The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1857-06-25
GBe 9our Cjrtle,
THE GIRL WITH THE CALICO
DRESS.


ny ROBERT JossELYN.
A fig for your hyperion girls,
With their velvets and satins and laces,
Their diamonds and rubies and pearls,
And their milIiner figures and faces;
They may shine at party or ball,
Emblazoned with half they possess,
But give me in place Of them all,
My girl with the calico dress.
She is plump as partridge and fair
As r0se in its earliest bloom;
Her teeth will with ivory compare,
And her breath with the clover perfume.
Her step is as free and as light
As the lawn's whom the hunters hard press
And her eye is as soft and as bright
My girl with the calico dress
Your dandies and fopIings may sne,r
At her simple and modest attire,
But the charms she permits TO appear,
Would set a whole iceberg on FIRE!
She can dance-but she never allows
The hugging, the squeeze and caress
She is saving all these for her spouse
MY girl with the calico dress.
She is cheerful, warm-hoaried and true,
And kind to her father and mother;
She studies how much she can do
For her sweet little sister aud brother.
If you want a companion for life,
To comfort, enliven and bless,
She is just the right sort for a wifs-
My girl with the calico dress.
Jackson, Miss.
Hsthetics of Dress -Choic6 of Col
ors.
1t was an observation Of Lavater,
that persons habitually attentive to
dress display the same regularity in
their domestic affairs. "Young wo-
men, says he, "who neglect their toi-
lette, and manifest little concern about
their apparel, indicate in this very par
ticular a disregard of order, mind but
little adapted to the details Of house
keeping, a deficiency of tasteand of the
qualifications that inspire love. The
girl of eighteen who desires not to
please, will be a slut and a shreW al
twenty-five"
It is a great mistake in women to
suppose that they may safely throw off
all care about dress with their celibacy
as if husbands had less taste than suit.
ors; or as if wives had less need than
mistresses of the advantage of elegant
and tasteful apparel An old writer
says, with a hearty emphasis, "It is one
of the moral duties of every married
woman always to appear we'll dressed in
the presence Of her husband TC
effect this, however, expensive attire is
by no means essential. The simplest
robe may evince the Wearer' taste as tru.
ly as the most costly gown Of mojr,
antique But how rare a quality is good
taste In the mere matter of propriety
and harmony Of color, there is room for
a treatise which has yet Co he written by
some one thoroughly proficient in the
aesthetics of dress Even simpler laws
though pretty generally understood, are
constantly neglected
Some Of these can0ns, as laid down
in an English poem Of the last century
are worth quoting, as wen for the gooC
sense of the dogmas as for the quaint
ness Of the verses. To munettes he rec
ommends high oolors, rose orange, o.
even scarlet, thus
"The lass whose sim u.s., Ike the hazel, brown
With brighter colou should o'ercomo hel
own"
no rosy-cheeked girls he permits
"bme" and the "color of the sea. "
"Let the falr nymphi in whose plump oheeh
lis seen
"A rosy blush, be clad M cheerful green"
Oautioning pale women against yer
nal hues, he continues;
"Ladles grown pale with sickness or despair,
The cables mournful dye should choose q
wcari
SO the pale moon siil shines wiihpuroat light
Clad din Tho duskY mantle of Che night"
Boston fosL