Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-03-24

VIII make any slster-woman happy, we
want her to have them. IF feather a
little longer and little more fluffy than
her most intimate friend wears on her
bonnet will give her peace, let her have
it.
And there is comfort in feeling that
but many of US, alas fall short.
We must all follow the fashion, just
as the flock of sheep follows the bell
weather, even if it be to our own de-
struction. IF fashion says hoops, then
every woman rushes into hoops-no
matter if they make her look like
molasses hogshead with petticoats on.
Our friend who is five feet tall, and
weighs two hundred, must wear them
as well as her lean sister, who is as tall
as hay-pole, and SO thin you can see
the stars through her.
And if some foreign singer, who has
burned all the hair off her forehead
frizzing it, wears 'bangs" to conceal
the misfortune, every woman pro-
nounces it lovely" and crops her hair,
and combs it down over her forehead,
and drives all expression out of her
face, and makes herself look like a
Shetland pony, which has had its fore
top braided.
To be in the fashion is not always to
be well dressed. One needs to consult
her own style and what is suitable for
it. We cannot look well by copying
fashion plates. Not all the knife pleat-
ing and plush bands. and shirring in
the world can transform a dowdy wo-
man into an elegant lady; but every
body can manage to dress in taste if
they study out what best BELTS them.
This pride of clothing seems to be
born in every human being-yes, in
the members of the masculine persuas-
ion, as well as in those of the sex whom
cynics like to denominate as the per-
sonnification of vanity.
/ We have seen men stand before the
glass and bother quite as long over the
tie of their cravats, and the particular
| twirl of their moustaches as ever We
have known the weaker sex to agonize
over the fit of a glove, or the way the
back Eair was got together.
Eve sewed the fg-leaves, but Adam
| wore them as well as she, and We have
no doubt but he took just as much
pride in them as she did, and was
quite as much concerned to know il
they were becoming"
Every mother likes to have her chill
dren as we'll dressed as the children oil
other people; every young girl wants
as many FUCKERS III her overskirt as
there are in any other overskirt In
| town; and the woman who knows she
has got the best silk dress and the only
sealskin sacque in her native village
is on the supreme pinnacle of bliss
from whence nothing short of an earth
quake could reut her All the ser
mons on vanity which ever were writ
ten would not disturb her particle
They would roll off that hundred
dollar fur like water off from an india
rubber oyercoat.
We, for our part, like to see every
body well-dressed. 1t looks as if they
enjoyed life, and liked to see tailoring
and dressmaking flourish. 1t looks as
if the world was still wagging on, il
spite of Mother Shipton A person not
only feels better for having good clothes
but he will behave better, live longer
enjoy bettar appetite, and be much
more ornamental on the street and IL
the social gathering; and there will be
more clothes left behind, when he dies
for his relatives to quarrel overland
quarreling over dead friends ''things'
always tends to assuage the grief of the
living and make it easier to bear.
Phild. Sat Night.