Ladies' Column.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XII, Issue 2404, 13 July 1891, Page 2

Ladies' Column.

A PRODUCT OP THE " HI3HER , IiOUCAIION." J

She c*n tell where every nation Started m at the creation, And she much prefers cremation When she dies. •She can name each bone and sinew. Ami if you're too fat or thin, you Soon w.ll have her daily din you Remedies. She'll .smile o'er a conic section. That m you would cause dejection ; And her love ne'er knows defection * From her books. But one day her husband faiutod ; And her fright cannot be painted, For she'd never been acquainted With such looks. For a cure her fond heart bled ; But of one she'd never read ; So she stood him on his head, Till he died. Though the jury learned she cherished Him next to her Hindoo " Verisht." " He of too much learning perished," They all cried.

In bairdressing, fringes have given place to a style which allows the parting to be seen. ' Gold is still used to a very large extent, m ribbons, passementerie, salon, lace and beads, but chiefly m combination with very dark colours, or elbe with black, . white, or cream. i In a recipe m our last Ladies' Column the directions were to '• beat the flour and sugar to a cream " —the butter and sugar were fo course meant, as many correspondents have pointe i pat to us. A small piece of paper moistened with turpentine and put into the wardrobe or drawers for a day or two, about three times a year, i.« a preventive against moths. The small cape with Medici collar is very fashionable. The latest style is to make it of very dark blue,: green, or btown cloth, piped round all the outlines with some bright shade of red, .pale blue, or yellow. Among the many accomplishments that the thoroughly-equipped society women of to-day possess, that of fencing is daily gaining ground m France. The society women cow have their fencing-rooms, raid there are fencing lessons for young ladies at the-Conservatoire m Paris. Greenwood— l< Of course you will admit that worn m, as a rule, is far inferior to i man m reasoning power ; but she seems to have a sort of intuitive sixth sense —a — : er—l don't exactly know what to call it —that, as I can testify from personal experience, man is lacking m.' 1 Miss Laura —" Do you re'er to cominon-scnse, Mr Greenwood'?" The comments of the American legal press on the now famous Jackson case all back up the view taken by the English judges as to the right of a husband to" imprison his wife. In America the freedom of woman is always insisted upon, and the Albany ' Law Journal" only represents a national .spntiment when it says: — '" Mr Jackson may thank his stars that he docs not liv« m this country. We fear that it is our common law almost everywhere that, if a husband forcibly imprisons his chaste wife, the neighbours may tar-and-feather him and ride him on a rail! There are some pretty new colors, which, although few m number, <rive us an idea of future hues. Venetian and Bartolozzi are both of them terra-cotta m their tines—a yellowish cast of red it should be called. In neutral shades there arefawn,cife)iulait, oak, codar, and a dark green called bay leaf. Absinthe is a light green ; and a new blue-green, of light color, is the hue of green peas. We have quite a cho'ce of blues—Delft, royal, silvery, nankeen, and moonshine. Home very bright yellows are found under the names of aconite and dandelion ; and a very bright pink-rose hue, such as is found m the new bonnats, goes under the name of c irmine. Green is likely co remain m the ascendant, and there is a new tone of emerald which bleu s particularly well with jet. Amongst fashionable colors for summer, tints that are likely to be popular are " primayera " (a pinky shade of mauve), sulphur ; Indian pink (a bright shade of vieux rose), ivory, blue gray, beige, and suede. AJI the new materials are made m these colors, besides, of course many others, and are seen to great advantage m the fine silky woollens, plain, spotted, or with shaded stripes, that are m vogue this year.