The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-03-25

citizen should visit the Boards Of Councilmen
and Of Aldermen, and if he Ia not ashamed and
disguised he can find more food for merriment
than In any comedy ever played in the city,
even by Burton's or Wallack's company How
much longer such state of things is to exist
We know not, but as repentance is always pos
sible there is yet some hopes for our city
government. Its members should cease to talk
at and about each other; they should drop the
Pharisee style, and make no more long prayers
at the corners of the streets; and, finally. thew
should remember their oaths of Office, and work
for the interests of their constituents and the
good of the city.
We know this is novel treatment-it may be-
shocking at irst-but we are of the opinion that
it is shower bath which will be refreshing in
the final effect though it may take saway the
peoples breath for moment. We have not
much hope but we recommend the attention Of
the Council to the thing mainly ON account Of
it's freshness. 1t would seem odd to witness
sixty men doing their duty! 4 Htw g.e
Opening OF the Spring Fashions. n' Z.
On Thursday as previously announced in the adj
vertising columns of the HERALD, the show rooms
of our fashionable milliners and dressmakers were
thrown open to the public for the display Of the
spring and summer fashions. They crowded
throughout the greater part of the day by eager
spectators DESTROYS to the choicest specimens and
by country milliners, and city Ones too Of lower
status anxious to obtain the Paris fashions without
pense. Private carriages dashing from estab
shment to another, and files of them drawn up any
door might have been taken yesterday for infable
sign that there C an opening" within.
On entering the hats, arranged in admirable order,
each contrasting with and setting Off the other and the
groups Of richly dressed ladies fitting from room to
room, utterng round creation Of Parisian ge-
MUS like butterflies round flower presented animated
coup dell
The initiated might have known some time ago that
opening day coming, from disappearance Of tho
Broadway stores, for they have exhibited lately unmis
takeable symptoms Of change of grave colors
and heavy materials have disappeared Irish poplins and
French merinos have been quietly shelved and velvet
hats have vanished from the windows In their stead
we have transparent textures and gossamer tissues
--"Hght as the foamy surf
That the wind sewers from the broken wAve,o
and COOL bright coors that to babblng Of
green fields and side rambles The long, drooping
snow-white plumes reminding of ilimtable deserts
where the ostrich loves to wander and of which FraH
gath loves to write have vanished and in their place
appear sa tufts of marabout feathers soft and eecy
as the down on On angels wing All the ammunition for
the coming campaign is stored away in these Broadway
arsenals and Is effective than those exquisite
lacesfttng shade for beauty-ghter and more trans.
parent than the foam from whick the Grecian Venus
emerged.
But to return to the opening: The prominent feature
in the new fashions is the total absence Of simplicity Or
even the affection Of it, in the dresses hats or MANTLE
Las. redundancy Of ornaments, prodgaity Of trim
mings and superabundance Of embellishments every.
where prevail; dresses futterng with ribbons and
hounces dazzling with gold embroidery or radiant with
flowers Hats are bending beneath their fowery bur.
dens-daisies and damask roses, "the humble flower.
that loves the lea" and the exotic Splendor and
profuson are everywhere visible, and republican sim
phcty is fast approximating to aristocratic luxury
BoNNETs.
Bonnets are this made invariably with can
crowns the fronts small and just sufficiently Jared
to admit prouson Of inside trimmings which generally
consist OF flowers, in wreaths, clusters hanging
sprays The principal novelty fall of lace around the
edge of the hat which has charming effect The shapes
are the very pretties have seen elegant and
GRACEFUL and the artistic taste displayed the arrange
ment OF the flowers the combination of colors and the
harmonious blending of every hue and shade worthy OF
all praise The flowers generally small; no gaudv
peonas nor staring sunfowers but clusters Of delicate
sweet pea the colors melting into each other like the
hues Of the rainbow myrtle blossoms vory pure vio
let's, mossroses, "hypericum all boomo salthea with
the purple eye" Ghosts of golden danodsn and iasmu
with "the bright profusion OF its scattered stars,
Around the outside rim flowers are wreathed minrlin
with the inside trimmings and imparting look Of luxu-
rous beauty to the hat The materials used are various
RIBBON, Silk lace, straw, hairand the combination Of
these different materials produces SUFFICIENT variety
to please the most opposite tastes. We have some
very beautiful hats made of fancy straw ornamented
with the same profusion of floral trimmings There is
slight depression graceful fall in the crown and the
cape is almost concealed beneath mass Of spreading
field flowers, "hedge row beauties numberless" that ex
tend the back of the bonnet and fall In thice
clusters over the ear One hat displayed at an opening
We cannot forbear particulazng not for beauty foe
there were others in the same place far beautiful but
for its singularty 1t made of white silk embroidered
with acorns and oak leaves straw and for novelty and
tatse Of design and finish of execution reflects credit ON
Partisan milliners. Nothing exceed the care with
which unbecomng colors kept from coming In con-
tact with the face these trying colors they Called
may be desirable enough for the outde Of the bonnet
but nadmssibe for the inside in such cases flowers
answer double purpose. Ribbon is much in trim;
ming detached bows and rosetes with floating ends are
placed at intervals round the edge those in chdrens
hats being interpreted with fancy straw In some
styles the wreath is not carried round but passes from
ear to ear forming floral corone the sides being filed
up with lace or streaming ribbons
Straw and Leghorn are also worn trimmed with,
wreaths of scarlet hips and blushng berries rancin
through dark dreen leaves marabout feathers tipped
with straw; the latter style of trimming striking and
distinsue
DRESSES.
Great variety prevails in the cut of the waists
and sleeves individual taste and caprice breaking.
through the monotony imposed by fashion, and asserting
their supremacy. But generally speaking the open
corsage PREVAILS without uniformity of style however