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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 38, 26 March 1873, Page 3

Loxdox Society.—Ladies of questionable repute distinguish themselves in all our places of public resort. They are everywhere. They ride the best horses, rival the Court, in carriages and ponies, they “ walk in the Zoo,” display their dress improvers of South Kensington. leer at you at the theatres, flash their diamonds on the grand tier of the opera; now and then they are even presented at Court, they are always conspicuous at the boat-race, and they monopolise some of best houses in the prettiest suburbs of > the town. Society is more and more tolerant of these creatures. Young innocent girls copy their style of dress and manner in the hope of captivating the men who do not marry because of the increased freedom which society has extended towards them. lam not an old man. Ido not know, therefore, how long the present looseness of London society has been coming on;. I know that when a certain belle of the season only a few comparatively short years ago dazzled Mayfair, the shop windows, of the metropolis had not. burst out in tn exhibition of infamous photographs; and it seems to me that this great triumph of Anonyma in London society dates from the time when photc>graphers commenced to take their types of female beauty from the class of women who now Jill so large a space in the pulflic eyejHiere, there, and everywhere. —■ Gentleman’s Magazine for October. . .