Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1857-03-11
From the New York Tribune.

The circule is the type of the infinite. 1t is
the soul of motion. Its positive or derivative,
the elliptic, shapes the planets and their orbits.
1t is the condition OF material progress as appli
ed to wheeled vehicles and all the rotary motions
Of machinery-the lord ascendent of this cen
fury. 1t is, too. the type of grace. The oval
face, the arched eyebrow, the heaving bosom
soft throne of love and beauty-the rounded
arm and its gentle pressure-these all are of the
circle. So, too, all the abstractions-the circle
of Society, the domestic circle, the scientific
circle, the artistic, and the inefiable editorial
circle. Round and round the circle go the mat.
ter and mind, the heavenly and the devilish
things. Life is segment of an immortal circle
The arch, that last expression of heroic strength,
the graudest legacy of inspired architectural
genius, is Of the circle. The square and its pro-
geny are symbols of inertia, of immobility, of
hard configuration. Houses and boxes are square
and stand still. Planets, wheels, -four and beer
barrels can go round. .sssae lf.,Ee
Having progressed thus far in our tranScen-
dental remarks the next stage after barrels is to
think Of hoops, the circular agents which keep
the hoops together. Now, hoops lately have
been elevated to the social circle. From being
the toys of childhood, and the necessities of the
cooper, they have risen to the graduation and
the sublime circular looming of petticoats, or
dresses of women. s.- Is. rs
g. 30 woman, in our hours of ease,
Uncertain, coy, and hard to pleased"
I For particars see the thirteenth regular toast
of all public dinners. 5t-.; b. 7aa H.
O woman-woman-eighte feet in circum-
ference. What is the size of the domestic cir
cle-giyen the ring.a.roundsms of q single
seraphc skirt Of that ovalsh, orbitical proper
ton! -. ssa.ss s.ss e-ta g
3 The Empress Eugene, wife of that eminent
loafer Charles Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, APP
peared one bright morning in hoops. She was
an empress, which is fashion-settler. All the
provincial towns, New York included, adopted
the worship of the hoop circular infinite. Maid
ems, from twelve to ages unconfcssed, wives and
mothers, adopted the Egyptian symbol. Hoops
ragged. They we're trundled into church. The
immense Brown found difficulty for the first time
in accommodating feminine Christians with pla-
ces to worship; the modest pretensions of the
pews of the Church of Grace were unequal to
the task OF accommodating the rustling, rotund
robes of the type of the celestial circular swell.
So, too, at the opera. The ushers were solely
barassed to introduce ladies measuring eighteen
feet round into space of eighteen inches, be-
twixt the anch ovy-like packed seats Of parquet
and boxes. In the japonicadom at evening par
ties, the "wall flowers" required fresh verge
against the trespasses Of the corps de ballet, ow-
ing to their circular skirts of sublime proper
tons. Of the jokes, the double entendres, the
shallow blackguardism limited or winked at
hoops and their wearers, we shall not treat--the
decorum of our editorial circle forbidding.
But-(see our European correspondence to.
day)-but-the authoress Of the hooped circle,
the Empress Eugene, has appeared in public
without hoops. "A revolution is in prospect, to
which '93 is pale! Hoops avaunt! Down on
your knees, feminine proyincialdom, and hear
the resistless ukase of the Empress Eugene!
New Yorkeresses, obey Off with your hoops!
So much for the swelling shams!
Let Independence be our boast,
Ever mindful what it cost @
Hail Columbia, &C., &C., &c. t q