FASHIONABLE.
The following description of a toilette worn at a ball—a “ pirootin,” as the Arkansas man calls it--at Sandy 15tin. Wyoming Territory, which was attended by the “e-lite” of that place, and towns round, is not half bad : “ Miss , from Wilder's Gulch, was e'cgantly attired in a handsome buff grosgrained buckskin dress with army blanket overskirt, bottom looped up with buckskin strings cut bias, hair dressed a la Red (.'loud, iii which was twined a few sprigs of sage brush, the whole secured behind in a bunch with a handsome pin made with a pine splinter and a buffalo’s ear. She wore an elegant moniitain-catskin-cap, festooned with antelope tails, secured under the chin with a rattlesnake’s skin. Her foot were encised in buckskin mocassins, ornamented Midi beads and soldier buttons. “ She created a big sensation as she entered the Hall, banging upon the harm of Mr H. Barton, ofHallvillo, who was dressed in the style of his locality—buckskin breeches in .boots, hunting-shirt of the same, ornamented with heads and tobaccojuice, an army belt of the latest pattern around his waist, securing a pair of sixshooters and a huge bowie-knife, which set off bis gallant figure to good advantage. “ Envious glances from both sexes followed this ban '.some couple round tlio hall. Several ladies and gentlemen from the mining districts wore present, and express- ! c 1 themselves well pleased with the manner | in which the “ pirootin ” was conducted, i Their frequent exclamations of delight, ; such as 1 lied hot, you bet!’ ‘ Ain’t it fruit, though?' ‘Hoopla!’ &c, plainly in Heated that they were enjoying them- ; selves in the best possible manner.” Apvick'l'o Moth kps 1 -Arc you broken 1 in your rest by a sick child suffering with . the pain of cutting teeth ? (Jo at once to a ■ chemist and get a bottle of Mits. Winslow's : Soothino Svitri*. It will relieve the poor j sufferer immediately. It is perfectly harm. 1 loss and picas mt to taste, it produces natural quiet sleep, by .relieving the child from pain, and the little cherub awakes “ as bright as a button.” It soothes the child, jt softens the gn ns, allays all pain, relieves wind, regulates the bowels, and is the best known remedy for dyssontery and diarrlnea whether urisiig from teething or other causes. Airs Winslow’s Soothing Syrup is so dhy Medicine dealers everywhere at Is I',dpor bottle. Alanufaotiired at Ox-ford-street, London.
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Dunstan Times, Issue 801, 24 August 1877, Page 3
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