Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-09-05
sTREsT Pirates.
what Yonng Men Know About shop
ping. maEa
A Plea I'm Behalf OF Young Ladies,
Vaienciennes, Flounces and Ribbons.


Not by this caption dc we mean a pick |
picket, loaing thief nor one who robs the |
Few would imagine its |
meaning, and not few are averse to apply |
its propriety to themselves as subjects. We |
mean those gentlemen who are in the habit |
of hugging lamp-posts, staring at strangers |
and accompanying ladies when shop |
ping. Did it ever occur to these gentlemen |
that the presence of their sex is exceeding |
ly annoying to lady when she is making |
a purchase? There are numerous articles |
never intended in their original raw state |
as dry goods to meet the eye of |
of perception by a necessary privilege is
allowed this. Often young ladies because
of gentlemen being present are compelled
to leave store without buying anthing.
A store is no place to court in. If it is,
then the clerk only has the right and for a
gentleman who meeting lady on the
street accompanies her there to talk love,
to engage in filtration, is an Infringement
of that prerogative which merciful cupid
has granted as one of the many pleasures
and assigned delightful duty to the clerk.
ONLY a few DAYS ago we heard a lady say to
almost worries my very life out. l went
to purchase --, "a delicate article from
Mrs. -, the milliner, but that dreadful
do etc?" Young men,
take warning by this. You may be
convenient as a practical valet to carry her
parasol, provided it is not sunshiny wealth
err, or desirable as a pleasant companion
y xr-bo no lod t
has made her turchases and returning home
is in five minutes walk of her residence.
Under these circumstances you may carry
her fan if iG isn't warm weather,or some trim
ket or toy doll which is destined for
little sister. But if there are two young
ladies in company who live not at the same
place, only bow to them, and if the impetus
of polite habit, which is a tendency
to act founded on disposition, compels
you to make few complimentary
utterances, be brief, and in this weather be
certain you are under an awning or in the
shade. If possible be witty, and for in
stance say you are 10 a hurry, have busl-
ness with friend down the street. Look
admiringly compassionate and they will
deem YOU discreet. The reason OF this is
manifest when you know that the young
ladies you will not have an opportunity OF
seeing each other before night, expect TO
attend ball, receive ball invitation, ETC.,
hence it is necessary to don an appropri-
ate dress, and as every young lady nova
DAYS is expected to have so many dresses
that the proper selection being often at
tended with difficulty, it is necessary or as
pleasant TO consult the taste of another.
If she expected to go commence series
of vehicu!ary engagements or anticipated
much carriage driving, naturally she would
have TO visit the milliner's seven times and
have as many conversations with her (more
probably with "papa" who holds the reins
of the money purse) as to whether she
would have a skirt OF striped and plum
| colored silk with gathered bottom, sur
mounted by a wide straight lengthwise
band of narrowly pleated ruffling. This
REQUIRES time, and her spare moments are
spent in consulting with her friend par e.
| ceLLelce in taste as to the propriety Of
bask waist and redingote white or buff
| cashmere sleeves trimmed with dark green
| or black, and pGSSeIlnleTlterie; and especial
| " about the white straw bonnet
with aiqrette aud scared autumn leaves
with enough brilliancy of departed summer
| left to make contrast. Young man when
YOU carry her purple edged parasol, thereby
relieving the fair shoppers hand OF g pleas
ant toy, do you once think your presence
NAV cause her to forget any OF the above
detailed indjspeusables? Well, you may,
| who knows? Suppose she is thinking about
new party dress, you can't amuse her,
and every word you utter is stupendous
nonentity of attractive significance, She
NAV, it is true, decide to have, as matter
| of course, a train dress of white silk, pos
sessing the natural double rut1es
| of silk gauze beneath garlands Of
crimson roses and heagy spaGgled
foliage. Then, however, it takes
much time to decide that the tunic must be
draped and upon the full bufiiant vest large
loops of the rose silk ceinture. 1t might
be no trouble to adopt this dress, but then
there is another equally as becoming; fer
instance, a straw colored white silk and
coloriess grenadiue, with deep flounce of
this material located, well, somewhere above
the edge of the long train skirt. She is
thinking about these dresses, and when she
goes shopping your "critical eye and prac-
teal taste"-she may cell you all this-does
not assist her preference OF improve her
perturbed feelings. True, that milliner
would say this fOunce is to be divided near
the top and gathered under a band
like the dress, thence extending through a
putting of gTenadine upon which at equldls-
tant points loops and floating curls-like
schooner's streamers or those OF fair Bellln-
da's locks. Were this all, she might haze
time to enjoy your talk in her walk. But
then it takes some time to discover that the
ribbon loops drape it in the lateral localities
and falls open in broad folds at the real
which is open. Much cogitation with self,
consultation with friends and information
dLiu1ade are necessary precondi'ions to the
belief that there must be low sleeveless:
corset of silk with small square
basque; that this must be
trimmed with sFepGdiue (your presence
may make it green-eyed,} RULES, and, q:
names are to be given Of the "styliSt
presently with goose-quill pqBtngs Ihii
: is only a small part of annoyance inhabiting
the young lady's mind with business-llkt
ideas, to the great detriment of cupid anC
continent who are scared from their shrine
1t Is 10 be considered Lnat the rands anC
hoops are to be OF pQTTCge ribbon ant
comes also coiffTe Of flowers. 8nly
think, young lady has not only To eogltatt
about these, but countless other mimi
tie viii h make the tout ensemble Of ful
ball dress or fashionable attire. Can
didly, have you no more consideration fol
her fashionable duties, her feelings ant
limited tiLle, hhar to disturb her judgmen
and annoy her taste wien che Goes shopping:
By all the newspaper abutf1eEis Of fash
ionable attire, by all the elegance of Val
lenciennss, by the fascinating deception o
, imitation cotton lace, by the soft CLEAN o
modest eyes, by the proud scOrn OF loft
[ brows, by the quesnly grace of female lone
illness and in the voice o. woman's soul
subduing tones of melody, co we charg'
that you no longer embarrsss and hafrass
perplex and confuse, annoy and tease, wor
~ and tantalize. vex and provoke, irFitat'
and enrage, Illustrate and disturb young la
dies who go shopping. Will you sometime,
thinIc Of this and send your card though
receiving .qqarcaE's worth of ''regrets?"
ROck City BanS.
NASHVILLE, TENN, Sept. 2, ls72.-At
meeting of the Crock City Band" held thi
n I