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RAGE FOR THE RIDIcULoUs-A fashion al
ways becomes more fashionable as it be-
comes more ridiculous. People cling to il
as they pet monkey for its deformity. The
high head dresses of France which must
have been burden, made the tour of Eu-
rope, and endured throughout century
The high heels which almost wholly preclu-
ded safe walking, lasted their century. The
use of powder was universal until it was
driven out of France by Republicanism and
out of England by famine. The flour used
by the British army alone for whitening
heads was calculated TO amount to the an
nual provision for $4,000 people. Snuffs,
had been universally in use from the middle
of the seventeenth century; and the sums
spent on this filthy and foolish Indulgence


the time wasted on, and the injury done to
health, if they could all have been thrown
into the common form of money, would have
paid the national debt of England. The
common people have their full share in thi!
general absurdity. The gin drunk in Eng


land and Wales annually amounts TO nearly