The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1881-09-20

or a yellowlsh dingy shade which they
chrlstened l'Isebeau.
The ladies of Greenland paint their
faces green and yellow. 1t Is not many
years since that at the French court no
lady was considered In full dress whose
color was not heightened by rouge. In
ancient Persia, aquiline noses were much
admired and when there were rivals to
the throne, other claims being equal, he
who possessed the handsomest nose was
proclaimed King. Consequently, noses
were ais much as possible moulded by
art. If the Peruvian ladies wore rings
in their noses, ours do in their ears,
which, according to the dictates of fash
ion, either sweep the shoulder, or dimin-
ish to tiny pearls screwed against the
ear. The tremendously piled-up coifl-
ures of the reign of Queen Anne, or, in
deed, Of five years ago, are an imlta-
ton, certainly cleaner one, of the head.
dress of the inhabitants of Natal. They,
we are told, wear caps, or bonnets, from
six to ten inches high, of the stiff fat of
oxen. They annoint the head with a
purer grease, which, mixed with the
hair, serves to cement on the headgear
which lasts for life.
A good excuse for wearing boards and
mustaches is given by an author in 1740.
He thinks they tend to make men val
orous, he says 81 have favorable
opinion of that young gentleman who
is curious in fine mustaches. The time
he employs in adjusting, dressing and
curling them is not lost time; for the
more he contemplates them, the more
his mind will cherish and be animated
by masculine and courageous notions"
An old clergyman of the time of Eliza
beth gives us droll view of the noblesse
oblige principle, when he says, in excuse
for being proud of the elongest and largest
beard in the country round, that he lives
that no act of his life might be un-
worthy of the gravity of his appearance"
The wigs that used to be combed out
with such grace by the young gallants
of the last century, whether in lady's
drawing room, at court, or in church,
were most expensive adornments.-
Steele lanlents that even in his day they
cost forty guineas. Mr.. Thomas, the
clever friend of Pope, mentions that her
grandfather twas very nice in the
mode of that age, his valet being en-
ployed some hours every morning in
starching his beard and curling his
whiskers." 1t is recorded that in the
reign of Elizabeth-who seems equally
to have patronized the folly of fashion
and the wisdom of great men-two low
ers sitting side by side could not take
each other by the hand. The gentle
men then wore enormously stuffed out
doublets, and the ladies immense farth-
ingales.
When the French nation reached its
height of folly and wickedness just be-
fore the Revolution broke out and flood
ed the land with misery and bloodshed,
all who desired to be considered con-
nected with the aristocracy carried
about with them at least one pantin.
These were small wooden dolls which by
pulling string suddenly jerked out
arms and legs; exactly like those
which may be seen adorning the hats of
"swells" on Derby day. The rage for
them was immense. Mobiles, gentle
men, and even grave ecclesiastics were
to be seen carrying them about and
playing with them. A somewhat SINH
lar rage for comfits existed in the reign
of Henry III. of France. When the
body of the Due de Guise was found af-
ter the battle of Bois, he had his COM
fitbox in his hand.
In 1886 the ladies carried hand-mir-
rors attached to their chatelains, and,
like Narcissus, were perpetually admir-
ing their own charms This excited the
deepest indignation of Jean des Caures,
a stern old moralist of the time, and he
emphatically menaced them with the
EXTREMIST penalties of the other world.
Who would have believed that so late
as 1851 the dress of a dandy should have
consisted of black velvet coat, green
and silver waistcoat, yellow velvet
breeches and blue stockings!