Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-03-26
PATENT HKAvERg AS SHAM BOSOM.

4 my lauy HOH urtsScS HtrStlI, anu WIN
a chuckle of deep satisfaction, as she
thinks of the conquests she will make in
the evening in the glare of the lamps and
wax candles and gas. Bat her makeup
is not yet half complete. She has bus;
as white as alabaster, with shoulders and
arms to match, and warranted to 'setand"
firm for six months-if she does not die
before of checked perspiration aud an
unclean skin-for in all that time she
must be debarred from washing herself
and from the bath, which last, to most
women, is 80 luxuriant pleasure. What,
however, is the good of white bust if
there be no lilies and rosebuds grown
upon its fiat exteriorG She is well aware
OF this, and tells the artist what she
wants, who Immediately fixes her up with
pair of 'fpatent heavens" which are
rubber bags of beautiful lemon shape,
blown out with wind as an air cushion is,
and IN this state they are secured upon
the natural plane of the sacred locality,
and the woman is complete SO far. These
shams cost from five to ten and fifteen
dollars each, and are a Bowery manufac-
ture, where other very curious things are
made.
PADDRD, LEGGED, HANDED, DoNKi
But the lady before US has ugly arms
also-and these arms are made plump and
round by paddings of wool and cotton,
which is the work, however, of the dress
maker. She wore, when dressed, corset
of steel, padded about the waist and
hips, and our artist, before his work was
nnltn concluded hos m Iaa1 4ho
lady's extremities and give her pair of
false calves. The makeup was con-
tinued by piece of artistry which occu-
pied nearly an hour to finish. This con-
sisted in painting the hands white and the
veins blue, aud then powdering them.
The nails were also trimmed and colored,
and then came the adornments of the
chignon and the long curls.
THE YOUNG HUSBANDS DILEMMA.
John had just married and brought home q bride,
A graceful and buxOm and beautiful miss;
And when at the altar he stood by her aide,
IL seemed the last drop in his full cup Of bliss.
Indeed she was one of the fAirest Of creatures;
Her lips were like rubies. her teeth white as
The rose might have borrowed Its hues from her
features,
The sunlight was Knocked by her bright golden
curls.
With fessting and music the swift moments few
TIL midnight approached, and the bride and her
grolm,
After bidding their friends and companions adieu,
Retired-together Of course-to their room.
There her beautiful wreath and gossaner veil
On top Of the bureau she carefully laid,
Then placing her dress, with its long eilken trail
Ger the back Of q chair By the side OF bed.
And then, one by one-but can't tell the name
or the various garment embroidered and white
Nor the feeling that over the young hu.oand
As he sat and observed her disrobe for the night.
But many brilliant illusion ween,
Tue possession Of such position dispels
To man who has heard, but never yet seen
That wonderful process, the PeeIiag Of Bellies.
So John felt, on seeing those beautiful curls,
Those glorious masses OF bright golden hair;
And the teeth he admired-they we're whittier than
All laid in box that she placed on chair.
Meantime in that box something more eau ght his
eye,
To show how the artist Dame Nature can mock:
A foil and judIciously chosen supply
Of cosmetics Gd lb., rouge, enamel and chalk.
From her cheeks came her bumpers, which, lest |
she should lose EN-,
She placed in her toilet box too, with the rest;
Then swiftly detached the full, palpitant bosom |
Her lover so fon1ly-so blindly-had pressed.
Then she plsced on the chair the huge cushions |
she wore,
When the husband was still more than ever nom
plussed,
To what he had never had witnessed before
fair womans hustle abreast of her bust.
Then touching a spring that was hidden some
where,
Her lower limbs parted precisely in halves,
md she laid on the Atari mean on the chair
Her last sacrifice, pair Of Fat calves.
Her dissection completed, she plunged under |
cover,
Like lAth that might into a rivulet drop;
Then tenderly asked of her motionless lover
''My darling, how long do you mean to sit up7" |
My dear, I'm quite undecided /" he said.
"Whst course in the case would be proper and /
fair
To follow the fraction that got into bed,
Or stay with the part that is piled in the chair?