LADIES' COLUMN.

Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 162, 16 March 1871, Page 7

LADIES' COLUMN.

Boston is to have a Woman's Eights Fair, with a view to attracting fair

women into the movement.

An American paper say* : — A new thing for brides is a plain ' gold bracelet, which fastens with a lock and a key, aud which the husband places on her arm at the altar, locking it and placing the key on his watch chain. The bracelet cannot be removed witbout the husband's assistance, and thus both are constantly reminded of each ♦ other.

The " Cologne G-azette " says :' — "An English lady, whose name is to remain unknown, haviug offered a cosily memento, consisting of a large gold cross and necklace, to the wife, mother, or other connection of the i • Prussian officer who should capture the first gun at Woertb. Tho Cowi*-* will hand it over to the Crown Princess, and beg her to present it to the mother of the still unmarried lieutenant, who lives at Eudesheim. The cross bears an English inscription, stating the circumstances under which it was presented."

It was thought that the lady leaders who remained in Paris were too much occupied in making cartridges and lint to deal with the question of toilstte.°. But the fickle Parisians, it seems, were not content with effacing every allusion to the Emperor in public places ; their dames have determined upon abolishing all marks of the Empress's influence from their dress. According to a Bordeaux paper, which professes to have received a communication upon this important subject by balloon, all the fashions set or sustained by the once sipreme Eugenic have received their final sentence of condemnation. Every style or form of adornment which has been prevalent under the Empire — notably the many details which were adopted from Marie Antoinette or Mdme. de Pompadour — is being ruthlessly abandoned, and a reform of a radical nature introduced. Even the luxuriant coiffures, which have been so long in favour, are said to be doomed. The chignon itself is no more ; and blonde hair, which has turned so many heads during the last ten years, is to be abjured, as the remnaufc of a barbaric age.

There is only one man that I have envied during the summer — the man who bathes the girls at Long Branch, the merman of the hotel. Me takes his place about ten yards from the shore, and as the vestals aud dames come into the water he docs tofcallv immerse them. He is brawny and ugly, and yet he is the most popular man with the punctilious half of our species that I have ever seen. A very scrawny and untempting lady, who probably never had a pair of man's arms around her in her life, was the bane of this bather's existence. She went on every day of the season to tako h3r bath, and under the pretext of learning to swim she made that devoted child of Adam duck her for two hours. The squeals, the sighs, the interjections, and the noise this fema'e used wore agony to this bather. Sa=d he : " She ketches me as if I was a boss or a hitching post, and lives back all what might hey been in them two hours. And the more she enjoys herself, the colder she gets. Ibe now on this beach five years, but if they don't trot out some livelier females I shall resign. I ain't no undertaker of drowned folks." Quite otherwise., is the demeanour of this guilty mer- ! man when more tempting graces come ;.■ to swim. He places them lengthwise*' across his two arms, face upward fo' the sky, and gently floats them oft* the surface, looking down meanwhile at the stre iming tresses, the closed eyes, the exhaling nostrils, and the little' bare feet, with the mino-led piety resignation, and tenderness of a Mormon Bishop baptising a convert. Occasionally he agitates the water in a guil+y way, as if he wished to be presumed to be earning his salt, but he earns his salt easier than any person of my acquaintance. Millions of his species would paj>- for his position. I saw him once shock the feelings of a bashful young gentleman by the way in which he treated this young gentle-'-man's lady love. The bashful man had probably never done as much as to give the lady his arm. The other took her from him at once, and, swinging her under water, hoisted her in his arms, dipped her again and again, and, to facilitate her diving, held her nose with one hand and her toe with the other, and thus submerged her absolutely. The young man felt for his weapons to, immolate this uncivil varlet, but the ungrateful young woman just then, getting breath, cried: "Gustavus, it is positively splendid !" — American paper.

The London " Globe " is -responsible for the etory of a German gentleman, -who, finding tßat his wife had eloped with a fast friend of his, pens the following note to the destroyer of his, domestic' peace:— Sir, I have for some-time^ wished to' got rid of my wife. \Eight ]&•&?& since she was bitten by a mad dbg, and I have been waiting with resignation for the results. You will stand by her and help her in • her aad plight. Parewell." Half an hour after receiving the communication, the ardent lorsr eloped a^ain, but quite ' alone. Persons similarly afflicted, please copy.