One of the latest crazes that has attacked the fair sex of Boston, U.S., is a mania for boxing. Society girls, obese matrons, elderly spinsters, shop-women, nurses—m fact, all the Boston daughter of Eve go in for " chops," " upper cuts," and, sad to say, " fouls" at times. At home they learnedly discourse anent "tapping claret," " wounded onnks," "swollen optics," etc., and when their male relatives chuckle derisively, and hint that they are fairly good at " fibbing, they generally "come up to the scratch. Really Boston is becoming almost too warm a place for the lords of creation to live in.— ' Fun.' . ■ . . Singular language ours. When a man is full of kindness and benevolence, we say he is humane; when he is full of frailties, we say he is only human.
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Evening Star, Issue 7259, 9 July 1887, Page 1 (Supplement)
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