CHIT-CHAT.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XX, Issue 6811, 15 September 1883, Page 3 (Supplement)

CHIT-CHAT.

Ladies, a piece of advice—Never send your letters by male. Despite this name, me thinks it will be seen, "Grass-widows," as a rule, are far from' - green."

A young lady, wheu presented with a pair of opera glasses, asked, "How in the world am I to keep them en ?" The ladies of the Bonaparte family had remarkably small and well-shaped feet, and wore their stioes straight. A man winks his eye on an average of 30,000 times per day, and a woman's tongue makes 78,000 motions every 24 hours. In Amsterdam the women have succeeded in having clocks placed on the lamp-post in order to facilitate the return of their husbands at ni^ht.

Uoethe condemned the practice of congratulation upon marriage. "It is," he said, " as absurd as congratulating a man on having drawn a lottery 'ticket before you know whether it is a prize or blank." The Catholic clergymen of Pennsylvania are interesting themselves to prevent girls from disfiguring themselves by banging and frizzing their hair, and are encouraged to do this by Bishop O'Hara. Their task is not au easy one. It is ordained by Nature that to find a flattering mirror in the eyes of every man she meets is the breath of life to a woman. When she passes by unnoticed, then the flower of her womanhood is not: she herself might as well not be. •' The practtco of flirting (I'm told in asserting), Though hard to delino without getting complex. Is a strange, indefensible, incomprehensible Craving to fascinate opposite sex ! Bat from love lis entirely distinct and apart. For flirting is head wo'k, but love's from the heart, And lovemaking's nature, but flirting Is art!

Charlie Vere do Vere (aententiously)— 'Geniuses, my dear Miss Marlborough, are men who just miss being fools, and fools are men who just miss being geniuses.' Miss Marlborough (awe-struck) — ' What origioal things you say, Mr. Vere de Vere ! I sometimes think that you are almost a genius.' Marie Antoinette, according to tradition, had a superb gait. Chroniclers of her time likened her to a goddess borne on clouds. A.b she was brought up in a simple German way, and taught early to dance ballets, she may have been, relatively to the dames about her, graceful in her movements when she walked.

There is to be an entirely new style of beauty, says the London Court Journal. The girls with the ruddy locks or the golden hair and the Saxon skin, that have held their sway so long, will have to abdicate their throne to their dark-haired sisters. So fashion has decreed, and when fashion does decree a thing, the result is as unalterable as a general election. To be in the fashion today you'inust have dark hair, dark blue eyes, not a particle of colour, and lips as red as the cherry. These rather varied requirements are to be met—with art.

The Countess Cowper has issuec the following business-like circular Countess Cowper begs to inform her friends aud acquaintances, that she has just opened a Flower Depot at 18, Davies-street, Berkeleysquare. the entire profits to be devoted to the vary poorof ',\he East end district ot St. Agatha, Shoreditch. Branches of ail kinds and sizes for large pots will be sold, in addition to wild and garden flowers, plant?, &c. Bouquets, table decorations, &c., can be supplied at a day's notice. Lady Cowper earnestly solicits the patronage and support of ... .