The Davenport daily gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1869, 1856-08-23
THE DAILY GAZETTE
WHAT'S TO BE DONE WITH n,

~ ildo lHCFeased, III IS increasing, and
ought to be diminished. Whatl The
power Of the Crown? Bah! 1t is as
much greater matter than the power
OF the Crown; much more encroach
ing. 1t pushes us from our stools. it
threatens to leave MS no ace in the
social system The world is not wiI.
enough Tor it and us. Where is II I,
ehds VIII no Bishop raise his vo
against ~ Alas. bishop has !
Totally lost i'll III The hol, maI
ny as near i as the magn,tu ,c .. t.s
hing allowed, it gradually envclope.i
lnm in its voluminous folds; he disap-
peared, and has never been heard Of
since. That advertisement in the sec.
ond column OF the 1smes relates to
the unfortunate lost prelate.
"A drawIDg-room now looks like a
camp. fou see number OF bell tents
ofditferent colors, the polls sustaining
them appearing at the summit. These
are the signs Vt habitation VAn ss>s
mhertapouts it is not easy todetermine.
Broughams must soon be abandon
ed. 1t now fills a brougham. overlap
ping at the windows, and is still in the
course OF ACKNOWLEDGEMENT. Omnibus
es will soon be in requisition to afford
the necessary space, or perhaps even
houses on wheels, like the caravans
Tor shows and wild beasts.
Certainly there is law in fashion,
if one could but find it out. They
have their cycles like storms, and sci
ence might calculate the periods of
their recurrence. Invention nor fancy
there is none in fashion; nothing is
new, An old thing comes in again.
Thus the hoops come round again in
rather an aggravated shape Of enorm-
ity. But If their be expansion in one
quarter, be surec there will becontrac-
ton in another, for such compensations
belong to the scheme otthings. Thus
while the bonnet has been dwindling,
away, the petficoat has been expanding
englossing and pervading all space.
The one is automatically the compile
mentto the other. The bonnet is now
hardly visible to the naked eye, while
the petticoat fills the view like
mountain of millinery. The curious
thing is, that while the bonnet has
been getting smaller and smaller, and
rednced TO mere.speck, the price has
not undergone the desirable diminu-
tion. and husbands and fathers have
only been certified that their wives
and daughters still wear such articles.
by the very handsome price they still
pay for them. II yon complain that
you do not see il ON your wife's head.
be consoled; you will see it in ample
in the bill. The consum-
mate malignity is this, that as the price
of the bonnet is in inverse proportion
TO the size. so that if reduced to span
lie it would be at the maximum price.
the cost Of the voluminons petticoat is
N direct proportion to the magnitude
( The ebbs and flows OF the bonnet
md petticoat are as regularas those OF
The tides at the opposite enis OF the
glODS- w iSlI liiS OtiC 10 NNii'hS 49,
athcr is increasing and so on. "
ronncts were worn cunsid, rail-.
,er than coal scuttles, but oi the sam
ignre, pettcoats were so scanty ana
short as to give assurance to the world
that ladies had feet and ancles-a
iact of which the evidences Of which
have lately disappeared. And go it
will be again. And when the enor-
nifty OF the petticoat has exceeded all
hounds of endurance when things
have come to such pass, whore pass
Is none. that one lady exclusively fills
and occupies one moderately sized
room. the thing will begin to shrink
and go to bonnet instead, and it will
he all top instead OF what it is now,
which is quite to the reverse.
Glad we are to see that Punch has
taken the petticoat in hand, and call
ed upon the interference of the police
to suppress the enormity. And surely
there must be powers OF repression un-
der the Building Act. But if not, the
case OF obstruction is clear, tangible,
most tangible, and removable BY law
under the police act. So ladies looks
out!--London Paper.