COLONIAL LADIES.

Tuapeka Times, Volume V, Issue 232, 11 July 1872, Page 5

COLONIAL LADIES.

An Aberdonian, writing from Melbourne to the Aberdeen Free Press, indulges in som« remarks upon the colonial ladies he has met with, of a somewhat uncomplimentary character. He says :— " I have not got acquainted with many people in Melbourne yet, and have only been one party. I don't care about the colonial girls. They are, as a rule, rude and uncultivated. They have nei thaigrace, refinement, nor good looks to be proud of, but they are disgustingly conceited nevertheless, and behave with anythiug but ladylike propriety. If you were to take a handful of Broadford girls, dress them up with plenty of garishncss snd an absence of all taste, and keep them from absolute swearing they would show favorably siile by side with an ordinary c mipany of middleclass girls here. If you tlo see a sensiblydressed lady-like girl, spirited and vivacious without vulgarity, make sure she is no coloniaL If you see Miss——, teU her that the women's right movement is all but unknown here, and th? re is a good field for a pushing pioneer .of the cause, only she may expect a greater display of brass than brains amongst the properly colonial portion of the down-trodden sex !" Either the Scotch gentleman must have fallen into bad hands, or "colonial girls," must have strangely altered of late. _