LADIES’ EXPRESS.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume III, Issue 257, 20 March 1875, Page 2

LADIES’ EXPRESS.

[The Editor ivill be glad to give insertion ta any local contributions from hh lady frienat. that may be considered interesting in the family circle, or to the sex generally.’] o TO “ VIOLETTE” ON ABSENCE. What is absence, but an ocean, Rolling ’twixt the forms held dear ? Bridged by true love’s fond devotion, Fancy still will bring us near. What is absence, but the testing, Of each pure and faithful heart ? On the past still fondly resting, Dearer though compelled to part. Deem not absence e’er cun weaken, Those fond vows we pledged of old ; Memory rears aloft its beacon O’er the tale our young hearts told. Violets, in mosses hidden, Lie beneath our wand’ring feet; Though we see them not, unbidden Fragrance rises still us sweet. If we see not those we cherish, Shall their memory grow less dear ? Shall our fondest hnpe e’er perish Though the object be not near? Whnt, though parted by the surges, Let thy faith unswerving prove : Be but true, and Absence forges, Closer still the bonds of love. 11. M. L. A. A lady’ asked a sailor whom she mot why a ship was called “she.”—The son of Neptune replied that it was “ because the rigging cost more than the hull.” Eloquence.—“ Dear me, how fluidly he talks I” said Mrs. Partington recently while at a temperance meeting. “lam always rejoiced when he mounts the nostril, for his elegance warms every cartridge in my body.” Contentment.—Said Mrs. Jends on her return from church : “ When I see the shawls of those Johnsons, and then think of what I have to wear, if it was not for the consolations of religion, I don’t know what I should do,”