LADIES’ EXPRESS.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume III, Issue 293, 28 July 1875, Page 3

LADIES’ EXPRESS.

, A Tie Editor will be- glad to give insertion la any local contribution* from hit lady friend* that may be considered interesting in the family circle, or to the tex generally.]

YE KNOW NOT WHAT YE ASK.

Twa hands upon the breast, And labours done; Two pale feet cross’d in rest, The race is won : Two eyes with coin-weights shut, And all tears cease ; Two lips where grief is mute And wrath is peace. So spray we oftentimes, mourning our lot; God in His kindness answereth not. Two hands to work addrest, Aye for His praise; Two feet that never rest, Walking His ways; 's. Two eyes that look above, Still through all tears ; Two lips that breathe but love, Never more fears. So cry we afterwards, low on our knees, — Pardon those erring prayers : Father, hear these!

The toilettes prepared for the spring (according toLe Follet) are charming, both in color and stjle. An immense number of checked materials will be worn this season. This design will be repeated in every possible style and fabric, from silk to linen and percale. Tlie prettiest style in this design is with the checked lines the same colour as the fond, but of a different shade, such as cafe au lait on chesnut, or light blue on dark. Light stripes on a darker ground will be also much worn, especially in foulards, and other makes of silk. The material known as “ Orford ” will still be much worn, in a great variety of pretty stripes and checks, and makes a very pretty and useful toilette for young ladies, either marri. d or single. Self-colored linens and batistes will bo much worn, especially in white, ecru, different shades of coffee, and blue. Many of these will be embroidered in white on the material or trimmed with embroidery. Dresses of thio class will all he worn very simply made ; a slightly trimmed skirt, with broad plaited flounce at the back, two or three narrower in front, and a polonaise or tunre and bodice of the same, being the favourite style; the sleeves coatshaped, with deep parement. The Howick divorce case, Foulkes v. Foulkes and Cross, recently decided in Wellington, has (say the ZWses) its touching incident. “ During the trial in the Divorce Court, and the final struggle for the writ of habeas corpus to secure the bodies of the children —as the law vulgarly puts it—the parties on both sides went into business very coolly. The father w.is flinty in his resolution to conquer—the mother resisted, with a steady purpose and maternal fondness which redeemed her in the cold and cruel public eye. But the fiat of the law went forth, and the children were parted from her who had brought them to years of understanding, and handed over to him who, after all, had the best right to them, for Foulkes all through this severe and protracted trial has- proved himself a worthy man. On Monday he took the- children away with him to .Dunedin, and as he sat on the dock of the Phccbe waiting for the vessel’s departure, with a child on each knee, his stem manhood relaxed into tears of joy over a possession ho had long striven for. Persons of tender susceptibility who witnessed the scene could scarcely restrain the sympathetic thrill, for it is an incident such as this that “breathes high language to the listening soul”