The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1869-01-24

mentr what ahiversD. do own they are energetic,
Blanche d,Antigny or Aiine Montaland says themf
We like to be applauded. ro0 and that accounts for
the acting we have at Court-all the duchesses and
countesses are obliged 20 be actresses now"
Fashion here was compelled to Sit down. She
wiped her temples and looked very langud.
i.Let me speak on without interruption, she said,
| am dying ana absove you ali, for wish the
Fashion OF 1868 TO leave behind her the reputation OF
having been 6onne ane. may as Wen enc ne, my
from it by my successor who 10 now nearing TINS
court. will resume what have done for women.
line art in the combination OF color; have revived
those hues 80 appropriate TO gaJfeathered oirs ana
1s gentle snor dress aay and to
their bvdices when they show or their magnificent
and digniied trains by night; have told them 70
do their internal bodies by medicines; have shown
them the use OF those sparkling stones found In
N fs rarest ans have pamsd the most nos so
geous birds, and all this TO make wives outshine their
rivals. may have done too much Tor them IN splen.
had lived longer, life would have become an tnn0-
cent madrigal quite la Vatican"
At this point Fashion closed her eyes and the
Court, somewhat affected. wiped his-no ltS-l mean
"My only mistake has been panniers, red stockings
and heels" continued Fashion. II do not regret
the Venetian slashlng nor medieval Styles they are
chivalrc. They will bury up the rapier feeling and
redeem crevedom 40 not regret snor. Pah s anu
ticle: but what glory IN is the revival OF Fl0ra's
kingdom. have rebuilt It.. Girls can now IN azure
gauze look like placid lakes which float the
white water lily or yellow runephar. Mothers. IN
their new cigar shaded tulle entwined with IVY
SO emblematc or love- Here we observed that Fash
ion was telling her last vsiOn me budding bru-
nette in pearl mauve, Ia now like bank Of violets,
SO lntricatey are they entangled under the folds
OF her plated skirts, while her sister, In white,
dinges by In shower Of blue bells, with diaphan
GUS dragon fly poised on her aigrette on blade OF
long grass. Here too comes the duchess in changeiu
violet from the light lilac shade 70 the bishops
purple and she wears yellow and mauve nags tow
ering from under tall sedges. Her daughter too fol-
lows under shower OF roses lallng down the most
vapOrous slope. But the dress have loved best at
u fancy bah is the ragged thorn BUSH" Doyou
see the girl who wears itY How hopeless Her skirts
are Of green tattered gauze, covered with the
fleece OF stray sheep. She makes me think
Of the. poor young fellows who have left
some Of their down there on passing by,
and Of those terrible days when heat subdues nature
and feverlsh youth seek some welcome stream, some
dewdrop on their parched lips. Why does that girl
fascnate me, standing out all alone with those red
poison berries IN her struggling hair, and the deadly
nghtshade 80 purpleeyed, spreading It's rank scent
about meP think, gentlemen OF the Jury, That
like her because she Is the last creation OF mine ana
because. now am dying, leave her to the world as
q warning"
These were FASHIONS last words. No one feels
spitefully towards her. not even Dame 1862 who has
come In, and appeared at the Tuileries yesterday
evening in thick round wreath. each dover as big
as turnlp. But more OF her when l have been
formally introduced and heard her mandates.