SQUEEZED IN VICES.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 10574, 27 January 1906, Page 2 (Supplement)

SQUEEZED IN VICES.

:o: , — CHINESE VIEW OF ANGLO-SAXON W r OMEN'S DRESS. Ny Poon Chew, a Chinese editor who ha 6 been visiting New York, has given some candid and amusing criticisms of Anglo-Saxon men and women. "I cannot understand," he said, "why American and English women are so inclined to criticise tho women of my country. They say the Chinese women pinch their feet to make them abnormally small, aiid hold- up their hands m holy horror at the custom. At the same time these critics are pinching their own feet until they can hardly suppress their screams of agony. "And they do not stop at pinching their large feet to make them look small. They add to the crime by putting them up on stilt-like heels, so that m a few montliß their feet have become regular museum freaks of deformity. ■ "Then they go on with this pinching business until they get to the waist. There they squeeze themselves into a vice-like thing called corsets and draw them up with a block and tackle until mere breathing is agonising. "When your women fall sick they send for their doctor, who tells them their kidneys are m their feet and their hearts m their mouths. Then they wonder how their' physical economy got so disarranged, and take a lot of pills and lay away their corsets to coax the little wanderers back home. "Most of your men also do many silly things m the way of dress. Thousands of them wonder why they have shed all of the hair off the tops of their heads. And at the same time they have used a shoe horn to get a No. 10 head into a No. 6 hat." An English schoolboy recently wrote the following essay on "Friendship": "A friend is one who knows all about you and likes you all the same." Mr John Brinsmead, the celebrated piano-maker, and his wife recently celebrated the 68th anniversary of tlieir wedding, their ages being 92 and 91 respectively, lt is not probable that there are many older couples m the world.