The Columbia Democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1837-1850, 1845-04-05
THE LADY THAT WAS TOO
FASHIONABLE.

Why shocld we spco Of The fashion
in q cry where It is so Inconsistent
Yesterdays fashion is gone 'o-day, aod
that Of to day viii be gone to'moI'
row.
Ia Paris, those who dres' according
TO the fashion are always busy, they
must not lose a momCnt IN the dal:
there is the morning dress, day dt'sS,
evening dress, and Coucerl or ball dress
and this is not all; one must have fash
ionablc carriages aud horses, lashons
Bile liveres, and fashion IS sIway'
tlsetjng
Those people 10 whomiashion is eve.
~ thing, are extremely unhappy when
they ate found wanting in the smallest
pariicular. This wayHf yus the cra'
vat is no ionger in fashion; coats are
mol buuoned up so high as this now;
this hat is not Of The new ehape, 'hIs
color is IN bad taste; and This cane is
completely gone by.
II you have been so unfortunate as IT,
90 oul without The knowledge OF all this
YOU are lost. Run, hide yourseIlqn'ck
before any one sees you, oryour Tepu'a.
zion is gone.
Fortunately for the Parisians, they
ere not all slaves Of fashion: Men Of
talen, think very little ofr; they have
other things to think about Some
suslele philosophers and cynlcs 'tf OF to
despise it; they sometimes carry this 10
far Es! MOdus in Rebus.
The following circumstance befel a
lady in Paris, to whom fashion is every
thing. This lady was forty years old
she was mol handsome she often
wore things that made her less so.
1T is the fashion, was her favorllf
spying. 'One cannot go wrong when
one ia in the fashion,
'Bu, if The fashion is ridiculous one"
said The friends.
Fashion can never be :idicu Gus.
'ift is unbecoming'
'It is Of no consequence
TO wear your dresses to your kneeF
Il would wear them so. | would al
ways be n the fashion,
The husband of this lady, who was by
no means Of her way Of thinking, took
il into his head one day 10 compose a
little piece, and pu, il into The Journal
des Modes, with a picture, representing
lady whose hair was dressed with
carrot. -Undernealh was written
New style of dressing hair, drawn
back, u la Chinois natural carrot,
The lady examined.i il long and ser,
ousy.
'Oh wha, a singular head,dress! how
now? All, they will wear vegetables in
their hair after lhis''
The husband shrugged his shoulders,
eyclaiming--
How ridiculous 1t is not common
sense. hope you will not make your
Sc ridiculous in that matter
why not, my desr' i, is the fashion
and lha, is enough. l must have a car
rot must have one Immediately
fine large carrot. We are goingto the
opera-I must have my hair dressed
so.'
The husband affected 10 oppose her
the lady persisted. She put the carrot
in her hair and went 10 the opera.
The effect was extraordinary, but no.
what she expected. Every lady laugh
ed, and SO very openly that it was i'm
possible for her to misunderstood it.
The lady came home very meIancho-
ly, snd quite Disconnected.
Il, is very singular; | was dI essed in
The las, fashion, and yet the people
laughed a, me-
My DEAR replied her husband, 'alI
fashions are not becoming 10 you. J
have told you so thousand lines.
You should adapt your dress 10 your
lookS--a carrot is not becoming TO 2
blonde.
Since lhen, this lady has moi followed
the fashions SO lmplici,Iy."-Lady's
BOok.
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