New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-09-20
A Palace Car Episode-A Brides Toilet
on tho Plains.

A Palace Car EpisOde-A Brad0's X0aAes
on tho Plains.
Correspondence of the Chicago Times.1
When morning came with
Wednesday, we had left civilization behind
us, We were rushing along the valley of
the Platte. and on either side, as far as the
eve could reach, there extended q grey and
melancholy ocean. All that day we tore
along. ourselves the only human occupants
save at the stations, where we stopped a
moment to water, and then tore on again.
On that Wednesday morning l had inter-
rogated the plains at first dawn, but, re-
PEELED by their sad monotony. fell back IN
my berth with disappointment. Sunrise
came, and l still lay there dreaming and
waiting, when my attention was attracted
toward stateroom which was just beyond
me on the opposite side. The door was
slightly open. and accident or the wind had
80 displaced a curtain that could not but
see the whole of the interior
l blush as I write it, but what I saw
could not help seeing, and my sensations
were so curious that I can not resist at
tempting description Of beauty and its
toilet.
1t was she-the slender, spirituelle
bride. The fond husband was 1athering
himself before the mirror in the wash
room, and she availed herself of his
absence to resume the proper garniture Of
day.
She sat 30 that l had a three-quarter
view of her back. She sat on her berth,
with her eyes fixed on the mirror in the
wall. Her alabaster shoulders were bare,
and naked foot with rosy toes peeped out
from the mass of white upon which she
was seated. Her arms were bare to the
shoulders, save a narrow bridge Of white;
and these white and slender arms went
wi.deringly around in all kinds of may
twininys and intertwinings, as their far
owner arranged her beauteous locks.
Many of those curly nests Of attraction,
which 1 noticed upon her head the day be-
night they had had the supreme pleasure of
resting by the feet of their charming mis-
tress: How those locks grew from thin
nOthingness into may couture that was
as artistic as it was enhancing.
And now the happy corset inclasped the
slender waist, and long fingers came around
behind and deity wOve up the raveled
twOOf, whose completion was close aud en-
We'd embrace. Then a critical glance into
the mirror, as the head turned from side to
side, and the slender fingers moved here q
curl and there a frizz. whose change made
the tout ensemble the more cOQuettish and
charming.
And then the long shapely hands went
down into the box and fished forth twin
combination of an unknown character
They were grayish in color, and looked like
an immense pair of goggles, save that their
converse surfaces were accurately rounded
like the exterior of hemisphere. The twin
she placed carefully within her
cOrsets, at the upper edge, in front, and then
she glanced at the mirror and re garded the |
blissful twin concavOcOnvexities with ap-
prevail.
just here I blushed at discovering what I |
was doing. and at once withdrew my eyes. |
What! gaze thus upon an innocent, beauti. |
ful creature as she puts on the armor Of her |
charms! Never will be guilty of clandes- |
line operation of such nature. And per- |
sistently looked out Of the window upon the !
sad wastes of the plains.