OLD BELLES IN PARIASIAN SOCIETY.

Inangahua Times, Volume IV, Issue 1, 11 April 1877, Page 3

OLD BELLES IN PARIASIAN SOCIETY.

TbffC it <»• fettate thit seldom tail- to ttrike an Aaefieaa obaerver a* odd in these official entert* : ntnent», «ud th?t is the nomber of old womfß who participate therein, not *• spectators, but «s actual wtiomm. Venerable daihfs ot SO and ft, with their poor old bouei well bfti ed to U»e pttblic Kite* and. m%h lilies rows itt tbeir died tresses fly panting throufh Ihc ma«e of the waite or «alop, wWte damsels of If sit around the room *ni look at them. The ots woraea of the French society form* ** Amerleao ««», in anlovifr and indecorous spectacle. IVy (JelijjlJt^inditplsyinethe'vfle'jhless oroft ffesby anna in m lowest cor. ■ s««m, thty wear pule colored silks and br^bt-baed lowers, and -tVeyfom* •way Itlw mad whenever they sei a ebvuee. ABwri«a society hat ortset! beert criti- «{*•£ O» the pr^domitiaace of iheymth* W eteaie«t But youth ?h<-»»'i <■«> rim daaeing, and let tb9fbtddU*^e.a,' oitl age do the ehaptwttinsj aoc! !< ■* ''••£ on, A still Woofflini matror of 46, ;,i W*«k

vdnk and diamond*. *ra-wr -.* ■ tb? trifflpphe of lier girlhood in ths i^wn ot* bet ftteJitti', nay if i' trae fc»™ >* iwsd into the backgrounds *■;■<> so v. U li« *-* « pteasaater sight to eonfceiap V *.. <n-? would be if, dressed in a 1-t? >ulle, with E'nk rosw is ber hair, she *?at gamboiig round by the side of that daughter * through the mazes of the German waltz, in accordance with French style.

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