The north Iowa times. [volume] (M'Gregor [i.e. McGregor], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1857-05-29

| we were led into train OF reflection
on this subject yesterday, while sporting
a clean shirt collar on the sunny side Of
Salina street, and looking at the pretty
women who swept the pavement with
what seemed to us very expensive and
extravagant style Of broom and good
gracious how much room little woman
takes up-that is. . woman who was
once considered small. Just look at the
folds and volumes, the founces and the
spread of fashionable dressed lady {!
she looks more like theeEgyptian pyra-
mids, or pine apple t1eeso, than any
thing We wot Of and as for being able to
get past them without stepping upon
some Of the flyers, and thereby putting
our foot in it, it is an impossibility-
navigation has become extremely peril
Gus.
Then just see the wonderful and un-
writable things displayed in some of the
windows AYE even hung outside the
doors; all the mystery that has hung
around the feminine human from divine,
is laid bare to the public. Bachelors
whose brains have been sorely puzzled
and lost in the wonderful mazes of the
getting up Of . pretty woman-the mys-
terious harness that they rRor in-has
but to wander past the Franklin Build
ings to be initiated.
If he wants to know what makes the
dear creature 80 voluminous, and be as
tonished to see them "wisibly" swelling
before his eyes. as was Mr.. Weller, Sc
nior, at the grand tea-drinking. he has
but to look at the horse hair petticoats
that hang out of the shop doors-thosc
hoops that expand a woman until she
looks like diving-bell coming down
the street, and very likely she might BE-
found to resemble ono in other res
poets, if she let her clapper loose on
fellow.
Horse-hair petticoats are not the only
thing hung out to the public gaze to
such "shifts" have the shop keeps been
put to seel their goods. We think
STAY should be put to such proceedings,
for it RuFFLEs our tempers, and DRAWS
largely upon vivid imagina:ions. Cof-
fee-bsgs and dimity what's to be
done? How are We ever to get near
enough to pretty feminine to kiss her,
if she would be willing; and we are
quite unwilling to believe all are hard
hearted, and sot their faces against such
a proceeding? How is lover to en-
brace his sweet. heart without making q
dreadful MUss, and then have the plea
sure of seeing her rLouNcE out of the
room in pet? It will become neces-
sary to have rope suspended from the
ceiling, for the lover to hoist himself up
by. clear Of the dry goods, and then.
when the lady comes under, lower him
self down to it. Query-would man
be really LOWERING himself any in such
q case, and is the dreadful state of sus-
rxSsr he,would be in, if she didn't come
quick, calculated to make it very DEAR
at the price?
IL lady to be judged by her v.lu-
minousness, and il belle to be measur-
ed? and the measure of her charms
reckoned by ner circumference -
That's what We want to know. and we
would like also to know the number of
hoops fashionable lady carries around.
when got up for making calls. A car
riage once held four, but now it affords
room for only one lady, and when she
spreads herself. there's nothing visible
but head with . few inches of bonnet
in 1.-THE soat ensemNe resembling
coffee urr. with the little knob on top to
lift off tho cover. Fi
There's just one thing in existence at
present that's more ridiculous, and that's
a shanghai coas, making a man look more
like Milerits in his night-gown, all
ready to 60 up "a-6unking." Oh, dear !!
what are we coming to ?--Syraeuse
Standard.