Show the dangerous crinoline in the class of the wearing of crino lines lady nevall tells in her book of reminiscences how but tor her prompt action she might very possibly have been burned to death she was showing an engraving over the fireplace to a guest and in some way her voluminous skirts caught fire none of the women present could do much to assist me she saya for their enormous crinolines rendered them almost completely impotent to deal with fire had they coma close j AMII to me they would have been in a blaze too so she had perforce to work out her own salvation which she did by rocking herself backward and forward on a thick rug till the flames were extinguished |