MILLINERY ROOMS, 474 Washington St.
BOSTON, March 1, 1879.
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Catching all the oddities, the whimsies, the absurdities, and
the littlenesses of conscious greatness by the way.
Backward, turn backward,
O time, in your flight!
Onward, still onward,
Seeking knowledge and light.
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Perhaps the most ancient head-dress that we find mentioned in history is
the tiara. Strabo informs us that it was in the form of a tower.
It is often seen carved upon ancient medals, and Servius calls it
a Phrygian cap. The kings and heroes of Homer and Virgil wore this
head-dress:—
This royal robe and this tiara wore
Old Priam.
Woman is defined by an ancient writer to be an “animal that delights in
finery”; and it is to be feared the annals of dress in every land, the
most savage as well as the most civilized, will but prove the truth of
the assertion.
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