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

Why shoplj we speat of The fashion
in ci,y where It is so mconslsier'.
Yesterdays fashion is gone to-day, aud
rhei of to-day will be gone iomoi-
row.
In Paris, those who dress according
to the fashion are elways busy, they
must not lose a moment 10 The day
there is The morning dress, day dress,
evening dress, and concert or ball dres'
and this is mol all; one must have Iash
ionable carriages and horses, isshIons.
BILE iveries, and fashion IS slwsy'
fleeting.
Those people 10 whom fashion is eve
~ thing, are extremely unhappy when
they ate found wanting 10 The smallts'
paflculsr. This wayof tying the cra-
va, is no longer in fashion; coats are
not builoned up so high as this now;
,ilis hal is not OF the new shape, lhls
color is 10 bad taste; and this cane is
completely gone by.
II you have been so unfortunate as to
go oui without the knowledge of all This
you are lost. Run, hide yourself quick
before any one sees you, oryour repua
tion is gone.
fortunately for the Parisians, they
ere not all slaves Of fashion. Men OF
talent think very little oft; they have
other things TO think about, Some
.austere philosophers and cynics sffto OF TO
despise it; they sometimes carry this TO
far Est 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 hsndsome-but she often
wore things ths, made her less so.
Il, is the fashion, was her fsvorite
s1ying. sOne cannot 60 wrong when
one is in the fashion,
Bot if The fashioo is ridiculous onei'
said ihe friends.
Fashion can never be :Gicu Gus
Ifit is unbecomngi'
''lt is Of no consequence
40 wear your dresses 10 your kneer
Il would wear them so. | would al
ways be in The fashion,
The husband of this lady, who was By
no means Of her way of thinking, took
it into his head one day 10 compose a
ht,Ie piece, and put il into the Journal
DIES Modes, with picture, representing
lady whose hair was dressed with q
carrot. oi.-Undernea was wtitien--
New style of dressing hair, drawn
back, q la Chinois! natural carrot.
The lady exsmined.i it long and seri-
ously.
ooh what singular head.dress! how
now? Ah, they will wear vegetables in
their hair after lhis?'
The husband shrugged his shoulders,
evcIsiming-
How ridiculous 1t is not common
sense. l hope you will not make your.
self ridiculous in that matter
why not, my dear? il is The fashion
and that is enough. must have car.
rot must have one Immediately "a
fine large carrot. We are going TO 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 ,ha, ii was i'm
possible for her 10 misunderstood il.
The lady came home very melancho-
]y, and quite disconnected.
-.it is very singular; | was di essed 10
the last fashion, and yet the peopl
laughed at me-
MY DEAR replied her husband, 'ali
fashions arc not becoming 10 you. ]
have told you SO thousand times.
You should adapt your dress to your
looks carrot is not becoming to q
blonde.
Since lhen, this lady has not followed
the fashions SO implicitly .--Lady'I
B0ok.
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