This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1871 edition. Excerpt: ... XII. "The Tea Spoons numbered" &c. This precaution of numbering the spoons enabled the attentive hostess to return to each guest the cup that had already kissed the lip, a gratification to squeamish fancies which cannot be hoped for now-a-days, when the slop is conducted behind the curtain. NOTE XIII. "Stays ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1871 edition. Excerpt: ... XII. "The Tea Spoons numbered" &c. This precaution of numbering the spoons enabled the attentive hostess to return to each guest the cup that had already kissed the lip, a gratification to squeamish fancies which cannot be hoped for now-a-days, when the slop is conducted behind the curtain. NOTE XIII. "Stays for the fat, and quilting for the lean." A note upon female dress is a daring attempt. But in sober seriousness, does any rational man harbour for a moment the wish to send back the persons of our lovely women to be tortured, by laborious and athletic lacing, into an unnatural and preposterous tenuity? We hear much ofmodern nakedness; but look at the portraits of the grandmothers of the present generation--there the exemplary Dames have very demurely exhibited, as the Painter's model, more, I presume, than even the boldest and most dashing of the present day venture to offer to the transient gaze. The transition from spacious hoops and quilting, to what are fancifully termed invisible petticoats, is a violent change indeed. But which is the most becoming the human form, and which the most deserving topic for ridicule and admonitory satire? The snowy garments which float upon the breeze are a happy contrast to the dark prints on which our thrifty Matrons used to lavish the pleasing encomium, "that they kept so long clean." NOTE XIV. ' Such was thy sway, OfanfdMiss Nicky Murray!" Of this renowned Mistress of the Ceremonies, what avails it to tell the present generation, although their grandmothers cannot have forgot her, and those among them that were handsome, doubtless remember with complacency the preference she gave to a Beauty, without forgetting the rules of titled precedence. NOTE XV. " Yes! mark the Street," &c. The Author certainly...
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