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articles of apparel, but by long black suede gloves, drawn above the elbow, which stooc out in startling contrast against her pale face and all-white dress. A. F. R.

I remember reading that it was Du Maurier's Punch pictures that made black hose fashionable for children. I am un- fortunately cut off from access to back numbers of the English humorous weekly, which is often valuable as a record of passing fashions ; but a reference to old photo- graphs confirms my impression. In my knickerbocker days (1866-73 or so) we all (boys and girls) wore white socks or stockings, but my first recollections of London (1879) are associated with dark hosiery. This would roughly fix the date of the transfor- mation, which was probably identical with the abandonment of the crinoline and dress improver, and the advent of the jersey, "pull-back" skirt, and Princesse costume a change which was popularly supposed to mark the date when the exile of the Empress Eugenie made the Princess of Wales (now the Queen-Mother Alexandra) the leader of fashion in certain circles.

ANGLO-PARISIAN.

HENRY ETOUGH (11 S. iv. 249). My friend the late Miss Elizabeth Isabella Frances Saundersoii-E tough, fourth in de- scent from a brother of the Rev. Henry E tough, the Rector of Therfield, Herts, told me the Etoughs were of Scotch origin.

This so far agrees with The Gentleman's Magazine, vol.'lvi. p. 25, which states that the above Henry " began his career by setting out from Glasgow " ; but I do not think the family had long resided in Scotland, for I can find no references to the name in that country. I suggest that the family descended from the Etoughs of Whalley, Lancashire, undoubtedly the old home of the family in England. It will also probably be found that Mr. Henry E tough, the land- lord of " The Bull and Mouth Inn ' ' mentioned by MR. McMuRRAY, was a descendant of those of Whalley. The Rev. R. N. Whitaker, in his ' Handbook of Whalley,' 1884, p. 74, states that it is curious to see how long some families continue in the same trade, and adds :

" Take the family of the Eatoughs, forjnstance ; they have been woodmen from father to" son from the thirteenth century down to our days. Ellen Eatough, widow of John, formerly woodman at the Abbey, passed away in the year 1868, in one of the few thatched cottages which were built out of the walls of the Abbey."

It will be noted that Mr. Whitaker spells the name " Eatough," but the registers of the parish church of Whalley (they begin in 1538) show that the name in the sixteenth century was written Etoughe. The registers up to 1601 were printed by the Lancashire and Cheshire Parish Register Society in 1900. For the period there are 24 Etoughe entries, the first being the christening of John, son of Thomas Etoughe, in 1539. Henry as a Christian name occurs during the period : a Henry Etough was buried in 1553, and his wife eight years previously.

Some members of the Whalley family wrote the name Eatough in the eighteenth century, for the will of Margaret Eatough of Clitheroe, a township in Whalley parish, was proved at York in 1742. The will of a Richard Etough of Clitheroe was also proved in 1737. Both are at York.

In this connexion it may be well to mention that the name Etough occurs as a Christian name in the Tookey family of Thrapston, for when copying some of the inscriptions in Spratton Churchyard, Northants, some years ago, I came across a headstone to Catherine Etough, eldest daughter of the late Robert Tookey, surgeon of Thrapston, and Catherine Anne, his widow. She died 5 April, 1822, aged 19.

I have compiled a short pedigree of the Etough family, chiefly from information given to me by Miss Saunderson-E tough, which I shall be pleased to show to MR. SOLOMONS or MR. McMuRRAY.

The Etough arms are Az., a chevron ermine between three swords ppr. Crest, a dexter arm embowed, vambraced holding in the hand a sword, all ppr. Motto : " Audaces fortuna juvat." These arms, crest, and motto appear on the Etough tablet in St. Martin's Church, Stamford, Lines, and on the book-plate of Henry Gladwell Etough, R.N. (1783-1853).

CHAS. HALL CROUCH. 62, Nelson Road, Stroud Green, N.

ST. HUGH AND " THE HOLY NUT " (11 S. iv, 69, 156). Perhaps the allusion is to the seed of Ipomora tuberosa, popularly known a& Virgin Mary's nut or kidney, for which see 10 S. xii. 256. N. W. HILL.

New York.

THE FIRST PERFORATED POSTAGE STAMPS- (11 S. iii. 183, 251 ; iv. 197). Henry Archer, the inventor and patentee of the machine for perforating postage stamps in 1847, died at Pau, Basses-Pyrenees, 2 April, 1863.

T. SHEPHERD.