BONDS.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1970, 17 June 1880, Page 4

BONDS.

We are indebted to the "Lancet " for the following remarks : —" The vagaries of feminine taste in the matter of dreßß are traditionally and essentially fearful and inexplicable ; "but that is no reiaon why they should be allowed to play wanton havoc with health. At the present moment women go about hobbled, after the fashion adopted by our forefathers to prevent the Btraying of their horses and asses when turned out to grass. Bonds encircle the legs and knees, and, besides preventing a decent gait, expose the wearers of euch ridiculous sear to the risk of falling, particularly when hurrying across a crowded thoroughfare, or even stepping upon a curb stone. This ia sufficiently monstrous; but even worse, because persistent, misohief is done by the praoticeof binding a veil tightly round the face in such a way that not only is the sight obscured, but the eyes are mechanically irritated by the fabric clouding them. Oases of something worse than mental annoyance and ' nervousness,' distinctly traceable to this cause, are falling under the observation of practitioners, and when the practice is denounced, ' fashion ' is pleaded aa its excuse. We are not disposed to waste words in remonstrance; but it is simply duty to point out that if women please, in defiance of common sense, to resort to these § radices they must take the consequences. 'he veils worn by our mothers and sisters of the last generation hung freely at a reasonable distance from the eyes, and could be thrown back. Thoae of to-day are semi-transparent eye-bmdages, and must tend to disturb the vision, as well as to set up irritation in the eyelids. If the women who dabble in medioine would devote any information they may happen to have acquired to the correction of the follies of their sex, they might do some service.