Morning journal and courier., 1891-04-11
THE FLEETING SHOW.
Some of Its Facts and Fancies. Written for the JOURNAL AND CoURIER.l

ohe miiu oilSht AnofuihS III early SprlnS two sable sisters passing on opposite sides of the street paused to exchange the elabo- rate greetings in which their race takes so much delight. After detailed accounts of family affairs had been given they parted with this quaint tribute to the lovely weather 'It's mighty fine day!" "Yes, 'tis so! A regular pa'asol day!"
 True it is that the golden spring sun shine, the mild yet potent alchemist, that transforms brown buds to leaves of tender green, uncurls the tight little fists of the fern.
 ''FIres gardens with joyful blaze
 Of tulips in the mornings rays"
 and everywhere coaxes beauty, color and perfume into being, unfurls to the parasol, that ''restless sunhower" loved by woman kind.
 Parosols this season are almost inde- scribable. Airy, gauzy, frilled and flow cred creations, they are most attractive. Made of lace and crepe they may suffici ently screen the eyes from the sun but woe betide them in dash of April rain. Here is one of yellow crepe embroidered with daisies. Ruches of the crepe and many founces follow the curves of the edge, and the point of the stick emerges from very full rosette of the same dainty ma terial Another of lavender crepe strewn with purple violets has a ruche down the length of every rib, as well as around the edge and triple frills below, the edge talk gauge with golden butterflies, scarlet crepe with scattered flowers of jet, and gray gauge dotted with pearls, from the cover ings of others, as fascinating as they are unsubstantial-"rain dreams, half light, half shade." By the way, why do we not use the pretty old-fashioned English word, tsunshade," rather than ''parasol," which means the same thing, but is an alien of mixed French and Latin parentages When the Anglo-Saxou word conveys it's practical ear why not adopt it once for all and dis card the other? We gain in strength and directness oftentimes when we choose the words of our own dear mother tongue. But to return to the para - sunshades.
 It is pleasant to know that very pretty sunshade may be made by any woman of taste. Hidden away somewhere in the house will be found a frame in per feet order as to it's ribs and with handsome stick, the stick probably having been the reason for its preservation. Strip away all the old covering and wind the ribs around with ribbon until they are entirely GOV cred, then secure the ends. Take a piece of figured black net, half as full again as the circumference of the frame, shirr it at the top and draw it together around the end of the stick so that it will fall to the edge in full flounce. There is no lining, consequently the covering should be very full. The lace is caught to each rib and the shirring at the top concealed by full rosette of lace, or @ ribbon bow with many loops. Gather the lower edge of the net to fit the space between the points of the ribs, and add lace founces, one, two, or three, falling from three to eight inches below the edge. It may be still further ornamented into festoons with punches of violets, or small sprays of lilacs. A white lace sun shade may be made in the same way and is very dainty when embellished with white lilacs or daisies, or delicate knots of arbu, | tus. The ribs may be wound with colored | ribbon of pale tint, if preferred, the flow CTS to be of the same color.
 With a little study of some admired but perhaps unattainable model in show win ten fingers and a little constructive ability
 can make very creditable confection oi | this kind, and sally forth on Irregular pa'asol day" with an untroubled mind, a least, so far as this item of the toilet il | concerned.
 | A PLEA FOR A FRIEND.
 Miss Anna Sewell, the author of ''Blacl | Beauty" was born at Yarmouth, England
 in 1920. She was a happy, helpful, an'
 courageous child, but while yet school
 girl met with the accident that kept he
 ever after an invalid. We'll fitted to talk
 her place in social, literary or artistic cir
 cles, she was debarred from participation
 in active life, but retained a vigorou
 mental interest in all the worlds work
 "Black Beauty" that simple and patheti
 story, was written during the last si
 years of her life, when she was confine
 to her couch, and is a grander monumen
 to her memory than is the magnifcen
 shaft to be erected over her grave. Tn
 unfailing interest of her last years centel
 ed in her book. She hoped much frol
 it. vet could scarcely have foreseen it's r,
 markable success. The book was publish ed in 1887 and Miss Sewell died for | months later. The circulation of the vo ume was very large from the first; in 1Ss } two hundred and fifty thousand copi' had been sold, and it has been translate
 into German, French, Italian and Vol
 puk.
 y could have availed. as has the realist , story of @ horses life, to show peep the wickedness and folly of abusing th noble animal, as he often is abused, ar 8 perhaps always will be, in spite of reno : strance or punishment, by the ignoran . careless and cruel. In New York, Bostt
 and other large cities, cheap edition |; the book has been widely circulated !. members of the Humane societies, amol q cabmen, draymen, car drivers and other
 but these are not the only ones who ne
 to read it and lay it's lesson of humani O to heart. Every man or woman vi :, yields whip and reins, or rides in pub u or private carriages, should be enlisted 's the side of mercy and empowered to IT terfere with the merciless. It is T " only the poor man who overloads :. trembling hack because bread and shelt le are to be hardly earned by his help, a, n who "must put wife and children befc y the horse," who is to be blamed or fin l. for his cruelty, but the rich man who fro % false ideas of 'style," mutilates beau 10 ful and spirited creature, and then fort n him to hold his head for hours at a m' IS unnatural, ungraceful and painful ang l. Could every man who permits the use
 luc llSAt IClu uttf0 oNL hc
 strapped up in the same relative positi in to his spine for one hour, he would prol ply never again have the wicked will 'N torment any living creature in the SO 'o way.
 of handsome horse stood for long ti & upon a street crossing Whalley avenue ( O. day last winter while the occupants of
 sleigh were watching the procession go gay turnouts. The horse was fretful a he nervous, with distressed expression a countenance, yet he bore his trials W ;s remarkable patience considering that U. nose was held stiffiy in the air above to line of his ears. No person with 8" least sensitiveness could pass him with, ,is feeling pain in the back of the neck,
 the driver sat serenely content in the P
 session of "style."
 Now from fashion that inflicts pres lat suffering and permanent injury upol it noble and useful creature may we be spe if lily delivered! The reading of Black Bea o-- will help to bring about this result and ey book should be circulated universally 'ar this reform, as in all others. the wor g hope centers in the young. Their sym ,rs thies should be enlisted as early as DO II. ble; they should be taught to know ant i'e do that which is kind and wise, and yer not merely for the sake of tour frie CT, below us," but in order that the mol oe side of their own natures may be develop The roots of cruelty and crime flourish ne the same soil; they cling together and II co., together be torn up and destroyed.