LADIES’ EXPRESS.
The will "be glad lo give insei'tien any local contributions from his ladyfriendsU that be considered interesting in family circle, or to the sex generally. J :o: MY NELLIE. With a halo of golden hair She is crowned right royally, And irer beautiful brow is white, As foatn on a stormy sea ; Like violets gemmed with dew Are her tender, soul-lit eyes, Cloudless, and deeply blue l!ijj| As the sunny summer skies ; And they beam like fair twin stars Through a rifted cloud, when night Has donned her sab> robes, And veiled the moon from sight. Her lips are like coral wet BBS By the kiss of the rippling waves, SK And her tiny teeth like pearls That gleam in the ocean caves ; Her cheeks hare the faint, sweet flush Of rosebuds ere they blow ; And her dainty, dimpled chin Is fairer than drifted snow. Soft is her voice and dear As the murmur of silvery streams, Tander, and low, and sweet As the music heard in dreams. _ Like lilies are her hands, And in fancy, even now, I feel the soft, pink palms, Like rose-leaves, touch my brow; And there comes to me a sound, Of all sweet sounds most sweat. The footfall, light and soft, A Of her glancing, fairy feet. My darling, my heart is filled With joy unfelt, unknown, Till blest by thy love, my pearl— My beautiful one, my own ! PARIS FASHIONS. A lovely ball-dress for a young lady is of the palest pink shade. The faille skirt is entirely veiled by bouillons of pink illusion. At the edge, a thick, broad ruche ; above, bouillons gathered in a slanting manner from the right to the left downwards. An ample scarf of Ihe same pink illusion falls from under the back point of the bodice on the right side, crosses over the front of the skirt, and is draped low down on the left side. Long trailing branches of pink May run among the bullions of the skirt. One of these wreaths comes up behind among the folds of the scarf, passes under the right arm, and crosses the front of the bodice up to the left shoulder. Another dress is of white faille. It is trimmed at the bottom with a large tulle niching, both ( ends of which are lost under the large fold of the skirt. In the centre of this ruching runs a wreath of foliage made of black velvet and gold. A tulle scarf is draped across the front, and is fastened into a large double knot quite at the back, and low on the left si® The bodice is laced behind ; the points aK round, and a narrow basque, round the shoulders crosses obliquely the corsage, and meander* down through the scarf-knot, ending among the folds of one of the lapels. A dress of pale green satin covered with waite tulle pleatings, mingjed with bows of dark green velvet, is excessively elegant and stylisn. But the loveliest of all is a dress of the palest blue satin, with an upper lace dress IQ inches shorter, entirely embroidered wiuh white bugles. The 10 inches of satin below were veiled by a deep tulle pletting. 1 ie cuu*asse bodice, embroided in the same style, has for its only ornament bows of pale blue velvet upon the shoulders, with a diamond star in the centre. The same star in the hair, aud blue velvet bow in the Catogan.
A German doctor has discovered that d’l , g ? Te diseMo8 > as heart affection, B 'ignts disease, and consumption, may be caused by the parasites found in the false hair with which ladies so largely their natural supply. Under the inline' h at and moisture these parasites burst, and their nuclei float in the penetrate with it into the body disenie. The doctor estimates that in a ball a room fifty ladies wil h false chignons may set free no less than 45 millions of the lethal germs. W A young lady in the Fast End, who hat | just returned from completing her education ' in Boston, wanted to kiss her old lover last night, and her mother objected. The daughter drew up her queenly form to its full height, and exclaimed: “ Mother, terrible, tragical, and sublimely retributive will be the course pursued by me if you refuse to allow him to place his alabaster lips to mine, and enrapture my iimnortaJ soul by imprinting angelic sensations of divine bliss upon th? indispensable member of my human phisyognomy, and then kindly allowing me to take a withdrawal front his beneficent presence.” Tha mother feebly admitted that her objection, were overruled.
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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume III, Issue 288, 10 July 1875, Page 2
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