A NEW STYLE.

Evening Post, Volume LXVIII, Issue 62, 10 September 1904, Page 13

A NEW STYLE.

Tho following appeared in a London paper recently :—' ln the hot weather of a Sew sessions back legislators Mere astounded, not to say shocked, at the appearnnco of hon. gentlemen wearing " duck " trousers, but nothing so striking in tho matter of attko has been seen in the House of Commons as the dress-ing-gown whjoh yesterday clothed the moniber for Cambridge. After a somewhat tedious discHSsion had taken plnco on an amendment, proposed by Dr. Macnamara, to extend the number of allotted days for the committee and report stttges of the Licensing Bill to eighteen instead of six, the House wns ckwed for a division. A group of Unionist members were proceeding up the gangway to enter the 'Aye" lobby hy one of the side doors, when Sir R. U. Penrose-Fitzgerald, who wns wrapped in what woe, to nil appearances, a dressing-gmvn, hurriedly ap-pon-rc<l in the Rouse and joined his colleagues, showing at the same time onxioty to get into the lobby in the shortest possible space of time. The hon. baronet*.

wlio had ovklenlly been in the net of dressing when tho divmion avos called, wus hailed by Miiiinterin)JaU and Opposition alike with much cheering and laughter, and tho dumonxtraUon was renewed rb he nished from the lobby when the dooro wore opened."