The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1871-10-05
A Palace Car Episode-A Brides Toilet on
the Plains.

When morning came with Wednesday, we
had left civilization behind us. We were rush
ing along the valley of the Platte, and on either
side as far as the eye could reach, there extend
cd a grey and melancholy ocean. All that day
we tore along, ourselves the only human occu-
pants save at the stations, where We stopped a
moment to water and then tore on again.
On the Wednesday morning had lntcrro-
gated the plains at first dawn, but, repclled by
their sad monotony | fell back in my berth
with disappointment. Sunrise came, and l
still lay there dreaming and waiting, when M
attention WIS attracted toward statcroom
which w:ls lust beyond Inc on the opposite side.
The door w;ls slightly open, and accident or
the wind had 50 displaced a curtain that could
rot but see the whole OF the interior.
] blush as | write it, but | saw | could not
help seeing, and my sensations were 50 curious
that | cannot resist attempting Il description ol
BEAUTY AND lis TOILET.
Ii was shc--the slender, sI,irtucllc BRIDE
The fond husband WAS lathcring himself before
the mirror in the wash-roon-and she availcd
herself of his absence to resume the proper
garniturc of day.
She SIT 50 that had a thrcc-quartcr view Of
her back. She sat on her berth, with her eyes
fixed on the mirror i'll the wall. Her aiabastcr
shoulders were bare, and naked foot with rosy
toes pecpcd out from the mass Of white upon
which she was seated Her arms were bare to
the shoulders, save Il marrow bridge of white 4;
and thc>;. white and slender arms went wilder
inev around in all kinds OF mazy twiningS and
inrrtwinn.S, as their fair owner arranged her
bcautcous locks.
Many of ;ho,c curly nests Of attraction which
noticed upon her head the day before were
taken from box, where all the night they had
had the supreme pleasure of resting by the feet
of their charming mistress How those locks
CIV from ,l!cir nni'.nrn"-, lntoa may c'li!Urs'
that WAS as artistic is il va, enlrancin@
And now the happy corset cncl;.-'ed thG;
slender waist. and long lin@crs came around
behind and deity wovc up the ravc!td wooi,
whose completion WIS close and cnvlcd cn-
brace. Then critical glance into the mirror,
as the head turned from side 10 side, and the
slender fingers moved here Il curl and there u
frizz, whose change made the foH eh$em0fc the
more couuclti>h and charming.
And then the long, shapcly hands went down
into the box and ii>llcd forth Il twin combina-
lion of al unknown character. They were
oraviSh in color, and looked like an immense
rair of goggles, save that their converse sur
faces were accurately rounded like the exterior
of a hemisphere The twin combinations she
placed carefully within her corset, at the upper
edge, in front, and then she glanced into the
mirror and regarded TIE blisslul twin concavo-
cunvcXiticS with approval.
Just here blu>hcd at discovering what
was doing, and at once Withdrew my eyes
What gaze thus upon an innocent, beautiful
creature rs she puts on the armor of her charms
Never will be guilty of Il clandcstinc opera
ton Of such Il nature. And | pcrslStrntly
looked out OF the window upon ihc sad wastes
of the plains or. Chirn2o Times.