhorn,
heir of Greatest Greenhorn,
ESQ.,, enter the room than she freezes to
him like a chicken hawk to a potato
bug. She is all smiles and complacency.
She shows him where the ices are,
where the strawberries, where the most
costly cake. He asks her to eat. Fool
ish youth! 1t would be better for you
to present the Association with the con-
tents of your pocket book at once, for as
we'll might you attempt to fill a thresh.
ing machine in full play by pitching
bundles of oats into it, as to fill the Gal
of the Festival by feeding her ices and
the like. Y. G. soon finds his stamps
have vanished and leaves, or the Gal of
the Festival turns him over tCanothcr of
the came sort, for she sees Blatherskitc
Shoddy, with his hair carefully parted in
the middle, just entering the room.
Again she ices, and rawberry and
cakes. Again pocket-6cOk looks sick,
and again the Gal of the Festival
pounces on another victim and the per-
Torrance is repeated over and over
again, till one is forced to exclaim with
ave can call these deli
cate creatures ours, but not their appe-
tites." In point of fact we wouldn't
want any such appetite. 1t would ruin
a mans reputation with any boarding
house keeper in America.
The great question with us is how
does the Gal of the Festival manage to
hold so much We couldn't do it and
not burst. We suppose, though, that
Providence that tempers the wind to
the shorn lamb aids the Gal of the Fes-
tival in her efforts for the good of the
cause.