The Hawaiian gazette., 1870-01-25


NICE GIRLS AND THEIR DREss.-There was time,
which we have all heard of though some of US may
not remember it, when young ladies of the age at
which elaborate coiffufes and costumes of Japanese
tendencies considered necessities, wore OBJ
solete things called "pinafores," and played with
such obsolete things as hoops, and were supposed
to be subjected TO the comprehensive process of
being % whipped aud sent to bed " when they were
not good. Who would dare to associate such play
and such processes with juvenile girls of the pres
ent day. Times change, and we change with them
some of at least and they must feel strange who
are not one of the number. The old girls must as
tonish them not little. but the young girls must
astonish them great deal. The change is pretty to
look at; Watteausa and Bouchers pictures are pretty
to look at but the result is strange TO regard in real
| life. There is a great deal more taste," are
told, in these days than in other days 1t may be
so in certain sense; but girls always looked pret
ty, and always made men fall in love with them
admiration is old as the hills, and marriage by no
means new institution. So the same results were
obtained without resort to the present process and
against the present process there is good ground
for protesting, at least in its exaggerated FORMS
Modes-I mean in the milliner sense of
the term-change from time to time, but there are
certain standards which must ali ways prevail and
exccsses of any kind should be avoided. Look at
the consequences of inattention to this principle.
You are madly in love with girl who is conspcu-
ously in the fashion. A few years hence and her
portrait, so arrayed1 becomes caricature. Row
land and Gilray could moi have made her ridi
cnlous than she appears TO differently educated
eyesight and even depicted by Leech In whose
time there was very little ecceDtrcity in DRESS she
is beginning TO look strange. 1t is a mistake you
may depend upon it, to carry fashions into great ex
tremities. In the East women wear the same style
of dress that they wore thousands of years ago
Their fashions never change; yet they attrac
tive as they ever were, and in the East women are
Influential as In the West, however little their in
iuence may be recognized and ayowed. Our own
countrywomen would hold the same place here that
they do without being girls of the period, and il
may be great deal more. to judge by signs which
promise to be in the ascendant. Aud by being girls
of the period, and nothing more, they give op-
portunity to gloomy women, whom nobody cares
for, TO go about lecturing and bofherDg about
{" women's rights, and assuming superiority
which is by no means to be taken for granted.
There just as clever girls these In general
ciety, who would be thought just as clever II they
would not make geese Of themselves; but If they
give themselves up to following and never think Of
leading and become slaves 10 the caricatursts they
must not be surprised if society accepts them at
their own valuation and believes them to be no bet
ter than they seen--L0HdOR Society.
THE following is an accurate statement of the
charities of Mr.. Peabody:
For institutes at Danvers and Peabody, Mass,
$3.50 600. a3a
Peabody Museum at Salem, s15G.O0O.
Newburyport. for library, $50 600.
Memorial church il Georgetown Mass, to the
memory of bis mother, and free public library at
same place, 100000.
Phillips Academy, Andover, $4,000
Massachusetts Historical Society, $4,000
Harvard College, for museum and professorship
Of American archaeology and ethnology, $50 900.
Yale College, for museum and natural history,
sl50.OO0
Peabody Institute at Baltimore, 81. 10000
Maryland Historical Society, $4,000
Kenyon College, $4,000
Public library at Post Mills, Thetford, Vermont,
$4,000 n ,.-..
Southern educational fund, g, 100000
London poor, 81, ,1500 900.
His kindred, s., 100000 and many smaller dona-
lions
NoS-IEFLAxMABLE DREssEs.-In consequence OF |
the many dangerous aud too often fatal accidents to
which females, especially the stage are exposed
by the infammability Of their dresses, the Commit
Zee for Trade and Industry have made known pre- /
paration which, when properly applied. renders mus
ius and such light materials quite incombusfible /
This valuable preservative is the body known as \
ungstate Of soda; but mixture Of tungsfafe with I
he phosphate may be employed instead When ap- /
pped to stu this substance is not injurious to the
.olors, like borax and some other chemical bodies,
does it, like the salts Of ammonia, increase the
abor Of smoothing or rolling II may be either 4
mixed with the size in the manufacture of light ts-
ues or added to the starch in washing articles Of
lofhing. The salt can be produced 4 large scale
nd the price is relatively moderate German
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