, 1876-10-01

| undressing, at home for the bath Is less peuera
than it was, and that Ocean Grove Is so far los
Ing Its primitive simplicity" y."-Neo York World
HER n1PATIENCE.
As Woodward-ayenue car {says the Detrof
FTAe Press) was going north the other evenins
with Joung lady and old gentleman a sol,
passengers, she exhibited symptoms Of Impa
thence at the slow progress made. The car haf
to halt for team on the track, and sha would
have got OF but for the gentleman, who said:
"1t's only for half rninute-don't Be tmpa
tient."
| and she put her head out OF the window, walked
up and down, and was on the platform when h.
] said:
"There comes the other car. You seem *
impatient that an led to believe that some ol
| your family are sick. Is it SOL"
''They are all unusually we'll" she replied, 4,
| she took her seat again.
One block more and the car left the track
| She waited half minute to see II it could be
hauled on again right Away, and then she started
ct will be ali right in minute, !" protested
the old gentleman.
"Can't see it, she curtly replied
~ %fRfn RiIl:y yon will g0'"
sand 1t isn't sickness1"
oee uele, nAS elAo, stAnu4ug On the ioHer
step, III you are dying to know the cause Of my
hurry will tell yo1. My fellow Is to be at the
house at halfpast s, and I'm not going to run
the risk Of losing good offer for all the old
men and all the streetc:ars in Detroit There
does that make you feel any better!"
he pondered over it as the car slowed around
and bounced and bobbed, and he concluded that
she was perfectly correct, though Little i'm
pudent.
ORIGIN OF FASHIONS.
Trace fashion to its origin (says an exchange),
and you will nearly always find that it springs
from the consciousness Of a defect and wish to
mask it. The fatherland Of cxinoline is Spain,
and Spanish queen first wore hoops to dis
simulate unequal hips, An actress Of the
Bouleyards, who committed suicide By throwing
herself over balcony few years ago, revived
the high-heelcd shoes which Louis Quatorzs
originally brought into fashion to appear talle,
than the King Of Spain at the meeting in the
Isle Of Pheasants. A French lady, who derive.
prestige from rank, fortune, and striking
accident She thought OF wearing, to con
ceal it, those long-armed gloves which,
ont Of mercy to the plebcian wives OF Napoleon's
Marshals and Generals, the Empress Josephine
brows we're the result OF Iady of exalted rank
losing her front hair. Queen E1izabeth's neck
vas yellow and thin; hence the sstifl muslin
NAME" The double veil Of white and black
tqlle was contrived by lady with bad com
ple1ion, She used pearl powder to hide her red
the pearl powder, which would have shown on
the black net. An old Partisan beau, with an
experience OF more than half . century Of
fashionable society there and at the Continental
g9mb1ing and watering-places, maintains that,
when fashion is not traceable to deformlty,
It must have originated in the desire OF SOME
seigning or rising belle to crush rival.
RUSKIN TO GIRLS ON DRESS.
John Ruskin thus addresses the girls on thu
subject Of dress: sDress rs plainly as -FOUR
parents will allow you, out in bright colors II
they become you) and in the best materials
that is to saF, in those which will wear the long
est When you are really in want Of new
dress, buy it for make it, in the fashion. hut
never quit an old one merely because it has be-
come Questionable. And II the fashion be cost
ly, you must not follow it. You may wear broad
stripes, OF narrow, bright colors, or dark, short
psttie4a or long LIN Tn nodegation s as the puols
OF Useless stuff to make q knot or
founce OF, nor drag them behind YOU
over the ground, and your walkiugg-dress
must never touch the ground ut all. hayelo
sense, and even in the personal delicacy, Of the
present race OF average English women By see
ing how they will allow their dresses to sweep
the streets, il it Is the fashion to be scayengers
Learn dressmaking yourself, with pains and
work, making as pretty dresses Us you can tor
poor people who have not the time or taste to
make them nicely for themselves. You are to
show them In your own wearing what is most
right aud graceful, and help them to choose
what will be prettiest aud most becoming II
their own statiou-''