CIVILISED.

Waikato Independent, Volume VII, Issue 464, 23 January 1908, Page 6

CIVILISED.

£ee the woman ! Sne has step-ladder, corkscrew heels on her shoes, and has squeezed her feet into a pair 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. And she don’t know why 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, and all manner of false and uncomfortable things arc on and about her, from her 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 lias 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 ? No—she is the Flower of Civilisation !