That Dress Improver.

Te Aroha News, Volume III, Issue 122, 3 October 1885, Page 5

That Dress Improver.

The much-maligned dress-improver, a,a the bird-cage arrangement which ladies tow behind them is humorously called, has at length done something to justify its existence, It has saved a life, which is more than the most ingenious of its disciples would have given it credit for. A tall majestic lady was walking in the streets with an "improver" of unusually exaggerated dimensions behind her. From the upper window cf a high house a two-year-old child, after the manner of children, tumbled into the street. At the critical moment the improver and the lady passed. The little one fell on the springy enlargement of the lady's rear-guard, and was picked up smiling and unharmed. If it had fallen on the hard pavement, instead of the wirework arrangement, it would have been killed in a horrible manner. The sequel is prettily touching. The ladies of that particular town have resolved as. one woman to go in for dress-improvers. With bustling anxiety they are making the most of their opportunity, and no one dare grumble.— " Sheffield Telegraph."

At Wellington yesterday, in the case of James Smith v. the Equitable Insurance Company, a claim of £40 16s insurance on Te Aro house, judgment was given for the amount claimed, with interest from 31st July last,