Year: 1871

FASHIONABLE garters are of blue vel
vet, gold mounted.


WATERPROOF CLOTH is made up now
into entire suits for ladies, which are
very neat, pretty, and useful.


FoULARDs, pongees, poult de sole, and
very light gros grains will be the favor
ite dress materials this spring.


The last instance of modesty is that
of lady who refused to wear a watch
in her bosom because it had hands.


The favorite bonnets are notifications
of the gypsy form; they either match
the toilet exactly or are in straw.


The latest style of neckties for the
ladies are Of gay-colored crepe de chine,
trimmed with valenciennes insertion
and wide edging.


The ladies have adopted the new
fashion of dispensing with the button
and fastening the chemise with blue
ribbon instead.


YELLOW linen and serge dresses are to
be trimmed this season with the yellow
cluny lace, which has very beautiful
effect.


WE are promised a new style in the
of ladies' hair this spring
something in the Grecian order.


WHITE velvet and corduroy jackets
will be the favorite wear Of New York
bellies for riding, this season.


OPAL and cameo shades are the favor
lte tints for evening dresses.


MAIDENs must be mild and meek,


Swift to hear, and slow to speak.


IT is most desirable that women
should marry. Yet many women live
single all their days, enjoy life, and do
a deal'of good in the world.


SOME one advises young ladies to be-
ware of marrying man, the initial of
whose name is the same as their own,
since there is an old saying which tells
us that


= To change the name and not the letter
Is to change for the worse and not for the BETTER.


VERY few of the lady promenaders of
the day take DR.. Dio Lewis advice to
carry their arms down by their sides.
They prefer to carry them in front and
in a manner similar to chickens foot
on rOOst.


The Lorne Gipsy'' is a round hat,
the latest style for young ladies, and is
made of straw trimmed with blue,
silk OF peculiar texture, and very APP
for the adornment of chapeaur.


LADIES are carrying parasols with
long, heavy handles and long points
using them as walking sticks, and, as
lady has about as much idea of using a
cane as man has of fan, it is ex-
tremely ludicrous to behold the opera
ton.


GIRLS always love those boys best who
are the kindest, best natured, most con-
siderate and manlike" in their beha-
vior; and who are not coarse, profane,
and loaferish in their talk. The boys
who are by their school or playmates
loved the most, make the best men.


A FASHIONABLE young lady of rather
figure, while in the hands of
her dressmakers, became alarmed at
the spaciousness apportioned to her
bodice, and declared that she could
never wear it, and the silk had been
wrongly cut. " Pardon me, mademoi-
selle,' said the mod;ste, "the design is
quite correct; the fitting is exactly as it
should be. [ have made your dress,
and now must bring you up to it ~


A Sister of Charity.


DR.. Hall, of the Journal Of Health, re-
lates the following:


On a bleak winters night a mere
scrawl was handed in at the door, with
a name known to fame death was inn
minent. The patient was in a kind of
clubhouse, back from the street A soll-
tary woman attended the unfortunate
sufferer, silent. busy, anticipating every
want, translating every gesture almost
before it was made. In the early morn
ing, at noon, and in the hours of dark
ness, she was always there, prompt,
noiseless, vigilant, self-possessed. Day
after day it was the same thing, and
with all this there was such q benignity
in the whole demeanor that | wanted
to know her name and her relation to
the patient, who had been abandoned
by the dearest ties of humanity, and
whose mental state was evidently as
great torture as that of the body. The
tumultuous heavings of the mind and
conscience were in sad unison with the
ceaseless tossings of the emaciated
frame, and the vain efforts of the rest
less, fearless eye to close itself in sleep.
=" shall die if don't Sleep" was the
constant, piteous exclamation Lover
and friend and daughter even kept
sternly aloof from that miserable bed
side. She had heard of the hapless and
abandoned sufferer, and for humanity's
sake supplied every want from her own
purse, and continued so to do for weeks
and weary months, until death brought
relief from the fearful combination of
human sufferings. To do so much, and
for so long time to administer tire
less personal attentions and unstinted
pecuniary aid to one so abandoned,
without the hope or possibility of re-
ward, was the work of that angel OF
goodness, who had written SO much and
so sweetly, in prose and verse-Alice
Cary.


A BOOK about kingfshers has just
been completed by Mr.. Sharpe, the IL
brarian of the Geological Society of
London. 1t gives an account of every
known species of these curious birds,
which are remarkable for being exceed
ingly isolated, having no near allies
whatever. Although found in every
country, it is somewhat singular that
they are least plentiful in South Ameri-
ca, that region of the earth which most
abounds in rivers and fish.