LADIES' EXPRESS.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume II, Issue 184, 4 July 1874, Page 2

LADIES' EXPRESS.

[The Editor will be glad to give insertion to any local contributions from his lady friends that mag be considered interesting in the family circle, or to the sex general y.'] Emtlib J. Laysom, an American larly, who writes from Geneva to the Sisterhood in America, on the " Women’s Crusade against Rum,” gives- some sensible advice to her countrywomen, while she approves of their efforts to put down the consumption of spirituous liquors. She says that, prayers should he followed by works, and reminds them that the evil of drunkenness does not altogether lie with the tavern-keeper. She says :—“ Search out the cause of your sorrow, which is not -.alone with the seller of ustoaicating drinks, but with the appetite that, demands it. The great American malady is the malady of the stomach. Conscientious people become dyspeptics ; non-eonscient ions people become drinkers. Bear in mind this fact, that the appetite for drink is not necessarily made bv drinking, hut in nine cases out of ten it is created and cultivated at. your tables—in your children by the u*e of coffee, tea, pepper, lickles, mustard-, spices, too much salt, hot bread and pastry, raw meat, and grease, and, above all, by the use ot tobacco. The erv of a depraved appetite, an inflamed stomach*, is always for something stronger. The use of soup, milk, and salid, prepared with good oil should be cultivated. In short., reform your tables if you would reform your drunkards and save your sons. Cure the cause and the effect will be but natural. Stop the demand by correcting appetite.” Very sensible advice, and not less good is the suggestion which foltows Instead of rye for whisky, raise grapes, that pure native wine may* be used when needed. The Good Templar is more pronounced, however, than Mrs. or Miss Lavsom. The wine that maketh glad is as obnoxious to him as the beverage that intoxicates.

Apropos of fashions, we learn from Paris that the Russian colonists in that gay city intend to take the lead this spring in fetes as well as in toilettes. They expect the Duchess of Edinburgh to form one of their great, attractions. The talk of novelty is the robe-cloche which admits neither tunic, double jupe nor tabher; it is a short robe with flounces below ; the upper part of the jupe is sometimes plain and sometimes gathered. Over the robe ‘ liuip ’ U,HI “'her etnbroidered cashmere, china crape, or lace, crossing ° n h ?r 8t u’ nd COTeiin fi the Shoulders archly knotting behind, thi. inofc fl( , rv , ’’ the same as an ornament for the iuue the absence of the scarf, which does not’ suit* all figures, an embroidered mantelet may be worn The corsage-eorselet will fl); the fi n,™ closely forming a point before, and •horned from top to bottmm HairS-TIl be more than covered Wlfcver. A t present almost all hats are composed of flowers and black lace with high crowns and voluminous diadems Polonaises premise to bo longer before than during last year; and collerettes seems to be on the wane and giving place to turn-down eollares opening in the front. Coiffures are falling than hitherto, but the plait in tomTf a crown is indespensable.