The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-01-13


II Is amazing how smart the noorest
iauy III 1'tIy' VINO has any pretensions 10
being such, viii turn out ON o $500 a
however dilapidated her home tire
Two young ladies belonging to on old
but utterly ruined family whose I,arents
were too poor to keep servant would
dress themselves for their eyepinS, Walk
IN the most fashionable of hats and cos
tunes, with their fans. smelling bottles.
lace handkerchlefs, and gloves, ali com
/ plete In order to obtain these dresses
the young ladies had to condesoend so
far as to work for the peasants. who Daid
them Tor the manufacture OF the smart
stays and chemlsettes they wear on feast
/ days Inc attempts to being highly
/ fashionable, combined with an entire ig-
norance of the ways of the fashionable
/ world, produce sometimes the strangest
1ncongrWtles. The lace veil is now
almost confined to the class called "ar-
lists that is, shopkeepers and skilled
workpeople; but few of the old-fash-
Toned ladies still keep to it. Curious
specimens OF decayed nobility. are to be
found III these remote VILLAGES neople
bearing grand names. and retaining con
siderable pride IN their ancient lineage,
whom generations of idleness and I'M
thrlfuness have reduced to extreme nov
erty. They are not educated for any pro-
fesslon, and when starvation stares them
IN the face, they have no resource but to
earn their bread by mutual labor. One
noble count of my acquaintance is
carpenter; another a bricklayer have
seen the grand-daughters of a confess
working III the fields. With t.air for
tunes their manners deteriora zsNuutiI
nothing but remnant of pride rklains
to distinguish them from the psGsants
between whose class and theirs, 70 great
a gulf was once fixed. / remember
nothing more melancholy. than, the as
semblage of these poverty-stricllen no
bles l once met, at the house of the rich
man of village We we're at supper;
and as one ragged and dirty old man after
another came shamblirg IN, each IN turn
was, to my great surprise, introduced as
the descendant of 81 ancient and noble
family, but fallen" caduto," added my
host, with a gesture of compassion. The
old man would then bow his head IN mel
ancholy acquiescence, and, casting a rue
full glance at his shabby cloak with the
faded green lining. would sink INTO a
chair, at the fsr end of the table. One
of these fallen mobiles, who had taken to
house painting, we thought 1t only
charitable to employ for the decora-
ton of our ceiling. l was pre-
pared to feel quite a romantic in
terest in this unfortunate nobleman,
and TO be enchanted with his artistic
genius but he was SO uucommonly dirty,
aud his manners were so little removed
from those Of a PEASANT, that NY illusions
were dispelled at once. Neither did his
style of decoration exactly come up to my
ideal, although it was ambitious enough. .
4 basket Of flowers soon adorned each
corner of our ceiling. and In the center,
from amid clouds and wreaths Of roses. .
a rather shapeless Cupid began to be de- .
ineated. 10 the middle of the work.
the artist, whose temper was short, and
whose feelings were sensitive. took .
1ttense- a We suppose-at some unin- .
-entiouei slight on our part Without .
he slightest explanation. he departed .
2ne day, leaving the Cupid minus one
eg and one arm, and returned no more.
Poor Cupid Being in such a sadly mu-
llated condition, we thought best to do
away with him altog tler, and nv hus-
1and, mounting "a ladder, swept a coat of
yhltewash over Cupid. clouds, baskets
If flowers and all. This operation was
-epaated several times, but tie Cupid
would keep reappearing in a CHASTITY
nanner.-FT1ut COyThiH NagIziue.