LADIES' COLUMN.

Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 122, 9 June 1870, Page 7

LADIES' COLUMN.

The "Philadelphia Public Ledger," November 8, says :—": — " On Saturday last, for the first time in the history of the Pennsylvania Hospital, a large class of female medical students attended the valuable clinical lectures at that institution. These ladies are mainly, and, perhaps, exclusively, students of the Women's Medical College, No. 1 935, North College Avenue, a meritorious institution to which we have several times invited attention through these columns. There were twenty-seven of them present at the Hospital Clinic on Saturday morning, attending the lectiu*es of Drs. Da Costa and Hunt. This fact is noteworthy as an interesting event in the history of our Philadelphia medical schools ; but in addition to that there is a necessity to comment on the occurrences after the lectures were over, and the classes were dismissed. Between two and three hundred male students, by a concerted plan, and, in spite of the efforts of the managers of the hospital to preserve order, ranged themselves so as to occupy both sides <ef the whole of the foot-walks inside of the hospital enclosure, which compelled the twenty-seven lady students to take the carcway, and thus pass between the double lines of the male students, whilst the latter saluted them with taunts and jeers, mock applause, and real hisses. Comment upon such unmanly proceedings can only take one course, and that is unqualified censure. The natural instincts of every true man, as well as those of every woman, must rise in severe condemnation of such conduct ; and even students who took active part in the scandalous affair, must by this time feel thoroughly ashamed of and disgusted with their -own bad behaviour. Their conduct was almost as great an insult to the managers of the hospital, whose appeals for good order wore utterly disregarded, as it was to the unoffending female students."

Without desiring to interfere with the mysterious orders of fashion, which ladies alone can understand, it is with regjjet we notice a return .to the custom of tight lacing. All that can be said or written on this subject appears to take effect only for a season. Ladies are warned that to emulate the form of a wasp brings on consumption, crooked shoulders, a red nose, and a train of other evils \ and yet time after time they brace themselves in steel or whalebone until a " figure," as it is called,

for the milliners is made — a figure which, however pretty to hang clothes upon, is certainly so much at variance with the n-itural proportions of a living creature as to present the appearance of an exaggerated caricature. The Chinese or the flat-headed Indians do not torture themselves in worse style than this. When we add to the attraction the novel mode of boots, with heels so placed as to jerk the body forward as if a working watch-spring were inside it, we can imagine the stoic endurance of the women who caa smile under their self-inflicted torments. Tightlacing was abandoned for a considerable period, and it was hoped we should hear no more of it ; but fashion has set up the cruel aud monstrous idol again, to which unthinking women come te sacrifice health and beauty without a single advantage in return. — " Daily News."

Actuated by the liospitable desire of showing his fair and illustrious guesfc as much as possible of the manners and ciistoms of the people over whom he rules, the Khedive instructed one of his Court to take to himself a wife last Saturday, in order that the Empress might behold the ceremonies attending a Mahomedan marriage. In so small a matter, of course, to speak was to be obeyed, and the officer in question was made happy to order, and with much pomp, ths Khedive giving away the Vide, or performing the Egyptian equivalent to that formal act of duty, and providing her with a munificent dowry. Thus the Empress has seen a Mahomedan marriage under the most favourable circumstances, and with an approach to that principle of selection by the Lord Chancellor which a late eminent jurist insisted upon as the safest key to domestic happiness. lam not informed as to the number of nuptials between people of lower degree prompted by the Empress's visit, but, judging from the quantities of wedding parties to be met in the street during the last night or two, it must have been considerable. — Correspondent of " .Daily News."

It may be interesting to the fair sex to know that a new danger has recently sprung up at home, being the practice of stealing hair from young ladies' heads. Not long ago a lady was robbed of her hair — a very luxuriant crop it is said. — in open daylight, in Westbourne street, one of the most frequented thoroughfares in London. The young lady's hair-net was dexterously divided in three places, her bonnet strings severed, and the luxuriant crop of hair so cunningly clipped off that she was ignorant of her loss until she reached home. We presume the hair was her own, at least it would seem so from the particulars to hand. We would caution. oer fair friends to mind their chignons, fon'there is really a necessity for caution against the new kind of •" -Rape of the Lock."

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