Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1883-12-21
woslAN.s KINGDOM.
The Eollicking Pastimes OF English
Ladies' During the Last
Century.
The Everlasting Ss.ry ant-gir1 Question
from q New StandpOint.-Thc
Chemistry Of Cookery.

: LADIES FAsTIMEs A CENTURY AGO.
Not long since an eminent Germa
I, traveller described the fashionable En-
! glish ladies of the present day as into
/, erably dull. prudish and uninteresting
|. without spark of natural gayety o
fun. Such complaint seems strange
says a writer in Frank Leslic's Popnla
Monthly. and without doubt Is f0unde'
on mistaken notions of English socia
life. He should have been able to visi
England in the last century, and thel
. he would perhaps have found the HI,
.. mors of a London season more in nc
cordance with his views of liyeliness
Here are some pictures which would
probably delight him:
I'VE have young lady here, write!
Gray, ''that is very particular in hel
. desires. have known some young la
dies who.if they prayed, would ask fol
some equipage or title, husband Oh
matadores. But this young lady. who
is but IL years old, and has ESQ, 600 to
her fortune. places all her wishes on a
pot of good ale When her friends, for
the sake of her shape and complexion
try to dissuade her from it, she answers
with the truest sincerity that by the
loss of shape and complexion she could
only lose husband, whereas ale was
her passion"
What an acquisition that lady would
have been to Hans Breitman's famous
"barty, and how she would have made
the "lager beer vanish
Here is another picture of maids of
honor and their diversions in the sea-
son. among them beautiful Mary Bel
lenden, represented by her contempt
raries as 1.-THE most perfect creature ev-
er known In a pleasant letter Pope
introduces us to whole bevy of them.
Il went he says, "by water to
Hampton court. and met the prince.
with all his ladies. on horseback, re-
turning from hunting. Mrs. Bellenden
and Mrs. Lepell took ME into protec-
ton. contrary to the laws of harboring
Papists, and gave me dinner, with
something liked better an opportu-
nifty of conversation with Mrs. Howard.
We all agreed that of all things the
life of maid of honor was the most
miserable, and wished that all women
who envied it had specimen of it. To
eat Westphalia ham of morning, ride
over hedges and bitches on borrowed
hacks, come home in the heat of the
day with fever and (what is worse
hundred times) red mark on the fore
head from on uneasy hat-all this may
qualify them to make excellent wives
for hunters. As soon as they wipe off
the heat of the day they must simper
an hour and catch cold in the princess
apartment; from thence to dinner with
what appetite they may; and from that
till midnight, work. walk or think
which way they please. Miss Leppell
walked with me three or four hours by
moonlight, and met no creature of any
quality but the king. NO gave audi
encc all alone TO the viz" chamberlain,
under the garden wall.
But they could play ut high jinks
sometimes, and they We're somewhat
hoydenish in their mau::c-s. ~ the fol-
lowing anecdote. hun" ouSiy told by
Walpole 10 Sir Ho: .e Mann. will
prove:
There has been. i.c writes. "a great |
fracas III kinsington. One Of the mes
DANES George lis iaughters) pulled |
the chair from under lhe Countess De-
lorme at cards.. who being provoked
that her monarch was diverted at her
disgrace. with the malice of a hobby
horse, gave him just such another fall.
But. alas. the monarch. like Louis XIV,
is mortal in the part that touches the
ground. and was so hurt and angry
that the countess is disgrace.i. and her
German rival Qady Yarmouth) re-
mains in the sole and quiet possession
of her roval masters favor
The following challenge, issued by
Lady Buttertield. proves, too, that the
women of the 1.-The teacup days of patch
and hoop could hold their own at mas
culine sports:
This is to give notice to all my hon
Ored masters and ladies, and tine rest
Of my loving friends. that my Lady
Butterfield gives challenge to ride a
horse. to leap a horse, or run on foot.
Or holloa, with any woman IN England
seven years younger, but not day old
,r, because won't undervalue myself. :
,eing now "a years of age. My feast !.
will be on the last Wednesday Of ihts J
month, April. when there will be good t
for that day and all the
ear after, in Wanstead, in Essex"
This cartel of defiance was issued an u
lually to the sex; but we have never
leard that there was any Amazon that
licked up the gauntlet. 1t was before
he time OF Mrs. Thornton, who rode
Or a thousand glliness and hogsheadS p
t claret at DOncaster and York, and
eat even the crack jockey Frank
'uckle himself; otherwise Lady Butter q
ED might have found a foewoman p
'orthy of her steel in the mistress of . .,
he owner of Thornton Royal. II
But the ladies of that time must have e!
cen singularly simple and unaffected IL
! their tastes, and free-and-easy in
leir manners. When Beau Fieldins,a
lightly fine gentleman. was counting q
le lady whom he married. he treated "
er and her companion. at his lodgings, :,
supper from the tavern, and after a,
upper they went out for a fiddler 4;
rec of them. -;
Fancy the three says Thackeray, r.
in great wainscoted room in Con- III
mt Garden or Soho, lighted by two or 6,
rec candles in silver sconces. some -.
apes and bottle of Florence wine Ii,
the table, and the honest fiddler II,
aging old tunes in quaint minor KEYS, ~
the beau takes out one lady after the do
her and solemnly dances with her" or
fo
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