Ladies' Dress

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 80, 15 December 1885, Page 4

Ladies' Dress

Theladieawho wear Turkish trousers and call them divided skirts, are still., uays a London paper, preachinu in pam« plilels the rationalism of areform in dress . -They do not seem to make much headway. In England few, and in America fewer, ■indies care to ■• wear the substitute for! o-n-tticoats offered tolthein. But; those j >. ho do are ecstatic in piaise cf it.. 'One l-aiy has fuuiui.it aj-reeuble in climbing a ! T j:iouniai)i.- lint she was' b'eitrnj by a | I .>Ji?«t refoi-Mii>r. w ho ; a ppeareS si:iip!y in j I i:u-kerl>ock<?r*. Another lady hds found tiilit site p«ii ride astride ,i nsle . a <i of ou a ■.Nj.leiadfllo, juid iliinks tliat' an advantage. • I>ui s'onjo how or, otlier, -though, we are assuivd the change* of dress catinol be i M-en, it, is not yet by any means popular; j and it ls.likely to come "into- general use i '-■ the ianie time as-'jio.netik speili^.!'

-No wonder poor Lome was defeated, when the whole Kadical section of the 'constituency for which be stood rebelled tnjainir him! At a meeting of the Hampstead Radical Association the cliairman speke of the Candida l ? in these terms : — , ;' ' riis ■ recent yifiijto the. crofters of S kye and the Hjgh.Unds liaji not tended to improve his opinion of the suitability of this; r.niemberbf the royal. rfamily, "find oldest . fibhof the vacillating Duke of Argyle, to legislate for the oppressed and downtrodden toilers of Great Britain and Ire^ land. They wanted no such aristocrat* or trimming Whigs for that constituency .when more turntable candidates from their own ranks could easity be selected. It wai resolved that, as in opinion, of the council, the noble Margujs did not come up to their political standard of what the . representative of a working-class constituency should ribe,- no suppprt should be >.iyen.hi.m by the members of the Associntipn." t •,,,/.., .. ;