FASHION'S VICTIMS.

Western Star, Issue 50, 24 October 1874, Page 6

FASHION'S VICTIMS.

Those ara-ing the pooler <lasses who. suffer fro n iosuili i iicy of filed and clothing will do .well to rea t th •• loiters in the Tarn s of yesterday arid to-day describing the miseries endured by a but 3.0J0 oi i lie upper classes who artendeJ the Drawingroom at Buckingham t*.dace on Tuesday, and ihoy will find in many respects their l it. is . far preferable to that of their superiors. They will, “see that numbers of delicate women 'remained far, hoar's shivering ia the cold blast of a northeasterly wind, with no lood and hut little c!o hing, after fatigue that would reduce even a robust charwoman or maid-o!k illworic to prostration and despair, and that many of them after remaining huddled together on stone steps until human tiiture could bear it uo longer we e at lust compelled to leave the palace on foot and drag their wegry limbs « n :i search for their carnages, amid the jeers and sympathy of the outside mob. Let the poor for one moment imagine the effect of this cold and wretchedness on delicate and consumptive girls, let them think how the seeds of many a fatal disease must ho sown , by this unnatural defiance of the laws of nature, and tiny will, perhaps, in the conlempl.iiiou of tub miseries ot other-, hi come; a little more ■ reconciled to their o*vu. —Ball Mall Gazette. -