The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1888-03-24

0OW0, Opo0ttlnk eeudUS, ueHI'hs 4"'@'
men and offering rude caresses 10 pref
Is, women. Several dynasties OF these
tyranis had, since the Restoration,
domineered over the streets. The
Nuns aud Tityre Tus had given place
to the HectOrs, and the Hectors bad
been recently succeeded by the ScouF-
era. AT a later period arose the NICE
or, the Haucubite, and the yet more
dreaded name Of Mohawk" In the
time Of DR.. johnson tho Sparks were
Ia great force while the Beau also
lourlshed In the last century. Hc
seems to have been somewhat like
! Lord Foppington In Sheridan's "A
Trip to Scarborough choice in
the matter of oaths especially dainty
In shoe. buckles, which were AS large
40 the shoe could possibly support,
ablsze with jewelry and extremely
fond Of powder and patches altogeth-
or one OF the most ridiculous Garcia
lures OF 4 man one can easily conceive.
Next we come to the Macaronles, WHO
were 90 called because they introduced
Italian macaroni at Aimack's eubscrtp'
ton table. Addison gives the follow
ing derivation uThere iE," he says,
40 set Of merry dolls whom the cau,-
mon people Of all countries admire
and seem to love so well inst they
could sat them, according TO the GA
prOverb mexn those circunforan-
eous wits whom everynstton calls bJ
the name Of the meat which II loves
best. In Holland thoy are termed
sPickled Htrringe,' ia Frsncs 'Jeau
POtaRes,' In Itaiy sMacoronts,' and ~
Great Britain sJsck Pnddiugs.' Use
traueferspce Ut. the word from tools
and clowns TO men of fantsstic ishie-
ment and exaggerated elegance is, 50
has bssn we'll observed, u si.,snlar car
cuinstapes, o; which phiic&oSis,s nave
not - yet given satisfactory expla-
nation. DAndyism brlagn to uiina tne
Dandiss, who were probably ia lhetr
+, prime In fine "pslmy days. OF 'hc Rs,
Rency. ~ ike the dandies," says
Lord Byron 'they were always very
civil to me though in general they
disllked literary people aud parsecniec
and myaiined Madame lie Stael, Lew
10, Horace Twiss aud the IKE. Tbs
truth ~ that, though 1 gave up tho
business early, had tinge of DADDY
ism In my minority and probably re-
s tsiued enough Of it to conciiiate thu
great ones at foIr-Rnd-twenty." The
Dandies, however, received Il severe
handling from Carlyle some years la
ter. "TouchiDg daud!es," he says in
t.Sartor Resartus," "iet us consider,
with some acientific strictness, what Il
dandy specially 10. \ dandy is q
clothes-wearipG man--R man whose
trade. Office and existence consist in
the wearing of clothes. Every faculty
of his soul, spirit, purse and person Ia
heroicaliy consecrated to this ona oh.
fect-the wearing of clothes wisely and
we'll 80 that as others dress to live, lie
lives to dress. The all-imporiauce Of
clothes has sprung up in the ;nte!lec'
OF the dandy without effort, like al i'll
stinct Of genius; he is inspired with
cloth, . poet OF cloth. A divine idea
OF cloth is born with him." After The
Dandies came the Exquisites aud the
Loungers, who did everything in t
etyls of their own, aud whose mottt
was ULook and die" These fool,
fancied themselves great lndykillsrs
The Exquisites and the Louugsrs were
succeeded by the Corinthians, whC
were tops of u more Adventurous ant
rough-and-ready kind. Tho word Il
derived from Corintb, whose immor
ality was sproverbial both in Gre sc
aud Rome. A Corinthian, according
to DR.. Brewer, was the "iast man" o
Shakspers's period also, hence the &c
ference In "Henry w.: 81 am NJ
proud Jack like Faistaff, but r Corin
THAN, q lad OF mettle, a good boy
.sSnobs" was the designation by whicl
the tops Of the next generation wsr
known. Thackeray, who has made u
familiar with the word, gives the ETY.
mology OF it as pseudo nobs-thst j;
false or Brummagem mobiles. Two a
three years ago the Daily News, in
notice Of Punch's Almanac, observed
aThose who are curious ia tho matte
OF ssnsology' should note that in ,hi
number the word .Inasher' has inall.
usurped The place OF swell just q
swell superseded dandy which i;sel
WA the successor of buck, blood, cor
inshiap, exquisite, macaroni, besu sa'
numerous other kindred deeigpstions.
Parity In consequences OF this and aim
lar paragraphs in other periodtcal'
the origin Of tho word s.nasher''--th
term ~ which another seueraiior {
fope were known--was attributed
our old friend Punch. But DR.. Charle