DECLINE OF ÆSTHETICISM.
Just when, according; to M. Claretie, aestheticism is making headway in Paris, the doom of the dado has been pronounced in 'England. Many :of’ the aesthetes are; tired of itheir tomfoolery. Their long , hair had become snch a nuisance thaf they have had it cut; and we, also hear whispers,that the butcher’s boy is s again seen leaving chops and legs of Imuiton at ..houses where recently the “ lily for lunch” notion was ’carried out in its intensest form. Even down at Bedford Park, ,whiclj jesthethes ? -haVh 1 colonised and made, their own, the reaction is said to be 'setting in/ -One daring’ renegade, -we.'.'hear,,-has. painted his , railing, blue ; whilst, .a second has done with; his : sunflower bed and takento growing rhubarb. The local landlord, too, finds that’the applications at the bar for megethlyn and mead 'and malvoisie are steadily falling off ; the consumption of the ordinary bitter being, correspondingly ‘ increased. Londoncorrespondent. , ; ... ;
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Patea Mail, 24 April 1882, Page 3
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