LADIES' COLUMN.

Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 119, 19 May 1870, Page 7

LADIES' COLUMN.

A Paris journal has a capital cartoon which represents two young married ladies chatting about their husbands. " What," says one of them, " you permit your husband to smoke in your rooms 1 " " Certainly T do ; but he spends his evenings with me,"_replied the other. "Yes, at that price." "My dear friend, a shrewd wife avails herself of her husband's faults to suppress his vices."

Bonnets are worn in the theatres, with the exception of the French and Italian Opera ; but these, it is true, are now scarcely more than coiffures. Those of white lace are most fashionable, and are merely, as it were, a long fulling of lace, in the midst of which nestles a flower or a bow of ribbon. A very pretty one lately attracted our notice. Jewels are much worn on these lace bonnets.

A Winsconsin lawyer recently received the following letter from a resident of that State, who desired to prevent his wife from getting a bill of divorce :—": — " Mr. Steel, — I heard my wife came to you for a bill of divorce you probly herd her story and I will tell you mine and I will tell you the truth I haerd Id did not provide nuff to eat god noes I hade nuff of flower pork potatoes and made ower one barril buter and always had huney in the hous I got her tea shoger dried frut I always thought good deal of her and I would get evrything I cold to please her I herd she sed I was lasy if I was I had nuff to eat and drink she cant say but what I got close for her she had 4: good dresses when she left I got her fore new pare of shoes jvhin one year that was last year the first pare I pade 3 dollars the second 2.25 and third 2.50 and 4 forth 3 dollars this was all got with in one year and I was willin to get them for her and I got things Just that way for her and I am willin to do it again for her I thought my eyes of her she would get every thing she ask for if it lade in my power to get her this is just as trew as god in heaven and I cant see she can get enny bill on this. Mr. Steel I wish you would talk with her and get her to come back and live with me and live a happy life to gether I ceap bees and have lots of huney I wish you wold advise her to come and live with me I am a lonsom man you ever saw I cant eat or sleep much it wares on me my mind is on her all the time when I am awake and sleep if you answer this write plain so I can read it for I cant read tell me what she ses about it."

Port Oneida, on Lake Michigan, lives, it is said, " the smartest girl in Michigan." She is a G-erman, about seventeen years old, and the oldest of the family of an even dozen, living in a double-logged cabin on the shores of the lake. She delights in out-door life and employment, and especially boating and fishing, and for tbe last three years has been " master " of a handsome fishing craft and set of gill net. She puts out early in April, and continues them till late in the fall. She is out every morning at daylight, and again in the evening, except in the roughest weather. She takes a younger sister along to help to set and draw nets. She often brings 200 fine Lake trout and whitefish at a haul. She dresses them, dries out the oil, packs, and sends them away to market. Her August and September catch amounted to over £300. Besides her fishing receipts she has taken in over £170 this season for berries picked at odd hours by herself and sister. Danger and hardship seem unknown to her. She will go out in any blow, and come in with full sails. Her white mast and blue pennon are known by people far along the coast. Boats salute her in passing; boys swing their oars in proud recognition.

A correspondent in a fashionable contemporary pleads in favour of the admission of bonnets to the theatres and concert-rooms as well as to readings, lectures, and so forth ; as at present the wearers of bonnets must content themselves at the former places by occupying an inferior class of seats, which implies that the occupiers are of a second-rate status. It is urged, on cesthetic grounds, that the bonnet is as ornamental in these days as any other style of dress, and for the sake of the coup d'ceil — the appearance of the stalls — the bonnets might be one side, and evening dress on the other. A lady who prefers to walk, or to whom the trouble of putting on evening dress is a great inconvenience, has no choice unless that of taking her place in the back seats. This question is rather social than medical ; for the present style of bonnet is of so tiny a character that it is difficult to see them when on,, and it would therefore be impossible to discover the danger of discarding them. The practice, however, pursued by the majority of ladies, who, after wearing high and thick dresses in the house during the earlier part of the day, put on sealskin jackets -and fur accessories for walking and driving — the drive probably taken at this season in a closed carriage — and change all this wrapping for a low-bodied dress in the evening at places of entertainment, must, in a sanitary point of view, be frequently productive of dangerous consequences.