Year: 1874

There has lately been current in the city rumor
40 improbable and yet so delightful that most men
fear to investigate it lest it may vanish in the pro-
cess. 1t is asserted perhaps in quarters too SAN
guine to be trustworthy, that ladies are seriously
thinking of wearing dresses which they can walk in
For the last year The promenade has been torture
to any woman who respects herself q little. Her
dress drags all the way around and the train
thereof follows her for foot or so. She must either
make it loathsome by dragging it through the filth
OF she must hold it up with both hands. LII she
attempts this delicate and fatigung office with one
tired nature asserts itself, and somewhere or
other a fold of the idiohc garment drops into the
mud 1t is generally known that the female human
has but two hands, and if both of these are filled
with superfluous ralment, the management Of the
paraso the portemonnaie the half dozen bundles OF
dry goods and pound of confectionery, without
which street costume is incomplete, becomes a
matter of some difficulty. The unassisted male IN
tellect way out of this trouble except the
shortening of the peccant skirts. But we do not
envy the fate of the rash man who should suggest
it. He will be told he has taste, no perception
Of STYLE no regard for the pure intutions of woman
If he shall say that few years ago women wore
lovely short dresses and looked like angels in them,
he will be met with the crushing reply that "a few
years ago. is not to-day. None Of these severe
votares of Fashion, however, seem to see that they
ere evading her DEGREES in holding up their dresses
The mllliners compel them to these long robes,
so that they may get muddy and wear out sooner,
and it is doyal to try to them from this fate
But what avails preachingi The only thing that
can curtal the street robe is Movement, Conven-
ton with orations and poems, with chairmen and
presidents, and impassionate orators from Bos,
ton and Brooklyn to fire the advanced heart, and
CaDltal


People who do not read the advertisements Of
Quack or more politely speaking, Proprietary Medi-
cines, miss great deal that is grand, gloomy, and
peculiar especially in the letters and "fdavies"
which are appended thereto. 10 is astonishing to
consider how much some people suffer, and what
quantities Of the wrong things they take before
they hit upon the right one. Thus an old gentleman
in Western Virginia writes that March !, 1885, he
was kicked by his horse the left side, ION con-
structiyeness" For nine days he forgot everything,
and then he took $50 journey in quest of health.
Since that time he has been doctoring himself mis-
cellaneously Sometimes he is hght-headed All
the time he has a sound in his left ear. He has
not felt alike two mornings for he cannot tell when"
Wherefore he has determined to try the celebrated
Carbonic Bitters. He states important fact in
a p. s. that he has had pimple on his left brow
for OF days." and desires the prayers of all good
people," In the fourth year after he was hurt "his
hair all come out" for which.he used nostrums."
Also his memory is very poor" and he "cannot
tell where his muscles will be sore next" Poor old
gentleman May health attend his use Of the Car
bonic Blttersl


What life-like picture Of the Refined Mr.. Moul-
ton unconsciously presents in the letter from Mrs
Morse embodied in his new Statement. Mrs. Tilton
tells her mother that IT did not take any meals at
home from the fact that she could not get such food
as he liked to nourish his BRAIN and he took his
meals at Moulton's" We should have supposed, in-
deed, that the brains of those two gentlemen were
nourished on the same food.


The Ne,c- York School Journal and Educa-
6o~aI Se,es has absorbed TAe College Revier and Mr.
wm Stone becomes tho conductor of the consolidated
periodical Both Of the contracting journals had posi-
two merits Of their own. which Will doubtless DO
creased In thn new oopartnersbtp The salutatory
numbers are full OF interesting mattor and the typo
graphical appearance Of the pspcr extremely ucatRnd
atiKaotiyr.