Fashionable Colors. It is almost impossible to state which colors most prevail, all are so beautifully blended and intermixed; those, however, which seem most in demand are maroon, sea-green, blue, pensée, &c.
Footnotes
[1.]Now it is fate. July, 1850.[2.]——From swaddling-clothes,
Dying begins at birth.[3.]The honest and uncompromising spirit in which these papers oppose the sanitary movement, has led some people to imagine that there is satire meant in them. The best way to answer this suspicion, is to print here so much as we can find space for of the speech of Alderman Lawrence, reported in the “Times” one Saturday. It will be seen that the tone of his eloquence, and that of ours, differ but little; and that the present writer resembles the learned Alderman (who has succeeded, however, on a far larger scale) in his attempt miscere stultitiam consiliis brevem. The noble city lord remarked: “The fact was, that the sanitary schemes were got up; talk was made about cholera, and people became alarmed. Now, it was said that burial-grounds were highly injurious to health, and a great cry had been raised against them. He did not know such to be the fact, that they were injurious to health. He did not believe one word about it. There were many persons who lived by raising up bugbears of this description in the present day, and those persons were always raising up some new crotchet or another.” After giving his view of the new interments bill, he asked, “Was it likely that the public would put up with the idea even of thus having the remains of their friends carried about the country? Was it likely that the Government would be permitted thus to spread perhaps pestilence and fever?” There! If you want satire, could you have a finer touch than that last sentence? There is a bone to pick, and marrow in it too.[4.]In the ventilation of large buildings destined to admit a throng, it may be also advantageous to the ægritudinary cause if heat be at all times considered a sufficient agent.[5.]Calcutta, 1848. This report is also published in the “Journal of the Agricultural and Horticultural Society of India,” vol. vi. part 2.