THE GIRL AND THE GIRDLE.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 226, 29 October 1887, Page 3

THE GIRL AND THE GIRDLE.

This morning, in a car, I found myself , says a correspondent, beside an acquaintance who has some pretence to social position. Her slim figure was encircled by a huge silver girdle, from onesido of which dangled forty-six little chains. At the end of every chain was a trinket. We fell to talking about thorn, and I looked them over, while sho chatted about the history of every one. There were fourteen Roman coins, a latch key, penholder case, vinaigrette, skating medal, button-hook, glove-buttonor, silver address tablet, tiny silver button -box a corkscrew, a miniature cimeter, a chatelaine watch, a small oxidised iron parasol, which when opened, became a fan, a bullet with which her brother had killed a bear, a cardcase, a lock of hair in a locket, two miniatures—one of. Herbert Kelcey, with a drooping moustache, and the other of Osmond^Tearle, with his eyes heavenward — a chain purse, a compass, a small papercutter, a dozen old trinket? of every conceivablo shape, and a double-barrellod dogwhistle. "Where did you collect them all?' I asked. "Everywhere," said she, with a shrug. "Don'fc you find them troublesome?" " Oh, no ; they'ie vastly useful." "How so?" " They supply subjects of conversation to men who are a little stupid in the morning," cho said, sweotly.