, 1869-11-21
FOlIlES AND FASHIONS. i.
Tho Season and Its Lessons.
The Vanishing Woman and the
Woman Of Fashion.


TIE man who gsinds thai Aoeo1abon-which. =
feATtulIy and wonderfully m2de-and tho won&n
Who luita her pareRoTctJ children for the edidcs-
ton OF = duped and synpsthszn8 puhlic, have re-
tired to count their boards, driven OF By the iG-
clernencJ Of tho wsAthes,-wntch slso fosbtds the
comfortable belle from airing her new velvet suit
on tho nrenue, whereby Mils B. viii b. dis
tsacted1y tealons, and torment her impeeunloas
papa for one Just Ike It. The poor widow IN tho
oasenent OF = tenement house, whose husbaud
died without lnSustnR his life, leaving to vile and
children the common heritage Of porerty. looks
out On the lowering skies and sodden streets with
shlstrtng appreciation Of their misery. Sha hasa
large family Of KnA1 ehiidfen. which zeems 10 Be
rcfasded By sone ~ source Of shauksg,Ttns. 1t
being familiar renark IL ahe complain, Hut
you haze al your children spared to you-" She
las heard Of ulster Wumau--of heneucent human
angels, Who seek out poverty, and reward II With
topA Of coal and rolls Of warm naanel, and cAAto6
garments. In N unohtEuaiye way, ont ahe never
saw hn@1htng Of the kind herself. Tho ttndtss
speech that Ia eyer made 10 her IL, Why donT
tou work p! tneIn Is no need Of anybody atasT.
Ing TO death IN a country where there Is 50 much
to do, "-as II ahe copld 60 With several small
children and compel people to give her Wo7E-
ThAt mother Il Just - Ill Is the lady who has sent
ca foz The doctor because "nothtng ached, and
her systern must be WRONG" She has spect4l
tudes1ug, and nesdxche. and sldeAche,
aud heastzchc, and good Christian pAoplo say,
"W ork-" Il IA one womana work to take care Of
I've children, but lhe viii! DO more; abe viii leave
them alone with the raia nad 60 into your Kitchen.
| 10 wash until her strength oreafs down. II will
| Fever occur To the &lnb lady Fho employs her,
that hhe casrtea In her pe.son = messase non
Christ to her-tnAt she il one Of Hts little onta.
[ Oh when wItte about Telrct atd satin robes,
AID beautiful oonpets; when desctibc the
beauty aId nnian Of bridal linen; when tell Of
| the po1t and precious things Tor baby Ne2r,
| wnns to 70 further and tA!k about those whose
Thin AhiTestnG czrl1ents cling 70 their en4cts.et
] forms; about the woman with hoIioH eyes and
/ supAen cheeks, who look. out on the "oekutilnl
Stow and seen only the pail Of death: about the
l'sle tender children, clad ID garments world too
vide, who slug a, dsJ with plaInt1ve voice, Not
= ssust:' about the old men snd womec, *hn,
through mans earelefaness, doubt Gods Justice.
Uh: would talk about II, for hare been shere
| and seen them.
I .H~relets ntaE thousznd ho.rer theY atond
| And. ne1r ! thouAsna tspes, pined foe food"
| tis the accompanying want we need to relieve,
rot the potElble nHeres Of street begyasA think
the people Who make long prayers wonld do well
/ "la anybody happler because | 1--we :" "ls auy-
bod, comfortable because am sheltered :" II
| anybody fed because haze plenty :" aud 20 ind
out xnat is required Of them.
The renne1neuI OF poveHyt Good Heavens!
] Who talAa aoons the Eet1ll1g tufnencs Of bare
roons and empty cIose&; Of rcketJ, nrclesl stores
and squalid. suffering people l know that novel,
tass Ike 10 enlarge On the dying children, and
bincned-deformed children, twisted cut Of ali
shape ~ their daily bun.r.tgs, and readers soet
ioo!tsh tears over what they couelder printed sen
| uEent But where among the wretchedly poor
| ato teese homes In which there aso not little
ch1ldIcp dlTeated OF TIT grace Of Infancy By hard
I Ahps, Sighting out With theu feeble weapons that
! 0erce battle which wounds and deatroJs nan-
hood-old before they arc youu9, with heRrts and
bodiea scared bJ the unnatural wa.f2re. DID yua
ever look upon the dead face of zach 4 child, and
| note the wan featuEts aharpened into 4 resem-
bsance to ase-she thin r7asplpg angera tna: had
| c1uug to the hArt rtmnant OF life Allotted TO
| stem-the faded osuWn hAtt that poverty had
robbed Of ita gold The Coroner could tell Ioa
Ill about tneu, aud the Official who gives the per.
nit for paupef burial I Know good mothers who
Keep tho beaatIful and coulorEshle ciotnes OF
their buried daflogs IN !avender.scented trare.s,
whlle other Little ones, as falr and good ~ the{,
| 60 In Fzgs In the bltlag cold
~ ~e:s i VAN + nssz." @''''s1"
FROM fau1tre to faah!ou, and the knowledge ths,
VIC hate done Whist We could. wilt lend m Rddt.
tfoual grace TO rne purple aud velvet which we
may cain, for Cur appearance. It ss the very aea.
for soft velret, and rich aaolea, and dainty mln.
tlea: for tue appreciation Of tbs ut end luxury
] which a1e 1t the sertice Of those Wnnse gpoae
lays golden esgA
\ DhksaAAx1k6,
at certain r1dgaz.n dfs nsodts on Warrington
street, hal been carried to hIgn state OF pertec.
tinp, And the elegant creations OF Blk And velvet
which enanate theSetrona aFe embodIments o!
exquisite taste snd decorative sst. One can a.
LOST fancy the spteudur Of court wheu gazing
upon tneu Tor surely this Alken tail Ia not Of tc
publican 1mrltclsJ. Indeed It IL. THIS estabtlh
nent ia Cosmopolitan IN It's style "The butcher;
tha baker, the csndlestlcg-Eaker' and their &C.
comp:tshed 1adles come hers, ~ well n the old
sciouA OF good faulty, WHO do not turn up the.l
ar1stotratic noses n theJ pasa oeeanse those ple
| be'REs have Just ~ long pu57aa and respectable
characters ~ their, and perhaps dnes psopo:.
t1onA The preitlest herrss On Wahasn ATcnue,
who're foot IL 10 beautiful ~ TO attract attention
| on the street, and whose aststocsAt.c ha1d Il 10
teepDg with the fa!f snd statuesque beauty OF her
| face, has not \ drop Of b!ue blood In her vetns,
snd owls to pondeso1a pdsssau iathef and rus
tic mother, rho p<rs,st In calling her Mary J4ne
| instead Of Marie Jeanette TO sec her at Madame
stoughtou'A order counter Iou would never imAa-
ice she had wpfn print she II critical and fASuo-
lous ii six and velFet--ahams abe detcsts-tud
| the lace upGn her hat must oo real point or ahc
| Will not wear 1t. II taxes hurger to sharpen the
appetite.
! DExSHEa
The falhiorAb1e w2,ling drtss has no ex1cs reg.
| ulatIon Of length. People who wear peaoock'a
itA'heTs have sometimes peacock feet, sud must
raske their gnrmenss 1ocK enough to hide them
while other1 prefer to display the rounded proper.
tons Of neAt auk1e, and 10 cu1tnclr aklrts few
| inchea shorter. The breadth Is about thfto and
| bali y2rdA TOR q wslifnR dfess-trou1 four to
seEen for = trail. 1t u Sill fashionable 70 10
fH$h hA f,Rb 1nfr~ n n
| bottom Of the drtss 4 narzow, cllnR1ng effect, and
| the hips 4 tendency to the Grectau bend. The
bntserny panier doea this very nicely. Tne elect
"a 10 uske the waist look tn21L People who
have tt1atshs hips and Bt1all waists, with nasrnv,
contracted shoulders, look well in this drsas. To
give breadth to the shoulder tim In Foupadour,
and place puts 1t the bottom ns ~
4asse to IxuA- s4qnt md ArkHarl thar ms