Ladies' Gossip.

Patea Mail, 15 July 1880, Page 3

Ladies' Gossip.

The Ladies’ Clubs that have been so largely started in London do not seem to be in a very flourishing condition. Somehow or other nearly all nice women, and, almost equally the nicest men, are not clubablc. Itgener_ ally happens that a man who uses a club a s

a habitation, instead of lounging or lunching place, or else who has some ulterior motives in the way of whist, or work, or waiting, is a desolate animal with no home ties, and this seems to be even more the case with women.

The richest youthful heiress of the day in England is Miss Maynard, granddaughter of the Viscount Maynard. She has £20,000 a year in land and large accumulations of money.

Cotton and crape, amongst other things Bolton sheeting and Turkey red are (says a London writer) going to bo highly popular. Embroidered in crewels of silk or worsted, nothing is prettier for a morning dress. One of the handsomest that I have ever seen of late was one of Bolton sheeting embroidered with pink passion-flowers (the kind that the Cape of Good Hope people eat with sugar and sherry) and jasmine. Another of lilies-of-the-vallcyand forget-me-nots was“not so dusty.” Crape (Chinese), embroidered with tea-roses and ivy-leaves, is also very becoming to brunettes.

A female journalist on the Chicago ‘•'lnterOcean” worked nights as well as days, and she tells the reporter that she was out all hours of the night,went straight along and was never meddled with. She carried a pistol for a time and learned how to use it, but finally threw it aside, thinking the men of Chicago were so tame and gentle that they had no need to have it drawn on them. Presence of mind, she says, is more protection than a pistol, anyway. Lady readers who delight to display their feet encased in the latest fashionable freak of the bootmaker’s art, may find food for reflection in the following :—A Boston physician states, as the result of his experience, that the use of high-heeled boots-causes injury to the eocs, not only weakening the sight but producing a sensation of constant pain. It is not altogether so strprising as might be supposed at first sight that the eyes should thus sympathise, as it were, with the feet; for it is well known to physicians JJhat the eyes suffer in a specific manner when other parts of the body are affected, and there are some ailments whose pi* ence the physician has been evc.t able to dcct in this way, when the patient himself would have concealed the real nature of his illncst.