Beautiful for Ever.

Cromwell Argus, Volume I, Issue 38, 3 August 1870, Page 6

Beautiful for Ever.

sio£®i Paris, the citj of luxuries, dwellsU, 'fitted woman whose smooth skin aud fresh ;: c6tAplexion proclaim her in her teens, but whose sedateness of movement cauafeidth;®’ observer to think her of a maturar )J »t last to compromise with bis i rpvessions by assigning her twenty though she herself will confess to. l}p n , y oi the antediluvians, numbering no "iSs , I than sixty-eight winters. This defiler <pf time is a striking instance in her owii pejrseh of the triumph of art over datum Thousands have long sought her secijejtj watched her, endeavoured to bribe her, cajoled her, and even threatened her, in that they, too, might become beautiful far ever. At last she resolved to become tljie benefactor of her sex—at least those of jit who can give her sufficient rennmeratio|ii. Madame Maniquet—for so is the youiUg styled—receives into her hou.se beauties whose lustre has fled, the 1 ness of whoso charms has been by the blasting effects of dissipation; or obliterated by the tread of Time. sMs places the faded belle on a couch, applies to her face a poultice composed of an ir critating ointment* and instructs the ( ,patia - nt to lie perfectly still, preserve each dulged ?n during f process will a wrinkle, and a frown a furrow. In a days and nights the face of the candidJ? tor beauty assumes a Job-like appearani being covered with pustules inuurnerab * Ihe omtment-poultice is then removedirT bringing with it the whole skin of t face, and exposing to view a mass of ra’ W ’ swollen flesh. Soothing unguents are thfl applied to it., and if the patient! 11 1 * 3 * remained quiescent, the swelling sutWd^’ the new skin grows smooth, soft/ L a 9r youthful, and the quilMike tube throu which the lady breathed and received n rishmcnt is discarded. A mirror k n 3: ™* ducecl, and the patient is requeste/f^ 4 admire herself, and prepare to renewed creature in f aco if notitt^S’J v°e„S fT ( u W! ' ioh ’ for a mohth > S?®* v felled at her absence. “i ’

Tong^r fel n 4® ate of j The ffatoke't Bay Timet of 6th July says:—Tongariro continues in a state of violent eruption, throwing up large stones and emitting flame, visible after nightfall. But the most remarkable fact connected with these phenomena is that they are accompanied by groat noises, distinctly heard at intervals in the neighbourhood of Napier, probably eighty miles distant, and resembling the sound of a distant cannonade. The noises in question were at once put down to the proper cause, but, lest there should be any mistake, we availed ourselves of the courtesy of Mr S.Me, Resident Magistrate for the Taupo who telegraphed to Tapuaeharuru, and .received a reply confirmatory of the facts Wo have stated, but adding that the burning mountain had been cloud-capped for the last, few days. - - ■ ■ The same paper of July 8 says The subject of the extraordinary phenomena ipy* being presented by Tongariro is excsihg the greatest interest, not merely in liawko’s Bay, but over the whole Colony, yesterday morning, the immense volumes of dense black smoke which are being emitted from Tongariro, were plainly yisitle from the hills at Napier, as well as from piyjts of the surrounding plains. The dpydb’ilEftorts which have been distinctly the last fortnight—and which j*re, at times, likened to the boom of heavy | at others to the noise caused by | >he falling of an immense body of matter I , —are still heard on the plains at intervals I pf five minutes or thereabout. One of the 5 Armed Constabulary, just in from Tapuaeon Taupo Lake, says that the re-f |fWtj|ij(which are very loud in the vicinity) 'are ,sometimes accompanied by a quiver of ® the- earth, and in each case by a great up-j burst of flame and red-hot masses like * molten rock. A broad stream of red-hot lava is distinctly visible flowing down the | side of the mountain in a wavy, mass; and in the night, the flames issuing from the crater are described as forming a highly interesting and beautiful spectacle. a The natives are very superstitious about e this eruption of Tongariro. They say it is a sure forerunner of the death of Te Heu R Heu and other leading chiefs of Taupo and Waikato, including the King. They state *] that the explosions and the appearance of „ red-hot lava is quite a new feature, never having been known in connection with n any previous occurrence of the kind ; and £ ( their expressed belief is that the eruption £ will continue with great violence until it t ] result in the bursting up and subsidence o: j. the volcano, when it will leave an immenai H basin like Taupo, which will become fillet with water.