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EVOLUTION OF THE COQUETTE.

THE TRUE WOMAN'S: INBPINOT,

BY LADY VIOLET GREVILLE.J

BEGINNING EARLY. ·

IB AUSTRALIA BLIPPING INTO THE SEAR

(FROM "THE GLOBE'S" SYDNEY CORRESPONDENT)

FASHIONS AND FANCIES,

ADVISABILITY OF BACKGROUND.

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HOW TO ESCAPE CHOLERA.

↑ A correspondent writes to the Rangoon Gazette It was the late Mrs, Haweis who advocated mentions extraordinary successful results obtain

as follows paragraph in Tuesday's Issue the careful arrangement of a pretty woman's ed in the Caloutta Medical College by injecting Professor David, who holds the chair of background in her now forgotten book on

a strong salt solution into the blood of cholere Geely and Physical Geography in Sydney Beauty. The difficulty about this is that one patients reducing mortality fram 60 to

to 30 per University, and is at present enjoying a bloak arming to outro, cent. I have read in an English paper that the holiday in company with Lieutenant Shack however becoming it may be, out into the same system has been tried with: success in leton's Antarctic Expedition, is a man of many world with one. But a clever woman has Russia. Some people seem to think cholora is unorthodox ideas, and among them is one, to the devised a means of doing so, at least að far

Tears

consumes. An old Madras Fusilier, now in

The coquette, like the business man or the poet, is born, not mads. Hers is the divine spark that comes straight from Heaven or from the Godders Venus; she is pure woniani.

When a girl has no flirtatious instincts, she effect that the eastern coast line of the Com. as her very charming profile is concerned. contagions, but unless a person's blood is in a bad very large hats, the brims or unhealthy state ho need not, I think, foar including the new South Wales She monwealth,

contact with cholera patients. It would be as ie doll, mother, genius ority, man lot in her Metropolis, is gradually slipping into the invariably find with some dark cent; add well That is easential quality man

Осова. It appears that some few the eo tilts these hate that on the right side well in places where cholera is prevalent for that indefinable flattering something whick months ago the Government of that State had the brim forms a very highly effective back every one to double the quantity of salt he constitutes the eternal attraction of us.". a test cylinder sunk in Sydney Harbour with a ground for the left side of her face. The left England, who event upwards of forty years in

view to ascertaining the nature of the formation side is, for some unknown reason, almost always the Bast enjoying the best of health, and fortu The soquette begins her career early, The on which will rest the piers intended to support better than the right. And so this pretty

war or the Indian Mutiny, through which he baby girl flirts with her papa or any other male the proposed bridge to connect the two opposite woman in at her boat when coiffed with one of tely not being shot in the Second Burmese creature available, her manner to her female shores. The Professor descended the cylinder the hury chapeaux of the hour. As a matter of fought with his regiment, ascribed his good relations is already tinctured with a difference, to a depth of ninety feet below high-water course, the brim of the hat rises very high on

water with half a tea spoonful of Balt a chilliness, an aloofness of disdain. The man's mark, where he found the formation to consist the left side showing the hair most carefully health to the drinking of a tumbler of cold watch ticks louder; he is never tired of showing on peaty materialstoms, leaves, and seeds of arranged about the little pink-tinged ear within it every-morning on rising.. If this practice plants--intermixed with a tough notions its large pearl earring. She was among the

was more general I believe Europeans would it and opening it for her sashe sits on his knee he cares her on his shoulder firmly, with clay. This was at a depth of about forty foot most admired at Newmarket laat week in a green enjoy better health in India than they do. But comfort and namurense,・・ Already aké fools his below the bed of the harbour, From the harbour costume and a green satin hat braided to match whether it is adopted or not, wherever cholera subjugation, and plays upon his patience, look bottom down to the level reached by Professer her gown and coat ing ap lovingly into his eyes. She knows her David, the deposits consisted principally of sand, power, and when once she has felt that, she is with marine shells. The peaty formation was not fossilised, and could not have been more than a couple of thousand

that when the penty shallower than at present, material was laid down the harbour was much

trno woman all over.

:

THE BRAIDED HAT.

Think not that her joy in dress, in the little fessor thinks it probablars old The Pro. It is usually braided in its own colour, but cholera bospital. It helps to keep one's blood

No!

is prevalent one's consumption of salt should be doubled. It is better to do this than to require salt injections when one becomes a patient in a healthy and as long as that is the case, and I write with 40 years orporience of India and Burma, I believe no one will get cholera.

A CHINO-CANADIAN MARRIAGE.

This is among the features of the season. sometimes in darker or a paler shade.

sach, the glossy curls shaken out daintily from kid shoes she spreads ont so proudly, the pink

Occasionally, but not often, the braid is in A contrasting tint, as verdegrin green on very their ugly paper onvelope, is pure vanity.

Evidence in favour of this view has been afforded dark bine, a curious metallic int being the It is the delight of the saldier in his weapons, by the results of investigations in other parts of result, and tones of dull metal are all the the symbol of power, of that empire over men's the harbour, and at different places on the coast.ruge. The patterns of those braiding must hearts, the only solid empire which she intends In boring for cost a few miles north of Sydney the hat beneath them. Otherwise much of place in connection with the immigration of

be so arranged as to show a fair amount of

A curiously interesting episode has just taken to wield to the end of time. How poor and peat beds were encountered about twenty feet the effect would be lost. An emerald satin prohibited aliens in Canada. It is well known mean and bald in the existence of a woman who below sea level. When sinking for the founda braided in dark frog: green looks well. So that any Chinese who enter the Dominion are has never seen a man pale in her presence, who tions of the great railway bridge across the has not counted his heart-beats and revelled in Hawkesbury River, trunks of large trees were design in black. The velvet coat is in the if those Chinese are women, and, moreover, the does a purple velvet brained an Egyptian subject to a pollitar of 500 dollars. But what his confusion; who has never rejoiced in her

She with at a depth of about seventy feet below

same colours, purple and black, and the skirt is wives of British subjects? The case hoz just power, se the youth does in his strength.

sea level. Further north, during the sinking in has the whole world to conquer, and she has connection with the Hunter River delta collieries, cloth, also purple, and braided in a wise band arisen at Victoria, B.C., where, two British

up the front in black. With it is worn & stols not annexed evan one small province!

near Newcastle, a large amount of woody

in the new silvered fox, a better imitation of engine-drivers have just arrived from China, The baby girl understands her own value; material and coarse river gravel, was passend the real than has ever been achieved before. naturally they refuse to pay the poll-tax-wives each accompanied by a Chinese wife. Not un- she is not to be put off with second-hand dough at depths, in places of considerably The man who has invented it will probably reap are expensive enough luxuries without having appraisements or neck auctions. Passed out more than a hundred feet below sea-loval, the

Ami a black ottoman hat them charged extra--and they do not, strictly of the stage of short frocks and lanky silk-wifterial marking the former level of the old large forte stookinged legs, she tries her hand on her vandy before the submergence took place. At braided in dull gold is worn with a cashmore speaking, come under the provision of the brothers friends, ghoolboys, inflammable and Fingals Bay, Port Stephens, north of Newcastle, tan-coloured skirt made with a waistcoat in tan Canadian tarif The Canadian Government, stupid. Oh! the chocolates she will devour: beds of "at can be traced down to the low tide osoan turned back with velvet in a deeper however, other intent on purity of race or its the compliments the toffee, the crackers, the level, dipping considearhly thence; while bores tone and a blank ottman short-waisted coat handred pounds the motives may be mixed-

insists on the poll-tax being paid that is exacted nosegays she requires; all the thousand and one for coal in the vicinity have passed through a trimmed with black velvet buttons.

from every Chinese; the luckless "engineers · desires of the young animal till real real time bed of peat one hundred feet below sen level. nomes, and she plungos into the sea of love! In cutting a canal in one of the creeks in

Sleeves grow tighter and tighter. They Frotest that their wives are no longer Chinese, but British subjects.. In Great Britain their Not but what the mimic loves of girlhood are Sydney Harbour, a submerged forest of large closely mould the arms from shoulders to wrists, pleasant, too: the surreptitious little billets, honeysuckle frees, together with a bed of peat and then fall like mittens over the back of the view would, of course, prevail; and since they

have appealed to Ottawa, it the name scratched on the bark of a tree, the was found at a depth of fifteen feet below high hands. This revolution or evolution, whichever Canadian law will also prove favourable to them. is probable that haughty indifference going into church, the water level. A remarkable circumstance in it may be, will make many bargains for the sly glanes over the hymn book, and the sweet connection with the discovery was the finding mary ales in the shape of gosus that will The wife takes her husband's nationality in smile going out; the stolen kiss in the passage,

a couple of aboriginal stone tomabawks in be drretrievably doted by any fulness in the England; even if dirarood, she retains the the flower worn so aggressive all these are the the past, showing that the work of submerg alcores, Economiste, be on the look-out! For nationality of her hushand. So far as Canada lively skirmishes, the light argagements that

ence must have taken place within a com-it is fairly easy to make full sleeves into tight is concerned, the point is of small real precede the glorious vistory.

All this evidence, according to Professor one, work that can be done by maid or little importance, for few Englishmen marry Chinese dressmaker, but impossible to undertake with women; and very few Chinese women will thus David, points to the fact that thers has been, in the hanilreds upon hundreds of gowns in the be able to avoid the poll-tax. The Globe. recent geological days, a subsidence of a son-

chance for the many thousands who care but sidorable portion of the New South Wales large drapery emporis. Here will be a fine

to someting like a couple the waters of the Pacific Ocean to the old land valleys, and thus the great estuaries, such as Broken Bay sud Port Haling, and harbours like Port Jackson and Botany Boy, are simply what American geologists term drowned valleys." This raises the question as ta whether the work

THE FOET'S VISION.

of

paratively recent period.

THE TIGHT SLEEVE.

their "besoin d'amour." their weakness, and constling, mais" he says, " has admittent little whether their sleeves are of this year's

The great poet of the coquette is Browning. He understands their maddening charm, their heartlessness, their sincerity, their allurements, their strength. How in every good thing is evil, in all evil some good.

She should never have looked at me," he "If she meant I should not love her."

Ah! the firt cannot help it. She meatlock. "Hark! Those two in the hazel coppice- A boy and a girl, if the good Fates please, Making love, say

enys..

The happier they

Draw yourself up from the light of the moon.

And led them pass, as they will too soon,

With the bean-flower's boon,

And the blackbird's fune,

And May and June,"

The progress of the firt.

Oh, woman comtry, wooed not wed,

Loved all the more by barth's male-lands, Laid to their hearts instand,"

Who has not seen the changs in the young girl when at last she has a lover. her blushes, her pretty repressed laugh, her tender sighs, her furtive looks, and all the dear Httle arts and ways of which she is already the past-mistress, the coyness and shyness, the sensitiveness of eight and hearing, the womanly scheming and docision and sense of authority! It is the coquette breaking out through the simplest of maidens, she who hid behind her mother's skirts and dared not say bo! to a goose; but now she stands up square and straight, calm, smiling, erect, inconquered, in the face of the man who

loves her!

The touch of the coquette in woman is what lifts her above the sordidness of life, gives her an ideal, and stamps her soul with dignity.

of hundred feet. "

ihorustations

fashions or of lust...

THE NEW BATIN CLOTH. There was a material of the name some twenty years ago, but, its successor in the fickle favour of fashion is much softer and more silky. It is used for coats as well as for costumes, find has a

of submergence is still going on. But the fine glow. The colours, of course, are beautiful because the autumn dress evidence on this point is somewhat scanty. AtI say of course

the Hunter Biver, there are extensive colours of this year are annusually lovely and in bels of marine shells, of recent, origin, slovated a fabrio woven of fine wool with a certain fifteen feet above sea-level; and in some parts of amount of silk these tints would be at their a cost of satin cloth Sydney Harbour

oyster-shells are beat. In dend leaf green a frequently met with at a distance of ton feet is made to fit the shoulders, then widening above highwater mark. The difficulty in making into amplitude in the skirts. The fronte and observations and calculations extending over a the collar, also the edges of the wide sleeves, number of years consists in the fact that the sea have a trimming of embroidered filot net in all level le not an unalterable quantity. The con- the tints sesociated with autama, brown, gold, stant shrinking of the earth, owing to its cooling. amber, russet, heather, pink, dull greens, and is supposed to have the offect of making the faint water bine, a very beautiful amalgam in oceans deeper and narrower, and the land which none is too prominent but all are enb. ordinated to the character of the pattern. surface more extensive.

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In the course of his remarks Professor David explained that if there should should occur, by any phenomenal change, such a rise of and Antarotie temperature in the Arctic regions as would convert the ice collected there

The scarf, as worn in the daytime, has had into water all the low-lying portions of the New South Wales coast would become submerged. one emocess to 999 failures. Chosen haphazard, The ice-bound regions, representing about one- chiefly from admiration of its colour without. fortieth part of the surface of the globe, hold consideration of its effect upon the completion sufficient fee, if melted, to raise all the coeans of of the weather; usually bully worn, it was difficult CURE THE WORST GOUGH the world several feet. Such a contingency is, for it to avoid being a failure. Now, however, however, unlikely, by reason of the earth becom the floating scarf for outdoor wear is hardly ing cooler instead of warrer. But a theory has season. Those for evening are often wantiful. been raised as to whether the slipping away of For instance, a white Chantilly bordered with a narrow ruching of turquoiss chiffon; a cream. the New South Wales cost is not in soloured ganze edged with a line of skank or

sable; measure due to the gradual moving of a "fold "-

rippled pale green silk traps finished

in

Every man is in her eyes a possible Sir Galahed; in the earth's crust, which is visible in the a hemstitch; & pala sea-pink wilk muslin

geological strata in portions of the coastal side

it is only when she finds out his poverty of achievement; his poor and futile self that she of the Blue Mountain ranges. This view of the edged with soft brown silk; a greyblue painted despises, leaves him, and passes on. Her whole matter it being carefully investigated. Mean in green and blue and pale mauve flowers; a while chiffon edged with fine black lace. life is spent in this quest of the ideal, in pursnit while, it has been pointed out that when there is a scarf, some three yards long, in silk

Lovely of her affinity, She aspires to the hosvans, and are large accumulations of flood waters in the Maltese dyed to a delicious tes-tint and lined has sometimes to be content with a back attic in bed of the Nopean Eiver, the upper part of the Bloomsbury Bhe who thirsted for the nectar Hawkesbury, their weight causes a disturbance with palest rose China silk. Those who admire of the gods is formed to haggls over the price of in the land level, which is distinctly noticeable jewelled looo would like a scarf in finest imits bacon or the size of a potato. This is the true in the instruments at the Sydney Observatory, tion Venios peint all a-glitter with rubies, emeralds, and diamonds, none of which have tragedy of woman, the true breaking of the end which disappears as the floods subsids.

ever seen a mine. batterily's wings with which she meant to sour to Paradise.

DESIRE FOR EMFIER.

it wos

NEW PARLOUR GAME.

THE VOGUE OF PEARLS. Ropes and ropes of them are to be seen at the There are real possibilities of skill and fau in Savoy at Sunday supper. Last Bunday there The coquetta's ambition is sometimes in the now game, "Pop-in-Tow," and we should was a pretty golden-haired lady, who wore s measurable. She seeks to captivate bot sexes, not be surprised if it has a great vogue. There twelve-row pearl dog collar with emerald bars, a did that arch-flirt Josephine who was charming

are four wooden shovels of different colours, solitaire diamond necklace, a second necklace of to all, and had a pleasant word for everybody four cone-shaped holders of corresponding colours enormous emeralds set in diamonds, and so many The desire for empire is no masculine vice, it is

to place on the table, and a score of hollow steel ropes of pearls that was really dilonlt to see of the very essence of woman. Clamsy creatures balls. The game is to be the first to deposit what the front of her bodice was made of. Ons become scolds, take to high words, cross looks, your five bullets into your cone. You have to supposed it to be lace, like the rest of the gown much rating of servants, and fault-finding of husbands who stay out late, but the true coquette pick up the balls with the shovel, adopting the Another very handsome person had her ropes of Bame movement as is used in picking up a tennis pearls hanging over the back of her bodice na makes the husband stay at home, because he ball with a racquet. But having get the ball well as in front. Such prodigality could belong cannot help it. She is too sweet to leave, and besides he is a little wee bit jealous. Jealousy on the shovel, the next thing is to roll it uff into only to a star of the lyric stage.

the not too-wide-mouthed cone. Here is where is the spur of halting love, in pricks up the the fan comes in. It seems easier to fill the failing strength, it infuses fresh vigour and

cone of an opponent the cones are placed brings ont latent it forgotten powers. The flirt touching-thas your own; and the worst of it

with jealousy as the old magicians did with ie, the mistake counts to the other side. Povy phittres. It is the true love-philtre, the With a little practice the game become fast it sterasi stimulant. Thus the flirt keeps alive the divine fire of love, as the ancient vestals did not furions. Laughter is inevitable, but laughter spoils one's still which only adds to the amuse- silently, with cautions, devout tending. For, a ment The Globe. has been wisely said, "A man's good work effected by doing what ho does. A woman's by being what the is,"

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THE STUDY OF COIFFURES. The same glittering scene affords a wonder full study in coiffures. The new one, with its Grook chignon ef curls, needs some special skill in the arrangement. Otherwise tho

ment to the indigenous growth. The Merry chignon looks what it usually is, a supple- Widow" is still in favour, with its vary wido dressing at the sides and comparative Astuess on the top. The chignon grows and grows, 120 MILES IN AN HOUR.

Sometimes it stands out some five inches at the hack. Whenever it is worn in this way. The very best, the nicest women, have a tough

inconvenience. The New York correspondent of the Daily the hair is flat on top, thongh much waved and of the coquette about thein, à self-consciousness, Telegraph stated that arrangements are being curled. These ought to be palmy days for hair delicate humility, a desire to stand wall with made by the Pennsylvania Railroad to electrify workers, such quantities of false hair being those they love, which shows itself in the pretty the ronte of 120 miles dividing Philadelphia. in request. *Curtains" of hair upon the dressing gown, the new baribboned cap, the the third largest city in America, from New forehead do not quite suit everybody, but they heat gown put on for the benefit of the doctor, York, and to reduce the running time from two the lawyer, the clergyman, the lover, be ha old

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generating 25,000 horas-power, have already low, with the hair catering closely found body, and like, wvery natural instinct it in the been let to the Westinghouse Electric Company them. Fashion still approves them -I and right one. The woman who neglecta it may These locomotives will be capable of making

120 as learned sa Mme. Dasier, as clever us Quee miles an hour. The initial electrification contract 1 2. in the Globe. Elisabeth, but she will never wield any influence was for £1,000,000. The very high rate of speed DTSY men. It was Queen Elizabeth's coquetryssary to cut an hour on the present running that made her wise, har knowledge of men, of time from New York to Philadelphis was the art of setting ons auiter against the other, expected to generate enormous rail pressure, but of wheedling, tantalising, and flattering Mary the teste made by the Pennsylvania Tine with her sister, was honest, bigoted, chaste, but she electric locomotivas prove that the proposed one could not oren keep the husband she adored, and hour schedals could be maintained without died alone, brokenhearted-Daily Mail.

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