Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-08-07


A young lady saw in wicked pape
that If two young ladies would each TAX
| a pole of galvanic battery in one hanC
and then complete the circuit by kissing
| that the sensation upon the lips was ex
/ actly that of the pressure of moustache
She communicated the fact to number
of friends; a battery was secured and the
experiment tried, and found to work to a
charm. A large number of pocket bat
teries have been ordered, SO that hereaf
ter when ladies meet and kiss, as is theil
custom, they can shut their eyes and full.
ly enjoy the satisfaction of feeling a gen,
tlernan's lips pressed to theirs. 5H
. .ENAMELING BUSINESS IN PARIS.
6 The National reveals some of the sc.
crets of the ''enameling" business al
Paris. Recently a lady well advanced in
years, who had renowned the pomps and
vanities of the world, was curious tC
know some of the tricks of this trade,
and repaired to famous professor of the
art for rendering her sex t'beautiful fol
ever Addressing the Partisan 'Rachel, ,
she said, ''Perhaps you mistake the mo-
tive of my visit. have come to en-
deavor to repair what is irreparable. F"
''Madame, | am quite at your service, "
said the enameler. F''WelI, how do you
go to work ~ 81 employ several
methods. If you wish to be done thor
oughly, like -- (namiDg a Ger.
tain great LADY,, several days of prepare,
ton are necessary. Look in this magnif,
cent mirror. You see all the wrinkles
and hOllows which time has imprinted
upon your face. Well, 1 first ill up
these hollows by these fine
siJken threads, which are care
fully laid in each wrinkle, and at
tached by some adhesive preparation.
This takes very long time, and requires
great dexterity of hand. When every
wrinkle is thus filled up, l spread over
the face one of my preparations, which
fixes the thread firmly to the skin, and
keeps them all in their place. After that
slight busting of violet powder, which
must be constantly renewed. This pro-
cess will last for month, after which it
must be repeated "Well," said the
lady, ssbut during the month, how about
washing the face ''You must not think
of washing, nor even blow your nose.
That would disturb the position of the
threads laid in the crows feet, madame. "
The priestess of the fountain of youth
then detailed more infinitely other less
elaborate means of repairing the ravages
of time, mentioning various titled DANES
who had been "rejuvenated" in a most
successful manner, and informing her
visitor that permanent beauty" equiva-
lent to a new skin, cost only 500 francs
and other minor Improvements in proper
ton. @ H1-
MEMS FAvORlTEs-DIFFERENT STYLES OF
WOMEN THAT ARE P0RELAR. '..
There are two kinds of gel emen's ia
vorites-the bright women who amuse
them, and the sympathetic women who
love them. But these last are of doubt
ful-what co untry people call ''chancy'
kind; women who show their feelings toe
openly, who fall in love too seriously, OF
perhaps unasked altogether, being more
likely to irritate and disgust than to
charm. But the bright, animated women
who know how to talk and do not preach,
who say innocent things in an audacious
way and audacious things in an innocent
way, who are clever without pedantry
frank without impudence, quick to follow
a lead when shown them, and who know
the difference between badinage and earn
estness, flirting and serious intentions
these are the women liked by men, and
whose social success in no wise depends
on their beauty. OF one thing the clever
woman who wants to be gentlemen ia
vorite must always be careful-to keep that
half step in the rear which alone recon-
Giles men to her superiority of wit. She
must not shine so much of her own light
as by contact with theirs; and her most
brilliant salhes ought to convey the i'm
preston of being struck out by them
rather than of being elaborated by herself
alone; suggested by whathad gone before,
if improved on for their advantage. Elst
she offends the masculine self-love, never
slow to take fire, and gains an element Oh
hardness and self.assertion incompatible
with her character of favorite. Not thai
men dislike all kinds of self-assertion,
The irrepressible little woman with heI
trim waist and jaunty air, pert, pretty,
defiant, who laughs in the face of thu
burly policeman who could crush her be-
tween his finger and thumb, and to whom
ropes and barriers are things to be
skipped over or dived under as the CASE
may be-she who is all flounces and self
assertion like little bantam, is also most
frequently gentleman's favorite, and en-
couraged IN her saucy forwardness.
Then there is the graceful, fragile swar
necked woman, who a generation age
would have been one of the Della Cruscan
school, all poetry, and music, and tint
feelings, and of delicacy so refined thai
nature would have had to be yelled ant
toned down to the subdued key proper fol
the graceful creature to accept. NoW-s
days she plunges boldly into the midst Of
the most tremendous realism, is an arden
advocate for woman's rights, and perhap!
goes out son the rampage" on platforms
and the like, to advocate doctrines a
little in harmony with the kind OF
beign she is as would be q diet o.
horsefesh and brandy. But she gets he
following; and men who do not agre'
with her delight to set her off on he
favorite topics, just as women like to Sc,
their little girls play with their dolls and
repeat to the harmless dummy the ex
/ perience which have been real to the m
selves. These two classes of self-ass er
ton are mere plays which amuse men
but when it comes to a reality, and is N
longer a play-when a man is made tt
feel small, useless, Insignificant by thu
| side of a woman-he meets then will
something he neither likes nor easily for
gives: and if such woman had the beau
ty of Venus, she would not be gentle
mems favorite of the right sort, though
some of course would admire her i'm
mensely, and do their best to spoil an
make fool of her.
A gentlemen's fayorite of the right sor
must, among other things, be well up i
the accidence of flirting, and know HOY
to take it at exactly its proper value. Sh
must be able to accept broad compl
ments, or more subtle love-making, with
out either too serious an acceptance c
too grave depreciation. This is a gres
art, and one that, more than any othel
puts men at their ease, and sets the ms
chinery of pleasant intercourse in harmC
NOUS action. Never to show whethe