As We Were Saying
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Excerpt from The Complete Writings of Charles Dudley WarnerAre we exaggerating this astonishing rise, devel opment, and spread of the Chrysanthemum? As a fashion it is not so extraordinary as the hoop-skirt, or as the neck ruff, which is again rising as a background to the lovely head. But the remarkable thing about it is that heretofore in all nations and times, and in all changes of fashion in dress, the rose has held its own as the queen of ?owers and as the finest expres sion of sentiment. But here comes a ?aunting thing with no desirable perfume, looking as if it were cut with scissors ou...
Chapters (28)
- BACKLOG EDITION
- AS WE WERE SAYING CONTENTS:
- AS WE WERE SAYING
- ROSE AND CHRYSANTHEMUM
- THE RED BONNET
- THE LOSS IN CIVILIZATION
- SOCIAL SCREAMING
- DOES REFINEMENT KILL INDIVIDUALITY?
- THE DIRECTOIRE GOWN
- THE MYSTERY OF THE SEX
- THE CLOTHES OF FICTION
- THE BROAD A
- CHEWING GUM
- WOMEN IN CONGRESS
- SHALL WOMEN PROPOSE?
- FROCKS AND THE STAGE
- ALTRUISM
- SOCIAL CLEARING-HOUSE
- DINNER-TABLE TALK
- NATURALIZATION
- ART OF GOVERNING
- LOVE OF DISPLAY
- VALUE OF THE COMMONPLACE
- THE BURDEN OF CHRISTMAS
- THE RESPONSIBILITY OF WRITERS
- THE CAP AND GOWN
- A TENDENCY OF THE AGE
- A LOCOED NOVELIST
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