The freaks of Foakion have been #0 abused and miareprenented swore the am Gndieidual instead of ay ubatract quality she could 2 Hel Setions againat. many pulliciets. We call ouresives slaves. of Fashion, implying thet she is a. hard tusk) focrat, an unreasonable dictator whose one thought religion. The And yet—most valuable of qualify-ithe once-pinched foot. Think of the ing words! As we muse upon them|mental freedom which has come] let us see whether a few kind words with the release from hat pins, of ay not be said for the prisoner the joy which thrills through one the bar. Fashions do change, with the realization that one's cloche Sometimes for the better, sometimes fits snugly enough to withstand the for the worse, always for the more rude advances of any saucy March expensive, Yet moreover, neverthe- wind.
And as for the emancipation Tess and not withstanding, are not from hair-pins—for this relief, much the fashions of to-day preferable to thank those we see in turning over the old 'The current styles, with skirt-Books of Beauty and Godey's Tengthy and waist-lines that run up Ladies' Book? and down like the mercury in a Progress is spiral. We xo round' thermometer, may be ugly at some over the same ground again and times and. silly at others. They may swathe the neck and expose the (in and again, We repeat our-ankle, not to mention the knee, but ves; we contradict ove selves; we Jon the whole they are far more move dully along on a sort of dead level; and yet, in spite of it all we hygienic and quite as modest find ourselves' higher up and better the hoopskirt modes. Rouge and Hup-stick we have, to be sure, but fff. Fashion is not mere pendulum that go backwards and forwards, for the xake of rise on step)
of its dead selves, if Mr. Tennyson will loan us his metaphor for this occasion, Take the matter of hygiene. Our loose dresses, the absolute absence or modification of stays, our shoes which permit ease and freedom to Jeoumeties are nothing new and the \eraue for outdoor sports has effectively done away with the parlour which once was fashionable. Our Hlanguage to-day may be to some shockingly outspoken but at Toast Teaves nothing to be concealed and {tu fester in. the sub-consciousnesss Yes, the world does move, and, we gratefully acknowledge, in the for Fun it moves upward, trampled all over her feet in a artist upon her talent for recalling "Why Sam, thank you ever the picturesque atmosphere of other It's so sweet of you to|days and climes. He achieved but ask to the Majestic to-night few words in an aside to his but I've another engagement. That [daughter but I've supposed to ing the wpibby,* he said
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