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JOHN H. SEALS, - Editor and Proprietor
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ATLANTA, GEORGIA, SEPT. 14, 1878.
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The Strength ot the Women.—We
once heard an eccentric preacher propose to
prove by Scriptnre that one woman was stronger
than five yoke of oxen. His argument, we ap
prehend, would have rested as entirely on one
expression as that of the Reverent Son of Ham
who proposes to upset the Gopernican System.
But laying all jest aside, the endurinq strength
of fashionable women is marvelous. Just think
of one having her whole ehest tightly compressed
in bands of steel, while around her slender
waist is suspended the weight of a vast amplitude
of skirt and trail, with all the air which those
multitudinous folds gather. It might be sup
posed that one in such a plight would be incapa
ble of any exertion, and we hardly think that
were an ox so incased and incumbered he would
do mach work. Bat our women thus rigged
out in obedience to Fashion behests, will frisk
and flirt and dance and frolic from dewy eve
until the stars wane in the light of morning,
without confessing to weariness or fatigue. Of
oourse all this entails a sure heritage of suffering
tor coming years, upon the poor blind devo
tees of dress and dissipation, with medical bills
that drive into bankruptcy those who shall
chooee them for wives. But still the wonder
remains how they can endure even for the time,
styles of dress that oppress and compress the
vital organs of the body, and engage in execises
that to be graceful or exhilerating require the
free play of every limb.
Dickons as a Delineator of Char
acter.—It has been alleged by some critic
that Dickens has no man or woman of the highest
order in any of his books. This we regard as
too sweeping—yet we must admit that among
his men we find no Henry Morton or Sir Charles
Grandison—among his women no Edith Planta-
gent or Helen Pendennis. But in saying this,
we merely assert that he never accomplished
what he never attempted. He was not a delin
eator of character, but the portrayor of humors.
All of those names that are indissolubly linked
with his own, his Micawber, his Weller, his
Pecksniff and a host of others are but the per-
sonifications'of humors, and have little more
claim to be considered real men and women
than the Pliable, By-ends 8Ud Slay-good of
the immortal Dreamer. That Btrange admix
ture of good and evil, of
au-uoriuuier, out more popular field, and here
his success was all he could hive wished. As
long as our language has a literature, he will be
considered one of the first of humorists. Yet
around the multitude of low and grotesque
people with whom his pages abound, there
arises now and then one whom we can admire
and love. Mr. Cherubyle is certaimly a gentle
man and so is Sir Leicester Dedlock; and we
know of no lovelier woman in all the page of
fiction than Agnes Windfield and ‘Dame Dur-
den. These induce us to believe that it
rather frem choice than from a want of power
that he so seldom attempted to portray men or
women ‘of the lofty rank where dwell the best
of humanity.’
Shall \\e Kuo tv Each Other
There ? Hope responds ‘Yes,’ and we delight
to sing of the time when we shall meet our
loved ones beyond the river, and renew an asso
ciation that shall never be broken. But sweet
as is this picture, it fades away before the fact,
startling though evident, that our souls do not
know each other here. The most intimate rela
tions known to earth do nothing more than
tablish an acquaintance between the bodies.
The souls of man and wife, if stripped of their
tenements of clay would be utter strangers to
each other. They know each others bodies
B j Udl . ed each others actions, and
sought to read what is written about th e soul
tbe M 6 andfo r m - B °t “och of what con
stitutes the real character remains unrevealed
y eye or tongue. There are aspirations and
fears, eager longings and passions that beatify
or torture which are known only to the individ-
uai and to God. Christian Hope however look
Hm« Dd L thlS iFtf 10d ° f se P erate txistence to a
time when all the graves of earth shall unclose
f“ d tb f 86a > hall £T tbe dead that are in
it, and soul and body shall be united. But
the slender ray of light thrown by Revelation
across this abyss, forbids us cherish the expec
£n° w “g each other there. ’ We P R re
Absurd Yellow Fever “Reme
dies*’-A Suggestion.--‘Roundabout’ of the
New Orleans Times says that paper is greatly
bothered by communications recieved every
day through the mail from persons who wish to
have published some ‘infallible’ preventive or
remedy they have for the yellow fever; usually
these communications are from persons who
have never seen the yellow fever but imagine
they know all about treating it. The remedies
they propose embrace all the ‘yarbB’ that grow
as well as many supernatural charms and anti
dotes; for superstition revives under such ex
citement and terror as the horrors of the yellow
fever have produced on the popular mind. One
of the preventives enjoined was stringing pieces
of onion and hanging them about the room and
around the bed.
Assafoetida, camphor, and brimstone figured
also among the agents of cure and prevention.
These odorus substances are not quite so re
pugnant to a sensitive olfactory as the ‘infallible’
preventive we have known tried of rubbing the
body with the insi/le of a green gourd.
Col. Lucias Hardee of Jacksonville is more
scientific in the remedy he proposes which is to
kill the germs of disease by concussion of the
atmosphere produced by gunpowder explosions.
He says this plan proved successful in Jackson
ville year before last, and instances the absence
of the plague from places liable to it during the
war and in Mexico while fighting was going on.
There is some philosophy in this, and it would
also seem as though flame destroyed the aotivity
of these living germs. A correspondent of a Bal
timore paper who has passed through several
epidemics thinks his safety might have been
due to the fires kindled in his room every night
during the time the fever raged. We have be
fore alluded to’the immunity from sickness that
our own family enjoyed while the fever in its
most malignant form devastated the Red River
country around us, proving fatal in almost
every case and attacking all around us who had
not ‘refugeed’ to the hills. There being a store
very near our house and a wood yard which was
the stopping place of boats coming from the
fever-scourged city of Shreveport, it was a most
exposed location yet a family of five persons with
several hired white wood choppers in the yard,
had perfect health during the time.
I could only attribute the singular circum
stance to the fact that fires of wood, brush and
stubble*were,kindled in the yard all around the
house as soon as sunset drew near. They were
made and kept up by an eccentric old negro
woman, whose grand parents had been brought
from Africa. She said she had heard her grand
father tell that the Plague-Devil could be scared
off by fire. Perhaps a grain of science may
lurk in this superstition and that fire may be
an affective agent for destroying the vitality of
the minute floating germs of both the African
plague and the yellow fever that somewhat re
sembles it. The rays of the sun seem to have
the effect of displacing or rendering these germs
innocuous. We have heard physioians say that
no one ever contracted yellow fevor while out
in the open sunshine .and breeze. It was only
in the shade of swamps or houses, or after sun-
. *u~4. l\. - a—.—»—uegfuefe and seems to
have been brought from Africa-the hot-bed of
fevers. We remember many years ago visiting
the cabin of an old African negress in Florida
She had been brought over in a slave ship, was
half idiotic to all appearances, but possessed of
singular shrewdness and cunning. She would
have no chimney and nothing but a dirt floor
to her cabin, because she wishbd to build a fire
in the centre of her hovel. In the summer and
fall she kindled that fire as soon as the sun be
gan to decline. It was to drive away fever, she
said.
..^.^torida, ten years ago, thero was a pecu-
Genteel Poverty in Washington —
The Penny Lunch House in Washington City,
put in operation by the energetic ‘Roberts,’ not
only furnishes sorely-needed food to the ac
knowledged poor, but often affords timely relief
to those who, still striving to keep up appear
ances, cover their poverty with the well-pre
served silk and broadcloth of better days, while
they are actually suffering for want of food.
‘Roberts’ gives an instance of this in her Capital
‘Gossip.’
The other dav I sat down in the room to do
some writing; I had hardly got started when a
nice-looking, genteel, elderly lady, with hair
prematurely gray, came in, and the first thing
she did after sitting down was to commence cry
ing. I am such a fool that I alwavs want to do
what I see any one else do, so I nearly began
weeping, and only restrained myself by remem
bering that my nose always gets red. She told
her story: Her husband has been sick for
months with fever, her daughter also; no work,
no friends nor anything; they had come from
the country two years before, but living retired
had made few acquaintances. Sue had had
nothing to eat since the morning before,(it was
then twelve o’clock.) Some one had told her of
me; her husband was craving food, and she had
fought down her pride and come, We have
been very hard up the last month, with no mon
ey on hand to work with; but, as I said before,
the crew of the penny-lunch pull together, and
the head man gave his own breakfast, which was
just cooked, to her, and she had all the tea she
could drink, her car fare back to the Navy Yard
was paid, and we did what we could. A lady,
Mrs. Cromwell, got a permit for the husband
and child to go to the hospital, and the wrink
les were smoothed out as far as it were possible.
One instance she told me that almost made me
want to hunt up a ravine to die in. She said
when she started on her walk from the Navy
Yard to my place she was so worn out with hun
ger and want ot sleep that 3he shut the door on
delicacy and asked a female (I use the word ad
visedly,) standing in the door of a comfortable
home not far from where she lived, if she would
give her a cup of tea. ‘Tea,’ said this female;
‘I've got no tea to give away: go and work for it.’
Now 1 don’t know this female abortion, I hope
I never may; I would not touch her hand if I
knew it, yet it is fair to prisume that she is a
shining light in her circle of ‘good women,’ as
the world styles it.
Gaskeirs Compendium.—We invite
special attention to Prof. Gaskell's advertisement
in this paper. His coarse in penmanship is
worthy the attention of any and all. The Insur
ance Monitor of New York says:
‘We regard him as the most accomplished
penman of the day. Having had the advan
tage of personal acquaintance with him, and
personal knowledge of his management of busi
ness colleges, wo speak of that whereof we
know. The rapidity with which Prof. Gaskell
can dash off' penmanship, which when executed,
resembles the most superb steel-plate engraving,
is simply amazing, and he also possesses the pecu
liar ability of being able to impart to his pupils a
knowledge of the process by which he himself
has reached his present grade of perfection in
the art chirographic.’
His Compendium has reached a sale of sixty
thousand copies.
SlS th By T^° Sha i 1 be Iike unt0 the angels 6
and that the relations formed on earth will he
unrecognized. Fathers and sons, mothers and
ThoS t r r ‘? will all be on perfect terms of equality.
meet it D8 i lps heeU established to
meet the necessities of our present form of exist-
*“ c , e ’ aDd when this necessity shall cease they
wiH be abolished. Adam and his latest descend
ant will stand before the Throne, linked indeed
By a common humanity, but equally the sons
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liar fatal fever raging around the locality of
Micoosukie Lake, which had nearly gone dry
during a long drouth, leaving a malarial marsh
seething under the hot sun. In one house ex
posed to the poisonous vapors from this swamp,
there had moved a family from this city. Four
of the family died of the fever and several of
the remaining members were prostrated with
the same disease. Nurses were|difBcult to be
had, for all who came upon the premises were
attacked with pain in their limbs and head
ache. A young physician, that had not previ
ously attended the family, being called in, he
ordered the abundant shrubbery in the yard to
be trimmed and thinned out, and fires to be
kindled all over the yard, and replenished con
stantly with the quautity of rubbish about the
place. He also had large torches of pinewood
earned through every room, corner and passage
of the house. This was repeated twice a day. A
good result followed. The persons who were
ill recovered, and there was no more sickness
in the house during the remainder of the
summer which was nearly two months.
California Wines.—Our friend Alf Ford,
the great wine man.<.bas just received an immense
cargo of the best and prettiest California wines
ever brought to the state. He has Port, Angelica,
Muscatel. Cnenmonea. Mountain, Sherry, Ries-
ffie juice itself. Families wishing pure wimi
for domestic purposes should call for Ford’s
P h abf ° rnla v , wl ^ es : f We Pfesume all dealers keep
0n baD lf ™ not , they shonld order them
right away. Mr. Ford is also Southern Agent
Y °' k Hia oiB “
I rot. O. A. Ericsoii.—We have for
sometime been troubled at the continued silence
of our popular contributor Prof. Erioson of
Richmond Va., but a private note from him
brings the sad intelligence that he has for
months been confined to his bed from the effects
of a severe fall and it is likely he will yet be
confined to his bed for a long time. But we
sincerely hope he may be spared that misfor
tune and soon be able to continue his exceed
ingly popular sketches ‘Under Six Flags.’
A fleave Woman.-We learn that a
faithful wife on Marietta Street in this city
having tried moral suasion on her dram drink
ing and dram selling husband long enough to
find that it was a failure, went to his rum-shop
on Saturday night and emptied every drop of
liquor from his bottles, barrels, etc., telling him
that she was determined he should see one sober
talUfMoh".^ Th “ “"“ trr 8 ‘“ > " u b »
YELLOW FEVER NOTES.
Doirt Harry a “Siglier.”—‘Happiness
in married life all depends on one thing,’ says
the ‘Major,’ in Wm. Black's new novel, ‘Macleod
of Dare.’ ‘Take my word for it, young friend; I
hear of people studying the character, the com
patibilities and what not—of other people,
though I never knew a young man thinking of
such things when he was in love. He plunges
in and finds out afterwards. Now it all comes
o this—is she likely to prove a sigher ?’
‘A what?'said Macleod, awaking from his
trance.
A sigher—a woman who goes about the house
sighing—whether over your sins or her own she
won’t tell you.’
We have seen men of the Major’s jolly temper
ament married to a ‘sigher,’ and seen the extin
guisher clapped on his cheerfulness the moment
he entered under his own roof. Nothing so ef
fectually takes all the starch of hope and cour-
age out of a man, and makes him a limp dish-
rag in the hands of fate as to have a wife who is
chronic sigher; who diligently searches for
circumstances to be miserable over, and at the
least imagined neglect or small disappointment
takes revenge in protracted sulks, with an oc
casional melancholy sigh and a wipe of the
corner of the eye, suggestive of the bleeding of a
wounded and trampled| spirit Headache is
also a usual feature of this interesting domestio
role. It is employed by some wives for the pur
pose of getting their own way, and is said to
bring a husband to terms better than any other
policy. So it may, but it may also bring him to
the bar-room or any other place that offers a ref
uge from a wife that is a habitual ‘sigher.’ *
The C incinnati Post.-We find the
name of our old Georgia, friend, Col. H. W. J.
Ham at the head of this paper as proprietor
and he is making it one of the spriehtliest
periodicals in all the oountry,
Magnificent Toilet Articles.
A ’ uri ™'
jewel case, powder box and portemonnaieofMrs
itMOOM ° fCa,iforn ‘ a ’ which are valued
at SJU.WO. They were made to order, and after
designs furnished by the lady herself bya San-
^ rancisoo jeweler. Theportemonnaie is^of solid
gold and quartz rock in mosaic. The jewel
casket is made of similar material. It renre
sents the labor of five skilled artisans forsix
“n'dwn Htl£S?“ l iaC , heS long ’ tea wide and
ten deep. It rests upon four feet, each beino a.
representation of the armed Amazon (whiclfis
the symbolic figure on the California seal) with
the bear at her feet. These feet are of solid
£ 1 Ti U i I r ; hef ’ ! nd of liiaite workman
ship. Ihe sides and ends are of slabs of uuartz
“ «Pberoids, and elaborately inlaid wS
auartz^HiL P K i9 ° f 8 ° ld ’ iolaid with gold
quartz, and the base and edges are ornamented
T^insTZlff^L ° f ex 1 uisit6 Jj-wroa 3 ht foliage-
ifie inside of the cover is an exquisite engrav.
ng rep^euting a buffalo hunt on the plains
In the foreground is a railroad track, with the
^ round,, is much lit.
New Orleans, September G—There were 289
now cases and 61 deaths to-day.
The total of deaths from yellow-fever in New
Orleans, up to the third inst., were 1091, includ
ing 461 children under eleven years of age.
The people of New Orleans applied to the Sec
retary of War, on Monday, for rations, repre
senting the distress and suffering as terrible be
yond description.
Memphis, September 6.—There were fifty
three deaths reported between 6 o’clock P.
M., yesterday and noon to-day, making 105
deaths for twenty-four hours ending at noon.
In Memphis, there was a total of 189 new
cases of fever for tbe forty-eight hours ending at
six o’clock on the 3d inst., and 137 deaths.
This brings the total of cases to date up to 1336,
and the deaths to 582.
A telegram from Greenville reports 125 cases,
and thirty-six deaths up to date; fifteen or twen
ty new cases, and ten deaths reported for the
last twenty-four hours Nurses and doctors
wanted badly.
Two of the Editors of the Memphis Avalanohe
are down with the fever, the otherB have r«fu-
geed with the exception of the Commercial Ed
itor, who al< ne constitutes the editorial force of
the paper. He sleeps in the country at night
and after sunrise comes to the city to his work.
Another of the noble Howards was buried on
Sunday, Sept. 1st, in Memphis. Ed Mansford,
who, in 1873, and through this epidemic, until
two days before he died, was conspicuous for his
untiring energy in a work but for which the
poor would have no succor, passed away peace
fully as Sunday morning dawned.
Washington, September 1.--In response to a
dispatsh from Memphis, asking for nurses with
yellcw-tever experience, one hundred ladies and
two gentlemen have volunteered tbeir rervices,
and that of sixty-five other soldiers of the home,
to serve as watchmen, police, nurses, or in any
capacity, without compensation.
Last Sunday in New Orleans.—New cases 60;
deaths, 88. Two hundred and fifty-three appli
cations for relief were made to the Howards to
day. Members of the visiting committee report
a general spread of the fever, and state that
they find it encroaching upon localities hereto
fore exempt. Though the present situation is
sad, the general impression seems to be that the
worst has not yet come.
A Hero.—The man who sternly faces death
in a shower of grape and canister may be nerved
by the excitement of patriotic rage and ambi
tion. In the thrill of the moment he may be
oblivious of the danger. What shall we say of
Dr. Carr, the Cincinnati physician, who, when
all on board the steamer, John Porter, have de
serted the two surviving yellow-fever patients,
calmly, firmly, rigidly stands by them? In the
name of humanity he voluntarily breathes an
infectious atmosphere and administers to those
smitten by tbe plague. Dr. Carr is a hero.
The name of N. D. Menken will never be for
gotten by the people of Memphis. He died at
his post, a noble example of zeal and oourage
on a field where many brave meu had fallen be
fore him. Early in the fight he volunteered as
the leader of a little baud of his co-religionists,
and afterward as a Howard, he went about day
aud night doing good, carrying comfort to sick
rooms, provisions to the destitute and supervis
ing with all the energy of his nature the work
of a district where the fever was raging at its
worst.
Cincinnatti Commercial: A very neatly dress
ed young woman, with regular features, and
handsome, dark, patient-looking eyes visited
the health officer yesterday and made applica
te WMPn W g ftr £ &12°jn woT
b ° a8 , e ’ f a F d W< ? Uld 8bort ly be out His treat-
ment of her when at home was not of the best,
b ® c , on ‘ rib ° ted noting toward their support
and taking from her all she could earn in order
to satisfy his appetite for liquor. She thought
““ ‘ f 8ent tj f° me P° iQ t south in the capacity
stated he would not dare follow her. It was
a singular choice as between two evils.
AN APPEAL TO THE WOULD.
I The following appeal represents somewhat the
' condition of affairs in Memphis:
An appeal to the civilized world from the fi
nance committee.—We ask your aid that we
may be enabled to feed and clothe our destitute
and furnish the necessary material for burying
our dead. This appeal is only made as the last
extremity, and m view of the fact that another
week will exhaust the means already given bv a
generous people. J B ^
DEATH HAS LAID HIS HEAVY HAND UPON US.
The destitute cry for bread, and the sick for
such care as can only be given by open handed
generosity. Those desirous of giving aid can
W M 68 ™ ? 68 !• Prestye > No. 9 Union street,
w. N. Thacher, first national bank; S. R. Clarke
Bfccenix insurance company.
The relief committee of the Independent Or-
der of Odd Fellows also appeal to members of
tiie order.
Worth—the Dress Oracle
The visible part of the great establishment on
Rue de la Paix fills a suite of apartments on
the second floor and a similar suite on the floor
above. Below are the desks of the clerks and
book-keepers, in a room by thems.e \ es, en
counters loaded with goods, and mne
where one wall is lined np with 8lb t 8 ’. £ ,
edge showing from each piece. Wai
and stamped leather walls, mirrors, uxurious
chairs and waxed floors stretch away A „ An ; n „
room to the other. Below are the g
dresses; above, the street and carriage resses.
Several elegantly dressed and
ANXIOUS LOOKING LADIES
discussed samples and styles with the attend
ants, or restlessly awaited their sn “ m .°“ B v t f< 0 rt a °
inner sanctum, which is the seventh heaven of
average womankind. A beautiful young woman,
divinely tall, with the figure and walk of a god
dess, swept around in a flowing tram of royal
purple, with a basque of striped satin with long
sqanare tabs at the back over it. The fit of the
costume was perfeot, the simple lines and sweep
ing folds just what her style required. Then
this fine young woman put on dress after dress
for us and moved regally up and down the
room, while we noted style and effect. To re
member them all would be a task, but some of
the points were striking. For one thing jet
trimming and bead embroideries seem likely
never to die out. ‘Mr Worth is very fond of it,
the young woman explained, ‘and will probably
use it for years.’ The dresses bore it out, for
there were black silk oarriage suites weighed
like burdens with old gold, garnet, amber,-
bronze and jet beads, wrought in broad, elabo
rate bands down the lronts, sides and bordermg
of skirts. Another thing, the trimmed skirt
and basque, most popular with all the dressma
kers here, seems to have given the polonaise a
final set back. Except them and elaborate prin-
cesse dresses for graude tenne, nothing else ap
peared. Another flat has gone forth from the
autocrat—short dresses for all out-door occa
sions. Visiting, carriage and walking dress
were all cut to clear the gronnd, and in seven
models that were tried on, six were short. Su
perb silks, brocades, velvets, grenadines and
satins, in richest combinations and trimmings,
all were up from the floor, so that the daiuty
white plaiting escaped soil. This is a charmiDg
style for the possessors of dainty feet, but what
are the sisters with substantial number-live
shoes going to do about it ? There is no way to
conceal the width, length and arch of a foot in
such dresses, but
SINGE WOBTH ORDAINS IT,
every one, whether tbeir feet are Brobdinag or
Lilliputian, will wear the short costume. Car
rying a heavy train by a loop, or in the cramped
band is ungraceful, and must be remedied, and
tbe artist says that if a lady has a dirty pave-
inenet to walk over, a train is the height of bad
taste. All the new models shown us had seams
directly down the middle of the front breadths,
a new cut that is supposed to give an inimitable
fit aDd hang to a dress. One reception or walk
ing dress, short, of course, combined a new
shade of brown, with bine and brown brocade.
The front, with a middle scam, was of brocade
and a scant brocade ruflle with pointed edges bor,
dered the dress, falling over a knife-plaiting of
brown gros grain. The brown is a new shade,
that looks like a lustrous golden copper, a sunny
hue playing over the surface. The back was a
plain fall of silk, with the edge curling up and
turning back at the sides with a facing of brocade.
The price of such a costume was a $150. There
was a bewitching little dress of black silk, satin,
berage and thread lace combined, waiting with
the basting threads in it for the dictum of its
owner. A deep side plaited flounce of berage had
an inch wide fold of satin set up from the edge
and lace sewed below it. A narrower plaiting;
°f troche frpsT'sl'opTng down lo"a
sharp point an inch or so from the bottom. This
long point in front had the inevitable middle
scam, was edged with lace and had a heavv et
fringe at the head of the lace. The back was a
n°n n fAi- P0 f Uf n, Of i Si,k ’ P laited in the top, caught
Hatw a - the bottom and held fast at the sides
Between the front point and the back piece the
m£. W9 T„? lw ?“■ folJs l."e. 0 d
fringe. The waist was poiuted long in front
and cut straght around at the back. The sleeves’
being elbow sleeves, so as to allow for lonu-
wristed gloves and the spiral winding braciets
so rnne in b™- £ ^lt and buckle is another
so much in favor.
essential to every costume, be"lt princess
"“7 “ d «*e .hops
hackles ia .VC,
Dressing in Sarateg
u.
The Boarding-House Piano.
hJ^°tn^ Ddent writea that L y dia Thompson
has settled down since her marriage to Alexan-
ron H s n L dere °“ ia V* a H uiet . everyday little mat-
who we£t to 8 sS?V?.? 8 !' the L y di » Thompsen
j ori „„ *.!° , b Petersburg twenty years ago to
mutton r ,0r \ horn pip**- Brown stout and
? bo P a ha *® given her a breadth disap
proved by Terpsichore, and she has “
come too abundant for buriesqn
R ei | aatefl f ° r thi ». however, by hav
| thrifty and eoonomioal housewife.
•Roberts,’the lady who does up many good
fo Ho wing - th ° >Vashington Capital, gets off’ the
A piano in the- average boarding-house is a
source of great fun to any one who sits in the
corner and looks on. There is always a youth
very thin who parts his hair in the middle, or
who lets it run to seed all over his head, who is
musical and plays ihe flute; that is, he blows
in to !t so furiously that you wonder his insides
(font come out, and the,flute sends forth wail-
ing sounds, as if it did notlikesuch hotair pres-
?“?* , Tben there 18 a yo«ng 1 -dy who is on the
lookout tor a masculine half, and who ‘dotes’ on
music, and when playing resembles a flock of
sheep going over a fence. When these two play
i ChlS.' 1118 enou - gh t0 make a man
wf, Th fidd e g ° 0ut ln the back y ard and
^horeis a man who makes a noise that
^°^ d ' do . oredlt to a first-ciass lion; fie is a base
« w h«>n he performs you want to clinch
hold firm? rmly tbe rounds of your chair and
hold firnriy on to its sides with your hands,
ihe tenor is a youth with a mowed head of hair,
s7nti C m h „ e r, P i PP . ermint dr °P 8 > an <* warbles forth
seutmientai ditties in a husky, uncertain man-
18 ,. tbe y° ar M lady who does not
ne«n • “L E ? ghsb excepting Kathleen Mavour-
tew for an i “ lg ^ as weU 8ing ‘hat in Choc
aU y° n . understand of it. Her Italian
L a 2 ta - 18 SUCh as to make a native hunt
die in * Sh0 ^t* bravura
shem i / “ character, and when
of 8om!l! P aBd down a scale you are reminded
Jon abn J* fall i Dg ddWQ 8taira ; her trills make
f s ° 8 i?? der a “ d say to yourself that Clara Lou-
» 8 t bave done it worse. She tells you
se™,»I h ,“l“r h.f be, ” 8 ”r»/,‘h S0 r“l O!; “ ,or
the United Ststes hotel bnt ,7.1 ,h“ f “
mot. plainly this yeat thin hetetefotl InfeT
there are noticeably fewer rfoh VoVi 1 taat ’
any assemblage atauy ofhl .t^. l "f‘ a
materials and bright colors ’ bat llght
season. Tbe imminse’dining^roo^Tt
Union hotel presents a snlendPi 1 th Grand
dinner and tea time White d roc appearance at
almost entirely of V.lenciennt la'^mTuT" 1
PlnkorTef^’X;
sometimes even at breakfist wi,;„ T ^ ’
ited Saratoga, si, o, I ,‘ 1 " "V
with surprise that even inJ.™ 1 , notlce d
oolors, black and brown mostly audTeav 1 d ^ rk
ets and heavy velvets and l’ i d heaV y velv ’
by the fashionable New YoJkers^or *2*/?™*
““fuf"!??."* 6 *?d ball,.’ 5K,*“
occa-
a more
ly a seenTa d nd a !, e nSari
and sometimes three
sensible cn.toa »«™iU_wldL, blVi "rfok
„,1 are u
bon, composed of two
white or colored dresses. The tLe’onhe
description some of
most astonishing
adding '
height.
“Sbttoten inehestotb. wearer^
them
iJstegTbut 6 ^ 8 Wan , ted her to 80 on the operat-
s sir
buriJJIe^bTIo^ bouJht P »nMkhimV h0 M en iJ2! Paoi4 °
the-foreh&td?^r crown o? ,V.‘ <*>“
sometimes worn near the face aid „ - tbey are
baok of the head, showing thl f Dd f gain on the
flowers and feath.Ss a^Sedfb"' B °“‘
most of the trimming is in * d f Vr he “’ and
women who wear these an *1 Most of the
topheavy, though one is Fi^ r8 f tr ? ctur68 lo °k
th wL h n “i?r S{ ’ tight enough beHeVe
tban^iat'/ StTSkS
1871-2-3, when point lace and d- h ® 8ea80ns of
seen each evening in nrnfWi« diamonds were
made a practice of having a the ladies
on the piazzas of the hotels boforl dr ® 88 parade
hops. As they would 6 g0,n S to tbe
hear the value If thei^toffod al ,° ng one would
the thousands. §£ r tl “ a ‘? d f ar into
here now, but rarelv dn« diamonds enough
at the same P6r80n wear,
nr j „ wore than ear-rinoc „ i 1’
| a necklace of another sort.
cross andfiuger-ri'nf/B““»L ear ' rmgs * a brooch
gone by, solitJre “fkl’aS ' h“” m tho > ear8
and bracelets of diamonds r ornaments
in addition. Mrs. ^ e( l ae ntly seen
eld commodore, and Mm b S’ » he wife of the
Ohioago, I remember seeTn* ^ Pal , mer ‘ of
room of Congress Hall nnl g th “ m tho ball
point lace, each haviAglt Bin ?’ arra yed in
Entirely of the finest lad I?tfo^Hf® 88 woven
ing prioeless diamond ornam5 e ^ m ^ and wear -
solitairea I have seen a/SStojf ,T he larg ««t
are those ofMrs. Victor vltf 8 ! 4 ’ tbl8 8 *ason,
who, with her husb«7 a e n W d CO ch. b ,d OfL0 ? ,aville ’
Pying a oottage at the Uni«n bll iJ en ’ 18 ° 00 ®-
ear-rings are)Almost L ll ? er dia mond