Dancing in a Ball Room.

Te Aroha News, Volume I, Issue 44, 5 April 1884, Page 6

Dancing in a Ball Room.

This is what a satirist says of his ladylove, when he saw her "dancing in a ball." — " Around her snowy brow were set £30 in the shape of diamond flakes of light ; with the gentle undulation of her bosom rose and fell £500 in a necklace of brilliants. Her fairy form was invested in £10, represented by a slip ot azure satin, and this was overlaid by t30 more in two skirts of white lace. Tastefully down each side of the latter were laid £1 15s worth, which so many bows of snowy ribbon had come to. The lower margins of the £30 skirts were edged with £11 additional, the value of some fringe a quarter of a yard in depth. Her taper waist, taking zone and clasp together, I calculated to be confined by £30, Her delicately rounded arms — the gloves of creamy kid being added to the bracelets which encircled her little wrists— may be said to have been adorned with £22, and, putting the silk and satin at the lowest hgure, I should say she wore £2 upon her feet. Thus, altogether was this thing of light, this creature of loveliness, arrayed from top to toe, exclusive of little sundries, in about £636 or thereabouts.