Kenosha tribune & telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1856-1859, 1858-12-02
For the Tribune & Telegraph.
Crinoline.

l am one Of those ladies who always believ ed
the saying tina: 'there is nothing new under
the sun" was a paradox, and that the author,
although great and good man, was an old TO-
gy of the worst kind. Yon can i'm aeine, thea
with what assidaity I seized upon the raging and
prevailing fashion Of wearing crinoline. The
world, at last, thought l. has made discovery
worthy of the age and sex. Talk of telegraphs
upon the land or under the sea--of steamships
below, and aerial ships above-al sink into in
significance compared with the great discovery
of crinoline skirts
INDUCING in these views was the first to
put them on, and intended to be the last to take
them off But what wa. my disgust, in peru
sing the Spectator" this morning to find in the
l27 and 100 papers of the second volume of that
work, the fact that one hundred and fifty years
ago, the la dies just tho same kind of skirts.
Just hear what that stupid ass, Joseph Adds
soa, wrote about them at that time 1t seems
that the ladies' bonnets had attained an extra.
ordinary height just before, varying from one
and nc.half TO two feet high, and had been Sc
verely criticised. But to the extract -
Since your Withdrawing from the place, the
fair sex are run into great extravagences. Their
petticOats, which began to heave and roll before
you lett US, are now blown up into nost enor.
moss csncave, and rise every day more and
more in short, Sir, since our women know them
selves to be out of the eye of the Spectator,
they will be kept within no compass. You
praised them little too soon for the modesty of
ShN1r al
person is often driven out OF one limb into an.
other, their superfuity Of ornaments, instead of
being entirely banished, seems only fallen from
their heads upon their lower parts. What they
have lost in height, they make up in breadth and
contrary to the rules of architecture, widen the
foundation at the same time they shorten the
superstructure.
81 find several speculative persons are of opin-
ion, that our sex has OF late years been ,saucy.
and that the hoop petticoat is made use of
TO keep Us at distance. 1t is certain that
woman's honor cannot be better iptrenched than
such variety of outworks and lines of circum-
valuation. .as .. .s. ..a
"Should this fashion get among the ordinary
people, our public ways would be so crowded
that we shall want Street room. | must not
omit TO mention an adventure which happened
TO us in a 'untry church on the frontiers OF
Cornwall As we were in the midst of the SER
wee, lady, who Is the chief woman of the place.
and had passed the winter at London with her
husband, entered the congregation, in little
head-dress and a hoped petticoat. The people
who were SO wonderfully startled at such sight
all of them stood up Some stared at the pro-
digous bottom, and some at the little top of the
strange dress. Ia the mean time, the LADY of
the manor filed the area of the shureh, and
walked up to her pew with unmistakeabls salts
faction, amidst the whispers, conjectures and
astonishment Of tbs whole congregation
have studied ever the matter, and have come
to the conclusion to be revenged by starting
new fashion of my OWE in connection with the
Crinoline, and perhaps, Mr.. Trb g. Tel, I can
rely upon your approval ofmy new invention In
fsct,I have already put it into execution have
just returned from Dir BliEn's with nice lot of
soft warm flannel; with this shall make ono or
two warm under garments, (eall them what Won
wilD to suspend beneath my skirt-to keep my
limbs warm this coming cold winter. When
you next time have the pleasure of seeing me
sailing along Main Street in my expansive Criu-
dime, on one of these raw cold days, lust iinag-
me that am just a. arm as yourself, and few
knows It but yourself and Your
LEANoRE.