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Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 115, 2 September 1876, Page 2

; HIGH HKKI/S WITH A Venyjeanck.— ; libels for la-lies' use ave, sis most of ' our reader* are doubtloss aware, no new I thing. They w-re in'rvlncel un'ler the | nune of " choiiines," in t'-ereipnof Queen Elizabeth. '• By'r lady," Hamlet says to • .lie of the lady actor 3, in his p'av before the King of Denmark, "your ladyship is nearer heaven than when I saw von last l»v t'le altitude of a chopin" ! T ' T!io fashion also canto from Italy, and Coryati reports that in his time tho chopine was so c njimoii that no 0112 coulil go without it, "It is a tiling mad? of wood," he savx, "and covered with leather of sundry colors, some white, some red, some yellow. Many of them are curiously painted ; some also of them I have seen fairlv gilt. There are many of t'lese chopin°s of a very great heig'it, even half a yard high ; and by how muc'i the nobler a woman is, by so much the higher are h;r ch'»pines. All their g -ntlewomen, and mo3t of their wives and widows that are of any wealth, are assisted and supported either by men or women when they walk abroad, to the end that they may not fall." |