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132 FACTS AND SCEAPS.
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more always worth an incongruity y of being , making so carefull us y wish and that beautifull the object y preserved had been ; but something when a
within beloved a countenance gem . Some of beam the portraits s upon us are thus on the encrys smallest talized miniatur , it seems e scale indeed , not a more gem than ones half yet an present inch squ a ve are , charming and though not quite when so life set -like in as the the sty rather le exhibited larger
by the , inventor , in a newl ry y-designed appearance locket , fashioned like a little gold and jewelled in the form lantern of some , which dear on bri opening ht face is . to disclose to us the " light of our eyes , " g
" Flats" for the Middle Classes . —A lady is trying the experiment of respectabl providing arranged y " situated fats" to for , near comprise the the middle Cam den each classes Road three , in Cattle a newl Market and y-erected . scullery The house four besides , floors very
are so as on rooms a , every necessary convenience , sink , " shaft to dust-bin , & c , thus forming so man door y dul separat y provided e and comp with lete knocker tenements and , key each upon enclosed the landing within . its There own " is street room "
floor for improvement , of a room depending in some upon of the borrowed details , li such g , ht as ; the the better avoidance ventilation on the of groun such , of d
the the kitchen chambers range as are from unprovided the living with room fire to -p one laces of , and the possibl other apartments y the transfer , as in of summer the heat would be inconvenientandat any timeit would hardly
on be ; pleasant but it would to receive be unreasonable visitors where to cookery expect , that , processes the plan were , should being be carried found perfect on the first trialWe hopeneverthelessthatwith such corrections
¦ exam as experience ple by other will builders soon . suggest , and that , this , ere ten lon ement g respectable - , house , will persons be taken of small as an means will thus be provided with far more comfortable abodes than it has
been in their power hitherto to obtain . is Should 15 , Albert any Terrace of our London , York JRoad readers _, N wish . W . to inspect these " flats , " the address
The Trial of the Petticoat . —A recent number of the London Mewew reproduces , for the benefit of the present crinoline-wearing generation , Sir Richard Steele ' s amusing account of his " Trial of the inordinat Petticoat , " passing
some of skirt very to just which censures too many on the women absur sacrifice d fashion convenience of that , modesty e expansion , health , Dudevant and even life the itself prudent . It concludes and intense , however George , with Sand the has remark latel that declared " Madam that e
women have , noi ; brain enough to enter the arena , with men y , and to this determination Can we demur ? she We -to has believe the been verdict not broug . which ht Henceforwar by the a supreme follies d we of jud must fashion ge believe of . their * that own women * sex * pronounces
outside are and show will more be content than inward to be worth pretty ; rather and will than prefer to be crinoline precious and ; will vanity love , crinoline and extravagance , crinoline and monstrosity , to a decent amplitude
of dressand that heartfelt honour and respect which we must all pay to those all its who wearers , are wise and as well in most as fair un . " -Eng Thi lish s is sty try le ing too not without only the a Petticoat jury or , any but
advocate on the , side of the accused . We are quit , e ready to admit that Fashion leads women into many follies ; we entirely deny that it is only
by women which who to are form so led a relative , and that estimat therefore e of the sufficient sexes . criterion The compressed is thus afforded foot , peculiar ori _^ ginally to forced the women upon them of Chin for a , political but the compressed reasons by head men , , the is p indeed ierced
b worn nose y males , the in the tattooed and time fem skin of ales Louis . of other In XIV this nations . are same , alluded has article been to the found as huge hay equall ing heavy also y adopted been wigs
¦ worn in ancient Egypt , and very likely to be again adopted in
132 Facts And Sceaps.
132 FACTS AND SCEAPS .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Oct. 1, 1863, page 132, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01101863/page/60/
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