Year: 1877

"Now 1 lay me down to Sleep


How the words came back again,


With measure that was born


Half of pleasure, half of pain;


kneeling by n cradle bed,


Mlth a hand upon each head,


Rose the old prayer, soft and slow


AS a brooklet in its flow.


All alone, with bended head,


She has nothing but her dead;


Yet, with heart so full of care,


Still her lips repeat the prayer;


Rest at lasti oh, storm-tossed souli


safe beyond the breakers roll:


He, the Lord her soul shall keep,


Now she lays her down 10 sleep.


Church Journal.
No bustles are worn in the street at the
moment.


No fashionable lady wears Gainsborough
or large hat to the theater or opera.


House dresses are made simply this season
of woolen fabrics with piping and pocket of
silk. Ladies wear fewer robes nowadays
and more suit dresses in the house.


The outside seam of tight sleeve is some
times left open for two inches, and in this
opening there is fine killing of silk insert
ed. Sometimes strap is buttoned across the
plating.


All sorts of fans are in favor this winter
black feather fans with paintings, colored
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kinds. Very large fans are again used for
the theater and opera.


The outside of the collar of a wooden COS
tune is wooden, the inside silk, while vel
vet lining is often seen in a silk collar. 1t
is almost impossible to make the bodies
too high in the throat for the present
fashion.


The fashionable shade of hair Just now is
the red gold tint called Titian red, and
bellies are not wanting who dye their locks
this once unpopular color which a caprice of
fashion has brought to the height of public
favor.


The most fashionable morning robe is
trimmed profuSely with stamped velvet, all
the facings revers and pockets being made
entirely of the velvet and edged with silk
pipings of the same shade as the material
from which the robe is constructed.


A very good way of freshenlng up velvet
or velveteen skirt, soiled round the bottom,
is to shorten it and cut it into square tabs,
sewing on Dliss underneath for them to
rest upon. The pliss may be made of silk
or cashmere, matching exactly the color of
the dress.


Turned-down collars have as yet found no
favor The small erect collar-or with cor
ners turned down-are still used in linen,
and the first named is also employedsas for
merly, for the finishing of polonaies and
dress bodies, which are cut very high and
very long.


Small handkerchiefs trimmed with lace,
or silk ones with borders have now quite
taken the place of the lace scarfs, and will
be used with spring mantles on the removal
of furs.


When trimmed with lace they are not
square, but are more than half square, the
upper edge being turned over 10 form a
straight collar which is bordered like the
lower corner with ace-valenciennes duch-
esse, cluny or cashmere.


Fifty strokes at night before retiring is said
to make the driest hair glossy. There are
also good alcoholic washes that cleanse the
scalp without oiling the hair. The Grecian
coil, worn low at the back, with the thickly
set front hair drawn back in long loose
waves, is still favorite coiffure with ladies
who have classically shaped heads Some
times a high shell or ivory comb is put in the
coil. but combs are not as popular as they
have lately been.


The newest way to make bridal dress, we
find, is to cut from white satin skirt that
is of medium length, but having a sweeping
court train attached to the back to trim the
entire front with point lace and orange bios.
sOms the whole placed over "ruches of
Mechlin tulle OF ideal freshness" The bod
ice is cut low, elaborately trimmed with a
drapery of Mechlin tulle and Honiton
point The front is further ornamented
by a plastron of white jet.


The polonaise, the blouse waist and the
straight overskirt will be in vogue again
during the coming spring and summer-the
latter style is especially appropriate for
print and gingham dresses for girls Ladies
who use the winter days and evenings to
make up supplies of underwear for spring
and summer are recommended to try the
French percale, which is light. very soft,
durable, and washes easily. 1t is specially
nice for night dresses. Under linen is now
fashionably trimmed with the new torchon
Smyrna lace. instead of being hand en-
broiderPd, finish which wears as long as
the fabric.


The greatest novelty in neck-wear is found
in a tie of white or black greneadine en-
belished with japanese embroidery of
quaint colors. There are black scarfs also
quantity garnished with red and blue
flowers while white scarfs are wrought with
pretty designs in pale blue, pink and white
Another novelty is the lace necklace, in
tended only to be worn with dinner and
evening dresses of the heaviest and richest
materials 1t is made of duchesse and round
| point lace and consists of a circular band
over an inch wide of lace finished on each
edge like insertion, and passed around the
neck; in front hang pendants of lace in me-
dallion shape, usually from three to five in
number.


1t is said that new linen collars have added
| to their high English bands two pieces in
front as long as "A collarette, and laced to-
gether by white or cardinal lacing strings, OF