The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1888-09-08
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BU Stiles.
The papers inform us that Mrs.
Cleveland, 1.-THE first lady in the
land" has set down on; no, that
she has set her face against; that
won't do either; that she, the "frst
lady," has vetoed the hustle and 1t
"must go" Now we think that
Mrs. Cleveland has, as a cowboy
would put it, "bltten off more than
she can chaw," for bustles have
grown of late as no other crop has;
they have grown from the size of
mouse trap to that OF bird cage.
so that an innocent male Is some
times perp,eXed to tell which is the
hustle ana which is the girl. But
Mrs. 9. can't do il, and were she
built like some women we wot of,
all points and no protuberances,
she wouldn't try the experiment.
But she amt built that way, and
because, forSooth, Nature fashioned
her in one Of her most exquisite
moulds, she would fain compel those
OF her sex, less favored, to expose
their deformIties and have them
perambulate the streets like AMI
mated tishlngrods.
BY what authority does she seek
to make the innovation. II would
seem to be because she is''the first
lady of the land" Why is she thus?
Because she is the wIte OF thePres-
ident Of the United States. But on
locking over the record left by the
first Iady's" VINO have preceded
her none but one have left traces
OF title to distinction, and that one
was Dolly Madison. She e0aS
lady, and yet she never puton frills
or scollops. AT parties she carried
in one pocket cotton handkerchief
and in the other Il lace one, and
used to say the former was tor busi
ness AID the latter for finishing.
At parties she was the center OF
attraction owing to her beauty and
wit. When Madison married her,
or rather just before, she was a wild
uw, and IT was wont to be related
that Notwithstanding her education
and talent she secured the services
of Aaron Burr to write her love
letters to Madison to make sure
her catch, - and every reader can
imagine what fine love-letter writ
er he must have been. And we are
also told that the letters from the
widow capuvated James Madison,
and So worked upon his admiration
that he would show them to Burr
and challenge his criticism, which
goes a. show that widows were
sharp then as they are now. Yes,
Dolly was Il lady, admired by ev-
cry statesman, despite the fact that
/ she didn't put on airs, which
should serve rs a pointer to many
women of the present day that eth
er ways are open to them to fasci-
nate men besides painting their
| faces, banging their hair and crinp
inc their mouths.
But the hustle which Mrs. Cleve-
land has set ont 10 abolish is a fun
-4ri \ s+ -, # 4salEs funny
ell when you can't see it, for when
on even the wearer can't see it, but
| it has got to bulging so that it eX
cites curiosity how its wearer car
sear herself, and a circus is no
where compared to watching the
modns operandi incident to the
task. The female eye catches the
seat, then the body backs sideways
shakes itself and with sort of st
ANTHONY struggle kertiops, and th'
hustle is hidden from vulgar gaze
No, Mrs. c.. you may be tn,
'frst lady IN the land" but whel
you give way to Mrs. Harrison
next March Won will find that tn
hustle will still be IN place, and j
is no two to one that you wont b
looking at the fashion plates to SO
. the latest designs in bustles an
unless they grow higher uD tn
] hack than now, tease Grover t
buy vow one.