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A JUBIL
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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.
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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.
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[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
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