Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1867-09-21

annOlnted with phosphorus and oil for
theatical purposes rather than the head
OF a Christian Gentlewoman.
OTHER HAIR STYLES
IF this style be not approved of, there
is yet another fashion namely. to cut
the hair short i'll crop, eycpe1 it, frizzle
it, bleach it, burn it, and otherwise tor
ture it until it has about as much life in
it as last years hay, then to shampOon
it, rumple it, and tousle it, until the eff
feet is to produce the aspect of a mad
woman in one of her worse fits This
method, less troublesome and costly than
the other, may be considered even
more striking, SO that it is largely adop-
ted by large number of persons who
are rather disreputable and poor. As
1T Is well known, not all the asinine
tribe wear asses ears, nevertheless some
of these votaries of dress find their ears
too long, or too large, or ill-placed, or
what comes to the same thing, ineOnven-
iently placed, but a prettier or better
shaped pair are easily purchased, admir-
ably moulded in gatta percha or some
other plastic material; they are delicate
ly colored, fitted up with ear rings and
spring apparatus, and they are then
adjusted on to the head, the despised
natural cars being, of course carefully
hidden from view.
| WHAT IS \ BONNET?
1t is long enough since a bonnet meant
| shelter to the face or protection to the
head; that fragment ola bonnet which
I Il mr. h.
which was some years ago Worn on the
back of the head and nape of the neck, is
now poiscd, on the front, and ornamented
with birds, portions of beasts, reptiles
and insects. We have seen a bonnet
composed Of rose and a couple of feath-
erS, another Of two or three butterflies,
or as many beads, and a bit of lace, and
Il third represented by FIVE green leaves
joined at the stalks A white or spotted
veil IS thrown over the visage, in order
that the adjuncts properly belonging to
the theatre may not Immediately be de
tected i'll the glare of daylight; and thus
diaphanus tinted face, large painted eyes
and sterotyped smile, the lady goes forth
looking much more rs if she had stepped
out Of the green room of the theatre, or
from q Haymarket saloon, than from an
English home.
THE UNNATURAL. UNEMPLOYMENT"
Ofthose limbs which it is still forbidden
to expose absolutely, the form and con-
tour can at least be put i'll relief by III
sisting on the skirts being gored and
Strengthened to the utmost; indeed, some
Of the riding habits we have seen Worn
arc in this respect so contrived that when
viewed from behind, especially when the
wearer IS not of too tairy-like proper
tiOns, they resemble pair Of tight trou-
sers rather than the full flowing robe |
which we remember rs so graceful and
becoming to woman. 1t will be OBJ
served that the general aim of all these
adventitious aids is to give an impression
Of earth and the ftillness thereof, to APP
pear to have bigger cerebellum, e more
sensuous development Of limb, and
greater abundance of flesh than can be
either natural or true; but we are almost
at a loss how to express the next point of
ambition with which the female mind has
become inspired. The women who are
not as those who love their lords wish to
be, indeed, as we have heard, those who
have no lords to loye-haYe conceived !
the notion that, by Stimulating All ''inter-
esting condition" 1--WE select the phrase
accepted as the most delicate,) they will
add to their attractions and for this
purpose an article Of toilet-and Indi;-
rubber anterior bustle-called the deD,i
temps, has been invented, and is worn be-
meath the dress, nominally to make the
folds fall property, but in reality, as the
name betrays, to give the appearance OF
woman advanced in pregnancy.
No person will be found to say that
the particular condition, when real, is I'M
seemly or ridiculous What it is when
assumed, and for such a purpose--wheth-
er it is not all that and something worse
we leave our readers to decide for
themselves. 1t is said that one distin-
guished parsonage first employed crino-
line in order to render more graceful her
appearance while in this situation but
these ladies, with their ridiculous oien,i
temps, without excuse as without shame,
trayesty nature in their own persons i'll
way i'll which low comedy actress
would be ashamed to do III Il tenth-rate
theatre. The name is French, let us hope
the idea is also and this reminds us of
the title of Il little piece played in Paris
by amateurs for some charitable purpose,
Unya Plus PEntiats. No; in France
they may indeed say, at is true IL ny q
pl,lS G'entnntS ). but, then, have we not
invented the dcmi-t9mps ''' And if each
separate point of female attire and deco
ration is a sham, so the whole Is often
deception and 4 fraud.
now MUCH IS REAL?
1t is not true that by taking thought
one cannot add cubit to ones stature,
for ladies, by taking thought about it,
add, if not Il cubit, at least considerable
to their height, which, like almost every
thing about them is often unreal. With
high heels, t0afpe, and hat, we may ealcri-
late that about four or five inches are al
together borrowed for the occasion. Thus
it comes to be q grave matter Of doubt,
when man marries, how much Is real
of the woman who has become his wife,
or much Of her is her own only IN the
sense that she has bought and possibly
may have paid for it. To use the words
of an old writer, Gas with rich turred
comics. their cases are far better than their
bodies and, like the bark of a clnn1mon
al fi,1N rI1fAlg hull