ears more indecent than one that is perfectly nude.

The fourth object of clothes is ornament, but ornaments should be
harmless, not only to the wearer, but also to other people; yet from
the following paragraph, copied from one of the daily newspapers, it
does not appear that they are.

"London, May 7. The death of a girl from blood-poisoning caused by a
hatpin penetrating her nose was inquired into at Stockport, Cheshire,
yesterday. The deceased was Mary Elizabeth Thornton, aged twenty-four,
daughter of a Stockport tradesman. The father said that on Saturday
evening, April 20, his daughter was speaking to a friend, Mrs.
Pickford, outside the shop. On the following Monday she complained of
her nose being sore. Next day she again complained and said, "It must
be the hatpin." While talking to Mrs. Pickford, she explained, Mrs.
Pickford's baby stumbled on the footpath. They both stooped to pick
it up, and a hatpin in Mrs. Pickford's hat caught her in the nostril.
His daughter gradually got worse and died on Saturday last. Mrs.
Pickford, wife of a paper merchant, said that some minutes after the
deceased had picked up the child she said, "Do you know, I scratched
my nose on your hatpin?" Mrs. Pickford was wearing the hatpin in
court. It projected two inches from the hat and was about twelve inches
in length. Dr. Howie Smith said that septic inflammation was set up
as a result of the wound, and travelling to the brain caused
meningitis. The coroner said that not many cases came before coroners
in which death was directly traceable to the hatpin but there must be
a very large number of cases in which the hatpin caused injury,
in some cases loss of sight. It was no uncommon sight to see
these deadly weapons protruding three or four inches from the hat.
In Hamburg women were compelled by statute to put shields or
protectors on the points of hatpins. In England nothing had been
done, but this case showed that it was high time something was done.
If women insisted on wearing hatpins they should take precaution
of wearing also a shield or protector which would prevent them
inflicting injury on other people. The jury returned a verdict
of accidental death, and expressed their opinion that long hatpins
ought to be done away with or their points protected."

To wear jewels, necklaces of brilliants, precious stones and pearls, or
ribbons with brilliants round the h