TRUE BEAUTY.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume III, Issue 214, 17 October 1874, Page 2

TRUE BEAUTY.

True beauty dwells not in form or face,

Of chiselled outline only ! —but where soul Of gracious gentleness gives outward grace. And lights with loveliness the living whole!

One tender, deep, appealing look of love,

Glancing from o> es which mirror but the heart Tried and found true, will more imperious prove In love than mere Imperial beauty’s art !

The mute caress—the fondling, clinging grasp, Aud lingering backward look—when forced

to roam— And on return —swift step, and welcoming clasp Of love! make even the “ homeliest ” look the “ Angel of our home.”

Oh 1 Love, Love, Love, ’Tis an easy chain to wear, When many idols meet our faith, And all we serve are fair. But. there is a love that keeps A constant watch-fire light, With a flame that never sleeps Through the longest winter night. It is not always wise, And it is not always blest, For it bringeth tearful eyes, And loads a sighing breast. Oh 1 Love, Love, Love, Soon makes the hair turn grey, When only one fills all the heart, And that one’s far away. H.S. PARIS FASHIONS. Grenadine db Laine is a material very much in fashion this summer. It is gold of all sorts of colours, plain, st ri;>ed, spotted, or with a seine of flowerets. It is essential that the skirt and the lining of the bodice be of silk exactly matching the shade of the grenadine If this is plain, it can be used for the trimming of the skirt, in flounces, pleatings, or botiillonnes ; but if it is figured, it would be preferable to have the tunic alone made of it, and the skirt entirely silk. For walking out, a mantelet, pelerine or scarf of the samo material is worn over the toilette.

Speaking of transparent materials, I must not omit to state that, this year, like last summer, it is indispensable that the bodice and sleeves of any walking-dress of thio material be lined. It would be looked upon as a proof of thorough bad taste to let one’a shoulders and anna be seen through the dresa in the street. Ilea sans dire that at home and ill the evening the case is different. This is a very pretty dress made of tussore : —One skirt only, covered with gathered flounces, crossed with bias bands of goldenniuroon foulard. On both sides the flounces are gathered up by bows of the same nianxin foulard, of decreasing size as they come nearer the waist; these bows form quilles. The bodice has revers nnd buttons of maroon foulard. A coquettish little hut, made also of tussore rery gracefully chiffonni, and trimmed with maroon faille and a white feather, completes the costume.— Young Ladies' Journal.

Lord Chesterfield happened to be at a ball in France where Voltaire was one of the guests. The former was gazing about the brilliant circle of ladies, when Voltaire accosted him with, “ My lord, I know you are a judge ; which are the more beautiful--the English or the French ladies?”—“Upon my word,” replied his lordship, with his usual preseneo of mind, “ I am no connoisseur of paintings.”.

Let the winds and waves of adversity blow and dash around you, if they will; but keep on in the path of rectitude, and you will be as firm as a rock. Plant yourself upon principle, and bid defiance to misfortune. If Gossip, with her poisoned tongue, meddles with your good name, heed her not. Carry yourself erect; let your course be straightlorwiird, and by the serenity of your countenance and the purity of your life, give the lie to all who would underrate and be-little you. Gossip.—We condemn gossip — Scandal’s twin sister —yet it is a fault easily committed. We begin by a gentle deprecatory reference to somebody’s infirmity of temper, and we find ourselves specifying a particular time and scene, which straightway the one who hears tells again to some one else with additions, slight, perhaps, but material. Before we know it we have stirred up a hornet’s nest. This may be done without any more potent motive than a mere love of fun, and half the gossip in the social world is of the unthinking kind, indulged in merely from a spirit of drollery. Far worse is that other sort of talk which ends in slander and begins in malice, and which separates friends and sunders the ties of years of intercourse with its sharp and jarring discords. The only way to avoid this evil is to refrain from making the affairs of our friends a staple article of conversation in the household. There are plenty of subjects at hand—let us avoid personalities.

Sib Cbacboft Wilson, recently, in addressing liis constituents said “In addition to the compact of 1856 the South Island paid one million sterling as consideration for the peaceable possession of the land fund of the South Island. Were the inhabitants of the South Island such miserable poltroons as to sit still under such spoliation? Should we not rather warn the ministry and North Island that it would bring about a revolution with arms in hand such gross violation (cheers), and the result would be that Otago and Canterbury would retain not only the land fund, but the customs Excise duties which were worth half a million per annum. (Applause.) Depend upon it Ministers, though in my opinion have been foolishly rash, are not so rash as to arouse the people of the South Island to defend their rights by armed resistance, and I for one should be prepared to continue the struggle to the bitter end. (Oh! Oh I and laughter.) I am not speaking in jest; Ido not jest on such serious subjects. Apart altogether from’tt»muestion of provincial institutions, I wouldpfevent one sixpence of the land fund being taken against our free will and consent, if rebellion and even resistance had to be employed to protect it. (Hear, hear. (Laughter and cheers.) A vote of confidence was unanimously passed to Sir Cracroft.