The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-08-25
A DEFENSE OF THE BUsTLE.
1t Is a Joy Peyond Compare and M
Monarch Can Danish it.


wear a,bustle, says Maud" in the st.
Louis Globe Democrat, and believe IN it.
wear large hustle, and am proud of it.
l wear a steel-ribbed, brass riveted, burglar
and fire proof hustle, and l hold that it Is a
joy beyond compare.
have tried all varieties of bustles-tae
large and small, the round and fat, thu soft
and the substantial. My experience make,
me friendly to the large bustles, and the
stronger they are the better | like them
The only hustle detest is the four cylindered
affair filled with spiral wires that looks like
a quadruplex 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 catapolled
into the enpyrean. 1t requires a woman of
great and everlasting presence of mind to
sit down properly In the four-cvlinderei
hustle Perhaps Mrs. Cleveland secured her
dislike for the hustle from wearing the
cylinder-saaped arrangement If 80 can
not blame her much for wanting to see the
hustle bauished.
But if she ever wore one of those hand
some steel-wired concerns that resemble
a cross between base ball catcher's mask
and moss basket, shaped like half wa err
melon and full proportional as the
round moon, how different she would feel
about It'll
There is a charm about a hustle of this
kind that makes my pen thrill static delight
as | write you about it. | want to poeUze
on the subjec,. Rhapsody is Gro ding
down the ends of my fingers and my hand
fairly glOws with the warm pleasure of the
work OF praising it; but pShawl you are a
man, and perhaps you are an old b3clelor
to boot, and you wouldn't understand my
womanly joy if | tried to express it in flow
ing words. You might toll mo that the
only hustle that you ever heard anything
| about was the celluloid hustle, which ex-
plodes, or takes fire, or throws a railroad
| train off the track, or commits q double
| murder, or finds a hiddel treasure, or bursts
up happy home, whenever your news
paper needs a really good item, and you
would laugh and perhaps hand this COM
| muniration to the snake editor with instruc-
tions for him to feed 1t to the pet cobra di
| capella which you keep around the office.
| do not think that you could really and
truly appreciate the sincerity OF my sent-
ment and gage the depths of emotions in
this matter, and, therefore, will not turn
my thoughts loose bustleward, but will
| content myself with remarking that Mrs
| Cleveland eau make I, oil of herself if she
will, and rob her figure Of the gracef Al
contour which the prominent tournure she
wore in st. Louis gave it, il she so desires,
| but the undersigned will still continue
any movement in the direction of per-
petuating and immortalizing the shape
| improvers will always meet with ready aud
cordial encouragement from this buckle
| berry.
have heard say time and again that they
wonder how women manage to sit down
when they have on a hustle. They do not
wonder at any such thing. They SIM Is
speak little fib when they say so, that's
all, for it isn't any harder for a woman
| with hustle on to sit down than it is for a
| man with pint flask of cholera mixture in
his coat tail pocket to do il. All he's got
to do is to be a little careful, of course, and
that's all woman with hustle on has got
to do.
The secret Of it Is this: When a hustle
decked woman sits down, she does so side
wise. There is a pretty little trick in it,
| She pretends she is going to sit on the right
| side of the chair and makes her first move
ment in that direction, but just as she
| reaches the chair she moves gracefully to
the other 81 10, the hustle rolls to the right,
| entirely ont of the way OF the sitter, and
| the problem is solved.
Put on the hustle, Mr.. Editor, and tryit
! You may not succeed the first time, but
after awhile you VIII accomplish the task
successfully, apd then you will see that
the hustle is not so gigantic an iucon-
venienco AS some people try to make it out
! to be.
They may talk as much as they like about
banish.ng It, bat they can never make it a
complete and absolu Q exile from home. 1t
will llnger in our midst in oae form or
other, an II they do away with the steel
wire and wicker basset and the stuffed pill
low, there will still b. left the old standby,
the convenient newspaper, which can 10
folded into a perceptihle package and
doubled over piece of string and fastened
in the turnure SO nicely aud effectively
that it will not only answer the purposes
OF the best hustle ever made, but it will
also serve TO keep green tie memory OF the
round and symm strical creations in metal
aud her materials which adorned lovely
woman in the sos of tho nineteenth ecu
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