Ladies' Express.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume III, Issue 435, 9 December 1876, Page 2

Ladies' Express.

[The 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'} ■ :o: BULGARIA. The heart is moved ! The heart is moved ! Ah, let the foolish talk go by That prates of diplomatic arts Whilst tortured babes and women die. The heart is moved to strike, to strike— Not chatter and procrastinate ; These shrieks and sobs and burning tears Outweigh the welfare of a State. Man born of woman hears the cry Of mothers dashing out their brains In lunacy of grief. He hears— And all the manhood in him strains To beat the bloody bayonet down That stabs the unprotected breast ; Honour and manhood question him ; “ Wilt thou leave wrongs unredressed?’ White girlish faces still in death, Speak mutely of the dastard’s deed ; Thousands of homes lie desolate Through Turkish lust and Turkish greed ; Children and babes dn bloody heaps For vengeance bitterly cry out; And o’er the trampled Christian cross The banners of the heathen flout. Shall diplomatic wiles avail While there are sights and sounds like these ? While maidens weep and mothers wail Shall strong mon. sit and take their ease ? No, for the time is close at hand When kings and princes shall not stay A mighty stream of human wrath From pouring out. God send that day ! “ Lunatic fringe” is the name given to the fashion of cropping the hair and letting the ends bang down over the forehead. Wl: have the new Caroubier color ; after that crimson and scarlet divide the honors of public favor. But it is always red 1 red 1! red!!! Brigham Young’s little ones are down with the measles, but at the last account there were not measles enough, to go round. It is said that the wife of an English nobleman has adopted the fashion of wearing a moustache and dressing as nearly as possible like the other sex. Tight dresses still continue to be the order of the day. Ladies tie themselves, strap themselves, and imprison themselves, to the smallest possible dimensions. A newly-married man complains of the high price of “ ducks.” He says his wife recently paid for three of them—a duck of a bonnet, a duck of a dress, and a duck of a parasol. Ho says such “dealing in poultry” will ruin him. We have now come to one under-skirt. This, in order to cling the better to the figure, is generally of white washing silk, trimmed with a lace frill, beaded by several rows of lace insertion.’ I do not think that we can do with less than one under skirt, though perhaps we may try. Nearly all hats, and certainly all “ porkpie ” hats, have a turban of gauze rolled round the brim. This is crossed at the back, and is then tied under the chin, In front, in lieu of strings. These gauze scarf-veils, not being attached to the hats, can be changed in colour, according to the dress with which they are to be worn. The “Gainsborough” and Piffard are the two shapes most in vogue at the present moment.