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Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 82, 10 March 1885, Page 4

A conroversy has been started by :UW JfJdnd'oiT^a^ei^-as tri.why worn eft ' button their c'lot'hes'from rightiq Jcft/ \and'ji}en'fi ; 6jri'lcf^to light. ••' Iti/has le4 t<p 'aii elaboi'atedi's^laV of learning ' 'ancl' wi t ' 6ii ; 'c ' i'ri ter 1 decJ'aves that men have buttoned from left to-tight' : .sincv ,the. .earliest A ssyrian dynasties. . Another 'asserts" .that ''the' r *iti6d6 of buttoning , ch'stiriguislK'Js the A Mlis:sulman and tlie Hindoo "m Ilidia, while .a third say s. , that . ;.tlic j wx'x ter need not go, so. far, ; as. lndia foj* an J illtistratioh 1 , as the women o£,Ajn ; cri,ca' reedgnisable by the male, (system !of

, „.,., i ' ■ - 1 "■'-'■ -■' »'^-'= ir- ( butt6riin^ftj\m, left to. right. The ladies of New i 6Mans,Av ; h9 ( ."' : WeW ■ tb tlie old J fashion till ' the reed n t jx-rihcl ' did so of the French . .colonisation .of 'I>pnisia ; na! ! Tlleh thecontroversy 'UivVnblied' off ' l: in to : "a : question of tlie 'comparative' ' qiVallity' of male iincl ; fbinal6 ( braiife." * k lady, i insists that i/ev r^ei : biittoh:::frbm right tp left bccanst-t^cJd^ssnnlkbrs so flx6d their dresses, and denies that mani'{lt«4s^»ny'' i Vi^tf i! td ;: dVaw :and'sa:r6'a ! stic e'iidmy'bf ! femare i ¥ightSi 'dedfering that the placing of- the- 1 •right tlnina-lv-over-fclie-laft-ia a ...positive proof of. .ji . ruling mind, holds (that t|ie female" inetlfotf oflnittOning '' indicates; accordingly ,-adjvqnj;, ; qf ; ' her true position as n&an'& ruler. ' ' ' ' ■ •-■•■-"/■/