Fashion Criticism

The Bafch Courier gets off the followiug "Hok:" " We are about to say a few words whioh we beg our lady friends not to read. It is not intended for them at all. "Twenty years ago ! " There's muhic in these words. Twenty year3 ago we saw sights that would look queer bow. Possibly it may havu beeu an illnsioD, incident to tangled vi&ion. - Oúr good mothers find grand aiotliers used to fold together two corners of a banar.na handkerchief, and, placing it on tbeir heaus, tie the other iwo corners under the chin. It made a warm, substautial covering for the head, at an expensa óf about eighteen pcnce. The same fashion provaüs to-day, only theie's a slight differencc. Wo saw yesterday a littlo three cornercd " lovo of a " something, that protected tho lady's had neitber from rain, heat, nor cold. It was charming - on!y cost eighteon dollars! A wad of somebody olse's hair depended from tbe rear, by a small pika pole with a bomb-fhell on eithor end. - Modesty remarked that she had named this modern bomb-proof a " wator-fall." Two weeks ago on Si'.cday, we rode out of church on a splondid silk robe, drawn by a lady f uil sis feot distant. - We tried uur beet to avn'ul the nocessity, but she insis'-ed- it was all thestyle. Mentally, we replied : " where's tha use of street cars ? " Twenty years ago it vftïs nnrlcrstood to be fushionablo to vvoar hort uiglitgowns from 10 P. M. to 6 A. M., or theroabouts. Transitóse P. M. and A. M., leaving the figures whuro thoy aro, and you get the fushionab'e reiuaiuder o( to-day. " Loose acks '' are beautiFul,