of Brussels sprouts: the body and sleeves handsomely trimmed with
calimanco, and festooned with a pink train and white radishes.
Head-dress, carrots and lappets.

'LADY SNOBKY.

'Costume de Cour, composed of a train of the most superb Pekin
bandannas, elegantly trimmed with spangles, tinfoil, and red-tape.
Bodice and underdress of sky-blue velveteen, trimmed with bouffants and
noeuds of bell-pulls. Stomacher a muffin. Head-dress a bird's nest,
with a bird of paradise, over a rich brass knocker en ferroniere. This
splendid costume, by Madame Crinoline, of Regent Street, was the object
of universal admiration.'

This is what you read. Oh, Mrs. Ellis! Oh, mothers, daughters, aunts,
grandmothers of England, this is the sort of writing which is put in the
newspapers for you! How can you help being the mothers, daughters, &c.
of Snobs, so long as this balderdash is set before you?

You stuff the little rosy foot of a Chinese young lady of fashion into a
slipper that is about the size of a salt-cruet, and keep the poor little
toes there imprisoned and twisted up so long that the dwarfishness
becomes irremediable. Later, the foot would not expand to the natural
size were you to give her a washing-tub for a shoe and for all her life
she has little feet, and is a cripple. Oh, my dear Miss Wiggins, thank
your stars that those beautiful feet of yours--though I declare when you
walk they are so small as to be almost invisible--thank your stars that
society never so practised upon them; but look around and see how
many friends of ours in the highest circles have had their BRAINS so
prematurely and hopelessly pinched and distorted.