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Waikato Times, Volume XXXV, Issue 2867, 27 November 1890, Page 4

To-day the "tailor-made girl" stands as tho i-election, the survival of the best ideas in dress of tho last half of tho nineteenth century (Maya the American Woman's Cycle). Her dress is newt, solid, compact, useful, convenient, and adaptable. It stands for service and the absence of superfluity, for readiness in an emergency, and propriety everywhere. It is tho universal high-school and college dress, the best travelling dress, tha city walking dress, and it stamps tho wearer as nn intelligent and cultivated woman. It is expensive because good workmanship and good material are put into it; but it never breaks out and never wears out; it bat to bo given away or cut up to get rid of it. It has done more for tho health of the American women than all the medicine in existence. It has reconstructed them, and built up an upright, vigorous, well-built healthy young womanhood out of the shreds and patches, which were about all (but was left of the woman that had been.

Geneva, which was once one of the most inexpensive cities in which to reside, is claimed now to be as expensive as Paris. There are now 120 women in tha Merlin telephone exchanges, 11 has been decided to use only women in future, as it has been found that their voices are much more audible than men's, owing to the higher pitch. The ineu previously engaged have not been discharged, but have been gradually drafted off to different work. In one of the smallest exchanges there are fifty women working eight hours a day, only the chiof and inspecting staff being men.