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Southland Times, Issue 1156, 10 May 1869, Page 2

" Cramps" writes an invective against the excessively high-heeled boots now in vogue. He says. '*' as loag as ladies persist in elevating their heels upon narrow pegs; they must rehouace all "idea; '"of graceful motion. Progression under such circumstances must 'be ■' accomplished principally by the action of the hips ; the muscles intended by Nature to move the extremities -iv the act, of walking, -AH* almost unemployed, and the motion of the legs is .completely cramped by the unnatural position of the heels. The tottering and uncertain gait now unfortunately observable among many of the fair sex, reminds me irresistibly o^H boy making his first essay on stilts, or a cat upon hot bricks.: If _» theatf ugly 'instruments of torture continue in fashion for two or three generation^we 1 shall certainly find our descendants spindle-shanked and deficient in- calves. It is a well-known fact that the thinness of shanks noticeable among many of the French nation arose from similar causes. Of course, .the gastrocnemii muscles being deprived of their proper proportion* of work, dwindle away, and the limbloses its rotundity.?. ",.T -, . :> , 5 A new one penny serial story is beiugpublished in London, entitled; 'Crimes of the Aristocracy.' It professes to be * a series of strange events/ undiscovered murders, and' other crimes, compiled'from importantcdocuments atolen from among' 8 tho private pu^ra of his Royal Highness the Prince Consort, upon the night of the 14th of December, 1861, by a footman in her Majesty's service " - /