Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1830-10-23

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su.h pudding, fr in pudding IS not commonly put
one thing alone, but ono thing With ohcg things to-
sether." Lit ) 267.
No U.--SATuRpAY, Oc1opEa IS, 1850.
~In nova fert animns rnu'at.s deere fo.mls
Corpora %" God
fhaye often wondered at the folly Of many oil
he sterue, sex. which induces them 10 rail at the
customs and fashions Of the fairer and better part
af creation NV friends Nevius Negation and
Timothy Traverse agree with me in utterly abO-
minatinr the rude attacks which are made against
she fortresses of female elegance. Indeed, a
phiosophic mind takes pleasure in contemplate
ing the various changes and transformations
Fashion has effected in shape, form, and figure,
as well as dress, aud loves to investigate the
causes and effects of all the revolutions which
have taken place in exterior finish and appear
ance. Fashion is undoubtedly IA science; hard to
b. attained, and rarely. if ever, understood and
fully comprehended; Vet science, to all lntents
and purposes. Ii is no more uncertain than the
La,o; and hardly falls short at our honorable pro
fesson n the variety OF rs details aud the change
ableuess Of its decisions. It's diCta are 10 be
f,.nd in the Court Journals fall ages: aud, not
withs;andiny the many seeming alterations which
anon. and can be traced TO. the most venerable
antiquity. have not fallen Tar enough into the
" scar aud yellow leaf" 10 b. able 10 describe the
gradual improvements that have been effected in
modern DAYS by the hut ton. All sciences are
progressive and we live i'll the age OF Rail Roads
aud Dunstable bonnets.
There is much reason in the changes of fash
ion People err verymuch when they think that
chance or whim alone regulates the cut Ot gar
nents. the display OF ribbons, and the color OF
dress. Females are proverbialy reasonable, as
all the world knows. Because we cannot fathom
mysteries or unravel riddles. we are not to har-
den our hearts. Now, grant that cannot cy-
actly understand why lady should Que day dis
Dlay her ankles, and the next elongate her dress,
30 that
Her feet beneath her petyc0at,
Like little mice steal in aud out
Asie,hsv feard'd the lights"
And vet will not peril my reliance upon the
good opinion Of the other sex by mi,chievousiy
asserting that there is no reason in the NATTER
So. too, am candid enough to admit, that, with
ali INV knowledge Of mathematics, have never
yet been able to see the proportions OF the new
article for the head, diagrams similar to which
cannot be found in Euclid or Legendre, or any
other author who ever drew lines upon paper:
and vet, shall be so heretical as to condemn a
D,nstaolef A mans business in this life. is to
get along as smoothly as possibls Why should
he stem the current, when he sees so MANY Gid
inc along with it. Why should he speak i'll OF
fashion. when nobody heeds him, or if he is heed
Cd, it is only to be laughedat.
am not erocfly believer in Thompson's doc
trine. that tb autv, when unadorned. Is vet
adorned the most" Doubtless there many
cases when this is strictly true | once knew a
lady who needed not the foreign aid o ornament,
but who answered Sir John Stockings descrip-
ton Of the country bride:-
"Her checks rare white was on,
40 daisy makes comparison.
(Who sees them is unlone)
For streaSs of red were mingled there
Such Is are on a Katharine pear
The side tis,'s Lext the sun.
Herips were red, aud one was thin
oompaI q to that next her chin,
Some bee had stung it newly.
But (Lord!l her eyes so guard her face
burst no upon them gaze
Than OH the sun in July.
Her mouth so small when she does speak,
Thuui's, swesr her teeth ber words did break,
That they might passage ge's
Yet she :, handled stil the matter,
The, came good as ours. or better,
Aud were not spent whit "
But tpardon the extreme boldness Of the OPT
nioa hazsrded.) it is not always that we find such
beauties as our Poet has here happily described.
Taste and Fashion must. therefore. unite. to im-
prove what Nature has sighted. Pretty women
rar.iy suffer by being prettiIy dressed-and art is
of iacalculable advantage in improving those Rot
~ hisaly favored. Who, then. 80 proper to be
judges of what so nearly concerns themselvess
| NAV hereafter throw together some other
thoughts upon the subject of this paper. but for
the present conclude, by subscribing myself the
publis's
VINCENT VENUE.