The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1888-08-29
A DEFENSE OF TIE BusTLE.
I, Is Joy Beyond Compare and NO Mon
arch Can Danish It.

A DEFENSE Oc IaG oOoAN
I, Is Joy Beyond Compare and NO Mon
arch Can Danish It.
wear bustle, says t'Maud" in the
ST. Louis Globe-Democrat, and I believe
in it. I wear large hustle, and l am
proud of it. I wear steel-ribbed, brass
riyeted, burglar and fire proof bustie,
and I hold that it is Joy beyond com
pare.
T have tried all varieties of bustles-
the large and small, the round and hat,
the soft and the substantial. My ex-
perience makes me friendly to the large
bustles, and the stronger they are the
better + like them. The only hustle |
detest is the four cylndered affair filed
with spiral wires that looks like quad
ruple1 fire hose. The cylinders are worn
vertically, and if you are not careful In
sitting down when you have one Of these
fixtures on you are liable to be catapoled
into the empyream. It-equires woman
of great and everlasting presence OF mind
to sit down properly in the four-cyinder-
ed hustle. Perhaps Mrs. Cleveland Sc
cured her dislike for the hustle from
wearing the cylnder-shsped arrange
ment. If so cannot blame her much
for wanting to see the hustle banished.
But If she ever wore one of those hand
some steel-wired concerns that resemble
q cross between baseball catchers mask
and a moss basket, shaped like a half
watermelon and full proportion as the
round moon, how different she would
feel about it!
There is 8 charm about hustle of this
kind that mskes my pen thrill ecstauc
delight as write you about it. 1 want
to poetize on the subject. Rhapsody is
crowding down the ends of my fingers
and my hand fairly glows with the warm
pleasure of the work of praisng it; but
pshaw! you are man, and perhaps you
are an old bachelor to boot, and you
wouldn't understand my womanly Joy
if I tried to express it in flowing words.
You might tell me that the only hustle
you ever heard anything about was the
celluloid hustle, which e1plodes, or takes
fire, OF throws 8 railroad train off the
track, or commits double murder, or
finds hidden treasure, or bursts up q
happy home, whenever your newspaper
needs really good item, and you would
laugh and perhaps hand this communi-
cation to the snake editor with instruc-
tions for him to feed it to the pet cobra
di capells which you keep around the
Office. do not think that you could
really and truly appreciate the sincerity
of my sentiment and gage the depths OF
emotions in this matter, and therefore, l
will not turn my thoughts loose bustle-
ward, but will content myself with re-
marking that Mrs. Cleveland can make
fool of herself if she will, and rob her
figure of the graceful contour which the
prominent tournure she wore in st.
Louis gave it, if she so desires, but the
undersigned Will still continue to have
weakness for large bustles, and any
movement in the direction of perpetual
ing and immortalizing the shape i'm
provers will always meet with ready and
cordial encouragement from this buckle
berry.
I have heard men say time and again
that they wonder how women manage to
sit down when they have hustle. They
do not wonder at any such thing. They
simply speak 8 little ib when they say
so, that's al, for it isn't any harder TO,
8 woman with hustle on to sit down
than it is for 8 man with pint flask OF
| cholera mixture in his coat tail pocket to
do it. All he's got to do is to be little
careful, of course, and that's all woman
! with hustle on has got to do.
The secret of it is this: When hustle.
decked woman sits down, she does SC
sidewise. There is pretty little trick
| in it. She pretends she is going to st
| on the right side Of the chair and makes
her first movement in that direction, but
lust as she reaches the chair she
moves gracefully to the other side, the
bustle rolls to the right, entirely out oi
the way of the sitter, and the problem
| is solved.
| Put on q hustle, MIR. Editor, and try
it. You may not succeed the first time,
but after awhile you Will accomplish the
task successfully, and then you vii
sec that the hustle is not so gigantic an
inconvenience as some people Try to
make it out to be.
They may talk as much as they like
about banishing it, but they can neve,
make it complete and absolute exile
from home. It will inger in our midst
in one form or other, and if they dc
away with the wire and wicker basket
and the stuffed pillow there Will still be
left the old standby, the. convenient
newspaper, which can be folded into per-
cepible package and doubled over a
piece of string and fastened in the touru-
ure so nicely and effectively that it vii
no: only answer the purposes OF the best
bustle eyer made, but it will also serve
to keep green the memory Of the round
and symmetrical creations IN metal and
other meterials which adorned lovely
women in the eighties Of the nineteenth
century.
KILLED BY FALLING WALLS.
Eighteen Persons Killed and a Large Num-
Der injured at the Burning of Mill in
Neenah, Wis.
MILWAUKEE, Wis, August 2S.-A spe-
cial from Neenah, Wis, says: At 11.30
o'clock last night large paper mill, owned
by George A. Whiting, situated on an isl.
and between this city and Mehashaw, was
destroyed by fire. While the burning
structure was surrounded by crowd of