Life — January 31, 1884 — page 12: what you’re looking at

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“IT’S A WAY WE HAVE IN—SOCIETY.” lL DANCE three sweet, successive dances With one fair girl ; She gives me most bewitching glances As round we whirl. Mu. We dance, we sup, we talk together ; I did not know So interesting was the weather, So fair the snow. Ill. By chancé next morning with her meeting, I bow my head. I might have spared my cordial greeting ; She cuts me dead ! Iv. My senses quickly come together— And now I know Ilow wretched is this beastly weather, How vile the snow ! ARISTOPHANES. I" will bring comfort to many a_sorrowing heart to know that Mr. Fitzgerald, in his “Essays on Self-Consciousness,” asserts that “Love is but the clinging sense of mutual correlation for dependence.” To translate into the vernacular for “correlation” read “admiration,” for “dependence” read “ice- | cream.” RICHELIEU ROBINSON. M R. ROBINSON has been foaming at the mouth again, and has arisen in Congress to inquire whether it be true that “ Lord Lowell” kept an Ameri- can citizen cool- ing his heels in an ante-room for an hour while his Lordship put on that undemocrat- / ic garment,adress -\ Hii\ . coat? “ Riche- Hil, > lieu” also asked our national talk- ing-machine to investigate our vt oe 7 HN / 3 | j 3 foreign ministers, ] in order to find out whether they have with which them to wear the “dress of an American _ citi- zen” vees, balls, and banquets of effete potentates and mildewed aristoc- racy. Let the investigation be had, by all means, complied the law, PLATE I. | the dress of “an | the proper dress | of an American OUR FOREIGN MINISTERS AND MR. | and innocent of a ne | bad hat; hair to be worn long and shaggy, and sprin- | kled with hay seed. (Picturesque and national.) at the le- | and let thesministers: be immediately recalled who have transgressed the law. Still, it will first be neces- sary that the Su- preme Court of the United States shall construe the law, for it is not quite settled what American citizen really is. It is the plain duty of Congress to settle by a resolution citizen, and to an- nex to the resolve a plate which will illustrate it. To aid Con- gress in this im- portant matter, it is Lire’s pleasure and duty to give a few plates of American costumes : PLATE Il, PLate L—TZhe American Statesman. Stove-pipe hat of the vintage of 1867, brushed the wrong way ; long, double-breasted frock coat of shiny broadcloth (this must be covered with grease spots whisk - broom) ; low-cut vest and pants of same ma- terial; soiled shirt, dribbled with to- bacco-juice; brass collar-stud in lieu of necktie*; paste breastpin; cow- hide boots. (This costume may be, and commonly is, worn upon all oc- casions, and it may be slept in, boots and all, if desired.) Pirate Il.—The Horny - handed Farmer. Blue overalls ; cow-hide boots, which sing of the barn; old coat, bottle green; very PLATE II. Piate Il].—Zhe Hibernio-American. Same as Plate I, with the addition of a broad, green sash across the belt and a green rosette with a gold * A white lawn necktie, if soiled, may be worn at state dinners. comicbooks.com