THE NEW ORDER OF THE GARTER.
New York ladies, having exhausted every known method of amusement, recently hit upon a novel way of " killing the enemy " — and formed a new order of the garter. Every member of the order is compelled by her oath to clasp her pretty " understandings" in diamond-bound garters. At the meeting of the order there is a general exhibition of legs ; and the lady who can show, not the neatest leg, but the most elaborate garter-clasp, is promoted one degree in the order. As much as 5,000 dol. has been paid for clasps, This leg mania is breaking out here, as witness the subjoined extract ? " Yesterday afternoon, as a friend of the 'Tribune' was about leaving the cars at Seventh Avenue and Broadway, he espied something on the floor near where he was sitting. It proved to be a lady's silk garter, artis tically embossed with worsted roses, and with a German- silver clasp attached to it. On the clasp ■were engraved these tender lines : When the day with eve reposes, And the stars begin to see, Unclasp this band of roses, And, dearest, fhink of me. It must have been a present fioin some sighing swain to his cara sposa. Whoever he was, he had it pretty bad.
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Waikato Times, Volume VIII, Issue 435, 17 April 1875, Page 3
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213THE NEW ORDER OF THE GARTER. Waikato Times, Volume VIII, Issue 435, 17 April 1875, Page 3
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