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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXVII, Issue 69, 23 March 1893, Page 3

laugh and cry within the same moment almost, that keeps me yonng. Youth is not careful of anything, but wastes itself on fvery emotion, rutc of the fulness of ns fount of feeling." \ According to statistics compiled by the police 2064 stray dogs were captured in the streets of London in one montb, while 177 persons— ten policemen end 107 private individuals— were bitten by dogs. The web of a spider is spun from a thread formed by the union of more than 4000 smaller threads, so fine a3 to be almost, if not quite, invisible to tbe naked eye.

Mr Labouchere, in I ruth- endeavours to explain the incubation of crinolines, apropos of the outcry against their revival. They were due, he says, to the desire, in an abnormal fit of common sense, of women to have a rational costume, Either the Queen or one of the princesses wore, or was said to wear, at Balmoral thick boots coming high up the leg- All loyal women insisted upon following this example, and wearing " Balmoral boots." The ladies had no objection to show these boots, and still being under the influence of common sense, objected to their dresses trailing on the ground when they were walking. The next step was to have a scarlet petticoat over the flannel and other underclothes. This scarlet petticoat came about half-way down the calf, and over it was worn a skirt, which fell to the feet when indoors, but which, when out Avalking, was drawn up by a cord in festoons coming a little above the scarlet petticoat. To this costume was added stockings of some bright colour, and a blouse with wide sleeves and a waistband, with over it a zouave sort of jacket. The effect was extremely pretty, an*} the whole " get-up was serviceable. But the scarlet petticoat flapped against tho leg.-. To obviate this, therefore, an under petticoat of very light material with whalebone run through it was worn between the ecarl-t petticoat and the othe.s. It was of snull dimensions. But these dirneinsiobs giew and grew until it developed into a huge cage, while the costume for which it waw originally intended disappeared. The cage was the curse alike of men and women. It was given to the performance of strange antics, and such a nuisance was it that it was at length discarded. If consequently we are to go back to what ladies used to call their "crinnies," I trust that we shall have them in their infantine state, with the pretty dress that they set off, for this would be an improvement on the present fashions. A little paragraph has been going the rounds end appearing with more or less regularity in the papers to the effect that Modjeska says that one reason why ehe preeerves her beauty is that she husbands her emotions, for when a woman is beginning to get old she cannot afford to be glad or sad as in her youth. To eomeone wbo questioned her concerning it the still beautiful actress answered : — " Modjeska economical of her emotions ! — why, I am not even economic il with my money. lam the veriest spendthrift that ever lived of emiles and tears and dollars. It is that I have still retained the power to feel everything, whether glad or ixi, neat intensely, to