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Show SELECTED. The IIai:; Evil. The trnth of the assertion i.s too fully demonstrated to dlow any one successfully to deny that women, is a elas. will submit to almost al-most any anio:nt of discomfort rather than to be out of the fashion. So proverbial pro-verbial ias this become, that "as well be dead as out of the fashion'1 is a household word in the mouths of our won1 en. Women, it is well known indeed, we believe they pride themselves them-selves upon this trait next only to their constancy are inconsistent. They gather their skirts close about them, treading as daintily as a cat over a wet sidewalk, lest they should come in contact with; that letc noir, "demimonde," "demi-monde," and yet in matters of fashion and stvle, they flop down upon their knees Vefore her with the devotion of CafSrs to fetish or obi. Thev know that demi-monde studies and adopts the meretiicious in style of dress and address- for reasons which are not creditable cred-itable to pure womanhood, yet they copy her fashions, and are terribly in-suited in-suited if they reap the rewird for which demi-monde deliberately sows. If their devil-god says the corsage must be worn so as to expose the arm - pits and leave nothing to gues9 at regarding the bust, virtuous women, aye, American women, too modest to call "legs" by any other name than limbs, succumb at once, and if they are well-made enough to bear it, will dress as decollete as any courte-tan courte-tan of theJardinMabille. If the fickle dame says taper waists must be in vogue, at once ribs are encased in steel and compressed, to the ' sacrifice of comfort, health and . progeny. Not only this, however, but they have come to pass, that they are actually willing to sacrifice that next of kin to Godliness personal cleanliness to their idol. Look at the mountains of hair with which deluded femininity, under the supposition that men will think they are unusually gifted with the "glory of womanhood," invest themselves. To say nothing cf the "jute" and kindred trash, bearing each its own kind of vermin, which infest the heads of those who wear, working swift destruction upon such hirsute covering as their degenerate scalps may wear, and with mundane proclivity to ill-doing, "breed great-grandsons in anight;" they absolutely invest themselves them-selves with "natural" head-dresses more homble than decent men, whose short and mayhap scanty locks are kept clean by water and sweet by air, have any idea of. Hear what a Paris paper says concerning this abomination: abomina-tion: Long hair now costs as much as HOf. a pound; short Lair ranges between ISf. and 35f. One of the principal dealers in human tresses occupies a house five stories high entirely to himself, him-self, and last vear he did business o the extent of 1.233, OOuf The capillary capil-lary rar-zitxs executed among the peasantry peas-antry no longer suffice to meet the demand. de-mand. The "hair of dead persons, cut oft" the corpses in the hospitals," is a great help, but still insufficient. So importations from abroad are had recourse re-course to. To give our readers a good understanding under-standing of what this importation is, we will further state that there arrived, a few weeks ago at Havre, a ship load of human hair from Mexico, in such a filthy condition that the harbor authorities autho-rities "had to order the removal of the vessel to prevent its cargo breeding a pestilence;" and the exposure of the gregarine nastiness was sufficient proof that mere filthiness is not enough to prevent the votaries of fashion from ner.Mr-'ing in making themselves ridiculous; ridicu-lous; nor of deliberately putting themselves them-selves in the way of contracting most loathsome diease. some too horrible to mention, in order to gratify their inordinate vanity. If this exposition of the "Hair Evil ' shall s7e even as many women from this folly as were saved from destruction of the Cities of tho Plain, wo shall not be sorry for the I nausea with which we have written this article. -V. Y. Star. |