The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1880-03-02 00:00:00

LITERATURE

Myra's Journal of Press awl Noedlework for Mareb.
union: Gout/awl and Son, 310 and 40, Bedford-street,
Wrest Garden. Now that the winter weather is • little
hanged the old cry, "What shall we weer I" may be
answered by looking at the various dresses before iii; but
we are puzzled which to study first. On the diagram sheet
there is a very good style of teta-gown, the Buccieugh tea-
gown in the Princess form in the front, and the plastron
which is becoming to so many figures ; this one is brocaded
and edged with lace; Ind, the Cardigan cap, suitable to be
worn with any dress providing it he made with corre-
sponding colours ; fird.the Chatubrun c. atutue ; this model
is made of cashmere trimsue I with pleatinga, it ig male
high and buttoned down the front. Next we see the cut-
out paper patient, very useful to all home dressmakers in
town or country. The pattern is the g -icnol mantle; it
can be as el, gent as anyone likes, and of any material,
The Paris fashions are portrayed in colours before us; Ist.
a Princess dress, not in time old plain style strained round,
hut with poffiogs and pleating., and in many cases there
Is an underskirt. Here is also a costume of black satM
and cashmere, and this dress shows forth more of the
olden time., when the dresses were worn very much
wider awl fuller then very recently ; then there's • little
girl's costume ~f blue Indian cashmere, which seems to be
the prt v Aim: texture for the spring season. The nee Ile-
work sheets are too numerous to describe, although both
useful and ornunental, and, for thou who have time, •
charming usUme. The new style of hair is very largely
illustrated this month, which is quite an advantage to
know. MI friends thinking of spring shout I get Myra u
soon as they can.

The Shah has finally resolved to occupy Herat.—
Sta ndard.
In about six weeks' time, tier Majesty will, it is said,
proceed to Cherbourg is the Royal yacht Victoria and
Albert, and thence by land to Baveno.
D The uke of Edinburgh reached the Russian capital on
Saturday evening. The road from the railway station to
the Winter Palace was kept by detachments of troops.
The barque Strathnairn, vrith a crew of eighteen hands,
left London for Adelaide on the 6th inst., came into
collision with the steamer Edith Rough on the 13th, and
immediately went down with all her crew, eighteen hands,
uft va.nt.
The Earl of Aberdeen, who intended to make a
railway through his Scotch estates, has abandoned the
Project on account of the enormous cost but his lord.
ship has intimated to his Aberdeenshire tenants that
the half-year's rent due at Whitsuntide will not be
demanded.
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• sick child suffering with the paid of cutting teethf Oo at
once to a chemist and get a bottle of Mu. WINSLOW'S
SOOTHING STROP. It will relieve the poor sufferer immedi-
ately. lii. perfectly harmless and pleasant to taste, it
produces natural quiet sleep, by relieving the child from
pein, and the little cherub awakes "at bright as a button."
it soothes the child, softens the gums, allays all wain '
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