The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-08-03

or buokwheat, and by the clear streams in.
habited by the trout. Fashion, too, cuts nc
capers in these simple circles.s In my mis-.
sion to the Websterians met not with q
single "pinback" dress. I saw no ladies
launching up their rear as they promenaded
"beiore folks "-no adjusting Of the pin.
ned-up hump, after the manner OF the nd.
iusting OF the crupper OF the horse by o
careful driver. That enemy Of simplicity
that traitor who combines with the milliner
and manufacturer to swindle mankind by
the consumption Of fifteen to forty yards in
dress made in imitation OF poor, dis
traught maid who piled on her own person
all the drapery she could get hold on in wild
confnsion-the sewing-machine, is in the
recesses Of the mountain but it has made
no perceptible impression upon the econo'
my or tastes of the people. Long may the
mountain women prove strong enough tc
resist the tendencies to folly which have fol-
lowed its introduction elsewhere.
BED FURNITURE.
And now must protest against prlml
tive habit which Is still maintained Ill TIT
mountains with reference to bed furniture
Fcather-bedS are my abomination. These
are found everywhere. So also the single
sheet to lie upon and the blanket to cover
with are still the shocking sight which
meets the traveller when he turns down The
covering to Jump in bed. Feathers to liz
on arc unhealthy, and blankets next The
skin arc fearful. For these dreadful Gus
toms the mountain people are greatly blam
able. They err against comfort and against
health. "Thrcc sheets" I abominate, but
not more than one. "Two sheets" are
spreading, but awfully slow. Hurry up
dear mountain people, and change these
habits for your own sakeS rs we'll rs mine
| was informed on Elk that last year Yam
kee wheedled m old woman into giving
him all her old feathers upon the promise
to make them new again. She has never
since heard OF that Yankee. was not III
duced to sympathiZc with her much;
would be glad to know that all the feather
beds were gotten out Of the country by
some strategy or other.
THE SPRINGS SEASON.
felt desire to give these particular:
about people for whom | have lmDlbcd
greater regard than ever. simplicity ant
virtue are the best of travelling companions
and when the latter finds that the worlt
elsewhere has grown too splendid, and as {;
consequence too inSinccre and corrupt 1ol
her. she will always find Il retreat amongs
the inhabitants OF the mountains. Their oc
cupations are not such as to procure thu
means OF excess, and their daily lives are toe
much in the presence Of the subllmltY o.
nature in her highest grandeur, and too
much restrained by the difficulties OF inter
course with the social McccaS OF voluptuouS
ness and dissipation, to allow them to be LEI
'into temptation"
The springs-kecpcrs arc disappointed by
the effects Of the Centennial. The visitors
to the Centennial. they believed, would al
take turn ut the springs. Great deluslon
Money is scarce everywhere, and week OF
two IN Philadelphia took all the spare
change OF the pleasure and sight-seerS
and they struck Decline for home.
imagine that the Philadclphians will b'
more disapponted, ii not already so, thar
the springs people. The Centennial vii
not nan out well, and that sort OF thing ,
no more popular III Philadelphia IMAM II
| Boston.
SCARCITY OF BEACX.
l observe one great revolution in spring
society: there is Il wonderful scarcity o
! ro,1ny men. The ladies complain OF thi
very much. What is the matter! Well, tn
civil revolution caused in the South by on
northern friends. That's what's the mat
ter. The young men now have not none
for springs-going, and am glad that the
don't attempt to 60. What's worse, thel
fathers have not the means to send them
Many young men have enough for Il week
and sometimes two, Of 1rolic; but they WIS
| to make these spare weeks as gay as posi-
BILE, and to the White Sulphur they 90 10
the sake OF the gaicty thcre-the tine ladle
| in their excessive drapery, andthe ballroom
and the band. The short horse is soon cur
ried, and the brief frohc is soon over. Th
northern people have done their wor
etfectuallv. But assassination being neVe
able to "trammel up the consequences
we sec that, like the inventor OF the guile
tine, they have fallen by their own lnvcn
tions. There is nowhere on earth peopl
more hard-presscd than the people OF tn
| North. I am sorry for it. But "cVen
handed justice required retributlon i
this case.
FoRTUNE-HUNTING.
One good effect grows out OF the povert
OF the times. Fortune-hunting is less
trade in gay society. Both sexes in fashion
able life are beginning to scan the worth
one another more than their wealth. In
sensible young lady has begun to lind tina
her security now depends upon allying hel
self with man OF capacity, steadiness, an
worth. Fortunes are too few to cncourag
many to look out for them. The fortune
hunters case is desperate.
! 4 good satire upon the habit OF fortune
| hunting came off last year at Saratoga. :
milliner and barbcr-so an tait as they al
in dress and personal ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
contemporancously at the great Mecca
fashion. and undertook, under assume
names, to pass themselves Oft for very dl1
ferent persons from what they were. Inc
were introduced, and neither being glfte
with the talent or provided with education
that would lead to the detection OF tn
others pretensions, each was easily caught
the trap that each had set.
MILLISER AND BARBER.
Finally, the milliner, thinking tn
barber rich and fine gentleman, an
the barber, thinking the milliner a
hetrcss and Il lady, readily entere
into marriage with one another, L
which proceeding they were kindly assistc
by persons in the secret. The ceremon
most happily concluded, each found littl
truth unavoidable, and the milliner had
make the best of her barber husband, an
the barber in like manner had TO make I'll
best OF his milliner wife. They are II
doubt very. happy. For each would hav
encountered new troubles had the ambition
OF each been gratifed. How many MAJ
riages of fortune-hunters have only brough
wealth without happiness? The barbe
and milliner may console themselves by con
tinuing their vocations, and rejecting tia
many persons who have entered the ranYas
OF matrimony with objects as mercenary a
theirs have been only plunged in unhappI