Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1871-01-12
Jcnkins Gene 90 Grief.

Our "local" cotemporary, CHM, Of
the Carson Register, had the presump-
tuous temerity to attend the grand
inaugural bail at Carson the other
night, for the purpose Of reporting the
same. There he sat miserably all
night long taking notes and worrying
his poor brains trying to get up a com.
prehensive description of that brilliant
affair. He even went so far as to get
up n long and critical description Of
the ladies' dresses, something he knows
no more about than n Chinaman's
donkey does. The idea of CHM saying
that Mrs. so and so was rugged up in a
pink tarletan panier trimmed with
blue Moselle, or that Miss so and so
was decorated with 4 rich overskirt of
buff fluted point applique, cut biased,
and worn drec des pundiSe deS bots,
with its fine illusions heightened out
into a long court train, Is too exasper-
ating altogether. No wonder that his
published account of the thing created
n fearful sensation among the ladies',
and that they were ready to lynch him
forthwith. II he ever gets into a white
folks ball again down there, it will
be clandestinely, in disguise, or by
bribing the door-kecper. He will
v have the bad taste to go and
"Jenkinsize" a ball again. But the
worst of the whole vas that Re closed
his fearful record Of the affair by
speaking of the ladies present as sage
hens. Such n bristling Of feathers as
this atrocity did arouse, and how they
did get after this innocent youth from
the eastern sagebrush wildS. But we
will let poor jenkins tell about 1t him.
self:
"APoLoGErIc.-We expected 4 squall
Yesterday, on account Of the neceSsa-
rily imperfect nature Of our report OF
the Inauguration ball-and it came;
but q precautionary absence during
office hours saved our hair. Those
ladies whose dresses we described were
displeased, those whom We could not
get sight Of ut the ball were more so,
while all Of them gave us fits about the
last sentence Of the article. Now, sage
hens are not only handsome but useful,
wherein they resemble women; they
are always OH the lookout for men
which is another striking resemblance;
they are very shy and fly away ut the
sight Of n man, but generally make a
circuit and brin Cup near him again
which Is not an uncommon thing with
the sex among the higher order OF ere
ated being; they never 0other the'r
heads about the old mans crop, anu
take the world very generally. On the
whole, there is but little difference be-
tween women and sage hens-save Ill
this, that sage hens are usually quiet.
We cannot see why a lady should OBJ.
ject to being compared to a sage hen,
any more than to any other bird. Men
are not so particular. For instance, il
We should speak Of one Of our grave
Senators as a "sage rooster" he would
feel complimented. But to the apol-
ocy. We heard of II young lady
who was so mortified at not being
photographed "by orr special artist
on the spot" that she was taken ill
Yesterday; another would swear. upon
n stack Of bibles as high rs the base Of
Russian Hill that she never wore a
low,necked dress in her life; others
were reconciled to u verdict as TO
who was the belle, because We had
qualified it and given them the adyan-
tage In youth and to the only one we
heard Of who did not want to get her
taper fingers tangled la our hair,
jenkins respectfully dedicates this
apology.