That Dress Improver.
The much-maligned dress-improver, as the bird cage arrangement which ladies tow behind them is humorously called, has at length done something to justify its existence. It has saved a life, which is more than the most ingenious of its disciples would have given it credit for. A tall majestic lady was walking in the streets with an " improver " of unusually exaggerated dimensions behind her. Prom the upper window of a high house a two-year-old child, after the manner of children, tumbled into the street. At the critical moment the improver and the lady passed. Tho little one fell on the springy enlargement of the lady's rear-guard, and was Eicked up smiling and unharmed. If it ad fallen on the hard pavement, instead of the wirework arrangement, it would havo been killed in a horrible' manner. The sequel is prettily touching. The ladies of that particular town have -resolved as one woman to go in for dress-improvers. With bustling anxiety thoy are making the most of their opportunity, and no one dare 1 grumble.—" Sheffield Telegraph,"
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Auckland Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 247, 24 October 1885, Page 5
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178That Dress Improver. Auckland Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 247, 24 October 1885, Page 5
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