Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1872-08-08
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The grtatcRt revolution of the eight
zenith century took place on the day
when Jonas Hanway walked down Fleet
street with an umbrella. The dress, the
social tone, the very architecture of the
West were modified in Il moment. There
was no longer any necessity for The heavy
DorticOs which sheltered n visitor from
thc rain Men flung off their cumbrous
coats and watchmen's capcs, which had
been their only protection against a
shower Even the shaggy beaver gradu.
ally appeared, and the silk hat wealth
cred storms which, at an earlier age in
the worlds history, would have reduced
il to q shapeless mass in twenty minutes,
The mere sense that rain was at last beat
en-, that II was no longer necessary to
watch the clouds and tap the barometer
before starting for n walk across the
fields, gave b new sense of freedom and
exhjlarati0n TO mankind. Child as II is of
the East, HE umbrella only found its true
realization when 1t vcnturcd into Jonas
lIauways fist in Fleet street. The ''lOrd
of hundred umbrellas" il really only
tpo master of "a many parasOls. The mn
brcila If the AssyriHu King or Of the BY.
Yan,inc Caesar was Il mere appcndagC Of
rovaj pomp. The papal umbrella Of the
present day ia the last relic of time
when state had absorbed what was meant
for mankind. So long, in fact, "a the urn-
brella lived only in lands ot the sun, it
missed ..s vocation; and even now, when
Che peasant of the Riviera appears with
an umbrella, il il with something
utterly Gndescrvng of the name
Rain Is phenomenon, and he
constructs phonomcnon 10 shelter
him against tired, vast and formIess
1t is hard 70 believe that the gigantic
erection has any kindred with the eS.
quiste iitLie implement which bangles
from every lOungcr finger in Pail Mall.
In the civilized umbrella, however, the
practical plays only subordinate part
1t is far more than a more protection
against q passing shower it is the SYM
boil Of d life, the companion Of leisure
hours the index to character II is i'm.
possible To dissOCiate her umbrella from
Mrs Camp There is something in the very
hulaine-s Of it, vast circuit which marks
the monthly nurse. A recent Archbishop
of Canterbury used 20 be famous for
walking across Westminster Bridge to
the opening Of Parliament with cotton
umbrella. ond we at once recognize the
temper uai theology of the man II
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