The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-01-02
FOR THE FAIR SEX.
The Queen Of the Fairies.

The Queen OF the Fairies.
The late duchess of Gordon, says an
English paper, taking an airing alone
in her carriage, in remote part of the
Scottish highlands, observed at some
distance from the road neat cottage
surrounded by garden. Her grace
pulled the check-string, and asked the
servants to go round with the carriage
to where she desired them to stop, while
she crossed the moor to pay the cottage
q visit. The duchess happened to wear
q pelisse trimmed with gold lace, and
her hat was ornamented with golden
spangIes. A girl about twelve years
old, the only person in the cottage, was
spinning at the wheel and singing a
| merry strain. AS soon as her eyes
caught the figure of the duchess ap-
preaching, the green dress, the shining
appearance of the hat, on which the sun
shone, the singularity of such visitant
in 30 lonely situation, all so worked on
the imagination of the little girl that
she verify believed the queen of the
fairies had come to reveal to her some
fearful mystery Of fate. In great terror
she escaped to back closet, where,
through a small aperture, she could
see without being seen. The supposed
fairy queen entered, surveyed the apart
ment with curious eye, and then see-
ing the wheel, bethought herself of try
ing to spin. She gave the wheel several
turns, but could not make a tolerable
thread, though she twisted up all the
| carded wool she could find. As some
compensation for any injury her awk-
wardness might have occasioned, her
grace tied a crown piece in handker.
chief that lay upon the table, fixed it to
a spoke of the wheel, and departed.
The girl could not summon courage to
venture from her hiding-place before her
father and sister came in, nor till some
time after could they extract from her
an explanation of the extraordinary state
of pertur baton in which they found her.
Their surprise was scarcely less than
hers when they were informed that
| somebody, who could be no other than
in green and gold, and shining bright as
the sun, had come into the house, and
! seeing nobody there, had fallen to be-
witohing the wheel, which, as sure as
fairies were fairies, would never &c
again.
"And see," continued the young en-
thusiast, pointing to the handkerchief
tied to the spoke, "something which she
had left"
The father united the handkerchief,
aud the sight of the sterling piece OF
coin which it contained soon dispelled
from his mind all suspicion as to the
terrestrial attributes of the lady who
had been honoring his cottage with O
visit.
The women of the cottage, however,
were of very different opinion. With
them tho lady could be no other than
the fairy queen, who must doubtless
have come to tell poor Isabel her for.
tune the spoiled thread was sign that
the first days of their life would be
marked with disappointmenta and sorrow,
and the crown piece tied in handker-
chief to the spoke of the wheel be.
tokeued that she would in the end ar
rive by honest industry to wealth and
comfort. Harmless delusion 1t lasted
but for day. Sunday came, and the
appearance of the queen of the fairies,
in the same dress at church ss the
duchess OF the manor, convinced even
Isabel that she had been deceived,
News and Notes for Women.
San Francisco has a female painter
named Strong, who sells portraits of a
dog for $3.50.
The original "Grecian bend" came
from Japan, and is found in many ol
their pictures.
An overdressed women is offensive to
good taste, no matter how costly the
material she wears.
Sets of coffee and teaspoons are now
made up of odd pieces, no two articles
being the same in pattern.
Dinner cards, nodded into the shape
of plates and oval platters. and painted
with graceful water color designs, are
a Boston notion.
1t is more than limited that the COM
ing spring bonnet will be too elegent
for anything. Expectation is already
on tiptoe.
Gabrielle dresses for little girls are
finished with kilt plating around the
lower edge, with sash covering the
top OF it.
American flannel underwear is now
made SO we'll that it can hardly be dis
tinguished from that which is imported.
N WIltoI ucuutb women Us
being something between flower and an
angel.
A New York lady has invented and
patented device for raising, turning
over and moving hospital patients and
othe4sstck people in bed.
Mrs. Burton, the wife of the English
traveller. will publish an account of her
journey with her husband through India
and Egypt.
Thyra, of Denmark, is an extremely
pretty and accomplished young lady OF
twenty, five. She has beautifully
shaped face, large, gentle eyes, and a
very sweet expression. The duke of
Cumberland, her future husband, is in
his thirty-fourth year, and has plump,
good-natured countenance of the Ger
man type. The Princess Emma, of
Waldeck, who is about to marry the old
king of Holland, is a graceful, warm
hearted little person, with bright eyes
and piquant face.
"Eugenia, Eugenia, will you still in,
sist on wearing the hair OF another
woman upon your head ?" Alphonse,
AIphonse, do you still insist upon wear.
ing the skin of another calf upon your
feet?"
A young man from the country was in
towp apd antarad q ,1hotooraDh no 1aru