COLONIAL LADIES.

Evening Star, Issue 2924, 3 July 1872, Page 3

COLONIAL LADIES.

An Aberdonian, writing from Melbourne to the Aberdeen Free Press , indulges in some remarks upon the colonial ladies he has met with, of a somewhat uncomplimentary character. He says:—“X have not got acquainted with many people in Melbourne yet, and have only been one party. 1 don’t care about the colonial girls. They are, as a rule, rude and uncultivated. They have neither grace, refinement, nor good looks to be proud of, but they are disgustingly conceited nevertheless, and behave with anything but ladylike propriety. If you were to take a handful of Broadford girls, dress them up with plenty of garishness and an absence of all taste, and keep them from absolute swearing they would show favorably side by side with an ordinary company of middleclass girls here. If you do see a sensiblydressed lady-like girl, spirited and vivacious without vulgarity, make sure she is no colonial. If you see Miss——, tell her that the women’s right movement is all but unknown here, and there is a good field for a pushing pioneer of the cause, only she may expect a greater display of brass than brains amongst the properly colonial portion of the down-trodden sex !” Either the Scotch gentleman must have fallen into bad hands, or "colonial girls,” must have strangely altered of late.