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Show The Quaker Garb li:is Had Its Dity. While tho faith of the Quakers has undergone un-dergone no radical change since the days of Mary Dyer, the simple manners and customs of the sect are rapidly disap-: disap-: pearing. Here and thore, it is true, one ; of. the "old fashioned" Quakers is to be seen. When Jonathan Chaee occupied a seat in the oenatuof the United States : his coat was of the orthodox cut, and his correspondents could not please him bettor bet-tor than by addressing him as plain Jonathan Cliaoe. A consistent Quaker, too, is Jonathan Chace, for he, with his plainly dressed wife, rather than deprive their coachman and horses of their Sunday Sun-day rest, will frequently walk two miles and more to meeting and return by tho same conveyance. But the old time straight cut coats are fast passing away, and even Jonathan Chace has discarded the drab, and his black coats, though of tb j Quaker cut, are of the very finest piece of broadcloth that the looms can weave. It is with regret that the public part with the quaint costume of the Friends, for when seen upon tho street it formed a delicious picture. Wo may see something akin to it at the Shaker settlements if we take the trouble to visit them; bnt the costume cos-tume which poor heroic Mary Dyer wore in her last hour has almost passed from the sight of men. Boston Journal. |