Flotsam and Jetsam.
(By Motuiti.)
I notice a somewhat remarkable paragraph in one of the recent Home papers re the new fashion in ladies' dresses. A regular campaign it says, has been opened by the Supreme Sanitary Board of Hungary against the fashion of trained dresses. The press of Pesth and Vienna heartily seconds this apparently hopeless endeavour to convince the women of Austro-Hungary that by following this foolish mode they are helping directly to increase the spread of tuberoulosis, typhus fever, and other maladies. Through the sweeping up of the dry dust by ladies' trains contagion is being constantly spread from street to street. The Hungarian Sanitary Board has petitioned the Home Minister to forbid the wearing of this pernicious sweeping apparatus by ladies in the public streets. It seems, however, that nothing short of an international petition to the Paris dressmakers will avail to keep the lungs of unoffending men from being infected with, the germs of diseases contained in the dust of (he publio thoroughfares.
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Manawatu Herald, 12 July 1892, Page 3
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168Flotsam and Jetsam. Manawatu Herald, 12 July 1892, Page 3
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