The Camden weekly journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1853-1861, 1855-12-24
Down With Those Hoop Skirts
DARING ADvENTrRE AMONG THEM.

But the skirts Oh, Verns de Mediris II IVY
can we embrace them ut alR Positively there
is no geiing round them IN ore effort! Skirts
have swollen to that extent of fashion that no
door is wide enough for them to pass through,
without considerable squeezing. Real belies
of The fashion nov seem like moving bells,
literally so that mulle,s and men have to steer
we'll in the streets, else they will run against
ropes, hoops, bag mating, crnoine and the
deuce knows what. which completely take up
the sidewalk and imhabit the dress. As for the
girl, by Jovc, she seems nowhere The other
day we happened to see two of the dumpy kind
of moving 'brlls' of fashion going along the
street, la po"ter style-hands close and
skirts out. Al forty PAGES distant they seemed
like miniature pyramids of silk ; at twenty
we Snclt culrgne water and other essences at
ten PAGES little lump like a bonnet was dis.
cernable at the top Of the skirt pyramid at
| three PAGES distant we heard the imbcdded
voice Of Il female in the dress ut two PAGES we
discovered four rngleis, of slim appearance,
resembling cat tails dipped in moasses; tw"
eyes, Of weak and absurd expression, like Goil-
ed onions; lips like unto thin sandN iches with a
biz of disconrrd meat sticking out, ;hin and
dry and checks rouged with meenfam Chinese
culnrng.) Positively this was all that could Gre
ate in US the impression or imagination that the
above things, dry goods, &c. formed woman.
| We moved aside and went on our way rejoic-
Ing hat such was not our share, to say nothing
Of our future "better half"
DOWN WITH TIE snAwLs roo.
The Mirror OF fashion say: "lhe customer
who calls at a tailor's to replensh his wardrobe,
! is too apt to think that all he lays out beyond
sufficient to keep his, body comfortable is SO
much wasted or thrown away He will take
his wife to Stewards and buy her Il shawl
worth scveral hundred dollars, and other dress
cs to correspond, and verr probably will buy
plain suit of clothes for himself and be mon
key himself hy throwing shaw over them,
and in this cont"mptuous plight show himself
beside his elegant wrf. in most ludicrous con-
| trast. For the gan,ins de Paris, with glazed
caps to adopt the shepherds maud, and thus
parlly initiate the pcaSantry OF Scotland, there
may he found some excuse, out for tull-grown
republican to 81 invade the rights Of woman AS
to emascuIatc himself in appearance by wear
iny a shawl, we can find no just reason rcaus>
| for cxtenu,tion They should be urrecognised
by man AID pointed at hy boys as needles; for
| in this age of progress in commerce and the
arts, whatever cIlccks their regular onward ten
drrcy, should be rcbukrd and put down by a
palpablc manifestation Of popular dspleasure.
| II NE arc not 10 rctun t0-thc El0genes, nor
adapt the costume Of The Scottish peasantry "r
tuuic car bare legs, aud SHAWL then for the
sake Of sacred taste aul personal manllnesS,
lof' the shawl from your shoulders aud use It
merely in travelling tn keep comfortable the
neither cXtrcmi:irs.
WEARING OF FLAHxELs-r There is a very
important matter connected with dress, which
| cannot pass over in silence: mean the wear,
ing Of flannel next the skin In the minds nt
many persons there is n considerable prejudice
against wearing it, though If a'ey years there is u
s0under pu lie opiri"n than formerly. will
uow state very briefly the advantages Of flannel
and give some striking examples in coufrna.
ton. In the first place it is II bad conductor
Of caIuric, aud tends, therefore, To prevent the
escape Of animal heat Secondly it aids largely
in protecting the body against the influences
of sudden changes III the weather. BY prevent.
ing the rapid escape uf the animal heat and hy
the gentle friction uf the skin and the slight
irritation of the general surface, its tendency is
to keep up an equal temperature. The gentle
fiction aids in maintaining the circulation in
the cu'ameous vessels aud at the same time
impar,s lrathiul stimulus to the nerves.
That it contributes 50 little tuthesc ends may
be readily perceived by observing the change
Of temperature and other effects produced ON
n part SUBJECTED t" friction by the hand or in
any other way. know that the irritation pr"'
duced by tlaunvls issn great in some persons that
they cannot wear it next to the skin. When it
is worn loosely, rs it sho"ld always be d"re,
this friction must take place to Il considerable
extent in every movement OF the body. have
to ad,l as another advantage, that there is no
other ma.rIial which absorls So well the cx-
hnIali;ns from the skin. This fact generally
suggests ticqucnt change or its thorough ven.
lilalin ut night; the former however, Is to be
preferred.
LIT Bo"4's I"ro1"ctio" to Physiology.
RELIGION IN THE FAMILY.-Wc noticed
lately an ancc,lu,c of Il lious mother who
expressed great anxiety for her son for whose
conversion, she had long Lccn praying. At
her request, II friend convcrs,d with that soI';
:, A. hat L., l,l N. nutl a