The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1882-04-23

Kate Field on Knee Brooches, oregon
sheep and Uncertain Geography.
Roportorial Correspondence.

d1c "a AOaiB tO Sul -SOllLluClO
she devotes considerable space in her
department, THE Art of Adornment,"
to a plea for the revival of the media-
val knee brooches. She has seen Oscar
in stage costume and came to the con-
clusion that If Il calf is good three
are much better. In trousers she says,
linen are IS atrociously alike as
broomsticks, and she longs for a re-
turn Of the costumes of the tines when
the dress Of man charmed like that of
woman. But SHE does not ask for a
return of the costumes as well.
1t is strange what a wonderful deal
Is due in these degenerate times to the
absence of the calf displaying costume
of fifty years ago II more. The sap
sing Of national sculpture into naught
the abandonment of the grace and gal
lantry of gentlemen, physical degene-
racy, low scales of masculine beauty,
all these and many more are the direct
outgrowth of Punishment to the ga T It
OF Curtailed breeches of our fathers and
the adoption OF the clawhammer tailed
coat of the present. And all this be-
cause although some men are born
calves, others achieve calves and still
others have calves thrust upon them;
there are others whose lower extremi-
ties possess all the grace and attractive
ness of a pipe stem and surrounded by
the pantaloOns Of to-day ''men without
calves are AS pleasing as Appllos."
But "what vistas of aesthetic de-
lights" the adoption of the ancient
garb would open mp. Imagine the
purple and fine linen blue stockings and
brass buckles. With what attractive
claim would VIscher ~entangle his
neither extremities in his sword sheath
and sit down alone by himself contem-
plating. How nobly Bill Nye's bare
footed mead would rest in the lace ruff
fees of long ago And how admirably
brother Beck could display himself to
the best advantage in the sunny smiles
of the fair ones with the knee breeches
Of our daddies.
1t will mark a wonderful era of
modern progress, and Oscar and Kate
may congratulate themselves in ad-
vance to make sure, when to make
themselves more charming the men
adopt the silk stockings, etc. of long
ago and perhaps actuated by the same
motive our ladies adopt the abbreviated
costumes Of Swiss peasant girls. A
poor rule, etc.
But there is still another advantage
which does not appear at first thought.
The knee brooches will be a sure cure
for tobacco chewing. Else how can be
explained the closing lines to Kate's
argument: when our representatives
at Washington return to the knee
breeches of their ancestors, | venture to
predict that spittoons will no longer be-
needed in the capitol.
ANOTHER EXTREME.
So much for one extreme; now a few
words from u correspondent in another,
Oregon:
Oregon sheep are a deal higher this
year than last, as they we're last year
than the year preceding, and quite
hard TO get hold of. The drove will be
pretty strong but hardly 50 heavy as
last year.
The country is rapidly getting east
erniZ-d, and is becoming too slow for
any use. The class of emigration which
has for the past few years poured into
the beautiful valleys and taken up the
tine farming lands has been of that
grade, which, while increasing the pop
ulation, has not added much to the
wealth of the state.
The older portion of the state, parti-
cularly along the Willamette valley,
have already the eastern luxury of
heavy mortgages literally scattered
about and over the farms.
The interior towns have already at
tanned their growth unless some need
industry wakes them from their lethar-
KY. There is a noticeable absence of
the friction life and energy which gem
orally characteriz - the west.
POPULAR GEOGRAPHY.
1t is remarkable, the vague idea the
average eastern man has of western
geography. We were in conversation
"a day or two since with a prominent
citizen of this rural town, who has been
through the course Of en%plOyments up
from "a school teacher to being a menu
Der Of the state legislature, and he very
earnestly asked on which side of us the
Missouri is any how. Assuming all the
indiffrrence possible to a newspaper
man not used to handling big stori-s, We
repIi4d: 'Only about 1000 miles on the
west side. h II is all" And we pre-
sumo if we had placed the Magic City
so far east, that ii would have fnated
In mid-ocean, our friend would never
have known of the difference, unless he
might be surprised into a little mathe-
NAUTICAL calculation.
Denver represents the west to most
Of the people in this section of the
country, and while l think of it they
have Sin their minds eye Horatlo, +" a
second Chicago in size and stately
grandeur. From it they calculate dis
tances and direction with all the pre-
cision of a survey from a township
corner stone; but further than that it
Ia the CITY of an immense vagina Cola