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SICILY AND MALTA. 241
ting them on a piece of dry {ilk or flannel,
as on glassi
How little do our ladies imagine, when
they surround their heads with wire, the
most powerful of all conductors; and at
the same time wear stockings, shoes, and
gowns of hlk, one of the most powerful
repellents, that they prepare their bodies in
the same manner, and according to the
same principles, as electricians prepare their
conductors for attracting the fire of light-
ning ! If they cannot be brought to re-
linquish their wire caps and their pins,
might they not fall upon some such pre-
servative as those which of late years
have been applied to objects of less conse-
quence ?
Suppose that every lady should provide
herself with a small chain or wire, to be
hooked on at pleasure during thunder-
storms. This fliould pass from her cap over
Vol. I R the
ting them on a piece of dry {ilk or flannel,
as on glassi
How little do our ladies imagine, when
they surround their heads with wire, the
most powerful of all conductors; and at
the same time wear stockings, shoes, and
gowns of hlk, one of the most powerful
repellents, that they prepare their bodies in
the same manner, and according to the
same principles, as electricians prepare their
conductors for attracting the fire of light-
ning ! If they cannot be brought to re-
linquish their wire caps and their pins,
might they not fall upon some such pre-
servative as those which of late years
have been applied to objects of less conse-
quence ?
Suppose that every lady should provide
herself with a small chain or wire, to be
hooked on at pleasure during thunder-
storms. This fliould pass from her cap over
Vol. I R the