Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1852-11-26


her cap. When son or grandson Genes
home from travel, far or near, his present
is new shawl, which she puts on with
deep consideration parting with the old
one with sigh. The Manchester or Bir-
mingham factory girl buys gay shawl on
credit, wears it ON Sunday, puts it in pawn
on Monday, and takes it out again on Sa-
turday night, for another Sundays wear,
and so on, until she has wasted money
that would have bot her good wardrobe
Thus, from China round the world to Ore
gon, and from the queen down to the
pauper, is the shawl the symbol Of wo-
mans taste and condition. Whence come
all this shawls ? For it is clear that the
supply which arrives from Asia, over bleak
continents and wide oceans, can be only
for the rich and great Some of the shawls
from Bokhara sell in the market on the
Russian frontier, for two thousand four
hundred pounds each. Whence come the
hundred thousand shawls that the women
Of Great Britain purchase every year?
Some of the richest that our ladies wear,
are from Lyons and the French taste is SO
highly esteemed, that our principal ma
nufacturers so to Lyons once or twice a
year for specimens and patterns. Some
of our greatest ladies Of all even the queen,
and certain duchesses and countesses, offer
to our chief manufacturers sight of their
treasurers from India, their Cashmere and
other shawls, from patriotic desire for the
improvement Of our English patterns.
From these, the manufacturers of Norwich
and Paisley devise such beautiful things
that, but for the unaccountablc and unri-
vailed superiority of the orientals i'll the
production Of this particular article, We
should he all satisfaction and admiration
The common cotton shawls, continual y
lcssening in number, worn by women OF
the working classes, arc made at Man
chester, and wherever the cotton manu-
facture is instituted. In order to study
the production of British shawls in per-
fection, one should visit the Norwich or
FALSELY manufactures.
If any article of dress could be immu-
table, it would be the shawl designed for
eternity in the unchanging East, copied
from patterns which are the hcirlooms of
the caste, and woven by fatalists, to be
worn by adorers Of the ancient garments
who resent the idea of the smallest change.
Yet has the day arrived which exhibit. the
manufacture of three distinct kinds Of
shawls in FALSELY. There i, the genuine
woven shawl, with its Asiatic patterns /;
and there is that which is called the shawl
for convenience, but which has nothing A
static about i; the :artan-which name
is given not only to checks Of divers colors,
which signify SO much to the Scottish eye,
but to any kind of mixed or mottled colors
and fabric-woven in squares or lengths
to cover the shoulders. The third kind is
quite modern the snowy, slight and cle-
gantly printed shawl derived from Lyons,
and now daily in rising in favor. The
woven kind is the Oldest in FALSELY q The
tartan kind was introduced from Stirling
shire, which makes as many as ever, but
to the great benefit of FALSELY. The prin-
ted kind has been made about six years /;
and it is by far the greatest and most c1-
panding manufacture. The most devoted
worshipers of the genuine shawl can hard
" wonder at this, considering the love Of
change that is Inherent in ladies.who dress
we'll, and the difference of cost. A genuine
shawl lasts quarter Of a lifetime.