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  2. LADIES' COLUMN.

    THE SYLPHINE POLONAISE.—Stylish, and very becoming to slender figures; this is a blouse polonaise, made tight fitting by a belt. It has a yoke at the back side-gores under the arms, and is long in ...

    Article : 128 words
  3. MR. BENTHAM AND FLORA AUSTRALIENSIS.

    Have our ladies observed that attention has been called to the botanical services rendered to Australia by Mr. Bentham, F.R.S., and Baron F. Von Mueller, who for fifteen years have conjointly edited the FLORA ...

    Article : 111 words
  4. SITTING DOWN AT THE PIANO.

    There is an art in sitting before the piano, as if one were part and parcel of it, just as there is in attaining an easy, firm seat on a high mettled horse. Nothing creates a laugh more in these colonies than to see a ...

    Article : 252 words
  5. Fashionable Marriages.

    ON July 16 at the Chapel Royal, Whitehall, the marriage of Lord Carington with the Hon. Cecilia Margaret Harbord, eldest daughter of Lord and Lady Suffield, was solemnised by special license. The Prince ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 636 words
  6. Household Recipes.

    SCRAMBLED EGGS.—Have your spider hot and buttered as soon as you are ready with six eggs broken into a dish, to which you add a little salt, a shake of pepper, a bit of butter the size of a nutmeg, and half ...

    Article : 355 words
  7. STYLES IN HATS.

    There are varieties of broad-brimmed hats, but the popular style will be the coarse rough-and-ready Gainsdborough, the brim not quite as wide as last season, but turned up on the side and lined, the ...

    Article : 274 words
  8. STYLES IN BONNETS.

    Quaint little bonnets have come to the front this season with straight, nearly upright, crowns, small brims, and tiny curtains. Under the brim is only room for a puffed or shirred lining, and little plaiting ...

    Article : 205 words
  9. Original Poetry.

    WITH a deeper blue than heaven's own hue, And a blossom like leaflets torn. My lace fringe flowers are nursed by the showers, And sun, 'midst the golden corn. ...

    Article : 189 words
  10. Hints for Ladies.

    IT is a marvel that bazaars do not die a natural death. They have been held at the Glebe, Mount Lachlan, Ashfield, and now the Redfern and Waterloo Presbyterian Church has had its building fund ...

    Article : 204 words
  11. What Know We Greater Than the Soul?

    THERE'S nothing greater! Nothing that we know In bird or beast, or gorgeous tropic flower, Or anything that lives from, hour to hour, And has its source and substance here below. ...

    Article : 347 words
  12. BUSH FLOWERS.

    Somebody sent us a bunch of wild flowers this week, by which a city home was made gay and bright, and the dust-laden air perfumed with bush odours. "Dear me," said a visitor, "your house smells as if ...

    Article : 223 words
  13. GOING OUT TO TEA.

    "My dear Miss Angelina Seraphina, pray give us some music," said a hostess, "we have heard of your skill, and are quite impatient for the treat in store." Miss Angelina modestly casts down her eyes, and ...

    Article : 420 words
  14. DESTRUCTION OE WILD FLOWERS.

    There is a good deal of discussion just now about the wholesale destruction of bush flowers and native trees. Picnic parties and young people in their Saturday and Sunday afternoon rambles tear up the wild ...

    Article : 214 words
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