The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1867-07-13

81 b poo make speech of such unnecessary
length that the fair defendant out OF all patience broke
Gentlemen hermit me to explain the matter in two words,
This person undertook for the sum named to supply me with
observation-disclosures especially being handsome-as engaging
as-whom shall say PAS NJ lie President! Instead of
that he delivers me work displaying group of
of almost dabocal hideousness, principal exact
portrait of himself r
That plaintiff was nonsuited Hh
THERE no safe reliance upon the discretion of our inner
Witness He will burt out the truth the most
able times.
WIGS CHIGNoNs.-Samuel Pepys in his diary written
in Charles II reign puts down that he bought two wigs
of which e. and the other e. On another day he
says, "Went home and byandby Chapman the peri
wigmaker; and upon my liking it the wig) without more
ado went up, and then he cut OFT my hair winch went
little heart present part with 1T but 1t being over
and my wig paid him e3 and away went he with my
hair to make up another of; and by-andby went
then concluded did not become me-" In the reign OF
James II. and William and Mary wigs became mon
strous; the full boomed long flowing wig worn by
the learned professions and those who affected particular
gravity The striking novelty Of the time of George
the Families TAIL which tail plated to the wig,
with immense bow at the top and smaller at the
bottom. The pigai the favore ornament of sailors in
later years. first appeared in the reign of George H. and it
banished the Families tail and In time false hair
has very different office perform and by the skill Of
artists in that commodity enabled to that article
almost to deceive very selves This is particularly
in the modern chgnon familiar to all ladies and to all
gentlemen in these days but the very perfection of the ar
fetal chignon makes it easily dngushabe to praciced
who purchased hairdressers chgno and riding in Rotten
with the hour when fashionable ladies take exercise
there held it out on the end of his pretending
by his gestures that he had just picked up and anxious
to discover its 1t is related that the occasion OF
this unknd practical joke least oneha of the young lady
riders instantly raised their hands the backs OF their heads
thus Involuntary berayng the of those magnificent
of hair which they delight display in that resort OF
fashion But it is only Just to remark that the
of false chgnons chiefly due the fact that it is very diff
cult arrange the natural hair in this style with the orderly
of the wigmakers substitute for it, to keep it SO
uha (lp1x
tain that the wearing of false chgnons entirely due to te
male vany.-"Whgs and Human Hair' by Aoy Thomas, IN
CdsselPs Magazine. f -
MARRIAGE-If Milton married three times and Shake
speare once the former enjoyed little couga felicity and the
latter lived alone during his productive years Bacon and
six but abandoned his wife early in the honeymoon and
her again except on business Moliere suffered
saws Votare in the marriage which he contracted at forty
one twelve years before his DEATH ls dgout les antns,
qque les ridicu gull doa 50 ouuent joues te ate
Beaumarchai early in life and years before he wrote the
whom he calmniousy reported to have poisoned Add
son, foryfo three years before his DEATH married
countess who better says Thackeray than shrew
and vixen Serne complains that the of his wife
stops the flow of his IDEAS and finds inspiration in the society
of another mans WIFE, Lesing did his best work before he
fell in love- after his wifes DEATH and In state of
intellectual torpor during the six years engagement and his
years marriage The insanity of Thackeays wife made
him practically widower during his last and greatest days
Plato by Socrates experience Arophanes Anaceon
Lucretius Virgil Horace Voaire, Rousseau Swift Pope
Goldsmith Heine Bazac, Beranger sainte-Beuve and in
our own country, irving ana lnoreat never married. III tle
kindred arts the great of Beethoven and Michael Angelo
of whom their bographers assert not only that they
married. but that they loved in but Patonc
are enough to cite Of female writer's many of the most emn-
en from Miss Austen the excellent teller of domestic tales
to Miss Martneau Miss Cobbe Miss Hewitt and Miss Bremen
never took husband while Others like Miss Brone found that
marimony put needle between their fingers instead OF
Almost all the great writer's of the Middle Ages ecce
siastic and of ceibates And marriage the
Greeks was simply housekeeping convenience, the husband
spending his day and evening abroad while the wife sewed
cooked and paid the bills all the Athean poets and philo
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of the writers whose works belong to the general class
with those of Lamb the writer's whose privilege has been to
enven cheer and sweeen life either bachelors unfor
tae husbands Happy not themselves they have been
the cause OF happiness Others have reached the secret
springs OF and Of tears and by those touches
Of rd