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COIFFURE AND NECKLACE.

Patterns are first cut, consisting, for the cases, its predecessor, and fastening them one over the with plaster of Paris mixed in glue water, into
Coiffure and Necklace. of a back the length of the brush, ete., and about other, until the last one is only four or five holes which the upright rod is inserted, which, when the
MPHIS coiffure and necklace for full-dress toi- six inches high, running up to a point in the centre square, upon which a gay little embossed serap pic- plaster “sets,” will be perfectly solid and immov-
lettes is made of plush leaves of the deepest in graceful curves; against this a pocket is fast- | ture is pasted. If colored card-board is used, the able. A tin box thus filled; if covered with the
ivy green, with tinsel edging and a fringe of tin- ened, made of a strip one-third as high and one- kind with reversible sides is preferable. .The sear- materials of which the coynucopias are made,
sel. The comb is of red gold, half longer, cut down in the centre of the front let and gold, blue and silver, pale green and gold, will be very effective. Layge ball buttons, or
upper edge; this, when sewed on the lower part are especially pretty. The edges must be pinked small turned or porcelain drawer knobs, ‘inserted
of the back, bulges out, and is fitted to a bottom out, excepting where sewn, which is covered with in holes cut in the bottom, make neat feet. The
TOILETTE SETS. piece slightly wider than the brush; the front gold or silver paper neatly pasted over to hide pincushion is made by cutting eight pieces five
corners rounded off give a prettier shape than the stitches. inches long and four wide, sloping off the upper
HARMING articles of furniture for dressing if left square. The catch-all is of similar form, The cornucopias are fastened together at the corners half an inch on the width, then the sides,
tables are made of jardiniére canvas, or gold but higher and narrower, with a deeper pocket. back, and suspended from three hooks inserted until the bottom measures but three inches or
and silver perforated card-board, the pure white If made of gold or silver perforated eard, bor- in a little stand, such as are used for parlor ka- less ;a bottom is fitted in, and the pieces sewed
kind, or tinted Bristol or card board, and consist ders, monograms, and a few ornamental figures leidoscopes; or, in lieu of this, one may be impro- together, and finished to correspond with the
of brush and comb receiver, what-not (or “ catch- of chenille, embroidery silk, or beads are wrought vised by taking an ornamental lamp bottom, the cases, etc.; then a cushion filled with bran is fit-
all”), slipper case, cornucopias (for combings, through the large holes. If of white perforated pedestal of a vase, glass bowl, or other similar ted into the basket, giving the top a high, round-
hair braids, and hair-pins), pincushion, and hair- card, arrange embossed figures on the spaces by article with a firm base, on which a rod is to be ed appearance, the outside being covered with
pin cushion. cutting pieces of the card, each one smaller than affixed by binding with wire, or, if hollow, filling satin or silk of a color to suit the toilette set, Or,
818 HARPER’S BAZAR. [DecemBer 25, 1880,
if preferred, a pretty flat wicker-work basket may known to leave their old and sick to lonely tuous days, any better instances of brother- and wrestling with the winds; the old tree
be substituted, embroidering through the holes and speedy death. But the moment that ly love than that between two Eastern bro- has nothing to hope for, and can only see
with chenille or silk. In either case a smaller civilization advances at all, families and thers whose dust has for thousands of years its boughs torn one by one away, fecl the
basket is made for a hair-pin cushion, the cornu- clans become established, the blood that been a portion of the common earth, “in a rotting of its heart, and know that if the
copia previously made being intended for the flows in kindred veins begins to be recog- question,” to quote our good old PLUTARCH more fortunate fate of warming some chim-
packages or boxes of hair-pins, while the cushion
nized and felt. Some of this sentiment again, “not concerning a little patch of ney-side as fire-wood be not its end, it is to
is for those removed from the hair. The pretty
Swiss baskets of all sizes sold in the fancy stores might possibly be traced to the sense of pos- land, nor a few servants or cattle, but no fall and moulder and sweat and rot on the
are desirable for these cushions—a large one for session, for although we do not reason it out less than the kingdom of Persia. When ground till kindly moss and soil hide its of-
dressing pins and small-sized ones for hair-pins. in corresponding words, we are aware of it— Darius was dead, some were for ARIAME- fense. And in what, then, do the trees, again,
Fill the basket with horse-hair or shred yarn, perhaps through those dark senses that are NEs’s succeeding to the crown, as being eld- differ from themselves, they ask, and is it
ravellings of carpets, or like material; then cover to the others what the dark rays of the spec- est son; others were for XERXES, who was worth while for them to have lived and
the top with coarse net, over which fasten a cover trum are to the seven colors—these people born to Darius of ATossa, the daughter of grown, any more than for the trees to have
crocheted or knit in zephyr of suitable color, Set are ours, are in some degree a part of our- Cyrus, in the time of his reign over Persia. done so.
up thirty stitches on coarse steel needles, knit one selves, certainly of our lives; their conduct is ARIAMENES, therefore, came from Media, in Yet if they paused to think more serious-
row, then in the second row knit one stitch, and an honor or a dishonor to us; we are forced no hostile posture, but very peaceably, to ly or sedulously, they would see that be-
wrapping the yarn round the first finger of the
to think of them, and it flatters our self-love hear the matter determined. XERXES, being cause their day is brief, it need not there-
left hand to form a loop, knit the second stitch.
Continue this throughout the row; knit the third to think well of them; what they are it is there, used the majesty and power of a king. fore be worthless. Temperament, it is true,
row plain, the fourth as the second, knitting a possible that we, of the same descent, may But when his brother was come he laid is something fixed and in a manner inerad-
loop as a stitch in each stitch; the fifth row knit be also, and this little thread of pride feels down his crown and other royal ornaments, icable, it is something not to be helped.
as the third, and when these rows are continued a pull at the third generation. went, and, meeting, greeted him. And send- Yet that its peculiar cast can be empha-
alternately until the piece is sufficiently large, But can not much more of the sentiment be ing him presents, he gave a charge to his sized and aggravated by indulgence is not
cover it over the basket. Finish all the articles traced to association? There must be ties, servants to deliver them with these words: to be doubted; the sanguine will grow
with bows of ribbon of suitable color. equal to those of blood, in life from the ear- ‘With these presents your brother XERXES brighter and gayer till almost reckless,
A set made of silver perforated card, embroid- liest remembrance about the same hearth expresses the honor he has for you; and if through the mere habit and encouragement
ered with moss-rose buds of shaded pink silk and and at the same mother’s knee—that mother by the judgment and suffrages of the Per- of cheerfulness, and the bilious will become
bright green leaves, bound and trimmed with who remains sacred, we will not say either sians I be declared king, I place you next to atrabilious, till mild gloom darkens into the
azure blue ribbons, and a blue knitted cover on
the hair-pin basket, with blue satin pincushion
because of instinct or because of the result myself.” ARIAMENES replied: ‘I accept your blackness of desolation, through the habit
embroidered to correspond, makes a handsome of long teaching, but because she bore us. gifts, but presume the kingdom of Persia to of looking on the dark side of things, and
Christmas gift; and for a bridal set, a set in And while we are a portion of the flesh and be my right. Yet forall my younger brethren searching for the bitter flavor in every
pure white Bristol-board, embellished with trans- blood of our parents, and love is thus com- I shall have an honor, but for XERXEs in the kernel.
fers of pink roses and blue forget-me-nots and pelled, they would be strange beings if we first place.’ The day of determining who Would it not be well, then, for those in-
white satin trimmings, is charming. might not also love them for themselves. should reign being come, the Persians made clined to unreasonable sadness resolutely to
But whether or not, we see that there is no ARTABANUS, brother to Darius, judge. refuse themselves the privilege of sadness,
time, in all that season when emotions are XERXES excepting against him, confiding and to seek every opportunity for the gay
HARPER’S BAZAR. fresh and character is forming, in which the
others of the family are not integral and in-
most in the multitude, his mother, ATossa,
reproved him, saying: ‘ Why, son, are you
view, or at least the placidly contented one ?
Is the tree perishing? is the leaf withering?
Satrurpay, DrecEMBER 25, 1880. herent portions, and again through our very so shy of ARTABANUS, your uncle, and one are they themselves but noble representa-
love of self they are dear to us. of the best men among the Persians? And tions of trees and leaf? Let them ask them-
But whether this family feeling is, in its why should you dread the trial where the selves what it is that comes after this sea-
HARPER’S YOUNG PEOPLE. essentials, a God-given instinct or a matter worst you can fear is to be next the throne, son of loss and decay ; what cleanliness it is
AN ILLUSTRATED WEEKLY—16 PAGES. of growth and education, it is at the foun- and to be called the King of Persia’s bro- that transforms the soilure of the earth in
dation of all our civil polity, and the family ther? XeERxzEs, at length submitting, after snowy folds; what white and sparkling pu-
Vo. 58 of HaRPER’s YOUNG PEOPL?, issued is at the base of the town, as the town is at some debate ARTABANUS adjudged the king- rification takes the place of green happiness,
December 7, opens with the first chapter of“ Toby
Tyler ; or, Ten Weeks with a Circus,” a fasct- the base of the State; and so long as the dom to XERXES. ARIAMENES presently and of its festering destruction, till the white
nating serial story for boys, by JAMES OTIS, id/us- family relation is kept pure and undefiled started up and went and showed obeisance wintry earth seems to soar in sunshine and
trated by ROGERS ; and it also contains the first among any people, so long as children hon- to his brother, and taking him by the hand, azure like a risen spirit; and what radiant
chapter of “ Mildred’s Bargain,” a new serial or their parents, as parents bear in mind placed him in the throne. And from that resurrection of life and joy is that breaking
story for girls, written by Mrs. JOHN LILLIE, and their responsibility concerning those whom time, being placed himself by XERXES next on the sphere when, after all the frosty death,
illustrated by MRS, JESSte CURTIS SHEPHERD, they have brought into the world, as the in the kingdom, he continued the same af- sweet April bursts her buds, and May hangs
tn this number a beautiful double-page engraving hearts of brothers and sisters beat as one, fection to him, insomuch that, for his bro- out her garlands, when birds are building,
of HOLMAN HuNT’s famous picture of ** Christ so long will that people possess shields and and bees are swarming, and all the wood-
an the Temple” is accompanied by an article from ther’s honor engaging himself in the naval
the pen of the Rev. Dr. TAYLor. “ Zhe Heart safeguards against enemies in having homes fight at Salamis, he was killed there.” side world is humming with music and glad-
of Bruce,” a spirited poem by Miss LILLIE BARR, and altar-fires worth fighting for. It is not every crowned Christian that in ness and life.
will be found just the thing for declamation ; and There are few things more beautiful to the years since Salamis has rivalled the be- If, however, the temperament of the in-
an illustrated article on some new forms of Christ- see than this family affection, the solicitude havior of these brothers. It is not every dividual is so compelling that she can not
mas Decorations, and how to make them, will of the old for the young, the reverence of one in private life that rivals them to-day. help seeing sadness in degree, whether she
prove timely and useful. The poem of “Wingy the young for the old, the gentle ties of af- For, however the blood may run in our will or no, when the leaf flies before the
Wing Foo” is illustrated by a characteristic draw- filiation between sister and sister, the noble veins, neither natural affection nor family whistling winds, and the cloudy autumn
ing by F. S. CHURCH; and on the last page of loyalty of brother for brother, the attention skies seem empty of all but dreariness, she
feeling is always quite sufficient to carry
the number the children have shown their skill in
to trifles that makes happiness for one anoth- us through all the temptations and trials has, at all events, the power to hinder her-
making Wiggles.
er, the deadening of strife and destruction and small annoyances of daily life without self from drawing unhealthy comparisons,
of envy, the mutual aiding and uplifting. constant use of the Golden Rule, without or of allowing her thoughts to rest and
BLACKMORE’S NEW STORY. Something of this was known even in the hourly remembrance of that Divine love dwell upon gloom ; to leave energetic things
time of PLuTARCH, for he advises his read- which shadows forth all family love. for, winter, sentiment and romance for sum-
A new Serial Story, entitled ers to imitate one who, “when he knows It is true that the jest concerning the man mer, but at this dull time to read the gay-
CHRISTOWELL, himself far superior to his brother, calls for who, in settling the estate left him by his est books, and sing the maddest, merriest
his help and advice, whether it be the busi- dead brother, had so much trouble with it songs, just as the night wanderer whistles
by the popular novelist R. D, BLACKMORE, author
ness of a rhetorician, a magistrate, or a that he “almost wished he hadn’t ’a died,” to keep his courage up. For the rest, there
of “Lorna Doone,” “ Mary Anerley,” “ Cripps,
the Carrier,” etc., is begun in the number of friend; in a word, he that neglects or leaves is still, for some households, more a literal are enough inside occupations to be had in
Harver’s WEEKLY for December 18. him out in no honorable employment or interpretation of the prevailing spirit there the ordinary family to keep the saddest
concern, but joins him with himself in all than anything hyperbolic and absurd. But from too much brooding, and if one is un-
his noble and worthy actions, employs him we thank Heaven that we are able to be- fortunately too prosperous to be obliged to
te Our next Number will contain a Ricu when present, waits for him when absent, lift finger in attending to such things,
AND VARIED PATTERN SHEET, with numerous lieve such households are not many; that,
FULL-SIZED PATTERNS, ILLUSTRATIONS, AND and makes the world take notice that he is so far as domestic happiness and union go, through overplus of servants and money,
DESCRIPTIONS OF DOLLS’ WALKING, House, as fit for business as himself, but of a more most of our homes are as full of peace as the there are yet numberless ways of exercising
INFANTS’, BATHING, AND CROCHET DRESSES ; @ modest and yielding disposition, and all this House Beautiful; that our land is one long ingenuity, if not in making the wealthy
choice assortment of tasteful Fancy Articles for while has donethimself no wrong, and has succession of such homes; and that few of home, then the poverty-stricken one of oth-
Ho.ipay Girrs; Ladies’ Winter Cloaks, Bon- bravely advanced his brother.” ‘This same us need to learn a lesson in these high mor- ers, attractive in the forlorn and nipping
nets,and Flouse and Street Dresses ; Girls’ Walk- old heathen author, indeed, who speaks so als from such a people as the Persians, or weather, since one can never make one’s self
ing and House Suits and Party Dresses ; Even- commendably of brotherly honor and help, from such a man as XERXES. happier than in the effort to make others
ing Coiffures and Lingerie ; Gentlemen’s Dressing- has a great deal more to say in the same happy, and the exertion to defy fate and
Gowns and Smoking-Caps, etc. etc. Cut Paper
Patterns of the new and stylish Princesse Dress vein, which makes one see that fine family
feeling, if not universal with the ancients,
THE TWILIGHT OF THE YEAR. brighten another’s home may drive away
the evil genius that haunts our own. And
with a Separate Front buttoned on, and a Plain
Polonaise and Walking Skirt, will be issued with was yet by no means confined to our later O those of a melancholy temperament one can, in the mean time, remember that
the same Number. The Serial Stories will be day; and one can not but be struck at the the season of the falling leaf brings a kindness and sympathy and charities are
continued, and the paper will be replete with lit- advice he gives a young man in relation to gloom that, for the time being, casts a shad- never so gratefully received as at this try-
erary and artistic attractions of the highest order, a married brother, adjuring him to “have ow over all creation. If they stay at home, ing period, when nature seems so unfriendly
suited to the Holiday Season. the highest esteem and honor for his bro- the cheerless house, with closed doors and that one turns to humanity; for although
ther’s wife, respecting and honoring her as windows, the dreamy rooms, too chill for one’s body may actually suffer more in win-
comfort and not chill enough for fires, make
SUPPLEMENT TO HARPER'S BAZAR. the most sacred of all his brother’s sacred
treasures, and thus to do honor to him; con- them fairly morbid; if they walk abroad, it
ter weather, one’s spirit is at the mercy of
the fall, and a certain resistant vigor comes
doling with her when she is neglected, and is to see the end of all the blithe summer with the ice and rime of zero to the healthy
A four-page SUPPLEMENT, containing the con- features, and everything tending only to
appeasing her when she is angered; if she that is utterly wanting in the depressing
tinuation of M1ss THACKERAY’S fascinating story,
have a little offended, to intercede and sue death and decay. and negative atmosphere of that interim
“Fina’s AUNT,” and other attractive literary
matter, is sent out gratuitously with this Number for her peace; if there have been any pri- The leaf that danced in the sun and glit- between the daylight and dark of the year.
of HARPER’s BAZAR. vate difference between himself and his tered with the dew, around which the bee
brother, to make his complaint before her in has hummed, and whose spray has trembled
order to reconcilement..... When he has to alighting birds, now rustles under-foot a NEW YORK FASHIONS.
FAMILY FEELING. children, let him express his affection and crumpled and withered fragment, shapeless, CHRISTMAS AND NEW-YEAR’S DRESSES.
HE homely saying that blood is thicker respect to both parents with the greater colorless, lifeless, presently to be trodden
HE modistes are busily at work making gay
than water is one of the truths that it ardency. Let him love the children equal- under the mire of the first storm, and to
dresses to be worn at Christmas dinner par-
is usually held there is no gainsaying, and ly with his own, but be more favorable and form part of the common soil, not half the ties and dances, and when receiving visits on
it is believed that it contains, as many an- indulgent to them, that, if it chance that time so fortunate as to nourish again the New-Year’s Day. The various satins, the differ-
other saw does, the concentrated wisdom of they commit some of their youthful faults, roots of the tree on which it once grew. ent brocades, velvets, and Siciliennes, are the ma-
years. they may not run away and hide themselves It is the same thing with themselves, they terials used; as we have said before, silk plays a
Yet we have always doubted if, after all, among naughty acquaintances through fear say ; they, too, are no more than the leaves most inconspicuous part in these rich toilettes,
it were natural feeling that predominated of their parents’ anger, but may have in of the tree; they flourish a little while in serving only as a lining for the waist, and some-
among us so much as family feeling, if one their uncle a recourse and refuge where they the sunshine, they fade and droop and die times as a foundation for the front and sides of
can discriminate between the two; for nat- will be admonished lovingly, and will find and drop, and the place that knew them the skirt. Satin and the soft satin Surah are the
knows them no more, and the next genera- plain fabrics most.used ; satin de Lyon is scarce-
ural feeling is shared with brutes and sav- an intercessor to make their excuse and get
tion comes and dances its own day in the ly lustrous enough for these dresses, and in light
ages, but the other belongs only to those their pardon.” colors is said to wear badly. For young ladies a
that are bound in the bonds of blood-rela- If all this were in accordance with advice sunshine, and withers in its turn; and they
great deal of Sicilienne is used this winter, espe-
tionship. The brute shows none of it, ex- and custom among the best in heathen times, faithlessly ask if it is not better not to be cially in pale pink, cream, and lavender shades, in
cept in relation to the mate, and not al- how much further should fraternal feeling at all than to be only for such a brief and combination with brocade of another color. For
ways then, and for a very brief season to go now, led along in the gentle paths of worthless day. The young tree may look combining with any color white satin brocaded
the offspring. The love of brothers and Christianity! Yet although great things forward to its full growth, these melan- with gold or with silver is the favorite this sea-
sisters, of grandparents and cousins, does are sometimes more easily done than small choliacs say; the mature tree lives in the son; for elderly ladies very large floral designs
not distinguish savages, many of whom are ones, we doubt if there are, in our own vir- present, shedding its gums, tossing its arms, are in the brocade, while for those who are young-
Drcemper 25, 1880.] HARPER'S BAZAR. 819
er small leaves, rose-buds, and intricate matelassé when colored dresses are chosen, but for black light flannel skirt. The warm scarlet skirts of stitution, Mr. Lowext said that he had expected
designs are wrought in gold. The silver brocades dresses plain velvet is most used, end is trimmed this kind are preferred, though blue, gray, and to receive from America a lecture on Gray,
with the gay-colored appliqué velvet and chenille, white are all shown. There are also Balmoral which he bad prepared with care, and in its ab-
are especially liked with pale blue Sicilienne, and sence had been obliged to give them one of
there is a fancy for finishing the skirt of such a or else with solid jet or colored bead ornaments. skirts that resemble these, but are woven, and
which he did not think so well.
dress with two thick cords, one of the material A collar, cuffs, and side pockets of this chenille are of heavy worsteds, in stripes of purple, gray, —The Signorina Gie_1a NorpIca (Miss Lrxt-
and the other covered with silver braid or tinsel. appliqué in tulip pattern, showing cardinal, olive, blue, or red with black or white; these are only AN NorTH) has made a very satisfactory début
When satin or velvet brocades are used for the and mauve tints, trims a black velvet basque, $1 75. Black is preferred for Balmoral skirts, in the Imperial Opera of St. Petersburg.
greater part of the dress the three front breadths while two rows of the trimming are down the and those that are quilted at the bottom are most —The Marquis of Lansdowne, who has a high
are of plain satin, while the basque and the flow- front, or else as panels. Great branching leaves liked; they are shown in farmer’s satin, with the idea of what is due to the house of Lansdowne,
or flower clusters of jet trim other plain black lower part of quilted satin, for $6; those entirely and the Marquis of Sligo, have both fled from
ing back breadths are of the brocade. Ireland, and will not revisit that country till its
Red, white, and yellow are the colors most seen velvet basques, and nearly cover the flat fronts of satin, handsomely quilted, are $9; while the
troubles are over,
at day and evening receptions this winter, and of the skirt, while the back is not trimmed. Oth- light ones, stuffed with down, are still more ex- —The Princess of Wales has a pretty little
these are being repeated for the holiday dresses. er brocaded velvet basques have three bias pleats pensive. Very nice Balmorals of felt are finished custom of making butter in a silver churn at her
Among the most distinguished toilettes are those extending from the armhole to the middle of the with a deep border of quilted satin for $3 75, and children’s breakfast table. The Marchioness of
of a new light shade of cardinal with solid jet front, and the upper part is filled in with jetted others as low as $1 are of colored felt, with notch- Lorne says of this sister-in-law that she has the
trimmings; for these jet ornaments there are satin or with lace. ed frills of blue or red flannel; there are also most wonderful disposition in the world, trouble
passementeries entirely of beads that are wide For a young lady to wear at home on New- wadded skirts for $1 50 that are soft, pliable, flying from her thoughts like water from a duck’s
enough to form the sleeves and nearly cover the Year’s Day is a pretty tea gown of gay Persian and warm. Brown, dark blue, gray, and red back. ALEXANDRA is said to have made a visit
skirts are made in all the styles described for of condolence to the Duchess of Edinburgh on
square neck and front of the basque. The skirt cashmere made up over a black velvet skirt. Six the occasion of the late second marriage of the
is then similarly trimmed in panels on the sides, satin pleatings of the colors in the cashmere— black skirts. Emperor of Russia, which has greatly grieved the
or else the front and sides of bright red satin are garnet, olive, rose, cardinal, pale blue, and cream- Ribbed Cardigan jackets, with or without daughter who idolized him.
covered with rows of jet fringe, with every strand color—trim the black velvet skirt. A shirred sleeves, or else with silk sleeves, are shown to —Dr. Pusey has declared that in his judgment,
finished by a cut jet ball, and these balls click plastron of pale blue satin Surah is buttoned on wear next the cloak over a dress, not only for however it may be in the final judgment, Lon-
like castanets with every motion of the wearer. down the entire front. The cashmere sleeves are warmth, but to protect the dress from being don is one of the largest heathen cities in the
puffed, and the ruff shows all the colors among rubbed by the cloak. In nice shapes, with pock- world.
The basque and flowing back breadths are then
of thick brocaded satin entirely of red shades, or its pleats. Another graceful dress is of black ets and square basques, these are $4. An effort —The head of a troupe of Bohemian glass-
satin de Lyon with the facings and sash linings is made to introduce Jersey waists for this pur- blowers lately exhibited in Washington a dress
it may be some green is wrought with the red, or made of flint-glass that had required one hun-
else the red ground has gold figures. Some very of cardinal satin, while the cuffs and barbe laid pose, but they are not so conveniently put on and dred thousand miles of spun glass thread to
original dresses have been imported in which a on flatly are of duchesse point lace. A mauve off as the Cardigan jackets. Vests of chamois- weave its material. It was of the texture of fine
yellow-green like bronze is the prevailing color brocade is warmed with maroon shades of satin skin well perforated are used in the same way, and silk, and ha¢ taken some twenty-four weeks to
of the satin brocade, and this is trimmed with the held in shirred puffs down the front, and trimmed are worn beneath the corsage by thin ladies who complete.
jet ornaments just described, and also with black with pearl garniture nearly half a yard wide, sold need to be warmly clad. They cost $3 or $4 —The Duc d’Aumale, with the Grand Duke
lace, either thread or else real Spanish lace, put at $40 a yard. A pretty and youthful dress to without or with sleeves. The English silk vests VLADIMIR as his guest, celebrated the féte of St.
on in very full frills down the front or sides of be worn by a blonde has a demi-long basque of and drawers are now so graded in weight and HvBert, the patron of hunters, at Chantilly the
other day, first hearing mass, and then coursing
the skirt, and about the neck. For white dresses salmon pink and blue brocaded satin, with the thickness that many ladies wear them at all sea in the forest. The Duc de Chartres, with many
brocaded satins with pearl trimmings are the skirt made entirely of ruffles of Languedoc lace sons of the year. This silk comes in four threads, officers of his regiment, joined the hunt, and the
choice at present; if there is gold in the bro- on salmon pink silk; the sleeves are entirely of six, nine, or twelve threads, and is sold by its Prince de Joinville was nearly killed by a wild
cade, gold-beaded fringe and passementerie is the lace, and the front of the basque has fully weight, each garment costing from $3 50 to $10. boar, his wife witnessing the affair and the rescue.
combined with pearls. Young ladies choose these gathered jabots of yellow lace. The palest cash- Ecru shades are preferred. The English wool —Lord CARLINGFORD, the fourth husband and
pearl trimmings in preference to lace, at least for meres in blue, lavender, pink, or yellow are made under-wear is liked because it is of such pure widower of Lady WaLbDea@rRAVE, has just erected
ornamenting the skirt; the sleeves are made en- up in picturesque over-dresses that are straight, wool, but the best brands of either foreign or do- a& monument to her, the last words of the in-
tirely of the beads or lace used for the neck. Yel- half-long polonaises, and are called long gowns. mestic under-wear will shrink unless all the soap scription on which run, ‘“‘ For where your trea-
sure is, there must your heart be also”; and as
low dresses are now decidedly yellow rather than of These have revers widely turned back in front, is taken out by the laundress. Scarlet vests are the lady left her last husband an income of a
creamy tints; the brilliant Marshal Neil yellow is and faced with gay brocade or plain satin, and quite as popular for ladies as the colored skirts hundred thousand a year, the wits are busy with
especially stylish, and may have pearl garniture, or are trimmed with a great deal of coffee-colored now are. It is best in selecting such garments the epitaph.
else it may be made in picturesque fashion with lace in frills, kerchiefs, and jabots, also wristlets. to have them partly cotton—though the greater —Mr. THaxtTER, who is giving the BRownINnG
‘black Spanish lace trimmings. The combination A plain velvet skirt completes this pretty home percentage of wool—to prevent shrinkage. There readings in Boston, is declared not to be sur-
of pale rose with garnet still prevails, and this is dress. The soft Surah satins very much shirred are excellent domestic garments of this kind that +g by Fanny KeEMBLE as a public reader.
prettiest when two fabrics are used, as, for in- are made in close Jersey polonaises, and worn are far less expensive than imported ones. Raw Mr. THAXTER early in life had a strong predilec-
with velvet or lace-trimmed skirts. Natural flow- tion for the stage, and it is said that he went
stance, a basque of garnet velvet with a skirt of silk and merino are sold by the yard to ladies down to the lonely Isles of Shoals—not then a
pale pink silk or satin de Lyon. White is the ers are used more than artificial ones, and espe- who prefer the princesse garments that are made public resort—for the sake of practicing unseen
trimming for the velvet corsage of such a dress, cially by ladies at home. To brighten up dark allin one piece. Woollen stockings are preferred and unheard his dramatic parts, and was there
the white floss embroidery forming cuffs and dresses, large plush collars, or else velvet collars in solid dark colors, or else in small stripes, both taken captive by the young genius who became
fichu drapery in a very effective way. The skirt of gay colors—garnet, pale blue, or white—are for ladies and children. his wife.
has alternate pleatings of pink and red satin. trimmed with frills of wide yellow lace, and have For information received thanks are due Mrs. —The rumor of the death of Madame Dr Ca-
When drapery is used on long skirts it is con- Surah or white mull bows tied at the throat. ConneLLy; Miss Swirzer; and Messrs. James TACAZY proves to be untrue. The madame was
fined to the front breadth and the single gore on Pleated mull collars edged with lace are also McCrerry & Co.; Arno~p, ConstaBie, & Co.; divorced from an Italian prince to marry her
present husband several years ago, and she is
each side, as the back breadths must hang plain, dressy and stylish. Long wrinkled gloves of un- and Lorp & Tay.or. still living with him in Paris in hopes of a recall
and fall in rich easy folds. This draping is dressed kid are worn at receptions. Feather fans to the Russian service. She was a tall, nobly
merely on the upper part of the breadths, and are chosen for elderly ladies, while those of paint- made woman, of an extraordinary type of blonde
often differs on each side, being longer on the ed silk are preferred for younger ones, White PERSONAL. beauty, which subjected her to many sorts of
right than on the left, and is caught up with a ostrich plumes with amber shell sticks are among amusing annoyance. Once, in Washington, a
great rosette or knot of the material. the handsomest fans of the season. Low slippers THe Bazar readers who have-followed Mrs. whole school of mutes were filed in and out of
or half-high shoes the color of the dress are worn Lynn Linton’s charming story, ‘‘ My Love,”’ will her drawing-room to look at her and make their
STYLES FOR FULL DRESS.
with silk stockings of the same color. The coif- — to hear that the gifted author is shut up pantomime and their adieux.
n a dark room in Florence, and threatened with —Lord RoseBery, who married Miss Han-
High square-neck basques with half-sleeves fure is as simple and as low as the contour of the total blindness, in consequence of a severe ill- NAH ROTHSCHILD, is noted in drawing-room and
‘are worn almost altogether for full-dress occa- head and the face will permit, and the flowers or ness in which she just escaped brain fever. in council-chamber for his courtesy, self-control,
sions. Low corsages are very little used except jewelled ornament are worn in a small cluster —The holiday number of The Art Interchange and art of managing other men.
for large balls or for very ceremonious. dinner very low behind the left ear ;even a comb, if worn, will be notable for its illustrations and literary —In a letter to the school-children of Cincin-
parties, and the fanciful bodice with high square must be very low on the knot of hair—not reach- attractions. It will contain articles, stories, etc., nati, who propose to give him a day of com-
neck, entirely without sleeves, has not met with ing to the top of the head. by CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER, HARRIET Pres- memoration, Dr. Homes writes that he trusts
approval ; it is too theatrical, and not modest, and Among other graceful styles are princesse coTT SPOFFORD, and Hope LEDYARD; a lullaby they will not remember him by the green fruit
thus far has happily been confined to the stage. dresses with plastrons of a contrasting material with music by CLarkK W. Evans; illustrations by of his early years, but by such verses as the
James E. Ke.iy; a proof impression of one of “Promise,” and the ‘Chambered Nautilus,” in
The favorite basque has a postilion back formed buttoned on down the entire front; different plas- ABBEY’S drawings, from HarPER’s MAGAZINE; which case he will think their memories a better
into two large box pleats, while the front is open trons may be used with the same dress by way of a flat tint lithograph by Rosina Emmet; ‘‘ Me- monument than any of bronze or marble.
square, quite low, and is cut away sharply from varying the toilette. A cut paper pattern of a fistofele,” illustrated by H. M. McVickar and —On WENDELL PuHILuiPs’s sixty-ninth birtb-
the waist line, which is far more becoming than dress of this kind will be issued with our next James E. KE.ty ; together with designs for dec- day he received calls from numerous friends, and
to button the basque over the stomach. The number. A black velvet dress is enriched by a orative work, Notes and Queries, and letterpress rofuse gifts of flowers, among them a floral harp
square neck is trimmed widely and very flat, with shirred and ruffled plastron of Surah, either black on various art topics. rom his Irish admirers, who never forget his re-
passementerie and lace on the front, but extends or colored, or else the plastron may be covered —Mrs. Lucy Stone has a lovely home in Dor- marks about DanreL O'CONNELL.
with jet. For light cashmere or satin de Lyon chester, Massachusetts, with a wide sea-view —The gold watch which General CrITTENDEN
into a collarette behind, which may be standing and a distant landscape of the blue Milton hills gave his son who was killed with Cusrsr, and
and wired like a fraise if the wearer has a long dresses the plastron is brocade in white and gold, from the windows. robbed on the field, has recently been restored
neck, but if not it is rolled over in a pleated col- or beaded with pearls, or else it may be shirred —Miss Morsg, the daughter of the inventor to the father by Mr. Gieor, of the Home Bay
larette of the lace, or a broader one of the bead satin Surah of some becoming color, and may be of the telegraph, is about to be married to Mr. Company, who bought it of a half-breed, who
trimming. The neck and the sleeves of such cut open and square at the top, and trimmed with RUMMEL, the pianist, and have a wedding tour said he had traded for it with a Sioux who had
waists are the objective points for trimming. pleated lace. The pretty peasant dresses remain in Europe. taken it from a man that he killed in battle.
Lace or beaded sleeves are on all dressy basques. in favor with ladies who have their dresses made —The wife of General Mrvzs is a niece of Gen- —The idea which Mrs. Capy STANTON pro-
If the wearer’s arm is plump, the entire sleeve is at home, and carry out their own ideas. They are eral SHERMAN, and sister of Mrs. Don CAMERON. mulgated in a recent card, that married women
She was adopted and brought up by Secretary should retain the father’s name, affixing the hus-
transparent ; but if not, the back half may be of seen at every entertainment, and are of all mate- SHERMAN, and married from his house. band’s to it, would be more readily accepted it
the brocade with the upper half of lace, or else rials, from white satin down. With a great deal —A son of Mr. GLADSTONE is now visiting in parents made a custom of giving a daughter but
the entire sleeve is brocade, and a row of lace or of lace about the throat, with sleeves caught up this country. a single name, so that she need not carry around
of the beaded trimming extends down it length- on the inside seam nearly to the elbow, with full —The Crown Prince of Denmark and his wife a whole alphabet of initials in retaining her own
wise. A cuff of lace and brocade turned up is back to the skirt, and flat front with a sword sash, are going to pay a visit to the Prince of Wales family name.
most stylish for elbow sleeves, but this is too se- this is a very quaint and becoming dress, The at Sandringham. —Mr. Bronson Atcort, the Concord philos-
vere if the arm is thin, and frills of lace falling style is so simple that the dress can be easily —M;z. J. APPLETON Browy, Mr. A. V. 8. An- opher, is a tall, stoutly built man, with fresh
toward the wrists must be worn. When low cor- made at home, and less material is required for THONY, Mr. Foxcrort Coie, Mr. F. P. Vinton, complexion, long gray hair, and shining blue
and other leading artists of Boston, all united eyes.
sages are worn, most ladies prefer those with pos- it than for any other. Ladies boast of buying lately in a published protest against the unfa- —In speaking of Lord Metzourng, in his new
tilion back and laced front, though imported for $20 enough brocade and satin de Lyon for vorable criticism of Mr. Sa1RLaw’s paintings in book, Lord BEACONSFIELD says that no one could
dresses reverse this arrangement, having the la- such a dress. Two breadths of brocade meeting one of the morning papers, declaring that they say “‘he was a bad-hearted man, for he had no
cing behind, and the front sharply pointed. The at the waist, opening toward the foot, felled in considered Mr. SHIRLAW among the first living hearf.”’
round neck with soft bertha drapery is preferred with a satin fan in front, or a sash, and extend- artists in this country—an unprecedented cir- —It is said that the greatest of George Sand’s
for low corsages, though occasionally the neck is ing to the full back breadths of plain satin, are cumstance, which reflects as much credit on works were written with hardly an erasure.
cut square, and full rows of lace are made to fall liked for such skirts. Three or four narrow gath- themselves as on Mr, SHIRLAW. —At the silver wedding of Mr. and Mrs. W1r-
ered ruffles trim the foot stylishly. —Sergeant O’Keerre, of the Signal Service, LARD, Of Washington, the other night, a cake
outward in back and front. Trains are made has made the discovery that Pike’s Peak is a vol- baked for the original bridal twenty-five years
flowing from the waist, and have usually three cano. ago was served in an excellent state of preserva-
WARM UNDER-CLOTHING.
straight breadths, with the end rounded instead —Mr. GuapsTone is to move in Parliament tion.
of square. A great many rich dresses have mere- Colored under-skirts are worn almost altogeth- that a grant of a hundred thousand dollars shall —The old home of Acnes and Joanna Batt-
ly demi-trains, and the most elaborate trains do er this winter ;these come in the colored flannels, be given to General Roserts for his prowess in Lig, on Windmill Hill, Hampstead, is for sale.
not measure more than seventy to seventy-five the hand-knitted skirts, and in the quilted Balmo- Afghanistan. Literary work did them no harm, apparently,
inches, the latter being for court trains. The rals, For the colored flannels the Quaker hand- —The Comte de Chambord is to spend some their united ages being one hundred and ninety
short skirts for full dress are confined to very loom flannels are preferred, as they do not shrink, time with the Duke of Norfolk at Arundel Cas- years.
tle, where immense preparations have been on —One of thelargest farms in'Ross-shire, in the
young ladies, especially to débutantes, but are although they contain as much wool as those made foot, his object being to make arrangements con- north of Scotland, carrying five thousand sheep,
very much liked for dancing. A Parisian caprice by machine. They are slightly gored, with the cerning the settlement of the religious houses re- has just been deplenished in order that it may
is to make a low corsage of colored satin with a seams herring-boned on the right side, have also cently disbanded in France. be turned into a deer forest.
train of white brocade opening over a petticoat tucks done in herring-bone stitches, and are fin- —Mr. Marsu, our Minister to Italy, who is —The most beautiful place upon the Isle of
that is trimmed with colored ruffles—some pink, ished with hand-made woollen lace of the color justly celebrated as a philologist, expects to re- Wight is said not to be the Queen’s, but Norris
others blue, and still others green—and to trim of the flannel. These are preferred in scarlet, or sign his post next spring after the celebration — recently purchased by the Duke of Bed-
the front with flower garlands in which pink, pale blue, or drab flannel, but are also used in of his eightieth birthday. ord.
green, and blue appear. Narrow gathered ruf- —So many admirers of Mrs. Lanerry sent her —Mrs. Mary THatcHer Hiaernson has pre-
white flannels. They cost $3 50 each. Other
fles of silk or satin, bound, or else merely pinked,
gifts of game, books, flowers, and dainty notions, pared, for the fair of the Massachusetts Society
colored flannel skirts have a scant ruffle on the that it is reported to have materially increased for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, one
are used again on dresses for young ladies. Soft edge dotted and scalloped with needle-work. the carrying trade of the island of Jersey. of the most remarkable collections of autographs
sashes tied in front are considered enough dra- White flannel skirts are edged with a ruffle that —A son of Sir EpwarpD THorRNTONn is now at- extant. It includes almost every American au-
pery for the front breadth of dresses with bro- is wrought with colored embroidery. The hand- tached to the British legation in Washington, thor; pages from the works of muny English
caded panels on the sides. knitted wool skirts that were so costly when im- making the third of his family that has filled ones, such as Lord Jerrreys, WILKIE CoLLins,
ported are now made here of Germantown wool, such a position, his grandfather having been Frovubg, the Rossertis; actors o. the eminence
VELVET, BROCADE, ETC. and are sold for $3 25 to$4 each. These are so chargé d'affaires for some three or four years in of Ristori; statesmen like the ADAMSES and
the beginning of the century. Patrick Henry, SumNeR, EVERETT, and the
For matronly ladies velvet is the favorite dress light, warm, and clinging that many ladies prefer —In returning thanks for the applause which cebief ay ig 7 living; artists like WiLLiaM
for dinners and for receiving calls on New-Year’s them to flannel skirts, while others who require he received at the close of his lecture on SHaks- Hunt and La Farce; and people of science,
Day. The ciselé velyets are preferred for these very warm clothing use them in addition to a PEARE before the Edinburgh Philosophical In- like AGAssiz, SILLIMAN, and Maria MITCHELL.
 PARPERS 2EMGR. {DxEcEMBER 25, 1880.

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DAISY DESIGN FOR FOOT-REST, SOFA CUSHION, ETC.—APPLIED WORK.—From tae New York Decorative Arr Soctery.

APPLIED WORK.* spoonful of essence of cloves, and stir till it boils. on every corner, as nowadays, and they had, in ad- diesof the family of their landlord by presenting
Boil five minutes, and turn out to cool. If poured dition to many and manifold housewives’ duties, them with pots of growing basil.
HE design furnished us this week by the So- into a muslin bag inside the jar, it will be easy to to tend the sick, and with their “yarbs” to do Blessed Thistle—Great miraculous virtues were
ciety of Decorative Art is for a foot-rest or drain the water out from time to time, which im- what in them lay to carry us through many a fit ascribed to this plant, which were supposed to
sofa cushion, twenty-one inches square, of ap- proves the paste. of sickness. These medicaments have nearly all be derived from the milk of the Virgin Mary,
pliqué work. The pattern is of a conventional In large pieces of appliqué, when the outlines passed away, and are now replaced by such po- who, when nursing the infant Jesus, allowed
daisy, and the materials to be used are plush, are to be marked by heavy threads of silk, the fig- tential remedies as only the apothecary can pre- some of it to fall upon the leaves. As the mid-
outlined with gold thread upon cloth or satine, ures are sometimes sewed on by very fine stitches, pare, and only a physician dare to prescribe. We rib and nervures of the leaves are milk white,
or cloth upon cloth, outlined with gold thread. which may be concealed by the edging of silk. propose to give such of our readers as are not the common people believed the tale, as they con-
Naturally the former combination of material is But where gold thread is to be used it is too fine blessed with grandmothers who had herb gardens sidered that they had ocular evidence of where
much richer than the latter, and while the ex- to cover stitches, and the figures must therefore an account of the herbs grown by those who the milk trickled off the leaf. Perhaps from
pense of it is somewhat more, it is not so much be pasted in place. The pattern ready, the out- had. It may be interesting, and a source of in- analogy with the superstition, it was thought to
as the difference in beauty. For example, the de- lining with the gold thread begins, the thread formation upon a subject seldom brought to be a cure for cancer of the breast. A strong in-
sign in plush upon satine, with gold thread, cord, passing round exactly on the edge of each petal notice. fusion produces perspiration, and increases all
etc,, sufficient to finish the pattern, and cut out and leaf. The thread is then sewed from the Angelica,—This plant was highly esteemed, and the secretions. It was also considered to be a
and pasted on ready for working, costs $8, where- back, the needle with gold-colored silk coming considered to have angelic powers, whence its stomachic, and was thought to procure the return
as with the pattern in cloth on cloth and gold up on the right side of the gold thread, passing name. It was used both as a confection and as of appetite after irregularities in eating and
thread it is $6. through the thread, and then down again, so that a medicinal plant. For the first, the young and drinking had injured the stomach.
In preparing appliqué work, if the ground is no stitch is seen, and the gold outline is invisibly tender stalks were blanched like celery, and can- Borage was formerly in great repute, being
of a thin, easily stretched stuff, a piece of light secured. This is called “couching,” and is one died with sugar. The root was used medicinally, reckoned as one of the cordial flowers to drive
cotton or linen is first sewed tightly into the em- variety of many forms of embroidery coming un- and was supposed to have great anti-pestilential away care. The Greeks and Romans infused the
broidery frame, and upon this is sewed the real der that head, some of which will be referred to powers, especially against poisons and the plague. leaves and flowers in wine to cheer the spirits,
material. This makes a better and firmer back- at another time. The veins of the leaves may be It is not to be confounded with the angelical-tree and it was largely used by the English for the
ground, especially if the work is intended for a worked either with the gold thread “ couching,” of our Southern States, which belongs to a differ- same purpose. The flowers are said not to have
chair seat, or for anything that has to be strongly or with “stem stitch,” previously described, in ent family of plants. any virtue when dry, the fresh roots were there-
stretched in making up. It is a very good thing, brownish olive silk, and the stems may be simi- Anise.—The leaves of this plant were used as a fore used in winter for this purpose. The young
particularly if the worker be somewhat of a nov- larly treated. The brown plush centres to the garnish, and for seasoning. Medicinally the seeds tender leaves were sometimes used as a salad, or
ice, to have the design traced on the background, flowers are to be cross-stitched over with the gold are aromatic and carminative, and were much used as a pot-herb in place of spinach.
so that the spot where each figure of the applica- thread. in flatulencies. Its name is derived from anisin, Comfrey is a plant closely allied to borage.
tion should go will be exactly marked. This is In the accompanying daisy pattern the border- its Arabic name. It is astringent and mucilaginous, and was used
easily done, just as patterns are stamped on any- ing band is of olive plush, to harmonize with or m, or Bawm.—The name of this plant is for internal wounds, and was also reputed to
thing else. When the different figures for the match the leaves, and the half-flowers are to be thought by some to be derived from the Hebrew, eure diseases of the lungs and the bowels.
pattern are taken off they are pounced like any treated precisely like those in the centre group. bol-smin, chief of oils; by others, from bdsdm, Caraway.—A well-known herb, still extensively
other work, and cut out with very smooth, sharp The border lines are to be heavy gold cord, sewed balm, and besem, a sweet smell; but these names used in cooking, confectionery, and medicine. It
scissors. It is most important that the edges like the gold thread, and the little feather stitches were probably applied to a different plant. An- is a stomachic and carminative, and formerly was
should not be frayed in the least, for if they are, are to be in the gold thread or olive silk. ciently it was generally used in hypochondriacal much used in flatulent colics, The young under-
a nice outline can not be made with the gold Fig. 1 shows the full-sized centre ; Fig. 2 a sec- affections; for making a tea to induce perspira- leaves were put into soups and salads to flavor
thread. In preparing the pattern for application tion of the border, also full-sized; and Fig. 3 the tion in fevers ;mixed with honey and vinegar, as them; and the fusiform-shaped roots were used
only so much of the figure as is needed should completed cushion in miniature. a gargle in throat affections; and to make a in place of parsnips, to which they are said to be
be stamped upon each shade of plush. For in- light, agreeable beverage known as balm wine. superior, This is a very old inhabitant of our
stance, in the accompanying model the ground is It was also thought to be a remedy for the rdens. It was probably introduced into Eng-
olive satine, the petals of the flowers are yellow stings of bees and wasps. Bees are very fond land by the Romans.
plush, the centres brown plush, crossed with gold
OUR GRANDMOTHERS’ HERB of it, and formerly it was much used in bee- Camomile was formerly used with wormwood
thread, and the leaves of olive plush. Obviously GARDEN. culture. for making bitter beer, instead of hops. It is an
it is only required to cut the petals out of yellow I Balsam Apple.—This vine, which belongs to aromatic, bitter, tonic, and stomachic. A strong
plush, the centres out of brown, and soon. When ie the olden time it was the custom of all the cucumber family, is highly esteemed among warm infusion of it was considered to be a useful
the figures are all ready for application they should good country housewives to have their gar- the Syrians for curing wounds. They cut open emetic in low states of the body, and, combined
be carefully pasted into place. This must be done den of simples and herbs, some to be used as con- the unripe fruit, and infuse it in sweet-oil until with an astringent, as an antiperiodic to cure
with the greatest care, so that the paste shall not diments, and others as medicaments. The arti- the oil becomes red. It is applied on cotton to ague. In England the country people used to
soil any part of the material. cles of their materia medica-were not numerous, fresh wounds. In this country the ripe fruit is make raised garden banks or benches, and plant-
A good recipe for paste is three and a half and for the most part not very powerful, the also used steeped in oil. ed them with chamomile to sit on, thinking it
spoonfuls of flour, and as much powdered resin cures being more to be attributed to faith in their Basil_—Of this plant there are two varieties, conducive to health. It was an old and preva-
as will lie on an old-fashioned copper cent. Mix efficacy on the part of the patient than to any the large and the small leaved. It is an aromat- lent opinion that the more this plant was tram-
these well and smoothly with half a pint of water, special virtue in the herbs themselves. Who of ic, and was chiefly used for culinary purposes, on pled on or kept prostrate, the better it throve.
and pour into an iron saucepan. Put in one tea- us now past the meridian of life does not remem- account of its strong flavor, which resembles Hence during our Revolutionary war it was call-
ber the peppermint water, the boneset tea, the cloves, in highly seasoned dishes. It was always ed the “ Whig plant.” Shakspeare alludes to
balm tea, and the miraculous compound waters considered an indispensable flavoring in turtle this opinion in King Henry IV. : “ For though the
* As this series of designs is published by special with which our grandmothers dosed us and as- camomile, the more it is trodden on, the faster
arrangement between the Society of Decorative Art
soup. A few leaves were sometimes introduced
and Ha "s Bazar, the — worked will not be suaged our youthful pains and ailments ? -Good, into salads and soups. In former days in Eng- it grows, yet youth, the more it is wasted, the
received by the society from its contributors, dear old ladies} chirurgeons were not to be had land farmers’ wives used to compliment the la- sooner it wears.”
 DercemBer 25, 1880.] HARPER'S BAZAR.

Embroidered Tow-
els, Figs. 1-4. of white thread as
Tue towel Fig. 1 is shown by Fig. 4.
of coarse white linen, Then with thread 1
embroidered on the catch together every
ends in cross stitch 9 strands in a drawn-
with red cotton, and in work knot, and darn
drawn-work, and is rav- them with thread 2 in
elled out for fringe. point de reprise, pro-
First work the cross ceeding from the mid-
stitch border at a dis- dle, and taking up al-
tance of eight inches ways 3 strands on the
from the lower end, needle. Cross threads
then the design Fig. 2. 1 and 2, and fasten
The design for the the next 3 strands by
cross stitch border was means of the drawn-
shown on page 484, work knot at the
Bazar No. 31,Vol. XIII. height in which the
Each cross stitch is following figure is
worked over three worked, wind them as
threads of the material shown by thread 3
= in height and width. Fig. 4.—Borper ror Towet, Fia. 3.
and again work a
The drawn-work is ex- similar figure as
Drawn-W ork.
ecuted with white cot- shown by thread 2,
ton, and is edged with proceeding from the
button-hole stitches at middle. Continuethe
= the top and bottom. work in the same
Below the drawn-work manner with threads
design work three rows 4 and 5, but instead
of cross stitches with of 9 strands as in the
red cotton. Draw out Fig. 2.—Curr ror middle point darn
= the crosswise threads CoL.ar, Fie, }. Fig. 4.—Curr ror only 3 strands, re-
CoLLar, Fic. 3. peating three times.

; Fig. 1.—Borprr ror Tipy.—Cross

; Stritch Emprorvery.

Description of Symbols: @ Dark

Brown; ® Light Brown; © Dark
Olive; © Light Olive; & Pink; Cross Stitch EMBROIDERY.
GS Blue; -Foundation.
TR ERT TERRE eT ARR a

Fig. 1.—Inp1a Mustin Fig. 3.—Inp1a Mcstix ne

Cottar.—[See Fig. 2.] EMBROIDERED Pcrr. CoLLar.—[See Fig. 4.]

Cie a et)4)
TRAIT Aa !MOR Uh a ' 1 i f 1% ) ,

Fig. 1.—Emsromrrep Towei.—[See Fig. 2.] Fig. 3.—TowrLt.—Drawn-Work, Warr

Emprorery, aNd Knot-Work.-—[See Fig. 4.]
of the material for the fringe. On the
other end the towel is trimmed only with Wind thread 1 with thread 6, and work
the cross stitch border. Turn down the the wheels on the intersecting points
edges on the sides for a hem, and fasten as shown by the illustration. For the
them with a cross seam of red cotton. remainder of the border draw out 2
The coarse white towel Fig. 3 is trimmed strands each beside the 2 cross stitch
on the ends rows, then
with a drawn- Pere a wee work 2 rows
work border (22233 > eggs of cross
andon one side | ai Ks stitches, and
with a mono- catch togeth-
gram. The ma- er every 2 of
terial below the the strands
border is rav- left standing
elled out, and by means of
knotted for a drawn-
fringe. Before work knot.
working the Next draw
border divide out 1 strand,
the material and overcast
into squares, the follow-
drawing out ing 2 strands
every fourth with - stitch-
thread, length- es of white
wise and cross- thread. For
wise. For the these, al-
middle _— part ways alter.
of the border nately car-
draw out 12 ry the nee.
thread strands, dle from left
and fasten the to right,
next 2 strands horizontally
to the right across the
and left with left one of
cross stitches Fig. 2.—Desien ror Towet, Fic. 1.—Cross Srircu Ey mrorery. the 2 strands,
822 HARPER’S BAZAR. [DecemBer 25, 1880,
then underneath the right strand to the outside insolent and arrogant. It may be asked, “ Why, material for tidy servants? Imagine the instruc- The French landlady seemed rather dismayed.
work a diagonal stitch, and continue in this man- then, employ them, as there must be by this time tion and patience needed to develop a helpful She had been all smiles and courtesy so far ;but
ner. On the other side of the border the diagonal numbers of young women, either recent immi- “help” out of a girl brought up in such a home! now the bargain did not promise to be so profit-
and horizontal stitches come transposed. Sim- grants or those who have grown up in the country, But the outlook is improving; and when the ad- able, if this was the way she was to begin. But
ilar stitches worked over 3 strands finish the who would be glad to be self-supporting ?” vantages of Oregon as a permanent home are Brand pulled out his watch.
border on the outer edge. The hem on the sides This is not yet the case. Some few families more generally understood throughout the crowd- “Tf you will allow me,” said he, “TI will go and
of the towel is edged with a narrow border in have sent for or brought from other cities com- ed Eastern States, industrious, thrifty women, as get a few things to make the room look homely.
drawn-work. The monogram is worked in satin, petent, willing women, generally to act as nurses. well as enterprising men, will seek its distant You see, this lady must be made as comfortable as
tent, and back stitch with white embroidery cot- The servants offered by the thtelligence office are valleys and towns ; and although matrimony will possible, for she will see no one but her daughter,
ton. After finishing the embroidery, ravel out almost always absolutely untrained in any de- probably interfere to prevent any very prolong- and all the evenings she will be alone, Now will
the crosswise threads of the material, and knot partment of service, but are thoroughly imbued tion between “ mistress” and valuable you be so good as to have the fire lit? And
the fringe. with a sense of the literalness and saving value “maid,” a healthier sentiment will grow up con- these little things that I am about to get for you,
of that portion of our national confession of faith cerning that relationship, and John Chinaman of course they will become your property ; only
which proclaims that “all men are born free and need not then continue to occupy the anomalous you need not say who presented them to you, you
AT MY LOOKING-GLASS. equal”—necessarily and logically, therefore, all but seemingly impregnable position in our do- perceive ?”
I Loven thee well in “salad days,” women. mestic arrangements which he certainly does at The little woman’s face grew happy again ; and
Forever flown, If your servant is an Oregonian you will find present, she assured him fervently and repeatedly that he
O faithful friend, whose honest face it difficult to reach much comfort or a high de- might trust to her to do her best for this lady
Reflects my own. gree of tidiness, unless you are fortunate enough (Begun in Harrzr’s Bazar No. 13, Vol. XIIL) about whom he seemed so anxious.
Nor do I mete thee scanter praise to happen on a naturally tractable, receptive dis- It was almost dusk when he went out; most
(Sincerity is hard to find),
Now Time has distanced in the race,
position, and are yourself able personally to in-
struct in the minutiw of the service you wish ren-
SUNRISE. of the shops in Sloane Street had their windows
lit. He set about this further task of his with an
And left me panting far behind— dered—a degree of culture which, to our shame be Bry WILLIAM BLACK, eager delight. For although it was ostensibly for
Heigh-ho !— it said, few American women have attained. Con- Natalie’s mother that he was buying this and buy-
Avruor or “A Prinosss or Tuvxe,” “A Daventer
Another weary mile or so. sequently the “lady” in your dining-room or ing that, there was an underlying consciousness
or Hera,” “Tae Srranee ADVENTURES OF A
kitchen recognizes little superiority in knowledge Paaeron,” “‘Maoikop or Dane,” Eto, that Natalie herself would be pleased ; that many
How well I recollect the hours on the part of her mistress, and looks upon any and many a time she would occupy that pretty
I used to spend effort at serving meals “decently and in order” little sitting-room ; that perhaps she might guess
Before thee once, in years gone by, as an unconscionable waste of time and clean
My trusty friend!
CHAPTER XXXIX. who it was who had been so thoughtful about her
plates. One of the numerous new waitresses mother and herself. Fortunately Sloane Street is
Oh, April youth! oh, sun and showers! who of late have been making a patient man’s A NEW HOME,
an excellent shopping thoroughfare ; he got every-
Pray don’t expect me to confess dinner miserable quietly sat down and fanned Grorce Brann set out house-hunting with two thing he wanted—even wax candles of the proper
How long I took to knot my tie herself while soup was being disposed of. A exceptional circumstances in his favor; he knew tint of red. He first of all went to the florist’s
The day that I proposed to Jess. friend stationed at a comfortable army post, but precisely what he wanted, and he was prepared and got fruit and flowers enough to decorate a
(Alack ! where it is difficult to change on short notice, put to pay for it. Moreover, he undertook the task hall. Then from shop to shop he wandered, buy-
She boxed my ears—and married Jack.) up with a slatternly, free and easy “ young lady,” willingly and cheerfully. It was something to ing books here, a couple of lamps there, a low,
And now I wear—well, never mind a farmer’s daughter, until she tapped a guest on do. It would fill in a portion of that period of softly cushioned easy-chair, a fire-screen, pastilles,
(Time’s ruthless shears !). the shoulder and called her by her first name. suspense. It would prevent his harassing him- tins of sweet biscuits, a dozen or two of Hunga-
And Jess—why, bless you, she’s been dead To her husband's suggestion, “ Let’s get a China- self with speculations as to his own future—spec- rian wine, a tea-making apparatus, a box of va-
These twenty years! man—the next one will be just as bad,” she de- ulations which were obviously useless until he rious games, some white-rose scent, and he was
The fruit of Life is gone—the rind murred, “Oh no,I do not like them, and would should learn what was required of him by the very nearly adding a sewing-machine, but thought
Is somewhat bitter to the taste. so much rather have a woman!” A woman was Council. he would wait to see whether she understood the
Oh, vain regrets for pleasures fled! procured from Portland, well recommended. My But none the less was he doomed to the house- use of that instrument. All these and many oth-
For days when I possessed—a waist. friend fell ill, and necessarily the care of the hunter’s inevitable disappointment. He found, er articles were purchased on the explicit condi-
ut s tay;
house was given into the servant’s hands. She in the course of his devious wanderings through tion that they were to be delivered in Hans Place
I'll brush the sorry imps away. took advantage of her opportunity, invited com- all sorts of out-of-the-way thoroughfares within within the following half-hour.
pany to cheer her lonely hours, and when the a certain radius from Brompton Church, that the Then he went back to the lodging-house, car-
Ah, if some scientific man inistress of the house had recovered sufficiently houses which came nearest to his ideal cottage in rying in his hand the red candles. These he
Would but invent to resume her duties, such havoc was discovered a walled garden were either too far away from placed himself in the sconces, and lit them; the
A looking-glass wherein to find amongst provisions, crockery, and credit with the Hyde Park, or they were not to be let, or they effect was good, now that the fire was blazing
One’s moral bent, butcher that a precipitate retreat was forced on were to be let unfurnished. So, like a prudent cheerfully. One by one the things arrived; and
A tell-tale mirror, there to scan the Portland recruit, and a Chinaman installed person, he moderated his desires, and began to gradually the lodging-house sitting-room grew
Each petty failing that appears— in her place—since when comfort and order have cast about for any furnished house of fairly more and more like a home. He put the flowers
The cynic furrows of the mind, reigned. This is but one experience of many I cheerful aspect, with a garden behind. But here here and there about the place, the little French-
That gather with increasing years! could relate ;and although in many households a again he found that the large furnished houses woman having brought him such small jars and
Ah, well, Chiaaman can be conveniently substituted for a were out of the question, because they were un- vases as were in her possession—these fortunate-
I fear those glasses woul’ not—se!. woman, it is not best for the community that it necessarily expensive, and that the smaller ones ly including a couple of bits of modern Venetian
should be so, particularly in homes with children ; were mostly to be found in slummy streets, while glass. The reading-lamp was lit and put’on the
and where there is but one servant it is extreme- in both cases there was a difficulty about serv- small table. The newly imported easy-chair was
ly undesirable; but as long as a foolish idea of ants. The end of it was that he took the first drawn to the fire; some books and the evening
A LETTER FROM AN OREGON the degradation of service lingers in the minds of floor of an old-fashioned house in Hans Place, be- papers scattered about. He lit one of the pas-
HOUSEKEEPER. young girls of the artisan and farmer class, so ing induced to do so partly because the landlady tilles, put the fire-screen in its place, and had a
EFORE glorious Mount Hood envelops his long our social machine will fail to run smoothly. was a bright, pleasant-looking little Frenchwo- last look round.
hoary head in winter mist, and hides from us The woman who does my washing—an honest, man, and partly because the rooms were fur- Then he got into a hansom and drove up to the
for a season his ancient visage, it behooves wise hard-working Irish peasant—has a lazy husband, nished and decorated in a fashion not common house in the Edgware Road. He was immediate-
housekeepers to avail themselves of the clear wea- and two little girls; and instead of training these to lodging-houses. ly admitted and shown up stairs. Natalie’s mo-
ther and clean streets that permit comfortable lo- children to help her out of school-hours, and Then came the question of terms, references, ther rose to receive him; he fancied she had been
comotion, and settle their d tic arrang ts thus fit them for useful members of a community and what not; and on all of these points Mr. crying.
on a platform of hoped-for permanency before where their mother’s worth is known, she pinch- Brand showed himself remarkably complaisant. “Tam come to take you to your new rooms,” he
our Oregon rains actually begin, although a tem- es and screws so as to be able to hire a piano But when all this was done he sat down and said: said, cheerfully. “They are a little better than
rary sojourner in our clover-carpeted State dur- at four dollars a month, and give them music “Now I wish you to understand me clearly, these.”
ing some months of the year might ask whether lessons—not that they have any talent to be madame. This lady I have told you about has “ Ah, that is kind of you,” she said, also speak-
there can be a beginning to a pheaomenon of na- cultivated, but because two schoolmates across come through much trouble; you are to be kind ing in French ; “ but in truth what do I care where
ture which apparently has no end. the street have a piano. Unless they are fortu- to her, and I will see you do not lose by it. Her Iam? My heart is full of joy. It is enough for
Strangers generally come to Portland in the nate enough to inherit some of their mother’s daughter will.come to see her frequently—per- me to sit quiet and say to myself : ‘ My child loves
summer, and never fail to remark on the many adaptive, industrious habits, when she is called haps every day; I suppose the young lady’s maid me. She has not turned away from me. She is
piles of cord-wood which are seen in all parts of away from this world of toil her children will can remain down stairs somewhere.” more beautiful even than I had believed; and she
the eity, evidently safe from vicious marauders of not be prepared to earn their living either manu- “Oh yes, sir.” has a good heart. I have no longer any fear.’ ”
any age or sex; their presence is accounted for ally or by giving music lessons. Although Ore- “Very well. Nowif you will be so good as to “Yes, madame,” said he, “but you must not
by the fact that the sound of the axe can still be gon is an unusually prosperous State, of its small get me pen and ink, I will give you a check for sit quiet and think like that, or you will become
heard at our doors, and wood is hauled from the population (about 75,000) a large proportion of fifty-two pounds—that is a pound a week for a ill, and then how are you to go out walking with
near “ clearing” to the town sidewalk, where it is its earlier agricultural settlers are improvident, year. You see, there are a number of little kind- Natalie? You have many things to do, and many
left to dry and “season,” until ready to be sawn lazy emigrants from other Western States, whose nesses you could show this poor lady that would things to decide on. For example, you will have
and split, and piled in the roomy cellars which active, pushing, ambitious populations have driven be all the more appreciated if they were not put to explain to her how it is you may not go to her
underlie every house. The inviolability of these them still further west, to where land is plenty down in a book and charged for: you understand ? father’s house. At this moment what other thing
tempora: tions of property is due to the and cheap, and bounteous rain-falls and peren- You could find out, perhaps, from time to time than that do you imagine she is thinking about ?
existence of that old-fashioned New England nial pastures enable them to eke out a living with some little delicacy she is fond of. Then flow- She will ask you.” ~
ride and independence, teaching the barefoot very little exertion. A small quantity of land ers: there is a good florist’s shop in Sloane “T would rather not tell her,” said the mother,
y of the poorest citizen that he must work, and “taken up” gives them the benefit of an almost Street, is there not?” absently. “It is better she should not know.”
neither beg nor steal; so deep-rooted is this feel- unlimited range over government acres for sheep “Oh yes, air.” He hesitated for a second ortwo, “Then it is
ing that a well-to-do property-owner, who lately or cattle, and the yearly sale of wool and stock She brought the ink, and he drew out the check. impossible that a reconciliation between your hus-
laid a new sidewalk, was forced to have the old supplies all the ready money required by their “Then when the young lady comes to see her band and yourself—”
boards hauled away, after a vain search for some primitive life. Not very energetic scratching of mother, you will be very attentive and kind to her “ Oh, no, no,” she said, somewhat sadly. “That
impecunious neighbor with the good sense to a small cleared patch will provide corn and po- too. You must not wait for them to ask for this is impossible now.”
take them for his winter fire-wood: those who tatoes. Nature has “preserved” the choicest or that; you must come up to the door and say, “ And you are anxious he should not know that
needed it were too lazy or too proud to secure such game, both four-legged and feathered, at their ‘Will not the young lady have a cup of choco-, you and your daughter see each other ?”
a windfall. This slight incident of course shows fence line, so that it is questionable whether even late?’ or whatever you can suggest—fruit, bis- “Tam not so anxious,” she said. “I have faith
that wood is very cheap here, and poverty, thank the second generation of these earlier settlers willcuits, wine, or what not. And as these little ex- in Natalushka: I can perceive her courage. But
God, not yet the dark shadow of prosperity, which exhibit the best characteristics of the American tra things will cost you something,I can not al- perhaps it would be better.”
last fact may explain the domestic inconveniences pioneer. Of late years Oregon has gained large- low you to be out of pocket; so here is a fund “Very well. Then come to these other rooms
from which the prosperous housekeepers are ly in agricultural population of a most desirable for you to draw from; and of course not a word I have got for you; they are in a more secluded
forced to suffer. As a white boy hardly deigns class, principally Americans and Germans. Itis
to either of the ladies. I think you understand ?” neighborhood.”
to carry home a stick of wood for his mother’s this comparatively recent immigration which will “ Perfectly, sir,” said madame. “Very well, monsieur. I have but few things
fire, so the white man scorns to do “the chores” set the type of her future cultivator. Perhaps I “Then if I hear that you have been very kind with me. I will be ready soon.”
of his richer neighbor, and when we wish our can not better epitomize the old Oregon back- and obliging, I suppose one mightbe allowed from In less than half an hour after that the French
supply of winter wood put in, we have but one class woodsman than by telling an experience of a time to time to send you a little present—some- landlady was receiving her new guest; and so
of laborer to call on—John Chinaman. Two or steamboat man sent by his company, to settle a thing to beautify your house with? You have eager was she to show to the English gentleman
three “Celestials” come together, and dividing land dispute, into a region which will soon be pretty rooms. You have shown great taste in her gratitude for his substantial presents, that
the sawing, splitting, and piling between them, traversed by that wondrous civilizing agent, a decorating them.” her officious kindness was almost burdensome.
quickly change what has been a formidable bar- railroad. He arrived at the farmer’s house—a “Oh, not I, sir,” said the little Frenchwoman; “T thank you,” said the new-comer, with a
rier on the sidewalk into a neat pile in the cellar log-cabin built some twenty years ago— after “T took the house as it stands from Mr. ——.” smile, as the landlady brought her a cushion for
corner. Instead of using wheelbarrows to carry night-fall, wet and tired, but sleepy enough not to “The architect?” said Brand. “ Ah, that ex- her back the moment she sat down in the easy-
the wood from the street to the house, John has quarrel over the meagre supply of potatoes and plains. But I am surprised he should have used chair, “but I am not yet an invalid.”
a long pole, to each end of which is attached bacon which was set before him. “I thought I Then would madame have some tea? Or per-
an ingenious frame-work of bark or light willow was too late to deserve anything better, and “That was my doing,” said the landlady, with haps madame had not dined? There was little
boughs; when these two improvised baskets are hoped for a real country breakfast,” he says. some pride. “It is a great improvement. It is in the house, but something could be prepared at
heaped full of the cut wood, he applies his shoul- Vain expectation! The morning bill of fare con- so convenient, is it not?” once : from to-morrow morning madame’s instruc-
ders to the centre of the pole, and walks off with a sisted of bacon; heavy biscuits, and tea without “My dear madame, said Brand, seriously, “ it tions would be fulfilled to the letter. To get rid
milk; no butter, no eggs. Such fare in such a can not be convenient to have one’s lungs poison- of her, Brand informed her that madame had not
country was a puzzle demanding an explanation. ed with the smoke of London gas. You must on dined, and would be glad to have anything that
Street work, or indeed, any labor “Well, Mr.——,” said he to his host, “are no account allow this lady who is coming to your happened to be in the house. Then she left, and
paid for out of the public treasury, the Chinese are those your cows over there grazing in the mea- house to sit through the long evenings with gas he was about to leave also.
not permitted todo; but any other occupation con- dow ?” blazing over her head all the time ; why, she would “No,” said the beautiful mother to him, with
sidered menial, and especially domestic service, “ Yes, them’s mine.” have continual headache. No, no; you must get a smile on the pale face. “Sit down. I have
“Well, why don’t you have butter and milk ?” a couple of lamps—one for the piano there, and something to say to you.”
class, they feel their importance, and although “ Wa’ see, fact is, my boys is too dog- a smaller reading one for this little table by the He sat down; his hat still in his hand.
a 2 eaemge « Angenmadhmangeer gone lazy to milk, and I’m—wa’al I’m too old.” fire. Then these sconces, you will get candles “T have not thanked you,” she said. “TI see
Could anything more forcibly explain the diffi- for them, of course; red ones look pretty—not who has done all this: do you think a stranger
- culties housekeepers labor under in securing good pink, but red.” would know to have the white-rose scent for me

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DecEMBER 25, 1880. } HARPER'S BAZAR. 823
that Natalie uses? She was right: you are kind ested that this testimonial be twofold—first, a
—you think of others.”
SAYINGS AND DOINGS. ife-size portrait of Mrs. Hayes, painted by one
a handsome design for you. The brocade of a blue
silk evening dress should be of the same shade as the
“Tt is nothing—it is nothing,” he said, hastily, REMARKABLE collection of original draw- of our best artists, to be placed in the Executive silk, and should be used for a square-necked basque
ings by famous masters has recently been Mansion; and second, a fund, known by her and three trained back breadths that open over a
and with all an Englishman’s embarrassment. donated to the Metropolitan Museum of Art by name, to be devoted to the circulation of total- shirred or pleated petticoat of the blue silk. Let the
“My dear friend,” said his companion, with a Cornelius Vanderbilt, one of its trustees. This abstinence literature. The portrait will be en- train rest on the floor half a yard.
grave kindness in her tone, and a look of affec- collection originated in the eighteenth century graved, and a copy sent to every one who con- J. G.—Flowers are suitable for Christmas presenta,
tionate interest in her eyes, “I anf going to prove with Count Maeaiore, of Fermo, a member of tributes five dollars to the testimonial. The L. J. M.—For altering your velvet jacket read reply to
my gratitude to you. I am going to prevent— the Academy of Bologna, and ae, valuable members of the Temperance Union hope for a “ Helen C.” in Bazar No. 51, Vol. XIII. A band of bro-
what do you call it ?—a lovers’ quarrel.” additions were made afterward from Florentine cordial response to the invitation. All moneys caded velvet or else ribbed plush will lengthen it hand-
He started. collections. Recently it came into the hands should be sent by check or postal order to Miss
somely. Trimmed skirts will be worn throughout the
“Yesterday,” she continued, still regarding of James Jackson Jarves, who added some rare Esther Pugh (treasurer of the commission), 54
winter.
specimens, and classified the whole with much Bible House, New York city.
him in that kindly way, “before we left your care. The number of drawings is 690, and the
Emma V. C.—We do not answer questions by mail.
rooms, Natalushka was very reserved toward you ; A striped India long shaw! will answer your purpose.
majority belong to Italian schools, although Estella Anna Lewis, known to the literary
was it not so? I perceived it. And you?” We can not give formulas of speech for special occa-
— are by French, os German, Dutch, world under the nom de plume of *‘ Stella,’’ died sions.
“I—TI thought she was tired,” he stammered. and Flemish masters. Among the noted names suddenly at her residence in London on No-
Inquiner.—A wedding reception being limited to
“To-morrow you are to fetch her here. And are Michael Angelo, Raphael, Andrea del Sarto, vember 24. She was born in 1824, near Balti-
Benvenuto Cellini, Fra Bartolomeo, Spagnolet- more, and after her marriage lived many years friends, it is not proper to invite an escort, though a
what if you find her still more reserved—even lady may do so on other occasions.
cold toward you? You will be pained—perhaps to, Salvator Rosa, Leonardo da Vinci, Correggio, in Brooklyn. She was an accomplished linguist,
Tintoretto, Paolo Veronese, the Caracci, Dome- the author of several works, and a large contrib- Avpiz.—Your figured cashmere would make a pretty
alarmed. Ah, my dear friend, life is made very coat-basque to wear with brown or black skirta of
nichino, Guido Reni, Nicholus Poussin, Claude utor to magazine literature. Sappho, a tragedy,
bitter sometimes by mistakes; so it is that I Lorraine, Watteau, Velasquez, Murillo, Diirer, her latest work, has recently been translated into wool or silk, to which a draped apron of the figured
must tell you the reason. The child loves you; Rembrandt, Rubens, Vandyck, etc. Good crit- modern Greek, and performed at Athens. goods might be added. It is not nice enough to com-
be sure of that. Yes; but she thinks that she ics consider this collection to be one of the best bine with velvet.
has been too frank in saying so—in time of trou- to be found in Italy. The drawings, which are On Thanksgiving night several beautiful black 55.—Take the satin trimming off your black silk
ble and anxiety; and now—now that you are in a remarkably —_ state of preservation, will swans, cygnets, ducks, and other valuable birds dress, remodel it to make a short suit, and with the
perhaps not going to America—now that perhaps soon be on exhibition in glass cases, so that on the ponds in Central Park were killed by extra material make knife-pleatings for trimming.
all the trouble is over—now she is beginning to they can be conveniently examined aud yet pro- dogs. oO policeman was near to prevent the Black camel’s-hair or ladies’ cloth will be suitable for
think she ought to be a little more discreet, as tected from injury. slaughter. A part of the birds were found dead a McGregor dress and wrap for you.
other young ladies are. The child means no on the pond at Fifty-ninth Street, near Sixth L. C.—We have no pattern of the Monk’s Ulster.
Detailed reports of the condition of Agram, Avenue, and the rest on the pond at Seventy- You can obtain it ready-made at the furnishing stores.
harm; but you and she must not quarrel.” the capital of Croatia and Slavonia, which has second Street. We do not give addresses.
He took her hand to bid her good-by. lately suffered severely from earthquake, pre- Betsry.—Your brocaded silk is in very good style,
“ Natalie and I are not likely to quarrel,” said sent a picture of terrible destruction. The city Chan have indeed been the lot of the old and will look well combined with plain black silk or
he, cheerfully. “Now I am going away. If I appears as if it had been shelled by a besieging Post-office in Nassau Street. It was originally else with camel’s-hair.
staid, you would do nothing but talk about her; army. The best houses have been most injured, built for a church, then used as a general Post- Srevita.—Astrakhan fur is entirely out of fashion.
whereas it is necessary that you should have some and none have escaped some damage. The great office, afterward as a real estate exchange, and Get some Jersey webbing for a basque-waist like the
dinner, then read one of these books for an hour cathedral is seriously injured. The Jewish syn- now it has been converted into a ball-room. Jersey Suit illustrated in Bazar No. 47, Vol. XIIL, to
agogue fell just six minutes before the doors wear with your pleated satin skirt and sash.
or so, then go to bed and have a long, sound were to have opened to admit a bridal party,
night’s rest. You must be looking your bright- A Chicago paper states that a poor German Eruri.—Your suggestions about the painted dress,
and the Franciscan convent threatens to fall cabinet-maker has devoted seventeen years of fans, etc., are all good, either design being appropriate,
est when she comes to see you to-morrow.” any moment. A late dispatch says that engi- his life to the work of a remarkable piece of Fanniz.—Get enough striped satin and velvet, cost-
And indeed, as it turned out subsequently, this neers are busy examining the 2000 houses that mechanism. It represents a Swiss chalet, about ing from $1 50 to $2 a yard, to make a coat-basque to
warning of the mother’s was not wholly unneces- sheltered 20,000 persons, to ascertain how much five feet high and four feet wide, containing six- wear with the skirts of your dress, which will proba-
sary. Next day at eleven o'clock, as had previous- can be saved from the ruins. ty-five figures of men and women pursuing their bly not need altering.
ly been arranged, Brand met Natalie at the corner daily vocations. On the lower floor is the smith Mra. A. M. C.—Seal-skin coats will be fashionable
of Great Stanhope Street to escort her to the house The English edition of Harper’s Magazine be- and his smithy, next to him the bricklayer at his this winter. Read about them in New York Fashions
to which her mother had removed. He had not gins with 15,000 copies, orders for that number work, a trumpeter, a clergyman preaching, wo- of Bazar No. 49, Vol. XIII. Get a soft-crowned tur-
of the December issue having been received. men bringing water, and men walking about,
even got into the Park with her when he perceived The English edition differs from the American hammering, chiselling, selling shoes, etc., etc.
ban of white plush or of white basket cloth for your
that her manner was distinctly reserved. Anneli baby boy of nineteen months,
only in respect to the editorial departments, It is a perfect representation of busy life in a Janx.—Your plum-colored armure silk is very styl-
was with her; and she kept talking from time to which treat of subjects of particular interest to Swiss village. A train of cars runs out and dis- ish, and should have some velvet or plush of the same
time to the little maid, who was thus obliged, English readers, As it is the custom of the appears in a tunnel every half-hour. shade combined with it, with satin de Lyon for the
greatly against her will, to walk close to her mis- English magazines to appear only five days in
advance of the date, this Magazine will be issued facings. Have the coat-basque of the velvet or plush
tress. At last Brand said, A London paper states that a prominent house single-breasted, quite straight around, and with two
“ Natalie, have I offended you ?” about ten days later in England than here. in that city sent to the post-office in one day large box pleats behind. Then make the skirt and
“Oh no,” she said, in a hurried, low voice. circulars to the amount of two tons and eighteen
drapery of your armure with some velvet or plush
“ Natalie,” said he, very gently, “I once heard The remarkable landscapes of J. Rollin Tilton, hundred-weight, the postage thereon being £583.
panels or borders. Large buttons are the only trim-
of a wicked creature who was determined to play which have charmed so many visitors at Moore’s mings needed.
American Art Gallery, are about to be placed on Powdered soap-stone seems to be the latest ar-
the hypocrite, and might have done a great deal exhibition in Boston. ticle used for the adulteration of butter. This
A Reaper.—No, it will certainly not be considered
of mischief, only she had a most amiable mother, fraud was discovered by a butter and cheese * out of the way” for a lady to give her pastor a holi-
who stepped in and gave somebody else a warn- day gift.
Evangeline awaiting the landing of her lover dealer of this city while on a recent’ Western
ing. Did you ever hear of such a wicked per- trip. The soap-stone is fine, white, and tasteless, Bretua.—Read reply just given “ Jane.”
—as described by Longfellow, is the subject of Mrs. C. G. 8.—The shape of your sacque need not
son ?” one of the finest paintings of Constant Mayer. but greatly increases the weight of butter with-
out adding materially to the bulk. It costs be altered. Add a large square collar and wide cuffs
The blood mounted to her face. By this time
about $20aton. Honest dealers and consumers of velvet, plush, or fur, and it will be stylish.
Anneli had taken leave to fall behind. Malaria has at length aroused the citizens of F.oss.—Have your poplin dyed seal brown, and get
“Then,” said the girl, with some hesitation, Washington, D. C., to take decided action. A probably do not care to purchase soap-stone at
the ordinary price of butter. plush to match the brown shade. Make it by the
and yet with firmness, “you will not misunder- delegation of prominent men waited on Presi- Habit Suit pattern, and bave a double-breasted coat
stand me. If all the circumstances are to be al- dent Hayes a few days ago, asking that he would for a wrap, with plush collar, cuffs, and pocket.
again call the attention of Congress to the fever- Buffalo public-school teachers are proposing
tered, then—then you must forget what I have to establish in the schools of the city juvenile Mas. 8. 8.—The Habit Suit pattern illustrated in
breeding morass which partially fills the channel
said to you in moments of trouble. I have a right of the Potomac in front of the city. It is be- societies for the protection of animals. A good Bazar No. 40, Vol. XIIL, is one of the most popular
to ask it. You must forget the past altogether.” lieved that the malaria whieh prevails in Wash- thing for the children, designs of the season for cloth suite. The peasant
“ But it is impossible.” ington much of the time is due to this foul dress is also excellent, but it is impossible to predict
“Tt is necessary.” marsh. A “drop”? is a variable quantity, although how long it will remain in favor. The coat-basque
For some minutes they walked on in silence. many people never think about this fact. The and the plain round over-skirt with stitched edges are
The first school for idiots was organized by Journal of, Chemistry says that the largest drop advised by fashionable tailors as the design that is al-
Then he felt a timid touch on his arm; her hand
Dr. Edward Seguin, who lately died in this city. is formed by syrup of gum-arabic, forty-four to ways in fashion.
had been laid there, deprecatingly, for a moment. the dram, and the smallest by chloroform, 250 Zre.—Make a round shirred waist and over-skirt en-
“ Are you angry with me ?” There are now seventy-five similar institutions
in civilized countries. to the dram. As a general rule, tinctures, fluid tirely of your lavender stuff to wear over a full skirt of
“No, Iam not,” said he, frankly, “for the very extracts, and essential oils yield a drop less than velvet. Get satin Surah of the lavender shade for
reason that what you ask is impossible, unneces- one-half the size of water, and acids and solu- shirring on the waist and sleeves, and as asash. Do
sary, absurd. You might as well ask me to for- Vennor does not make an attractive forecast tions give a drop but slightly smaller than water. not put velvet on the lavender part. Use white lace in
for December, but he promises a variety in
get that I am alive, In any case, isn’t it rather weather—in fact, a little of everything. At the the neck and sleeves, and as a frill down the front if
too soon? Are you so sure that all the trouble close of the month he assures us that there will
The Railroad Gazette treats its readers to an you like. We have no paper patterns of muffs.
is past? Wait till the storm is well over, and entertaining and suggestive article about ‘‘ Wait- Litt_e Mice.—A round coat-basque, single-breasted,
be very stormy weather aud snow blockades in
ing-Rooms,”’ and if it does not convince railroad with two large box pleats behind, and handsome large
we are going into port; then we will put on our this vicinity.
companies that it is quite as much for their own buttons, will look well made of your antique silk.
Sunday manners to go ashore.” interest as for the comfort of the travelling pub- Then have a black silk skirt with apron or panels of the
“Tam afraid you are angry with me,” she said Chicago has the mega of being the health- lic to furnish a thoroughly comfortable waiting- brocade. The shade of green is not used at present,
again, timidly. iest city in the world—a reputation based on re- room for their patrons, why, then the companies
cent statistics. The following table shows the and we can not promise you that dyeing will be suc-
“You could not make me if you tried,” he said, are certainly obtuse. Waiting is a very tedious cessful.
death rate, for the year ending October 31, per occupation, particularly to inexperienced travel-
simply. “ But I am proud of you, Natalie—proud 1000 persons, in various large cities having a H. L. C.—Dark purple wool or silk like your sample
of the courage and clearness and frankness of lers; and it is not merely comfortable seats and
population of 300,000 or over: a warm and cheerfully lighted room (though
will answer for skirts with the brocaded coat-basque
your character; and I don’t like to see you fall made by directions just given “ Little Mice.”
away from that, and begin to consider what a
Population. cos these things are often lacking) that are desired; Carniz P. 8S.—Your changeable salmon silk would
SEE or 503, 17.9 arrangements should be made so that travellers
school-mistress would think of you.” Ebr nerscccresesccceccere 833,577 18.8 while waiting for their train should be relieved make a pretty evening dress with shirred waist and
“Tt is not what any one may think of me that rc ctadiscndesaddoene esis 875,000 20.0 over-skirt of the silk to be worn over a black velvet
of anxiety as far as possible, so that they can en-
I consider; it is what I think of myself,” she an- PE OE ence cides deeucenss tees 1,208,223 23.4 oy the comforts provided in the waiting-room. skirt.
BRIER. 6 coccsccscnsccseseetes 889 25.8 Mas. L., or Rocurster.—Read about fur-lined cloaks
swered, in the same low voice. PUNE once conescee itesscs 850,000 18.3 The movements of trains should be distinctly
announced in a courteous, quiet manner, care in New York Fashions of Bazar No. 49, Vol. XIIL.
They reached Hans Place. The mother was at PE cceptenccdascoasesece 893,796 20.9
Anxious Inquirer.—The Woman’s Exchange, No. 4
the door of the room to welcome them. She took eer 216,359 27.7 being taken that even the elderly and absent-
PE adhsecesccccscseccéeveons 314,666 82.9 minded and sleepy travellers shall understand. East Twentieth Street, New York, sells fancy-work on
her daughter by the hand, and led her in. GI ccscccceccecccesaeseocs 589,598 21.9 commission for ladies. Address the institution direct-
Such courtesy would be not only pleasant, but
“Look round, Natalushka,” she said. “Can DIN « cde cancdactecceiasacves 254,260 21.0 “it would pay.” The suggestion is made in the ly for further particulars.
you guess who has arranged all this for me—for MDS vn cdetdgdakixhodcakdeawhe 318,921 21.8 Jasrer.—You should have two widths of scrim, part-
UNG oae nudewentenancneceetese 3988,806 24.0 Gazette that in every waiting-room there should
me and for you ?” Mixes cathe beVouces tendnden’ 342,815 27.7 be a prominent notice posted, to the effect that ed in the middle, for each window.
The girl almost instantly turned—her eyes cast TED. vccccdtoevesessgecensestde 1,096, 29.3 travellers need give themselves no anxiety about E. C. F.—Use the small-figured brocaded velvet and
down—and took her lover’s hand, and kissed it, their trains, as each train will be distinctly and satin Surah for combining with a princesse dress of
in silence. That was all. Over two hundred persons were lost by the carefully announced when the cars are ready, black silk. Have panels of the velvet and a deep col-
Then said he, lightly, as he shoved the low easy- collision, near Spezia, of the steamer Oncle Jo- and again before departure. This plan would lar on the waist; then make sash or scarf draperies of
seph with the Ortigia. The Oncle Joseph sank al- relieve that restless solicitude which is plainly the satin Surah.
chair nearer the fire— manifested by a majority of the occupants of
most immediately. Jenntx.—Dark scabieuse or petunia camel's-hair the
“Come, madame, and sitdown here. And you, almost every large waiting-room. It would save color of the figure in your velvet will be pretty and
Natalushka, here is a stool for you, that you will answering a multitude of questions; it would youthful-looking for an over-dress.
be able to lean your head on your mother’s knee, Princeton College has lately purchased the fine make ladies who are unaccustomed to travelling,
paleontological collection of Professor Ward, of Mrs. A. S.—We do not reply by mail to inquiries
There ; it is a very pretty group. Do you know nervous people, and those who are old and feeble about dress. Get thick soft cloth with the outside
the University of Rochester. This collection is feel that a journey by rail is not a matter to be
why I make you into a picture? Well, you see, a peculiarly choice one, being the result of sev- heavily repped, or else woven in small figures, for an
these are troubled times; and one has one’s work dreaded, and that ‘‘ waiting for a train’ is not Oriental cloak to be trimmed with plush.
enteen years of mature labor by Professor Ward. an unmixed evil if they can be a
to do; and who can tell what may happen? But Miss M. E. W.—The woven feather trimming comes
fortable and be sure of meeting with kindly
don’t you see that whatever may happen, I can Water is becoming, through the ignorance courtesy.
by the yard in the widths of satin or velvet at $16 a
carry away with me this picture; and always, yard, and is then cut into bands for trimmings. We
and carelessness of man, a most dangerous bev-
wherever I may be, I can say to myself that Nat- do not give addresses in this column.
erage, whereas it should be the safest and the
alie and her mother are together in the quiet lit- best. Last summer, in one of the most beauti- ANSWERS 70 CORRESPONDENTS. M. A, C.—Make your black cashmere walking dress
ful villages on Long Island, a malignant dysen- Per W.—The four ushers enter in pairs, followed by by the pattern of the Fan Basque and Trimmed Skirt
tle room, and that they are happy. Now I must
tery broke out, the victims living exclusively on the groom with the mother of the bride, and last comes illustrated in Bazar No. 49, Volume XIII. Have a
bid you good-by; I have a great deal of business hooded costume jacket for the street wrap made by
one side of a broad and airy street, residents on the bride with her father. All should wear white
to-day with my solicitor. And the landlady, ma- gloves. The groom’s neck-tie should be white. & pattern lately published in the Bazar.
dame; how does she serve you ?” the other side enjoying perfect immunity. A
sanitary investigation revealed the fact that the Eprra.—Cardinal or else old gold satin de Lyon will Mrs. W.—You might add brocaded bands and sleeves
“She overwhelms me with kindness.” sewage percolated through the porous soil into be a suitable lining for your seal sacque. Your mer- to lengthen and broaden a velvet sacque, and make of
“ That is excellent,” said he, as he shook hands the wells supplying drinking water. The sewer- chant will order stocking net or merino for making jt an Oriental cloak.
with them and—against both their protests—took age system was altered, and the epidemic prompt- your under-vests. We have no pattern of such gar- Turre Years’ Winow.—The camel’s-hair suit made
his leave. ly abated. ments. by Habit Suit pattern and the silk bonnet with a little
He carried away that picture in his mind. He Fanniz.—Wear your wedding dress at the reception jet will be appropriate for you. A seal-skin sacque or
had left these two together; and they were hap- The Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, two weeks after the wedding, but om‘t the veil and the a fur-lined black satin de Lyon pelisse will be a hand-
py. What mattered it to him what became of of Delaware, Ohio (the birth-place of President orange blossoms. some wrap for you, with black beaver cape or collar
himself ? Hayes, and the early home of his wife), invite Twenty-onz.—A black silk dress, when crape is dis- and cuffa. The long fur beaver bonnet with some
contributions to a temperance testimonial in pensed with, may be trimmed with jet beading in rows black breast-feather trimming will be suitable for you.
It was on the evening of that day that he had honor of Mrs. Hayes, with special reference to instead of piping, or else with pleatings of the silk. A Wear black pleated net or lace in your sleeves and
to obey the summons of the Council. her custom of banishing ——— liquors basque and trimmed skirt, with the skirt made like that around the neck if it is becoming, but of course you
[0 BE CONTINUED.] from her table at the White House. It is sug- of the Habit Suit lately illustrated in the Bazar, will be can now wear white also,
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826 HARPER’S BAZAR. {[DxecemBeR 25, 1880.
done you no harm in any way,” he answered, in Philip, bitterly. “The suffering will be all mine, carrying that wretched basket, could storm a Penheckers, the Coobiddies, and the Doveturtles,
the same tone. the blame all mine; the éclat of the rupture, if breach or lead a forlorn hope. Balaklava was and if I catch them at it, we shall have words, if
And she said, pressing her lips together very there be such a thing, shall be yours. Dismiss nothing to it—nothing! even I do not resort to acts of violence with the
firmly after she had spoken, “ No, you have done me on any plea you choose: I will never contra- However, every man can be a hero if he chooses. sofa cushion.
me no harm in any way.” dict you; but do not let us go on in this terrible At arm’s-length he held his dripping burden ;then This is the sort of thing that happens, and I
mistake. You can not love me—perhaps you can turned gayly to Rosamond, and said, “ Will you leave you to judge whether or not it is exaspera-
Several days passed, and Rosamond saw neither not love at all. And I am maddened between my take my arm once more ?” ting to the rest of the assembled couples, and to
of the two men who had played so prominent a adoration for your beauty and my misery at your Rosamond was not hurt, not even very much me, a blighted being sitting apart, with nothing to
part in her morning walk. coldness. Let us each be free.” shaken, after the first moment; but she took his press to my heart but the recollection of a female
She had sent to inquire after Mr. Blount—with “ Yes,” said Mabel, with a bitter look, “free to arm, and turned homeward. Mary must wait till who behaved uncommonly badly to me from my
her mother’s compliments—and had learned that send flowers to other girls, to offer your arm in another day: there was no use in going to the point of view.
he had not been able to leave his room, but a the street to ladies who may choose to accept so hospital now. “ Ducky |hg

short rest would probably make him all right. conspicuous an attention.” “When did you return ?” she asked. This is from the male Mawks, and to begin
And almost disappointed was she, when a beau- Philip looked at her earnestly. “You are “Only yesterday. This is my first walk in with is a word calculated to arouse angry feelings
tiful basket of roses came to her, to read on the speaking of Miss Vane,” he said. “Yes, she was New York. I was just thinking of my last one, in any sensible listener’s breast.
card his name, instead of finding in it a tardy but most kind and helpful that morning. She is a and of you, when you precipitated matters so un- “ Yes, darling.”
acceptable token of penitence from her own ab- sweet and noble woman. But, Mabel dearest, is expectedly. Are you sure you are not hurt?” * Ducky, do you remember when we went to
sent lover. Still the days passed on, and she it possible that any jealous feeling about her is “Not a bit,” she said, merrily. ‘ J know bet- Margate last ?”
bided her time, displeased, thoughtful, yet ready at the root of your cold manner to me? For ter than tosprain my ankle. Don’t think, though, “Of course I do, my love; it was seven years
with a true woman’s heart to listen to excuses— Heaven’s sake, be frank and true. Let us have that I undervalue your succor: it requires great ago last September.”
ready to be easily propitiated. But absence and no mistake in this matter. You know that I have strength of mind, if not of body, to carry that “ Six years ago, wasn’t it, my poppet ?” @
silence still reigned. belonged wholly to you in heart and in act. If I basket.” “Seven years, I think, my precious, because of
At last he came. She met him in the parlor, have done you injustice in complaining of your “That day,” he answered, a little incoherently, a reason,”
as grave as he, and shook hands in as unmoved want of love, tell me so, and I will ask your for- “did we not get each other mutually into a scrape, “T thought it was only six, my darling. How
a way as if they were ordinary acquaintances. giveness on my knees.” Iwonder? I wonder, too, whether you have heard time does fly! But what reason is it, lovey ?”
“T have to ask an explanation,” he said, stiffly, “No, Philip,” she said, decidedly, after a mo- the last piece of news from England: ‘ At St. “Well” (with pretty confusion), “because of
as he sat down at a little distance, and looked ment’s struggle. “I may have felt displeased at George’s, Hanover Square, Mabel, only daughter Augustus, ducky. He was born in the January
coldly at her. rumors that have reached me as to Rosamond of Henry Braithwaite, Esq., of New York, to—’ following. You must remember.”
“ And I too have to ask an explanation of your Vane. I may not have done you entire justice in Miss Rosamond, do you really not know that Fred “Oh, of course I do, my ownest, only I forgot
conduct,” said Rosamond, quietly. that matter. But as to the rest, you are right. Boone is married?” for the moment.”
“T suppose you refer to my absence for the It is not in me to satisfy such a nature as yours. Her start was irresistible; but it was a start of “It was very unkind of you, that it was.
last ten days?” he replied. “I have been out of You are too impulsive, too ardent. You annoy relief and joy as much as surprisc. Naughty boy, and I shall beat him quite hard.”
town.” te and alarm me by your demands. We had better “T am very glad,” she exclaimed. “But do (Here she taps him with a tea-spoon.) “There!
“Indeed! I was not aware of it,” she said. part.”
you really mean—is it possible he has married there! there!”
“Formerly you thought it worth while to tell me Rosamond read in the newspaper the departure Mabel ?” “ Didums whipums ?” says he, chucking her un-
your movements, to write to me you were for Europe of both her own and Mabel’s lover, “Even so. I was at the church, and shook der the chin. And then really at this period the
away. All that is over now, it would seem, and and smiled and sighed over the changes of the hands with the happy pair. Everything was rest of us have to rise up and protest loudly.
you are changed ; consequently you can not com- past month. Gradually rumors reached her of strictly elegant, and properly arranged, and they
plain if I too am changed.” the rupture of Philip’s engagement. She was far are likely to live in England for the present.”
“This is not at all the right way to look at the from guessing her own share in the transaction, Their eyes met once more, and neither could AUTUMN BERRIES.
matter,” he answered, loftily. “I left town be- nor dreamed that in the sudden revulsion from resist a comical smile, although Rosamond’s color Tas rose is dead, but we do not weep her;
cause I did not wish to see you for the present. conventionality and coldness which Phil Blount had deepened, and Philip thought how pretty she We watch the deeper color that glows
I did not write, because I wished to mark my dis- was feeling on that eventful morning, the contrast looked in her amused embarrassment. Even now On the leaves of the large Virginia c
pleasure at your conduct. I require of you now of her own charming smile and warm cordial he was nearly unconscious of what it was that nd then we cease to mourn for the rose.
the scarlet be'
to explain why you suffered yourself to walk in helpfulness did more than any one thing to make had pulled at his heart-strings as he congratu- the crimson leaf
broad daylight leaning upon another man’s arm, him burst the fetters which chained him. Their lated the well-matched pair at St. George’s, and —— like a flame, and our hearts are merry:
not even quitting your hold when you saw me— acquaintance had been slight, though friendly, but suddenly resolved, as he passed out of the church, Summer is over, we feel no grief.
quite careless not only of public opinion, but of now a certain amused sympathy grew up in her that it was no time for a man to dawdle away his
mine.” mind—the feeling that they had unconsciously act- life in another country, when work, if not happi- We birds sing on hog the city’s centre,
Or suburb as when the rays
He ceased, and sat very stiffly upright, with his ed upon each other’s fates, and had, so to speak, ness, awaited him at home. Of the high sun Gnonsh the streets would enter,
chin held loftily in the air. “been in the same scrape.” She felt as well as Need we go farther? Is it necessary to state For now comes the a of the autumn days.
if she could see it the sense of freedom with And, oh! the scarlet berryis at
Rosamond looked at him thoughtfully for a in plain words that this was by no means the last Miles away from the city squa:
moment, and when she spoke her voice was very which he had quitted his native country. Sore. walk which this young couple took together? The winds of the “and night ed FM the tiding,
quiet and low. ness, mortification, even regret, he might feel, bat ‘Their intimacy grew rapidly, and the thread of we seek it, for we know where.
“Fred,” she said, “I do not wish any fencing through all, and overmastering all, that realiza-~ “sympathy which ran through their fates only
or playing about the true issue of this question. tion of escape from what would in time have broadened and strengthened with time. And
I might, indeed, complain not only of your absence been intolerable. Did she not know? Were not thus it came to pass that when one day Philip
and your silence, and your daring to approach tme her own henst and life expanding under the same asked, “ Rosamond, will you go through life with
now, demanding an explanation in so a infl me?” she could neither feel nor feign surprise, We flit from the tree and the parapet,
tone. I too might request you to explain several “You sillnever marry now,” her mother said, but said, demurely, though with a happy glow of And look at the hurrying crowds with ity,
things. I might ask how you could allow your- half impatient of Rosamond’s decision. emotion in her bright face, the long dull toil that their fate as set.
self to treat with such disrespect the woman you And she replied, blithely :“ Do really think “Tf I do, we had better take for our motto,
have chosen for your wife, and have professed to so, dear mamma? I am so glad ‘ United we stand, divided we fall!” Onur lessons are lighter: we learnto cover
en fledgelings rocking on yonder bough ;
love; I might ask how you, as a gentleman, could Without love or romance lifemay pass hap- We teach them to sway, to twitter, to hover,
have met me that morning, trying with my girl’s pily ;and months of busy spring, soft summer hol- To sing in the swing of = be al1g sough.
strength to support and help a poor man who had idays, and autumn lingerings at the sea-side pass- PEOPLE I DON’T WANT TO MEET. I am a sparrow, my neighbor
We have our ‘duties, our daytlt
fallen in the street, and was faint with pain, and ed over Rosamond’s bright head, and each season Deeds that our short bright lives takepart in,
found her happier. She had youth and health, A Gallery of Awful Nufsances.
not only pass without offering assistance, but Wé live as if it were summer8)
without even a word, a look.” vivid interests and steady industry, so that every- No. 8.—THE PUBLIC SPOONERS.
“Tt was Phil Blount,” stammered Mr. Boone. thing that presented itself, work or leisure, study For, oh! the autumn berries are peeping,
See illustration on page 832, Looking for us as we look for them;
“ How should I know he had hurt himself?” or exercise, nature or art, found her responsive The russet leaves hold them safe in thelr keeping;
“ How should you know, indeed? Yes, it was toits call. Time flew on rapid wings, and brought OBODY with his eyes wide open can possi- They crown the woods as a diadem.
Philip Blount. I hope if it had been any other once more the white pall of winter and the icy bly have gone through life without meeting What though the gold laburnum tosses
blast—that outer desolation which only makes married couples very much like the Mawkses, the No more tassels for us this year?
man—a stranger, a beggar—I should have tried We can not grieve for our summer losses,
to help him as best I might. Perhaps in that warm fires glow the brighter, and young pulses subjects of this essay. Because the autumn berries are here.
case you wouldn't even have vouchsafed to bow beat the quicker, in the contrast between the Coming of an early-marrying family, they too
to me.” death of nature and the intense life of heart and married young, and have never regretted it. Their I saw our portraits once, when bitter
“T certainly don’t see,” he replied, supercilious- home. friends may have done so, but they themselves And brooding winter clung as a shroud .,;
™S the oer earth, and the delicate twits
ly, “any necessity for young ladies to support Once more upon an icy morning Rosamond never. We atte was quite unh by the cro
beggars in the street. But if Phil Blount had ventured forth, this time with a basket which I have, indeed—so vilely is nature at times per- There were our ortage i The hospital cliefi#h.*
hurt himself, the case is different: I accept the she wished to carry to one of the hospitals. It verted——-known even the unmarried to feel wrath A picture of birds, and a scarlet prize eo
Of the berries we love. We were almost pe
explanation.” was visiting-day, and she was much interested in at the toying and trifling of my Mawkses when it The sight of the berries rejoiced our eyes.
He evidently prepared to unbend, but she moved one of the patients—a poor seamstress, who in her has occurred in public. The Coobiddies and Dove-
closer into the corner of her sofa, and said :“ No, time of health had spent many a long day in Ro- turtles, married couples both, get quite angry when White hand, weak hand, we wished you were stroiger,
Fred, the case is not different. I am the one to samond’s cozy bedroom, had borrowed many a the couple are mentioned, and the Penheckers call Throwing us crumbs on the window-ledge ;
And we pecked, and prayed that a little longer _
whom explanation and apology are due, and appar- book, and enjoyed afterward talking over what it sickening. They sit there upon the Penheck- Our favorites aight deck the leafless hedge.
ently you have none to give. But, as I said be- she had read with “ her young lady,”’ whose kind- ers’ sofa hand in hand, he with a radiance upon Afterward, and in the mid of the a,
fore, let us have no fencing. I am not speaking ness was one of the few bits of sunshine in a his brow, she with a gentle simper, and seem to We clustered near to the hospital wall ;
limited life. invite imitation among the bachelors and maidens, Alas! in that bed reposed a new-comer,
in anger, but in intense conviction. Could I be Deaf to our friendly chirruping call.
so treated before marriage by a man, without “Poor Mary!” thought pretty Rosamond. “She There is a look upon Mr. Mawks’s face which
having full time during his absence and silence sha’n’t wait for her wine and book and flowers. clearly says, “‘ See what itis to be married! Don’t Still, oa the sunshine makes way for yp onl
to think what his real disposition must be, what The walk will do me good. But if I could only you envy me, you lonely young fellows? Is not hrough the wind’s sigh we can hear the charm
his professed love must amount to, what sort of hide this basket! I do so despise looking goody.” this the joy of joys?” ne*= Bayes is past, and my heart remembers
as snes patient’s thin outstretched arm.
married life I must expect to lead with him? She pulled at her warm cloak, and tried to adjust The Mawkses have a largish young family, the nae the rain and the mist we hearken,
And I have thought of it all, with pain and regret a fold over the basket ;but invain. It was more eldest a lanky girl of fourteen, then a few bony The martin and I, to that tale of a deed
for the dissolving of my dream, but gratitude that conspicuous than ever in its furry surroundings, boys, and another girl or two, all plain of face and So tender; the year must eternally darken
Ere we forget his help in our need.
I have waked in time. I have to say good-by to while her manifest desire to conceal it gave a angular of figure. No one but their parents could
you, Fred—dear Fred! I shall never call you by certain guilty look to her innocent burden. possibly feel proud of such a flock; but they do,
your name again, but I wish you would believe Why will not young people look where they are it would appear, and in public the youngest— (Begun in Hanrgr’s Bazar No. 41, Vol. XIII.)
that I speak with every kind and friendly feelin going? Never was step more fearless and free, Baby, as he is called—an ill-favored whelp of six,
But we must not spoil each other’s life. e and therefore more safe, than Rosamond Vane’s ; is kissed with effusion. Mm. 22097 2
don’t suit. You do not love me—” but the one moment of accident or awkwardness It is a happy dispensation of Providence, this
“You are entirely mistaken,” he interrupted, comes to all in its appointed time. She was still pride in their own ugly ducklings which most By E. LYNN LINTON,
with some heat. “I do love you. I have often bending her head, and twisting her seal-skin, parents possess, and indeed why should I even
sneer at Mawks’s love for Mrs. Mawks, or Mrs. Avrnor or “ Lizziz Lorton or Grerniea,” “ Patricia
told you so.” when suddenly everything flew out of her hands,
Kemuatt,” “Tur Atonement or Leam Donpas,”
“Yes,so you have. Perhaps you did a littlek— her basket went off on a tangent, her muff landed Mawks’s for Mawks? They are difficult to un- “From Deezams TO WaKING,” ETO.
perhaps you do just now; but it won’t hurt you. in the gutter, and she found herself flat on the derstand—acquired tastes, as it were—but why
Say good-by, and part friends, for indeed we nev- pavement, realizing for the first time that one sneer at them ?
er can be anything more.” does not have to go down into a well to see stars When people who have been long ill and rather CHAPTER XVII.
by daylight. troublesome die at last, we hear their departure
She tried to struggle up, when suddenly‘a strong complacently spoken of as being a good thing for
ROCKS AHEAD.
And at the same hour of the same day Philip
Blount was saying to his beautiful fiancée :“ No, hand raised and held her, and a voice, not very them. It would appear that Mrs. Mawks was Tue morning after the picnic Randolph Mac-
Mabel, you don’t love me; I know it now. You well known, but well remembered, exclaimed, one of a large family of girls, and when the amor- kenzie was mooning about the garden at Derwent
allowed me to love you, and for a time that was “Tt is my turn to help you now.” ous Mawks in the early love days came and se- Lodge, by no means in a joyous frame of mind.
happiness enough ; but it is so no longer. Your With a flush of annoyance Rosamond shook lected and led away his Hannah Maria, there must Something about that noisy rollicking yesterday
coldness makes me miserable. For all these long out her skirts, straightened her hat, and put the have been a feeling in her mother’s heart that it had left a bitter taste in his mouth, and he was
days I have lain cn my sofa, vainly hoping for hair out of her eyes ;then, looking up, met Philip was a good thing for Hannah Maria. conscious of a feeling of disappointment and dis-
something more than the commonplace card of in- Blount’s quizzical glance, and burst into a peal of I have no idea, though, what the other Mawkses satisfaction for which he could find neither a
quiry you might have sent to any ordinary friend laughter. said when Henry Thomas led the blushing bride name nor the cause.
—some flower, some comforting, loving words. “It is too funny,” she gasped, as they shook homeward, and introduced her to his mamma and For one thing, indeed, he was sorry that his lit-
Even a visit many a girl would not have thought hands, and he rescued her muff, and picked up papa. Perhaps they too were pleased. tle cousin had not gone with them.
too much for the man whom she intended to the basket. But its contents! Jelly, wine, and Let the Mawkses love each other as much as That little cousin of his was wonderfully good,
marry. »
flowers mingled their sweetness; and Westward, they like at home—there we have no right to in- and he cordially acknowledged how superior she
“It would not have been at all convenable,” re- Ho! plastered with snow and stickiness, looked terfere with them; but when I go to the Pen- was to the ordinary run of girls. Compare her
plied Mabel, coldly—“hardly proper. You are as if it were flowing with milk and honey. The heckers’ I object, on principle, to their fondling with any of those at the picnic yesterday—why,
too restless, too . I have distinctly as- street was as deserted as on the former occasion ; all over the tea-table, and beaming blandly upon she stood a head and shoulders above them all in
sured you, once for all, of my regard—have given but Philip felt,as he ruefully gathered together me from the sofa with linked hands. moral measurement! She was almost too good,
my promise; what more can . the breken glass and the Selon Takebeen I must insist for the future that the Mawkses indeed ;and Randolph caught himself in the vile-
eke I As to have it recalled, beautiful icicle,” said the man who could walk up an ew York s don’t make love in my presence,or in that of the ness of wishing that she was just a trifle less
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superior; that she could sometimes come down “Stella ?—she was quite well,” she said, a little tes,reproachfully. “It seems to me that Cyril ment,” said Stella, who had risen and made a few
from her pure altitudes, and condescend to the pettishly, though had the girl been ill Hortensia comes badly off among you all. No one thinks steps away from the table.
natural weaknesses of an every-day, but all the would not have seen it, swept away as she had of him; and yet he has Stella’s promise, and the Her face was pale and eager. She pushed
same an amiable humanity—so much weakness, been in the frothy flood of Mr. Branscombe’s so- engagement was sanctioned by both the father back her hair from her forehead—her poor mo-
for instance, as should include her father and mo- norous nonsense. and mother before poor Mrs. Branscombe died.” ther’s frequent gesture—and looked almost hys-
ther, his good uncle and aunt. Her evident moral And indeed, for the matter of that, Stella was “That makes all the difference,” said Horten- terically anxious and excited.
superiority over them, when they came home last not well, and day by day got steadily lower in sia, in her turn reproachfully. ‘“ Would you have “He may have brought a message from Hor-
night, had undeniably rubbed him the wrong way. tone and more depressed in mind. such a man as Mr. Branscombe left quite alone, tensia,” she then added, with unconscious and
He had felt it at the time, and he felt it now just “ Was she in spirits ?” he asked again. with no one to look after his comforts, no one to instinctive hypocrisy. It was the first thing that
as keenly as then. He did not mind for himself. “ Randolph, how could she be in good spirits, be his companion, no one to love him, or care for came into her mind, and she did not wait to ask
Hortensia was right to feel that she was a bright when her mother has been dead only so short a him? Randolph, I am shocked! If one has to herself whether she really believed her own sug-
and shining light where he was not as much as a time !” was Hortensia’s grave rebuke. suffer, of course it ought to be Cyril. In the first gestion or not, nor why she had put forward the
candlestick. But he did not like to see her so “No; of course not ;not really jolly; but there place he is younger, and can bear it better; and pretty little Puritan as the most likely solvent of
conscious of having taken higher rank in the are degrees, you know,” said Randolph, sensibly, in the next place he is not half so splendid as Mr. her father’s will.
hierarchy of virtue than that to which her good if clumsily. “Did she speak of Cyril? Did she Branscombe, and it does not signify whether he “Ah? So? In that case, then, go,” said Mr.
parents had attained. It savored too much of seem to regret him in any way?” he then asked, is happy or not. Certainly Stella should have Branscombe, graciously ; “ but do not be long, my
spiritual pride for his taste, he being one who in the same headlong way as before, unconscious- given up Cyril for her father. She has done on\; child. Your time is too precious to be spent on
would have prayed with the publican rather than ly blocking up the avenue against his cousin’s her plain duty.” such as Mr. Randolph Mackenzie”—with a slight
have justified himself with the Pharisee. And it proselytizing intentions. “T do not think so,” said Randolph. “I think sneer—“ employed too profitably here on this lit-
seemed to him that what Uncle William and Aunt “Certainly not,” said Hortensia, pinching her that, having given her promise, she ought to have tle temple of Sweetness and Light to be dissi-
Cara thought innocent, Hortensia might accept lips. “She is too much devoted to her father to stuck to Cyril.” pated on the nothings of his crass conversation.”
as allowable. And on the whole, though it was think of any one else.” “T shall not talk to you any more,” said Hor- “T will be back directly, papa,” said Stella ;and
very sweet of her to sacrifice her natural girlish “ Her love for her father has nothing to do with tensia, with dignity. ‘“ You are hopeless.” her father looked after her with genuine surprise
inclination for pleasure to friendship and Stella her love for Cyril,” said Randolph. “Surely it is She turned away with an offended air. Had at the strange quickness with which she made her
Branscombe, still it would have been more grace- a girl’s duty to love the fellow to whom she is en- he not scoffed at her god?—extinguished the exit—he could almost have called it her escape.
ful and more dutiful to have given way to her par- gaged ?” fragrant incense burning before his shrine ?— It was scarcely like Stella—his Stella—to vanish
ents, and have done as they wished. “But she owes her first duty to her father,” swept off the flowers with which she had garland- in that abrupt way, as if leaving him were a plea-
Then there was that beautiful Stella herself. said Hortensia. ‘ And such a father!” she add- ed the sacred image? He was rightly, then, os- sure and a relief.
She, too, was a difficult bit to rightly adjust in his ed, with enthusiasm. “Stella is blessed and hon- tracised and excommunicated, at least for the mo- “Youth is a great mistake,” said the gentle-
moral mosaic. He had received this morning a ored in giving her life to such a man as that! ment; as a faithful worshipper she would hold no man-poet to himself. “ The freshness of its skin
letter from Cyril which had stirred up in his heart She will never have such glorious happiness as friendly terms with him till her wrath had cooled. and the beauty of its emotions are more than bal-
the natural sympathy of youth for youth, of man she has now !” “ Now you are angry with me, Hortensia,” said anced by its frivolities and selfishness, The rest-
for man, and had filled him with pity for his “Oh, I say, come, now!” ejaculated Randolph. her cousin, following at her heels and speaking less inability of this child of mine to sit still for
friend, indignation against fate, and doubt and His cousin’s ardor disconcerted him. “ You go with humility and sorrow, but not with the true half an hour together, the indifference which I
perplexity all round. Sending all sorts of fervid, too far, Hortensia. Mr. Branscombe is not all penitence of one who acknowledges his wrong am beginning to suspect she feels for my work
half-mad. messages to his love—tfor all that they that by a long way. I confess he is much too and retracts his words. in comparison with any mindless little diversion,
daily exchanged long letters full of hope and fear, fine for me. I can not digest such a lot of cream “No, I am not angry; I am only hurt and dis- such even as this young man’s unintellectual con-
of love and assurance, as they were shaken by and sugar. It is all too hot pressed and super- appointed,” she answered, stiffly. “I had hoped versation, both perplex and annoy me. Ah! my
each passing mood, like that catching of the fine all round,” he added, with a generous con- better things of you, Randolph.” good Matilda was better broken in than this !—
straw by the drowning man—poor Cyril seemed fusion of similes. “ Better things than what?” he asked, boyish- and that precious pearl of maidenhood, that re-
to have some kind of vague hope that the pres- “Tt pains me to see you so incapable of appre- ly. “What have I said or done that is so bad ceptive, appreciative, loving little Hortensia, would
ence of his friend, his chum, his faithful Pylades, ciating such a pure and delicate genius as Mr. as all that? I only take Cyril’s part, which is have been infinitely more sympathetic than I find
in Highwood, would work a miracle in his favor. Branscombe’s,” said Hortensia, with severity. but natural when you come to think of it.” my own child capable of being.”
It was a link, at all events, if a slender one; and “ At least I appreciate you and Stella Brans- “That does not make it right,” said Hortensia. Mr. Branscombe sighed as he thought this—
the poor fellow was in that state of desperate per- combe,” was the answer, made with affectionate “To be natural is not always to be noble.” sighed over the want of whole-heart devotion
il when even the weakest tie is better than none gallantry. “T am sorry to have vexed you,” he returned, which, though not distinctly manifested, he was
at all. But it laid a heavy weight on Randolph’s But the prim little face did not relax. If she “but I am Cyril’s friend, as you know, and if I do beginning to suspect in Stella, the daughter whose
heart; for the good, honest, stupid fellow knew had to convince Randolph of his present state of not stick to him, who ought ?” highest interests he thought he had consulted by
well that he could do nothing. Stella, like Hor- moral blindness and spiritual abasement, and con- “You should prefer the truth even to friend- taking her away from her lover and binding her
tensia, had sublime reasons and far-reaching ar- vert him to higher things, Hortensia felt that she ship,” was her lofty reply. close to his own side.
guments for doing as it seemed to him less hu- must not humor his weakness nor indulge his “T don’t see any falsehood in what I have Meanwhile the two young people had clasped
manely than magnificently ; and he could neither follies. And compliments are follies, unless ren- said,” he answered, hastily. hands in the drawing-room, and Randolph had
understand the one nor refute the other. The dered sublime utterances by such poetic genius as He was only a dense, good-hearted athlete, and opened at once on the real purport of his visit.
very difficulty which was annoying him at this that possessed by Mr. Branscombe. not well up in moral philosophy of a refined kind. “T have had a letter from Cyril to-day,” he
moment in the adjustment of his moral mosaic “Stella is very good in her way,” she answer- She raised her small round shoulders with an said, abruptly.
was just the true answer to this question. Was ed, gravely. ‘As for me, of course I am nothing. impatient gesture. She flushed, smiled, looked anxious, pleased,
Stella right to postpone her marriage in this in- But though Stella is very nice and dear, she is “T did not say you told stories,” she said, con- excited, earnest. Then the tears rushed into her
definite way, and to give Cyril so much pain and not equal to her father. She is of silver, if you temptuously. “Truth does not mean only that. eyes as she asked, in a low voice, “ Yes; and
disappointment simply that she might stay and like, but Mr. Branscombe is gold, pure gold!” How can you be so borné, Randolph ?” what does he say ?”
keep house for her father, and copy out his man- She raised her eyes as she said this, and look- “Qh, now you are going too far ahead of me,” “Oh, he is so unhappy!’ Randolph answered.
uscript poetry and music? She was noble, pure, ed up into the sky as if worshipping the clouds he said, with frank bewilderment. “I do not fol- “ And you can not wonder at it,” he added. “It
high-minded—al] that and more; but, like Hor- overhead. low you, Hortensia.” is rough on the poor old fellow ; and the wonder
tensia, might she not carry her virtue a trifle too Frederick Branscombe, handsome, old, showy, “T do not suppose you do,” she answered, her is how he gets along at all.”
far, and by becoming too angelic cease to be suf- well-preserved, full of frothy sentiment and of foot on the door-step. ‘“Mr. Branscombe would “What can I do?” cried Stella, in despair. “TI
ficiently human? “Excelsior” is a brave motto, superficial talent, talking rubbish in hazy language have understood me,” she added, flinging her can not leave papa. He is so helpless alone, and
but one might do better for one’s self and for and a stage-voice, uttering platitudes as if they Parthian shaft as she took her way to her own has become so dependent on me since poor mam-
others than to be found by dogs frozen to death were divine truths newly revealed, exacting hom- room up stairs, where Randolph could not follow ma went, I must not leave him.”
in a snow-drift. age for his own part, but paying back to his young her. “But are you never going to marry Cyril ?”
It was a hard moral problem, and one that he devotee almost as much as he exacted—Freder- So the bitter taste in his mouth was made asked Cyril’s friend, opening his large blue eyes.
could not solve, try as he would. It was a kind ick Branscombe, whose poetry and art had kill- more bitter still, and the uneasiness that oppress- “Yes, yes. Some day,” she answered, hurriedly.
of cleft stick in which he found himself—a spir- ed his wife, and was threatening to do the same ed him was made still more onerous by this jar- “Some day? That is rather vague. Some
itual pons asinorum, where virtues were the an- by his daughter—was the present god of Hor- ring conversation, where every note had been dis- day—but when ?” ©
gles and motives the straight lines—a true eth- tensia Lyon’s devotion, the hero of her waking cordant, and where his cousin’s curious deprecia- She shook her head.
ical dilemma, with friendship on one horn and dreams, and the idol of her imagination. tion of himself had been in exact ratio with her “T do not know,” she said, hopelessly.
principle on the other; and he was in the blun- She was not what is called being in love with exaggerated admiration of Mr. Branscombe. It “ He will go to India, and then he will not be
dering perplexity characteristic of men with small him; but she loved him. She ever thought of was all very odd and very hard, he thought, with back in England for years and years,” said Ran-
reasoning powers, wholesome instincts, and strong him as a man by whose side she might some a heavy sigh. Everything seemed to have got dolph. The tears came again into her eyes. He
affections, when those whom they love go over day stand in the equality of mutual love. He out of gear somehow, and he did not see how felt like an executioner for giving her so much
their heads in morality, and do, as it seems to was only her ideal realized—the godlike poet at matters were to be put right—in chief part be- distress. He would like to have sworn at him-
ther w.ong from the basis of an overlofty right. whose feet she knelt, and whose favor was her cause he did not understand the secret springs self, given himself a knock or a cut somewhere
He +.vod by the netting of the tennis ground, highest honor. Had she been older, things would by which they had gone wrong. for self-revenge at his brutality ;but he was the
apparently studying the size of the meshes, and have been different; but with such a girl as she And what could he do for Cyril? The poor agent of another; he was not quite responsible;
trying the strength of the stays, while in reality was, her passionate enthusiasm was without the old fellow seemed to rely on him so much, and he and he must do his duty by Cyril, though he did
fretting himself into a mental fever because two consciousness of self or the foreshadowing of had no more power than a cat to change the make Stella suffer.
pretty girls were so distractingly good, and so over- danger. So far, indeed, from carrying with it any cross-current of events. He could not even see “If I left papa and harm came of it, I should
whelmingly high-minded. sentiment of peril, it seemed to her the pre-emi- Stella, for he had no excuse to give for a second feel like his murderer,” she said. “ And he is so
Presently Hortensia came out to join him. In nent glory of her life; and the proudest confession call so soon after the first; and since her mo- sensitive and easily wounded! I should never
the programme of her duties, which was to steady of her own worthiness was in the knowledge that ther’s death she had never been outside the know a day’s peace if I left him.”
her cousin’s fluid inclinations, and induce him to she could understand and fitly reverence such sur- lodge gates, save when she and her father went “ And poor Cyril? You do not think of him ?”
take orders, she was ever on the watch for favor- passing worth as Mr. Branscombe’s. In short, in the close carriage to return the formal visits said Randolph.
able moments, and here was one eminently favor- she was in the romantic and devotional stage of of condolence and to church; and they did not “He knows that I love him better than my life
able. To make this stalwart, natural pioneer of her mental existence, when she must have her fe- even go to church every Sunday. And when —better than anything in the world but my duty.
practical civilization into a meek country curate, tich, She might have gone in for Ritualism or they did, they went in long before the service be- I tell him so in every letter I write,” she said,
absorbed in old women and young ladies, in the Methodism—she might have devoted herself to gan, and staid until every one had left, and the clasping her white hands nervously in each other.
just distribution of flannel petticoats, and the painting ivy leaves and apple blossoms, or to Wag- old sexton was beginning to lock up. So how “Cyril knows that I do love him. Tell him so
nice observance of ecclesiastical drill, d to ner and the violin—she might have written a nov- could he see her? And yet how much he should —tell him that you know that I do,” she added,
her a work of spiritual charity worthy of all ef- el, a tragedy, or sonnets to despair, the moon, like to talk to her of Cyril, and to do what he looking up into Randolph’s face as if he held the
fort, and where success would be its own reward. death, and disappointment—she might have given could to press the poor old fellow’s claims! If destinies of the world in his hands, because he
As for such a thing as natural fitness for the her heart to her cousin Randolph Mackenzie as only he could find an excuse for calling at Rose had been made the clumsy, broad-shouldered Mer-
work of the sinful world, or natural unfitness for the apotheosis of the virtuous commonplace, or Hill !—if only he had a woman’s fertile brain, so cury for the occasion, trusted with the precious
the sublimer reaches of spiritual life, Hortensia have dreamed out a hero for herself after the that he could invent something out of nothing, burden of Cyril’s love for her, and now having to
was far too zealous to allow the force of this pattern of Byron’s Corsair or Trelawney’s Young- and give reasons where none existed ! carry back the weight of hers to him.
kind of chilly, soul-destroying reasoning. “ You er Son—she might have studied anatomy by the And thinking all this, his desire grew too strong “T will,” said Randolph, in a low voice.
ought,” with her, was the serpent which swallow- plates in her father’s Encyclopedia—have made for fear or prudence, and he resolved to brave all How strange it was to him to be thus trusted
ed up all those weak, protesting little snakes of her favorite saint of Victoria Woodhull and her the consequences, to break the ice of wisdom and by her—made her confidant and messenger—and
“can not” and “would rather not”; and special- heroine of Vera Sassulitch—but she did none of propriety, and to call boldly at the house. yet how delightful! He had never in his life felt
ly did she despise all her cousin’s little snakes of these things. She simply put Stella’s father, that “What can that young man want ?” asked Mr. so honored as now when Stella Branscombe look-
disinclination, as indeed, to tell the truth, in her elegant and superb Mr. Branscombe, on a pedestal Branscombe, with marked displeasure, when the ed up into his face and sent her love by him to
own heart she despised all that was characteris- in the sanctuary of her imagination, and gave her- servant brought in the news that Mr. Randolph Cyril Ponsonby. What a divine creature she
tic of him throughout. self up to his worship as the highest to which she Mackenzie was in the drawing-room. “I do not was !—how sweet and gracious, how noble and
When, therefore, she saw him standing idly by could attain. approve of these frequent visits from young men. beautiful, how perfect, all through mind and per-
the netting, studying the meshes of that frivolous Her cousin followed her eyes as they looked up In your position, my Stella, deprived of maternal son, character and face alike! Poor Cyril—no,
bit of reticulation, the pretty Puritan laid aside into the sky, their gaze so full of enthusiastic de- care and guidance as you are, you can not be too not poor Cyril—enviable, blessed, rather, to be
her morning task of making rough little shirts votion. careful.” the beloved of such a radiant Star as this!
for the Mothers’ Bag, and turned to her more con- “No, Hortensia, he is not all that,” he said “He did not ask specially for me, dear papa,” “Ts he coming down soon?” then asked Ran-
genial employment of exhorting and proselytiz- again, with sturdy honesty. “ And between the said Stella. ‘“ Most likely he asked for you.” dolph, after a pause. “He seems to speak of it
ing. two, which is best—Mr. Branscombe, who has But her heart beat fast, and she felt so far un- in his letter to me.” :
But Randolph would not give her missionary forced his daughter to make such a tremendous true in that she was very sure that Randolph had “T tell him he had better not,” answered Stel-
efforts a chance to-day. He was too much ab- sacrifice, just to keep him company, or Stella, who come to see her, because he was Cyril’s friend la, with a hopeless look and accent.
sorbed in the affairs of others to have any inter- has given up her lover for her father? You can and she was Cyril’s lover. “Surely yes! You will not let him go to In-
est in himself. Cyril and Stella, and Hortensia not make two words as to which is the most “Oh! I have no time to bestow on a brainless dia and not see you before hv goes?” asked Ran-
herself, were far before his own future profession ; noble and unselfish. My only doubt is that Stella young oaf like that,” said Mr. Branscombe, with dolph, hastily. :
but as he was not quite up to the work of attack- has gone over the line and done more than she impatient contempt. “If he has to be admitted “I want to see him, oh, more than I can say !”
ing his little cousin off-hand, he fell back on Stella, need, or even ought.” at all, you must do the honors. It is impossible she answered ; “but papa was against it when I
and through her on Cyril. “T do not compare them,” answered Hortensia, for me to bring myself to his low level! Tell spoke to him the other day, and said that Cyril
“ How was Stella Branscombe yesterday ?” he coldly. “Mr. Branscombe has only demanded him I am engaged. It would be better, indeed, must wait. He could not bear to see him just
asked, quickly, eagerly, so soon as his cousin what is due to him as a father, and Stella has to tell him that we are both engaged and can yet; and I could understand that. Poor papa!”
joined him; and good manners obliged her to only done her duty as a daughter.” not receive him.” “Oh, that was the reason, then, of this letter to
answer him on hisown line ._ “ And Cyril Ponsonby ?” asked the fidus Acha- “ Perhaps I had better see him for just a mo- me to-day. Now I can understand it,” said Ran-
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dolph, a little bitterly. “Pon my soul, it is rough his studio, having only made her eyes red, her “Then may I venture to ask of what you have call it by the sacred name of love—to one so ut-
on him,” he added. head ache, her heart more sore than it had been | been talking—you and this brainless young man terly destitute of the higher culture as this young
“But if papa objects I can not help myself,” already, and having come no nearer than before —for a good hour by the clock ?” asked her father, Cyril Ponsonby. And do not ery. Tears spoil a
said Stella to a satisfactory solution of her life’s great prob- satirically. woman’s face, and yours in especial. You have
“You owe something to Cyril; surely you owe lem—how to content both Cyril and her father, “ Cyril,” answered Stella, simply. not the complexion that supports tears. Besides,
something to a fellow now you are engaged to and how to make both happy at the same time, “My dear,” said Mr. Branscombe, turning round they are barbarous expressions of feeling, of
him,” pleaded Randolph. “What a terribly long time you have been!” from his easel and speaking angrily, “that Cyr- which the half-civilized ought to be ashamed.
“T know I do; but if papa will not let him said Mr, Branscombe, peevishly, as she -entered. il Ponsonby of yours is becoming a confounded Do your duty, trust in Providence, and come to
come, what can I possibly do?” pleaded in her “And my work, neglected all these hours, stop- nuisance, and you will have to give him his congé your father’s arms!” he added, laying down his
turn Stella, ping for want of you !” if he intrudes himself thus in all our sacred mo- palette and brush and opening his arms with half-
“Stick up for your rights,”’ said Cyril’s friend. “T am so sorry,;dear papa. I do not know ments.” majestic, half-paternal tenderness.
Again she shook her head. how the time went so fast,” she said, ingenuously. “Papa!” she said, looking at him with a white “Papa, dear, dear papa, do not break my
“Tt would be impossible against papa’s wish “And what message did he bring from your and frightened face. heart!” said Stella, burying her faee in ‘his bo-
and command,” she answered, “Girls are not little friend Hortensia ?” asked that young maid- “If he does not know how to respect your som, and disregarding his injunction by weeping
like boys—we must obey our parents; you need en’s elderly idol, stopping in his work of stippling present painful position—if he fails to under- passionately.
not always if you do not like.” up a piece of painting supposed to represent Mr. stand your duties—he must be made,” continued * My child, do not you break mine,” he answer-
But Randolph would not allow that. Lyon’s pretty and somewhat wrong-headed little Mr. Branscombe, still irate. ed, gravely, with a tremor in his voice that was one
“Girls have as much right to stick up as men,” daughter. “What has he dene? Oh, papa, do not speak of his most effective bits of histrionic furniture.
he said; “and you should not be forced into what Stella started. It was not often that she felt like that! Cyril has done nothing to vex you. And between these two terrible fires of love
you think wrong, or do not like.” a guilty thing, self-convicted; but, truth to say, He has been dutiful and patient,” said Stella, and duty—these two irreconcileable attachments,
The conversation, turning always round this she had forgotten Hortensia as if she had never with a sob. each of which was as dear to her as her very life
central point, lasted far longer than Stella knew existed, and during the whole of that long hour's “Be calm, Stella; be calm and reasonable,” —the poor girl stood as the victim of fate—the
or had intended. She woke to the fact of the interview her name had not once been mentioned, returned her father. ‘It argues a lower mental Andromeda of sacrifice whom no Perseus could
hour with a kind of guilty start; sent Randolph “He did not bring me any,” she answered, development than I care to see in my child that deliver.
away hurriedly, and went back to her father in lowering her eyes, she should have given her fancy—I can scarcely (TO BR CONTINUED.]
DecemMBER 25, 1880.| HARPER'S BAZAR. 829
Carriage and Reception Toilettes, Figs. 1 and 2. bouquet in the centre and for the sprays in the corners of the
cover is used mode-colored split floss in several shades. The
Fig. 1.—This elegant visite may be. made of either black or cover is lined with cashmere, and edged with blue worsted
brown satin, and is trimmed with a border of black fox fur. The cord laid in loops,on
neck and the cuffs that form the sleeves are shirred in puffs. The the corners. Tassels
trimming extends up the sides to give the effect of slashing, and of, similar worsted
is headed by a bow of satin ribbon, Black beaver round hat, finish the cover as
with ostrich feathers. seen in the illus-
Fig. 2.—This reception toilette is of maize brocaded satin and tration.
water green faille. The collar is open to display a full gathered
guimpe of the faille,
Borders for Ti-
with a lace fraise about
the neck. The bro- dies.—Cross
caded basque is point- Stitch Embroid-
ed back and front over ery.—Figs.1
a panier drapery of the
plain faille. |Pointed
and 2.
See illustrations on
panels of the brocade page 821.
are on the sides, and
Tue border Fig. 1,
rows of chenille fringe
which was shown in
across the front and as
the tidy Fig. 1, on
trimming for the pa-
page 493, Bazar No.
niers. Two pleatings 31; Vol. XIIL., . is
are at the foot.
worked on Java can-
Devonshire Round vas in cross stitch
with crewel worsted
Hat. in the colors given
Tuts graceful Devon- in the description of
shire round hat is made symbols. The bor-
of black plush, with der Fig. 2 is the
wide gold braid on
same as that which
the edge. The ostrich trims the tidy Fig. 2
plumes are black, tipped on the same page,
with gold. and is worked on
wash tulle with white
Corsage for Young zephyr worsted. It
Girl. may also be worked
Tus pretty corsage on canvas with worst-
for a young girl’s dress ed in two colors.
is of light India cash-
mere, with shirring of
satin Surah extending TUNNELLING
to a point in front, and THE BRITISH
forming a collar around CHANNEL.
the neck, with a bow
of the same at the FPVHE bold idea of
Corsage ror Youne Grr. a tunnel under
throat.
the British Channel
Black Satin Cloak. will, if carried out,
Tus long cloak is of black satin, warmly lined and trimmed eclipse all former un-
with black lace. The top of the front and the sleeves are very dertakings of this
fully shirred ; a full ruche of the lace trims the neck and sleeves, kind. The present Biack Satin Cioax.
and there is a double
jabot of lace down the “Channel Company”
front, beginning under was formed in 1872,
a bow of satin ribbon. Sir John Hawkshaw,
F.R.S., Mr. Brunlees,
India Muslin Col. and M. Gamond being
lars and Cuffs, appointed engiheers.
Hii The route finally de.
Figs. 1-4. HATH f\\ \ cided upon places the
See illustrations on
page 821. Ni A\ \\ tunnel on a line ex-

it iy
bil /\ \\ tending from a spot
Tue collars are cut
of white India muslin Vi) ia between Folkestone
in the shape shown by and Dover, through
the illustrations, and the “ Old Gray Chalk,”
are ornamented with to a point between
herring-bone stitching Sangatte and Calais,
of white cotton and on the opposite coast.
with borders in Vene- The total length will
tian embroidery. The be thirty-one miles, of
collars are finished on which twenty-two will
the neck with a ba- be under the Strait.
tiste binding. The Shafts are to be sunk
cuffs require each a on each shore to a
piece of India muslin depth of about four
nine inches and three-
quarters wide
three inches and a
and ii| hundred and fifty feet
below high - water
mark; and driftways
quarter deep, one side from the bottom of
of which is trimmed these for the draining
to match the collar, of the tunnel, which is
while the other side is to begin two hundred
finished with a batiste feet above the drift-
binding an inch and way. These driftways
three - quarters wide. will. be driven from
Sew up the cuffs on the both ends on a down
ends, and fold them on gradient of one in
the wrong side at a eighty to the junction
distance of seven- of the drainage drift-
eighths of an inch way; and then on an
from the binding. up grade of one in two
thousand six hundred
Embroidered Puff. and forty to the mid
See illustration on dle of the Strait. The
page 821. crown of the tunnel in
Tuts puff is made of all parts will be not
wicker-work, and is less than two hundred
fourteen inches high feet below the bed of
and twelve inches and the Dover Straits. It
seven-eighths in diam- is hoped that the exca-
eter. It is covered on vation will be most-
the outside with blue ly through chalk, in
cashmere, and is trim- which case compara-
med with a fringe tively rapid progress
made of thick strands will be made. It has
of blue worsted, and been estimated that
headed with a border the probable cost of
of mode-colored and this Titanic task will
white worsted cord, be about four millions
finished with balls of sterling; but Sir John
similar worsted. The Hawkshaw considers
lid of the puff is fur it best to double this
nished with a cushion, estimate, in anticipa-
on which a cover is tion of greater obsta-
placed. For the foun- cles which may arise.

dation of the cover use The preliminary works

white velvet, and for are now being prose-
ir S =
the application blue cuted with great activ-
silk, and edge the lat- — =
ter with blue silk floss
ud) ity. A shaft has been
sunk at Sangatte to
stitched on with split the depth of over one
floss of a lighter shade. hundred meters, and
The embroidery on the the experimental gal-
application figures is lery has been com-
worked in satin, tent, menced, and is to be
chain, herring - bone, continued for a kilom-
and knotted stitch with eter—that is, , three
blue silk, while for the Figs, 1 anp 2.—CARRIAGE AND RECEPTION TOILETTES. thousand two hundred
830 HARPER'S BAZAR. (Decemprr 25, 1880.

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APPRECIATIVE SYMPATHY.
Herr Bogolubofiski plays a lovely Nocturne, which he has just composed. To him, as he softly touches the final note, Fair Amateur :—
“Oh, thanks ! I am so fond of that dear old tune!

FACETLZ. A crusty old bachelor says he thinks it’s woman, and

not her wrongs, that Ought to be redressed.
A pradent man had his
portrait painted in Paris.
PEOPLE I DON’T WANT TO MEET.
No. VIII, THe Mawxsss.—{See Pace 826.)
Tur burglar who was caught the other day “ jammed —_——_—~——————_ is friends complained to
in a flue,” says it was anything but jam there, and he him that it was much too
Soren: Parlor of an inn; two acquaintances are in old. ‘That's what I ordered,” said he. “It will save A scene in a picture-gallery shows a “ model model”
wished be was a bird, ’cos then he could ‘ave flue away. hot discussion over the merits of their respective
_——»>———_—_ the expense of another one ten years from now.” in a man who serves as a model for an artist, and in
“The difference,” said Augustus Millwhiffies, saun- pastors. enlianibag bipennate the artist’s absence explains the pictures to a lady vis-
tering into the lib the other day—‘“ the difference Finst A. “ In fact, George, yer minister's jist an auld Surrortep py Love.—Jones, reading an_advertise- itor.
between the works of Captain Cook and the works of wife.” ment of a pair of candelabra “‘ supported by Cupids,” “From whom did Mr. McGlip paint that head ?”
Beaumont and Fletcher is, I presume, that the former Sroonp A. “ Weel, so is yer grannie, Peter, an’ av observes that a candelabrum is about the only thing “From yours obediently, madam, I sit for the ’eds
are by a tar and the latter by-tu-men.” Before he heard ye say ye believed there wusnae a mair sensible Cupid does “‘ support,” whatever sentimental folks may of all ‘is ’oly men.”
could cackle, he was seized by the nape of the neck wummun in the world.” say about “living on love.” “He must find you a very useful person.”
and thrust out of the “Yes, madam: I or-
bailding by an enraged der his frames, stretch
who said to his canvas, wash all bis
im, as he struck the brushes, set his palette,
und, “ Do you know and mix hiscolors, All
why you arelike Noah’s he’s got to do is to shove
Ark?” em on.”
“No,” aaid the bewil- a
“ Bob Brown, did you
say that my father had
not as much sense as
Billy Smith’s little yel-
=
low dog ?”
“No, I never said an
The young area such thing. I never baw.
returns from his vaca- that your father had not
tion to find his patients as much sense as Billy
lively as crickets. He Smith's yellowdog. All
inwardly vows that he I said was that Billy's lit-
will stay at home and tle yellow dog had more
attend to business here- sense than your father:
after. that’s all I ever said.”
i <pachonnifinneninn
Says the master of the He was a a bore,
house to his servant, as HISTORY OF A GREAT FEAT. and was talking to a
he prepares to lock him- Our Bripvcet: In tHe “Ovutp Country.” THE WAY SHE DRESSED THEM TO ‘THE WAY SHE HAD THEM ARRAYED AT THE END OF THE FIRST YEAR IN crowd about the coming
self up in his study and COME OVER, AFTER SHE ARRIVED HERE. THIS COUNTRY. local election. Said he:
work, “I am not in if [She is now a French nurse. “Jones is a good man;
any one calls, mind.” A he is capable, honest,
quarter of an hour later ' ; fearless, and conscien-
he rings the bell. Noanswer. Heringsitagain. Still Tus Latest Tune 1x Boots—Stockings. Sorenr: Road near country inn. tious. He will make the very kind of an officer we
no answer. He opens the door furiously, and cries to —_——_.——_—— Larky Oxp Boy (on horseback), “ Here's the hauf- need. He once saved my life from drowning.”
the servant in the antechamber, ‘“Did you hear me way hoose, but aa’ll no gang in the anicht; a’ll gae 'wa “Do you really want to see Jones elected?” said a
TIT FOR TAT. solemn-faced old man.
ring, ‘ou idiot 7” hame.”
“ Yea, sir; but you had told me you weren't in, and I Greepy Grocer (to farmer's wife who is supplying Cuorvs or Torers (as L. O. B. rides past). “Ho! ho! “I do indeed. I'd do anything to see him elected.”
couldn’t think of taking a bell’s word before yours, sir.” him with butter). “This pun’ o’ butter is ower licht, stop! You've forgot yersel’.” “Then never let anybody know he saved your life.”
—_———<> = gudewife.” i L. O. B. (some distance on). *‘ Good resolution! Good The meeting then adjourned.
* Gupewire. “Blame yersel’, then; I weighed it wi’ resolution! Deservesatreat. Aa’ll awa back and hae pid" RE
A BgivGe THAT 18 WARRANTED TO SUPPORT ANY
“ Srrain”—The bridge of a fiddle. the pun’ o’ sugar I gat frae ye yestreen.” a hauf yin.” A Sitver Mue iw tue Sxy—The face of the moon.

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dee tke tended 6 & omer Tts.ef ne nas Dom, Thice © tarts oak teak.” ane “ .
Oh, Malvina .
Angustinn, 5
guess what! Timothy :
Albert said he couldn’t, be happy widout
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me, an’ > he’sbe? gone
Brivcet (with the utmost composure). ‘Shure, ma’am, I wudn't fret mesilf about the loikes o” that, if I and drownded hisse é
wuz you. Jist give it to the Doonation Party.” .