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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 3080, 14 December 1888, Page 3

. . Bathing Costumes. . Madeline told us that while ebo was at Brighton lately, die noticed two pretty girls who wcro well provided . with neat and tasteful bathing costumes, ostensibly for the purpose of bathing. Madeline observed that their waists were assamll asm theirordinary drcsß; and, at tor a while accidentally making their Acquaintance, she discovered that not only did thoy both wear seventeen-incli stays while in the water, but that their bathing' dresses were lined with oil silk to protect both skin and corset from the salt water I But why batho ut all 1 ■ Did you over hear of anything more absurd ? I'hey also always wore long chamois-leather gloves to protect their arms and hands. What a farce 1

The Toilet of an Egyptian Lady. ( Rouge and other colouring sub- ■ fc stances were used by women in Egypt enhance, as thoy thought, their • beauty; the eyos had often a green line them; the lashes and eyebrows wore pencilled in black; and, as in modern Europe, tlio nails were always stained red with a preparation from the lionna plant, In our museums we can seo the little pots and vases formerly filled with these unguents and colors, and the ponoils they used with them, as well as various sorts of combs and hairpins ; of tho latter there is a very pretty set in the museum at Boulak —single pronged' woodoii pins with jackal heads, stuck into a cushion in tho form of a turtle, which was evidently one. of tho favorite dressing: table ornaments belonging to tho doceasod lady, These little essentials of the toilet were placed in tho tombs by tho loving hands of friends and relations for tho use of that spiritual body, which they believed required all the adornment the lady had loved upon earth.—Tho Woman's , V.<DrM. A Story of the South,

The Dunedin Herald is responsible for the followingAu event which will probably drag certain of tho • aotors beforo the Divorce Court is tho occasion of considorablo popular excitemont at I'ort Chalmers. A , certain well • known official, who resides at Port Chalmers, some year L or so ago parted with the wife of his J bosom temporarily, to allow her to visit friends at a distance for a week. Taking pity on his grass widow-homl a friend asked him to stay with him while his wife was away. Unfortunately, the friend had a good-looking tyife, ai]d jhfi fiffipial seems tb ! 'liaVe Binighi'cojlsolatidn for'liisown wife's absence'by devoting himself to''his fnohd's spouse. In iluG' courso the frieud's \Vife" presented her loving Spoiiso with a remarkably fine child, Which sdfne kind iriehds said did not wmble liim in the least, : ln]|llucli did- reproduce with' rom&rMlile jitlolity bet-lain peoiiiiiirities of complexion noticeablo in the official. With ("jjL (such'a degree of filial anxiety _ did this estimable child strive to imitate its pa, and betray the paren|fiSP]thaii eveji • tjio (Ipptof ip jy jojjnlaf |®r)jed Vppi) the likepes?.. This was only talicn as a jolto at,this time, and not until two montllß^"aftol. , did - the friend's wife confess that, $8 offiri&l wis' the astasl fath?r