"DRESS YOUR BODICE BLUB, LASSIE."

Colonist, Volume XVII, Issue 1899, 10 April 1875, Page 3

"DRESS YOUR BODICE BLUB, LASSIE."

!■■■ To the Editor of the Colonist,

Sir,—Will you give me space to say a few words to our womenfolk of Nelson ? If so, I will say— " My dear sisters, yououghtrto be ashamed of yourselves, you have got so beyond all bounds of reason, common sense, and Christianity ia the matter of your apparelling. Is it possible that you don't know whom you are copying, and where your fashions come from ? Why, you are just mimicking your sadly fallen sisters of Paris, who are the people who have been setting the fashions for the last five-and-twenty years which foolish women and girls have been I following. I went into one of your churches not long ago, and verily a stranger might have thought that he had fallen into a congregation of women of the city, who were sinners.' When St. Paul says that Christian women are to ' adorn themselves in modest apparel,' do you think he meant the costly useless frippery and gaudy bedizenments you delight in? or that when he says the woman praying in public! is to have her head covered, he meant by a ridiculoujs doll's hat, stuck full of artificial gew-gaw, ( trumpery, pinned a foot above her head on the top of a tower of horsetails or some other wretched sham ? and that when he said she 'ought to have power on her head because' of the angels' he meant the power of. unblushing effrontery you so carefully cultivate, and which alone enables you to bring such vestments of Ashtaroth and head-dresses of 1 Astarte into the House of the Lord ?'Can you imagine that your fathers and brothers and husbands like, to see such fashions? ''No, they hate and detest them, and those who have known the great towns of the old countries simply loathe what reminds them in their own homes of the Bights and sounds of vicious proflicacy that have disgusted them of yore. Do, for goodness sake, my dear sisters, try to become a little more like quiet, sensible, modest English maids and matrons than the most of you now are.—l aim your affectionate friend, A Dweller iy the Desert. —* At Fond dv Lac in Wisconsin, a case is now before the courts, in which Russell I Brown, a rich farmer, is being tried for murder. JNot a year ago he bad a fight with I his first wife, and left his home, Six weeks later, it is Baid in evidence, she heard that he was out of his mind, but staying in a friend's house. She claimed,, and, got a divorce, 0:1 the ground of her husband's insanity. -Both parties married again within a'few weeks, and Brown is now on trial for the murder of his second wife—the bride so easily won and quickly wedj . It is announced that M. de* Brazea, whohas served as Lieutenant in the French Navy, is about to undertake a voyage.into Central Africa in continuation of the . explorations of the late Dr Lmngrtone.