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A strong minded lady of Massachusetts, subscribing herself "A Wife and Mother" has been taking the New York Tribune sorely to task for its strictures upon female dress. We quote the closing paragraph: You say that the Empress Eugenie, "for purposes of her own," first started the, to you, "terrible fashion." Pray do let the Empress Eugenie's and your wife's if you have one, and your neighbor's wife's and everybody's wife's purposes alone. If women are foolish enough to get married do please let their dress alone--if they can contrive to appear in public one fourth of a year at a time do let them do so. This broadside brought the "Philosopher" down.