The Russellville Democrat., 1880-05-06
A LESSON ON DRESS.

Nv young friend, Cora Lee, was gay dashing girl, fond of dress, and looking always as If, to use common expres- sion. just out of the bandbox. Cora was a belle, of course, and had many admir-. CTS. Among the number of these was a young man named Edward Douglass, who was the very "pink" of neatness in all matters pertaining to dress, and exceed. ingly particular in his observance of the little proprieties of life.
 I saw from the first that if Douglass pressed his suit Cora's heart would be an easy conquest, and so it proved.
 "How admirably they are fitted for each other" remarked to my husband on the night of the wedding. '0Their tastes are similar, and their habits SC much alike that no violence will be done to the feelings of either in the more in. innate associations that marriage brings Both are neat in person and orderly by instinct, and both have good principles. ,
 "From all present appearances the match will be a good one," my husband replied.
 There was, I thought, something like reservation in his tone.
 'sDo you really think so?" I said a lit. tie ironically; for MT. Smiths approval of the marriage was hardly warm enough to suit my fancy.
 "Oh, certainly. Why not?' he replied.
 I felt little fretted at my husbands mode of speaking, but made no further remark on the subject. He is never very enthusiastic or sanguine, and did not mean, in this instance, to doubt the fitness of the parties for happiness in the married state, as l half imagined. For myself, 1 warmly approved my friends choice, and called her husband lucky fellow to secure for his companion through life woman so admirably fitted ts make one like him happy. But a visit which l paid Cora one day, about six weeks after the honeymoon had expired, .lessened my enthusiasm on the subject, and awoke some unpleasant doubt. It happened that l called soon after breakfast. Cora met sme in the parlor, looking like very fright. She wore soiled and rumpled morning wrapper, her hair was in paper, and she had on dirty stockings and pair of old slippers down at the heels.
 nBless me, Corap I said. "Whas is the matter? Have you been lll?"
 'No. Why do you ask? Is my dis habille rather on the extreme?"
 "Candidly, think. it is, Cora" was my frank answer.
 'Oh, we'll, no natter" she carelessly replied, "my fortunes made"
 q don't clearly understand you," said.
 '1'm married, you know"
 "Yes, l am aware of that fact"
 No need of being so particular in dress now; for didn't l just say" replied Cora, "that my fortunes made? Pye go' a husband"
 Beneath an air of testing was apparent the real earnestness of my friend.
 "You dressed with careful regard and neatness in order to win Edwards love" said l.
 Certainly did"
 "And should you not do the same ir order to retain it?"
 "Why, Mrs. Smith, do you think my husbands affection goes no deeper than my dress? l should be very sorry in deed to think that. He loves me fol myself"
 ''No doubt of that in the world, Cora but remember that he cannot see what is in your mind, except by what you dc or say. If he admires your taste, for in stance, it is not from any abstract appre' ciation,of it, but because the taste mani fests itself in what you do; and depend upon it, he will find it very hard mat. ter to approve and admire your correct taste in dress, for instance, when you ap pear before him every day in your pres ent unattractive attire. If you do not dress well in your husbands eyes, fol whose eyes, pray, do you dress? You are as neat abroad as you were before your marriage"
 "As to that, Mrs. Smith common de cencv requires me to dress well when go out into company, to say nothing O. the pride one naturally feels Tn looking we'll"
 And does not the same common de cency and natural pride argue strongly ir favor of your dressing well at home ano for the eye of your husband, whose ap proval and whose admiration must be dearer to you than the approval and the admiration of the whole world p
 But he doesn't want to sec me riggee out in silks and satins all the time. A pretty bill my dressmaker would have against him Tn that event. Edward q. more sense than that, flatter myself
 Street or ballroom attire IS one thing, Cora, and becoming home appare another. We look for both in theii place."
 Thus argued with the thoughtlesi young wife, but my words made no i'm pression. When abroad she dressed with exquisite taste, and was lovely tC look upon but at home she was care less an1 HlOVQnlV and moda if almoS impossible for those who saw her to be lieve that she was the brilliant beauty they had met in company but shor time before.
 But even this did not last long. noticed, after a few months, that th' habits of home were not only confirming themselves, but becoming apparen abroad. Her fortune was made and wh,