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THE OLD FIRE-PLACE.
An Eccentric Old Man'* Lament.
BY BARMEN AS MIX.
Beside my fire-place, bent with years,
1 now recall the loved “Bang Syne,”
And sometimes through my blinding tears
The flames like dancing spectres shine.
The old-time circle meets no more,—
Poor Betsy’s in the orchard lying;
She was the prop of Dnnley's store,—
Poor wife! she always would be buying,
How much of joy has come to me
While Bitting here on nights of yore—
My youngest toddler on my knee,
The others playing on the floor.
How brightly burned the logs of gum—
Those mammoth “butts" on which we doted:
By jings! it makes my back ache some,
Even now, to think of all I’ve “ toted.”
All gone,—the old man's left alone.
To make the best of vanished joys;
No more around the old hearth-stone
Will meet my darling girls and boys.
I’d like to see them ere I go;—
Poor Bob—I want to ask his pardon
For warming up his jacket so
Once when he “sassed” me in the garden.
There stands the cradle, old and gray.
In which we rocked our children all,—
See, while the flames in beauty play,
Its shadows darn ing on the wall!
The precious freight it used to hold,
In other times, have danced as sweetly;
Why, Jane, when she was six years old,
Could beat the ballet folks completely.
I haven’t heard from Joe for years;
I have his last dear letter yet;
It’s soiled by time and—yes, by tears,
For Joe was once his father’s pet.
Here, hours and hours he’s sat and played
His precious fiddle—lazy fellow!
He hugged the fire so much, he made
His new jeans breeches very yellow.
The old fire-place is crumbling fast;
The “dogs ’’ are broken, and the hearth
Is now a wreck whereon is cast
A record of the jars of earth.
And there’s the poker—broken; dear ones
Have pressed i t—all I cherish so.
Betsy once pressed the wrong end—guns!
How quick the poor soul let it go!
My fire burns low. The old deck's hands
Have paused to pass the time of night
At twelve. I cover well the brands,
And in my room the stars' wan light
Itevcals the mantle black. In gloom
I view it through my closing lashes,—
It seems to me a ghostly tomb
Above the dead fire’s peaceful ashes.
demagogue which are so potential in swaying
the masses, and because of a conscious unfitness,
by reason of a characteristic conservatism and
moderation, for success in the partisan's role of
narrow prejudice, Mr. Hill consented to be
sent to the Legislature in 1851, as a Union man,
with the distinct understanding that his purpose
in accepting this service was to aid in commit- held after the war, and there sounded the key-
ting Georgia irrevocably to the compromise of note of resistance to the reconstruction measures
1850 as a final adjustment of the slavery ques- as intended to degrade the/victims of the wrongs
tion. they inflicted no less than they dishonored their
In his ante helium record, the conspicuous fea- authors. He counseled the people of Georgia
tures are an ardent nationalism aud Unionism, to refuse to be a consenting party to the shame
and a sagacious opposition to agitation of the which he contended was imposed upon them by
slavery question as leading to a war of the sec- the reconstruction scheme of the Federal Con-
tions, in which the South would inevitably lose gress. At this period, Mr. Hill's power as an
the battle, and republican institutions be thereby orator was transcendently displayed. He was
seriously menaced in America. His speeches in the incarnation of eloquent zeal in opposition to
the decade from 1851 to 1861 are replete with the wrongs he believed to be meditated against
prophetic declarations, and as we read them now his people and against Anglo-Saxon civilization,
sound as though they had been dictated by the Under the influence of his magnificent appeals,
voice of Fate. His pleas for the preservation of his burning invective and his dauntless courage,
the Union moved the nation, and though in the the white people of Georgia became suddenly
which would be necessary to give a just state- less by the fickle favor of the multitude. Rich ■ butes of statesmanship — originality, sagacity,
ment of his public services during the past eight in the elements of greatness that have given to self-reliance, and discretion. Of that compre-
Outside of the State, especially at Wash- mankind its benefactors, Mr. Hill is indeed poor hensive and non-partisan breadth of view and
action which befits the statesman, and which
tells the people “unpalatable truths: reasons
with them on the calamities to which their chil
dren may be subjected; ridicules their whims,
denounces their vices, passions and prejudices;
implores the well-meaning but misguided masses
to shake off stupor and rise to the dignity of an
exalted destiny,” Hill is a shining example. He
can never be of those who dwell in
ington, he is understood to be more directly re- in the arts that have for a score of years been the
sponsible for the present political status of avenues to political success in America. His
Georgia than any other of her leaders. He pre- sterling honesty and blunt truthfulness, and high
sided over the first Democratic State Convention courage, not less than his massive intellect, give
0UK PORTRAIT GALLERY.
DISTINGUISHED GEORGIANS.
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
HOIST. B. H. HILL
him a noble disdain of fawning upon the masses
and catching up the street cry of popular preju
dice, and will impel him at any time, without re
gard to his personal interests, to defend the Ther-
mopylse of what he believes to be Truth
against a host of assailants. Under any circum
stances, Mr. Hill must ever remain a colossal
figure in the history of the last two decades of
Georgia; to the minds of those who have differed
with him. a distinct and formidable power, and
to his friends, the symbol of the shaping brain
and guiding hand that rescued Georgia from the
ruin menaced by war and reconstruction. Office
is not necessary to render such a man great in
the eyes of his countrymen. Pitt, out of office,
was hailed with acclamations by a grateful peo
ple who refused to notice George the Third; the
absence of Cato’s statue only reminded the peo
ple of the surpassing greatness of the absent pa
triot.
Mr. Hill belongs to a class of public men for
whose eminent exemplars we have to look back
at least a quarter of a century in American poli
tics. and of whom there have been few save Peel
and Gladstone among the publicists of England
of the present century. Knowing little of the
mere tactics of party, nor conversant with the
duties of the drill-master, and courting no in
fluence with the “chiefs of fifties and captains
of tens,” they are yet the brain and the heart of
the great popular impulses that make history in
its most dignified sense. Gladstone does not
owe his massive fame to his long tenure of office,
to the splendor of his oratory, to the depth and
extent of his erudition, nor to his knowledge of
the maneuvres of parties. His supreme work
has been that of the author of a great party,
which, though in temporary eclipse, is the ma
terialization of the British constitution, the ex
pression of the genius of Great Britain —a party
that has saved England equally from License
and Prerogative, and exhibits her to-day as a
“ Tower of order
’Twixt the Red-cap and the Throne.”
BY FRANK H. ALFRIEND.
In the lives of men who have made a decided
and visible impress upon their time, the phase
of interest is the logic of their public careers
more than the detailed incidents of personal his
tory; the raison d'etre of their fame rather than
the consecutive narration of the dates and thea
tres of the separate successes whose aggregate
has given their authors to history. “Great men
are those who have felt much, lived much,” is a
sufficient definition of greatness, and to the
attainment of this standard neither longevity
nor length of official service has always been
either essential or auxiliary. Striking person
ality in public men is the key to that high and
enduring fame that separates really great men
from the average public celebrities of their age.
Chatham and Mansfield, Pitt and Fox, Brougham
and Canning, Gladstone and Disraeli, Palmers
ton and Derby, Clay and Jackson, Jefferson and
Hamilton, Stephen A. Douglas and Jefferson
Davis—these and similar men have been the
heirs of that impressive individuality that makes
the real leader. Such men are to be followed or
fought—to be cordially loved and implicitly re
lied upon, or heartily hated, as general political
sympathies and affiliations may lead us. It is
upon such promontories of genius and character
that the light of history breaks as the sunlight
falls first upon the loftiest peaks of the range,
for these are the monumental men whose lives
epitomize their time.
In the life of Mr. Hill there is much to exeite
the Lues Boswelliana, that disease of biographers
that provokes to unmeasured panegyric and at
times to the record of the most trivial details of
daily life. His interesting boyhood, full of
bright promise and ambitious effort; his triumphs
at college; his innumerable successes at the bar
and on the hustings; his brilliant party leader
ship before and since the war; his dramatic ca
reer in the Confederate Senate—all these offer
the opulent field of a narrative replete with the
incidents that are the elements of entertaining,
personal biography. AVe give in this limited
sketch merely the salient incidents of a life
which, at its meridian, has been crowded with
events of singular dramatic interest, and which,
though its public phase is hardly a score of years
old, illuminates the philosophy of half a century
of American history.
Benjamin Harvey Hill was born in Jasper
county, Georgia. September 14. 1823. His father
removed to Troup county in 1833. and it was in
the latter county that his boyhood and voting
manhood were passed. During his preparation
for college under the instruction of a graduate of
Yale, he gave such marked manifestations of su
perior talent that his instructor endeavored to
persuade him to make Yale his Alma Mater: but the
youth, with that love of Georgia which has been
the key and solution of his public career, elected
to be educated at the University of his native
State. He entered the sophomore class in 1841,
graduating three years later, after an academic
career of unexampled distinction, during which
he earned every honor that the University or
the Demosthenian Society could confer, and at
his graduation taking the first honors undivided.
After a course of legal study under that eminent
lawyer and counsellor,William Dougherty. Esq.,
Mr.' Hill began the practice of law at LaGrange
in August, 1845. In November, 1845, he was
married. Mr. Hill's practice from the begin
ning of his career was large and lucrative, and
while yet young in his profession he achieved
many brilliant triumphs which are conspicuous
in the annals of the bench and bar of Georgia,
i Disposed to avoid political service, equally
ibecause of his contempt for the low arts ot the
To-day Hill is signalized as the foremost Geor
gian of his time, because in his life there is a
noble philosophy—a splendid unity of plan and
of character, which numerous passages of rare
splendor do not cause us to forget for even a
moment—a consecration to duty and a perfect
freedom from the practice of those expedients to
success that so often seduce and degrade genius.
His brilliant intellectual triumphs achieved on
every field of endeavor; the popular ovations
that now attend his appearance in public, and
that in other days have made his progress through
Georgia like the triumph of a eonqheror of an-
tiqu’ty; the trophies of his eloquence in the legal
forum; the proofs of his sagacity as a states
man; his chivaliic courage,—all these Georgia
holds, as but the brilliant setting —the lavish
ornamentation of a life which is a brilliant epi
tome of a glorious epoch of her history, a rec
ord of her own high manhood, and a vindi
cation of her claim to share the noblest achieve
ments of American genius and patriotism.
In estimating the sources of Mr. Hill’s power
and the characteristics of his stisngth, we are
embarrassed with the fertility of the theme.
[ Since the days of Sergeant Prentiss, no popular
lawyer and orator has been the author of so
hot temper of the hour which called from the massed in a Macedonian phalanx, seemingly ma ?y triumphs of oratory as this great tribune
public man the highest display of virtue, the ready to again defy the monster that had but ; ? nd advocate ot Georgia. Nearly every court-
courage of his opinions, his national views did recently subdued them. When reconstruction i 1 ?'} se ln the State has its associations connected
not meet with popular endorsement,— he had had become law, despite the protest of the peo- some client saved from a_ desperate danger,
become in the eye of the, country the symbol of pie, and by reason of their helplessness, or to
Southern Unionism, and the name of “Ben Hill, use his own epigrammatic phrase when “suc-
of Georgia,” was as familiar as any in the land. cessful usurpation had become law,” Mr. Hill
Refusing a re-election to the Legislature, be- ; counseled submission to the laws and the adop-
eause by the splendid Union triumph in 1851 he I tion of a policy that would relieve the situation
hoped the slavery question was finally settled, of as much of its evil as would be prevented by , ,, , .. -.
he also declined a nomination to Congress in the people of Georgia having possession of their ! ^. e ] ,00 ]p than of the logical deductions of a
1853. The repeal of the Missouri Compromise local and State government. His “Notes upon ; mm< l of prodigious grasp, and an unequaled
bv the legislation of 1854 he believed to be an the Situation,” published in 1867-68, will live in ! capacity tor appropriating the .ruits of the mves-
act of bad faith—a disturbance of the Compro- American political literature as among the ablest “gallons ot others. He has the credit, indeed,
mise of 1850—a re-opening of the slavery ques- and most valuable of contemporary expositions. . having established more original proposi
tion fraught with peril to the institutions and lib- In 1872, Mr. Hill warmly espoused the Greeley I tlons - t d v educ 1 ed . from - logl ° of ‘l 16 law ? than
erties of the South, and again Mr. Hill entered movement as providing a healthful liberalization !in - y ° . er “lwyer in Georgia. A most rare
politics in the service of Georgia and the Union, of the politics of the country and promising an i P°' v ? r r p er V l 8 elllT J 8 ^ r ’ “^l,
- - - - —i—• . , ,•. ■ - ° is his dexterity with the courts not less than
with juries. It was said of Erskine, that he
“had invented a machine by the secret use of
which, in court, he could make the head of a
judge nod assent to. his propositions; whereas
his rivals, who tried to pirate it, always made
the same head move from side to side.” Lord
Brougham said of him: “Juries have declared
that they felt it impossible to remove their looks
from him when he had riveted and, as it were,
fascinated, them by his first glance; and it used
to be a common remark of men who observed
his motions, that they resembled those of a race
horse—as light, as limber, as much betokening
strength and speed, as free from all gross super
fluity or encumbrance.” Hundreds of anecdotes
accord to Mr. Hill gifts no less miraculous than
those of the great English barrister.
In Mr. Hill’s popular addresses, there is a sin
gular dignity, breadth, directness and simplic
ity. They lack only the classical mellowness
and rhetorical wealth of Mr. Webster’s speeches
to make them quite the equal of Mr. Webster’s
best oratorical productions. His public addresses
combine, in a remarkable way, the analytical and
synthetical methods of discussion; and hence,
while he wants the elasticity and agility of cer
tain schools of oratory, as realized by their most
“Party's poud, wherein
Lizard, toad, aud terrapin—
Your ale-house patriots—are seen
In Faction’s feverish sunshine basking.”
It is in his character as a patriot—as a Geor
gian —that the fame of Mr. Hill will expand and
brighten as his career develops and his life is
studied. Grand as is his intellectual stature,
great as a lawyer and orator, and distinguished
as a statesman; and though her history shall be
lustrous with the story of his prowess, Georgia,
most of all. will crown him with the laurel that
the Romans awarded to eminence in patriot
ism. As the Georgian of the future contem
plates the effigies in the Pantheon of his native
State, his eye will fall upon one towering figure,
which, while it reminds him of the gloomy days
of civil strife, when Georgia bled in a fruitless
struggle for community freedom, and of the
darker days of menaced degradation that fol
lowed, will yet, like the stately monument of
Chatham in Westminster Abbey, “with eagle face
and outstretched arm,” seem to bid Georgia “be
of good cheer, and to hurl defiance at her foes.”
or some doughty political knight-errant “floored”
by the capitaviting eloquence and the gladiato
rial prowess of “Ben Hill.” Like the great Eng
lish lawyer, Erskine, whom in his professional
character Mr. Hill greatly resembles, his legal
learning is less the result of original study of
believing the safety of the one to be best secured early pacification by an abandonment of the po-
by the maintenance of the other. “Take care, litical issues which were the legacy of the war.
my fellow-citizens,” said he upon a memorable The present attitude of Mr. Hill with reference
occasion, referring to the repeal of the Missouri to public questions is one of catholicity and
Compromise, “that in endeavoring to carry conservatism entirely consistent with his ante-
slavery where Nature's laws prohibit its en- cedents. Always a national man until secession
trance, and where your solemn faith is plighted made it necessary for him to choose between
that it shall not go, you do not lose the right to his own people and those who menaced their
, hold slaves at all. ” rights, his restoration to public life would sig-
Declining a nomination by the Know-Noth- nify the acquisition of a powerful brain and an
ings, whose ritual, especially its religious test, eloquent tongue to the ranks of those who are
he condemned, he announced himself in 1855 striving to save constitutional liberty and to
an independent candidate for Congress upon give to the whole land and all its people real
the platform of opposition to agitation of the freedom and genuine peace,
slavery question and maintenance of the Union. ; Whatever the issue of the present popular de-
After a brilliant canvass, which made his name mand, seconded by an unprecedented unanimity
a household word throughout Georgia and the of appeal from the Southern press, that Mr. Hill
Union, he was defeated by sixty-eight votes in a be given the service of the nation, there is sig-
district usually giving two thousand Democratic nificance in the spontaneity of the demonstra-
majority. In 1856, Mr. Hill canvassed the State tion and encouragement of a reviving public
as a Fillmore elector, meeting the most distin- spirit. Whether Mr. Hill and men of similar
guished Democratic orators and winning new representative genius and character shall in the
laurels by his uniform oratorical triumphs. His early future fill high official positions, involves
j text everywhere was, “The Northern extremist less of interest to themselves than of pertinence
| who would have the Union at the expense of the i in the question of the extent to which popular
Constitution and the Southern extremist who sensibility and appreciation have recovered from
would save the Constitution by destroying the the demoralization consequent upon the change
• Union, are to be equally condemned. Let us and turbulence of our recent past. There is no ,
have both, my countrymen—the Constitution better barometer of the public morals of an epoch I noted exemplars, he yet presents a massive ag
in violate and the Union as its surest defense.” than its treatment of men of eminent ability and ! gregation of the varied machinery of eloquence,
In 1857, Mr. Hill, despite his protest, was merit. Socrates condemned to the hemlock, : that makes him in Georgia what Chatham was in
| nominated as a candidate for Governor, and Miltiades languishing in a prison, Aristides ban- England—more dreaded by his adversaries than
again canvassed the State, although aware of the ished, were eminent patriots of antiquity whose
impossibility of overcoming the large and well- * ’
organized Democratic majority.
In 1859 he again consented to go to the Legis
any orator of his day. Among contemporary
orators, Mr. Hill lacks the Mirabeau-like fervor
and fire of Toombs; the skilled dialectics of
severe virtues fatigued a depraved populace,
and modern history responds in numerous apt
illustrations of the injustice and unreason of Stephens; the epic and dramatic power of
popular caprice. In high-strung moments, the ' Henry A. Wise; the “orderly but not,ornate”
oratory of Jefferson Davis; the haut-boy sweet
ness of voice and rhetorical fence of the late
William L. Yancey, and the spirit of historical
lature, making the declaration that he wished to
be in that body to meet the issue of Secession, masses are prone to honor eminent intellect and
which he believed would inevitably arise in the conspicuous public virtue, while in seasons of
event of the election of a Republican President, relaxed sensibility and suspended popular intel-
an event he declared to be more than probable, ligence, there is no Clodius, nor Cleon, nor
Again as State elector he canvassed the State for Wilkes, nor Logan, nor Butler—-a too-ready
Bell and Everett, in 1860, upon the platform de- prostitute for the indulgence of the vulgar and
dared by the convention that nominated them,— brutal passions of the hour. And in this con-
“ The Union, the Constitution, and the enforce- nection we are not confined to the extremes of
meni of the laws.” public feeling—to either a sodden coarseness or
Mr. Hill was a member of the convention that a flippant levity and unconcern of the masses on - - - -. . .
adopted the Ordinance of Secession—a measure the one hand, or to the instances of high and : rival, Fox. He has the intrinsic strength of
which he opposed until the moment of its pas- noble popular impulse, such as frequentlv occur Eitt and the agility in debate of Fox. He is a
sage. When Georgia had left the Union. Mr. in the history of all representatitve governments. : gladiator in debate, and in this capacity would
Hill immediately became the champion of unity In the less pronounced stages of national devel- gi y e the South. in Congress, a chai^pion with
among her people, leading the thousands who opment are ample exemplifications; in seasons
had followed him in all his political contests to of moderate virtue and intelligence, the philos-
the earnest support of their native State in the ophy of the time is to be read in the men who
perilous course upon which she had embarked, are the recipients of public honors. Gladstone,
Elected to the Provisional Confederate Congress, in retirement after a voluntary abdication of the
and philosophical inquiry of R. M. T. Hunter.
Of recent orators, the writer recalls none so
much resembling Mr. Hill, in style and method
of treatment of a subject, as the late John B.
Baldwin and the late John M. Botts, both of
Virginia. Among English orators, Mr. Hill finds
his prototype in the younger Pitt and his great
all the esprit of Percy and the might in battle of
Coeur de Lion.
Like all great orators, Mr. Hill is easy and en
tertaining in conversation. As was said of Can-
„ „ ning, so it may be said of Mr. Hill,—he is “too
Mr. Hill was subsequently chosen under flatter- leadership of a great party—a' judicious leader- busy not to treat society as more fitted for relax
ing circumstances to the Confederate Senate. A ship that has lifted England from many a rut of atio'n than display. He is neither disputatious,
proud passage in his life and in the history of feudalism without disturbance of her conserva- declamatory, nor sententious—neither a dictator
Georgia is Hill's record as a Confederate Sena- tive balances—merely proves that England for nor a jester.”
tor. Georgia knows the story of the patriotic the time-being prefers the subtle graces of Dis- Mr. Hill has all the more prominent physical
ardor with which, forgetting old party associa- raeli to the sturdy Saxon political virtues and requirements of oratory. His person is tall and
tions and political antecedents, he became the the antique, unaccommodating, statesmanship of commanding—his frame, like his head, being
right arm of the Confederate civic leader, and Gladstone. When the American people -shall large and shapely. His eye is of the “orato-
tlie devotion which so often won for him the renew their allegiance to the constitutional tenets rical gray,” and when he is speaking, is full of
measured eulogy of its first and incomparable and traditions of the statesmen that made Amer- fire. Among his most valuable physical attri-
military detender. The fervid encomiums of ica for three-quarters of a century illustrious ! butes, is a voice of wonderfull compass and
Davis and the tranquil confidence of Lee are the among the nations, the first expression of this clearness. As Macaulay said of Lord Chatham’s
sum of all praise that a devoted Confederate restored public spirit will be an enlightened voice, Mr. Hill s voice is one, “when strained to
should desire, and these Hill has had in abund- discrimination in the selection of public ser- . its full extent.” to rise “like the swell of the
anee. vants. ! organ of a great cathedral,” to shake “the house
The barest outline of Georgia history since the In the entire range of contemporarv political with its peal and be heard through lobbies and
termination of the war gives the statement of what biography, there can be found no public man downstair-cases.”
is perhaps the most illustrious portion of Mr. with a personality to be affected less by political As a statesman, Mr. Hill lacks only the train-
Hill's life. It hardly becomes the purpose of the promotion, or its absence, than Benjamin H. ing of executive experience. He has given evi-
present paper to narrate those details of politics Hill, and with an assured fame, to be disturbed dence of possession of many of the highest attri-
[For The Sunny South.]
FASHIONS FOR SPRING-.
BY MARY E. BRYAN.
Spring has been backward and so have mo
distes and fashion importers. It is at last deci
ded what styles, fabrics and colors are to be
worn.
PLAIDS A SPECIALTY.
In the first place, plaids are the specialty of
the season. But they are not worn alone; they
are invariably made up with some fabric of plain
ground. Thus, the plaids are usually in bright
colors,—scarlet, blue, violet, interwoven with
black, drab or ecru, while the plain, ground
fabric is in some of the neutral tints or the new
delicate shades.
FABRICS.
Drapery being the predominant idea in female
attire at present, all fashionable fabrics are
adapted accordingly, and are of soft, limp, cling
ing qualities, so as to drape gracefully. Striped
and plaided varieties of a tine, soft goods called
limousine, India chuda cloth, thibesienne (a hand
some silk and wool fabric), biege, the cliambery
gauzes and the soft Mexican tissues—all these
will be worn in stripes and plaids as well as in
the neutral tints.
NEW COLORS.
Black of course keeps its place as the ordinary
street dress, and black grenadine and tissue will
be as much worn as ever. Gray and ecru will
continue to be favorite colors for street wear, en-
lived by combination with livelier tints in plaids
and stripes.
A favorite color for dinner wear is papier or
paper color—a shade of yellowish brown. Straw
or lemon color, pale rose, a clear blue called ceil,
argent, a delicate silver gray, and the different
shades of pearl—these are used for dinner and
evening dresses, brightened by being made up
in combination with some richer and livelier
colors.
NEW STYLES FOR STREET DRESSES.
Walking dresses are still made with skirts to
clear the ground. The front breadth is gored
so as to be perfectly plain and the fullness all
drawn to the back breadths. The basque bodice
is generally worn finished by bretelles. The over
skirt is the bias tablier pointed or rounded in
the front and draped in the back with a sash of
the same. Many dresses are merely trimmed in
a way to represent the overskirt which is omitted.
Home dresses are trimmed on the front breadths
while the train is worn plain. A perfectly new
waist is called the pololviise basque, and has a
double set of side forms in the back, the inner
sets being extended to deep sash ends or wide
breadths that are looped up in the usual man
ner or made to form a large, drooping bow.
TRIMMING.
Shirred flouncing and knife pleating is still
the favorite trimming. Shirrings from top to
bottom is very much used upon skirts and often
the shirring is finished by fringe or passamen-
terie. Lengthwise shirring is also used on the
coat sleeve, which is still worn finished by a
cuff. Standing collars are still put around the
necks of most dresses.
HATS AND BONNETS
Of French chip, English and American straw
braids, have made -their appearance. The bon
nets are worn with larger crowns and well-defined
brims, wider in front than in the back. This
shape favors a good deal of inside trimming, and
accordingly we see a plentiful dressing of flowers
and loose bows and loops of soft, twilled ribbon.
Scarfs are very fashionable for hat trimming.
They are usually of bright-colored plaid silk
twilled. Clusters of field poppies, bunches of
cherries, red currants and strawberries are used
in decorating hats, for cardinal red is the favor
ite color for trimming all head-wear this season.
The shapes of hats are innumerable, but the
English walking hat is still considered most
lady-like for traveling, morning shopping and
general utility purposes.
SCARFS AND MANTLES.
Wraps of silk trimmed in jet and lace are worn
for the present. The lace fichu bids fair to be
generally approved. Scarfs of tissue and grena
dine in plaids and checks and lace scarfs fin
ished with jet will be worn as the season ad
vances.
GLOVES AND SHOES.
As a general rule, gloves should correspond
with the tints of the dress where a colored dress
is worn, only they should be a shade lighter.
All the delicate wood tints and neutral shades
are seen in gloves that are worn for church and
street. For evening wear, gloves have from four
to twelve buttons, and instead of being white,
are most delicately and exquisitely tinted in the
pale or neutral colors.
Shoes are worn more round at the toes and
with low, square heels. The Polish buttoned
boot and Congress gaiter are worn on the street;
but for in-door wear or evening toilet, greater
license is given, and rich and fancifully-shaped
slippers, sandals and lozenged boots are worn
“in order to display the handsome, fancy-col
ored silk hose that is now so popular. ”
• Self-Reliance.—Young men, don’t rely upon
upon the good name of your ancestors. Thou
sands have spent the prime of life in vain hopes
of aid from those they call friends, and thou
sands have starved because they had a rich
father. Rely upon the good name which is
made by your own exertions, and know that the
best friend you have is an unconquerable de
termination united to decision of character.
Never reproach a child with the misdeeds of
its parents, no matter how deserving they may
be of your censure. It is the very refinement of
cruelty, and in the heart of the child there will
spring up hatred for you which will nevi
eradicated.