New-York daily tribune., 1861-11-12


crinOlne, and patriotic from her swapping eyu
to her symmetrical ankles. She is-we will
wager anything upon it--a clever creature,
with only a weakness for Beauregards
epaulettes and confused notion that
IN some way or other the establish.
ment OF the COnfederacy will gOrify bonnets
and advance head-dresses generally to perfec.
u0n heretofore only sighed for She is as wise
in her petticOats, is little Miss Perdue. az many
a stout Secessionist in pantcloons. If the Re.
bellion is to bring the Millennium as to every
thing else, why not as to Mlineryi Who
knows what fashions perfect Independence Of
New-York may not suggest in the enfranchsed
premises, No. 326 Main street, Memphis' what
taste, elegance, spleDdor, variegation, novelty
what ideals of female fancy, the freest and
most luxurant may not there be realized II
Memphis is to "Outdo New-York," under the
stimulating influence Of the Confederate
Constitution, why, Of course, the whole
NewtOnian theory of cOlors will be doomed
to fade away, and to say there that thing
is prismatic will be to say that it is dim
or hueless. At any rate, if the Perdue pbiloso.
ply is compelled, while breaking all other laws,
to obey the laws of nature, we shall, doubtless,
hear Of new and exquisite combinations, Auro.
raj contrasts, and the Paphan pigments Of
mOon.rise, and perfect disposition, under the
magic needle of Perdue, Of the primary tnts.
STILL as the warm friend and fixed admirer
rdu
beg her to observe that reformers sometimes
introduce innovations which they are subse-
quently unable to control, and which echicys
perfection only to plague their inventors. Thus
NJ Guillotin. when he devised the sweet, bis.
torical machine which bears his name did not
foresee that it might be employed in his own
decoIation. Miss Perdue must remember the
engineer and how he was hoisted BY the petard.
Now. here, in New.York, we have rather than
else prejudice in favor of clothes But sup
rose that Miss Perdue's customers, just to DO
as unlike US poor barbarans as possible, should
discard all other rsiment, and fall back upon
fg-leayes as best suited to 4" Southern
" climate lr What would become Of No. 3@5
Main street, Memphis then' Now, there is
excellent scriptural argument for fg.leayes.
The authority for this style of dress in thS
Bible is older and stronger than the authority
or Slavery. Why should the Memphis ladies'
be wiser, in the matter Of raimept, than Mother
Ever
Fig-leaves being pointed out, then, BY Scrip.
ture as good, orthodox and natural sartorial
resource the ministers of Memphis may taks
| it into their Hebraized heads to command ther
communicates to assume them as the only piOus
year-proyed to be such by the fact that
they were worn by Adam, and ore not worn
by the heathens of Gotham. What will Miss
NJ. Perdue DO then! No. 326 isn't garden.
Miss NJ. Perdue isn't nursery woman, with
groves of fg-trees at command. So VIII she
be left, in the midst of all her splendor, sur.
rounded by muslin, and gauze, and ribbons.
and hooped-skirts, aud laees, and patent stays
and hosiery, and kind of she-Marius sitting
in a bandbox CARTHAGE Poor little pitiabe
and pitied Miss u. Perdue Shadows wa
fall upon the purple glories of No. 326 Main
street, Memphis, and the rustic of passing fig.
II leaves and the susaryus of the new mode, viii
but mock the agonized ear Of the insOlvens
artist weeping the fate of her "fsll mill.
" nery." who will probably close the fifth act
of the tragedy by killing herself with rusty
darning. needle.
/ To avoid failure and fclo-de-se, we advise oar
dear Miss NJ. p. to strike out some novelty
which will keep the fg.leaTes upon their na'
tive branches. Cannot she hit upon something
emblematieal and reasonable There is tia
costume of Miss Dorothy Draggletail, in the
works of Mrs. Goose lis it not suggestive oi
disunionl What did Miss Margery Daw wear,
when she sold her bed and lay in the straw
Cannot some antiquarian artist supply MiGs
Perdue with accurate drawings of the clothes
worn by tho bcggars who were barked at BY
the very dogs, aud who came to town, some ia
rags and some in tags and some in velvet
gonnl Cannot Miss p. embody Secession in
skirt, high treason in head-dress, war in
waist. hatred of the North in a hat, the reso-
lut,ons of '93 in mantills If she can, her
fortune will be made, and the fear OF the hg-
leaf need not distract her patriotic dreams.