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Show Dftt6SlNG LIKE WOMEN. A. Time When Temlnlno Styles Wero Po ferret by Men. In point of fact, the early mediaovsj man and woman looked as niuob alike as the fin de sieole wheelman and his bicycle bi-cycle girl. Take the king and queen in a pack of cards. They are early media val. Notice the surprising similarity in their costumes the same wide robes and angular folds, the same stained glass stiffness. Novices at cards may he excused for being at a loss sometimes, at least until they have learned to look for the king's beard. Witt, ehe wane of the age of ohivalry there came a singular exaggeration in the toilet of men. They deliberately Imitated tho women. They allowed their hair to grow long, cultivated curio by tho hot irons and ointments and actually ac-tually woro chaplets, like diadems, to curb their flowing locks. In the texture andoolor of their garments they showed the same effeminacy, for they began to affect brilliant reds and blues and to we&r costly trimmings and jewelry. This, too, was "the ago of tho sighing, wailing lover, fainting at his mistress' frown. Every knight who could write or sing posed as a minstrel and rehearsed re-hearsed his love affairs. At every gath ering of the nobility there was a childish child-ish prattle of love, cloying and monotonous monoto-nous for very sweetness. The sex8s eemed to have changed places. It was cue lover wno was a sny wannower, who Washed and went about woeful and woe worn from his secret passion. As we look over the poems of the minnesingers, min-nesingers, those bards of love, the lady eems always unapproachable, listening with contemptuous mien to tho gentlo man's gentle advances. While he succumbs suc-cumbs to nervous exhaustion Bhe goes about her business perfectly healthy, either indifferent or cruelly conscious of her power. W. D. McCrackflu in Lip inucotra. |