The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1864-10-11 00:00:00

ON DRESS.

" Beier It, sir,
That clothes do mash epos the wit ao weather
Does on the brain ; sad Wore, sir.eress your promo*
' The tailor makes the roan.' "—Boir JORLIOX.
The subject of dome hoofers, very altos been domed
in wetly and trnly becoming habiliments. basal,
are tired of geeing the much-courted and osteniallase
despot ; but it will obtrude ilia& Into Oar proner
chamber at noir and request an audios., despite the
repeated and emphatic injunctions gives Weer thorlde
to address theirelvra Is subjeets, inch ail may at soft
&mond the reoiLion at all eyes and mem Man bed
lw en tacitly lined as • clothed animal. ip
pwrhape nave by his boasted realm, is b• mom=
distinguished (ruin the lower radar Asa
_by
the drapery and drooratione with whir he Wrests lib
person. 8o general is the custom sssosg civilised
nations, thug an individaal would as seem thl.b of In.
termitting his neossory food se to atimage so
upon the Oar. of so recondite • degree. DreriatZ
her arrow, giddy, and extrnvagant borthlialg F
have an illitunable 'tags, whore they set temp=
melodrama, sod the world lister with awe and
plicianrc. &very or, though be openly eoedseer, re-
ligiously homages this gandy sod painted saiskem gm
age. She arbitrates through the wry of her droller—
the milliner and the Wier—the style sad rammer if
, one's attire, and go absolute is her sway that
no one can boast exemptir from bra jerisdiotion.""C
pinches our feet with tight shoos, or chokes es with
a tight neckerchief, or Norse the breath or of
our bodies by tight lacing. She compels es to &re
gaily, whether upori aurora property ar list of Orem
She is • tormenter of sooseires, despoller of motality.
an enemy to religion, Lad so one or be bet waysides
and enjoy either: We will, however, estiond what every
one says and believer-that • moderate regard to ene
exterior I. to • Mr' ai• degree eratial to elterentem
To dray the body with simplicity and without Mere.
lion is one of the lot Mtge marks of modesty end
culture ; to be slatternly and pirsidiah,a sign ass/grim
pedantry, or disregard of the opinion of our neighbor.
Indeed, we think the,, is no better *videos* of reined
(ogling. and elevated inteLleet Ur • riare4tlzmet
studious, observer of s tidiness aod
" Dress," said a great historian, 'a. charaderlelie of
manners, and IZILODUS are the minor of ideas." Over
fasticimusness at the toilet, however, is ea roma to he
deprecated as *lovelier and groteresees• • fop is
al mush to be despised o aidattora; both are ohnosioes
to good breeding and good taste. Nemeses In oar
°mums is nwedial to our self respost and dignity,
be-ides remain( the advanes of attssilivisers,
wherever nature ho been niggard in her sadowneers.
Quaintly, us some one said, " • coat is • letter if
credit, written with • needle aro broad sloth." The
witchery of adorning the body enraged ease end
women of log ago as well as of nowadays. The
flagrant extravagance of the parr ford espionage
then se now, in impoverishing the pocket to feed its
tampering eppetite. An old satirist thee lampoons the
ladies .1 his day :
" What the reasoo—esa you gee"
Why men ere poor, and women thinner?
So much do they for dinner does,
That nothiag's loft to dross for dinner."

Lord Chief Instate Erie has presented two imaged/Meat
altar oadle.tiaks of solid silver to Wischealet
A gentleman in travelling was iondeavouing, ebb
considerable earneetuese, to impress some argument
upon • fellow passenger, who appeared rather /sill 0
appreheasion, at length, hisiag slightly Wailed, be an.
claimed, "Why, sir, its as plain as •. B C 1"-- That
may be," quietly replied the other, "bat I am D. IL F.*
The Hastinp electioa terminated on Waders:lay Is
the election of the Hon. Waldagrave Lembo, the Liberal
candidate. The:. is • d.srahls as to the
numbers polled, but Use Coassrvative esteems admit shot
the majority is co the side of Mr. Leslie. It meet he
remembered that this involves no Ices to the Coaserna
ties muse aa Mr. Leslie's karsidocessor, the pressed Doke
of Clevelaad, warn also a LiberaL
A coroner's inquest was held on Wednesday an the
piteous wle• died in Guy's Ho.et.l from the awl 0
injoria monied at the and also an the
foreigner who was pushed under the wheels of • Orals
at the Brith platform on Sunday night, and died freim
the effects of the intones be then ressived. In both
cases the jury, after heanng all the iridium that amid
be adduced, returned verdicts of kersideetal Death, ap-
pending to the former cam their °pietism that no Am
ought to be allowed on powder harem
ANOTHER &Wing OW A CLAUSTMAJI.—Tbe villa: of
Dedham was alarmed by the report of the seaside tbe
Rev. Charles Eyre, of Upper Perk, on Wednesday
ni..rning, which tamed out to be but too true. The
deceased, who wan a widower, Led 80 of age, was
• gentlemen of somewhat eccentric naseta. Some years
since be was the proprietor of throe Liberal SO
which ware printed at Colchester. Siam that
he has carried on a somewhat extensive farm, ned bad
only reliantly, at the solicitatiou of some member, 0
his family, been induced to consent to pert with it, and
it is said that the morning as widish the safortasate
gentleman committed mid& was the day on whim he
was to have signed over the Imes. Al all eventa the
circumstance seems to ham preyed rather Wavily as
the deceased's mind, and for some few days it had bees
found neoestary to watch him somewhat narrowly. Oa
Tueedey evening, however, he went to bed apparently
in better spirits, but it is supposed that early on the
following morning he got up, and haring deemed him.
self, went to the drying ground, where he cut down •
piece of • line. Hs then appears to here retuned to
! his boil-room, where, having fastened Oa lord on to the
handle of the door and thrown a noose over the Sop,
hs
round his neck sad strangled himself. In Shia
position he was drat discovered by am 0 the maid-
servants who was going to his rooms, a. wail her custom
every sioruing, with a jug of waiter. The deceased
did not seem to be quite dead when first discovered.
An alarm was At once given, sad Kr. !Engem surges*,
was seat for, but when that gratiomma arrived life was
extinct At the iaq oast a verdiet of 'Temporary
Luanne wee returned.
Pottisetworr or loLa Huguenot. - In New Beaked,
the head chief often interferes in minor matters of •
doinestie slime. For inseams, if • laity fella. has •
wife or two, and • few children, and through his lom
for khan, daneing and lotteries idly about, negleste to
Meg In Kw neessury eupplies hia family, a mem.
plaint is made, the 044 then visits the house in pence,
acid If be sees just ground for pumishotent, he orders
out the population of Use village. Men, women, eat
childrea arm themselves with • stiff birch made of small
MOW, than form a low double line, and wait with
tuitions i6m. the arproaA of the delinquent. At last
bet, placed at one end of the lime, amidst a shower el
yells, screams, sad jib s. The word ie given by theehief,
and away he dart. &this lamest speed through the ranks,
every owe endeavouring to bit him as be paems,
according to his desert.; he may get of with ramming
the line once, or he may bare lode so twice, or *rise;
but he is skilled in cuaning and deetnem that as rim
the line over onoe without having his skin Veiled for
him by the hearty application of the birch wielded by
some strong woman ! As the punishment is sot of •
fatal kind, the whole affair bream meals merrisseat.
If the victim is a smart fellow he any map, with • few
blows, but if he is sulky, domed, med henry, he pays
for it. Such a maa mines off *lb wens as Ids lear•
akin from his head to his beets. For one mertitafter-
wards his family are provided foe by the piddle at lama,
At the expiration at that time, If he his an his demeethe
matters in perfect order am • good Mier sad providsmill
hu.band might to have, ha egeogoo ph" bi
society, and shortly n perlitepik helps
experienced hand to whip some ens
with an
The following ass extract from the Sowed UMW
(pogo 188) of the Trasslatioo of the Pharmasepolia
the Royal College of Pb ef
n Lemke, by rev. 0.
F. Colher, published by an 00. :—" It is ate
small defect in this some Mon (speakiag of the
pb.nneeepoeia) that we have no purgative mese bat
what *mains aloe' ;
attakws know that haesnotrieelid
pumas cannot bear except it be in tbe toga. of
COOKLICS PILLS, which chiefly eimelets of
seameawny, and eoloogetts, which I Walk are famed
lab, a sort of oempound extract, the seridity of whisk
is obviated, I steepest, by as alkaline presses, sad by •
fourth ingredient (mahatma to me) of en aromatie Wale
nature. I think so Unita sad me worm of it fee its
being • palest melliebee. I look at it as an artiste if
sommens and deuriestie ma end do nisi best.
tote to say it is the best mode pal
eausealar purge, • miasous purge, sad •
purge esodeined, and their
a dirigsat Thet immussaly
?redoes Skis most steels lA% attralwille
I° Ili WM.. Wale, re Mates lendissolved
artiolles to messes sisiebraem