The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1864-07-19 00:00:00

rARISIAN GOSSIP.

Ptrmit me now to say a weed to this tam. Ti.
present fashions in dress contribute a imulifilelle
cosiersesseie of .bat I will venture to mill the siassisml
mho 4of France. Prelim. to Wiles were formed', sm•
markabls for onsinelity and elegance; bat they wow
quiet. Neither in out nor in odour was there acittiting
there to anises the attention forcibly—the eat was
simple, the colour solideed. But now! The crinoline..
Ires em pensive than it was, but still ample. supporta a,
robe of striking colour—chiefly blue or COLL The.
robe, by means of otrim,g. myeierioualy directed. is drawa
up in sac., a way a, to display not only the bottom el
the crinoline, bat the ankle. and even a good mut of the
I-gs. Pardon tin Fnume ladies, unlike the Quiets. of
Spain, have legs—at Mast snob is time geneval belief I
A sort of jacket. wkich dnes not quite most the akmig
of this robe, completem the upper part of tin thew
then, for readmit costume, bonnet. are anal'
extinct, except to; the venerable matron clam, and
hat,m of even, shape and hue replace %MOP.
•ha .airl bats adorned with feathers, or ribbons, or offs-
halal fl men, or fruits, or vegetables, wondnful to•
behold ; web let, doing duty for tffie.lt or shawl is a gar-
lowa cut as 4ke a moo', ovartifl twat as nue be, and
fa,tenA II- it with big bailees of hone we meta/ This
gore eugatbis, to use an esprestioa which was fannerly
in great request with London penny-a-Caen, is hold.
anoaciuus, and meets to exclaim arrogantly, • Look sib
ate I" Ills in every respect different to the eryte 01
arms which prevailed, not ovly in She WOOD 4 our
grandmothers, but in those ante the revolancia et lOW
To some 'yea it livery pleasing, sines they my it sob
oir to great advantage such charms as the hi& weever
may human to pore.. ; but others object to It.. thm
ground that it I. !wettish —or, to nee the dempatiam
which has sapeneded that of "beetle," cocoefiall—sail
that the sort uf drees which suits the cocalt should nolt
be placed on the back of a modest woman. For Um
country and the seaside even "loader" costume. are
adopted, the most remarkable feature ill them being a.
sort of long waistcoat. such ss English grooms wear, of
the moat daunting colours possible, with buttons as bk:
as moons, and wile pockets, into which tbe fair creatures
thrust their little hands in the most manly way imagin-
able.

—The Emperor is gone to Vichy, and the Empress, fa
acoordanat with ettablisbed custom, instals herself at
di. Cloud, where, for the next two months. she will
busy herself with political affair.—reading dispatches.
(or, at least, pr-tending to do an,) and conferring with
Walston. it bmides to replace the Emperor in
Cabinet Councils. It is thought that the Pazi,mas, by
thus seeing her occupy herself with public lizi.ineen.
will be reconciled to her taking in hand the Beppu la
,ho event of anything happening to the Emperos. Bat
the Parisians, I fear, pay no attention to the rosibir.
'ad Is to the Empress hereon, she would not be sonry,
It I. tom, to be freed from tb• duties imposed on ber.
for though she takes ;rest interest in polities, (more so
than, considering her foreign birth, she ought to do, is
larkesina people's opinion,) she doses % Mall like politleal

The public do Dot realise the full baseit of timi
reduced tax on tee owing to the man, profits wits
whisk It is eharged, for it is passed from the grown to
the Oldness merchant, then to the English nienhant,
next to the tea broker, afterwards to the Loadoo whole-
'ale dealer, who sena it to lb* retailer.—By Honkima
sad oo.'s improved mode of supply many of these
charges are avoided, and tea of surpaasisg ensile:tea
and purity is secured, at all their imports are sent
dimes to nommen through their Loudon and °pantry
=in waled packets with the price plainly printed
; Horniumn and Co. therefore guarantee *
parohasen is all part of the kingdom tes of good 0p0..14
filar low fixed price. 11 it needful to see that
lekekst is signed Hammen and Co., original
of the pure tea.

Prutteu and publiniwod for U. Proprietor., by claws
ol Derebilaber, Printer. nt tbs
Ogee of TM Dona arobal -Woo,
Niehisiet. l'ilw4Morkr7 UV'

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