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JOHN H. SEALS, - Editor and Proprietor W. B. SEALS, - Proprietor and Cor. Editor. MRS. MARY E. BRYAN (*) Associate Editor. ATLANTA, GEORGIA, SEPT. 14, 1878. The Bed Cross. See the Red Mark on your pa per. It means that your subscription is out, and that we hope you will find it convenient to renew right away. Send along $2.50 without delay, and avoid missing a number of the paper. 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 American Yewspaper Directory.— One of the most important publications of the day to business men is Geo. P. Rowell’s News! paper Directory. It is issued every 3 months and contains 484 pages giving a list of all the news papers in the United States with the circulation of each, and the publishers have made special efforts to have it correct and reliable in every particular. It is really an immense undertak ing to publish a quarterly account of all the papers and periodicals with which this country is afflicted, but Rowell & Co. seem competent to the task, and tbe press and public should appre ciate their efforts by extending to them the pat ronage they so justly merit The price only j ® ft y ce.nte- Address them at 10, Spruce St New } York city. 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