The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-08-05
EDITORIAL NOTES.

Seven thousand medical men in
England have petitioned Parliament
to pass an characterization law.
The New York Herald has four
teen reporters constantly detailed to
watch DIR. Tanners fast. They are
divided into seven watches, two be-
ing with him all the time, and he
gets neither water nor his mail until
it has undergone their inspection,
which covers all his acts and every
sleeping or waking hour.
Cincinnati has forfeited its
nickname, "Porkopolis," if it has not
already lost its later ambitious title
of 'Paris of America" with the loss
of Theodore Thomas. From March
l to July IA, the Cincinnati Price
Current shows that she killed only
$4,000 porkers, loss of 28,500 from
the year before, while Kansas City
killed LAG, 780 in the same time, Cleve-
land 1851, st. Louis 210,0O0, Indi-
annapolis 25,4OO. Cincinnati will
have to fall back on her population
and beer for glory.
Tom Taylor, the dead editor,
not only maintained the worldwide
reputation of Punch, but he wrote
some of the best stock plays on the
English stage, among them the
Overland Route, Still Waters Run
Deep, The Ticket-of-Leave Man,
New Men and Old Acres and Lady
Clancarty. He was a safe rather
than brilliant writer of anything,
and, although ahidingly posing as a
poet, one of the worse writers of
verse that ever handled a pen. AS a
many-sided man of letters he had
probably no equal. Few men knew
more than he of the varied walks of
literature which he in turn traversed,
and his powers of execution, except
perhaps as humorist and poet, were
almost on par with his knowledge.
= The traditional caprices of the
tickle goddess Fashion are in this
year of grace, 1880, more marked
and striking than ever. Early ris-
ing, we are told, is now a great fav-
orite diversion of the Partisan great
world. From to IL daily the Bots
de Boulogne is crowded with horse
men and horsewomen, while those
who are not equestrian in their
tastes, or whose purses will not
stand the racket inseparable from a
stylish equipment, occupy chairs in
the Avenue du Bots, and clad in
short fanciful wooden dresses, or
wearing long, graceful cloaks, in
dulge in lively chat with the gen.
tlemen riders, who descend from
their horses to greet and welcome
| these fair lookers-on. Another sim
gular variation from the fashions of
| the last few years is shown in the
present mode of wearing the
hair. 1t has been decreed by
Partisan hairdressers that chignons,
flowing locks and blonde curls, are
to be numbered with the things that
are past, and that nothing now is
necessary, but that the head be made
to look as small as possible. Those
who have hitherto rejoiced in the
browning glory of womanhood, long
and abundant hair, are now obliged
to conceal and suppress the lavish
ness of nature by making the roll
coil in the back of the neck of the
least possible circumference and di-
ameter, while those who have been
compelled to supply their natural
shortcomings by artificial tresses,
now proudly denounce their own
deficiency, and make their heads
look as like newborn infants as
they conveniently can. "Just a tea
spoonful of hair" as a fair CORES
pendent informs us. is now the cor
rect thing.