Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1873-02-13
BILL ARP on 1 susr-1s.


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See here Mark Anthony If was
you wouldn't take on 50 about the
fashuns. They don't bother me It's
none of your business what the women
put on or put of 80 they behave them
! selves and look just as purity as they
can They arc heap better than you
or me anyhow, whether they behave OF
not wouldn't give one woman for
several men no time, would you? Now
see him smile and pat that off foot. If
women want to wear bussels, let EN-
wear EN-. / thought that panniers was
the best because they stuck out side
ways and wasn't in the way Of leanin
back when they sat down, but they
know which is the side to stick out on.
and its nobody's business but theirs.
They may wear anything they want to,
| bussels and hoops and hangovers and
convexes and collapses and whimadidles
and stickouts and topnots come down
and anything else so there is a woman
hid away somewhere inside Of it all.
It's all sham-that rubber bussels-
there amt no substance nor backbone in
it. I've seen EN- flat and seen EN- blow
ed up. There amt bit Of harm in EN-,
but never see one on a woman that |
don't want to hit it just hard enough to
make it pop. l golly, wouldn't she
jump high and holler? But I'm not
going to do. it; no sir; I've got too
much respect for women. Their bus
sells don't hurt nobody, and | do des-
pise to see man always pickin at a
woman's close. If they didn't wear
something to disguise themselves them
selves the men would quit business
when they come about. Purity women
alwas did wear something to skeer the
men away. It's been 50 forever. Dur
ing the war l seed one woman who
dressed Just as natural as life, without
any padden OF stutfin, and when she
cum along, the boys jest laid down and
rolled over and hollered They warent
fit for business for. a week. But l
couldn't bear to see EN- go with their
faces all tied up like they do in Turkey.
That wou mighty nigh kill me. Ii l
can look in their blessed countenances
| can put up with their fore riggin and
their hind ii ggin and top riggin and all:
A good sweet purity face speaks for all
the balance OF the craft. | wouldn't
marry nary girl on earth till l see her
face. and not then if she didn't suit ME.
If the eyes, nose and mouth are all
right, mater is an endorsement for the
balance. Paint amt nothing-shape is
everything. They can't painta shape,
nor glance of the eye. You may
paint house ever so white, but that
don't signify what's inside it. But when
you see bright roses and posles and
blossoms in the front yard and a vine
over the door, and clean, clear, winder
glass a shining you needn't worry about
the bussel or the back. Women have
been doing that way ever since Solo
mon wrote about EN-. If they do lean
little as they go, it's all right. They
can straighten up when it is necessary.
No spinal disease about that, Thems
the very sort what can lit two bushels
of meal without crackin a bone. It's
only passin tashun-all will last till
something else comes along. Nature
made them that way, aud 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 alone, | say. They are all
the same about fashions, and the last
one would put EN- on if they had their
own way and plenty Of money. wish
! was Jest rich enough to give every la
dy in the land string Of diamonds and
hat full pearls. Good gracious! how
quick that Methodist dissiplin would be
hustled on the jewery bushes. Well,
l do like to see EN- look purity, and so
far as | am concerned. if ribbons, and
flowers, and tlounces and furs will help
to do it, it's all right. Some Of the
birds are dressed mighty fine, and |
reckon their pride amt much of sin at
ter all. But understand me, Mark; |
don't banker after bussels, tho they say
il makes the incest little shelf tor the
arm to rest on in the world, when a tel
Ter is dancing around with his gal.
That's all right, provided the teller amt
a dancing with my gal. If he is, why
he may take her and keep her, that's all
BILL ARP.