Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1871-05-30
sE hHH VOL. q, NO. 81
RELIGION AND PAINTERS.
Very Important Hints About Clothing and Chris
tianity.
From the New York Tribune.

Possibly 1T is benefit TO HUMANE
ty that the Bonapartes were de-
throned. What it is to woman how
ever, is still an open question. A
Frenchman suddenly bereft of ru-
Ter irresistibly suggests . chicken
with its head cut off; nothing else in
nature founders and dashes about
with such amazing, utter disorgani-
cation, or such total lack o. any pay-
steal or spiritual backbone. His con-
dition is composed and placid, when
compared to the
STATE OF THE AMERICAN WOMAN
left without a dictator as to her
gowns and hornets. Paris is la
mentable spectacle enough, but the
havoc made in paniers and petticoats
since our wives held the awful re-
sponsibility in their hands of dress
ing themselves, passes the power of
words. They have turned in their
bewilderment to Dutch Frauen and
Spanish Donnas and borrowed a
patch here and a shipping there of
their cast off costumes, and so have
dragged heavily through the winter.
But with the spring airs, courage
apparently he's come to them, and
they have ventured on certainly
what is an original movement, by
endeavoring to express their religion
by the cat of their coats. Devotion
has found utterance in other coun-
tries in music, form and even color.
Bohme found infnity in the red glare
of lamp; but it was left for the in
genuity Of Yankee woman TO ex-
press the longings Of her soul
AND HER RELATION TO HER CREATOR
in her sacques and boots. TO show
the reader to what nicely of mean
ings this expression is resolved, we
refer him to the fashionable arbiters
in their last issues. They adapt cos
tunes to the very root and ground
work Of the Christian system.
THE MOTHER
about to devote her first born to God,
with tears and prayers for life and
eternity, is advised, as a proper pre-
paration for this rite, to take care
that its robe be not less than yard
and a quarter long, and trimmed
with alternate Fittings valenciennes,
A gross grain silk in dove color, it
is delicately thrown out as sugges-
ton, would probably amply express
her own grave feelings.
THE YOUNG GIRL
who has resolved in the fresh purity
of her earliest years to profess open
ly her secret trust in her Saviour, is
relieved entirely from all doubt on
the subject of her dress. The most
appropriate expression of her maiden
innocence, she is assured, will be
found in killing trimmed polon-
naise suit of white linen, stiff piques
giving too harsh meaning. Moth
ing can be more appropriate than
finish of white chip hat with hare
bells, or better suited to the solemn
simplicity of the occasion.
II Is FOR MoREADVANoED CHRISTIANS
however, that the Imagination of our
American modistes wirg their most
excited flight. Black, or at least
subdued violet suits, we are told, are
worn by the leaders of the ton as
proper submission to the awful SOL
emnities of the Passion week, when
the Christian world meditates in ST.
lence upon the mysteries upon which
rests its salvation. ain consonance
with this primary idea of mourning,
skirts are made but slightly bouffant,
and chantilly lace is admissible as
trimming" But when
THE MUSIC OF EASTER
proclaims the victory of life over the
grave, to which all nature responds
triumphantly, our mantua-maker is
ready with her hymn. erich silks
of pale yet bright tints" is the bur-
den she sings, "made with position
basques. Short, high shoulder seams
display fine figure" An apron
front, bouffant skirts, embroidered
waistcoats, Moorish earrings, Frou-
Frou gauze, all heaped together all
calculated to express joy and glad
ness" Now is it not worth while
TO WISH FOR EUGENE BACK AGAIN.
She, at least, whatever her faults,
did not convert her devotion to her
God into thing of shreds and patch
es, in the mlliner's room. She was
bigoted devotee, if you will,
both to fashion and to religion, but
she had good taste or elevation of
feeling enough to keep them widely
apart, and did not cease to express
her trust in the mercy of God IN a
gathered overskirt or the beads on