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Waikato Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 214, 3 April 1886, Page 2 (Supplement)

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Red leather purses ani prayer-books are fashionable — the bright red lately in. troduoed, which takes its designation oi Royal from the fact of >t« beinir u«ed foi the despatch oases carried bj the Queen V messengers. " The disastrous influence of medical etudiea upon the intellectual faculties of women in," says the " Lyon Medical," " a ourioux fact established by recent statin ties. In England according to the cennn-' of 1881 the number of women physiemnN wan twenty-flye. From 1830 to 1884 eight had been placed in a lunatic asylum and at tbe end ot lnst year three were under treatment." A war against ladies' hat» in the lnre-t event of the CzarV cai ital. The director of the iinperirtl theatre hna i-stfed an order rrqueHtinjr nil the ladie* to remov their hats on entering the theatre. This is not because the Indies are su^pei'tpri of carrrinir dynamite in their h.it«, bu 1 simply in the interests of -pectiitorH. Tfu director hinted that the h»t* even of th» mo*t charming women are not tran--parent. But the Rns-ian Indies will nut yield without a battle, and there is troubl< ahead.