Genre:

News-Commentary, Drollery

Subjects:

Amusement, Magnetism

    Noting the latest women's fashion for 'straw and steel', with steel being made into bracelets and other items of jewellery. Asserts: 'Were a philosopher to introduce a magnet at a party, half the ladies in the room would be resistlessly attracted to it', and all the steel adornments would be stuck to the lodestone.