The Ladies' Column.

Bruce Herald, Volume VII, Issue 649, 13 November 1874, Page 3

The Ladies' Column.

MONKEYa IX LADIE3' EAES

There is one item of the present style of fashion which I must notice (writes a Paris correspondent) and that is the extraordinary mania that now exists of wearing earrings that represent animals and implements. Thus, you see pending from a lady's ear, monkeys, guinea-pigs, lizards, chandeliers, with caudles in them ; bird-cages, tilled with birds ; tortoises, turtles, shovels, tongs, and who knows j what. Gold stirrups in the ear are also very popular, and if the lady's husband be a soldier she wears his " sword and epaulettes " in her ears. This is not precty, and no fashion can make it so. The iTrench, who justly pride themselves on their taste, say that these eccentricities come from " over the seas." To you they wili say that the Americans introduced them into Paris; to American, however, they say it was the English. It may be any one, in fact, but 'the French. Eor my own part, I can confidently aver that it was neither Americans nor English who first wore such atrocities. The new stj^les of head-dress for ladies resembles a pigtail. It is an English innovation, and I remember having seen it two years ago, when on a fljing visit to London. All the hair is tied at the top of the head, and then it is either turned loosely back, or it is plaited, but in either case it falls on the neck, and the ends are tied together with a colored ribbon. Jet embroidery has become quite a furore. One sees women clad from head to foot in black, and yet so dazzeiiog from the quantity of jet beads they carry, that one cau scarcely look at them without winking. — ' Continental Herald,' Geneva. MISCELLANEOUS. All flowers of speech spring from tulips. The Boston dress reformers have invented a combination garment for female wear which includes in one piece chemise, waist, drawers, aud stockings. On thu foundation are buttons to attach the rest of the rig. It is aaid to be neat, cheap, and convenient.

Another case of religious mania is reported in the Melbourne papers. A young woman named Louisa Salter attempted to drown herself in a creek near her father's house. When she regained consciousness she was asked why uhe had jumped into the creek, and she replied to wash away her sins, and that her Saviour had told her to do so, and that he was dressed in a long white robe; that Satan had pulled her into the creek by the foot. INTERESTING JPISODE IN BIltD LIPE.

An accident occurred a few days ago at Moncriefi'e- terrace, High Craigie, which appeared to have t'alien from its nest, was picked up opposite Moncrietfeterrace, by a lady who kindly took the little wanderer under her protection. A cage was procured, and the little bird hung outside one of the windows. Shortly afterwards the parent birds discovered their lost offspring, and clung to the cage in an ecstasy of delight, do doubt mingled with curiosity. The male bird, like a wise father, then went in search of food for the truant, bringing worms to the mother, who proceeded to feed the young birds, dropping the worms through the top of the cage. This interesting in cident in bird life continued throughout the evening, mingled with the songs of the joyous father and mother. The same scene was repeated next day, an,d may j well be used as atf argument for kindness j to. the, feathered tribe," seeing they exhibit such great affection towards each other. KISSING- PT CimBOB, A Columbia, S. C, clergymen, who, preaching a serroou one Sunday evening,

perceived a man and lady under the gallery in the act of kissing each other behind a hymn book, did not loose his temper. No! he remained calm. He beamed mildly at the offenders over his spectacles, and when tha young man kissed her the fifteenth time, he merely broke his sermon short oft* in the middle of "thirdly" and offered a fervent prayer in behalf of " the young man in the pink neck tie and the maiden in the blue bonnet and gray shawl, who were profaning the Banctuary by kisßiDg one another in pew 78." And the congregation said" Amen." Then the young woman pulled her veil down, and the young man sat there a«ad swore softly to himself. He does not go to church so much now as he did.