chapter X 



THE APPOINTMENT FAD 



CORRECT appointment may, for want 

 of a better definition, be described as 

 a genuine harmony of all details and 

 outlines, quietness of ornamentation 

 and color, and appropriateness of animal, vehicle, 

 and equipment in every essential, resulting in the 

 perfection of good taste, inconspicuous in detail, 

 yet thoroughly competent for the purpose in- 

 tended. Let caprice be ever so rampant, and 

 personal predilection ever so pronounced, he who 

 is thus turned out is correct beyond dispute, and 

 when this fact shall have been generally accepted, 

 we shall arrive at really intelligible and intelligent 

 results, and cease splitting hairs over the absurd 

 issues which are to-day held paramount. 



Foreigners are vastly amused at our laborious 

 efforts in this direction. The English and French 

 whom we assume to imitate, go to no such ridicu- 

 lous lengths, and, in fact, save in the matter of 



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