text:  Shall we confess it fastidious reader?--we strongly suspect the cap worn by that idle fellow Paris when he so impudently ogled the goddesses on Mount Ida to have been very similar to the good old _bonnet de nuit_ of our grandfathers--(shall we whisper it of ourselves?) Yes that little cocked-up corner at the top looks like a budding tassel; he never had such bad taste as to tie it with a riband round his brows; and we do not read in Homer that Helen though a capital workwoman ever gave him one; but we are inclined to believe that the old punty-dunty pudding-bag-shaped cap which is still worn by the French peasantry in their field occupations and is still patronized by a large portion of Queen Victoria's loving subjects is of the highest antiquity and based we have no doubt on utility