The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1851-09-04

arc all tue covering any Woman lithuS fe-
quire, unless in case of some emergency d
travelling in a storm, but when one gets in
side oI a quilted balloon or grass cloth tub,
she wants clothing 10 protect her from her
clothing.
In an able letter tothe New York Tribune,
Mrs. Bloomer defends the new dress us SUI
perior in healthfulness and convenience, be-
cause the long skirts require so many under
clothes that carrying them is burden. Our
experience teaches us that decency requires
three coverings for the person the warnest
weather, two Of muslin and one of lawn
the widest of the underskirts to be three
yards in circumference, the other two and a
hall, the lava skirt outside may be four, five,
six or seven yards wide, and the three gar
menis would weigh two pounds, scarcely SO
much. When This rests upon the shoulders
it is not very grievous burden, and if it is
not enough for the requirements of decency,
ii is twenty years since we were decenily
dressed on very warm day. If the wind
likes 10 come and wrap your skirts close
around your limbs, that is the winds busi-
ness, ard we do not see that any one has
right TO interfere with old Boreas when he is
engaged in lawful calling but If you
want 10 check his advances, put a little
starch and gum in the two ouuide skirts, and
il your lawn is very thin he will whistle
through without taking the trouble 10 bend
it close enough around your form to reveal
your proportions. When the weather will
permit, add another skirt for comfort but
nome ere needed for show. Ii is false idea
"a hustle -relic-.hat we must put on mass
of drapery 10 make form iof ourselves.
The Good Father made the form, and made
it very nicely. All we have 10 do is TO
clothe it, and leave its proportions just as we
find them.
We cannot see that the adoption OF this
costume promises any amdnement in this
respect. All the Boomer dresses we have
seen were made with long, tight funnel-sha-
ped bodices, and worn with a mass of skirts
depending from The waist. Little girls have
worn similar dress ever since we can rem
ember, and does not every one know that
their lungs are as much crushed and their
spine as much overloaded as those of their
mammas? We rathe. opine that the short
ening of the skirt will tend 10 increase the
pressure on the waist, for as fashion requires
one TO be slim according 10 the height, a
shortening of drapery, which makes the per-
son look shorter, will call for a corresponding
reduction in the horizontal dimensions of the
waist. Then, hroad-rimmed hats are not
suitable covering for the head in all places
In crowded taoroushfare they would be
very inconvenient In a church or lecture
room they would be inadmissabe, as hiding
the speaker from all the audience except
those in the front seats.
We are sorry, very sorry, that Mrs. Bloo-
mer and other women of mind, whom we
had looked upon as co-Iaborers in the work
of awakening public attention TO the legal
and social disadvantages under which wo-
man labors, should have drawn off their for.
ces TO get up doughty campaign against
the bondage of petticoats. They might
have left French milliners and American
apes TO burn up mill dams and turn rivers
up stream about the pattern of new irock
and if the world must needs be set by the
ears about few inches of skirt, let some
body attend 10 getting up the fight who is
good for nothing else. ANY woman of good
common sense can dress consistently with
tho laws of health, cleanliness and convent.
ence, without giving the matter much alen-
tion, or rendering herself painfully conspcu-
Gus. The.whole controversy is much ado
about nothipe-a grand petite oa- warfare,
which would appear 10 argue that woman can,
never get above dress-that in some form it
must occupy the first place in her affections,
the principal part of her thoughts.
II makes one blush TO think Of women
who are great moral sreformers, setting TO
work 10 fix the attention of the attention of
the world upon new-fashoned pe,ticoat
How would il sound in history 10 learn that
Calvin, Melancihon and Luther had SET Eu-
rope by the ears about buckskin breeches
and suppose Father Matthew, and John B.
Cough, and William Burleigh should lay
thei, heads together 10 draw the attention of
all newspaperJom TO the cut of new pair
of panaoons How would 1t do for few
of our leading statesmen 10 get up general
hub-bub all over the country about drab
coats And does il look any better for wo-
men who are acknowledged 10 be the lead
ing minds of their sex and age, 10 put all
Chrslendom into iizz about new petit.
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