The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1869-10-24

| Public Tastes and New Sensati0ns-Orientai.
| ism-Thc Herald, tho Suez Canal and the
NiIe-An Invitation and Its Efect-Fall and
Winter CoIors-Robes and Trimmings
skirts, Bodices aud Jaclsets-The Empress,
Tour East.
PARIS, Oct. 8, 1852.
have read somewhere that the public is body
which likes TO be struck. taste cannot account
for. However l know there once woman
whose husband beat her, and who, on being taken
out OF his hands by mediating friend turned round
on this considerable individual and said -"She liked
her husbands blowsn l deduct tnerefrom that
all tastes are In nature; and IL had
striking text wherewith to command the
taste oil the public and draw 1t to this fashion
letter | would head my correspondence with It, But
all the fashion texts know OF In the Scriptures
denim even so much as the plating OF ones hair
therefore give up the falacious hope OF startling
ladies evangelicaliy, aud quote from my friend
vespetro order TO proceed the great announce.
ment which Is to strike them gently and by sweet
transition.
Autumn" he says ''is the time to read big
books, because this season turns the eavesn It
rather good for yesDetro. His idea conveys some
notion OF breeze which, connected with big
books has suggested to me that there may be some
among your readers who never throw newspap er
away and have them all bound annually Many have
proceeded thus with the HERALD and at this
present moment possess leyiathan volume OF the
daily, in best calf and morocco. This IL the time 10
order few negroes TO carry the "bg' book OF
1867 out in open space, and when they have done
this to stand up behind It until the wind blows all
the leaves back to fashion letter, IN which some
Oriental costumes are des cribed.
There is an epic poem attached to this letter.
Wagner with the assistance OF the bound HEEALDs
leaves aud receding negroes could put it TO music
IL would be as good as Kheingod, with all the naked
mermaids IN the Rhine substituted for chubby
putting lads, the children OF Boreas Not being
Wagner could not do and continue.
The fashion letter refer TO happened 10 appear In
| a number W bich contained leader on Suez It was
! sent by some proud American TO a friend In Egypt
who read the leader on very hot day not only did
the prophetic utterances make him hotter, but when
he got through the article II was 10 his brain as II
4 all the grains OF sand under his feet had swollen
| into the OF his national banner, and Knocking
| MS hat down over his eyes IN order to keep them
temporarily and from shooting out OF his skull he
strded along with the paper In hand TO his country
| authorities, represented somewhere down the Nile.
When he got there he displayed tho article Egypt.
| and he was asked IL the writer OF that production
was Spirttuahst-had he seen the future as
well as the PRESENT. the paper then was sent
to the authorizes up the Nile after this
and when II got there was smoked all over
under the long pipe an Eastern potentate who de-
cared, dressed In amber and gold that when the
canal was inaugurated one or the literary stan OF
that paper, 1.-THE best In the worldn should be the
has been the daily food OF the Egyptians instead OF
locusts and mamma, It's digested through trans
! lation, not picked up and swallowed whole because
OF the form OF speech But that "a not ALL IL Ia well
to be hospable In perspective: better TO DO the
| spur OF tue moment than In the future Who should
be the guest1 It ought TO have been the writer o.
the eader, only, OF course he was great man, and
would come.
Who OF the small PleIades2 SO the potentate held
his beard and turned the paper over soon his eyes
knded for under the title OF "Fashionsr there was
some iacetious stun about a turban Then the
oriental eve flashed angrIy, for turDans rd
culed andf thirdly the reader felt for his weapon
| in his belt. IL was not there. They are out o.
| style. SO he smiled. ''Ihat IL the MANI h,
| said ''1ne one VINO wrote that burlesque on u.s. ht
Is evidently the only prejudced OF the lot lie
calls us an eneminate race, bilious nation. Our
poetic lore apd sg9eratyss ne. calls sycophancy ant
states that We call our Old women stars OF beauty
our kamekeepers 'avalanches OF lgnt lie does
| not even know that the only game we nave are tb,
Sultan's servants, But we VIII be grand 10 revenge
put him down for rings on all ms ten nngers twl
changes Of linen per day, robe or gold cloth ant
rose leaf tam his breakfast, with berth and
ira basins on tne Mediterranean. Let us cover hin
with Eonors and by doing him the homage OF GU
minutest attentions, pierce his conscience through
without damascened dagger.p THIS harangue wa
recorded the gentleman allowed his beard 90 dr0l
mot or but out OF mis- hands, and my invitation y
Suez was signed. IL arrived yesterday
| latN aUOut burning coais, readegs talk aoVl