THE EDITOR OF THE LADIES' COLUMN

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1790, 15 March 1888, Page 3

THE EDITOR OF THE LADIES' COLUMN

Thr-ro are 0, goud m-uiy atrongo features In i ondon journalism. For some years past a writer, whose fligufttnre was " Mironda " fumiehed sundry colamaa of girly uirly goanip civory w«ek to tho "Lady'ii Pictorirtl," and now it cornea ai rather a ohock to the readers <<t that paper to dfacnvji 1 that '•Miranda" was a malo individual, and bore the name of Archibald M'-Noill. Young girla, middlonged girls, elderly girle — girla c.i all sorts, In fact— poured thu'r ooofidorcss Into "MiraadaV ear. Thoy wrote asking him to expound dark pointß regarding atickin^a an>.l frilling, th.y consulted him on oosmotfca a;.d hair wcshei and things that would remove pimples; they took hia opinion on tho saVjaofc of trlnimiofts foi 1 dolioato garments which are worn In the allont waichea of tho night and "Miranda" answered them all and breathed soft confidences into the pink ear of the public. They all gave themaelven away under the Impression that he was a woman, and he wasn't a woman after all. And now ' Miranda" has oome to a sudden end. It would have been all right, donbtloaa, If he had cor fined himself etriotly to writing wornon'd it -ms, no that is an occupation at ffhioh comparatively few men get murdered if they are ordinarily careful, but he went away to report tbe SmithKflraln prfz:-figl.t, and a day lator his dead body was found m the Selnot