Ladies' Express.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume III, Issue 417, 7 October 1876, Page 2

Ladies' Express.

[TV/e Editor will be glad to give insertion to any local contributions from his lady friends that may be considered interesting in any family circle, or to the sex generally] FLO W EKS. There is no season in the year That lifts man’s heart to Heaven so near As summer ; When flowers about our pathway grow, And roses on the hedgerows blow, Sweet sunim-r ! And as its perfumed breath doth rise, In silent homage to the skies Upstealing, A thousand memories forth start. Long-hidden pictures in the heart Revealing ; Where lilac chains with scented links, Or treasured tuft of red clove pinks. Or heather ’Mongst which wo played, fond stories tell Of parted ones, who ouco did dwell Together. Again, the feathery seeds away Ate puffed to tell the time of day ; Whilst golden. Hued cowslips into bulls we twine, Or part the horns in columbine Enfolden Whilst t hrough the woods the whole day long The cuckoo sings an idle song. A waking the echo of a dulcet peal, That rang ere hearts began to feel Heart-breaking ; And so it comes to pass that we With half a sigh the flowers see, Half gladness ; And round our hearts they twine and twine Until their beauty makes divine Our sadness. Polonaises are being made lighter and tighter, and longer cuipassed, in order to be tighter round the figure. Ribbon bows hide all the junctures, or seams, at the back, so that a lady looks as if the polonaiss and she made one. “ Here’s Papa?”—A young single gentleman in Levensworth (says the St. Louis Republican) lately blushed and hung bis head in church. He was sitting at his devotions while the service was in progress, very meek and mild. A little four-year-old girl, with a tongue in her head spying him, broke away from her preoccupied mother, ran down the aisle, and sprang into the young man’s arms, exclaiming, “ Oh, mama, here's papa?”in so gleeful and ringing a voice that the whole church full of people w ere startled. The mother and child were both well known to many present, the former as a dashing widow, and the latter as mi honest child of a dead father. It was further known that the young man had been paying ardent attentions to the widow. The devotional exercises were stopped perforce, and the congregation indulged in a burst of laughter, which sounded foreign tot’ie place. The young man’s devotions were knocked out of him and he left the sauefua y in confusion. That sort of a dem mstra ion cannot fail to bring the pending matrimonial matter to a speedy crisis. The little girl evidently knew her own future father.