LADIES’ EXPRESS.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume II, Issue 205, 16 September 1874, Page 2

LADIES’ EXPRESS.

[The Editor will be glad to give insertion to any local conf rib ul ions froin his lady friends that ,e considered interest’ng in the family or to the sex generally.]

OLD LOVE.

Never to hear thy voire again— Thy voice, which t hrills thro’ every vein, In tones of sorrow or of mirth, The sweetest sound to me on earth.

Never again thy step to hear, Which falls like music on mine ear. Ah ! e’en before thy face 1 see Thy step brings happiness to me.

Never again in eyes of blue, To watch the Jove light ’s varying hue ; *l'o meet thy earnest gaze and feel Sweet trust in thee thro’ woe or weal.

Never to feel that mystic thrill At touch of hands; but ever still, Go where we may, whate’er our lot, Each loved one's face is ne’er forgot.

Ah, never! tho’ the world be fair. New joys—new love inay be our share, But still our I boughts in tnein'ry stray — OWlove can never pass away. Fay.

WHArii the opposite to ‘'lore in a cottage?” —War in A-“ shantee.” A Nbw Definition.—A veil is a liidy’g protection from the too earnest gaze of the sun of heaven, and lhe sons of men.

Wk have in Paris a shop—Old E ngland—in which English goods are exclusively s<4d. its windows are now quite ablaze with striped stockings of the most dazzling colors, and we Frenchwomen passing (here, ask ourselves the question, “ Who wears such hose in England I remember having seen in the British Isles la<iies of the highest rank wearing uuh, so I suppose they are not considered as unlady-like over the sea. But (his is not the ease here, and I would advise all indies preparing for an excursion to France, to leave all such bright-colond things behind. Une femme de bon lon in France wears fine white stockings exclusively. Those broad-striped stockings have a “look at my pretty feet” look, the very reverse of the quiet chiaroscu -a of a true lady's dress. Parasols are of two types : the long-caned one, which is neglige, and comports no dec. ration, and the short-handled one, which is fulldress, and is embroidered, furbelowed, laced, etc., according to one’s taste. But the elegance of a parasol is a very relative affair, and depends more upon its matching the dress, than upon its own particular beauty. A henpecked gentleman determined to sup with a party of friends against, lhe wiil of his wife. He was resolved that he would, and she that he should not go. He did not go. His friends missed him, and, just for a lark, invaded his residence, where they found him and his wife sitting in their chairs fast asleep. He had given her an op ate that he might slip away, and she had given him one that lie might not.

Idleness.—A more degrading sin than that of idleness cannot be imagined. And when it attack! wives and mothers, who can calculate its destructiveness ? An idle woman spends money as if it d’ere something that men wont out pienicing for for pleasure and gathered from well-laden bushes, when in reality the means for providing food and shelter for a family often demand and hardships.

It is estimated that £300,000 sterling are •p *iit annnally in England on false hair. WILD youths who come to New Zealand will 1 *am from the following paragraph in the Bruce Herald, that they are not. altogether forgotten at Home : —“ An Otago resident, at present on a visit to the Horae country, happened to be present in the late General Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland, held in Edinburgh, when the prayers of the Church were requested by a widow for a careless and on’v son resident in New' Zealand ; aiso, by another family for two careless had that day sailed for New Z aland.” Passion Flower —This curionS'^M^j 1 was first discovered in the Brizils, aud were soon proclaimed to Christian kingdoms as representing the passion of <»ur Lord, whence its present appellation. The leaves were said exactly to resemble the spear that, pierced our Saviour’s side, the cords that bound His hands, and the whips hat scourged Him. The ten petals are the twelve apostles, Judas having betrayed, and Peter des vied. The pillar in th • centre wus the cross or :ree, the stamens, the hamm- .s, the styles, the nails, the inner circle about the central pillar the crown of thorns, and the radiations the glory; the white in the Hower the emblem of purity, and blue the type of Heaven. In th* Passiflori ► alata drops oi blood are seen on the cross or tr’e. The flower keeps open three days, and then disappears, denoting the Resurrection. The Bruce Herald states that the amount of all kinds of timber sawn in south Otago for the last three months exceeds 2,'rJH, 0 ) feet, embracing the following bashes : Winton, Waihopai, Jacob’s Riv •. Forest Hill, Invercargill, Seaward, and M‘Garraway’s.