Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-03-29
From the Rome Commercial
Bill Arp on a Bust-le.

See here, Mark Antony, i'll was,you
L wouldn't take on so about the FASH
4 uns. They don't bother me. It's
none of your business what the wo-
| ment put on or put off, so they be-
have themselves, and look just as
purity as they can. They ere heap
better than you or me anyhow,
whether they behave or not. i
wouldn't give one woman for several
men no time; would you? Now see
her smile and pat that off foot. If
women want to wear bustles, let em
wear um. l thought that pannears
was the best because they stuck out
sideways. and wasent in the way of
leaning back when they sat down,
but they know which Is the best side
to stick out on, and it's nobody's bis
iness but theirs. They may wear
anything they want to, bussels and
hoops, and hang-overs, and collap-
ses, and whimadiddles, and stiekouts,
and top-knots come down, and any,
thing else, so there is a woman hid
away somewhere insideof it all. It's
all asham-that rubber bussel-there
amt no substance nor back bone in it.
I've seen EN- fiat, and then blowed
up. There amt bit of harm in EN-,
but l never see one on a woman that
/ don't want to just hit it hare. enuff
to make it pop. L golly, wouldn't
she jump high and holler? But Pm
not going to do it though; no sir:
I've got too much respect for women.
Their bussels don't hurt nobody, and
90 despise to see a man always
picking at woman's close. If they
dident wear something to disguise EN-
the men would quit business when
they cum about. Purity women al
ways did wear sumthin to skeer the
men away. It's been so forever.
During the war seed one who dress
ed as material as life, without paddin
or stuffin, and when she cum along
the boys jest laid down and hollered.
They warent fit for business for a
week, but couldn't bear to see EN-
go with their faces all tied up like |
they do in Turkey. That would |
mighty nigh kill me. If can look |
into their blessed countenances can
put up with their fore rigging and |
hind riggin and top riggin and all. A |
good, sweet, purity face speaks for all |
the balance of the craft. l wouldent |
marry nary girl on the earth till / |
see her face, and not then if she did |
ent suit me. If the eyes, nose and I
mouth are right, nature is an endor- |
ser for the balance. Paint aint nothjn /
shape is severything. They cant paint 1
a shape, nor glance fthe eye. You /
may paint a house ever so white, but |
that don't signify what's inside of it.
But.when you see bright roses and
poses and blossoms in the front yard,
and vine over the door, and clean
clear window glass shining, you
may bet your hat ON the balance
You needn't worry about bussels nor
the back. Women have been do
ing that way ever since old Solomon
wrote about em. If they do lean a
little as they go it is all right. They
can straight up when its necessary.
No spinal disease about that. Thems
the very sort what can lift two BUSH
els of meal without crackin a bone.
Its only q passin fasshun and will
last till sumthin else comes along.
Natur made EN- that way, and you
can't change it. The more you try,
the more you can't. The more you
abuse their bussels, the more
they'll stick EN- at you-so let em
alone; / say. They are all the same
about fashun, and the last one would
put em on if they had their own way
and plenty .ofmoney. / wish wasjest
rich enufto give every lady in the land
a string of diamonds and hat full of
pearls. Good grscious how quick
that Methodist discipline would be
busted on the jewelry business
Well, Edo like to see them look pur-
ty, and far as L am concerned, if rib
bOns and flowers and -fiounces and
furs will doit, its right. Some of the
birds dress up mighty fine, and
reckon their pride aint much of a asin
after all. But, understand me Mark,
| don't banker after bussels, tho they
10 say it makes the incest little shelf
for the arm to rest on in the world,
when feller is dancin around with
his gal. That's all right provided the
teller aint dancing with my gal. If
he is, why he may take her and keep
her, that's all.
BILL ARP.