The Delaware register, or, Farmers', manufacturers' & mechanics' advocate. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1828-1829, 1829-07-11

+; the scriptures because they were not yet to be
so far out of order" But Latimer is no more
g That Sun is set-O, rise some other such !" Not
however, that suppose there will any other such
man spring up in these degenerate days, to chasise
these fair sinners for their extravagances and there
FIRE as the evil is sore in the land and patience
with u.s. upon this subject, has long ceased to be
virtue we believe we must cen give the sweet crea-
lures a short lecture ourselves. Not that we are a.
bout to 90 as far Latimer would have done, or to
declare war upon the cantelos, and bishops, and 9TH
or unsightly articles which grace certain windows in
Broadway, exposing to the unnitiated the manner in
which many a syph-like form is finished which hap
pened unfortunately to be sent into the world scarce
hlf made up" 1t is only with the outward integu-
ments that have TO do; and if the ladies are
willing TO tolerate these unseemy exposures Of an ex-
tensiye branch of the arts surely the coarser sex can
have no great objection But there other matters
Of which we have right to complain. . Take, for ex-
ample the enormous dimensions of the hats worn for
the last eighteen months, and the ridiculous in
which they adjusted to say nothing OF the top
knots" bows, and Towering shrubs and plants upon
the tons of them. WE'LL indeed, might old Latiner,
il he were alive, and Virgnian, say, that they put
"po,cer" of trumpery upon their heads. Formerly,
the object of broad brims, to overshadow the fair
compilations beneath. But not so during the present
march of mind. The wide rim before is brought ver
cay up, like the back side of old fashioned three
cornered cooked hat-so that the fair possessors not
only encounter the broad blaze of the sun-but the
broad gaze of all the sons of Adam who pass them
in the streets. They have no longer an opportunity
of stealing those sweet tinid glances-" furve CLAN
ces' Mr. Cooper. would call them-from beneath
their modest cottage hats and neat little " bonnets Of
straw" All is open, bold masculine. Look at them
again at church-at public meetings-and fashionable
exhibitions. Who can see Ooer these wildernesses of
bonnets Who can see through them ? And who can
hear for their very rustng 1t is sober fact that the
late great religious and charitable anniversaries were
not near as well attended formerly because of the
perposterous dresses of the ladies' We ourselves for
many months, excepting rainy days. have been en-
abed only catch occasional glances of the preach
ers face through the bows among the blossoms of
the intervening hats. The sleeves en- gigOt-how I'M
uuerably preposterous, and vexatousy ridiculous are
these detestable denominations. Oh that Solomons
seven hundred wives and three hundred concubines
had once gone to court in them 1t would have re-
CURED palace hall large all Palestine and the
monarch would have given another chapter upon
"vanity and vexation of spirit" Look into our
churches: Sleeves en- gigot, two feet in circumfer
ence, enclosing little beautiful, slender, ivory arms of
four or five inches We know not wherewh to liken
them. Their shoulders and arms appear as huge and
unnatural though they afflicted with etphanti
0ss, and they hang to the body like the copper con-
ductors from the cap to the of still, gradually
tapering down. though not becoming beautifully
less" What with their hats and sleeves, and hoops,
and buckranl, and foundation musllns, three ladies
now make pew full. We have no objection to la
dys encasing herself in frock pattern of sevenand
forty yards provided their husbands and fathers can