Civilised Woman.

Otago Witness, Issue 2812, 5 February 1908, Page 73

Civilised Woman.

See the woman! She has step-ladder, corkscrew heels on her shoes^ and has squeezed her feet into a paii several sizes too small ; and she looks as if she was going to fall forward and be deformed some more. She is having a continuous struggle with the law of gravitation. She has a steel frame about her upper part, and has compressed her waist so that it looks like the small end of a funnel, and she can hardly breathe, and her internal anatomy has shifted quarters, and there are several jobs ahead for the family doctor. Arid she doesn't know , j yf&- she feels "poorly" most of the time. She is pinned, tied, laced, and braced. ' She uses cosmetics, hair dyes, paints, powders, belladonna to brighten her eyes, j and all manner of false and uncomfortable J things on and about her from tier head down. ' She has rings on. her fingers, bangles on her wrists, a chain about her neck, many trinkets on her breast, and her , blood has to struggle for circulation. She has birds and gay-coloured plumes and feathers on her hat, and she weareth many colours. . She is not" what she was created, but Is what she has created. - Is the woman a savage? " -JS"o — she is the flower of civilisation! — Life.. -- v ~