Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-05-01

it is very applicable to women of any nation
ality. The scene is laid at the sea-side-say
Dieppe;
at is very warm, Madam" r.
"Very warm, indeed" ....a. ....
"Not SO warm as yesterday, however,
yesterday did not go out. | had to
write to my husband, and he is never salts
fed unless | cover, at least, eight pages Of let
ter paper" .. - ... ar
When two women meet and converse for
the FIRST time, the first thing each endeavors
to establish is, that somewhere or other there
exists a man who has rendered q sufficient
Justice to her attractions to commit the folly
of marrying her. then, that this man is some
one very important and very rich; next to
that, that he is very much struck with his
wife, who is comparatively indifferent about
him; and, finally, that he is completely ruled
by her. .'-... ..-.t.
band requires her to send him letters eight
pages long the second feels very much in
clined to say that her husband would blow
his brains out unless he received, every day,
letters sixteen pages long, but she thinks of
something more ingenious.
81 do not write at all just now" she an
swers "The fact is | left Paris rather an
noyed with NJ. de Clairval; he did not wish
me to come to the seaside, but was deter
mined / would. What can possibly make
YOU want to shut yourself up in some misera-
BILE place by the sea, he said to me, instead
of passing the summer months at your cha
teau where you could receive your friends?
1t is true that he had spent enormous sums
on his estate in order to make it agreeable
for me- but had made up my mind to go to
the seaside, and off started with no one but
NV maid NJ de Clairval will be ANNOYED for
few days, and then, all at once, he will fol-
low me" u.s.. ....... .,.r. . .
"As for me, brought no one with me. My
husband is obliged to receive during my alb
sence; he can not do so without his coachman
his cook, his butler and so on, and my maid
keeps the house for him. She is very clever
girl, and, as she has been long time in the
family she can be trusted with anything"
''For my part, never go anywhere without
mine. She is very much attached to me- She
has been very little in service. Before living
with me she was with the dutchess of -, so
that she throughly understands what a wo-
man Of a certain position requires. l spoil
her little. NJ. de Clairval was only saying
last week, that she seemed to change her dress
every day, whereas | often wear the same
dress three days running" .r.r .i..-.-
''For my part, am not sorry to have left
Paris. passed most dreary winter. Every
day people to dinner; party, at least, once a
week, composed ofpersons who are, no doubt,
very useful to the State, and very celebrated,
was my husband always at the Chamber dur
ing the day, when he did come home, over
whelmed with business. .4,...-s.. ......
"Your husband is member of the Cham
ber Of Deputies ?" H..., ,....r..
"Yes," replied the other, as if she attached
no sort of importance to the fact, after taking
such pains to mention it.
II am more fortunate than you in that re-
spect. NJ. de Clairval will not hear a word
about politics in the present state of affairs;
the aristocracy keep aloof; at the very proper
moment it will come forward" etc.
To hear these two ladies, you might imagine
they were bird-catchers showing what beau
tiful birds they had taken. "See how clever
am" one Of them says "what beautiful
feathers my bird has"
"Mine is quite as handsome" replies the
other, land how we'll he sings"
Then when there is nothing more to be
said, about the husbands in their merits
their affection, and SO on, they came to pos.
tive proofs.
THAT is very pretty dress of yours
For the affection Of husband is not de-
monstrated by hisattention and care; all tha
is deceptive, and means nothing whatever
The only precise mathematical visible proc
of his love, is to be found in the victims hC
sacrifices to his divinity. You say your hus.
band adores youl am not to be taken in b,
mere phrases. Let me see what dresses h
gives yOu'
Women only adorn themselves in order 4
excite one dnother's eHVy" (Goethe.)
The first lady has said, shat is very pret
ty dress of yours" I.H.f tH'-
"Merely morning dress" is of course th'
answer.
eyes it is very nice for early in the day.
The proprietress ofthe dress, who had onlJ
expressed disparaging opinion of it, in the
hope of eliciting protest, is annoyed at the
the other agreeing with her so readily. She
loses no time in adding-'It has certainly
this merit, that it is impossible to find one
like it. Only one piece was made at Lyons
and bought the whole of it.o
In woman's life everything leads to q
new dress everything ends with a new dress;
every circumstance is marked by new dress;
and the dress is almost the most important
point. A girl is going to be married. dress.
For moment her heart is filled with love,
thoughts of an entirely new existence, and a
long separation from her parents. Every
thing disappears before the all-absOrbing
question ofthe wedding dress. 1.Ia .,1-
A relation dies. The grief of the ladies' is
violent but tits soon checked, for the mourn
ing has to be thought Of What are people
wearingl What is the most fashionable mode
of testifying ones sorrow2 1t is necessary to
go to the linen-draper's TO the dress maker 8