The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1872-10-26
WHOLE NO. 407.
From the Philadelphia Post.
IncOnSOL0bLe.


Nj saw in your estimable paper the complaint
GLottie Lane" of being too big. sincerely
S,athize with her, and all her fellow sufferers;
Sssmplore you, Miss Lottie, not to think you
the sached the climax of distress yet. | am
Pa of suub nose. Surely the ways OF
baS rH.e are strange, very strange; for what
al .'y pIo aiserable done that should be afct-
WIN Sdis6guration of snab nose. Miss
hosue car, n,onsole herself with the hope that
Daoie NaturSray some day reduce her TO mere
SAeletop' BIT their is no hope for a snuo nose,
uone wha'eves l have pushed, pincned' ana
PuLeo II, but ar to no purpose; it remains tne
same stlck-up nose. | am known as the Miss NJ,
with the snub nose
Having any number OF cousins and sisters OF
the same name, person speaking of me to an
other will perhaps inquire, (which Miss NJ. T'-
The answer is, "Oh the one with the nOse"-as
if the others did not have noses On seeing
friend had not seen for a number Of years, and
hardly recognizing her, and remarking the same,
she says, ~ should know you anywhere by your
nose, it has not changed particle" OF course
| smiled, but fancy it was but grim smile at
the best. ln my school days my mates dubbed
me with the coguomen OF "Suub," and retain
it till this day. My brothers and sisters being
blessed with Tell-shaped noses, Strangers say,
"Why you have an odd one i5s:ha family, she
turn-up nose.H One of my dear lady friends
very amiably said to me, that she heard gentle
man remark that had the homeliest nose of any
person be ever saw. Ii could have annihilated
Ger wilma look, should have dsne it with in
tense satisfaction
The other day, ing young gentleman Of
my Acquaintance, DO Sed very politely, / th@ught
at the time He aiterward con6deniisly told a
friend, that be thought Miss NJ put on good
many airs that be spoke to her, and she just
stuck up her nose and sailed by. The other de-
murely replied that be thought that was natural.
But | might as well resign myself to my fate, re-
mberng the old maxim, "What CAM be cured,
must be endured"
compared TO a snub nose, than mole-hill is TO a
mountain MINNIE MORE.
Worse Still. ."-Worse than being reminder,
worse than being too TALL too stout, or too short,
is the terrible misfortune Of being too slender.
Truly, the patience of Jo6 the meekness o
Moses, the several virtues Of all the saints in The
calendar are needful if you would preserve q
sweet and unruffled expression amid the variou:
misfortunes of being too thin. How mortifyIng
it is, when you are hattering yourself that yor
have gained few pounds of flesh, TO be met with
the exclamation, you're a regular bean-pole 7
or to be greeted by some stouter friend in this
wise, "Yon look like a fence-rail When viii
you stop growing tall, and grow little stouter n
Or to hear the whispered insinuation, "You cam
call her fat, can you ?"
Oh oh oh of all the miserable people she
is most to be pitied who has not the averagt
amount of flesh
Poor me Whenever | see stout friend ap
preaching, | begin to mediate on the propriety
of flight, or am tempted to use artificial means tc
supply the neglect of Nature. Nous Oerrons per
haps some day fashion will change, and bellies
will cultivate the shadowy then, yes then, Ishal
be in my glory MYRTILLA-