hounded from house to house in a
Christian country where bread was denied to her. I myself have seen
her through the person of a stout, melancholy, and h-less lady, who,
dressed in a sort of burlesque fish-wife costume, has lain dying on
the prompt-side of the stage, in a whirl of paper snow, while, to the
edification of the twopenny gallery, she has bewailed her evil life,
and has been allowed, by a munificent management, to die in the arms
of white-clad angels. There is a gleam of truth in the representation,
and you may see the real Jane Shore in a high steeple head-dress, with
a thin veil thrown over it, with a frontlet or little loop of black
velvet over her forehead; in a high-waisted dress, open in a V shape
from shoulder to waist, the opening laced over the square-cut
under-gown, the upper gown having a collar of fur or silk, a long
train, broad cuffs, perhaps 7 inches long from the base of her
fingers, with a broad, coloured band about her waist, a broader
trimming of the same colour round the hem of her shirt, and in long
peaked shoes. In person of mean stature, her hair dark yellow, her
face round and full, her eyes gray, and her countenance as cheerful as
herself. The second real picture of her shows you a haggard woman,
with her hair unbound and falling about her shoulders, shivering in a
shift, which she clutches about her with one hand, while the other
holds a dripping candle; and the third picture shows an old woman in
dirty wimple and untidy rags.

[Illustration: {Six types of head-dress for women}]

There are many ways of making the steeple head-dress. For the most
part they are long, black-covered steeples, resting at an angle of
forty-five degrees to the head, the broad end having a deep velvet
band round it, with hanging sides, which come to the level of the
chin; the point end has a long veil attached to it, which floats
lightly down, or is carried on to one shoulder. Sometimes this steeple
hat is worn over a hood, the cape of which is tucked into the dress.
Some of these hats have a jutting, upturned piece in front, and they
are also covered with all manner of coloured stuffs, but not commonly
so. All persons having an income of L10 a year and over will have that
black velvet loop, the frontlet, sewn into their hats. There is
another new shape for hats, varying in height from 8 to 18 inches. It
is a cylinder, broader at the top than the bottom, the crown sometimes
flat and sometimes rounded i