Snuff

As snuff-laking is merely an idle, dirty habit, practiced by stupid people in the unal ailing endeavor to clear their stolid intellect, and is not a custom particularly offensive to their neighbors, it may be left to each individual taste as to whether it be continued or not. An “ Elegant 55 cannot take much snuff without decidedly “ losing caste.’

“ Doctor, 55 said an old gentleman, who was an inveterate snuff-taker, to a physician, “ is it true that snuff destroys the olfactory nerves, clogs, and otherwise injures the brain ?”

“It cannot be true, 55 was the caustic reply, “since those who have any brains never take snuff at all”

Fashion

BUT few things betray greater imbecility of mind than a servile imitation of the extrava- gancefe of any fashionable monster; A man possessed of the delicate and proper feelings of a gentleman would deem himself degraded by copying another, even to the curling of a whisker, or the tie of a cravat; as, by so doing, he could only show the world of how little importance he felt himself, and the very poor opinion he entertained of his own taste.

Fashion and gentility are very distinct thing — for which reason, people, really of the highest rank, are too proud to become martyrs to any prevailing mode; and the man of true taste will limit his compliance with the caprices of fashion to not appearing equally conspicuous for its utter neglect.

Dress

It is bad taste to dress in the extreme of fashion; and, in general, those only do so who have no other claim to distinction, — leave it, in these times, to shop men and pickpockets. There are certain occasion!, however, when you may dress as gaily as you please, observing the maxim of the ancient poet, to be “ great on great occasions.” Men often think, when they wear a fashionably-cut coat, an embroidered waistcoat, with a profusion of chains and other trinkets, that they are well dressed, entirely overlooking the less obtrusive, but more certain, marks of a refined taste.

We grand j points are — well-made shoes, clean glow hite pocket handkerchief, and, above all, easy and grace full deportment.

Overdressing themselves, is a very serious evil in the young men of America, who usually look as if they had come out of a bandbox. It should not be overlooked, that those people who over study their dress, are conscious of their inferiority, and hope by such means to raise themselves in the public estimation.