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Show DRESSING LIKE WOMEN. A Time When Feminine Styles Were Preferred Pre-ferred by Men. In point of fact, the early mediaeval man and woman looked as much alike as the fin de siocle wheelman aud his bicycle bi-cycle girl. Take the king and queen in a pack of cards. They are early medieval. medie-val. Notice the surprising similarity In thoir coEti;nies the '( iucea and angular folds, the same stained glass stiffness. Novices at cards may be excused for being at a loss sometimes, at least until they have learned to look for the king's beard. With the wane of the age of chivalry there came a singular exaggeration in the toilet of men. They deliberately imitated the women. They allowed their hair to grow long, cultivated curls by the hot irons and ointments and actually ac-tually wore chaplots, liko dkcieins, to curb their flowing locks. In tit texture and color of their garments thej showed the same effeminacy, for they began to affoct brilliant reds and blue3 and to wear costly trimmings and jewelry.- This, too, was the age of the eighing, wailing lover, fainting at his mistress' frown. Every knight who cond write or 6ing posed as a minstrel "and rehearsed re-hearsed his love affairs. At every gathering gath-ering of the nobility there was a childish child-ish prattle of love, cloying aud nonoto-uous nonoto-uous for very sweetness. Tha sexes seemed to have changed places. It was the lover who was a shy wallflower, who blushed and went about woeful and woe worn from his secret pission. As wo look over the poems of tL ) minnesingers, min-nesingers, those bards of love, tra lady soerns always unapproachable, listening with contemptuous mien to the gentleman's gentle-man's gentle advances. While ha succumbs suc-cumbs to nervous exhaustion t-he goes about her business perfectly healthy, either indifferent or cruelly conscious of her power. W. D. McCracken in Lip-pincott's. |