To the Editor of the Nowru-CHiNa Dany News."
Sin;—Since you have permitted further correspondence on the subject of short skirts perhaps you il allow me to quote what is written in the Lady's Magazine for August 1786—just 140 years In a note "on Female Dress" it there truly stated:—"Every woman of taste, who) piques herself on being distinguished for her dress, is ready pay the same attention to fashion as the Bastard in King Lear Nature, and, adopting his pitited language, to exclaim, hou, Fashion, art my goddess; to thy laws, Services are bound 'Fashion is substituted here with particular propriety, as the fine ladies of the age, in' opposi~ tion to the Jaws of nature, bind their services to her, and obey her capricious commands, however ridiculous they may, secretly, think they are, with the moat perfect submission, and would be shocked to death to appear in the poutest circles, dressed like no other woman in the place, though in a manner not only suit able to rer person, age and situa tion in life, but even elegant and becoming. "Such ig the sway of Fashion, such is her despotic power."" brutally frank) hat may he poured into their Tu fact one would suppose hat' certain of the permanent dents deliberately "leg-haul" them. As far ay T know, and if Ido wot know no one docs, there is possibility of a rate war he Changchun area, nor have the hinese merchants anything to be There is one group Companics—and they are now, aving for it—who have, in the ast aecerted inferior business aw rates, And there is another ho are also offering at bhut they are not atrative to the Chinese, On the ther hand the first-class British American Companies are always the rates.
Tam, ete, 8. Ceanke, Changehun, March 3, 1926, SPLIT INFINITIVES, the Editor of the "Nowri-Cuina Datty News."
—Can nothing be done to! sheek the widespread disregard of the tenets of Oni wh refer mors to the rising tide threatens to heal in its are much t9 be but are many who lit their Tt would appear from this that the hoary days of the past women ith the gods of fashion a8 they do today and posterity, will undoubtedly find them doing the same.
Tam, ete,
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