Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1884-03-02
KENTUCKY BELLIES.
YouRg Beauties who kaks the
Charm OF Louisville Society.
Seine Of the Man Freaks Related of Form
sriy Celebrated Girls of the BIue-
Grass Country.
Or. Me,s OrLsans Tsnes. Dmorat.

mark that charming burg. The growth
from struggling villages, with grass
grown streets and scattered shops, where
anything can be brought from q shoe
string to Sunday bonnet, to splendid
cities with asphalt pavements and pala-
tial business houses, Is usually emphs-
sized by = corresponding change in the
social life OF the place; change that
seems to harden the hearts Of the in
habitsnts and repreSs down and root
out The sweet green grass that covers the
virgin soil. The man whose neat frame
dwelling smiled out from bower OF
roses right on to the principal street,
and whose garden gate stood always
Rjar, as his fortunes advance with the
progress of the city retlres behind the
marble front Ofan uptown residence ana
clspgs his iron gates behind him.
1t is a rule of0ity life 30 be aristonrati-
cally ignorant of the name or occupa-
ton OF your next door neighbor, unless
Indeed he happens to rank little high.
erin
The Social Scale
than you do; then investigation is much
TO tie point, and an occasional recOgni-
ton from linn an achievement. Even
those cttits ia the far West that have
sprung up like mushrooms to dot the
plains-that know no changing phases
toward elimination but are built as II
were in single night-have an OLD
and knowing air; like prececiOus chill
dIen they have none Of the simple
hearted Innocence Of youth, but are old
in sill eIe they are fairly chrlstained.
In comparison with these places
Louisville is ike great OvergrOWD
baby. 4here is q naiyete, q queer
blending Of innocent originality and
orthodox conformity about her instltu
tons and social gatherings that are re-
freshiTg to the cosmopolitan mind.
She las all that goes 10 make up city
life; there are spacious avenues lined
with stately houses; there is marble, and
brick and wrOught.irOn, asphsltum aud
NicOlsOn; there are stylish turnouts of
all descriptions in her streets; but there
Is in open handed hospitality about lfar
people aud = generous gayety in her So
c.,ty which prUclaimS that she Is still
Only big village. | have heard her
girls call. d gushing, but to my mind
any amount of gush is preferable to
pnm EauIeur.
There have been periods of great bril-
81, my in the sOciety aunalS OF this old
=, utI ern town, when beauties Of world
wide celebrity have emansted there
ION and led the throBg with graud
ash and hurrah that set the world ag0g
!Or the time being.
OId.c ime Bellies
The tIiumphs OF the matchleSs Saliie
W, and her exploits in company
with her equally famous friend, the
witty Fannie s., come ringing down
the changes of thirty years to US, and
while We laugh at the jolly pranks OF
these two wild girls, We cannet but re.
joice that society has sObeTed down
somewhat since then. We are filled
with wonder at the accounts our moth.
ers give ia of parties a. Mrs. VS.,
when the drawing room mantleS were
fern. brakes, and smiling amid the
SreeneTy were posed chcrU bS of eXquis.
ite lOveliness and dlapharous raiment
these novel decorations being no less
than Mrs. VS. children, celebrated,
"a were all the members of this family
for their wOudrous beauty.
We hear OF Miss W dashing on
horseback through tie crowded market
place, of Miss s. disguised in rags
and disappearing amOnS heI friends a.
q starving beggsr, testing their gener'
osity anu charity, and playing off SC
successfully on her father that the old
gentleman gave her handful of change
Just because, as he said, she looked &c
much like his "Fsn;" and OF both o.
these girls connecting plan for attend
ing an entertainment that was startling
its originality ard somewhat dangerOu:
in Its execution. 1t appears there wa;
some exhibition or playing going on a.
| the theatre which these young ladie,
were overweeniDgly anxious TO witness
and as their object was TO see and not
be recognized, they resorted tO
Miss SIS favorite pastime OF mas
querading. 1t is said thai Fannie S.
was an irresistible mimic and al eX
eeIlent actress. | have heard gentle
| men who knew her in her fun-lovinG
days declare that she would have made
oua of the best actresses Of her time i
| he hSd gone on the stage, and that bel
talent for getting herself up in any
| rhaTaCtcr she ch ~ to parSonate wa!
| ,CralIv remarkable; therefore, Ont
| nay imagine that the two old mSrke
women IN sun bnnnets and large aprons
who watched her plsy so eagerly froU
uhe gallery would hardly be mistaken
tur the leading bellies Of the town. Te
there must have been something little
unususl in their appearance, for they
excited the attention Of a gentleman
who knew them in propris persona
well; it may have been that the lively
| Fanny over-acted her role, or thai
| Miss W, who was less experienced
came near giving them away. At al
events, the girls became annoyed anC
finally frightened by his persistent OBJ
servalions, aud when as they were
leaving the house, followed them close
", they felt that something desperately
must I've done. Miss J. was not Ions
IN deciding what this was to be, and a
The gentleman reached her side, aud
was attempting to peer under her bon
| net, she raised the corner OF her apron
| with one or two preliminary snuftles, t
| tST nose, dliu OlSN n OIaSS 81 AOiS CIV
go loud that her pursuer fled from hel
in disgust.
Color That Would wash.
One more story in connection with
Miss Sallie W must relate. j
went the rounds at the time OF the Oc
currence, and l think it is good one,
l will preface by remarking that roug
ing thirty years ago was much more
uncommon than 1t has since become,
and that there were strait-lsced people
who considered it q heinous offence. On
this account 1t WAS that bets ran high
at Saratoga one summer among Miss
VS. friends, that the lovely blush
which mantled her cheek was OF ma
lures own bestowipg. To end the con-
troversy, which was becoming exciting,
one gallant gentleman, less timid than
the rest, proposed to ask the beauty for
a proof that would settle the dispute,
Rash man In an unfortunate moment,
and peraspS trembling at his own
temerity, he said: "Miss W, do
YOU paintr' and how much more
freely he must have breathed when, in
stead Of the box on the ear he half ex'
peeted to receive, the siren said sweet
~: "BriRg me glass Of water and
you shall see" The water was brought