All are not happy that are true."

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"But if revenge can ease thy pain,
I'll soothe the ills I cannot cure,
Tell thee I drag a hopeless chain,
And all that I inflict endure!"

Rather cold consolation, but an unexceptionable and moral sentiment.

The idea, therefore, that the Duchess of Rutland devised Parasols in
1826 for the first time is obviously incorrect, whatever her grace
may have done towards rendering them fashionable. Captain Cook, in
one of his voyages, saw some of the natives of the South Pacific
Islands, with Umbrellas made of palm-leaves.

We have thus seen that the use both of the Umbrella and Parasol was
not unknown in England during the earlier half of the eighteenth
century. That it was not very common, is evident from the fact that
General (then Lieut.-Colonel) Wolfe, writing from Paris in 1752,
speaks of the people there using Umbrellas for the sun and rain, and
wonders that a similar practice does not obtain in England.

Just about the same time they do seem to have come into general use,
and that pretty rapidly, as people found their value, and got over
the shyness natural to a first introduction. Jonas Hanway, the
founder of the Magdalen Hospital, has the credit of being the first
man who had the courage to carry one habitually in London, since it
is recorded in the life of that venerable philanthropist, the friend