Daily national Democrat., 1861-03-22

tfEttES DhE>cES IN BUDDY w EAIHER.-Ib
Is an unpleasant sight, says the New York
Home Journal. to see the ladies in the streets,
on rainy days, allow their dresses to trail in
the mud. This is unpardonable. There is
no improperly in raising the skirts high
enough to keep them out of the dirt; there is
very unladylike prudery in refusing to
raise them slightly when cleanliness requires
it. 1t is not Necessary, however, for any lady
to hold her dress with her hands to keen it
out Of the mud. The English women, says
an European writer, understand these things
better than we, go out walking in rain and
mud, wearing long dresses, and without taxi
ing their hand from their mutfs, come home
with the clothing as cleanly as when they
started out. How do they do it? They wear
skirts that do not reach lower than the ankle;
short enough in fact, to keep clear Of the
mud without any lifting. The dress is worn
long, but is looped up when the lady is in
the street. The loops arc late invention,
and are now the fashion in Great Britain. A
woman who should 20 out in muddy weather
without them " ould be considered prude.
They are made thus: There is q belt of
black ribbon, three-quarters of an inch wide,
and long enough to go round the lady : waist,
wiUh hook at one end and an eye al the
other, as fastening; Il piece ofthe same kind
OF ribbon, three wards long, is attached to
the end ana the middle the belt. The belt
is now put on with the hook and eye in front;
and hanging down on each side is loop of
black ribbon, threc-quartcrs of yard long
When tie lady is about to go out, she puts
on her belt, and puts IA part OF the lower por-
Of h,t, i ,,.I,
thus raised into four festoons, and all of it is
above the lower edge of the pctticoat. She
then walks cut with her hands free, her
dress clean, and her conscience at ease and
if she wishes to enter house, she can take
her dress out of the loops in an instant.
a Cast" NOVELIST DR. Mckenzie, of
the Philadelphia Press has the following
concerni the rolicking Irish novelist al
thor Of Charles OMallcy," and numerous
other popular works:
Lever, on the strength of his large salary
and prospective profits of his works, com
menccd living in a lordly style in Dublin.
The dresses and jewels OF his wife "a pretty
creature, with feet as small as Ciuderella's of
which it is hard to say whether he or she
was most yain,) eclipsed those Of the Lady
Lieut. enant, his horses equipages, and iiveried
groom' made the vicerOy's " turnout ap-
pear shabby in comparison; his entertain
ments were on an equally magnificent STYLE
his residence was at Templeogne House, "A
little way out Of Dublin. the former seat
we believe, Of Lord Pulmerston's father, in
the day when Ireland had "A separate Legsla-
ture Of her own After keeping tp the bali
at a great rate for several years, TO the ad-
miration of Dublin, it soon became evident
that Mr. Lever was trying his speed with a
public tunctiouary--the result, dolicately in
timatcd in a familiar phrase, was, " he oulran
the constable, and retired from ireland Just
in time to avoid the fatal touch of the haiiG,
for what Paddy called suspicion Of Debt, and
has been wandering over the world ever
since, dating his books from all places, and
believed TO oNe more numerous and heavy
bills at the principal hotels in Europe Than
any other man living. Latterly, he has re-
sided in Italy, and, about two years ago, was
appointed British Consul at Spezzia, with
salary Of about 50 300 The duties of this
office he faithfully pcriorms-Jy GeputN His
own residence is at Florence, some seventy
miles distant from lis consulate, and he lives
with his old habits Of extravaganza. What
splendid Minister Of Finance he would
make! For over twenty-five years he has
lived on the fat of the land, with no other
capital than his brain, which is constantly at
work on some dashiug story lie had no
money to start with; no regular income to
carry On the war with; vet how luXuriously
the man has lived lie would I've valuable
Cabinet Minister I'M err penuiless CUbb-cd
Government, y hich had occasionally to live
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