The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-07-03

Student and who has written a long epstle in
verse, beginning with ~, thou goddess, who etc
etc., and ending with some very long lines to the
effect that you will make the writer thereof the hap
P off of mem 6y y edng b t9s F OF 6onPOn
answer to thatH asked the Baron winding up
What do you saggestY' asked Cora.
"1 hat he should run his pen through his body
and thus put stop TO poetical illusions for the
"B1t ! dare say his bOnbOns are better than his
THEN, if you Ike will answer and say that you
are delighted his happiness hes within the powers
~ hank you; II it does not look too cannibal like
on paper 1t sounds very well, and please go on
while reason with Pauline on lace am afraid
you very extravagant, my dear" continued she
turning to her friend land If you go on buying
Chantilly when Cambria would do just as WELL OF
course you will never have nest TO fly to when
your singing days are over. / am a very good
manager in matters of dress and spend little on It IN
private h(e though even the Baron who is n very
tolerabe judge saws no one can Outdo me. I cor
tend that the money we gam with our legs and our
throats ought not to be fTlttered away in ribbons
and lace Think of the future, Pauline throats do
not generally outlve ones beauty; but it is not
much a question whether legs last longer than
throats, as whether State funds WI not last longer
than dress. OF course people In our position must
pay for them out of their savings, and men are so
our acceptance"
observation not science, has taught me good
deal, Pauline. My wardrobe is mounted with wise
economy, and according to the necessities OF the
to go by DIVIDE the thermometer into three degrees
below zero and three above. Zero stands for no
clothes at all. The three below ale-cool hot very
hot the three above-dress, full dress, stunning
dress"
"Tjens % exclaimed Pauline, now what do you
call coolY My cool Is made of what in shops
is styled Knickerbocker that jasper sort of stuff,
wool and cotton. have pettcoat, skirt and jacket
to match, trimmed with mother pearl proiles on
jet medaons; of there are reins In the back
OF the neck and medalhOns a piece of stuff cut
on the cross round the sleeves My belt is studded
will 10 mn / q ph travU min md
garland of field flowers with this. My hot is a
mauve linas skirt and jacket, without any body. l
pointed collars. The skirt is trimmed half up the
seams with white and mauve silk coTd-the same on
ing rcd ounce which can be- butohed Wh s on a
round, and taken Off UoiOnte; necktie and hair
bands Of course, to cor espond. fanchon made of
fiat vioets is all put on my head.
"My very hot came home yesterday It Is a
white alpaca, trimmed with folds of porcelain blue
taffeta, cut on The cross around the bottom Tne
ody is low over winch wear indoors tulle tichu
OF opeD-worked chemsete. When go out take
off my 1chu and put on one Of those neat pelerines
made of porcelain blue tafeta and cut in the shape
OF a shoulder-piece. 1t is trimmed with nothing but
a blue rUche to match, which falls over the top of
my low body. This, with Dasques sewn on q blue
belt helps to compose very dtStiague walking cos
tune"
"How complete and degage" exclaimed Pauline.
"And observe, my dear, no washing, no tumbung.
Where is the woman who could not afford cool,
hot and very hOtY"
Now Tor the degrees above zerog" asked Pauline,
interested.
"For dress have this pink fouard; for full Dress
q white.stnped chambery, with body aud bAsques
made of white tafieta, trimmed with lace, which 1
have worn for years on hundreds OF things, and
which always looks new; loose white jacket and
too at There is wreath of white @ lilac and %b back
cunants all around 1t over q fall OF the same lace
have on the body, and behind long white Iibbon
ends, with bouquet OF lilac dotted on here and
"As to my stunning dress, which is indeed basker,
you may be sure never guilty of buying q
thread of it. Follow my advice Pauline, divide the
thermometer, as DO and your clothes accordingly.
on will soon have pretty little villa style Regence,
like mine out at NoRet."
Every toeraDle WINE in the cellar" chimed in the
brOcade in the draw ing room, pink, blue and Lilac
chIntz IN the bedrooms, and"
VERY good company to move about in," inter-
Iupted Cora, "when can get out OF these phos-
phoric clouds at the Chateet."
"Now, Baron, bow are you getting on? any
thing particular beyond the bonbons."
why, hele is man who is gong to throw him.
self of the POrt Near if you will not cough near
stage box No g. first tier and clerk at some bank,
who wants to know if your eyes are brown, grew,
blue. He has paid q good sum on brown; but if
they are not you are to sueeze alter having smelt
the bouquet he to send spinning at your feet
this evening. Then there Is a gentle ladys epistle
who offers you daggers poison for having led her
husband what / should call a pretty dance, but
which she styles 1nextrcaDe labyrinth of debts,
the central station OF which IS quiet cell at Cchy
Now ladies, by my watch it Is 8 In an hour or SO
You will say It is getting up time for the theatres,
and don't mean 10 be done out of our drive round
the lake at the Bois. propose that this debate
shOu Id be broken up
"Garcon l." shouted he, and three of the gentlemen
who answered TO this summons slood By his side
W While the Baron was settling withther eXtortlonate
demands the two ladies mad little low whispering
together. crowd of hdbitueS collected mean vhtlC
round the entrance 10 see as mucl "a tney could o.
Cora's foot and ankle of which she made rather toe
grand dis play as she got up the BarOns carriage
steps
The new fashions of this week are those L have
already seen and described in my preceding let ers
and which had not yet come out in Paris. Short
oveTskirts sewn in the same band the peti
hnV nFNon nNnr ~ hn h inn naINu
being quite discarded are cut INTO circulars re
tondes, and are very much worn Pretty Lamballt
cientures, with ends for looping up skirts, are mad
of white French meTino, dotted over with Dlacl
beads Nothing newer than the above details o
COTa's wardro be-N Y. Herald.