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Show THE PLUG HAT. Have- women, in the last three centuries, cen-turies, worn anything so monstrous as the cvliri'lrictl bat which tor near a c.ntury we have cairud on our heads as an ndvt rtiicmeut of our foolishness, and u.i au insurance of our deformity? Do the dark uges show any whimsy in feminine accoutrement at all ap proaching it in bideousncss? It ia easy to i magi no that this hnllow roller might have been invented lor a hollow hol-low head, and that ihe out should be excellently adapted to the other. Bui it is hard to conceive that men et brains, character, and ta.-.to should don it, and dandle it iu various shapes from youth to old age, and that their posterity should rental the folly. It morals could enter into form, it principle, or its lack, could be expressed ex-pressed by uncoithness, we should leel confident that fie fashionable stove-pipe represent'd total depravity. Thre ia unpardonable evil, lejtheli-cally lejtheli-cally speaking, in the very look ol the thing, and wo feel suro that, by no amount of repentance, could it ever enter the heaven ol good laite. It is so totally wanting in inherent grace, and 'o struggle after it so utterly useless, use-less, that its condemnation ia foreordained. What is there 10 recommend the cylindrical hat? Not its shape, for it iB uglier than aiu. Not its becoming-nesa, becoming-nesa, for no man has been so hand some as not to be marred by it. Not its convenience, for it is supremely troublesome. Not its health fulness, for it is injurious. Not its cheapness, for it is dear. Not its durability, tor it is fragile. The sole thing that may he said in its favor is, that it is fashionable; fash-ionable; but while it is fashionable, it ib not liked, even by tliOH who wear it. These accept it as the decree of mode, not being independent enough to resiHt; but its advocate or apologist apolo-gist has not been discovered iu any region of civil:z.ition alter a hundred of its infliction. Agrippa risked his life to give to the remains of Caligula the rites of sepulture; Cabrera wrote a book to show that Philip II. was human. The distressing Btove pipe ia still without a defender. New York Times. |