ROMANTIC NATIONS AS TO THE WEIGHT OF WOMEN.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume III, Issue 311, 29 September 1875, Page 2

ROMANTIC NATIONS AS TO THE WEIGHT OF WOMEN.

I ,nK£T#-r:s:!i ), sri.l r. In romance we read of he,roes rushing off with fainting maidens from blazing houses, or ‘ carrying ’ them off on their for. of . rauneefu). Lit any onoWutr of ttasniug, ) »r (under six feet high, and proportionate Strength, attempfW'rWitfway with a fairly well-composed girl of eighteen or twenty, 1 and* ’(five Mi tofißiiSiK 6f thesb vaunted knights. A woman weighing a hundred and forty poifhdk weight of kicking womanhood is not to be earned at all. Even a slight girt will oriefitriidred * pounds, and ‘ our hero ’ will stagger under her lovely, but encumbersome figure. There >t?re plenty of tuxonf girts who' weigh up Pda hundred and seventy pounds, land it is not given to'e'vefyrinAi to' Siurry off wTh-f uijh bugga™.’ , Where the vici tiiiilsed one faints on tlie Stage, tne robusi tenor takes care fainting shall be acomplislied as close to tfie ’ wing as pdso|bi|eri A<fc.k n OWRJ F M/»)l e by sad experience of rehearsals. Let ' atiy of our readers--"Satay -his sister up 8 'three flights of stairs without stopping,.... aiid ftrWirid -to, hq jh»j spntjpieatju pp tbq, . occasion. At Vienna we saw a little tenom f struggling to soprano to > tqe amusements of the house, while she made 'htehlotitofi nfitto by tutniig- round, - whipping up the tenor, and making her exit with him kicking nnder her arm.— I ’ Court ~3o9,fKtAA ——— l ■ ■ i/I J ff T — || _ The Fashions.—-Female fashions are - assuming some extraordinary shapes this wjnter (writ®*. toe MGbourue oprresjponsdent of the Clunes 'Guardlan),\\ie most equsppqqus w being , thft, atpount of metallic property worn'dangling fnom the waist,and the tendency to copy mhle-attire. exhibited by many of the fair djVo'feeS of faslfibn. One r ydting ladyj ; attracted much alteqti.qapp tfie block th# ctihei' day by the" quftiffifjHof' silver orna*Y;BiPhS l *'- w <’ r %i“fl u< toW “ Milver-hilted umbrella worn likq.a sybrd attached'to Ker whist. Sealskiff chps. ’a 7et ifiel Princess Alexandra, are affected bff 1 the gentle blockites, — i e 9 a ix-L,*, ,7- 7. J Y no