UNREASONABLE SYDNEY.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 22, 21 October 1907, Page 3

UNREASONABLE SYDNEY.

. Lifcs httlo ironies.have been wellexemplified in Sydney during the last few days, 'and we cannot help laughing at our own, discomfiture (writes "Cristma" in tho "Austnhs i.n»). Thaf the rain which" weo.s and months has been withheld from the. aching, thirsty land, should elect to fnll on the first day-of tho. spring raoo meeting seems little short of pure "cussodness " Ono ought to be pleased, "for the country's sake " and to live .up to our reputation for patriotism, wo all vow and declare we're ghd it happened so. But that isn't the truth ieallv Think of possessing pretty frocks galore with shoes and stockings to match, lacey petticoats , "millinery" hats, all chiffon and flowers, which ono might have worn through all tlio terrible heat of last month, hut nobly reserved in tissue wrapping 'for the races Then to be obliged to leave all that finery at home (perhaps, if cold weather continues, till Easter-time, as the Christmas mooting scarcely counts for frocks), and stick on some old thick tailor-made, the thicker tho better and a battered winter hat. At Saturday's races every second woman was dresiicd in tie navy serge suit which had served her on shopping expeditions for months past, and faded lints ■ were revivified with liow white yoils, which only served to show uji the ancient lineage, of the headpiece.