text:  After the variations of centuries the vagaries of taste in male attire (which may be measured for their ups and downs by curves with quite as much reason as the rise and fall in prices of corn and various other things that the members of statistical societies delight in portraying)--these variations in their endless wrigglings and windings have come back in more cases than one to their points of departure and there form _nodi_ points of reflection contrary flexure &c