Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1879-10-25

neck, and the train sometimes weighted
with gold ornaments The tunica inte-
rior used to be worn in the house without
a belt, but no lady appeared in public
without having her stole cinctured round
the waist and drawn up in front, to show
her pretty shoes or sandals, while her
fiounced and plated train swept the
ground. The belt (semi-zona)was made
of various materials more or less costly,
according to the rank of the wearer, and
of elaborate workmanship, with pearls
and stones, when worn with the short
stole. The Roman mantle, or tOga,
consisted of piece of wooden cloth,
sufficiently ample to envelop the whole
figure when necessary, and allow por-
ton to he pulled over the head for pro-
lection from the weather. How to drape
the tOga or palla--as the corresponding
mantle worn by women was called-in
graceful folds over the stola, so as to
show the embroidered parts of the tumcs
and the figure to the best advantage,
was a matter of study and anxious con-
Germ with Roman ladies. Their great
wish was to appear original in
this respect and to set the
fashion. To describe the various
methods of arranging the palla on the
figure would be impossible. The favor
lite color for the toga and palla was a
creamy white, the natural hue of wool,
and remained the fashion with the
higher classes for long time. Only
the lower classes wore mantles of differ
ent cOlors, while togas dyed, striped and
aJra1 with v,,rnla .s-ara ra-orx-at fo,. ~.
casions of state and to mark the rank of
officials. Of course ladies could not be
long restrained within such narrow linz
its of ornamentation, and had their pal
las made of various materials, including
the rough Tuscan frieze, as well as the
translucent gauze from Asia, in gaudy
colors, and richly embroidered. The
veil (ricinium), made of the finest mus
lin or silk gauze, was another integral
part for Roman lady's outdoor dress.
Fixed to the diadem it descended over
the shoulders, and its graceful arrange
ment was well understood by the bellies
of the period. The Roman fashions of
arranging the hair differed from those
customary in Greece, and were of in
finite variety. Curls and plaits of natu-
raj and artificial hair had 10 be combined
in various ways, and some of these ar
rangements were far from becoming In
imperial times the expresses setthe fash
ions for the coiffures, and many curious
examples of dressing the hair have been
preserved on ancient coins. With re-
gard to the chaussure of Roman ladies,
we may remark that, like their Greek
sisters, they preferred embroidered and
gaudily painted or ornamented shoes
and half boots to the sandals. Socks
and stockings seem only to have been
worn on the stage. The jewel cases Of
Roman ladies were overlooking with the
spoils of the world, and even to enumer-
ate their contents would carry us too
far. Suffice it to say that nothing in
the way of pearls, precious stones and
gold ornaments was too costly for the
great ladies and dandies of the period.
Lola, the wife of the Emperor Caius
Claudius, appeared in public covered
with emeralds and pearls to the value of
nearly fl,O00,O00; and julius Caesar
gave ESQ, 600 for one single pearl, which
he presented to the mother of Brutus.