LADIES’ EXPRESS.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume III, Issue 297, 11 August 1875, Page 2

LADIES’ EXPRESS.

Ths Editor will be glad to give insertion ts any local contributions from his lady friends that mag be considered interesting >a the family circle, or to the sex generally. J :o: | LOVE-SOEG. LbAd mo, darling : J will follow, Whatsoe’er the path you take ; Be it through the darkened hollow, Or among the tangled bake, Where the spider hangs her curtain, And the wild bird builds her nest i I will follow, sure and certain, If my hand in yours is press’d. Lead me, darling : I will follow, Through the desert, bare and brown ; Up the heights, swift as the swallow, There to pluck leaves for thy crown. I will go through darkrocesses, Where the laurel branches twine, Feasting on thy sweet caresses, If thou clasp my hand in thine. Clasp my hand then close, my dearest, Lead me in life’s choicest ways, So the sun of truth may brighten All our glad, on-coming days. In my heart, lo! I have throned you, There to reign, my king of men : And with truest love have crowned you, Purer than earth’s choicest gem.

Widows and Bridal Veils.—The fashion which forbids the widow on marrying again to appear., st the altar in veil is derived, like many of our customs from medimvel superstitions. Ihe Church regarded the second marriage of a woman as inflicting a stain upon her womanhood. For I his reason, while the Virgin bride stood at the altar docked m all the insignia of virginity-white veil, flowing hair, crown (wreath), ungloved hand-the Widow who married again was allowed none of these, and was especially required to appear at the altar gloved in order that her hand, Which a second marriage was supposed to pollute, should not touch the pure, santified hand of the representative of the Church or liis sac red robes of office. This 1 is a curious superstition, and, like others of its sort produces an effect upon our habits and manners long after the cause is forgotten.