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Clutha Leader, Volume XXI, Issue 1042, 13 July 1894, Page 3

« (By Meta.) "Weldon's Journal for June is as interesting as ever, and must he a great boon to those who live in the country, and who have to do their own dressmaking to a jjreat rxtent. The new skirts vary from 3J- to 4yds round the lipm. Some are cut with a seam down the back only, others with a gored front, side, and back, while a third style has a gored front and a circular back. The capes are growing shorter, and some are merely collarettes, whilst to be in the height of fashion one must have as a finish two tremendous bows with ends reaching nearly to the fee.*., of moire ribbon. Costumes in grey, white, and black tints combined will be much favorpd for the summer, and black flowers with yellow centres are being much worn. This week's Home news brings us a delightful description of Miss Margot Tennantfs wedding with Mr Asquith, the Homo Secretary. Society calls it the ' Asquith-Dodo ' wedding, in reference to the fact that Miss Tennarvt was supposed by lr.any to be the heroine of that now famous novel. The description of her dresses must seem like, a fairy tale to those less fortunate women out in the colonies, especially those who live, in the country, and who think I themselves lucky if they can mauage | to screw one good, plain, serviceable dress in the year out of their hardworking father's or husband's purses. Her presents numbered a modest (1) 500, including a sapphire and dhimond brooch from the Prince and Princess of Wales (says the Home correspondent of the Evening Star), seven volumes of * Gleanings from Gladstone ' with the inscription ' From W. E. Gladstone to Margot Tennant, with warm recollections and fervent hopes, 1 a beautiful diamond diadem and other jewels from her parents, and a pearl necklace from the bridegroom. Some of the remarks of Frederick Carrel in the Fortnightly Review, on French and English manners, will not be very acceptable to English women, He says that ' the working classes in France are healthier, happier, and more intelligent. They have a greater respect for their women, whose faces are much less careworn than those of English housewives, and whose welldeveloped figures offer none of the cruel woundings of the sense of human proportion which are presented by the British workman's cai'eless spouse. The latter, if a little more virtuous than her French prototype, is largely deficient in "sobriety and ingenuity.' 'At the great cycle exhibition of 1893 there were 161 safeties for ladies, which fact must be hailed with undisguised approval by those who have at heart more advanced physical developftment of women,' says Crestion in the same Review, 'and in the near future every healthy man, woman, and child will be equipped with a bicycle as much as a matter of course as with a pair of boots, 7 predicts the same writer. In America, according to a census lately taken, nearly 6 per cent, of all women never marry ; aliout 10 per cent, of those between the ages of 35 and 45 had not yet married, and more than one-fourth of those between the ages of 25 and 30 were still unmarried. One of the most beautiful and admired pictures in this year's list of the Royal Academy is ' Ganymede,' by Briton Riviere, R.A. For the benefit of the uninitiated 1 may explain that Ganymede was, according to Homer, the son of King Tros and the nymph Callerrhoe. The most beautiful of mortals, lie attracted the notice of the king of the gods, Zeus, who determined to make him his cup-bearer in succession to Hebe, and accordingly despatched his eagle to carry him off to heaven. In Kringsjaa of March there is a portrait and short critique of Mrs Humphrey Ward, * whose books,' Kringsjaa remarks, ' have won renown rather by reason of having dealt with the right question at the right time than because of their own literary ■worth.'