LADIES' EXPRESS.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume III, Issue 273, 19 May 1875, Page 2

LADIES' EXPRESS.

The Editor will be glad to give insertion to any local contributions from his ladyfrienas that mag be considered interesting in the family circle, or to the sex generally.} LANGUAGE OF THE HEART. There is a love that spsaketh, But it is not heard aloud ; Its sacred language breaketh Not on the busy crowd. ’Tis heard in secret places, Its sorrow to disguise ; 'Tis writ in anxious faces, And meditative eyes. It ever comes to render Kind thoughts when fond ones part; Its tones are sweet and tender, ’Tis the language of the heart. No heart of man can teach us This secret speech of love ; Though here its tones may reach us, They echo first above. 'Tie heard in gentle praises, In pleadings soft and weak ; It tells in silent gazes What lips could never speak. With strong electric fleetness, Its holy breathings start; No speech can match its sweetness, — This language of the heart.

PARIS FASHIONS. The jackets worn this winter differ from those of last year in this : they are not any more slashed up behind and at the sides; a good many are made without any pockets; the fur band is broader, and the sleeves narrower. Shining buttonsare not in favor. Passementerie ones are much more fashionable. The Rubens broad-brimmed bonnet is the favorite shape this season. The black velvet framing is not unbecoming. A rose of a very dark shade is usually placed in the very centre, just in a line with the nose. Two or three others are grouped very far back on the left side. It is only in the placing and putting together of the features and bows which complete the trimming that some diversity is shown. We almost seem to hare retrograded to the time when we all seemed to wear copies of the same bonnet.

Giant fans are becoming dimodes. Moderatesized ones are now adopted. Have you heard of the new eccentricity that inventors aux abois are offering us ? It is a pistol-fan ! Which means that, when the fan is closed, it looks the exact counterpart jot a real pistol. To carry the likeness further, when you open your fan, this operation is accompanied with a sound just like that made by a real pistol being cocked 1 Then it is suspended from the waist by a leather ring, so that you look for all the world like a Corsican lady upon a vendetta intent 1 Alter this description, there is, I hope, no need to say that gentlewomen do not use this fan, unless, perhaps at a fancy ball.

A “Journeyman grsmmar-smasher” is what one St. Louis editor terms another. Fact in Natural History.—They say that “ even a worm will turn.” This is emphatically true of the book-worm, who is constantly turning the leaves of his favourite volumes. “My name is Somerset,” writes a punster. “lam a miserable bachelor. I cannot marry ; for how could I hope to prevail on any young lady, possessed of the slightest notion of delicacy to turn a Somerset?” A young lady at home from boardingschool for the holidays was asked if she would have some more roast beef, when she replied, “ No, I thank you ; gastronomical satiety admonishes me that I have arrived at the ultimate stage of the deglutition consistent with dietetic integrity' I ” She was never asked if she’d have anything more again.