The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1857-07-24
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A lady writer in the last number of the Mess
ger jumps into the hoops and says, as she surveys
their dimensions. she mechanically quotes the
words Of isaiah: "In that day the Lord will take
away the bravery Of the tinkling ornaments
about their feet and their cauls, and their round
tires iile ne moon" The words italcised, In the
opinion of the fair commentator clearly relat" TO
h1o6ps.a
According 10 late advioes, II is probable that the
hoops will be taken away before long. The days APP
preach when the ladies will be lank, IN short
waists, and no crinoline. The puneheons of dress,
Allied with exhlirating women, will no longer oh
struct the public thoroughfares However, there
is as long an interval between the setting and ri
sing of the hoop fashion, as between the appear
ance and re-appcarance of comets. Speaking Of
comets, will any tell what has become Of
that comet which was to burn the world up on the
10th Of last Junei
hundred and fifty years ago, her gracious Ma-
jesty Queen Anne wsdlled before her loving SUB
jects arrsyed IN hoops and brocade. She set the
fashions, and also cured Kings eViI; That IN,
these things were done by q person protesting
10 be Queen Anne, hut SO hooped around, bro
caded and head-lressed, that it impossible
10 saw whether the thing called Anne was re-
ally instinct with life, mere mass Of mil
Iinery and mantua making, worked by machinery
The hoops went out with her gracious Majesty, and
slept sleep Of a century and half 1t will Do
another century and half, hope. before they
are heard Of again. According to King Solomon,
the thing that H. is that that has BEEN and the
thing that has been, Is that that will be. About the
year 20OO the danes and dsmscIs " i'll probably ex-
rand once more, and, very likely, some invention
will, by that time, enable the ladies to initiate their
hnpnS W gas go at they oil tIa
purposes of balloons which they so much reser.-
BILE How delightful What a luxury in hot
summer day, TO set sail from the suffocating atmos-
phere of a city drawing room for some snow white
cloud, In the cool blue azurel Wouldn't they look
angelic, as they scared upward The only draw
back would be, that the bcaux, not wearing hoops,
would be unable TO follow. Alas what would earth
be without hoops, or heaven without moustaches'-
The fair aronauts would soon come down from the
clouds, to make conquests among the sons of men,
Fashions may change, but human nature never.
A New York contemporary says that a fearful
collision well nigh occurred between two immense
hoops Of that city They approaching each
other, coming UP street. and another down
"Thero clearly room to pass, and TO step
down among the carts and omuibuses was inpossi-
BILE Both came sailing on, and We and the rest of
the lettering world awaited with curiosity the mo
parently unconscious, but it was easy enough to
see how deeply concerned they were in the issue.
Who could give? Who ever cen giye' Certainly
who ever Gun be generous, and hurry to do the no.
BILE thing Why trrs not either Of these lddeS toc'iy
cno1tgj, IN be- loreiierf Why could not either do
graceful act Of sclfdcnial, of good breeding!
Why should both cause the i'll natured masculines
to chuckle over the petty weakness and spite. To-
icardS each otter. Of wOmaukind? They advanced
serenely, and with style. The danger was imIni-
nent. They were about meeting, when Mrs. Buck
suddenly turned and disappeared in a shop,
and Mrs. Fustian swept on without accident"
However, the men have no right to quarrel about
fashions Cooked hats; round, black, stoyeppc
hats; graceful, slouched hats: square toes, round
toes. CATERS: beardless and bearded faces; there
no within of form through which they do not dance.
What civilian would now walk the streets in hat
with feathers and a sword by his side, Or what
preacher mount the pulpit with the beard of the
apostles,