LADIES’ EXPRESS.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume III, Issue 213, 14 October 1874, Page 2

LADIES’ EXPRESS.

[TAe Editor will be glad to give insertion to any local contributions from his lady friends that may be considered interesting in the family circle, or to the sex generally.}

INDISPUTABLE FACTS. Girls with—Blue eyes never languish, Black eyes never stare; Pretty feet and ankles Short thingamies won’t wear. White teeth never laugh, or White hands never play With tiny ears or hair, which Will get in the way. Waists are never nipp'd in, Busts may not be shown, Noses never (lipp'd in Water of Cologne. Sweet tones seldom talk loud, Powder's never used ; Fact is, pretty girls now Are very much abused. LOVE'S JOYS. “ When slumber first unclouds my brain, and thought is free ; When sense refreshed renews her reign, I think of thee. When rest in prayer to God above I bend my knee ; Then when I pray for those I love, I pray for thee. And when the duties of the day Demand of me To rise and journey on life’s way, I work for thee. Or if, perchance, 1 sing some lay, Whate’er it be, All that the idle verses say They say of thee. For if I sing, an eye whose light Gleams like the sea ; Or dream of golden tresses bright, ’Tis but of thee. And if a weary mood or sad, Possesses me, One thought can ever make me glad, The thought of thee. And when once upon my bed Full wearily In sweet repose I lay my head, I dream of thee. In short, one only wish I have, To live for thee; And gladly if one pang 'twould save I’d die for thee. _ F.A. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. “ Lettie ” writes to us enquiring the authorship of the “ beautiful ” lii.es, heading “ Waiting ” which appeared recently in these columns ; and asks our opinion if we “ do not think them capable of affording relief and comfort to those whom a cruel fate condemns to separation, in their days of sadness, as they look forward to a happy realization of their most ardent love ?” Certainly they are ; and if “ Lettie” is one of the vast multitude who cannot have all they wish in this world, she has our great sympathy. If she has “ counted up the cost and pain of waiting,” let her be patient, for “ things long-looked for come at last.” We are not acquainted with the author’s name of “ Waiting.” “ Young May Moon”—As announced at the head of this column, we shall be happy to insert any poetry with which you may favor us, if suitable.

THOROUGHNESS. \

This is a virtue hard to be attained by many/* For one of the great errors in the ordinary education of woman'is its want of thoroughness ; and the careless, superficial habits of her early training are the bane of many a woman’s life. It is so hard for a person brought up superficially to do any thing thoroughly. Yet, if work is to be done so as to give satisfaction, it must be done thoroughly. Nothing must be slurred over ; nothing left to chance ; nothing be taken on supposition. Your whole energy must be thrown into your work, whatever it may be. All your thoughts must be concentrated on it. Your labor must be given to it unsparingly. You must grudge neither time nor fatigue. You must let nothing connected with it (no matter how small) escape your notice.

Never let any work leave your hand of which you oannot, in all truth and honor, say to your own heart that it is as well done as your powers could do it; that you have given your best, your very best. Depend on it, no work which is not thorough will ever give satisfaction.

No woman will ever keep regular employment of whom it can not be said that thoroughness is one of the characteristics of her work.

It is worldly wisdom, as well as religious duty, that the wise king teaches when he says, “ Whatsoever thy liand findeth to do, do it with thy might.”