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New Zealand Tablet, Volume VII, Issue 411, 25 February 1881, Page 19

I once saw in Paris a magnificent stage costume, made for Mme. Judic. On the skirt was the loveliest tablier of rich lace I ever beheld. The dress was displayed on account of that lace ; and that lace was worth, perhaps, 25f. (sdols). For it was paper, wonderfully stamped, and represented chains of fuchsias, and looked just as much a piece of real lace as a Paris diamond by night looks an oldmine gem. Parisian actresses wear that paper lace a great deal ; it is tough, soft and very effective. To wear a costly lot of lace, which may be ruined in a night, when sdols. worth of lace paper looks as well, is considered the height of folly by intelligent foreigners.— The Theatre. We have been favoured with a glance over a letter from Ireland, written by a gentleman who takes no interest in politics, which is saying a great deal for an Irishman, hailing from Omagh in the county of Tyrone. The following is an extract : — '• The banquetters at Omagh comprised men of different creeds and all shades of politics, Tories, Whigs and Radicals were there as well as Protestants and Catholics. True it is that Parnell and the League were denounced by one section but they were upheld by another. Since then there has been a great change. Some of the most pronounced Orangemen go in for|the League, as you will see by the paper I send you." — 2rva Witness.