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toes, waspish waists, camel-like lumps, balloon-shaped frame-- 

 suspended dresses, stand utterly condemned from any properly 

 understood canon of beauty. A lady's train which requires so 

 much carriage that it will not go off without a considerable 

 amount of siding, and then only with imminent risk of serious 

 collision owing to interlacing of points and other obstructions, is 

 the height, or to speak more precisely, the length of inelegance. 

 The question of dress ought to be " What is becoming to me 

 personally?" Good-breeding demands that we should not make 

 ourselves conspicuous by eccentricity or singularity. On the 

 other hand it does not or should not be allowed to compel us to 

 ape this or that style because it is suitably adopted by " Her 

 Grace the Duchess," or because it is brought out by eminently 

 fashionable milliners. As regards our gentleman's attire, it is 

 generally so hopelessly inartistic that I can only refer to it as a 

 horrid example of " how not to do it." 



READINGS, RECITATIONS AND SONG. 



Director: G. B. RAWCLIFFE. February 7th, 1888. 



The Programme was as follows : 



Eecital " The story of a Stowaway " Mr. Percy Taylor. 



Eecital "Dream vision of the Universe "... Mr. B. Gossling. 



Song "Travellers all" Mr. Charles Parker, E.A.M. 



Recital..." The Closet Scene from Hamlet.'... Mr. Joseph Hall. 



Humorous Recital "The Law — ' Daniel v. Dishclout.' " — 



Mr. B. T. Gosling. 

 Song..." Hear me, gentle Maritana " Mr. Charles Parker, R.A.M. 



Recital " Curfew shall not ring to-night "...Mr. Percy Taylor. 



Humorous Recital " Rubenstein's Piano-playing" — 



Mr. Joseph Hall. 



Song " So, Sir Page," Mr. Charles Parker, R.A.M. 



Humorous Recital..." Look at the Clock "...Mr. G. B. RawcUffe. 





