Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-03-28
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1 SHAwLs.-Manv women wear them grace
| fully, but the proper adjustment is an art that
many are unskilled in and we hayeyet to see
| the man who can wear one without giving the
beholder the impression, that, having left home
in hurry, he borrowed the garment OF his
wife in lieu of the coat he couldn't fnd.-
They are comfortable says the male usurper.
No doubt of it, as far as they go /; but look at
your legs ON a windy day; they shiver as tho
they had no proper understanding of the shifts
to which the body is resorting, and regard the
plaid as a mere rese played TO conceal ambi-
tious designs. Comfortable Why so was
the sheep tied cravat- wise around the negro's
neck in Havana nevertheless, Willis object
ed to the arrangement as a Broadway style,
and if he did, you may be sure it was not ele-
giant.
But you don't know how to arrange them,
man you tumble them up around your neck
and shoulders, until the consequent unpleas-
ant perspiration forces a new effort at adjust
inent of the folds, which you are eternally
fdgetting after, and never find to your liking;
meanwhile your neither extremities, like two
cratic North poles, stagger frigidly along the
tyottoir, like lost calves in March storm.
Avoid shawls, especially if your legs at all
approach to that somewhat common, but not
especially desirable conformation, described by
the term handy The heavy fabric i'll ac-
cords with the light and fragile looking pins
beneath. The ends flap wildly in the winds,
and compound fracture of what you are
pleased to denominate your thigh, may some
day punish your temerity. The very last in
novator We noticed was ono of this daring
class. The wind blew, and body not re-
markable for symmetry, was 50 encased in its
impracticable folds, that the unhappy sufferer
looked like corpulent stork wrappedin wet
blanket, his every defornity made prominent
thprebV in thp evps IF a nifxriuO crowd
Give up the shawls, gentlemen, or else re-
serve them only for Journeys. Let the boys
have them and welcome; there arc many ma
ternal " habits they might more closely en-
ulate, to their own, and the worlds advan-
tage, whether this is Que or not but a civil
lied male may never gracefully "propel in
" Bay State" An Indian or frontier man
lends the majesty of Nature to Mackinaw
blanket; but that's voluminous and useful;
covering sinewy giants, stretched on the
arborescent bedsteads of the primeval uphols-
terer-Naturo But yoa, who sleep on feath-
ers--in warm houses-beneath Rose blankets,
if not on beds of equally fragrant nomenela-
sture, to grow Jealous of your wives graces,
and wear shawls Oh, fe next you'll want
the corsets, and those other hidden mysteries,
tina Eve, out of her good sense, dispensed
with and not, as divers scandalous moderrs
assert, because she did not know how to
fashion them. Sensible Sirs, don't be sedueed
by covetous dry goods dealers into longer
violation of propriety. We never owned
shawl, and wouldn't wear one, even though
some charitable hosier bestowed the best upon
us that is--we do not think we should, ac-
cording to present belief-as we nolo view
them-at a distance, we have no idea that the
gift--even of very nice oile-would recon-
cile us to -. Well, it is hard to say;
white man IS unsartin, though the proverb be
Ethiopian and-however, is the extremely
limited character of an editors wardrobe.
That's SO, and here endeth the ehapter.-Ctin-
ton Courant,