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About The Weekly banner-watchman. (Athens, Ga.) 1886-1889 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 5, 1889)
EE SEUMO.N OR. A JUBIL — TALMAGE PREACHES OF TURNED PRODIGALS. RE- So Says They Should • Not IIo Received Coldly R»d UMkcj Upon Askance, bat j with Open Arms and Cheering Mien. 1 Somo New Conclusions About Time. I “ ... . - 7 '' - ; '7 ' V . ’ Brooklyn, Fob.' 3.—A jubilee ser mon was preached this morning by the Rev. T. De Witt Talmage, D. D., at an especial cotnmuuion for the. recep tion of 240 persons, making iiie pres ent communicant membership of the Brooklyn Tabernacle 4,508. This is also moving day in this church. The annual rental of pews has just occur red, and today many of the congrega tion occupy new places. The pews brought higher premiums this year than ever before and the income of the church this year will be $33,804 But both plaits are observed in this church. A vast space is kept free from all expense and only a part of the building is mapped off for rent, I)r. Talmago took nis-text from the fifteenth chapter of Luke; twenty- 1 third verse: ‘Bring hither the fatted calf and kill it.” Dr. Talmage said: 4 Joy 1 Joy l J.oy 1 We banquet today over this accession of 240 persons to -whom I have given the right hand of fellowship, making our present com municant membership four thousand five hundred and eight. Is it not ap propriate that wo spread the banquet? In all ages of the world it has been customary to celebrate joyful events by~ festivity—the signing of treaties, the proclamation of peace, the Christ mas, the marriage. However much on other days of the year our table THE WEEKLY BANNER-WATCH.UAN, ’ — ■ — •wpuld become a vagabon law forever"* has got tire homes of Christendom have at some time celebrated joyful events by-ban quet and festivity.* Something has happened in the old homestead greater than anything that has ever happened befpre. A Favor ite son whom the world supposed ibond and out- got tired of sight seeing and has returned to his father’s house. The world said be never ■would come back. • The old man al ways said his son Would come. He had been looking for him day after day and year after year. He knew he ■would come back. Now, having re turned to his father’s , house, the father proclaims celebration. WHEN A LOST SOUL COMES HOME TO > ' GOD. There is a calf in the paddock that has been kept and fed to utmost, capa city so as to be ready forsome.occasion of joy that might come along. Ah! there never will be a grander day on >the old homestead thau this day. Let the butchers do their work, and thp housekeepers bring into the table the smoking meat The musicians will take their places, and the gay groups will move up and down the tloor. All the friends and neighbors are gathered in. and extra supply is sent out to the table of the servants. The father pre sides at tne tame, and says grace, and thanks God that his long absent boy is home again. Ohl how they missed him; how glad they are to have him tybek. One brother indeed stands pouting at the . back . door and says: “This is a great ado about nothing; this bad • boy should have neon chastened instead of greeted; veal is too good for himl” But the father says: “Nothing is too good, nothing is good enough.” There sits the young man, glad at the hearty reception, but a shadow of sor row flitting across his brow at the re membrance of the trouble he has seen. Ail ready now. Let the covers lift Music. He was dead and he is alive again 1 He was lost and he is found! By such held imagery does the Bible set forth the merrymaking when a soul comes home to God. , L First of all there is the new con vert’s joy. It is no tame thing to be come a Christian. The most tremen dous moment in a man’s - life is when he surrenders! himself to God. The grandest time on the father’s home stead is when the boy comes back. Among the great throng who in the parlors of this church professed Christ one night was a young man who next morning rang my door bell and said: •*Sir, I cannot contain myself with the joy I feel; I came here this morning to express it. I have found more joy in five minutes in serving God than in all the years of my prodigality, and I came to say so.” You have seen, per naps, a man run ning, for his physical liberty and' the officers of the law after him, and you saw him escape, or afterward you heard the judge had pardoned him, and how great was the glee of that rescued man; but it is a very tame thing that compared with the running for one’s everlasting life—the terrors of the law after him. but Christ com ing in to pardon ana bless and rescue ana save. You remember John Bun- Van in lias great story tells how the Pilgrim put his fingers in his ears and ran, crying: “Life, life, eternal life 1” A poor car driver in this city some years ago, after having had a struggle to support his family, suddenly was informed that-a large in heritance was his, and there was joy amounting to bewilderment; but tnat ifi a small thing compared with the ex perience of one when he has put in his Lands the title deed to the joys, the raptures, the splendors of heaven, and he can truly say: “Its mansions are mine, its temples are mine, its songs are mine ; its God is mine 1” Oh, it is no tame thing to become a Christian. It is a merry making. It is the killing of the fatted calf. It is jubilee. * You know tho Bible never compares it to a funeral, but alwa; compares it to something bright, is more apt to be compared to a ban quet than anything else. It is com pared in the Bible to the water, bright, Sashing water; to the morning, rose ate, fireworked ; mountain transfigured morning. I wish I could today take all the Bible expressions about pardon and peace and life and comfort and hope and heaven and twist them into one garland, and put it on the brow of the humblest child of God in this assemblage, and cry: “Wear it, wear it now, wear it forever, son of God, daughter of the Lord God Almighty.” Oh, the joy of the new convert! Oh, tlio gladness of the Christian service 1 THE JOYS OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION. You have seen sometimes a man in a religious assembly get up and give his experience. Well, JRaut gave liis ex perience. He Prose in the presence. of two churches, the chureh on earth aqd the church in heaven, and ho said: “Now, this is my experience: ‘Sorrowful,’ yet always -.rejoicing— popr, yet making many rich—having nothing, yet possessing all things. If the people in this house this morn ing kucw the joys of the Christian re ligion they would all pass over into the kingdom of God the next mo ment When Daniel Sandeman was dying of cholera his attendant said: “Have you touch pain?” “Oh,” he replied, “since 1 found the Lord I liave. never had any pain ex cept sin.” Then they said, to him: ‘Would you like to send a message to your friends?” “Yes, 1 would; tell them that only last night the love of Jesus came rushing into my soul like the surges of the sea, and 1 bad to cry out: ‘Stop,-Lord, it is enough; stop, Lord, enough 1- ” On,* the joys of this Christian religion! Just pass over from those tamo joys in which you are Indulging—joys of this world—into the raptures 6f the Gospel. The world cannot satisfy you; you have found that out—Alex ander longing for other worlds to conquer, and yet. drowned in his own bottle; Byron whipped by disquie tudes around the world; Voltaire cursing his own soul while all the streets of Fans were applauding him; Henry II cousuining with hatred against poor Thomas a Becket—all il lustrations of the fact that this world cauiiot make a man happy. The very man who poisoned the pommel of the saddle on which Queen Elizabeth rode, shouted iff the street: “God save the queen 1” One moment the world ap plauds and the next moment the world anathematizes. Oh, come over into this greater joy, this sublime solace, this magnificent beatitude. The uiglit after the battle of Shiloh, and there were thousands of wounded on the field, and the ambulances had uot come, on Christian soldier lying there a-dying uuder the starlight began to sing: There <5 aland of pure delight, and when he came to the next line there were scores of voices uniting: Where saints immortal reign. The song was caught up all through the fields among the wounded until it was said there were at least ten thou sand wounded men reuniting their voices os they came to the verse: There everlasting spring abides, And never withering flowers; Death like a narrow stream divides That heavenly land of ours. Oh, it is a .'great religion to live by, and it is a great religion to die by. There is only one heart throb between J ou and that religion this morning. ust look into the face of your par doning God, and surrender yourself for time aud for eternity, aud he is yours, and heaven is yours, and all is* yours. Some of you, like the young man of tho text, have S ine far astray. I know uot the Iiis- ry, but you know it, you know it When a young man went forth info life, the legend says, his guardian angel went forth with him, and get ting him into a field the guardian angel swept a circle clear around where the young man stood. It was a circle of virtue and honor, and he must not step beyond that circle. Armed foes came down, but were obliged to halt at the circle—they could not pass. But one day a temptress with dia monded hand stretched forth .and crossed .that circle with the ban and the tempted .soul took it, an by that one fell grip was brought beyond the circle and died. Some of you have stepped beyond that circle. Would you not like this day by the grace of God to step back ? This, I say to you, is your hour of salvation. There was in the closing hours of Queen Anne what is called the clock scene. Flat down on the pillow in helpless sickness, she could uot move her head or move her baud. She was waiting for the hour when the minis- tersof state should gather in angry con test, and. worried and worn out by the .coming hour, and in momentary ab sence of. the nurse, in the power, the strango power which delirium some times gives one, she arose and stood in front of the clock, and stood there watching the clock when the nurse returned. The nurse said: “Do you see anything peculiar about that clock?” She made no answer, but soon died. There is a clock scene in every liistory. If some of you would rise from the bed of lethargy and come out from your delirium of sin and. look on the clock of y our destiny this morning, you would see and hear something you have not seen or heard before, ami every tick of the minute, and every stroke of the hour, and every swing of the pendulum would say: “Now, now, now, now 1”Oh, come home to your Father’s house. Come home, oh, prodigal, from the wilder ness. Como home, come home 1 THE RETURNED PRODIGAL IS NEVER COLDLY GREETED. IL But I notice that when theprodi- came there was the father’s joy. .0 did uot greet him with any formal “How do^you do?” He did not come out and say: “You are unfit to enter; go out and wash in the trough by the well, and then you can come in; we have had enough trouble with you." Ah l no., When the proprietor of that estate proclaimed festival, it was an outburst of a father’s love and a father’s joy. God is your Father. I have not much sympathy with that description of God I sometimes hear, as though he were a Turkish sultan, hard and unsympathetic, and listening not to the cry of his subjects. A man told mo he saw in one of the eastern lands a king riding along, and two men were in altercation, and one charged the other with having eaten his rice; arid the king said: “Then slay the man, and by post-mortem ex amination find whether he lias eaten the rice.” And ho was slain. Ah! the cruelty of a scene like that. Our God Ls not a 6ultan, not a czar, not a despot, but a Father—kind, loving, forgiving, and he makes all heaven ring again when a prodical comes back. “I liave no pleasure,” ho says, “in the death of him tliatdietli.” If a man does not get to heaven it is because he will not go there. No dif ference the color, no difference the history, no difference the antecedents, no difference the surroundings, no difference the sin. When the white horses of Christ’s victory are brought out to celebrate the eternal triumph >u may ride- oue of them, and ns . ti, tSfoXt S oui a*mmm. there i3 in his heart the surging of an infinite ocean of gladness, aud to ex press that gladness it takes all the rivei-s of pleasure, and all the thrones of pomp, and all the ages of eternity. It is a joy deeper than all depth, aud higher than all height, and wider than all width, and 4 vaster than all immensity. It overtops, it under girds, it outweighs all the united splendor and joy of the universe. Who can tell wuat God’s joy is? You remember reading the story of a king, who ou some great day of festivity scattered silver and gold among the people, and sent valuable presents to his courtiers; but methinks when a soul comes back, God Is so glad that to express his joy lie flings out new worlds into space, and kindles up new suns, and rolls among the white robed autbems of tho redeemed a greater hallelujah, while with a voice that reverberates among the mountains of frankincense and is echoed back from the everlasting gates, he cries: “This, my son, was dead, and he is alive again.” At the opening of the exposition in New Orleans I saw a Mexican 11 mist, and he played the solo, and then after ward the eight or ten bands of music, accompanied by the great organ, came in; but the sound of that one flute as compared with all the orchestra was, greater than all the combined joy of the universe when compared with the resounding heart of Almighty God. For ten years a father went three times a day to the depot. His son went off in aggravating circum stances, but the father said: “He will come back.” The strain was too much and his mind parted, aud three times a day the father went In the early moruing he watched the train, its ar rival, the stepping out of the passen gers and then the departure of the train. At noon he was there again j " lo y t ^ c - watching the advance of the train, watching the departure. At night there again; watching the coming, watching the going for ten years. lie was sure his son would come back. God has been watching arid waiting for some of you, my brothers, ten years, twenty years, thirty years, forty years, perhaps fifty years— wait- , watch: id nd submitting themselves to all styles of annoyance, and vet withoutcomplaint, and cheerful of soul. How. do jou account for the fact that these life in surance; men tell us., that ministers as a class live longer thin any others? It is because of the joy of their work, thp joy of the harvest field, the joy of greeting prodigals home to their father’s house. , $ Oh, we are in sympathy w.tn all in nocent hilarities. We can enjoy a hearty song, and we can be merry with the merriest; but those of us who have toiled hi the-service are ready to testify that all these. joys,, are tump coni pared with the satisfaction of seeing men ri'kiiiguom of Godi The great eras of every minister are the outpour ings of the Holy Ghort. and I tliank God I have seen eighteen of them. Thank” God, thank God 1 ! CHRISTIANS RECEIVE A CONVERTED SOUL WITH OPEN ARMS. IV. I notice, also, when, the prodi gal conies back all earnest Christians rejoice. If you stood on Montauk Point and there was a hurricane at sea, and it was blowing toward tlie shore, aiid a vessel crashed into the rock's arid you saw people get ashore in the lifeboats and the very last man got ou the rocks in safety, you could not control your joy. And it. i& a glad time wnen the church of God sees men who are tossed on the ocean of their sins plant tlieir Feet on the ropk Christ Jesus. ■ Oh, when broiligals come home just hear those Christians sing. Just hear those Christians pray. It is not a stereotyped supplication we have heard over and over again for twenty years, but a putting of the case in the hands of God with an importunate pleading. No long prayers. Men never pray at great length pnless they have nothing to say arid their hearts are hard and cold. All tlio prayers in the Bible that were answered were short prayers: “God be merciful to me a sinner,” “Lord, that I may receive my sight,” “Lord, save me or 1 perish.” The longest prayer, Solomon’s prayer at the dedication of the temple, less than eight minutes in length, according to tho ordinary rate of enunciation. And just hear them pray now that the prodigals are coming home. Just see them shake hands. No putting forth of the four tips of the fingers in a formal way. but a hearty grasp, where the muscles of the heart seem to clench the fingers of one hand around the oilier hand. Anti then see those Christian facts, how illumined And see that old man get THE HEIGH OF GLNGIIAM. OLIVE HARPER SAYS IT IS TO PRE VAIL NEXT SUMMER. Some Toints About tho Gowns to Bo Worn When Dlizzartls Have Given Place to Midsummer Breezes—Tho Richness of tlie Satines and How to Make Thom Up. © [Special tt>rrespondeaco.] New York, Jan. 2 .—The new mate rials for spring and summer dresses have arrived, and the array is dazzling. Tlie ladies are in a rage of shopping, and soon there will be nothing left but broken lots. The purchases are made now so as to give the dressmakers time to make up tlie gowns, and also for those who make their own dresses to have them all ready for the lenten season. During this penitential time the sum mer gowns are made. Tho new summer goods consist of mew effects in ginghams, satines; mousseiine delaine, chalries, India silks, piques, and new silks of peculiar pattern and coloring, and in white goods. The largest variety is seen iri ging hams, hud these suVpqgs anything of g< up and, with the same vpice that lie sung fifty years ago in the old country meeting house, say: “Now, Lord, thi ing, waiting, lettest thou thy servant depart in peace. Htyp mine eyes have seen thy salvation.” There was a man of Keith who was hurled into prison in time of persecution, and .one day he got off his shackles aud he came and ing, watching; and 1 S ^°° ( V by the prison door, and when if this morning the prodigal should \ tlie .Hler wriTopeuing the door, with 1 1 a . a* ...I i ftTlA RffDk'h ctMlPL* flfUun (rm man come home what a scene of gladness and festivity, and how the great Father’s heart would rejoice at your coming home. You will come, some of you, will you not? You will, you willl MINISTERS OF RIGHT REJOICE WHEN THE PRODIGAL COMES HOME, m. 1 notice also that when a p rodi gal comes home there is the joy of tlie ministersof religion. OU, it is a grand thing to preach this gospel. 1 know there has been a great deal said about the trials and ’tlie hardships of the Christian ministry. I wish somebody would write' a good, rousing book about the joys of the Christian minis try. Since I entered the profession I have seen more of the goodness of God; than I will be able to celebrate in all eternity. I know some boast about their equilibrium, and they do not rise'into enthusiasm, and they do nol break down with emotion; but 1 con fess to you plainly that when 1 see a man coming to God and giving up his sin; I feel in body, mind and soul a transport. When I see a man who is bound hanu and foot in evil habit emancipated, I rejoice over it as though it were my own emancipation. When today in our communion services such throngs of young and old stand at these altars, and in the presence of heaven and earth and hell attest their allegi ance to Jesus Christ, I feel a joy some thing akin to that which the apostle describes when he says: “Whether in tho body I cannot tell, or out of tho body i cannot tell; God kuoweth.” On, have not ministers a right to re joice when a prodigal comes home? They blew the trumpet, aud ought they not to be. glad of the gathering of the host? They pointed to tlie full supply, and ought they not to rejoice when souls pant as the hart for the water brooks? They came fortji say ing: “Ail things are now ready;” ought they not to rejoice when the prodigal sits down at the banquet? Life insurance men will all tell you that ministers of religion as a class live longer than any other. It is con firmed by the statistics of all those' who calculate upon human longevity. Why is it? There is more draft upon thp nervous system than in any other profession, and their toil is more ex hausting. I have seen ministers kept on miserable stipends by parsimonious congregations who wondered at the dullness of their sermons, when the men of God were perplexed almost to death by questions of livelihood, and had not enough nutritious food to keep any fire in their temperament. No fuel, no fire. I have sometimes seen the inside of the life of many of the American clergymen— never accepting their hospitality, be cause they cannot afford it; but I have seen them struggle on with salaries of five and six hundred dollars a year— the average less than that — their struggle well depicted by the western missionary who says in a letter: “Thank you for your last remittance; until it came we had not any meat in our house for one year, and all last* winter, although it was a severe win ter, our children wore their summer clothes.” And these men of God I find in different parts of the land, struggling against annoyances and exasperations innumerable; some of them week after week entertaining agents who have maps to sell, and • oue stroke he struck down tlie man who had incarcerated him. - Passing along tlie streets of -Loudon he won dered where his family was. ne did not dare to ask lest he excite suspicion, but, passing along 5 little way from the prison, he saw a Keith tankard, a cup that belonged to the family from generation to generation— he saw it in a window. Hisfahiily. hoping that some day he would'gct clear, came arm lived as near as they could to the prison house, and they set that Keith tankard in the window, hoping lie wouid see it; and lie curne along and saw it, and knocked at the door, and went in. and tho long absent family were all to gether again. Oh, if you would start for the kingdom of God today, I think some of you would find nearly all your friends and nearly all your fami lies around tlio i holy tankard of the holy communion—fathers, mothers, brothera, sistere around that sacred tankard which commemorates tlie love of Jesus Christ our Lord. Oh, it will be a great communion day when your whole family sits around the sacred tankard. Oneou earth, one in heaveu. FOR THE RETURN OF PRODIGALS LET EVERY ONE PRAY. V. Once more I remark, that when the prodigal gets back tho in habitants of heaven keep, festival. I am very certain of it. If you have never seen a telegraphic chart, you have no idea how many cities are con nected together and how many lands. Nearly ml the neighborhoods of the earth seem articulated, and news flies from city to city, and from continent to continent. But more rapidly go the tidings from earth to heaveu. and when a prodigal returnsitisannounced before the throne of God. And if these souls this morniug should enter the kingdom there would be some one in the heavenly kingdom to say: “That’s my father/’ “That’s my mother,” “That’s my son,” “That’s my daugh ter,” “That’s my friend,” “That’s the one I used to pray for,” “That’s the one for whom I wept so many tears,” and one soul would say, .“Hosanna 1” and another would say, “Hallelujah 1” Pleased with the news the saints below In songs their tongues employ; Beyond the skies the ridings go, And heaven is filled with Joy. Nor angels can their Joy contain. But kindle with uew fire; The sinner lost is found, they sing. And strike the sounding lyre.. At tlie banquet of Lueullus sat Cicero the orator, at the Macedonian festal sat Philip the conqueror, at the Grecian banquet sat Socrates the philosopher; but at our Father’s table sit all the returned prodigals, more than conquerors. The table is so wide its leaves reach across seas and across lands. Its guests are the redeemed of earth _ and the glorified of heaven. The ring of God’s forgiveness on e>ery hand, the robe of ^Saviour’s righteous ness adroopfrom every shoulder. The wine that glows in tne cups is from the bowls of ten thousand sacraments. L«t all the redeemed of earth and all the glorified of heaven rise, and with gleaming chalice drink to the return of a thousand prodigals. Sing! singl sing l “Worthy is tlie Lamb that was slain to receive blessing aud riches and honor and glory and power, world without end 1” ,r l . cl V v, an ^yor hi„ goods of that Lind. Titov :ir .r and line-lout they hare a |j: t u real satin, witlYthe most briuftirai ing and pattern*. Terra ■ bl ue, gray blue end a soft dm-!/, 1:1 • the newe st shades. There are tinet styles in the designs-.,,. 1 ^ the patterns are large and'str’i*;^ of great beauty; others of metrical arid floral patterns riulu in natural.colors, and others oj cashmere pattern. These Inst I. design a 1) over and arc of relin, <i taste. These will he worn:s» ~N govvps. tea gowns and, in polo^ra 14 COrding to Taney, as w«*» as costumes*, 'homeof the indigo li| u , flowers and grasses in white or of extreme delicacy and beauty There are striped satines and s - ginghams. which will be worn [„/ nis. and also for* all sumui* .- dresses. ' “f There is a new white nni S li n than book-muslin and[not quite I sofa mull, and this is to be nui<le deep hem at tlio bottom,alwevvhi ^ wide band of embroidery i s JJ? 3 LACE GINGHAM COSTUME. tlieir land In beauty and fineness. coloring L; exquisite, and they are really more beautiful than any silk or expen sive goods uow seen. *** . rra' ' . Some of the ginghams pro, made m stripes an inch and a half wide, of white and scarlet, or white and blue, brown or gray, and . at irregular intervals are flowers wbven in brocade pattern in the most deli cate manner. Others have solid stripes, alternat ing with lace stripes; othe: have stripes o: delicately tinted plaids with lace stripes in so maiiy different varieties and styles that detailed mention of them is im possible. Then there are plaids ’ with large broken figures, and from tliat down to the pinhead plaid in two colors, and with other plaids of the shade's of gray, green, pink, blue, or yellow or brown, alternated with wliite. each square outlined with a lace work of floss. There are plain equal stripes in all the newest tints and colors, and others where there are wide stripes in white or solid gray, light brown, or other tints, alter nating with a wide stripe made up of a dozen narrow ones of different widths and colors. Oth ers again have plain colored stripes with plaid stripes as offset, and altogether they are so soft, so fine and 60 ele gant that no lady with an eye t6 beauty and the fitness of thing? can pass them without desire. Just as I wrote the last line I turned over the samples again, aud find one with a cream white ground, with a three-inch stripe, made up cf thirty fine blue stripes, fif teen each side of a center, of lace stripe, in the middle of which is a line of black dote. As narrower plain blue and white lace stripe is placed m tlie middle of the the three-inch white stripe, the effect is exquisite. One thing is notable among these new goods, and that is each principal design is carried out in fifteen different color ings and tints, so that those who admire the style of pattern can be suited in any color. Some of these cost thirty-five cents a yard and others seventy. They will all wash well. They run through all the tints, and but few are found in dark colors, except tho indigo blue, car dinal, gray and browns. The variety is so great that I could liardly count them. The pretty old fashioned pinhead check in brown, blue, pink, scarlet, green and yellow, alternated with white, are soft and fine, and will be fresh as long as a thread lasts, and cost from eighteen cents up, and nm about a yard wide. Those which have a plain and a brocaded stripe cost about forty-five cents, and no silk could ma ke prettier toilets. They can be made up in any 6tyle that suits individual taste. Tlie summer toilet of gingham in the illustration is a pretty model to follow with any variations that the lady’s taste may suggest For many years” pique has not been worn to any extent, but this season this material lias been revived in a new form.” It is now mat white, with lovely designs in indelible colors stamped upon them. One has a dry twig of hawthorn-.another, crescents formed of black stars; another, cardinal stripes, and this is also copied in blue, brown and maroon. Another lias rings of blue and other colors linked to gether. One dainty design has two leaves, one red and one black. Another between tw-o rows of -ti . There are no scollo]>s at the boit^l drapery is made of plain musUa* embroidery in these costumes i.-ini~ n "’'| so as to leave the bottom fora \vk]' l . ■ This is very pretty and novel, SUXUJUit TtllliKT Oh GINGHAM. The empress of Austria is attended by a woman physician. — GINGHAM SUIT. has red and black horseshoes, with wliite nails. Another pattern has polka dots of black and other colors, while still others liave squares madoof dotted lines These goods are the b?st possible for wear and well adapted- to children’s dresses. They are also produced in indigo blue and dark brown, and have stripes dote and, in fact, almost all kinds of de^ signs, but all small and extremely neat They cost fifty cents per yard. J The new satines # are really too beauti ful to be simply cotton goods. I never Gingham suits aro made up ^ f . re „ practicable, on the bias, and I oq u L.; two steps of jplaids ur«> u*i!ty>j smaller for the upper and tho &ri .Lr the bottbhi parts. " We always have cotton gcxxU in wr‘ ous styles, but wo have not bad anyth;,! like tho new luousselino dvlainV/3 many years, and now »ve are l) sbnieor the prettiest patterns’iitb , '! est and daintiest m* '"‘ l of material in these goods. A few are in cash- mc-ro patterns, but most of them have small de tached designs of tiny but perfect flowers. Guo lids bunches of - moss rose buds, abso lutely perfect, while their leaves and the buds arc not much bigger than pin heads. One pattern has brown sprigs tipona.soft cream ground. Another has a ground of cardinal with stripes made of tiny dots, stars and diamonds, and this same de sign is reproduc ed in many col ors. Another lovely soft gray has black hr.wthn sprays upon it. A dark brown has mb iuture pink roses with, tlieir green learn upon it. and other browns have end and white figures. One delicate tan cola has sprays of maidenhair fern in shaiW brown. Other patterns show black g metrical designs on cream ground, (kiibl Stripes and dote on exquisitely ‘ liald ground and cardinal roses on ind® ground, and in short so many and i perfect patterns that it would be an i ible task to particularize them material is about a yard wido costs from fifty to sixty cents, grandmothers used to have such go and it is a wonder it was not revivedlu: ago. The new summer silks follow the m fancy for those quaint old designs, andj have before ine* twenty-one samples i summer silks, all of which are in dilic: ent shades and colors, hut all bearinstn same pattern of a loose bunch of fine, soft grasses that are so delicate i dainty. Green, Peru, indigo-and brow yellow, pink, black, garnet, nmrocnundl tliat lovely dove gray which has just < suspicion of puqdo in it, besides tin ways pofluidr pearl gray. Tan and nankiaj colors are also prominent in all the ne 1 goods. There are also new light wc-i" tweeds an<l Cheviots for summer an spring outing, and the new cashmcn which, however, are only new in cem new combinations of color. Oashiuwi can now be bought in good quality at «| to 75 cents. | After the light summer silks for dw day wear come the heavier fine riib which will tie used lo make up evening toilets and dinner dresses M ceremonious occasions. Among thf; are six distinct styles. One is a lieay?J Sicflierine in dark gray, with a uroca«| representing plumes in silver gray a 1 " The same idea is shown in olive grass green, chaudron and copper.br* and indigo and electric blue. The pattei is over ton inches long. Another la stripes of gray armure weave silk, 1 plain black satin stripes and check* stripes. This same pattern is m:ide ^ emerald given and black satin. Anotl* style has a clouded effect brocaded 1 wide stripes; tlio alternating std. 1 * 1 being of moire. Tlio smoked costing ! made of goods of this kind. The cdfl in the model is of tan color aud mahogany brown. The front is madedj salmon pink armure silk, smocked f front to a point. The plain silks are all in reps elk* Ottoman, Sicilicnne and corded, 1 nearly all are soft finish. Tlie fa Franca iso is also very soft, and armurcs are so flexible that they |J ‘ almost like cashmere. One other ve rich and handsome silk is in stripes I inches wide of a surah stripe plain, *. a basket weave, or birdseyem brocade ^ eomo contrasting . color. For instant olive and yellow, garnet and pink, color or black and light blue* Silk I never been so cheap as it is now, i never as handsome. In my next letter I shall present t more of the styles of making up spring and summer costumes out of beautiful goods now offered for pleasure of those whose beauty they! intended to enhance. There are also many new fancies white dress goods, but, bless us! couldn’t get half in one letter; besides,, ® we did there would be nothing lefO the next, and 1 don’t propose to curt mv usefulness. Olive Haepe^_ 885 Solid Gold Witch.T Sold for 8100. until lately. I Boat *SJ watch In tho 1 Perfect timeXeeper. 'Yer-J. rented. tUunting Cua. ■ fond gontt’ ,fi end cues | Oue Person 1““^ . celtiy ceu scc , u ' c ., together wStb avWP ek0 |i| uablo lino of M°“ piA<| Samples. Tlie * 0 h **^5 well os the sretth. j^j Free, and thorn In your homo for 0 month* »nd ohown in p.'| who m*y hare called, they become your own prop who write at one© can do §ur© of recemng and Sample*. Wepay all exprets, fWiSfht, gUn»oa efc Co*, Bux I*ortU»»®i» |
