The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1859-01-13
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This was, once upon a time, tho climax oil
recommendation for any gay silk or gorgeous
atin, or highly decorated robe OK any
sort. II was the boasted destiny of the
proudcss fabric offered for femenine wear
Even yet, 90 large 10 the floating population
Of New York, it is not very uucommon to
see ladies absolutely ssdressed for the prom.
enade." Dresses Of rich texture, and COL
ored hounces, here and there sweep the side
walks, 5rocade and moire antique OCCASION
ally meet the eye in cars and stages, and $50
bonnets are Haunted In the faces Of pAssers
by. This is now and then seen, though
Broadway is by no means the tulip bed ~ il
vas wont 70 be. But every season marks .
diminusion of this absurd custom and now
it cannot fail to be observed that all our la
dies Of indisputable ton and fashion wear
only the plainest dress in the promenade
Neither stylish silk nor gay bonnet is
suitable for walk, and the parading Of
such articles on the street at once stamps
the wcarer as "Lot much Of anybody or
not able to afford carriage.
1t il in carriages that ladies dressed to
make calls, display their rich laces and
plumes, their embroidered and founced robe,
their silks and brocades, their "loves Of
bonnets" and superb shawis, and velvet
trimmed with the newest styles Of crotchet
fringe. For walking plain black silk is
most in favor, and founces are dispensed
with. In this respect we nre growing more
and more like the cities Of Europe, where q
rich and fashionable lady is never splendidly
attired when walking out. The reservation
OF magnificent dresses for the house or the
carriage has many advantages. In the first
place they preserve their freshness much
longer, in the next, tho custom Of wearing
plain dresses in the street enables the lady
who cannot afford extravaganza to walk
without the consciousness Of being con-
spicuous for want Of fnery. IL cannot be
known to strange passengers that she does
not drive out in superb attire; she does not
imagine every eye fixed on her in mockery or
reproach and in time she may hope to enter
q large dry goods establishment without be-
ing nsolsntly treated by young gentlemen
clerks. This last symptom-tha Of clerks
treating plainly dressed lady with civiity-
will mark the perishing Of the old oppressive
dynasty, and the commencement OF more ra-
tional habits in the costumes Of New York
women.-[Express.
We published few days ago state
ment Of the opponents OF Capt. Montgomery
and his band, charging them with murder
and robbery in Kansas, recently. We have
now a statement from the other side, as fol-
lows:
John II. Tate and one Barnet, and others
to the number of sixteen, passed through our
from Missouri the same eve-
ming that Capt. Montgomery was attacked.
They returned the next morning by way of
Potosi. When they got down to Miller's
store they were told that s'thcy had been up
to Montgomery and free several shots into
his house, and said they would have taken
him, but he hastily dressed himself in his
wife's clothes and came out, and they, hav-
ing some respect for her sex, let her pass,
but, on examination, the wife was still In the
house, and the Captain gone," On being
asked why they won't up, they replied that
''the men about Paris got them to do so, to
create confidence between the State OF Mis-
souri, and the Territory" heard this story
from the State before heard that the Cap
tain had been attacked. If the story was
''made up" it must have been made between
the Captain, Tate & Co.