Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1858-04-30
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1No advertisement rehectng upon private character,
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The fashionable ladies of the day need not plume them
selves upon the hooped pettieoat something new
They are only adopting the cast off fashions of their
great great grand-mothers To establish this fact we
publish the following from the Spectator No 127, Thurs
day, July 26, I'LL:
"Mr. Spectator :-You have diverted the town al
most whole month at the expense of the country it is
now high time that you should give the country their
revenge Since your withdrawing nom this place, the
falr sex are run into great exavagancies Their pei
coats which began to heave and swell before you left u.s.
are now blown up into most enormous concave and
rise every day more and more in short sir, since our
women know themselves to be out Of the eyes of the
Spectator, they will be kept within compass. You
praised little too soon for the modesy of their head
dresses for as the humor of sick person often driv
out of one limb into another their superfuty of or
naments instead of being entirely banshed seems only
fallen from their heads upon their lower parts What
they have lost in height they make up in BREADTH and
contrary to all rules of architecture widen the founda
tons at the same time that they shorten the supesuc
ture. Were they, like Spanish jennets to impregnate
by tie wind, they could not have thought on more
proper invention. But do not yet hear any par
tcuar in this petcoat that it contains anything
more than what supposed to be in those of scanter
make we are wonderfully at loss
The women give out in defence of these wide bot
TOMS that they airy and very proper for the season;
but this look upon to be only pretenee and piece
of art for it is well known have not had more
moderate these many years. so that it is certain
the heat they complain of cannot be in the weather be-
Sides would ain ask these tender constitutional ladies'
why they should require more cooling than their moth
ers before them?
find several speculative persons are of opinion that
our sex has OF late years been very saucy and that the
hooppetticoat is made of to keep at distance.
1t is most certain that womans honor can not be bet
ter intrenched than after this in circle within
circle amidst such variety of outworks and lines of
decentralization. A female who is thus invested in
whalebone is sufficiently secured against the approaches
of an illbred fellow, who might well think of Sir
George Etheridge's way of making love in tub* as in
the midst of so many hoops.
Among these various conectures, there are men of
supersttous temper who look upon the hooppettcoat
as kind prodigy Some will have it that it portends
the downfall of the French king and observe that the
farthinga appeared in England little before the ruin
of the Spanish monarchy Others of opinion that
it fortes battle and boodshed and believe of the same
prognoscation es the tail of blazing star. For my
part, am apt to think it is sign that muttudes are
coming into the world rather than going out of it.
"The first time 1 lady dressed in one of these
petticoas could not forbear blaming her in my own
thoughts for walking abroad when she was so near her
time; but soon recovered myself out of my error when
found all the modish part Of the sex as far gone as
herself. 1t is generally thought some crafty women
have thus betrayed their companions into hoops that
they might make them accessory to their own conceal
ments and by that means escape the censure of the
world as wary generals have sometimes dressed two
or three OF their friends in their habit that they
might not draw upon themselves any particular attacks
from the enemy. The struttng pettcoat smooths all
distinctions, levels the mother with the daughter and
sets maids and matrons, wives and widows upon the
same bottom. In the while, cannot but be trou
bed to see so many weshaped innocent virgins bloated
up, and waddling up and down. like overfed mon
ster.f
"Shoud this fashion get among the ordinary people,
our public ways would be so crowded. that we should
want streetroom. Several congregations of the best
fashion find themselves already very much sraiened
and if the mode increases wish it may not drive many
ordinary into meetings and conVencles Should
at the time take it into their heads to wear
trunk breeches as who knows what their Indignation at
this female treatment may drive them toy man and
his wife would fill a whole pew.
| You know, Sir, it is recorded Of Alexander the
Great that in his Indian expedition he buried several
suits of armour which by his directions were made much
too big for any of his soldiers in order to give posterty
an extraordinary idea of him. and make them believe he
had commanded an army of giants. | am persuaded,
that if one of the present petcoas happens to be hung
up any repository of curoses it will lead into the
the generations that lie some removes from
us; unless we can believe Posterity will think so
disrespectully Of their great grandmohers that thew
made themselves monstrous to appear amiable.
"When survey this fashioned rotunda in all its
parts cannot but think of the old philosopher who
after having entered into Egyptian temple and looked
about for the idol of the place. at length discovered
little black monkey enshrned in the midst of it upon
which he could not forbear crying out Ito the great
scandal of the worshppers) what magnificent palace
is here for such ridiculous inhabitant!
"Though you have taken resolution, in one of your
papers, to avoid descending to partculartes of DRESS
believe you will not think it below yCu on so extraor-
binary occasion, to unhoop the fair and cure this
fashionable tympany that is got among them am
apt to think the petticoat will shrink of its own accord
at your first coming to town, at least touch of your
pen will make it contract itself like the sensitive plant
and by that obge several who are either terrified
astonshed at this porentous novelty and among the
rest,
Your humble servant, &C., Z"
sin the comedy called scene g. Dufoy French
carries tub about the his shoulders his head
coming through hole at the upper end
tan absurd indecate custom, in effect somewhat sim
ar prevailed for time about the year l793 and was then
called the Pad. ."
The SUPPLY OF SPECIE IN RUss1A.-For some time
specie has been extraordinarily scarce in this country
much that caricature has appeared representing
an antiquary keeping silver roubIe among his rare
coins. What becomes Of all the coin puzzles political
economists some say that the money changers melt II
down for expectation Others that the people hoard it
Yet the mint here produces coin amounting to twelve
thousand roubes day. In the fortress where the mint
is established there large quantities of the precious
metals In one room at recent visit saw long piles
of silver ingots, of square orm each weighing eighty
pounds and number of others of conica form of near
y equal weight. The first came from the Russian mines
the latter were purchased at Hamburg also perceiv
ed number of ingots Of gold placed iron Shelves