Year: 1868

ROMANTIC EXPERIENCES OF A NAN WITH FIVE
SwEETHEARrs.-The Nashville (Tenn.) Banner
tells the following good thing In this city
certain drug house employs among its clerks
g nice young man p Among his circle of init
mate friends he enjoys a distinction which
though not as enviable as less festive youths
might covet, serves nevertheless as wholesome
warning to other rash adventures in the list of
love, whose ambitious aspirations cannot be con-
fined to a single victory over the affections of
susceptible feminity, but are ever strained to-
ward other conquests. He brought his fascina
tions successfully to bear on five fair damsels of
our city. Five several times did he plight his
faith, FIVE several times promise his precious
hand and heart in marriage to five but too eager
and too credulous expectants The lovely quin-
tette were mutual confidants. One unlucky day,
when taking notes of each others feelings, and
divulging the name of the happy gallant who
had extorted the promise of marriage from each
they made the startling discovery that each
claimed the man of rhubarb and squills. How
to punish the male coquete? The ingenuity of
the mother of No 5 was not long at fault
Young Blue Beard was politely invited to tea
He fell into a While enjoying a tete-a-tete
with No 4, ten minutes later appeared No. g.
and at similar intervals the remaining victims.
There escape for the terror-stricken youth
and he quaed before the anger that flashed
from FIVE pairs of the brightest eyes that ever
pierced susceptible heart. He did what braver
men would have done-acknowledge the corn.
In extenuation, he plea ded that his feelings
changed in spite of himself; that he didn t mean
to be tickle, but that he always loved most the
pretty girl he happened to see last. Of course
such logic had anything but soothing effect on
that awful council of I'M njured lovelness. Hum
bly, repentant, crestfallen, and bearing himself
like man with several heas in his ear he left
that cozy parlor sadder and, we hope, wiser
Ia:
made by one of the fair tribunal looking to the
application of twisted piece of untanned bo-
vine epidermis to his shoulders but the prudent


judgment of the dignifed matron forbade the in
Fiction of additional modification.


" THE GREcIAN BEND. The Boston Herald
says The latest agony in the fashionable
world is the pannier,' which seems to have
created no little q bustle' among the fashion
able young ladies of our usually quiet city. 1t
is, we believe, trump invention gotten up
expressly for no other purpose than to assist the
ladies in getting their " back up" We had Gu
rosity enough 10 examine one of these 8 Internal


machines" 1t is made of linen and stuffed with
| moss, cotton or bar, and padded so as to rest
| easy like saddle blanket on i sore-backed
horse. 1t is about sixteen inches long one way
and about eight ten the other and some are
thicker than others, with two tapes attached to
| Il
on horse. One of these panniers attached to a
young lady, together with the new style of dress,


is what gives the appearance of having the
t'Grecian bend" If there is comfort in these
new-fangled concerns we "can't see it - but we
supposesas they fashionable, that the young
ladies will ''grin and bear ii" and subject
themselves to all kinds of lndicrous remarks on
account of the ''Grecian oend - their bodies will
be subjected to. These 'panners" will make
Iodi RI fOru ri in
fact lean that way. They will appear as if they
had eaten overdose of green apples and but
termilk, and suffering from a fearful at
tack of collie, with slight touch of toothache
and inkling of dyspepsia. The q Greciar
bend we suppose, will be 60 all the CO. for a
WHILE at least and we hope will not be carried
to such extremes will make our handsome
young ladies look as if they had been to board


ing school for six months, and fed on nothing
but dried apples and hot water.