Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-01-07
FOPs AND FOPPERY
frolm the Ancient Dandy % the Mod.
ern Dude.

from the Ancient Dandy % the Mod.
ern Dude.
From Chambers Journal
Alcioiades, whose powers OF pleasing were such
that according to Plutarch, "no man was 50 sullen
but he would make him merry or so churlish but
he would make him gentle" was the earliest
dandy Of whom history informs US; and Beau
| Nash and George Brummeil have been classed
| among the latest. But foppery Is not dead yet
nor will IL be until the end OF time. We can, how
ever console ourselves with the fact that the fop
perry OF to-day Is OF a much mider type than that
which prevailed in the days Of Lucullus, VINO,
according to Horace, had 1000 rich purple robes in
his house.
The earliest English candles were, it appears,
his Hudibras:
You have been roaming
he nays
AND yo ike sTpie
Coming TO the time OF the English revolution,
we and that the designation by which tops were
known had changed several times. at was
favorite amusement OF dissolute young gentle
men," says Macauiay, Ito swagger by night about
beating QUIET mem AND Offering Tnds dresses TO
pretty women. Several dynasties OF these tyrants
had, since the restoration. domineered over the
streets The Nuns and Tityre TuS had given place
to the Electors, and the Hectors had been recently
succeeded ss N,s by the scourers At later period
dreaded name OF Mohawk"
A little later on the flop appeared Swift thus
women for the society OF tops:
In a dull stream which, moving slow.
You hardly see the current How.
i whirl: aSous for a.S Want ant Of force e' ~
And = ITS ,n nsrrow x circle a gathers rs. ,.,
The current Of female mind
Thus whirlins round, together draws
Fools. tops and rskes. for chat and straws.
In the time Of Dr.. johnson the sparks were in
ali 0nIlr an in
last century. He seems to have been something
nke Lord Fopptngton in she1dan's "a Trip TO
especially dainty In shoe buckles-which were as
large as the shoe could possibly support--abaze
pa.chss ONE of the en1 most o
caIicatures OF man one can easily conceive.
Next we come to the Macarones, who were SO
called because they introduced Italian macaroni
at Amack'S subscription table, Addison gives the
following Derivation: 'TheIe isl he says ia set of
I1S wn mon sae ~ people % an c0un
could eat them, according to the old proverb;
mean those crcumioraneous wits whom every
which 1t loves best. In Holland they are termed
'pickled herrings;' In France, Jean potageS;' in
Italy. Tnacaronies;' and in Great Britain, Jack
buildings The tranSference OF the word from
fools and clowns 20 men OF fantastic refinement
and exaggerated elegance is as has been well OBJ
served, Il singular circumstance, OF which phiolo-
gists have not yet given a satisfactory expana.
tlon. II will be remembered that Sir Benjamin
Backbite, in The School for Scandal, applied the
Such never were sssn two such beautiful ponies:
All others are clowns. but these Macarohies;
long.
fops that ever disgraced the name Of man, Yet we
are Indebted 10 them FOR the Introduction OF the
well-known dish 80 named
Dandylsm brings TO mind the dandes who were
probably in their prime in the Ipalmy days" OF the
regency. 81 like the dandies," says Lord Byron;
"sney were always Ways, very civil to me; though IN
cuted and mystined Madame de Stae Lewis,
Horace, Twiss and the like. The truth is that,
OF dandyism In my minority, and probably retained
enough OF It TO concliate the great ones at four
and-twenty.. The dandies, however received
severe handling from Carlyle some years later.
'Touching dandies," says. he, In Sartor Resar-
tus, 'let us consider, with some scientific strict
ness what dandy specially is. dandy is a
and existence consist In the wearing OF clothes.
Every faculty OF his soul spirit pure and person
wearing OF clothes wisely and well; so that as
Others dress to live, he lives TO dress. The a-im-
Fl dandy eP an Ct
genius; he is inspired with CLOTH poet Of cloth.
divine idea OF cloth is born with him"
After the Dandies came the exQuisites and the
loungers, who did everything in style Of their
own, and whose motto was. Look and die" These
fools fancied themselves great lady-killers, the
EXCLUSIVES and the loungers were succeeded by
the Corinthians, who were tops OF a more edven-
turous and roueh-and-ready kind. The word is
verbal both in Greece and Rome A Cortnthlan
according TO Dr. Brewer, was the fast man. OF
snakspeare's period; hence the reference in
but a Cornthian, lad OF mettle, a good boy"
'Snoos' was the designation by which the tops OF
has made US familiar with the word, gives the
etymoiogy OF it as pse,tdo-noJs that is false or
Brummagem mobiles.
tice OF Panels Abadnac, observed: "Those who
are curious In the matter Of .neology' should note
usurped the place Of swell, Just as swell SUPER
seeded dandy which itself Was the successor OF
buck blood, Corinthian, exquisite, aearoni beau,
In consequence OF this and similar paragraphs In
other periodicals, the origin Of the word smasher"
Vsss te,n Oy wncn anE,1er generation OF tops
Punch. But Dr. Charles Mackay says the word,
which came to us from the United states, is OF
by the Irish immigration. 1t Is derived from the
Gaelic DlUise-prOnOunced ''masher"-and signifies
n f elegant. handsome, and was originally APP
not, however, be regarded as final, as tue French
naarcheur, and other words, have been claimed as
"Dude" and "Chappie" seem TO be the latest
synonyms for Top, but the words do not appear
likely TO come into general use.
The f0ppery OF great men has ALWAYS been a
source OF NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. OF disgust-to
their contemporaries. The curled and scented
cal friends; and it Is very probable that julius
Caesar was also laughed at because he set the
fashion OF wearing earrings which before that had
been confined TO women and slaves. Disraelis
letters, however prove that he could laugh at his
own foibles 10 dress. Like Byron, the great duke
OF Marlborough was dandy when young but he
Lived 70 see the folly OF his ways
whether the present generation Is wiser than its
ancestors Is perhaps open to question; but there
can oe no doubt that fOppery as institution is
dying out, although mild specimen, OF the genus
may probably exist until the end OF time
How TO Carve q Turkey.
4 FEW RULES TO BE OBSERVED IN ACCOMPLISHING
THE FRAT.
From Good Housekeeping.
Put the fork in firmly as far as 1t will 20 across
the middle OF the breast bone, and II the whole
bird Is TO be carved, do not remove IL until the
breast Is separated from the back. Opinions vary
as to which should be removed FIRST. the wing or
the leg but It Is safe TO follow this general rule:
II the win. be so long, or the bird be uussed in