International fexercel Photo that one was not sure whether they were really meant to portray anything that was or should be. And as these pictures have mercifully disappeared, one thought that the style they presented had gone also. Bat it has not, s0 far as round backs are concerned. A friend suggests that this stooping is the result of the {free and easy table manners of the day, Time was when it was hardly the thing so much as to rest one's hands upon the dinner table, but now we sprawl across the cloth as fancy moves us. How horrified our grandmothers would be, who scarcely so much as leaned: back in their chairs and prided themselves on their erect carriage, Undoubtedly a fat back and well cerned-head are gest that they wish to be attractive, appears so much to be resented by attractions. Bat even-to sug-many of the -independent young ladies of the day that, perhaps, we could heardly have used a worse argument. There seems nothing to be done but to wait for Fashion to give'a new order.
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