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and herein she lias, if she pleases, full freedom of
choice. How does she use this freedom, this full
power of election ?
The steel-expanded skirts of one }Tear, and the
bandaged legs of the next; the occipital chignon
of yesterday, and the frontal forelock of to-day ;
that undescrihable Proteus, that ever-changing,
monstrous or microscopic thing they call a
bonnet ; the multitude of useless appendages that
overpass the possibilities of masculine
comprehension and change perpetually in position, form,
and colour, that are beautiful to-day and hideous
to-morrow, according to the mandates of an
invisible, unknown, and irresponsible millinery
autocrat; all conspire to demonstrate that woman
of the present generation is so easily enslaved,
that to entrust her with political suffrage would be
simply to throw so much additional power into the
hands of the designing demagogue, who would
trade upon her instability of judgment just as the
dressmaker, the draper, the milliner, the
hairdresser, &c., trade upon her now by fooling her
into the adoption of these perpetual changes of
dress, merely for the purpose of compelling her to
be continually buying the new rubbish that they
designate “ the last thing out,” “ the newest
fashion,” “the latest novelty,” &c., &c.
This grovelling submission, this cringing, sla-
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