98 DUST AND ITS DANGERS. 



The spectacle of the well-dressed, filthy 

 brutes, whom natural selection has most un- 

 kindly left but a few degrees higher than their 

 congeners in the sty, wallowing in their ex- 

 pectoration, about certain hotels and theatre 

 entrances, may well impress the sensitive on- 

 looker with the colossal task which Nature 

 undertook when she set to work to evolve 

 man, and the lamentable failures which are so 

 often but half-concealed in fashionable attire. 



