DANISH LADIES.
The Danish character is remarkable for frankness and hospitality, and as transparent as glass. As a rule, the ladies are not what we should deem beautiful, though many of them are eminently so. After an interview or two you become like old friends. I had an attack of illness which confined me to my bed for a day or two, and a lady whom we had met came to visit us. She sat by my bedside for half an hour, holding my hand in het’s all the time, and talking in a manner < calculated to cheer an invalid’s heart. X On another occasion my wife and myself several newlv-made lady friends, and I kissed six of them without a single blush among the eight of us 1 I don’t believe there’s a coquette in all Scandinavia. — Way side notes in Scandinavia.
Gabters. —N o woman of cultivation now-a-days wears her garters below the knees. The principal vein of the leg sinks there beneath the muscles, and varicose veins, cold feet, and even palpitation of the heart, may be brought on by a tight garter in the wrong place. When the garter is fastened above the knee, all this pain and deformity may be avoided.
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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume III, Issue 249, 20 February 1875, Page 3
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206DANISH LADIES. Poverty Bay Standard, Volume III, Issue 249, 20 February 1875, Page 3
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