252 FASHION changeable . 
it does not appear to me, that the ladies of this country, are, 
at prefent, taking the right method to arrive at either. I need 
not fay more; your own hearts will tell you the rest. Fare- 
well. I am yours, 
LETTER X. 
To the fame . 
M A D A M,. 
T A M very far from difpairing, that many who are now alive,, 
will fee the ufe of tea abolifhed, and the dominion of 
routs circumfcribed. My hopes are founded not more in the 
changeable temper of my country-women, than in my opinion 
of their good sense, of which the women of no nation have a 
greater fhare : the firft often leads you to take up bad cu- 
ftoms, and the lalt fets you right again. We are, in general, a 
wayward people, impatient of having our humor checked, and 
too fell-indulgent to abftain from pleafing gratifications, be they 
ever fo hurtful ! but in fuch cafes as this, a few good female 
politicians, whether they ad from whim or principle, can per- 
form wonders ! 
In the mean while I am told, that a certain part of drefs,. 
which had very long prevailed in fpite of the plained: didates of 
common fenfe, is losing ground, if not going out of fafhion 
but whilft you do yourfelves honor in bidding fair to abandom 
one rank absurdity, you adopt another, not fo inconve- 
nient and dangerous to health, but extremely expenfive and ri- 
diculous ; and it is fo much the worfe, as it is copied from' 
prance.. “ Out of the fulnefs of the heart the mouth fpeaketh!” 
The. 
