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Show HARCIIIXQ UNDER. THE CRINOLINE. CRIN-OLINE. Tho insanity of Paris has now reached reach-ed its climax. Battalions of women are organized and sent against the Versail-lists. Versail-lists. An order has been issued that all cowardly males should be led to prison by female troops. This is more than ever was done during dur-ing the most furious stage of the first revolution. The women .of 1792 95 played an atrocious part in Paris, j They swelled the ranks of people in the processions which entered the castle and the convention; they surrounded the guillotine aud filled the air with their yells, when the heads of innocent people fell under the revolutionary axe. fhey danced around the altars of liberty lib-erty erected on the Pont-Neuf and sang the Carmagnole. They pillaged the houses of the Faubourg St. Germain Ger-main and committed acts of unspeakable unspeak-able ferocity during the days of September. Sep-tember. But they never formed in battalions and marched in line against ihe enemy. Whatever a'rocities the7 committed they always did it individually individu-ally or in the straggling form of a mob. A government sending battalions of women against the enemy, after the males were slaughtered, and which does not give up before it cornea to uch an extremity, should be dressed in petticoats and condemned to the chignon forever. Down with the red flag and up with the crinoline I This is enough to make revolution ridiculous ridicu-lous tori ver. Mo: Republican. |