Then the dress, which should be made
to protect the breast, is left open one
third of the front, to display ornamental
needle-work and jewelry, and men go
backing around with hereditary con
sumption. Why not say an hereditary
love for display ? AjJ a" general thing,
men dress warmly and comfortably on
cold stormy day, when they go out,
iiul the moment they set foot iuside
their homes, about s;x or eight thick
nesses of woolen goods, and about one
tind one-half or two inches of cotton
wadding are laid aside, or turned back
to display the shirt It is not at all
necessary that a shirt should be seen,
then how much labor would be saved
lo woman. It has never yet been my
fortune to know a woman who could
ca her husbcud's shirt right. Among
the s-ary earliest recollections of my
childhood, arises a ghost of a shirt with
its button off, or too for back, or too
far front ; iu collar always too stiff, or
too limp the one big bugbear of the
tash tab, and the one thing that could
cot be put off till another day, in case
jf aickneas or trouble. Then," whoever
uiad a shirt right? For my part, I
have never seen one that proved to be
right. And where is the m.ed of perfec
tion in au undergarmeut, if it be clean
.ad whole? Men suffer from exposing
their persons to display a shirt, and
women gaffer from anxiety and fatigue
and unnecessary labor in preparing it.
