FREEZING FASHION.
People of the present day are frequently told thaf-they are'slaves, but they arc-licit' quite so slavish as their forbears in early-Victorian days. These excellent people used to put out their'fires in the spring and relight-them in the fall, according to the.calendar, with little regard,to their oivn sensations, and in this. Spartan practice Queen Victoria, set an -example to her subjects. ' The fact is: revealed in one of the Prince Consort's letters to-his oldest daughter, afterward the Empress'Fredcr-' ick, in Germany. He say's that the day' on which he writes is very cold, and accordingly he has had a fire lighted, but' mamma will' come down soon and> bo. extremely shocked, as the date for lighting fires has- not yet arrived.
The Girls' Realm Guild, in Sydney! is now for the second time .helping? a .girl, to go, through her university course, and 'to skott his appreciation of their-action, Professor David has offered to give a leoture on Mexico : at an early date; ; Beautiful lantern slides will illustrate the lecture, and the proceeds will go to the trust fund of tho guild, on which at present there is a considerate strain.
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 280, 7 August 1909, Page 11
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192FREEZING FASHION. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 280, 7 August 1909, Page 11
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