Daily globe., 1879-05-20
COMING .IDV4NCEMENT IN CIVIL
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erything as handy as possible. Patents are
issued every day for easy mechanical appar-
atus to facilitate the doing of countless pro-
cesses from the sublime to the ridiculous.
The mind is lost in wonder and admira-
ton of all the happy modern means of per-
forming familiar services, and the surprise Is
how past generations managed to work
without these labor-saving and ingenious
aids with which the human family is now SO
signally favored. Not alone has machinery
revolutionized labor, but oven the fashions
show an adaptability to the real needs, as
we'll as the establishment of the human fig
ure, and art and science meet in reducing
caprice to law, and the toilet to an
inevitable duty. Names, great
and small, become immortalized
in successful and universal introduction of
some bizarre mode. Eugenie's empire has
crumbled and vanished, but as the inventor
of the hoop skirt worn by all heroine women
in the first years of that imperial sway, her
life has been rounded out to the very fullness
of fame. It takes some royal soul without
fear or ridicule to inaugurate these jnnova-
tions of costume, and then meaner creatures
having such august sanction can indulge in
| their bent. r.H %
| In reading about that exciting gentleman
Cetewayo, the king and chief of the Zulus
we learn something about the exemplary
fashion of using the ears in that far-off do
main of his, which ought to be initiated
elsewhere. The distit gushing mark Of the
Zulus, but which may not always be their In
aienable illustrative fashion cut, is bes
demonstrated by describing the makeup OF
Cetewayo. In the slit in his right ear he car
ries an ornamental snuff box, made from {
piece of bamboo cane, carved and decorated
with beads. In the slit in his left ear he
carries comb, SIX inches long, and made OF
bone or ivory. The top of the handle is q
the shape of the bowl of spoon, and will
it snuff is measured out. The lower part il
elaborately carved. The teeth are fully fou1
inches long, and resemble the prongs of .
fork, etc. Now here is neat aud compend
ioas style of garnishing and utilizing the ears,
which should be emulated, because it offers
so many improvements on the present wa.
of managing. A man would then be hi
own ready portable dressing case. If tn
whim seized him to spend night from hi
lodgings he could go at an instant's notic
without the pother of rushing home for tn
desired toilet articles. Having naturalizet
the savage custom of piercing the ears, tn
concession is already more than half made
and any one will admit that the excess of i
would be decided gain. The fashion nigh
be decried at frst-but it would be followed
in time like all the rest-and the slits woul'
reveal the articles persons considered need
full to them. Instead of the snuff-box o
the Zulus, the tobacco service, now SO osten
tatiously displayed on tables, would hav
an honored place, and cigars could be neatl
arranged in the slit of either ear. A smal
revolver could be displayed in such an unob
trusive way that the most irascible would b
slow to pick quarrel-ttus obviating th
difficulty Bob Toombs Was so exercises
about in recent interview concerning tn
carrying of concealed weapons.
minority will always be untitled in som
way from following the leading fashion,
and necessarily they will have to stick to th
old ways of dressing and tobacco case
snuff boxes, etc. To them the compreher
sive lobe of their neighbors will be soure
' of envy, and sometimes in untoward predi,
aments they will be constrained
say, lend ne your ear, meaning, of cours
without any unnecessary circumlocution, tt
coveted contents of either slit in the c.
pacious ears. ..,..-
When Lady Mary Wortley Montague i,
: troduced vaccination in England the peop
held off in doubt and disgust, but the
y finally took to it and became scarified f,
e safety. In like manner may they not
+ slit in both ears for convenience, and in IL
o fashion chronicles yet to come it IS possib
}, that lists will be given of the "toney'' a
II ticles to be worn in the 0reilles q la Get
. ,ouyo.
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