Dangerous as it is to draw comparisons, we may yet wonder when ther we have not reached a safer standard in aiming at simplicity of taste, True, though we rest ourselves on the one hand, we indulge ourselves on the other: we jean not resist the gaudy. But po haps this is the rather pathetic instinct of a Northern people reap feounteract their climate. A supertition exists that love of colour bo-longs to the South; never believe a word of it! No women but North-Jem women dream of dressing like macaws; French, Italian, and Spanish go draped in black, There may Ibe more colour littered about 2n the South, but it is accidental, and the sun helps. We don't find the del berate garishness that is fonnd Dinner frock of fin black velvet bands scart is worn the wel
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