LADIES' COLUMN.

Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 164, 30 March 1871, Page 7

LADIES' COLUMN.

A Good Joke ox Somebody. — Somo young ladies and gentlemen who were takiug advantage of the fine sleighing not long since, in attending a donation surprise or wedding party, or somethiug of the kind, were obliged to sit three on a seat. One of the seats contained two gentlemen and one lady. The gentlemen, of course, would not allow the lady to take an exposed seat ; she therefore sat in the middle. As the night was extremely cold, gentlemau number one quietly passed his baud (a remarkable small one' by tho way) into the Lidy's muff. As the muff was not very capacious, the lady quietly removed one of her bauds from toe same. In a few moments she felt a movement on tho other side, and found gentleman number two attempting to pass his hand into the muff on the other side. She then quietly drew her hand from the mvii' and allowed him to do so. What took place in tho muff afterwards she was uuable to say. But each of the gentlemen privately reported to a small circle friends how warmly tne lady had returned tho pressure of his hand in the muff, while the lady as privately reported to her friends the magnificent n-Al she had made of both gentlemen. Our Jim says there must have beeu moro " muffs " than one on the sleigh that time.

Golden Haie. — The large and daily increasing demand for tbo fair hair with which many "ladies of the period" are wont to eke out the scanty supplies granted taem by nature, has run up tiie price ot that article to such an extent that tbo finest sorts are positively sold for more than their weight in. gold, whose colour they are supposed to possess. According to the American papors, this circumstance has given rise in New York to a new branch of industry. Pickpockets h-ive begun to vary the monotonous business of abstracting pocket -handkerchiefs aud purses by the easier and equally profitable occupation of cutting off ladies' hair. Armed with a pair of sharp scissors, they haunt the entrance of the theatres aud churches, and in general all crowded places ; those lac.i;s \alij, according to the prevailing fashion, wear curls hanging down tueir backs suffering most. Journeymen hairdressers out of work find this an excellent mode of turning their skill to a lucrative account. The Bishop of Now Jersey has announced that at the next continuation, he will refuse to lay his episcopal hands on any head adorned with borrowed tresses. But how, uniosa he empannels a jury of coiffeurs in tho vestry, doe 3he propose to arrive at a fair judgment between art and nature ? —"Pali Mill Gazette,"

A correspondent of a Philadelphia paper writes that a 1-uly in New York recently granted a day's holiday to her nursery maid, and was afterward so strongly importuned by her children to take them to a certain place of amusement that .she complied with their request. Sitting in front of her was a female, elegantly attired in a rich striped silk, and exactly like the one the lady had recently received from her modiste, and had not worn. Her aitention was further attracted by a familiar-looking black lace shawl, fastened at the shoulders by diamond clasps, strangely resembling her own. Her interest in the toilet; was '07 no means diminished, as she recognised the facsimile of an exquisite pointlace hat she had just received from Paris, and estimated as one of tha choicest articles in her possession. The richly dressod female was the nursery-maid, and,, the clothes wcro her mistress's.

The civil service of Victoria seema likely to bo rushed by the fair sex. There is a lady-registrar, who performs marriages and collects materials for blue-books in a most bewitching style, and now there is an irruption of post-mistresses. The number of openings for educated women" is on^^e, increase, but it is to bo- feared m&f will sometimes be inclined to indulge in. tlmfc curiosity from wliiuh no daughter of Eve is altogether exempt. Dunning letters, notices -of the dishonour of bills, and remittances, may safely be entrusted to their keeping ; but would they resist a satin-papered sweet-smelling billet-doux, more particularly if the recipient were one of their own friends, or they fancied thafcthey recognised the hand-writing of the sender ?—"? — " Leader."

Independently of the accidents which occur daily to ladies from wearing high-heeled boots and shoes, the medical men of Paris are frequently consulted for sufferings generally local but sometimes spinal, originating in this absurd fashion. T)r-. Fontin publishes some remarks on the diseases originating in fashions. For the foot malady he advise. " Go to bed," and " Use bandages of a soothing nature." Widows are the very mischief. There's nothing like 'em. If they make up their minds to marry, it's done. We knew one that was terribly afraid of thunder and lightning, and every time a storm came on she would run into Mr. Smith's house (he was a widower), and cla-p her little hands, and fly round till Vie man was half distracted for fearsie would be killed, and the consequence was ■'he was Mra, John Smith before three thuuder^fcorpia rattled over her head-