Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-06-16
NEW YORK FASHIONS.
Gan Expedition to New York to DO
Sum Spring Tradin'."
Ell Perkins Gives the Experience OF
His Aunt Charity and Aunt Ruth
with the Man MiIliner.

FIFTH AVENUE, June Amt Charity's
letter from the Perkins Farm in Litchteld
County,
1 give # just as written, for l love my
maiden Ant who stays on the old farm,
runs the Episcopal Church, boards all the
school marms, and keeps splendid preserves
and sweetmeats for all her nephews when
they visit the old homestead. Z. Z.
PERKINS FARM, LITCHFIELD Co., CT,
MAY 25.-EI Perkins-My Dear NeVy:
Yours received. While your Uncle Con
sidar was in Afriky your MAIDEN Ant Ruth
and thot wed get up an expedishun to
New York TO do sum Spring tradin'.
We spent 4 weeks at the 5th Heavenue.
We are glad to get back to Litchfeld
County where there is not so much COM
merce, but WHARF intelleck is highly priced,
and WHARF virtue and piety shines on the
forehead of society-so to speak. We are
glad to get back WHARF fair woman don't
paint their faces and WHARF dark women
don't wear golden hair.
While many are ambishus to worship at
the shrine of the GODDESS OF FaShun, am
willin' to stay away from the old girl for
ever, | don't want to ware white lips in
the mornfn' and cherry-colored lips in the
afternoon. don't think 1t is right to ware
strate dresses with no busts in the mornin',
and stun the innocent men with full busts
like the Venus Medechy in the evenin'. l
don't think it is Christian for young fellers
to hold your hands, and put their arms
around your waste, and hug you tite in the
evenin' round dances, when it is konsiiered
billy onpropper for a young lady even to
smile at a Teller out of a third-StOry Winder
in the moTnin'.
Mol no! Eli, such fashuns is not founded
onto the gospel. Search the good book thru,
an you can't find passage which justities
heels over two inches high. Examine the
pen-ta-took from Generations to RevOlu-
lions, an you won't find enney excuse for
Young ladies bucklin' on umbrellas in place
of swords, or wearin' $50 bonnets made out
of two straws, a daily, and a suspender
buckle.
You ask me how we succeeded in BUM
things.
We can't say much for New York as
tradn' port. New London is far cheaper.
First we went to Messur De G0-Bare's,
the man dress maker, for he wanted to sho'
our LitChfeld nabers the highhyingist
stiles of the Empire City.
"Vot veel show re, madame?" asked NJ.
Go-Bare, a-smilin' sweetly.
"Dresses," SEE /, in firm tone. want
YOU to make me four dresses"
"Dresses for re morning or for re even
| ing, madame?"
WWhy, good dresses, sir-dresses for all
| day-dresses to wear from six O'Clock in the
mornin' till nine at night" replied with a
patrishun air.
Tough! zen re madame will have re
pOlORGiSe, Ze ,gattedu wiz re grdRde pdnier,
! and re sleefd Ia Marie Antoinette, and"
eyes, everything" SEE carelessly. "And
now, my good man, how many yards will
it take?"
ave, Madame-it will take for re grGnde
dress 176 (what you dam call him) yards.
! OF l veel make re madame one habit mag
ni6que, one"
"What, ITO yards for one dress !" ex-
claimed, holdiu' my breath.
ave, 1Ce," explained the man-tailOr, rub
bing his hands. "Zat is with re pOlOndi8e,
ze l0attedl, ze pdTlier, and re founce cut in
re Vandykes-"
"GOod heavens, man must l have all
these things-and what will they all cost ~
l exclaimed, tryin' to conceal my emOshun.
cough! a we're little, madame-only
seventeen fifty, wiz all re rare lace on re
hOunces, and"
"Gracious Charity, that is cheap" SEE
l Ant Ruth, alOokin' over her glasses at me.
SEVENTEEN FIFTY! Why, Charity,
shud thOt that $65 was a small flyer for
all these fixins."
"Can't you put on somethin' more, my
GOOD man?n SEE l. "Tbe Perkinses is able
and we are willin' TO go to thirty or forty
"Yees, madame, l can put re Jabot Of
ve-ree fine lace in re neck-lul, trOiS, dtI
plaits-n
GAN right, what else?" SEE l, whirlin
my pocketbook care leSsly.
ave can catch up re skirt and re aOunce'
with bows"
Ssh! man; do you think III have
beaur catchin' up my flounces? Shame
= insultin', base man!' l exclaimed, as fell
the skarlet tinge of maidenhood play upOI
, my alabaster cheek.
t.No, sir, we want no beduI catchin' u
our flounces,n SEE Ant Ruth; eve"
s'Pardon, madame, l mean re bows vii
7 hold up re founces; re bows"
! "No tina won't, ensultin Frenchman. D.
: you know you address Perkins, and An
3 Ruth and turned whitening look at tn
! monster, and walked blushin' to the door
E "Nine-nine y exclaimed young Ger
, man woman from Europe, wildly ketchir
r hold of our clothes, eYou nix fustand putt
, good Mister Go-Bare. He no means 70
t you dinIs. You coomes pack again AM
r de shiatlemau explains Vot you no under
stand. COOmeP'
: We re entired the abode of fashun again
, "What else can you put on to add to tn
g expense of this Dress" seq in a snothin
s tone. fSeVenteen-tifty is too cheap for me
e I'm willing to 60 twenty-five"
q go, we, madame, re round point on z
:. flounces-he comes very high-zat wi
/ make re dress twenty-five"
g ''Nothing else? But do stop talkin' aboU
r high flOunCes ~ soz Ant Ruth, the color II
= turning to her cheeks again.
/ ave, madame, you can have re sid
/ plaits, re kelting, re cores, re grdnde coul
J. train, re petite gosset on re elbow, re bia
|, seam up re back, and"
h "Heavens, man, have mercy on us Sti
!. more you say?" exclaimed Ant Ruth.
4 "TVe, veree much more. You can hay
"a re raree flowers q Ia Nilsson, and re pOil
5 aqljLe viii make re dress of one grrnc
e high price-grande enough for ze Crane
( DucbeSSe."
o "Yall, how high will the price be the
ID my good man2" SEE Ant Ruth.
"Vingt-d7Sr-T wenty-sex, madam
e CeSt ma pas trOiS chere, madqneP'
a go! no, my good man, twenty-six is che;
II enough. 1t beats New London tradin'
D. death. Now give Us the change SEE a
Is Ruth, handin' him a $50 bill on the Ne
n London First National.
or ''lMon dieu, mGdnnel lis is not chan
or enuff. lis is nothing. lis is grdnde drei
"a cost ten-ffty times more ~
of "Gracious man, didn't you say twent
a. six 2" inquired Ant Ruth.
= ooh, Ige-toe-los-M Madame, but he &C
Il twenty-six hiudred-S2, 600 p
!,
v Eli, I've got thru tradin' in New Yol
Why, our WHOLE crop Of hay, corn, a
maple sugar wudent bi over two su
al dresses. Don't talk to me any moro abe
Ia sity fashuns Litchfeld county will do