Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1872-11-21
SeIefteo storn.
Louis Balloon.

! was sitting quietly in my room one
morning when a note from my old
friend. Lou Livermore, was brought
in. am very fond OF Lou, as, indeed
all her friends are though she still re-
mains like Holmes aunt
The sole unga;horcd rose
on her snccstral tree"
She lives far up in the country. but
occasionally comes TO Boston on n
visit. Her note was rs follows
DEAR llErsr,-IIere am in the
Hub, At the west end of il is that the
hubbiest part, wonder: l am coming
over TO see you Thursday. meant
TO 20 to-day but can't; I'm all used
up.-'clear tuckered out as Aunt Polly
used TO say. What has done it, Why,
my hew dress aud such a dress Ii
will give ycu fits 10 see how my back
e. ,---.~..~'I a. anu Puivu Uut. IN a
regular balloon; fashion plate
anything that Is huge and hiieous.-
camel or dromedary. for example:
only they. poor things were born with
humps on their backs, and | wasn't.
How came | so deformed" In an evil
hou. | listened to the voice of the
tempter, and put myself into the hands
! of city dressmaker.
She's very stylish, quoth the tempt
er.
Little recked | in my ignorance
what that meant; and ! went TO her
room in sweet, confding simplicity,
bearing an innocent-looking dress-pat-
tern under my arm. had three seam
ces with Mrs Cutit, most imposing
parsonage. of whom | stood in mortal
terror and at length emerged trans
formed. / went in slim; | came out
stout; | went in erect | came out
, hump-backed | went in plain; | came
out bedizened | went in with forty
dollars in my purse; | came out with
just enough to pay my fare home on
the street-car.-the collapse having
been transferred from my person to nv
purse with incredible celerity and
ease.
Verify. fashion doth make towards
Of US all : yea, and puff balls also. |
wish | had the courage TO 60 through
the world in gored gown without a
pinch or puff or pucker in it but
haven't: so | am balloon, that by
some incomprehensibl machinery is
raised into mountainous ridges. Sur
mounting these ridges, at right angles
TO my body,-if there be body inside
this corrugated globe, of which | am
in serious doubt, to say nothing Of an
immortal soul,-projects fan-shaped,
be-fringed, be-puckered basque, look
ing for all the world, like spread
turkeytail. On top of this projection
a good-sized trunk could be comforta-
bly, seated only it might fall in! !
wonder if pappoose couldn't be in
serted somewhere do so long TO
blend the useful with the ornamental
Now, Hepsibah. YOU are sensible
married woman, competent TO give
good advice; and | ask you, what am
[ to do? Go round the world in this
harlequin guise, or give the whole
thing a great smash / should be glad
to preserve a modicum of self respect
but how can | inside balloon.
shall appear in full spread OF
Thursday to spend the day. | cant
sit down but | should like the loan o
a bed-post and cord | might 90 up
YOU know. Till then. in every fibre o
my stifiening, Yours truly,
THE GREAT EXPANDED.
l sat laughing over this when II
walked Hester Graywood. another olf
friend. After the first salutation sh,
slowly twirled herself ronnd and sabl
: into a chair. exclaimiDg,-
Behold the woman who dares J
Ahl | saw: she too. had on new
dress. 1t was of silvery-gray silk
5 made with one skirt without particl'
of trimming on il, and a sacque JUS
hound with bias fold of the same