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Updated: April 30, 2025
Close night-caps are unhealthy, and smoking-caps and coverings for the head within doors are alike detrimental to the free growth of the hair, weakening it, and causing it to fall out.
Fancy a great room, and where the floor ought to be, nothing but muddy water or liquid mud, with steps going down, and a lot of heads looking out of it, some with curly heads, some in smoking-caps, some in fine caps of lace and ribbons." "Oh! Johnny; like women!" "Like women! They are women." "Not both together." "Yes, I tell you, the whole boiling of them, male and female.
He flung me among old papers, smoking-caps, slippers, and other odds and ends into a box, where I have remained until to-night. A month or more ago he rummaged in the box for some old letters, and coming upon me unexpectedly, he jagged his finger on the wire. 'Where on earth did you come from? he asked me. Then he remembered, and flung me back among the papers with a laugh.
The second drawer was filled with toys of another sort presents made to Major Fitz-David by his fair friends. Embroidered braces, smart smoking-caps, quaint pincushions, gorgeous slippers, glittering purses, all bore witness to the popularity of the friend of the women.
They were a curious looking set, in their dressing-gowns, slippers, and smoking-caps; and the most of them, unfortunately, happened to be pro-slavery, and advocates of oppression; by which I mean, not in favor of my mode of viewing and treating the subject of slavery. One of them was so amused and excited that he lost all self-control.
"My young lady friends have half filled one of my bureau drawers with smoking-caps. I have one with me, and will give it to the minister." "You vain fellow," laughed Lottie. "I never gave you one." "Rest assured, no minister even were he a minister to the Court of St. James should get it, if you had." "What will you take, Mr. Hemstead?" asked Lottie, noting his grave face. "I shall not go."
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