LADIES' GOSSIP.

Auckland Star, Volume XVII, Issue 241, 13 October 1886, Page 4

LADIES' GOSSIP.

Tueuk havo boen moro mon scolded to death than killed in battle.

AVhy is a young lady before marriage never right ? -Becauso sho is all the timo a-mUs.

An impudent follow eay~, -'Show m_ all tho drosses a woman has worn iv tho courso of hor life and I will write bor biography from them."

A Sentiment.—The ladies ; may their virtuos exceed even tho magnitude of their skirts, while tbolr faults are still smaller than their bonnets.

" What a beautiful example of Wagner's stylo," said a musical crank between the acts tho other night at tbo theatre. Sho was a little shakon in hor opinion, however, whon sho discovered tho fiddlers wero merely tuning up for the next scene.

A lady named Mary Ann Elridge had occasion to sond a note to a gentleman, and put two r'» in her first name in signaturo, thus—" Marry Ann Elridge." The man was a bachelor, and consequently took the hint; he married Ann Elridge.

An old bachelor says, "There's a great sight more jewellery worn nowadays than whon I was young. But there's one piece that I always admired which I don't often see now." '• What is that!" asked a young lady. "A thimble," was the reply. He was regarded with contempt and scorn by every lady in the room for tho rest of the evening.

A gentleman once conversing in tho society of a company of ladies, and oriticising rather severely tho want of personal beauty in othor ladies of thoir acquaintance, re marked, "They aro the ugliest women I know ;" and then, with cxtraordinsrypolileneßs, added, " present company always excepted."

The latest high-life innovation in fashionable marriages in Paris is the display of the bride's wedding outfit on dummy figures ranged on a platform, as was done at tbe late reception for tho signing of the marriago contract of tho daughtor of the Countess do P . Assistants from tho dressmakers who had produced tho toilettes attended to point out the beautiee of their creation.