spicuous enough when illustrated by women and the fashions, for, let mode once find favour in feminine fancy, and, at once, fat and thin, tall and short, dark and fair, old and young, assume it regardless of suitability, beauty, or common sense. And, when it comes to the Duilding and furnishing of new houses or the altering and refurnishing of old ones, both men and women show a grand inability to recognize not only what they should have, but even what, they want, unless' the" choice of some cultivated intelligence has already been popularized to meet public demand.
The ups and downs of appreciative feeling in.the matter of personal effects, too, are exceedingly interesting.
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