THE SUNSHADE.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1504, 26 October 1886, Page 3

THE SUNSHADE.

It is a pity that those women whose illbalanced minds and a restless desire ito keep themselves before the public takes the form of meddling with political questions of which they do not comprehend the simplest rudiments, would not devote some (attention to advocate a' reform and a decency 'in the use !of the sunshade. The public has all the winter endured in every concert-ball and theatre the outrage of the high hat, aqd now the outrage of the sunshade is upqn us in full force. To see the perfectly cool and indifferent mien with which a seemingly respectable and .by no means apparently immodest young lady will take her traaquil way along the street, dealing destruction and misery with her parasol, jis Enough to turn the head of any man prematurely grey. One hat She knocks off with a dexterous backward flirt of the. umbrella just as its wearer fyad supposed bimself safely out of reach ; with wanton caprice she jabs ’the instrument of torture }nt.Q the neck of one, the cheek of the second, and the eye of a third ; with the subtlest of skill sho keeps the gay silk exactly before the face of the naan who is hurrying to, catch a train, or whirls it swiftly away from the debtor, who relied upon its she’ter to aid him in passing unmolested his irate creditor. And all this and pinch more, the damsel does with a serenity, a spontaneity, and an unconcern which are the height of art. It may be offered in retort that the. young man with a cane is sufficiently I obnoxious when he gives his mind to it, especially if he baa little mind to give. But while this and a host of other masculine feelings are adqnitted ? the consideration does not upon the whole seerp entirely germane. It does not wholly remove the smart of a scratch on the cheek to reflect that the brother of' the young lady inflicting it may be carelessly punched on the ribs by the awkwardly held walkingstick of some dude ,or other j and, moreover, two wrongs do not make a right; besidesjwhicb, it is to the gentler sex that we look for example, at lea.-t of politeness. If they fail us, even the ballot in the hands of all the women in the land can hardly be expected to bring satisfaction.-* Boston Courier,