St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Missouri, November 15, 1896

The evidence again lifts the veil from certain features of social life in Great Britain and reveals the mode of life of some of the so-called “fast set” of the aristocracy. The wife, it was shown, upon occasions, came down to dinner in red satin “knickers,” otherwise “bloomers,” and her husband’s smoking jacket, and frequently called her better half a “d–n fool.”