New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-08-08

nEI OOA1CAN, OUNUA
Times was founded in neutrality. but has
accepted patronage from all the parties i,
power. It permitted the most fagitiou
legislation from 1866 to 1872 without
word of condemnation, and became tn
organ ana advocate of political comb
nation SO fagitious that it has to-day n,
defender. These were the deeds of tn,
paper. 1t has expiated them by the in
solyency Of the property, the dis
persion and obscurity OF the writ
ers. We have the same right &
comment upon the known history Of tn,
Times that we should to criticise tn,
Tribune, once the defender of freedom
now its defamer. But We have never de
parted from the line Of professional pro
priety, and have never lost sight of tht
impersonality Of other journals. or of oul
own. We shall continue this course. and
shall freely compare the future Of the
Times with its past history, as We shall
contrast its professions of neutrality will
the .rancorous hostility to the Republican
party, and its futile efforts to commend
itself to the people Of the South by pro.
LESSONS which are not respected and
promises with which it can not comply.
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From the days when the Hebrew
prophe: denounced the vanities of the
Jewish women Of his time, specifying
their rings and head-dres SEES. their paint
and false hair, their bracelets and jewels,
as objects Of anathema, through the pol
ished periods in which Addison ridiculed
their fashions in his day, down to the
present time, women have always dis
played in their dress some extravaganza
to elicit the condemnation OF men.
The worst point Of this extravaganza
is the suddenness with which their
fashions change from one extreme
to another. Hardly have We tn.
tored cur tastes to the tolerance OF some
grotesque style. when presto! it is out,
and something directly opposite is all the
mode. II. is but few years since a
stylish woman resembled, from the
waist downwards, a balloon cut in two,
the cut portion resting upon the sidewalk
or floor. There was not the faintest indi-
cation Of the female form perceptible; not
2 hint Of hips, not twinkle of toes: and
as for legs-the thought was horrible.
would have been shocked a: the
suggestion of decent woman s having such
indicate appendages. Encased in NAL
akoffs' Of steel. female virtue ventured
abroad. even in the windies. weather,
certain tina. the mystery Of her
form was secure from the prying
eye Of masculine curiosity. Now. all is
changed. The slender schoolgirl. who.
ike Mr.. Mantalini's countess, has ''no
outline at all, and the corpulent matron
whose oyergrown proportions present
what that same gentleman would call "a
lend outline the graceful symetrical
lymph. and the angular. Anticipated
maiden, the tall, the short. the slim, the
tout, the young, the old, the whole fe.
male world in short, from gamboling
,iribood to gray-hea ded grandmother
lood, seems ben: almost without excep-
ion. upon displaying its lower limbs.
We're this display produced by the simple
wearing Of scant skirts in the style
f the graceful Josephine. leaving
Q the wanton wind in its freakish-
less the task Of tracing for a feeting
occasional momen. the char ming outlines
q fuller relief. taste would not complain
nd criticism would be disarmed. For
uch nomentary betrayals Of charms
7hich modes.y instinc lively conceals.
cling the result Of accident, could not be
ensured. Blu. the dreadful permanancy
f the display produced by the tying-back
lyle and the generalization which it
,anifests, defeat their own objects and |
lake that. which accidentally seen would |
e captivating. so comm on as to lose all
harm. This tying-back also produces
q impression o: restrain: and sels-con-
,iousness, the very opposite OF all that
ian admises in woman-si simplicity, self
likeness, freedom Of mo-
on. Hear the words Of the poet:
Robes loosely flowing hair as free.
Such sweet neglect more taketh me
Than all the witcheries of art,
Which strike the eye, but not the heart.
This fascinating unrestra int, this VIM
ing Inconsistencies OF self, this COM
lete forgetfulness Of drapery which is SO
achanting to the average man. is utterly
IS: by the tied-back costume in which.
she did but know it, woman loses far
lore by her compulsory stiffness than she
,uld possibly gain even by the display
{ form equal to that Of the Medicean
enus.
Unite your strappings. dear creatures;
t your robes float around your elegant
rms, falling closely if you will, but not
ed, oh no, not tied back. Let US see
ou glide along, unembarrassed by strings.
ee in your movements; ready, if need
E, to run, to jump ditch, above all to
down when you wish to do SO without
splaying that distressing solicitude about