PARIS FASHIONS.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume III, Issue 326, 20 November 1875, Page 2

PARIS FASHIONS.

Chapeaux are of such varied shapes, that it is impossible to define witli precision tlie style most in favor la mode. I have taken note of a few models this week whieh may give some ideas to our fair readers. Amongst others, a bonuet of English straw, trimmed witli Surah foulard of two shades (buff and brown). The narrow bordered shape is turned up at the back. Cluster of feathers to mate!.. Catogan bow of ribbon of the same shai>e; by varying the bow, this chapeau may be matched to several toilettes. A Leghorn hat, almost flat, with wide brim, trimmed with a faille scarf the color of straw, and with a large, round wreath composed of China asters of all shades, finished with a trailing spray. This chapeau is put ou very much at the back of the head. A black English straw hat of a high shape, with a jockey crown. Its trimming consists of a torsade of white guaze, disposed into a turban, and forming at the back several large puffs, in which are fastened six small humming-birds’ wings of varied colors. A guaze veil is often added to this hat. A round hat of white English straw, sloped over the forehead, and flattened on either side by ribbons, whieh are tied under the hair. Its trimmings consist of wide black velvet ribbon. Large heron’s feather at the side. Guaze scarf, which may be worn at pleasure as a veil or as a wrap round tlie neck. This lint is suitable to excursions, drives, and visits in the country. A lovely hat for a child is of Leghorn, lowered upon the forelicad, and trimmed with a wreath of blue corn-flowers. Upon the crown, large white feather. It may also be trimmed with black velvet, and a pretty wreath of rose-buds, or with pale blue ribbon and wreath of white aud pink daisies.

A very fashionable style ef hat is the paillasson of very coarse straw, unbleached or brown, trimmed with a colored guaze scarf, which is tied in a large Catogan bow at the back, fastening on a bird’s wing oi" a cluster of flowers.

A Yankee Preacher’s thoughts on Woman—A queer compound is woman 1 She is made up of industry, boldness, beauty, silks, satins, jealousy, love, hatred, horse-hair, whalebone, piety, paint, gaiety, gum-elastic, bear’s grease, sympathy, tears, smiles, affection, and kindness. My friends, how lofty is woman I No matter whether born in a cellar, she can sometimes be as lofty as a garret. When she once gets her back up, oil ! cats and broomsticks lookoutforyourselves. She is big as Olympus, and as savage as a sausage machine. In her wrath she is as . crazy as a bed-bug, as strong as a tigeifr _ and as terrible as a tornado. She blazeßß up as though she were a tar-barrel, in a moment all is over—and nobody killed. When she comes down from the mountains, whence she was rolling big stones upon tlie people below, she softens down to a jelly, and becomes as quiescent as a goose-pond after a tempest. The breeches won’t fit. Again, how loving is a woman! Aye she is amazingly sticky in her attachments. She will ding to the chosen object of her heart like a ’possum to a gum tree ; and you can’t separate her without snapping strings that no art can mend, and leaving a portion of her soul upon the upper leatlier of her affections — and, when her fondness is fastened upon a fellow, it stays there like glue and molasses in a bushy head of hair.

A story is circulating which tells how a fair young lady went to a drug store and told the man to fix her up a dose of castor oil. aud to mix it with something to take tlie taste away. Tlie nmu told her to wait. In a few moments he asked her it site felt like taking a glass of soda water. She accepted the invitation and drank the beverage. Presently she asked the roller of pills why he did not give her the castor oil. The man smiled a triumphant smile, and said. “Madam, you have taken it. I mixed a fearful dose with that soda.” She turned pale; and sank into a chair.; she gasped. *’ Immortal Jove! It was for my mother. I'm going to a ball.”