The Graybeards (BY WALT MASON.)

Horowhenua Chronicle, 9 August 1916, Page 3

The Graybeards (BY WALT MASON.)

\»t' miL'S 01 U IjygOllC llll.e lUoiat mat uiU tilings were »iib,inn 1 , tliHi nam.c(• i tiling.-, ui'u punk; out our old Ucmet, iiit> lull ot Oats, and we are talKing mrougu our h.its and all \\e May .s bunk. The lovely diames come down the Ktieet togged out in raiment fcliek and neat, and wo look on and sigh; ''The modem fashions,"' we declaim, "are litofching but a burning shame they shock the purist's eye. They make the tired spectator ache; and how the womenfolk can make themselves « holy show, is something that we can't explain; or, for the iashioiw safe and sane of forty years ago!" \\\; make such statements firee and bold, but if you take an album old, and view the women tfiere, with gowns th'at look like circus tents, and shawls that look Tike twenty cents, and nets upon their hair, you'll say: . "Those giri'ds were surely shrieks! The world was overrun with freaks, when those tintypes were made: if any wominn should appear in such a spread of rags this year, the cops would make a raid!"