Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-10-20
GOSSIP FOB TME LADIES.
coNNUB1AL1rY AND CLOTHES.

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.." CoNNUBIALTTY AND CLOTHES. f
Why wedlock and wardrobe should be
so unsentimentally Synonymous is ineom-
prehensible to an independent mind that
ignores custom. Indeed, this unnatural
minglinS OF the ideal and material Is full of
an incongruity most repugnant to a deli
cate taste. The modern .AberlaFd has
scarcely realized the timid 'yes" of his
adored Heloise before her busy femi-
less billows of dry goods. Even in
the delicious ecstasy of the kiss of the
betrothal, there may fit thought as
to the lace of her robe do nOces to which
that kiss inevitably tends. For fashiona-
BILE woman's brain (and what woman is
not fashionable at the present day p seems
little less than loom upon which is woven
her silken fancies or her ribboned reveries.
During that hissfuI twilight of life
which leads to the wedding night, a lover
has always one serious rival-the mantua-
maker! How many an eloquent essay of
love has been cut short by a peremptOry
demand-a sort of domestic writ of haJeds
cOrpas-for the indispensable "trying on"
of some article ofthe grand trousSedu which
Is "trying" in more wavs than one. ...agI
1t matters not how fully supplied may be
the plighted maiden's wardrobe, at the
very thought of matrimony she stands
raimentless as a Venus born from the foam
OF the sea. oras the more modern
"Miss Flora McFlimsy of Madison square,
Who really and truly had Nothing to wearp"
And this pitiful state of dress destitution
Is not matter of shame, but rather of glo
rv. Thata bride has not an article of
clothing that she has ever worn is a mat
ter of great self-congratulatioD. She goes
to her husband, like Just imported French
doll, with trunk full of strange, new
clothes, which have no association of SEN
timent, and which frequently appear, from
their stiffness, as if they did not belong to
her. but were hired-as the wedding pres
ents of silverware frequently .are-just for
the occasion. There was time when
sanity modesty held her discreetest vail
over the mysterious lngdrie fashioned for
the trOuSSedu of bride; it was made up of
the same species of shame-faced pride and
interest that timid matrons evinced in the
matter of their first ldyette. But all this
changed. Every bride of this epoch dis
plays each requisite of her outfit for the
most curious and uncaring visitor of the
family to examine, comment upon and
place at cash valuation!
There is a hope that a better taste may at
some early day re-assert itself among our
young people, so that woman's. and,
above all, brides apparel may appear to
drape her as naturally as the petals clothe
the flower, and with the same harmony,
fragrance and simplicity. 3D.. :a|.
THE ABUSE OF RIBBONS. +t
The present may safely be pronounced
upon as the age of ribbon. The miles of
these tluttering silken strips that are borne
about by all,sizes, ages andconditions ofwo-
men, would, doubt not, equal the length
of the Atlantic cable. A pretty ribbon,
tastefnlly applied, affords an adjunct TO q
youthful toilette at once graceful and suit
able. But ribbon should appear to be of
some use; it should either tie or seem to
tie something. A length of ribbon simply
put on, and which you may measure by
your eve and compute its cost by the yard,
has neither sentiment nor beauty to COM
men1 its use. Besides, there are few so in
trinsically high bred in their tone of beauty
that they can come off entirely scathless
from this ribbon ordeal. Their use weakens
style; their abuse destroys it. .-,
have seen lady who, in a plain, rich
robe, with tiny, yet costly lace about her
neck, just clasped with an antique gem,
appeared the most patrician of beauties,
instantly lowered to the grade of shop
girl by the effect of a glating ribbon tied
straight about her neck and hanging in
long looms and streamers over her shoul-
ders. What artist would ever paint fam
cy sketch with "halter" put about the
neck of ideal beauty? For sash, or as
knots for the dimpled shoulders of infancy,
or the noted ... l--.......... ...r..
To tie back the bonDy brown hair"
ribbon is all very well, but when yonng
girls wear them in their hats with floating
ends, on their hair with floating ends, on
their backs with floating ends, and ON their
shoulders with floating ends, often auda-
ciously unite all these various styles, it is
high time a protest was uttered against it
and an end put to them all. With which
final fling they are flung to the winds
again.
"Truly," says Thackeray, mature meant
very gently by women when she made that
tea plant" H..f $500 .a,..It ,u t.-l
The Chinese herb may be said to stand in
the same relation to woman that tobacco
does to man. OF the latter, think it is
Bulwer who says: "He who does not smoke
has either known no griefs, orrefused him
self the softest consolation next to that
which comes from Heaven" SO, in the
matter of tea, a man who comprehends not
the subtle, delicate potency of this "cheer-
ing" decoction, should never know head
ache, or those many silent sorrowsand per-
pleXities which are assuaged, if not dissi-
pated, by the fragrant aroma of the conf
Dental and everGready cup of tea oH 'i
| And the giving of many one to the
| feyered lips of pehury, or the. pain-dis-
traught ones of the poorih life's joys, will,
doubt not, be reckoned side by side with
the "cup of cold water" which shall not
"lose It's reward" y. ''t Nhi' :'''' iu