CLOTHING.

Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 110, 17 March 1870, Page 7

CLOTHING.

The subject of clothing is understood well enough, and the rules of common sense are well enough observed by men. But woman is under the guidance of a higher law than any relating to her individual safety. No woman that is a woman values her comfort, her health, or her life in comparison with her personal appearance. She is impelled by a profound logic, say rather a divine instinct. On the slender thread of her personal attractions hangs the very existence of human future. The crinkle of a ringlet, the tie of a ribbon, has swayed the wavering choice of a half-enamoured swain, and given to the world a race which would never have come to the light of day but for the pinch of the pinch of the curling-tongs or a turn of the milliner's fingers. It is in virtue of this supreme indifference to consequences — this sublime contempt of disease and death aa compared with the loss of the smallest personal advantage — =that woman has attained the power of resistance to exposure which so astonishes the male sex. Thinlc of her thin shoes and stockings, her bare or scarcely protected neck and arms, her rose leaf bonnet, by the side of the woollen socks, the layers of flannel and broadcloth, and the warm hats of her effeminate companion ! Our cautions are of no use, except to the fragile sex — our brothers in susceptibility and danger. A man will tell you he has the constitntion of a horse ; but the health of a horse is notoriously delicate, as Shakespeare reminds you. A woman is compared to a bird by poets and lovers. It shcwiM be a snow bird. "We may learn a lesson in the matter of clothing from trainers and jockeys. They blanket their horses carefully 'sfter exercise. We come in heated and throw off" our outside clothing. Why should not a man be cared for aswelil as a "Blue Gown" or "The Earl?" 1 We dress for summer, and the next thing down goes the thermometer, and we run a risk which the owner of a racehorse would not subject his beast to for a thousand pounds.

A magnificent display) of spots is sweeping across the sun's disc. They are*, marvellously well defined even in a moderate telescope. In the northern, hemisphere are. two groups, extending each over a space of between 140,000 and 150,000 miles, and full of curious and interesting detail The magistrate at Bow-street Police Court, recently, imposed a fine of Id., without- costs, on four tradesmen convicted of having infringed the Sunday Observance Act of Charles 11. The magistrate had no alternative but to inflict a fine. A crossing-sweeper had previously been fined at the same Court ' for exercising his calling on a Sunday,