The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-03-30
THE MAN MILLISER.
The Eject That Political Changes In
France Havs Had Upon Dresses

IParis CORES pendent Cincinnati Times
Mr.. Worth is English or nothing: Nine.
| Worth is az decidedly French. The sons are
more French than English, and only one
speaks our language with case. Their father,
In spite Of his long residence In France, Is q
thorough John Bull In everything but ap-
pearance. II you could get him to talk quite
freely he would maintain that France was
never quite 80 well of as under Imperial rule.
II Is natural; we must remember how he has
made his fortune. A republican government
must seem chaotic to man who looks round
In vain for some one to start the fashion. It
was 30 simple In the old days There was a.
Nine de Metternich or q Mime. de Portals for
the initiatCry idea, and the most charming
woman In Europe to give 1t the seal Of state
approval as o pattern for the whole world. A
project OF fashion was thus passed into law
by regular constitutional stages. Mr. Worth,
as representing the Commons, and his distln-
guished patr0nesses, as representing an upper
house, elaborated scheme between them !;
and 1t was then carried to the throne for q
final sanction equivalent to Ia Refine
te vemA. In this respect, at least, no wife
Of president will probably ever be
able to fill the place Of the Empress
Besides, one class OF people who
dress" will not dress for the republic, and
and another class will not dress for the re-
public OF Greyy. These are waiting for the
advent of Gambetta; and In the meantime
the great style goes to the wall. But, curl
Ously enough, its best chance Of revival is
found In the patronage Of a sister republic.
IL 1t were not for the United States, we are
told, Europe might be without anything to
wear. The women OF that favored region.
finding the throne Of fashion vacant with no
prospectof q succession, are Enthusiastically
setting up regime OF universal suffrage for
the choice OF skirt and bodice, which NAV
eventually work as well as the old Institution.
They are Mr.. WOrth's most valuable custom
ers, and everybody knows that they are about
the best dressed women In the world. or his
own countrywornen, We grieve to say, he
speaks with sorrowful shake OF the head.
Declining prosperity seems to have made
them as mean In spirit as they are poor In
purse. They crib his patterns by the In
genuous process OF ordering dresses keeping
them long enough to get copies made by cheap
dressmakers at home, and then sending them
BACK ON pretense that they do not fit Or, IL
they keep them altogether, 1t Is only to wear
them out long before paying the bill-in fact,
10 reduce themselves to state OF moral
shabbiness which is far more distressing to
thelr dressmaker than any blemish Of the
Kind In their outer casing.
III Is natural. on other grounds that Mr.
" orth should not be among the acclaiIners OF
the new regime. Its advent was associated
In his experience with more than common
snare OF misfortune, anxiety and personal
rlsK: The downfall Of the empire was for him
the breaking w. Of the great deep, In his two
fold character Of business man IN the Rue de
la PAX and idler at Suresnes First. the trade
Of the house stopped-dead, like some great
CLOCK q Strasbourg shaken by an earthquake;
and nall the place had to be turned into an
agency OF relief for the rk-people, the other
half into hospital. The came the Com
mune to cheat the house in the Rue de La
PAX OF its hope OF reviving custom by put !
ting up barricades at the end Of the street. |
and to threaten the house at Suresnes
by playing at long bowls with the batteries Of
Valerien. No wonder Mr.. Worth assures you |
that the war will leave It's mark On his spirits |
and even on bis frame to the end OF his days. |
True, the bare thought Of all he had at stake |
always made him philosopher. make the |
most OF your happiness, youngsters" he
used to say to his children In the paImy days
Of the Empire, lit can never last" And he |
has put up over door in his grounds an In |
scr1ption copied from the porch OF an old |
north country inn:
Our life ID but a winter day
Some Ct US breasfa-t and away.
He that goes soonest |
Has the least to pay.