. Punch . the rising generation. THE PORTERS KNOT COIFFURE. heee is no task that _ themale mind is more inclinedto shrink from than that ofpointing out a folly or afault in Lovely at whatever risk oflosing his character for gal-lantry, Mr. Punch at timesis forced to do himself a vio-lence by hinting that hisdarlings are making them-selves ludicrous by the follieswhich Le Follet persuadesthem to adopt. With Cri-noline he felt it was hisduty to contend, as it proveda public nuisance and en-croached on public tho-roughfares, besides en-croaching also upon many aprivate purse. And agains
. Punch . the rising generation. THE PORTERS KNOT COIFFURE. heee is no task that _ themale mind is more inclinedto shrink from than that ofpointing out a folly or afault in Lovely at whatever risk oflosing his character for gal-lantry, Mr. Punch at timesis forced to do himself a vio-lence by hinting that hisdarlings are making them-selves ludicrous by the follieswhich Le Follet persuadesthem to adopt. With Cri-noline he felt it was hisduty to contend, as it proveda public nuisance and en-croached on public tho-roughfares, besides en-croaching also upon many aprivate purse. And againstthe growing taste for fineryand flummery Mr. Punchhas often had the courageto inveigh, because beautyin plain clothes is more pleasing to his eye than beauty decked by vanity and adorned with doubtful question Tiow far Lovely Woman is gifted with the right to disfigure and deform herself, is one which a debating Club may argue as they please, but on which all minds of sense will certainly From the timesof ancient Britonesses who dyed their hair sky blue,the ladies have been ever grave offenders in this way, and their coiffurehas been commonly the head and front of their offending. Never saydye (at any rate with blue) may nowadays perhaps be an acceptedmaxim; but scarcely less ridiculous than this old English fashion isthe modern mode of gathering the hair into a hump, and wearing ita, la porters knot upon the neck. Sometimes this absurd protuberanceis of most monstrous size, being swelled out with the hair from otherheads and tails, if it be true that use is made of equine caudal not merely hides the beauty of the back part of the neck (and ofall the charms of woman there are few which equal that), but it givesthe head a most unnatural appearance, and makes it look considerablytoo big for the body. Ladies with short necks are especially disfiguredby the porters knot coiffure, for the hair hump makes it difficult tosee at a back view that they h
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