The Herald of Wales and Monmouthshire Recorder. — 1884-12-20 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

FASHIONS.  Satin is preferred to silk, although a costume Ii rarely if ever entirely ooraposed of either one or the other.  Lady Burdett-Coutta wears a striking mantle scarlet oadunere with Oriental embroidery wrought in gold, with a curious rounded trimming of white far. The bisque has been curtailed of late until there Is a ehance of its disappearing altogether. That can hardly be the ease, however, for notwiteszAnding the rapid advance of the velvet waist, thebodice which moulds the figure is so muai more graeeful and becoming to all, who have the least tendency to (embonpoint), and is ito much better adapted to matronly dignity than the girlish round waist, that it will hardly be possible to dislodge it from the place it holds In the general economy of dress.  The latest in (mantis the Doncaster, a tightly fitting coat with plenty of fulness at the back of the skirt. It has a removable cape and hood, lined with shot silk of a dark russet color. There lea velvet collar. and the sleeves, which are the new shape, slightly widening at the wrists, have velvet ruff& Another is the Cambridge the principal characteristic of which is the sh;ove. This comes, somehow, from the back and is folded in underneath the arm so aa to perfectly protect it from' cold and yet not tO interfere with its movements. This too, has a velvet collar and cuffs and is lined with striped or shot bilk.  A handsome ball dress just finished for the Crown Pt-Moses of Sweden is of salmon-pink silk, oovered with folds of tulle in • mush paler shade, and powderwi over with the witted pink Marabout feathers. In the ruche that edges the skirt are ether Marabout.. The bodice is of pink satin edged round the shoulders with a gsrland of Marabou's. Another of her gowns le for • dinner dress. The front is old-gold satin, covered with three deep flounces of tinted Valenci-nnes. At either tide are wide pleats of Brocade. Velvet poppies in clusters, the stalks tied, asit were, with ribbon, are thrown up on a ground of palest gold, like the tint of overripe corn. The train is of gold-ooloured satin, lined with poppey-red silk, sad draped up one gide with zigzag. so as to show the lining. The &ma might be called the millinery lyric of autumn fields.  A travelling costume mad / by Redfern for a fashionable London bride was in a new shade of dark green vicuna, with a peculiar bronze braid down the centre of the bodice, on each panel of the skirt, and here and there on the drtpery. The cachet of the gown lay in the novel cat of the short habit-bodice, with a loose flowing drapery, Over an almost plain skirt. The jacket to be worn over this travelling costume was of the same color, and was braided in military fashion. The lining was of. shrimp-colored satin, which went 'beautifully with the dark green and bronze. The travelling watimi was of "elephant fishing" cloth, a new thing, smoke-grey in color, which was lined with eleetrio blue. In was made doublebreasted and with abundant fullness at the back so as to combine style with comfort for actual travelling.  A discouraged carpenter, of Macon, Ga., being arraigned in the Recorder's Court, for an attempt at suicide, pleaded that he wanted to die, and as whisky would not kill him he tried laudanum. He said if he was let off he would not try to kill himself any mote. The Recorder said that be would strip the imaginary ro-311/11011 of the drink by bolding him as responsible for being drunk on laudanum as well as if It was whisky. He fined him Mole. for getting drunk on laudanum end trying to cornatit 'WO&  The former *dinar stood pretty smolt as Edward the Confessor left it till the reign of Henry 111, who chewed his love for the Abbey first by adding to it, and then by demolishing it almost entirely, and raising in its pima the building that has been called "the most lovely and lovable thing in Christendom." In this rebuilding St. Peter was almost lost sight of, and the Shi ins and Chapel of Edward the Confessor became, as it were, the central idea of the whom. Very lavishly did King Henry spend his money over the restored abbey • the cost was at least haU a million, se we should reckon it. His work includes the apse and choir, the two transepts, one arch of the nave, and the chapter.house. Under the Edwards the nave unfolded itself farther west, and the Abbot's House and Jerusalem Chamber were built Richard 11. was very fond of the Abbey, and rebuilt, at great expense, the famous North Portal, often spoken of as The Beautiful Gate," or "Solomon'. Porch." By Henry V. the nave was prolonged needy to its present length. It was just completed in time for the grand procession to sweep along it when the re helai was sung for the victory at Agincourt. The architect by whom the work was carried out was Dick Whittington, Lord Mayor of London. The next Important addition to the Abbey took place in the reign of Henry