VARIETIES.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2403, 29 November 1880, Page 3

VARIETIES.

A Dealer in musical instruments declares that his drums, among other articles that he has for sale, ‘ can t be beat.” Will he be kind enough to tell us what they are good for, then ? The man who will wait two hours for his girl to friz her hair to go riding with him, will speak awfully if his wife keeps him thirty seconds to fasten up a stray braid with a hair-pin. Amusement. —Everything in nature indulges in amusement. The lightning plavs, the wind whistles, the thunder rolls, the snow flies, the waves leap, and the fields smile. Even the buds shoot and the rivers run. Thus does Mrs Julia Howe, in an address, describe the subjection of woman to the dressmaker:—“The fashionable woman says to her dressmaker, 1 Do what you will with me ; make me modest or immodest ; tie up my feet, or straighten my arms till the use of them becomes impossible ; deprive my figure of all drapery, or upholster it like a window frame ; set me in the centre of a moveable tent, make me a nuisance to myself and everybody else, but array mo so that people shall look at me and so that 1 be in the fashion.’ ”