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Show " OLD-TIME MANNERS. The Dress of Men and Women in the Reign of George I. In "Social England" the following appears ap-pears as Indicating the exaggerated courtesy of fashionable people early In the eighteenth century. "Chesterfield teaches that It is boorish to congratulate congratu-late a friend on his approaching marriage mar-riage with merely 'I wish you joy, when he should have said: 'Believe m my dear sir, I have scarcely words to , express the Joy I feel upon your happy alliance with such and such a family.' The Compliment of condolence' on a berejjl'trient should be, not 'I am sorry for yor loss,' but, 'I hope, sir, you will do roe the Justice to be persuaded that I am not insensible of your unhappl-ness, unhappl-ness, that I take part ln your distress, an shall ever be affected when you are so.' His child began his lessons In 'breeding' at 9 years old, having till then learned Latin, Greek, French, history his-tory and geography. He is warned to beware of using proverbial sayings ln his speech, such as 'One man's meat is another man's poison,' or 'Every one to his taste, as the good man said when he kissed the cow.' He must attend the graceful motion of his arms, the manner of putting on his hat and giving giv-ing his hand. Horace Walpole's entrance en-trance into a room is described by an eye-witness as 'in the style of affected delicacy which fashion has made almost al-most . natural, chapeau bras, between his hands, as if he wished to compress It, or under his arm, and feet on tiptoes as if afraid of a wet floor." " During the reign of King George I., Lord Hervey. a cultured man, gave this description of the fine dress of a distinguished dis-tinguished woman: "The DucheBs of Queensbery's clothes pleased me most; tfcey were white satin embroidered, the bottom of the petticoat brown hills, covered with all sorts of weeds, and every breadth had an old stump of a tree that ran up almost to the top of ' the petticoat, broken and ragged and worked with brown chenilles, round which twined nasturtiums, ivy, honeysuckles, honey-suckles, periwinkles, convolvouses and all sorts of twining vines, which spread and covered the petticoat. Many of the leaves were finished in gold, and part of the stumps of trees looked like the gilding of the sun." At the same period, says the author of "Social England," a fashionable gentleman gen-tleman ordinarily "wore a toupee of curls raised high over his forehead. For daily wear most gentlemen were dressed like George I. dark tie, wig. plain coat, waist-coat and breeches of snuff -colored cloth and stockings of the same color: for ceremony, like Horac Walpole, In a lavender suit, the waistcoat waist-coat embroidered with a little sliver, or of white silk embroidered ln the tarn- - bour frame, partridge silk stockings, gold buckles, ruffles, lace frill and powdered pow-dered wig. The linen for shirts was bought in Holland, costing from 10 to V 'killings the Englissh ell." Chicago 1 . |