LONG DRESSES.

Grey River Argus, 19 April 1909, Page 4

LONG DRESSES.

Th«\ Public Board of Health has again discussed and condemned women's trailing skirts, because of the infection they may gather up. On 5 ladies, when you're dressing, do you ever • thing of guessing. Of the germs of bacilli you ; are carrying ? Do your ;, cheeks grow never pale, when you don the bridal veil, For the microbes who have hastened «r. your marrying? . What a swishing and a rustling wHen to sea your gaily bustling Through a dusty and a dangerous locality ! And when every step you sweep through a most malignant heap Of spores of quite undoubted criminality. In the tuck and in the ruffle how the tubercles must scuffle As they gather there in infinite variety! I Oh', beware the deadly pleat,, holding colonies complete Of the enemies of civilised society. In spring's uncertain weathers influenza through the feathers la the hat that suits your head so very prettily ; In his eloquential' throes Dr Morris Ir he chose, CouW discourse upon this subject, rather wittily. .■-■■-""'' In the simplest bathing-^&yu , '^eas ,jnay«-wand«: :f Up^ r a.na'.ao\vn;— " . And I'm forced to the conclusion of & cynic, ••'.-.. . Tint that garb of Mother Evc'-s, as she walked ?mid Eden's leaves, Is thi only costume truly hygienic.