The New York herald., 1845-08-14
A Man -Milliner on his Travels,
AND
NKLlNGS OF TAIL0R-DOM.
"Pussey cat, pussey cat where have you been !"
1--WE been to London to see the Queen"
."Pussey cat, pussey cat what did you there !"
81 frightened mouse under the chair
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81 frightened mouse under the chair
t"Grimaikin," Tragedy ~ NJ r. Wiiis.
The Man. Mitner's of the Weather and Ftonnets
MY DEAR MoRRis-The summer Is with you,
hope. With me, in England, there has been little
sign OF 1t, except the very elegant white hat from
present weather, is not likely to fulfil its destiny. II
is too cold for white hat or white trowser, and hall
the men IN the streets OF London, have worn over
coats through these two weeks OF July ], tor one,
go about IN double iannels, and keep fire for my
companion IN my solitary room-not sorry to have
an excuse ior profiung by It's companlonabeness.
CHAPTER H.
The Man MiUi,er's rieWs Of White Crorats.
And, talking OF hats, suppose cater tor our dres-
sy friends, by sending you letter on the present
Uedrabffs OF the thoroughbred men OF London
They will regret to know, tor one thing, that uhie
craUats, at dinner and evening parties, are as nds
few people, as then, looking tolerably In them, or
knowing how to tie them. | dned out in one yes
erday, and, ( forgot 1t in the conversation Of a
newly celebrated auhoress, who sat on my lefD |
felt as # had exchanged cravats with one OF the
ioomen. For who wears the whole of his
beard, they are becoming, and therefore look well
on foreigners in London but the English still per-
sls in clean mouths and chlns, and wear high shirt
collars, which, with white cravats, execrable.
CHAPTER III.
The Man ner has his eyes open and keeps sharp look
out after the footmen.
Hats are no longer carried into the drawing room
IS.
who tickets them, and gives the owners numbers by
which they are to be called for
CHAPTER ~.
The Man. Mners rie,Os Of English Lats and american
"a nod is as gooS as a wink to blind horse,
Hat-malllng is curlously deterlorated in England.
The best dressed men wear abominaby ill-looking
ones, both as to shape and quality. am cherish
ing my black Beebe-iN-COstar very carefully, but
what with being caught every day in the rain, and
knocking about In hacks and Omnibusses, l shall
soon want another, and commission you to send
me, from aboriginal America, hat to wear in high
ly civilized London
CHAPTER
The Man llner becomes poeticai and pus his ailors
Pray be content
Mother ! am going to the market place;
Chide more. I'll mountebank their loves,
Coy their hearts from them, and come home belovd
Of all the trades in Rome = Corioia,,us.
And should certainly send home for American
clothes, were my wardrobe deficient. You would
hardly get clerk in Pearl street to wear the scan
short-waisted, ght-sleeved coat worn by the mount
ed dandy in Hyde Park Jennings should set upa
branch Of his Broadway shop in London, and send
out that one OF his many cutters who makes yeur
coat as large as you iCant ft-a miracle never DONE
believe, I'LL the advent OF Carpenter in Philade-
pha.
The Man. -Miiiner's Further VietUs the Science of
Tailoring
If Engishmen were not by so much the finest
figures OF men in the world, they would certainly
pass for the most addressed Ii strange how they
stick to their defective fashions Twelve years ago
marvelled at the scan coats, scant wastcoats and
tight legged trowsers of Engllshmen, and they are
worn Just SO, now. Happily this conversation is
type OF their character and they Just constant
TO their friendships. | doubt whether there is ano-
ther country In the world where the stranger goes
back, after years of absence, and finds his welcome
completely unaltered. please not to smile at
my premises and deductonsD
VII
The Man Miiner's Opinions the Subject Of Canes.
fancy that the extravaganza Of canes and fancy
America the las year OF tWo wspe BORROWED BY s
from the French, and never obtained" in England.
AT least, / see no signs Of them now. Agentleman,
to be sure has always need of an umbrella, in this
climate, and few people are to be seen without one,
any day in the year but, II he carries stick, 1t Is
a short common twig Of white wood that costs a
shilling, and no such thing cane is now in
an evening party.
The Man Miiiiner's IDEAS about Hair.
doubt also whether our late fashion of long hair
is not copied from the French exclusively Amerl-
can. You can hardly sec young man in Broad
way whose head is not skirted by "A single hem,
around the neck, made by the curling tongs OF the
hair dresser, but this eeminacy would be looked on
as rather s'iigerish" in London. Short hair, with
very short whisker, both very much brushed, Is
still the fashion here as II was years ago, though
see inperials (Which your country readers may re-
qure explaining as fuft on the under Ii1) becom-
ing prevalent among the most dashlng OF the street
dandes.
TX.
The Man -1iiner breakfasts at chophsnse and makes
somc astonishing discoveries.
breakfased. or rather lunched this morning. at
very celebrated table with some very charming and
celebrated people. One of the guests was MoRrEn,
the author of HajIi Baba," writer who delights
me exceedingly in book, and whose lips and man
ners are graphic as his pen. lie is stout, bald
man, hale and ruddy, perfectly at his ease IN all So
ciety and ready to supplp the topic listen, as the
occasion calls tor either. This is kind Of man, by,
the way, much priced in London--wholy unrecog-
nized Gas to value) in America. have often picked
out one OF the kind in New York, and smiled IN
it is OF no TO hurry civilization. Our society,
to use homely figure, is pudding as well mixed
as that of England, only Engand's pudding Is quite
baked ours only half / like to taste Eiglands oc-
casionIy, till ours is done.
The Man Mliner becomes Philosophical and sires as
profoundly original rteics.
had a little talk with Morier on copyright.
told him that English noyelists, spite Of our injustice
to them, were dogs in the mangcr." No publisher
would buy novel from me, for instance, when they
could get all his, and Bulwer's and Dlsraell's, ana
every bodys else, for nothing. The consequence is,
that American writers shrink from elaborate works,
and spend their efforts on periodical writing, or do
any thing-folow any Professionalism than help
the national literature and starve. The question
then came very naturally, "why does not Congress
see this, and agree to mend the obvious injustice by
proper copyright lawp' Ans,oer-bccause It
would slightly raise the prices Of literature, and
short-sighted demagogues find excellent stuff for
speeches in the advocacy of " cheap books for the
people" Resutt-that the people get no American
books, and are mpregnated exclusively by foreign
writers, and with English and monarchial princl-
pies But this begins TO read like an essay.
CHAPTER
The Man Miiiincr Is going 10 see "the pictures"
There topic touched upon that will be inter,
esting to artists The or CARTOONS opened
yesterday, and some OF the company had been TO see
them. The Government, in ornamentlng the new
House of Parliament, wished 10 know the value OF
fresco painting-wheher it could be successfully and
effectively done by modern artists. They therefore
literally offered prizes for the best crayon drawings
for the ornament of walls and ceilings, and the re-
"new brooms have swept the cleanest." The BEST
are decidedly bya,tists neDer before heard Of 1t
so universally the case in this conservative coun.
try, that man must have been heard OF before
before he is erer heard Of that for nameless artists to