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Show I How We Came to Wear Clothes. t It has been truly remarked that, In order of time, decoration precedes , dress. Among people who submit to great physical suffering that they may have themselves handsomely tatooed, extremes ot temperature are borne with but little attempt at mitigation. miti-gation. Humboldt tells us that an Orinoco Indian, though quite regardless regard-less of botflly comfort, will labor for a fortnight to purchase pigment wherewith where-with to make himself admired; and that the samo woman who would not hesltato to leave her hut without a fragment of clothing on, would not dare to commit such a breach ot decorum ns to go out unpainted. The facts of aboriginal life seem to Indicate that dress Is developed out ot decorations. And when we remember that oven among ourselves, most think more about the fineness of tho fabric than its warmth, and moro about tho cut thnn the convenience when we see that tho function Is still In great measuro subordinated to the appearance, appear-ance, wo hnvo further tenson for Inferring In-ferring such nnorlgln. Herbert Spencer. |