The directoiro dress is blamed for the present epidemic of rheumatism, and influonza among socicty women in Vienna. According to Dr. Bruol, a well-known Vienna physician, fashionable. women are risking their lives in wearing directoiro drosses during. l the cold weather. Influenza is-epidemic in Court circles, and it is believed to do largely due to the popularity of the-directoiro costume. An ingenious descendant of Mephistopheles has invented a piano-organ,- which is built on the lines of an automatic match machine. Its proprietor places it outside.a house and goes round the corner. The organ begins to play, and on the top of it appears a notice, "Put a penny in the slot, anu tho music will stop." A' penny only buys thrco minutes' 6ilence, though. Has anything more diabolical yet been invented?'
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 508, 15 May 1909, Page 11
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