FOR THE LADIES

Auckland Star, Volume XXIII, Issue 4292, 23 February 1884, Page 9 (Supplement)

FOR THE LADIES

The priests of Brittany have ordered the Breton girls not to sell their hair.

Ellen Terry's breakfast consists of a hard boiled egg and bread dipped in sherry wine. Matilda Heron introduced real food in stage spreads. She would not play "Camille" unless genuine articles were on tho table.

■ Countess d'Edle, wife of the ex-King of Portugal, who is in Paris, was Miss Hansier, whose father was a tailor in Soringneld, Mass., thirty years ago. Maaulay once received a letter from a lady who urged that as he had made so much money by abusing better people than himself he ought to give a portion of it to her. Following the advice of her physicians, Mrs M. J. Pitman ("Margery Deane") will soon sail for Europe and spend the winter in Southern France and Italy. She will do no literary work, but will lead as quiet and restful a life as possible, hoping thus to recover entirely from the distressing affection of her eyes. ; •

At i meeting of persons interested in the Woman's Department of the Institute Fair in Boston, Mrs Julia Ward Howe spoke enthusiastically of woman's work saying: '" What shall we do ?' is the cry of rich women as well as poor ones. Work and learn to work, was the cheery answer. Can and Cannot balance each other. We women have made a large appearance on the cannot side. Lord Byron said that women could not run, forgetting the legend of Atlanta. Dr Clarke—heaven rest his memory ! —said that women could not; go through a college course, and so on. Such an eshibition as this abridges this dismal column of Cannot and enlarges the column of Can." English and American Fashion Note*.

Forty small heads of the robin-red breasts form the coronets of red-velvet bonnets.

Mousquetaire gloves are worn shorter than they were last season, that is, less wrinkled on the arm.

The high-shouldered sleeves have at last found favour in Paris and are seen on all imported dresses.

Triangles formed of many rows of soutache braid are newer than wheels of braid for ornamenting cloth dresses or cloaks. Transparent crepe of faint pink and blue shades covered with silver spots is the novelty for evening dresses. It is ornamented with fringes of silver sequins and is made over satin. \

Plain velvet is the material preferred above all others for winter costumes for the street, for church, and for afternoon receptions. Fur or feathers with a little lace are the trimmings. A tea-gown forms as important a part of a bridal trousseau as morning wrappers formerly did. For blondes they are madewith a long pale blue sicilienne and a short skirt covered with Venetian embroidery. For brunettes they are of vicux rouijc surah, trimmed with a blouse vest and creamy lace in the Fedora fashions of Sara Bernhardt's Play-