MISCELLANEOUS.

Inangahua Times, Volume XI, Issue 1688, 7 April 1886, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS.

A good deal of misplaced pity (says a Home paper^ has been expended on the lad if s who wore at the House of L:H*'ls when the. Qiieen opened Parliament. It was ordered on Her Majesty's behalf that ladies should wear low gowns and feathers, and there were naturally terrible misgivings at the probable results of the emergence of ladies from their homos in such weather in low-bodied costumes. It happened, however, that tho ladies, as far as anyone present could see, were remarkably well provided against the weather. Until a minute or two before Her Majesty's arrival they kept on mantles of ermine or the rich plush nt velvet, now so fashionable, and ere the time came for throwing them u>id.\ the temperature of tlin chamber had become high en.0u.311 to make the abandonment of these wraps for a few minutes a proceeding of infinitesimal danger. One of the most striking eftocts witnessed in the course of tho development of j that wondrous picture in the House of : Lords was a sudden transformation that occurred when the ladies at the sound of the trumpets, threw off their mantles and stood up with all their breast jewels flashing to receive the Queen. Much more worthy of pity were the members of the Hons" of I Commons who suffered in the rnph to ! the bar after the Speaker. To pnable ! the police to check the passage of any I intruder, a wooden barrier had been ! erected at. the entrance to the peers' lobby. This was •' V " slmpM, so that the crowd pushing on behind naturally squeezed their fellow-member .s sorely against the sides of the '* V " before they could pass through the narrow and almost funnel like aperture <v the bottom. The police, too, to check the rush, kept a barrier fence across the aperture, and some members complain that by pressure against this bat they have been seriously hurt J Referring to the unemployed diffi- • cnlty. the Tap* mi i Courier suggests j thitt small \illage setUemeit 1 3 should be formed by Government in the leading agricultural and gnldßelds districts and married mm especially, with their families, located thereon. The* valley i of the Clutha Kiver and the borders of j the interior luki-9, it points, out, are ; specially snit.xl for settling a large j population of the labouring cl .ss. ()») the bn»iks uad be«ch«« of the river cold enn b« obtained that will give sm.-ill wiigcs, wirh the c)i:imcp of an acci dental " patch," and the hn-1 i:i the vjiliey is so pro<-]ncti\v tlcit t!if earth t>nt requires scratdii'ig to yield p'ejUi ! fully fhe fruits of labour. Purely men I plac.' d as we suggest would, in <)\f hv. % ! run, live h vppi -r lives thai if ci'O\?--b'd into citii-3, with heavy rents to pay for the merest hovels. On the N?w Zeft- ! land ejoldfields -there are thousands of j acres of auriferous land almost on> I touched that will yield yo!d sufficient to pay more than " unemployed wages," and it is quite ti-ne tSiat. wiif scheme was introduced to work such lands, in place of ketpisig men stonehivaking } in the corp-yratiou yard.^ of Danedin, i Christchurch, and otli*T cities. I Lord Carrington thinks tint anyone ! who keeps sober can get on in Austra : lia A correspondent writes as follows : j — My experience is dead against this. ■ Once when returning from a Rc-chahite ! meetinjj — I'd not tasted alcohol for ! years — I was * run in ' by two tipsy j policemen, and fined Hve shillings by a ! magistrate who had to be fixed to his j seat with cobbler's wax, an;l who, ; having glared at me observed, 4 fi ' ! schlinghs, or 10 yearsh." Since then j I've seldom b' i en s^b *r, am making ! money fa>t, and expect to become an I nltterrnuii iR-.xt year." So min-h for i drunkenness keeping a man back. I A London paper, Society, prints a very witty letter from one of its fair readers anent an unfair discrimination which custom has decreed against married women, and in favor of their husbands. She asks very pertinently why, when a woman mirries, she should bo compelled to publicly exhibit the badge of servitude in being known as " Mrs" Blank, while her husband iis allowed to go scot free as single j " Mr " without any outward and I distinguishing mark of his new, and, of course, improved condition. "If it is necessary," she °ay-, •' that the wife Should be labelled ' Sold,' why should not the husband also bear the red ticket V It certainly does seem unfair ! that the woman must war the collar around her neck inscribed with the name of her master, and that tho may should not »>e compelled to a similar process of branding. A man can always do things that a woman man not ; hut in many cases it might be well to clip his wings by way of reminding him that he is as much a " clave of the ring " as the other party to the marriage covenant. The title of " Mr" is entirely too comprehensive, jlt conveys no intimation of mcc, I color, or previous (or present)cosulhion of servitude. There is no danger signal in it to catch eye of the unwary, and a young maripd man can often do i a great deal of mischief if he be so inclined. Inexperienced gir's have ! always and doubtless always will continue to fall in love with married men ; but were some nmnistakeablp trade maik attached by l.iw. to the newlyHedged Benedict, and the mis-leading "Mr "sternly reserved for bachelors only, it miabJ: very well be worth while for the sake of society at large. Man, of course, will obioct, as he always does to anything that is reasonable, and that very o'jection should V ilie cause for this rekmu.

L idles who we u- gloves of medium or light color a t v ciuMo...'d ugiiusUbe use of ntntirt'llaa with silver handles, as they will sit. irmly blacken thw inside of t!ie «lov«., \,,,| it j s qnito impossible to remove the, stain. The Jersey mm who unearthed an old statute law wh eh nuke.9 it acrimo punishable with fii^andiinprisonmjiit for a woman to Itad a mm into m.irriage by the use of false hair, falar te^th, or other fata* charms, may luvedone a good wotk, but it will neve.r make him popular. Two married woman and a dog were struck dead l>y lightening recently up North. Ualf th^ married >uen np tint way are trying to get their wives to walk about iv that vicinity ever since. The dogs are kopt tied up. TOWLE'S PENNYROYAL AND STEEL PILLS FOP FEMALES quickly correct all irregulari ies, and relieve tlie distressing sympton 3 s.» prevalent wUh the sex. Boxes Is lfl., and 2s. 6d., of I all Chemists. Prepared only by E T. ; Towle., Chemist, Nottingham, England, Wholesale of all the Wholesale Houaua, Re *nt .•«'//■» »!/( ifit>n*