Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1857-1858, 1857-02-26
Hoops

f.t, From ths New YORK Tdo uDe.
The circle is the type of the infinite. II is
the soul of motion. It's positive or derivative,
the elliptc-shapes the planets and their orbits.
Il is the condition of material progress as APP
Piled to wheeled vehicles and all the rotary
motions of machinery--the lord ascendant Of
this century. 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 distractions
the circle of Society, the domestic circle, the
scientific circle, the artistic, and the inetfable
editorial circle Round and round the circle
go the matter and mind, the heavenly and :he
deyilish things. Lite is segment Of an i'm
mortal circle. The arch, that last expression
of heroic strength, the grandest legacy of in-
spired architectural genius, is of the circle.
The square and its progeny are symbols of in
ertia, of immobility, of hard cOnfguration.
Houses and boxes are square and stand still.
Planets, wheels, flour and beer barrels can go
round.
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 slaves together. Now, hoops lately
have been elevated TO the social circle. From
being the toys of childhood, aud the necessi-
ties of the cooper, they have risen to the gra-
duation and the sublime circular looming Of
petticoats, or dresses Of women.
80 woman, in our hours Of ease,
Uncertain, coy, aud hard to please !"
JFor particulars zee the thirteenth regular
toast Of sll public dinners.
o woman-woman-eigh feet Ia cir
conference. What is the size of the domes.
tic crcle--giveE tie ring-a-round-ism, of 8
single seraphc skirt Of that oyalsh, orbical
| proporlionl
Tie Empress Eugenie, wife Of that eminent
losier Charles Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, APP
peared one bright morning in hoops. She Was
an empress, which Is a fashion-settler. AL
the provincial towns, New York included,
n, opted the worship Of the hoop circle infinite.
Maldens, from twelve 10 ages unconfessed,
wives and mothers, adopted the Egyptian sym.
Dol. Hoops ragged. They were Lrundled into
church. y immense Brown found difficulty for
the fsrst time 10 accommodating feminine Chris
tains with places to worship; the modest pre-
teniions Of the pews OF the Church Of Grace
were unequal 30 the task Of accommodating
The Taslling, refund robes Of the type OF the
celestial circular swell So, too, At the opera.
The ushers were sorely hArassed 10 introduce
ladies' measuring eighteen feet round into q
space Of eighteen inches, betwixt the anchoyy-
like packed seals Of paFqaet and boxes. 10
the japenosdom al evening parties the ''wAil-
howers" required fresh verge against the tres
passes Of The corps Dc ballet, ewing 20 the!r
circular skirts OF sublime proportions. OF the
jokes, The double entendres, the shallow black
gasrdism hinlsd or sinksd a. hoops add their
wearers, we shall not treat--ilse decoGum Of
our editorial circle forbiddlng, i.
But--bns- the authoress OF the hoped Cir
Gle, the Empress Eagenie, has appeared in pub
lie without hoops. A revolution Is in pros.
pecl, 20 which 's3 Is pale Hoops Axauat I
| Down on your knees, feminine pr0vinoialdom,
aud bear The FesisEless Hkase Of the Empress
Eagsniel New YofkeFesssa, obsyl on wi,h
| yoar hOops SO mach for the swelling shams !
| lat Independents be orr boast,
Even mindlpl whAl IL cost
- Hall Colambla, Sc, &C., sc.