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Show How We Came to Wear Clothes. It has been truly remarked that, in order of time, decoration precedes dress. Among peoplo who submit ta great physical suffering that they may havo themselves handsomely tatoocd, extremes of temperature arc borne with but little attempt at mitigation. miti-gation. Humboldt tolls us that an Orinoco Indian, though qulto regardless regard-less of bodily comfort, will labor for a fortnight to purchase pigment wherewith where-with to mako himself admired; and that the same woman who would not hesitate to leavo hor hut without a fragment of clothing on, would not dare to commit such a breach ot decorum as to go out unpalnted. The facts of aboriginal life seem to Indicate that dress Is developed out ol decorations. And when we remember that oven among ourselves, most think moro about tho fineness ot tho fabric than Its warmth, and moro about the cut than the convenience when we see that tho. function Is still In great measure subordinated to the appear-anco, appear-anco, wo have further reason for Inferring In-ferring such an origin. Herbert Spencer. |