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THE CRINOLINE. 



described ; tliougli, to judge by the al)Ove illustration, 

 the French "Slsjut-Ivo " is a somewhat more manageable 

 affair than that spoken of by jNI. GreifT. 



THE CEINOLINE. 



In France, again, they have another device for 

 approaching wild fowl, the construction of which would 

 seem to be very simple. The framework,* as seen in the 

 annexed drawing, consists of three or four hoops, connected 

 by lines, and is afterwards interlaced with green boughs. 



* Tliis device is most probably the origin of tbe ladies' crLiioliue. Both 

 were meant to attract — in the one case geese, in the other men, whom 

 it is to be supposed the ladies imagine to be equally silly. A graceful girl 

 will always look well with or without adventitious contrivances, but if the 

 dowagers of a certain age, and verging on embonpoint, who love thus to 

 attire themselves, had the slightest idea of the ludicrous apjiearance which 

 they thus accomiilish, they would surely discard such a highly unbccmiiing 

 incumbrance. 



