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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume III, Issue 179, 17 June 1864, Page 5 (Supplement)

A Classic Toilette. —According to testimony, which is scarcely to be disputed, the sun could never have shone upon a less lovely object than a Homan lady in the days of the Caisars, when she opened her eyes in the morning—or, rather, let us say, as she appeared in the morning, for before she opened her eyes a great deal had to be done. When she retired to rest her face had been covered with a plaster composed of bread and ass’s milk, which had dried during the night, and, consequently, presented in the morning an appearance of cracked chalk. The purpose of the ass’s milk was not only to preserve the delicacy of the skin, but to renovate the lungs, and so strong was the belief in the efficacy of the specific, that some energetic ladies bathed themselves in it seventy times in the course of a single day. As for Poppica, the favourite wife of Nero, she never set out on a journey without taking in her train whole herds of she-asses, that she might bathe whenever she pleased so to do. The plaster of Paris bust having awakened in the morning in a cracked condition, it was the duty of a host of female slaves to mature it into perfect beauty. To clear the field for further operations, the first of these gently washed away with lukewarm ass’s milk the already crumbling mask, and left a smooth face, to be colored by more recondite artists. The slave whoso vocation it was to paint the cheeks, delicately laid on the red and white, having moistened the pigment with her own saliva. The apparent nastiness of this was diminished by the consumption of a certain number of scented lozenges, which, if the slave neglected to take, she suffered corporeal punishment for.— Dickens's All ihe Tear Mound. The Futiiee City or the Waikato. —The N. Z. Herald publishes the following particulars respecting Pokeno, the “ future city of the Waikato.”— “It is situated on this side of the Maungatawhiri creek, and immediately upon the military position of the Queen’s .Redoubt. Prom it passes the Government tramway between Maungatawhiri to Meremere, and at no distant day Drury and Auckland railway, no longer a mere project, will be connected with the Maungatawhiri tramway, which has already been commenced, and Pokeno will become the grand depot city of the Waikato district. From here the roads to Taukau and Port Waikato branch off on the right, while on the left the rich forest tract lying towards Rangiriri and the Thames look to Pokeno as a common centre. The Whiora creek itself forms one boundary of the town. We notice that a market reserve has been set apart in a central position, and we believe that sites for schools and for places of worship have been also secured, the allotments, 1-1 Gin number, have been laid out with great care—the streets of full width and at right angles. It is a musical fact that every orchestra contains at least two musicians with moustaches, one in spectacles, three with bald heads, and one very modest man in a white cravat, who from force of circumstances, you will always observe plays on a brass instrument. A short-sighted professor, on going out of the gateway of his college, ran against a cow. In the confusion of the moment he raised his hat and exclaimed, “I beg your pardon, madam.” Soon after he stumbled against a lady in the street, and in sudden recollection of his former mishap, he cried out, “ Is this you again you brute.” Dr. Jerry Baker has made a nerve and bone all-healing salve, and thought he will experiment a little with it. He first cut off his dog’s tail and applied some salve to the stump. A new tail grew out immediately. He then applied some to the piece of tail which he cut off, and a new dog grew out. He did not know which dog was which. We need hardly add that the above was extracted from an American paper. Female Intellect— lf we consider the nature of the intellect of women, wo really can see no reason for the restrictions placed upon them in the choice of employments. They possess talents of all kinds. Government to be sure is a thing not fit for them, their fond prejudices coming often in the way. Direction also they would want, not having the same power, I think, of imagination that men have, nor the same method, as I said before. But how well women might work under direction. In how many ways, where tact and order alone is required, they might be employed ; and also in how many higher ways where talent is required. “ Please Ring the Bell.” —Boy (reading the sign).—Please ring the boll. Vy, of course I vill. Anythink to please a person as sneaks so perlitely. Holloway’s Ointment and Pills.—Cough, Emaciation.— These symptoms, slight, but steadily advancing, mark a depraved condition of the body, which will run its rapid course to consumption, unless some resistant remedy be at once applied. All congestions of the lungs, and engorgements of the air-tubes, are removed by rubbing Holloway’s ointment upon the back and front of the chest and all impurities are extracted by his purifying pills, which establish a good digestion, and so strengthen the system, and avert both present and future danger. These potent remedies require no foreign aid to change the consumptive tendency, and to remove all obstructions springing from impure blood, deficient nervous power, or other constitutional or local defects.