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From Harper's Magazine
Our Ancestors.

From Harper's Magazine
Our Ancestors.
List! ye modern men and naidens,
10 the burden of r.y song:
will tell you all how silly
People were IN days agone.
: Think not with sacrelcous
Pen would sully their good name,
Or a single ink drop spatter
Oer the ri.htness of heir fame
But at many Of their customs.
Which are SO a5surdly queer,
My rebellious nose will turn up
With disrespectful sneer.
For in those benightened ages,
Ladies dress'd SO loose and free,
mat their forms were moulded Just as
God intended they should be.
They, in their infatuation.
Carried this to such degrees,
Burst they never hook or button,
When indulging in a sneeze.
Little knew they of the graceful
Ppe-stem figures they might wear
Hfd they only been as witty sszs.a
AS ouf more enlightened fail.
And they saw no sense or reason
Pity them We modern beles.)
In the wearing whole dry goods stores.
To attract the branles swels.
Wouldst thou know their reasons for ita
Know why thus this should have been!
Just consult the April number
OF the Harper's Magazine,
And will ye believe il fair ones
Ye who sleep in downy beds
In those barbarous times, The ladies'
Wore their bonnets on their heads. ..e
Were so foolish as to deem it
Common sense to were them so;
Never dreaming they were fashion'd
Only for senseless show.
And they simply calld them bonnets: sa
Somehow strangely thinking that .9
They would not be deemed vulgar
Ii they did not wear hat.
And the men--benghted creatures
Promenaded through the own,
With their pants so loosely fashioned
Ihat they could with ease SIT down. ~ =
Wore upon their heads covering Sd
Made for rcomfort and for ease,
S,o'ning the unique 'sram beaver"
With unmiugated geese.
beleve-the barbafoas fellows 81 =
They would think US very cl,wns, af.o1ss s.
Could they seesus skiful posing - .es.e
These huge steepes on our crowns arsi
When these heathens m t together,
As we moderns often do,
| So indulge iu social pleasure, d asae z
And to court the ladies to- ssB
| (As hope to die christian, s..
What [ tell is strictly true!
] Though no doubt, 'tw ili seem fiction,
Modern men and maids, to you)--
All their thoughts and words and actions,
/ Were endowed with common sense; ba
/ Modern beauX have learned full y isely g5.f,,.r
With such folly to dispense. .e s,ss4g
They set up a curious STANDARD.
That the mind bespoke the man;
But we know it can't effect it
Half SO well as tailors can. r
Then how dearly should we cherish
,, Our more wise enlightened ways;
How rejoiced we were not born in
Those absurd andv llgar days. -
+ FASHION, lSo5-'o6- e sa "a 9F1
Tim, was when girls their bonnets wore a
e Projecting half yard before; = + s.ss tss-s.
When beauty was thus hidden deep, sfss
Twas something 'een to get peep;
Bun uow-oh woman's f.kle mind
They wear their bonnes all bel ind;
81 While men their features hide with hair,
y The ladies go with faces bare, .ss-~ss
.. And fanny all admire who starei SD -
So this will pass in history's pag,
AS English women's bare-aced age. 81 +.
AN ATRocious COMA nsoN-1f evidence were
lacking of the purely f.natical spirit which auimates
: the Black Republ faction, the following yils
comparison Of their notves with those of onr revo-
i lutonary sres would be sufficient. 1t encoatcs
"a one of their orators named Curtis: aasis
What have we achieved in thi. contcsts Wehavc
lost battle, but we have victory. The reeed.
B. ing steps of the men who retired from Bunker Hill
= echo through history like the advancing tread q
: the great army of f,eedclI Such is precisely ohI
- position this day. sakfs ss 81 & { u assss
J. ssg At Chicago, Thursday morning, the rfer-
curry was down 10 five degrees below zero-run.
ming up to twenty -one degrees in the middle
) Of the day. and then going down apong tht
: units at night. Navigation Of the canal is ef
" factually closed, and the river was frozen ove
= tsightly. Sowe learn by The Press.
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