Year: 1873

A very clever writer in the EInbHrg Daily
RccjcIO, in Il series Of articles on matters and
things in general, has the following humorous
observations on the styles Of dress that prevail !
in civilized countries:


Our friends who come up from the country |
to IIalow Fair usually take advantage of the |
opportunity to rig themselves out in a suit of |
the latest fashion, incited thereto by the sensa-


ton they produce in Princes Street by their |
rustic appearance. | don't know that their


town made attire is always an improvement


upon the native manufacture. We submit


hel ple>sly to the tyranny OF fashion, when the
smallest exercise of our own cool judgment
would satisfy Us that we are often sacrificing


ease and comfort and encOnomy for the sake of


being neighbor like. A Turk or Syrian or a
| HlndoO has much better reason for laughing


at our costume than we have for deriding that


of our country cousins Just think Of it. Our
coats and WalstcOatS must be made tight


enough to button, otherwise they are wrinked


and baggy. Well, there are many who vary in
condition to such an extent that their clsthes


never fit. They may be stout when they get


fitted, and in a few weeks their clothes are


several inches too wide for them. Or they


may be in poor condition when they pass


through the tailor hands, and soon their gar
mentS won't meet on them. Many man can I


eat hearty dinner without letting out several


buttons of his walStcOat. | once knew a news
I paper editor who could not write leading
u article till he had eased both waistcoat and
trousers; he had his brains in that locality,
! and they required room to work.


: Why all this toll and trouble? Loose robes
!. such as they wear in the East, with a sash OF
!, shawl for girdle, would fit and be comforta
e BILE, however much the wearer might shrink OIL
" expand in body. Then they would cover the
e knees and protect them from the weather
Al whereas our fashion of short coats, under anC
!. upper instead of protecting the knees, send:
% the rain dripping upon them, and makes then
r wetter than If there were no coat at all. You
r robes Of Eastern style would never 90 out o


fashion, and would wear double the time tha
10 tights do. Then think of the comfort O
e throwing yourself down at night-or by da
nd either, TOR the matter of that-when you ar
,m e sleepy, and having your comfortable snOoz
er without more ado. Why, what do we do whe
n nG we want to 90 to sleep? We strip to the buf


probably take sponge down or rub with
lp. wet towel, put on a night-shirt, which sends
S cs Shiver through delicate frame, and then pei
as haps mount to an immense four posted bed b
ch a fight of steps, as if we were ascending
al %H public platform, and fiually plunge between


pair Of cold sheets which communicate as gre;
he shock to the system as if it were to plunl
OF into the sea- And we call this composing ou
cr, selves to sleep 1t is much more like d
,S% H% sign for numbering sleep. 1t may do for tho
~ who have Napoleon Bonaparte or DIR. Can
my lish faculty for going to sleep at WILL but it
us us a very strange way of wooing that coy maidC


who personifes sleep.


in irm The Orientals are more rational. When &
e a inspiration of sleep comes upon them, tn,
der don't forthwith proceed to drive it away
3ns, the aborious movement we go through at be
iod time, but they draw their long robes ahO
This them curl up their feet within its ample fOld
1o% ,n lie down their divan, and off to the La
ds of Nod before Western beauty could get h
the chignOn taken off aud her hair let down. Do
ON, ;ar not nature itself teach you that this is t
,urt the proper way of going sleepf Look at yO
9ie : St dog if you have one, or your cat-everybO
: o. has a cat What does Towser or BaudrOns
'%t ncnt when he gets sleepyP He just lies down a
"a ana Gd sleeps And we think it proof of super
re- wisdom to undress aud dress again, and gi
due so rough a reception to the tired nature sw'
imei restorer that she flies away offended. Whel
,oy- think how sweetly the subjects of the Suit
ncn nen do compose them when wOoed by ~
such balmy," | feel disposed to say with staun
# its old " Moderate member of the General
70 Se be sembly, Moderator, love a Turk. 1t is
com, irrational costume that leads to the other
n,Sr o. Sr rational practice; and don't expect ii
y I" people will listen to reason about dress in
d Tor tailor and millinerridden Western world


ours A couple of centuries hence the I'll
editor of the Rerie,0 may have local so


morning pointing out that the old file of I
If paper proves this journal to have been
lort first to urge the dress reform recently inau
dis rated. That is all the reward that can
can looked for.