The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1869-05-27

which to buy her clothes, and the taste of
continent to devise them for her for to
Paris the elite of all tailors, dressmakers,
milliners, and hair dressers go from every
capital in Europe. Whatever there is in
France of truly noble and patriotic--and
There are as many noble and patriotic per
sons in France, as in any other country
avoids the vicinity of this woman; while
around her naturally gather the thought
LESS and the interested The women in
this circle initiate her as closely as women
can whose husbands have not stolen the
treasures of a nation !; all except one, it
is said, and she is the real queen of fash
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Both these leading women have certain
physical defects which they wish to con,
ceal, as we'll as certain unusual charms of
which they intend the most shall be made.
One is beautiful and tall. The other is
ugly and short, but graceful, vivacious and
interesting The hair of one of them
growing scanty behind, all women feel the
necessity Of carrying pound of horse
hair under their own, and swelled out in
the region of the back hair to an extent
that seems Incredible If the parting of
the hair widens, and begins to resemble
badness, then frizzing comes in, which
covers up the deficiency. A few gray
hairs bring powder into fashion. Other
insufficiencies send panniers on their way
round the world. For these women, and
especially the one who figures in the GEN.
tire of the group, occupy that conspicuous
place to which for two centuries past more
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ed than to any other and there reside.
near them band of writer's who live by
chronicling every new device of decora-
tion that appears upon their persons. So
able, liberal and sensible journal as the
Pail Mall Gazette finds it necessary to
station an industrious member of its staff,
within sight of these people, fol. the sole
purpose of telling the best womenin Eng
land what clothes the worst women in
France wear. / should suppose, from look.
ing over the periodicals which publish
fashion news, that there must be IN Paris
as many as q hundred writer's who derive
the whole or part of their income from
describing the dresses worn in the ancient,
palaces temporarily occupied by the usur-
per and his dependents and many of
GIlCoC Wal MAS 0O sWOA N ~ willy OIldG
their letters are a most potent stimulator
of the passion for dress which is so easily
kindled in the minds of the ignorant and
immature. '.40t '
This poor woman, who is theimmediate
cause of the mischief, is, we are told, an
anxious and unhappy being, as we'll she
may be. She struggles to conciliate. A
forced, fixed smile is ever upon her face,
when that face is seen by others. In her
growing anxiety, she naturally redoubles
her efforts to dazzle and beguile the peo-
pie in whose sight she dwells, and on
whose money she dresses. When the hour
comes, hope she will be mercifully
Judged, for she has already expiated the
venial sin of yielding to temptation
which only q very superior woman--one
really honest and thorough bred could
have resisted It is probable that she
now regards the wearing of those tremen
dous costumes merely as her contribution
towards housekeeping; as though she
said to her husband :"You keep down
the men by muzzllng the press and flatter-
ing the army, and l fool the women by
wearing the most stunning costumes that
ever struck envy to female heart. From
tho Atlantic Huntington Nay. 4