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A VISION OF DELIGHT.

Mr Bayard Taylor, who was in Boston during the Centennial, writes with great enthusiasm about the freshness, the youth, and loveliness of the ladies of the Centennial Committee, dressed as they were in the c»stumes of a century ago. To the trained eye of Mr Taylor, which has looked upon female beauty under polar and tropic skies, the "jillim gowns of daik stuff, high white aproi s, brown kerchiefs, and white ruffled caps," as seen at Boston, " were a vision of delight," and he says that there was not a gentleman present who did not take away the same impression. The masculine mind d«>e* not take enthusiastically t<> the cumbrously ornate, tied back drapery of the present period, and in his wail for a return to tho graceful simplicity of the ulden time the Howadji simply uttered a national sentiment. "Will the ladie3 make a note of it i* If they do, it will probably be for the purpose of saying, " That's just all a man knows about a woman's dress." — CU-wland Leader.

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Otago Witness, Issue 1244, 2 October 1875, Page 19

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A VISION OF DELIGHT. Otago Witness, Issue 1244, 2 October 1875, Page 19

A VISION OF DELIGHT. Otago Witness, Issue 1244, 2 October 1875, Page 19

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