The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-11-21 00:00:00

CENTURY,

Some ladies took tt

r footmen with them into their
box at the play ; others married actors, and their noble
y would have more willingly pardoned
I they married lacqueys rather than
f the Earl of Abingdon married
whom George 111. made a
t Wentworth did actually
—a madness

s declared

iaugnte
I. A daughter

players,
Gallini

and Lady Ha

Sir John
ommit the madness of

that had much method in it. This lady, the daughter of
Lord Rockingham, transacted this matter in the most
business way imaginable. She settled a hundred a-year
for life on her husband, but directed her whole fortune
beside to pass to her children, should she have any ;
otherwise, to her own family. She moreover " provided
for a separation, and ensured the same pin-money to Da-
mon, in case they part." She gave away all her fine
clothes and surrendered her titles : "linen and calico
gowns," she said, " were properest for a footman's wife
and she went to her husbands family in Ireland as plain.
Mrs. Henrietta Sturgeon. * * * * * The es-
teem of the ladies for their liveried servitors does not ag-
ar to have been in all cases reciprocal, if we may believe
lace at Leicester House,
f Wales, in 1743, when

reumstance

of His i
maids o

Duval Hig

mod to drive

was so sick of them, that

1 pounds upon condition that

ever married a maid of hor

Dr. Doran is, as might be expected, great in the
minutia of attire, and quite an amateur as well as
an artist in the mysteries of the toilette, his skill
and science in the treatment of both of which he
demonstrates in numerous pleasant ways.

The modes of salutation which prevail in differ-

entplaces,-;nd which have formed
.distinguishing
characteristics of differing nationalities, form a
pleasing topic of discussion in the doctor's mode of
handling them. Kissing, of coarse, forms a racy
as well as a tempting subject for the treatment of
such a practitioner, and, culled by his industrious
as well as cunning hand, we have presented to us

the observations of several learned authorities on

Three foreign t:

Hera in England have pleasantl.

remarked w

lm which would now

be con-

sidered more honoured in the breach than the observance.
The custom alluded to is that of kissing. Chakondyles,
he Greek, who visited our respected ancestors between
'r and five centur;- ighly surprised, delighted,
edified I,7;i' mode. He says of it :—" As
Prnales and children, their customs are liberal
histance, when a visitor calls at a

ttie extrer

ies ago, was

s friend's wife

street follow

proper in

Persons meeting in the

fashion
plicity

ae custom, and no one sees anything
n." Nicander Nucius, another Greek
y later, also adverts to this osculatory

The English;

he says

manifest much sim

and lack of jealousy in Weil; habits and customs as
regards females ; for not only do members of the same
family and household kiss them on the lips with com-
plimentary salutations and enfolding the arms round the
sist, but even strangers when introduced follow the same
' and it is one which does not appear to them in any
" The third commentator is Erasmus,
how lively the Dutchman becomes

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