280 WANDERINGS IN 



FOURTH There are no steam-engines to annoy you by filling 

 - the atmosphere full of soot and smoke ; the 

 houses have a stately appearance; while the eye 

 is relieved from the perpetual sameness, which is 

 common in most streets, by lofty and luxuriant 

 trees. 



tedies" 05 " 1 Nothing can surpass the appearance of the 

 American ladies, when they take their morning 

 walk, from twelve to three, in Broadway. The 

 stranger will at once see that they have rejected 

 the extravagant superfluities which appear in the 

 London and Parisian fashions ; and have only 

 retained as much of those costumes, as is be- 

 coming to the female form. This, joined to 

 their own just notions of dress, is what renders 

 the New York ladies so elegant in their attire. 

 The way they wear the Leghorn hat deserves a 

 remark or two. With us, the formal hand of the 

 milliner binds down the brim to one fixed shape, 

 and that none of the handsomest. The wearer 

 is obliged to turn her head full ninety degrees 

 before she can see the person who is standing by 

 her side. But in New York the ladies Jiave the 

 brim of the hat not fettered with wire, or tape, 

 or riband, but quite free and undulating; and 

 by applying the hand to it, they can conceal or 

 expose as much of the face as circumstances re- 

 quire. This hiding and exposing of the face, by 

 the by, is certainly a dangerous movement, and 

 often fatal to the passing swain. I am convinced 



