THE NEW ORDER OF THE GARTER.
New York ladies, having exhausted every known method of amusement, recently hit upon a novel method of “ killing the enemy ” —and formed a new order of the garter. Each member of the order is compelled by her oath to clasp her pretty “understandings ” in diamond-bound garters. At the meeting of the order there is a general exhibition of legs ; and the lady who can show, not the neatest leg, but the most elaborate garter-clasp, is promoted one degree in the order. As much as 5000 dollars has been paid for clasps. The leg mania is breaking out here, as witness the subjoined extract; —“Yesterday afternoon, as a friend of the Tribune was about leaving the cars at Seventh and Broadway, he espied something on the floor near where he was sitting. It proved to be a lady’s silk garter, artistically embossed with worsted roses, and with a German-silver clasp attached to it. On the clasp were engraved these tender lines :
When the day with eve reposes, And stars begin to see Unclasp this band of roses, And, dearest, think of me.
It must have been a present from some sighing swain to his cara sposa. Whoever he was, he had it pretty bad.
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Globe, Volume III, Issue 265, 17 April 1875, Page 3
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209THE NEW ORDER OF THE GARTER. Globe, Volume III, Issue 265, 17 April 1875, Page 3
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