The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1880-10-17
FASHIONS AND CUSTOMS.
BY GAsKELL.

1 AANC OabCA ACelAA AZ CoA0g IL
you have no sister Of your own to
love. love some other mans sister. +"
This is pretty good advice and such
as ia cure TO be followed by mankind.
Ever since Adam and Eve were
fashionable in their aprons OF fig
leaves, the same story has been told
time and again How ever much
customs and manners change, that
good old practice OF courtship and
marriage continues. The young man
still goes to see his girl, talks pretty
much the same nonsense and trihing
chatter that bis father talked before
him, and finds it equally IS interest
ing. He looks and acts his prsttiest
and be shippers, signs and bushes,
ss her mother did before her. Cupid
is very appropriately Represented as .
young, laughing. mischievous boy,
tor love is ever young. and his strange
antics and quivering darts, at times
overcome the gravity and decorum
OF the studious philosopher, equally
with those oi the loHliest peasant.
But now various are the customs OF
couriship and marriage and dress, in
different countries. The wooiey.
headed, protruding-ltomaohed, spin
die shsnked, Australian DAtiye, who
would watch his chsnces in the
gathering gloom Of night, 10 stea!
upon the duTky maid, knock her on
the head with his knot kerry and
while iussnsibls, drag her of to MS
hut, did it in a fashionable way, as
much go as FitZ Noodles carries off
bis Miss McFlymsy, in our fashion,
able life. The strength Of bis blow
and the size of the lump he raised on
her bead, might perhaps be taken SIS
denoting the warmth OF his affection,
just as the .bejsWelling and befrilling
of his bride, shows the strength OF
Fitz Noodles love. Filz Noodles
says, Matches are made in heaven"
but another fellow, who bad had |
more experience OF disastrous kind,
retorts Eyes. and some OF them have
been dipped 10 the other place."
But even in these differing prac-
tees Of courtship. how We witness the
eternal fitness OF things. The Aus
trslisn hes thick head aud a hard
skull and the gentle tickling of club
is. perhaps, pleaeurabls rather than
otherwise; especially as the force of
the blow given develops q chance for
vanity TO display itself Just think of
the self-importancs OF dusky belle,
vino could go around with lump
ike an ostrich egg upon her Uranium.
Think how much she was loved-aud
DOW forcibly it had displayed itself.
Mrs. Mood .es does not do that, though
,he does sometimes 60 around with a
nat ON the back of her head Of !ess
Iize than this contusion-indeed, /
hearing of a fashionable
ady, some years ago, who, intending
% 90 out, sought her hat high and
without success, until in h,r sgi
alton, she raised her hand to the
back OF her head and found il there.
But says SONS one, "a person may
Ia we'll DO out OF tue world, as out OF
Ashion." The Adonis Of few years
Igo, who had to use the force of a :
,ile driver to get his foot through his
had nothing to boast OF
hyperion to the fair, fasbionably crino {
ined belle, whose ample proportions I
would sweep the gentlemanly person,
1ho made way for lady, from our
crossings, INFO the winter slush and
mud of our streets. But Of what
extremities looked IS
hough a famine bad stslked through I
he land, depicting everything-snd /
he az though the flesh pots of Egypt t
lad given fortn of their contents to I
we'll her immensely. t
There ia one consolation TO all OF :
70, in the matter of fashion, one peo-
lie cannot laugh at arother without c
sing laughed at inr eturn. There is o
10 Ctate OF barbsrism, nor Of ciyilizI- /
ion IL its various stages without It's f
Ashions and absurdIIie'. The savage Al
( the Orient will adorn bis nose, or
is ears, or both, with rings, cover ,
ia naked body with Coating OF
cbre, or paint. and act the beau as
luch in bis sphere as Nash, or a
'rummel, in our fashionable society.
he more hldeously he is striped and
inged, the more OF dandy he is
nd the better the chance be has OF
some female heart.
humboldt says an Orinoco Ipdian is
regardless Of com fort, yet
70 will Eo'k q week for paint, or G
igment enough to decorate and p
make himself admired; and bis wife, il
tho will not hesitate to go about 2
sked, would be ashamed to be seen i
Mess she was painted up 10 the C
ashton. The savage csnnlbal. who g
q times past, may have taken to v
imseIi q vile and in a time of scar q
ity and famine gently knocked her o
o the head and ate her, did it in a ?
ashionsble way just as his pro- O
enitors had prscticed it for centuries 2
efore. 1t may have been an object c
nth him, as with men now, but from @
iieren: motives. to get young wife, Z
I not pretty one; for ideas OF beauty ?
ifier about as much as fashions do, t
ut young wife is always tender and
oothsome. II was certainly good T
Fsy to make her "bone of his bone c
nd flesh Of his fesh," though as to
Ia morslity-thst lie bee. passed over {
q silence. '
Our style Of doing things is con- T
ideIably different and great deal t
letter. Yet it has its nbsurdities. g
young couple are mar T
the by, a very good thing to i
10, and they are started on life's way /
With q great flourish of trumpets and
glittering array Of presents. many I
# them of no earthly use, and they
re about as innocent OF knowledge
# the true responsibilities of lite, and t
ts cares, and its troubles, as two
urtle doves. They may exist on love I
nd music for while, bat 6 change
s sure TO CONE; sooner or lsteI, they {
ind out there are duties and Disagree i
able lsbors to do, as we'll as in dal- 4
lance to unheed the flow OF time.
But are the young alone to be blamed
Tor this state Of ignorance, or should |
we olier ones come in for our share
0f responsibility for not teaching
them better? D5 you DO. think the
parents OF the city miss, who visited
her country cousins, and who at
time, Is reported to have
asked, which COW gave the butter
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