Lexington weekly intelligencer., 1883-04-28

be sports Ia simply stunner.i It must by no
means come below the part of his person
whfchIhe places In the chairwhen he sits down.
tits often cut sack, with iappels down to the
bottom seam, but the perfection Of plumage for
the bird Is coat about eighteen Inches long
which ends In two littlei squars cut tails.
These tails be has fashion Of rendering hori-
zontal BY . peculiar bend Of the body rsnd
protrtsion Of the underlying region The
eject Is marvellous. On hfs head 'thS Dude
wears Just now \ squre-cfowhed, narrow
brtmmed, very hard hat. He would absolute-
y faint IL he were requested to iweaf .
slouch. Apropes Of this must tell q Httle
story. You know am ep od-fashioned sort
ofs chap. Ny wife sayfT am, q terrible fel-
low for old hats. Not old hats from too long
continued Use, but old hats as 10 style. Some
way- whenever I come, homss With . new
beaver she says, "Thers if ID; tina same old
hat!" Well, to please her, not long sgoi Ilet
asmooth-tulking salesman In one Of our fash
ionable hat stores sell me "the latest thing
OUT" Ithad q narrow brim, was rs hard as
an iron skillet, and was just the shape Of the
bowl of rather deep table spoon. wore
the thing to meeting three or four times, and
then without saying word to the madam,
hid 1t away, went down town, and invested
in one Of the old soft kind. Well, met a
Dude, the other day. had known him q
long time, but he didn't seem to know me at
drst. A friend standing near said, "Why, D.
don't you know Usage % ''Ah, ah, replied
the Dude, "weally, l, aw, fwailed to wecog-
nize you" And, looking. up at my tile, he
continued, "You'se chwanged gwood deal,
aw, hwavn't you? Or, aw. mwuybe its the
sleuch hat" The creature had never seen
me in anything but slouch hat In his life.
but he evidently couldn't help expressing his
horror of the abomination. But, as the French
say, let us return TO our muttons. Having
described the Dudes head wear will 60 to
the other extremity. On his feet he wears
shoes with pointed toes, very pointed, and to
be just the thing they must fasten with but
tons. When a Dude is all made up and
starts up Fourth street on pleasant AFTER
noon he is worth beholding. In his right
hand he swings a delicate cane. in color
matching his clothes; on his vest front is 3
double-barreled gold watch chain, whether
there is watch to correspond or not; in his
left hand he toys with his lorgnette, which he
occasionally screws into one eye to gaze very
intently upon some piece of female loveliness
passing by. His attitude with his breast pro-
truded in front, and with his little square coat
tails protruding behind, cause him very
forcibly to resemble the ordinary domestic
goose whenit stands up somewhat straight TO
take stretch. Whether the Dude resembles
the goose in any other respect leave your
readers to judge. These Dudes, it is said.
have developed in imitation of the English
young man. 1 have heard great many hard
things said about England in this country in
consequence of herattempt to larrup us some
years ago, but, really, can hardly think that
this last charge is true. And Just to think OF
it! They are trying in New York to make
Dudes out of girls and to call them Dudines.
This Is another of those insidious womai1s-
rights notions. Everything that man does,
Charley johnson and his school believe, can
be done equally as well by woman, even to
making consummate fool of herself. The
woman's right TO become Dudine grant.
In my time she has done some equally foolish
things. First. to 60 way back, she wore poke
bonnets that hid her pretty face from view
unless the gazer stuck his own face In the ap-
perture In front, which was generally incqn-
senient; then she wore hoops, and they grew
and grew until they got as big around as the
end of sugar hegshead; then she had the
hair craze; then she caught the Grecian bend
and had very bad case of it for while.
Since that time she has been rather reason
able, except rs to her shoes with heels under
the middle of the foot. This time it Is the
men. Let it remain the men. don't want
to see any Dudines because 10 e the sex.
and prefer not to laugh at it, but my princi-
pal reason for rejecting is, that in the event
that the Dudine comes the animal will be of
two sexes, and will thereby be enabled to
perpetuate itself, which the good Lord
forbid.
woMAN's RIGHTS.
Having mentioned Charley johnson above
I must recommend you to read his lecture
upon woman's rights delivered before the st.
Louis National Suffrage Convention, at
Memorial Hall few evenings ago. Of course
1t contains no new ideas. Alter Mrs.
Livermore, Miss Anthony and our own sweet
Phoebe have been talking on it, AS only
woman can talk las to speed). there Is not
much prospect that man can find much that
Is new to say Of the subject. even though he
has been ieut.-governor. Still, Mr.. johnson
Is brainy kind of fellow, and if he originates
nothing new has very happy faculty OF
making old things look fresh. He is. in poll
tics, an emotionalist. He hardly let go of
one ism until he seizes upon another. In
love few months ago with prohibition, he
has partially Withdrawn his affections from
that delusion to fasten them upon another.
However, like johnson, personally, because
he says what he thinks, even though it NAV
not be popular with his surroundings. He viii,
never succeed in politics, owing to his I'M
practicabi ity and his emotional extravaganza,
but he is all ornament to his profession and to
the lecture platform.
ANOTHER PROHIBITIONIsT.
Ry-the-way, l met Jno. McMichael the
other day. He is rs full of prohibition as an
egg is ofmeat. asked him if he and Switzler
and johnson intended to leave the democratic
party and he said, by no means. He thinks
that the prohibition issue can be injected into
the canvass in leS4 in the legislative districts
without in ury either to the state or national
democratic ckets. He says he is on the war
path; that he come, TO ST. Louis now g, cry
week and that he and his allies intend TO
make u strong fight. 1t seems to me that
they were little unfortunate in the manner
IN which they issued their pronuncIamento,
IN the American, believe that is the name,
an ultra, rabd knownothing paper. What.
sver else the democratic party has done it
aas always been the friend of the foreigner,
aud under the lead of Wise, of Virginia, long
ago made the fight that forever took that
question out Of American politics. Those who
again seek to raise it can lind no allies among
true democrats. l do not believe in prohil.. Z
lion. but hate knownothingism, and when,
ever it raises its banner hone to zee tb.
firing red hot shot into IL.
MISSOURI POLITICS.
Without thinking of it, here / have drf, ed
MO politics. Fortunately there is q lull lust
low III practical politics--office seeking
'tltl there are 50 many men in this. as In
'ther countris, that cannot live without
alkihg politics, that the subject is often
nooted. cannot tell you anything that is,
Is a iact. do not care to prophesy, so all tha;
iett Is TO give you the disS Of the day.
IN dat ns you know, is often great prevar-
Gator, but still it is all that Is known now Of
uture Missouri politics, and must be taken