Year: 1879

The loye-aleams glowed from his dark eyes so

 bright,

 A thornless rose he held within his hands, And then hss gentle footsteps softly stept--

 felt his fond arm steal about and fold

 My trembling form, as was his wont of old, While close against my heart he steady crept

 A dream it seemed but 'tis a dream no more

 For he, my love, Is with me as of yoro

 Il. C, Riggs, ia Syracuse Sun4ay I'i.ae~

 All About Hair Dressing.

 As high as possible, as low as possi- ble, and very narrow in the back" is still the rule for hair dressing here, what. ever it may be in Paris, where, 1t Is said, the low coil and flat waved bands have superseded all the more elaborate styles, and have made the ladies' heads look as If they had suddenly shrunk, and had been despoiled of half their glory. Ar Eistically considered, the present French fashion of arranging the hair is perfect, but there are few faces which can afford to rest entirely on their own merits, or which do not need to have attention drawn from them by being called to the hair. If n dozen soft finger-puffs make a pretty crown and a mist of golden hair lie on the Forehead, there are many per sons who will scarcely notice that the shape of the head is ignoble, and that the faint eyebrows are drawn above cold and meaningless gray eyes. If heavy braid of dark hair peep beneath the cur tain of the bonnet, and crimps shade the brow, who stoopS to notice that the nose IS of the kind which dog-fancicrs think . fine point in n lap-dog, but which human beings usually dislike in themselves. Ervious women may and do wonder How much of it is her own?n and married men may and do cooly condemn the folly that sacrifices future good looks for the sake of present prettiness but young men admire, with tender faith that is touching, and the very women who make sarcastic comments initiate as far as they can. The crimps and friZzes are not real as a rule, and hence therighteous wrath of the married men is usually wasted, and the cases of most women properly come under the .iuris- diction O. the censor who declares false hair to be immoral. The defence agaInst this is that it deceives nobody, except foolish young persons, and that it is less injurious to pin on an ounce and half of puffs and crimps than it is to braid anG curl and wave one's own trcsscs. In the days when it was fashionable to tie and pin heavy switches to ones head, and to load it down with half a pound of curlcd hair, there was actual danger of badness for those who followed the style, but there is very little now, and it would be possible to lose whole set of modern braids and puffs as unconscious iy as the young woman in the illustrated papers loses her bonnet.

 Curly hair is almost invariably the material of these articles, although the princess braid is straight This is a three-strand braid not too heavy to look natural, ends in three little soft eurls, and may be arranged in an infinity of ways. The braids of curly hair are so made that they can be fastened higher on the head, and droop low at the back of the neck, where they are fastened by a clasp of jet, Rhine crystal or gold or sil- yer. The comb is very often only a comb in appearance; being composed of single row of balls mounted on a hair pin or feather-shaped ornament, head ing one long curved tooth by which if can be thrust in anywhere. and made to have the appearance of doing an infnity of things. These spheres of frosted sil- yer, or engraved gold, of jet or of amber, may lie between putfs, may be half hid den among the turns and knots of mul- tiform, may seem to fasten to the end of princess braid, or simply serve to pro- duce the necessary difference in the ar rangement of the hair on the two sides ofthe head. Clasps of Rhine crystal are sometimes used, and look very well with dark hair, but are not effective with light tresses, unless they be of the kind that call themselves golden, and are red

 The hair is still worn low on the fore head, and is usually parted, although some ladies prefer an unbroken array of frizzes, tlr Gracioza wave, which gives the effect of waved locks, lying straight across the forehead as if combed up from each side, or the everlasting" wave, in which the hair is woven in scallops and remains unchanged by any of the acci dents that play havoc with seallops made from one's own hair. It must bt confessed that these are not very becom ing, but they do not suggest gum arabic orsugar and water so forcibly as do seal lops made from hair actually growth. on the head. The extravangansa curl, a heavy tress curled about half it length, is still worn, and is becoming i well adjusted.

 In hizzes the prettiest is what is called the wave epingle, which is light, has : transparent parting, and ends in small natural-looking curls that do no straighten when wet, but curl all tn tighter. The parting of these waves i woven of white hair, so as to show tn skin of the head perfectly; and tn naughty girl who has worn out her hai with hot slate pencils and hair pins an, elastics, and similar applications, cal cut it or have it shaved off if she chooses fill the space that it once occupied witt the wave epingle, and learn wisdom while her own gr ows. The Frencl dressers earnestly recommend shaving il cases where the roots of the hair are en feebled ;f but it is foolish for a woman t, undertake to do such work for herself especially as the hair-dresser's charge fo it is SO small English girls reckon oc casional hair-cuttings as an invariabl item in their personal expenses, an, possibly the massiveness of their braid may be attributed as much to attention Co this detail as to the moist climate il which they live.

 q, Ladies who wish to be sumptuous il