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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 17, Issue 925, 24 January 1871, Page 2

The Melbourne Age, 4th Jan., says: —We have all heard of" death ia the pot," but who has heard of death in hose ? Yet that such is the case is too evident. Gentleman as well as ladies affect colors of the most brilliant hues, and they have to run the risk of absorbing poison into their system if they will gratify their taste. Mr Marcus Clarke has been a victim to a pair of flaming red hose, and having had the curiosity to subject these to the analysis test, finds that they contained enough poison to kill off three men. Our medical men have often been at fault in diagnosing some diseases—perhaps the gay colored clothing of tjieir patients has had something to do with their ailments. Chemists have long enough warned us against the green produced by arsenic, but now they must include other colors in their catalogue. The question now iu buying highly colored materials from our drapers will no longer be " will it wash ? " but "will it kill? "and soon we may expect our community to be dressed in plain colors, and we shall be as quietly apparelled as a community of quakers.