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Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 61, 20 November 1888, Page 3

A Chinese thus describe! a trial in the English Law Courts: "One man is quite silent, another talk* all the time, and twelve wise men condemn the man who has not said a word." Some few jears ago it was currently reported in society that the beauteous Lady Dadley (one of the lovely Moncrieff girls) used black silk or satin sheets to Ler bed for the purpose of showing to great ad Tan t age the delicacy of her skinBut as her audience would be extremely limited, I fail to »cc the advantage of the «ffect except to herself, However, this craze on her part threatens to become general- Lots of our leaders of fashion are now not only using black silk nheetß, but actually black underclothing and black pillow-slips. Ho doubt a fair complexion with soft fleecy golden hair would look picturesque on a blaok satin pillow, but what's the good of the effect unless one could invite her friends to Jefdgt, and as a rule husbands ana, such grumpy fellows that after the first day or twoolthe experiment they would take so inter©** in the new fad. Anyhow, it is now quite the-rapa, and doubtless will •t* long bo tolled ia th* oolotik*.