, 1875-09-05
THE pUTTBACK WAR.

Now that the Herzegovinian revolt begins
to dvindle away before the savage assaults OF
the Turks, another speck Of WEI looms up
on the horizon, which will attract more gen.
era1 attention than the Sclavic insurrectlon-
This is a war between the Church and FASH
inn. between the holy ministers and lovely
woman, between the Surplice and the Full
back. Upon several occasions and IN VARIOUS
parts Of the country, the parsons have ear
nestly, and evidently with much alarm'
e1nressed their CONSERVATION and indigna-
ton at the the manner in which woman
persists in pulling her dress back some
Of them argue with the sisters OF their nocks
in tender and pathetic kind Of way. oth~
ers plainly denounce the Pulback as 1ndell-
cate. and revealing more Of outline, ahape'
and anatomy than any masculine eye but the
sculptors should behold There are others
who launch the fercest fu1mlnatlons OF
pulpit wrath against al who contln-
ne to pin, te, or pull back their
dresses. Among the latter is the Cath
o1io, curate Of St. John Baphste, IN the
Province of Quebec, who has boldly taken
the bull by the horns and announced that no
woman shall partake Of the Sacrament IN his
church who wears her dress low in the neck
and who pulls it back Most Of the clergy
are rather dihident, and handle the Pullback
delicately, but this curate goes at it as LUTHER
went at the devil, and filings his inEstand
with clerical vim and righteous wrath.
On the other side, there is great activity
in the female camp. So far from oelng
intimidated, they are preparing for forward
movement by pulling their dresses still fur
ther back, even at the risk OF walking CON-
pletely through them in front. The latest
bulletin relative to the fall fashions in New
York land whnt woman in New York does
every woman from Eastport, Me-, to San
Francisco will do) comes from JENNIE JUNE,
who is recognized as fashion authority the
conntrv over. She furnishes the startling
news that akirts are to be tied back tighter
than ever. The mysterious details OF the
| Pullback are given as follows:
plain wa1king-atirt does not now measure mort
| than yards round at the bottom The front Ant
nde breadhaa gored that they can be het On III
banda perfectly plain, leaving Ill tho tullneas 70 O
nnassed into inches at the back The dem~tsanee
sxirts are wder These gores se In 10 taaa the'
form 4 fan-shape peacoc1's tall which II spEeae
over 4 new and peculiar tournuTe, diseas1on se9!
u.1row 1t the waist and almost fat. but which
IL swes out until acquires it, grestsat dsph ane
width at the bottom Of the sktft-
We do not know what this all MEANS AMI
the average male reader will probably hounde
| hopelessly in the melange Of tucks, cores
| deni.trains, tournures, and peacocks tails
It's not necessary to know what it means
detail. Il is sufficient that lovely woman ha
got her back, up and IL going to pull bac
harder than ever, without inquiriu
tho nicely how she is going to do il
Jrrrr. JUNE intimates that they will I'm
e,eat difficulty in going up staira, and tia
thew cannot wear them in the street " will
ont the risk Of shocking contretemps-" "
Doubt this very much, but, even If it shoul
ba 20. the male creature will bear the effect
of such catastrophes with equanim1t5
s;r,ca woman will be the onl
10 dsrer. The only interest which th
average man now has In The master u aa