LINES TO AN OLD FRIEND.
Dr. George Pernet, in a recent treatise on "The Health of the Skin," discusses the continued decline in the popularity of the tall hat.
O emblem of British decorum,
Whose vogue, for a century back,
In the Mart, in the House or the Forum
Few dared to impugn or attack;
'Tis sad, though the best of our bankers
Refuse to allow such a lapse,
That our youth irrepressibly hankers