LADIES COLUMN.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 247, 29 September 1884, Page 2

LADIES COLUMN.

[Specially Compiled for the Telephone.] Rowing has become a very favorite pastime for the fair sex, not only on the Continent, but in the Colonies, where several ladies boating clubs have been organised, and proved successful. As some of our readers may indulge in this pursuit, a descoiption of the most admired costumes which have been adopted by the ladies of a well-known rowing club in Melbourne may be interesting. The material used is white and cardinal boating cloth or flannel. The skirt is formed of double box pleats of white, faced with cardinal, each pleat bearing the initials of the club. The jacket is made simply in sailor fashion, the only difference being a girdle at the waist in the colors. The collar is bound with cardinal and there is a vest of the same. The head dress is a broad brimmed sailor hat, with cardinal bands having the name of the boat embroidered in silver. In one of the leading newspapers the following names of the latest fashionable colors are worthy of notice, for example—Narbonne, honey, raspberry, and cream, crushed strawberry, Malaga, Virginal blue, and Veronelle pink. Would it not be a very good speculation for some of our sex to form a dictionary

or handbook of the latest names of able colors to enlighten those who, perhaps not color blind, would justified in being color dumb, if DamS Fashion still continues using the language which has lately been prevalent ?

Gymnastics have been greatly recommended by medical men, not only for those of strong constitution, but especially for those who are delicate. Several of the leading doctors insist upon their families freely indulging in the exercise, and illustrations are continually being brought before us of the amount of good which has been derived.

The following are the names of some of the new waltzes which are likely to become very popular:—Mello, New Wien, Pipeli, Fairyland, Summer’s Night, Pierrot, Maiechal Niel, Lebewohl, Rendezvous.

A new opera entitled " Estrella,” by Luscombe Searell, a oomposer who hails from New Zealand, will shortly appear in Sydney, and the new tenor, Signor Modini, of whom report speaks very highly, has been engaged to take the chief character.

The following names of new songs may also be interesting to lovers of good music :— LaL'm, Lasssie, Auntie, Heyday, Carrier Juhii, Th Broken Pitcher, The New King•loin. Gentle Faces, Divided, The Shadowy Vale.

The principal topic of conversation just now in all grades of society is the small-pox, which unfortunately has made its appearance among us, and the question which greets us at every turn is, “ Have you been vaccinated ? And, although the anxious inquirer is generally answered in the affirmative, there are some who hold out stoutly against vaccination denying that there is any necessity for it; but they are obliged to admit that it is better to be on the safe side. The following extracts from The Queen will show the directions of public opinion in England on the points of vaccination.—" The anti-vaccination craze which has taken possession of a very small portion of this community is not a matter to be met with serious arguments. The bounden duty of all persons who are in charge cf young persons or others liable to even the suspicion of exposure to contagion, is to have them re-vaccinated if any considerable period had elapsed since the operation was first performed.”

The following singular calculation of the number of stitches in a plain shirt has been made by a seamstress in Leicester :—Stitching the collar, four rows, 3000 ; sewing the ends, 590; button holes and sewing on buttons, 150 ; sewing the collar and gathering the neck, 1204 ; stitching wristbands, 1228 ; sewing the ends, 68 ; button holes, 148; hemming the slits, 264 ; gathering the sleeves, 810 ; setting on wristbands, 1468 ; sticking on shoulderstraps, three rows each, 1880 ; hemming the bosom, 393; sewing the sleeves, 2554 ; setting in sleeves and gussets, 3050 ; tapping the sleeves, 1526 ; sewing the seams, 843 ; setting side gussetts in, 424 ; hemming the bottom, 1104—total number of stitches, 20,649.