LADIES'S EXPRESS.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume III, Issue 283, 23 June 1875, Page 2

LADIES'S EXPRESS.

—: — The 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.] ' —Mo: I EEMEMRRA.NCE. Let Fate do her worst, there are moments of joy, l ■ Bright dreams of the past which she cannot destroy, They cotne in the night time of sorrow and care, To bring back the features which joy used to ■ 5 wean Long, long, be my heart with such memories filled, Like the vase in which rosps hath once been distilled; You may break, you may ruin, the vase if you I will,' J ' ’ ; .' . ! But the scent of the roses will hang round it still.

PARIS FASHIONS.

Black velvet dresses are always the highest expression of elegance and distinction. This is the reason why they are worn early in autumn, and. late in spring. A charming walking-dress is made thus: Demi-train skirt, without any trimming: rounded tunic, with two broad lapels falling very low behind, without any puff, trimmed all round 'with a band coq en colere feathers, heading a Chantilly lace flounce, about six inches deep behind and four in front. The short-bnsqued bodice and tight-sleeyes are trimmed io correspond, and, likewise, the Louis XV. paletot, worn over the costume ’in the street. A Rubens bonnet of grey feltr, trimmed with black velvet, and a red or blue featjier, completes the toilette. Another dress of the same material has a long-trained skirt, plain behind, but trimmed in front with a deep.flqunce, hqaded , with a broad-strip of insertion of beaded black kme, heading in its turn a row of beaded lace that falls dver the top of the velvet flounce. The front of the skirt .above these flounces is bouillonne up to the waist, and stripped across the bouillons two rows of the same beaded insertion between two rows of narrow beaded edging. The d« ep-basqued bodice is buttoned all the way down j it is trimmed at the bottom with insertion and lace, matching those placed above the flounce of the skirt. The revers of the sleeves, and the opening en coeur of the bodice, are trimmed, in the same btyle. ' v 1 *

A lover wrote a poem descriptive of his sweetheart for the village paper, and in it occured this line :— Oh, she is lovely, she is rosy ! The printer, put it— Oh, she’s slovenly, she is nosy ! The engagement was broken off. Miss Demeanour —Ah old lady hearing that a young friend had lost his place 'on account of a misdemeanour, exclaimed, “ Miss Demeanour! Lost his place on account of Miss Demeanour! Well, well, I’m afeard it’s too true that there’s al’us a woman at the bottom of a man’s difficulties.” Having been find for .adulterating bread with alum, a Scotch baker has acquired among his neighbours < the appellation of McAlum More. Medical students are warned not to ask a certain Western minister to preach for them. He has his text ready. “In his disease Asa sought pot to the Lord, but to the physicians. And Asa slept with his fathers.” . j i Woman —she’s a link between heaven and earth !” the American poet laureate, Smith, recently exclaimed at a temperance party, when he gaiye a toast. “ Veil, Schmidt,” replied the local professor of logic, who was a German party, “dat is der troodth, and so it is mid o sassidge throod mto zeair.”