Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1845-02-07
THE LADY THAT WAS TOO FASH
IONABLE.

IONABLE.
Why should we speak Of the fashion, in
city where il is inconsistent. Yesterdays
fashion is gone to-day, and that Of to-day
will be gone tomorrow.
In Paris, those who dress according to the
fashion are always busy, they must not lose
moment in the day; there is the morning
dress, day dress, evening, and concert or
ball Dress and this is not all one must
have fashionable carriages and horses, fash
ionable liveries, and fashion is always fleet
ing.
Those people to whom fashion is every
thing are extremely unhappy when they are
found wanting in the smallest particular.
This way oftying the cravat is no longer in
fashion; coats are not buttoned up so high
as this now this hat is not Of the new
shape this color is in bad taste; this cane
is completely gone by.
If You have been so unfortunate as to go
out without knowledge of all this, you are
lost. Run, hide yourself quick, before any
one sees you. or your reputation is gone.
Fortunately for the Parisans, they are
not all slaves of fashion. Men Of talent
think very little Of it they have other things
TO think about Some austere philosophers
and cynics affect to despise it; they some
times carry this too far.-Est modus IN re-
bus.
The following circumstance befel lady
in Paris, to whom fashion is every thing.
This lady was forty years old-she was not
handsome-but she often wore things that
made her less so.
1t is the fashion, was her favorite saying.
'One cannot go wrong when one is in the
fashion,
But if the fashion is a ridiculous one =
said the friends.
Fashion can never be ridiculous
'Ifit is unbecoming
lit is no consequence
If fashion directed you to expose your
throat ?
i would show it,
TO wear your dresses to your knee?'
Il would wear them so. would always
be in the fashion.
The husband of this lady, who was by nc
means of her way of thinking, took it into
his head one day to compose a little piece
and put it in the Journal des ModeS, with
picture, representing lady whose hair wa:
dressed with carrot. Underneath wa:
written
New style of dressing hair, drawn back q
la ChinoiS natural carrot.
The lady examined it long and seriously
20 what a singular head dress !--how new
all, they will wear vegetables in their hail
after this 1?
The husband shrugged his shoulders, ex
CLAIMING
How ridiculous--it is not common sense
hope you will not make yourself ridiculous
in that manner
why not my dear, it is not ugly-not a
all ngly Besides, it is the fashion, and tina
is enough
Il must have carrot-I must have ont
Iimmediately-a fine large carrot. We arr
going TO the opera--l must have my hal
dressed So
The husband affected to oppose her; th'
lady persisted. She put the carrot in he
hair and went to the opera.
The effect was extraordinary, but not wha
she expected. Every body laughed, and ST
very openly that it was impossible for her
misunderstand it.
The lady came home very melancholy
and quite Disconnected
1T was very singular; Igas dressed il
the last fashion, and yet the people laughe'
at me-
: My dear, replied her husband, all fash
ions are not becoming to you. have toll
you so thousand times You should adap
your dress to your looks-a carrot is not be
, coming to blonde
t Since then, this lady has not followed tn
fashions so implicitly ~ 0dy's Book.