The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1870-07-28

The Picnic,

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Permit mo through the columns o.
your paper, in behalf OF all who en-
joyed it, to return hearty thanks to the
good people of Cowan and vicinity lol
the pleasure afforded by the picnic on
Saturday last in the neishborhood OF
Coosa Cave. 1t was 4 most recherche
affair, and graphic description would
require more time than we could spare
and more words than we possess,
The company was well selected and
afforded every variety of society from
the "almond blossoms" of the mothers
and fathers in Israel" to misses OF
twelve summers and "nobby swells" OF
thirteen, and from polished bellies OF
Alabama and Mississippi to the Gu
chloric brilliancy OF bashful beauz who
hailed from the dcls "whcrs the wood
bine twineth" that lie at the foot of the
"mountaineous deestricts."
The place was well selected, and with
little trouble naturally ungainly thick
ct was converted into perfect love of
q ballroom, with ceiling of natures
own handiwork, far surprising the
most gorgeous beauty of carving or
frcscoe ever attained by the energies of
art.
Most Of the more venerable guests,
ostensibly invited to give eclat to q
skinner in the woods" were consider
ably taken aback to find that the devo-
tees of Terpsichore had busted them
selves in the general arrangement, and
that q neighboring mill had kindly Of
forded good quantity of saw-dust for
The naughty ones who wou!d "trip the
light fantastic" in harmonious unison
to the enlivening strains Of "Possum
up the Gum stump" and "Cotton.eyed
Joe"
Being fairly entrapped, however, to
A regular dancing frolic, they were con-
strained ito leave the fear Of heaven
upon their left hand, and hide their
honor in their necessity" yielding as
gracefully as they could to the force OF
over which they had no
and for "the benefit Of sci.
,nce"(Y) looked on to detect new
beauties in "the human form divine"
Is developed by the awful wickedness
If "swinging corners and balancing
o your partners"
The girls were beautiful, Of course;
md the married ladies were beautiful
omc too. The fact is, girls always are
beautiful. Indeed we may say, girls
lave habit of being beautiful, and
lnder no circumstances are they love-
Ter than when healthy glow suffuses
heir cheeks from a graceful exercise,
md with the light Of excitement spark.
ing in their eyes. At such times they
re placed in contrast with all the other
natural beauties and the latter greatly
uf'er from the comparison.
Though interest, gallantry, and local
ride compel us to maintain that the
young ladies we had the honor of es-
,ort:ng out there are the handsomest
hat ever graced the "footstool,' truth
equires the ackno wledgement that
hose from Tolly's Cove and the vicln
Ige Of Goshen compare favorably in
very respect with "the fairest flo Sers
hat bloom in the garden of beauty"
And alas! in one of them we found a
econd "daughter of Herodias," who
airly wllirled our head away as her d.
uinutive CATERS twinkled through the
nazes of the dance, and our heart
iercely palpitatcs to this good hour as
memory repaints the lovely vision, and
n our secret soul we find the convic
ion that
"Grecian chiscl ne'er did trace
A nympl, Il naiad. or a grace
With lOvelier form or sweeter face"
The dinner was, as the Frenchman
aid of Niagara Falls, "Suparb! By
,ar, he goes down farstrate!" and en-
Dyed with a kcenness of relish only
Produced by those best of sppetizers-
air and exercise; and it may
,e, slightly increased by that most ef'
ectual and agreeable of condiments
,randy cherries.
The whole day was delightfully."- spent
With but one accident to mar the pleas
ire of the occasion, and that rather af
ording amusement than annoyance to
III save the proprietor of the unfortu-
late hack. that, overburdened by a
ense of the honor of conveying so fair
freightagc, modestly sunk beneath it.
The frightening shadows having
inally warned US it was time to start
or home, hasty farewells we've ex.
hanged. and-to the agony of the gen.
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