Daily inter mountain., 1900-12-20
.:Ihe World One Hundred
" Years Ago Today
Copyrighted, 1900, by r. E. Huges, Louis
WILEY

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AT the close of the eighteenth century
the costumes of man and woman under.
went marked changes. Mems coats be-
came very long and sloped off from the
waist, where they were buttoned both
upward and downward; their sleeves
were moderately tight with small, close-
hitting cuffs, and their collars either were
high and doubled back stiffly or were
made to spread upon the shoulders; the
flaps of their pockets were placed at
the back and close together and all puff-
ing and lace and embroidery were laid
aside. The flaps of waistcoats If retained
at all were short, and the garment itself
was made open at the throat the fril1
OF the shirt appearing from under it. The
pfeeches, fitting very tightly either werer
cut short at the knee, or were carried
few inches below it. and there buttoned
ana tied with strings knee buckles, ex-
cept Tor court dresses, having gone out
or fashion; the tight breeches at this
tlme We're frequently prolonged as pant
aloons TO the middle of the calf of the
leg Whefe they We're met by half top
ooots. "A rather large cravat was tied
loosely IN boWs about the throat; the
llair' worn long generally, was powdered
ana tled in queue, and the hats, round
IN form, We're either of moderate height
IN the crown. or tall and conical,. and
thelf nearly flat round brim was either
narrow or moderately broad. s-
Ihe women had discarded open dresses;
the sacques ceased to be; waists became
longer and regained their natural posi-
tlon and form. AT this time bonnets
were worn that incased the wearer's head
or were nat and projecting. They also
were adorned with taste that was COM
pafatlVely simple and becoming; and at
the same time the hair, free from DOW
uer' was dressed in curls about the face
and neck.
while costume in ordinary life thus
1iiore nearly approached. than at any
previous time, what might be desired
court dress still exhibited the extraya-
sahcles that under other conditions had
happily become obsolete, the hoop, with
an lts realty offensive mass of so-called
decorative allies retaining it's ground. in
oelahce or all opposition until the chief
offender and its worst associates were
banished by royal command.
Heinrich Heine, poet and Journalist
ana one of the great song writers Of
.ne world was just one year old now at
MS nome IN Dusseldorf Prussia. a j
n1oratlo Gates, an American revol,,-
tlonary general, who in 1776 defeated
ueh. Burgoyne's army, forcing a com
plete surrender, granted emancipation
TO all his slaves on his Virginia as
tates as the eighteenth century drew
rapidly to a close
Ihomas Bruce, seventh Earl of E,o;r
scotland during a stay at Constant.
nopie' formed the purpose of removing
from Athens the celebrated SCULPTURES
known later as the Elgin marbles. IN
the brltlsh museum at London, and
spent $4,000 pounds sterling in CARRYING
out the project, which was .censured Inv
some as vandalism
Jean Baptist Blot, French phvsicist
VINO made great discoveries in the de-
partment of optics, mainly in connec-
ton with the polarization of light ac
ceTsed the chair of physics at the Col.
lege de France in Paris.
Big improvements Were made in tri-
cycle building. The cranked axle work.
ed by treadles and levers came into
fashion. but they la'bored under three
fatal defects: It was almost impossihla
to drive them up hill, to check thennfn
going down hill, and to prevent t,,air
overturning in rounding corner. asa