The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1877-12-15

them, they have solved the labor
question. But, alas, there will be
forty heads to it, they will get dis
honest and inefficient men in control,
there will be all sorts of irregularities
and it will doubtless fail. Still, am
| glad it is being tried. There will be
a thousand failures before they learn
how to do it, but when they have
once learned, it will be great thing
for labor. The cigar-makers can as
/ we'll afford to experiment as any 9TH
| er class. Thursday, five thousand of
them, men, women and children,
turned out in procession, with ban
ners and music, and made very
| respectable demonstration. They
cheered the factories that were pay
| ing the advance, and hissed most EN-.
phatically those still holding out.
The struggle over the New York
offices, between Secretary Evarts and
Senator Conkling is the themeiof talk
among the politicians they are sadly
divided about it. One faction claims
that all the reforms carried out by
Secretary Sherman were urged by
Collector Arthur, months before the
new Administration came in, and
that under the Civil Service rules he
ought not to be removed; while the
other side insists that Collector Ar
thur, having tolerated the abuses,
ought not to be retained.
The loan exhibition for the benefit
of the Decorative Art Society, is the
greatest novelty. The ladies of the
best and wealthiest families of New
York have lent their art treasures,
their laces, their costly fans and an
tiQue ornaments, and gentlemen have
lent their pictures, choice carvings,
bronzes, porcelain and bric-a-brac of
every curious and costly sort. The
RESULT is a show of richness and bril-
lance that delights the soul of the
novelty loving citizen. There are
point laces, 300 years old, in good
condition and quite ready to be worn
on dress again dress, entirely of
thread lace, worked with little sprigs,
made at mandatory in Ipswich,
Mass, in 1924, lent by a Boston lady,
and specimens of the rarest points,
made by Mrs. Carter, the lace artist
of New York. So the modern and the
antique lie side by side. The lace
made in this century is the finest, but
the old supasses it in beauty of de-
sign. The exhibition is unusually
successful, and will be great attrac-
rion while it lasts. The Decorative
Art Society was established less than
year since, to provide instruction in
fine handicrafts, lace work and en-
broidery, China painting, wood carv-
ing and modelling, and to give per-
sons who are skilled in these arts a
means of disposing of their work to
the best advantage. A man or wo-
man who does piece of good work
anywhere in the country can send It
to the society, and have it sold in the
best market, for commission of 10
per cent. to pay expenses. Already
the society has more orders for fine
work than it can fill, and articles sell
dom remain long on its shelves. Con-
tributions of work are sent from all
the States, and one of the latest, a
piece of the finest muslin embroidery,
SO fine that it tries the eyes to inspect
it, is the work of an old lady, who
does needlework as valuable as lace.
Evening hats of white felt are seen
at popular milliners. The shapes are
the close helmet, or the round hat
turned up at one point above the
temple. The trimming is twist of
white plush, with a plume or white
wing and large knot of plush filling
the front, and the effect of this sim.
plicity is very pretty. Gloves are
longer aud have more buttons than
ever. A sensible new stocking is on
sale for the first time this year, of
German manufacture, which looks
exactly like knit stocking, and goes
By the name of "hand- knit" It is
heavy, scanned all the way, and
comes in all the fashionable colors,
cardinal, dark blue, gray and scarlet,
brown and hunters green, and is
warm, firm and very elastic. Colds
and cold feet are nearly impossible
with the sensible fashion of wearing
thick stockings and boots. The cork