Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1882-08-09

he begins by dressing up a lay ngurt
at the time the Christian era, and show:
how his various garmen's have survived
in clerical costume. His shirt, ednalsio
or chemise, survives in two forms, the
alb, so called from its being white, and
the dslmatic, SO called from Dalmatia,
from whence tins shape of it was derived
Just as certain great coats, to quote
the Deans illustration, are now called
ulsters. This shirt, after the invasion
OF the Northern barbarians, used to be
drawn over the fur coat, sheep skin OF
otter skin, the peiisse of the Northern
nations, and hence. in the twelfth Gen.
tury, arose the barbarous name of SUI
perpelticiuna, or surplice, the ''over-
fur. =" The present Rector of st. Georges
n-the-East, the Rev. Harry Jones, told
an amusing story of the Dean which
illustrates this point. He came to
preach at st. Georges one very cold
day, wrapped in a fur coat, aad Mr..
Jones advised him to keep it on during
the service. YES" said the Dean, II
think had better do so, and then my
surplice Will be true superpeLlicium y
Another form of the same dress survives
in the Bishops rochet, whichls the little
frock or coat worn by the medieval
Bishops out of doors when they went out
hunting. Similarly the pail of an Arch
bishop is the relic of the Roman toga,
or palllum. 1t is not so certain as the
Dean supposes that cassock is derived
from Carscalla, "a long overall, which
Antonius Bassianus brought from
France, and whence derived his name, y
for it has also been traced TO kds, skin or
hide. But there can be no doubt that
chasuble comes from cdsua, "a slang
name used by the Italian laborers for
the capote," which they called ''their
little house," as ''tile" is, or was a
short time ago, used for chat and as
coat is the same word as ''cote" or
cottage )" nor that scope" is another
form of overcoat-a sort of waterproof /;
or that the miter was an ordinary head
dress worn by women. and still, accord
ing to the Dean, to be seen In the NIT
seums of Russia as the cap or turbap
worn on festive occasions in ancient
days by Princes and mobiles, and even to
this day by the peasant woman. The
division into two points is, he says,
"only the mark of the crease, which is
the consequence of its having been, like
an opera hat, folded and carried under
the arm" The stole, lastly. was asim-
pie handkerchief for common uses. On
State occasions such handkerchiefs were
used as ribbons, streamers or scarfs, and
were hence adopted by the deacons, who
had little else to distinguish them. The
Dean mentions a curious modern illus
tration of the way in which the use of
such a slight symbol may arise. When
Sir James Brooke first returned from
Borneo. where the only sign of royalty
was TO hold a kerchlef III the hand, he
retained the practice in England The
process by which these simple garments
passed into official use is easily traced.
First, the early Christian clergy and
iaity alike, when they came to their
public assemblies, took care that their
clothes, though the same as they usually
wore, should be especially neat and
clean. Next, it was natural that the
colors and forms chosen should be of n
grave and sober tint. Lastly came the
process, which ray be easily followed
in English society during the last two
centuries, of common fashions becoming
fixed in certain classes at particular
moments and of what was once common
to all becoming peculiar to few.