, 1875-08-22


There ie not green-room In the country
where you can SEQ moro powder and patches,
more postiches and pads, than in the par1ora at
Long Branch The prevalence OF poetiche8 is
especially marked. The mass of hair which it
vas formelY the fashion to wear piled upon the
back OF the head and on the apex Of tbs brain
has now disappeared. Ladies whoss types OF
yisage denote any nationality except that OF
Greece now persist in ado Dlng the base OF the
shull with the tightly twisted Greek knot-of
any size from an English walnut to new ball
OF darning cotton. But the great system OF
averages prevails in wigs IS IN all things, and
the discarded false hair Of the chlgnon finds its
counterpoise in the slow forehead piece" For
know all men by these presents, that, if tho Long
Branch lady know herself, and she think she do
she means to have g. low forehead in this year
Of grace, whatever shape she may in future de-
eide upon as the best wear for that feature- The
youth Of tho Bowery who was
Bound to BE- bntcher-boy, by Hickey, or die!
Was not moro set in his opinions than is the lady
Of to-day She talks learnedly OF the Greek
statues, armless Muoi in the Louvre, the Medician
Venus, and others they have al low foreheads
snd are beautiful. No precedent could be clearer.
And yet these masterpieces have calmly stood
with their low foreheade, through tho decades,-
even through that one in which those women
who were born With low forehead ia wreuched out
the hairs that their fronts might be intellectual
" high, tAn things come Eound to him who
will but wait" The Greek statues have waited,
and low foreheads are now riding the crest Of the
fashionable wave.
Are there apv Greek-or Irish-statues With
their dresses pinned back Here Egaln ia an
cxcellenr and sensible idea carried to an ex-
trene that is really tvipg.-I mean irving. The
full gathered shrt which hourished before the
War" was terrible nuisance To hang skirt,
with ite votuminous gathers or plalta, Was q
| more dificuls mechanical performance than
| hanging man a lady Was never sure her pet
ticoat wasn'e hanging below, and the uaultitudi-
linking up" When skirt didn't hike up in
| front, it VAS 80 long that its wearor Nas con-
stantiy stumbling over it. The present skirt ia
admirable in this respeot~ It may be 80 long
that naught but the faintest tip OF ths shoe is
ever disclosed yet, being tied back, it cannot
should prevail in this fashion, as 10 others. 4
akirt tied back too tightly is subject to serious
drawbacks. The story Of the lady Who hss been
deprived OF the enjoyment Of = good, square sis-
down for year has run the round Of the draw
in8-rooms in all the great capitals.
Discretion, too should be used in the quantity
OF tournure worn with a tled-bxck skirt. (
bishop" il the current nodisss's word for ths
I mora unfamiliar ''tournure," And, while little
bishop maj be Of advantage, used ~ m hdoru-
uent to the spinal column, 10 many bishops are
not in favor among the orthodox. When thu
observing critic sees not only bishops Of the
| most poltly dimensions, but even what one
would imagine by their proportions to be- csthe-
drals and epires, and these piled On aud On till
| the effect Ia nonotooous, while In front this
shaefled limbs have not 20 much ~ 4 fill OF
adotruAua, 10 dsplots4 tha Ab4&nes of thAi