The Newtown bee., 1879-09-03
FOR THE FAIR SEX,
White Bunting Dresses and Bus,,,

White Bunting Dresses and BustIes.
 Among the prettiest day dresses worn at Saratoga and other resorts are those of the thin tOtle religiesGSe They are worn by ladies of all ages. One lady with gray hair worn in puffs, with n white silk turban, has her white bunting dresses trimmed with black velvet bows: younger lady uses plaitings of Breton lace on the knife-plaited fiounces. and white satin ribbon for belt and sash. Still younger ladies choose contrasting colors of silk, especially the pale blue The short white skirt has shell fiounce of pale blue at the foot The front and side gores are covered with pale blue brocaded silk set on in box plaits placed at wide intervals, and ending in a series of blue ribbon loops. The long white coat is of the Lafayette shape, with shirred panier vest of blue brocade drawn tack to disclose a deeper vest of plain 4ue silk.
 Bustles are again considered neces- sary to produce the bouffant effect now in vogue. When these elaborate drape- ries were revived it was hoped the dress material would be sufficient without support; but when the short skirt is worn, the overdress seems incongruous if too many breadths are put in it. The present styles, however, are not obiec- tionable; it is only their exaggeration that is to be dreaded: Many ladies have never left off wearing a small crinoline tOurnure, even during the reign of prin- cesse dresses, and it is this hustle that is now generally adopted for short dresses. The furnishing houses commend those with plaits, puffs, and fiounees of the wiry crinoline, or else those of muslin furnished with half circular springs of | fine French steel, so light and flexible | that it is difficult to break them or to get them out of shape. These are 8. Other bustles are quite long, measuring about thirty inches, yet are meant to wear with short skirts. They have bias | fiOunces of French corded crinoline mounted on muslin, in which springs are run; these springs can be easily re- moved when the garment is laundried. l These cost Sl.50 upward. Some have an extra ruffle to extend over the hips and enlarge them. Longer bustles for trained dresses are similarly made, with stiffer founces to support the flowing train without obtruding itself; these cost S2.5O upward.-Harper'S Bazdr. Christine Nilsson.
 The following sketch of the Swedish songstress, Christine Nilsson, is said to 1 be truthful: On a remote estate in Sweden lived a Baron Leheusen, whose wife was very musical. On these Swed- | ish estates the peasants were, until within a few years, practically serfs, and are called Bunde and Torpare.
 l The Bunde have about thirty or forty acres, and have to perform certain obi- 1 cations to their landlord, such as tilling his ground with their horses or oxen, etc The Torpare are cOttagers with q small plot of ground, for which they have to 1 .+oi, nf -Lz a- days work, each week. Their food is obtained from the vegetables on these plots and from about two shillings per week for the labor of their free days.
 Nilsson's father was Torpare of Baron Leheusen's, and the little Ch-is- tine used to run about barefooted, with a short petticoat on, full of holes, coming down to her knees.
 Baroness Leheusen one day heard heI singing one of the old Swedish ditties which have been handed down from gen. eration to generation among the Bunde and Torpare.
 The baroness was struck with the sweetness of her voice, and ordered hel to come up to the chateau; there she
 gave her some elementary lessons in singing, and then sent her to Paris
 where she was placed under the tuition
 of a French professor.
 After several years of aSsiduous study
 she made her debut before the Parisian!
 at-if I remember rightly-the Theatel
 Lyrique. With the first money that sh,
 earned she built up the cottage of her olC
 father. the Torpare, and made him com
 fortable, and he now is a well-to-dC peasant.
 Marriage of a Prince of Fiji. The marriage of Ratu Joe, the young
 est son of ex-King Cakobau, has ting
 of romance about it which does no
 often occur in Fijian marriages. Tn
 parents and friends of this young chic
 were desirous that he should wed witt
 the daughter of Tul Suva. a damsel o equally distinguished descent and parent age with himself, and having a libera dowry of broad lands with which to en dow her spouse. The young lady, who we understand, was by no means ayers to the match, had been long resident a Bau, and was being literally thrown a ; Joe's head; but our Fijian Romeo" re , mained firm in his refusal, and, on mat
 ters being pushed to extremes, went pri
 vately, accompanied by the fair object o
 his choice, a maiden of comparativel,
 humble birth, to the house of the resi-
 dent missionary and was married. Grea
 was the indignation at Bau when tn
 cladestine marriage became known , That such magnate should marry with out the usual solevu or feast was not t be tolerated; but eventually Joe, wh' is favorite, was pardoned by the OI, !, man, and a substantial feast, provides by the latter, appeased the wrath of tn numerous friends and relatives, wh F have now determined to leave these tru
 lovers to be, happy if they can.-Sydale. f (AuStrattd) Morning Heratd.