Year: 1874

open and pick up all the soiled handkerchiefs which
you may find lying round loose especially if there
be knots In them, for To- they may contain diamond
rings withinp


And in my own heart resolved to pick up no
plain gold rings in the future. For once on time
did pick up one, to nv sorrow-as all who know
the present Mrs. Paul will bear me mournful
witness


1t seemed impossible that could not find the
owner of those rings but it was difficult thing to
do i inquired all round, and no one had lost any
rings or knew of any one else that had. So in the
innocence of my heart confded the secret of my
find to Mr.. Breslin. He was kind enough to examine
them and take mental memorandum of the number
and size of the stones and the inscriptions inside,
and in few minutes returned to say that he had
found the fair owner. he went on to describe them
50 accurately that gave them out Of my possession
without thought or q suspicion. But now am
haunted by the belief that he will be wearing them
himself to metropolitan balls this Winter For he is
still wearing on his feet the shoes which lost at
Congress Hall when he was at the head of the
Found-and-Lost Department, some five years ago.


There some very fine dressing at the ball last
evening. One old gentleman had his hair futed.
and finer effect, let say. is seldom produced at
less expense A1ady attracted considerable atten-
ton by having her dress cut down in the back with
l1befaiity which astonished me and delighted the
backbiters on the back piazza. Twas not the POM
padour style exactly. rather more on the Barndour
order of architecture / should say and nothing
could be in better taste if ladys back were bou-
levard-but if not. not. My daughter wore an ele-
CANT lace dress. cut bias. and gored In one or
two places by a COW which got at the clothes-hnes
in June. She had q sash gracefully wound round
her body in several different directions. sash in
which all the coors of the rainbow were beautifully
blended and the effect in combination with her blue
boots was very fine indeed. wore claw-bammer
coat one tail of which had been eaten Oft by the
moths but as | always had feeling OF being Whit
tied down when put it on, it did not matter much
TO me- besides it cooler the way the moths hxed
it. Ny cravat was white. my gloves were delicate
lavender-and had only been worn to few
Arcadian Club receptions before. My pantaloons
were black my shoes were black, and my vest,
inside of which l wore seven glasses OF Congress
water. was black. My eyes, also, were black
through sparrng with the electric belknobs Of the
Grand Union Hotel, not one Of which is In working
orderi And my face also was black with shouting
ior chambermalds to fill the pitchers and yelling
down the speaking g-tube, at the other end OF the hail.
in vain endeavOrs to get a pitcher OF lce-water
brought to the room occasionally. So, black being
the only wear, it is not strange that take somDer
view of things in this letter. JOHN PAUL


PS | must say complimentary word for the
tall young organist Willis c. Shelton, who delights
audiences in the Grand Union ballroom this Sum-
mer | know very little about music myself, but
circulate in the best informed circles, and am
acquainted with one old gentleman in particular OF
very cultivated musical TASTE who never brings his
gold-headed cane down my toes In a spasm OF
enthusiasm unless he is specially pleased, and the
performauce is worth what the tickets cost.