---------------------------------------- --- ,note3 ,around word indicates italics ,erebus4 ,the ,,table ,,of ,,contents ,table has been harvested from the ,january ,edition ---------------------------------------- --- ,,table ,,of ,,contents ,a ,mother's ,love1 by ,mary ,neal1 #cee ,appletons'1 #chj ,apron in ,broderie en ,lacet1 #cfc ,beauty1 by ,miss ,m4 ,h4 ,butt1 #cdf ,border and ,corner for ,pocket-,handkerchief1 #cfa ,camilla ,mantilla1 #bhi ,caps1 #cfb ,celestial ,phenomena1 by ,d4 ,w4 ,belisle1 #cae ,centre-,table ,gossip1 #cgi ,chemisettes1 #cfb ,cottage ,furniture1 #cfd ,crochet ,tassel ,cover1 #ceh ,dairy-,house and ,piggery1 #cdi ,don't ,overtask the ,young ,brain1 #ccg ,dream ,picture1 by ,mrs4 ,a4 ,f4 ,law1 #cec ,dress--as a ,fine ,art1 by ,mrs4 ,merrifield1 #cdg ,editors' ,table1 #cff ,ellie ,maylie1 by ,jennie ,dowling ,de ,witt1 #cec ,enigmas1 #cgg ,eugenie ,costume1 #bib ,fashions1 #cha ,godey's ,arm-,chair1 #cga ,godey's ,course of ,lessons in ,drawing1 #cbc ,i was ,robbed of my ,spirit's ,love1 by ,jaronette1 #ced ,jacket for ,riding-,dress1 #cfd ,laces and ,embroideries1 #cgi ,lady's ,scarf ,mantelet1 #ceg ,lady's ,slipper1 #cfc ,le ,printemps ,mantilla1 #bhi ,letters ,left at the ,pastry ,cook's1 ,edited by ,horace ,mayhew1 #ccd ,literary ,notices1 #cfi ,management of ,canary ,birds1 #cbb ,mantillas1 from the celebrated ,establishment of ,g4 ,brodie1 ,new ,york1 #bij1 #bia ,manuel ,garcia1 the celebrated ,singing-,master1 #cff ,mrs4 ,murden's ,two ,dollar ,silk1 by ,the ,author of ,miss ,bremer's ,visit to ,cooper's ,landing1 #cag ,netted ,cap1 for morning wear1 #cfj ,our ,practical ,dress ,instructor1 #ceg ,patterns for ,embroidery1 #cfe ,receipts1c41 #cgh ,singular ,inscriptions on ,tombstones1 #cgf ,some ,thoughts on ,training ,female ,teachers1 by ,miss ,m4 ,s4 ,g41 #ccf ,sonnets1 by ,wm4 ,alexander1 #ceb ,spring ,bonnets1 #bid ,the ,borrower's ,department1 #cgg ,the ,elixir of ,life1 by ,charles ,albert ,janvier1 #ced ,the ,household1 #cgi ,the ,interview1 by ,t4 ,hempstead1 #ceb ,the ,last ,moments1 by ,r4 ,griffin ,staples1 #cef ,the ,manufacture of ,artificial ,flowers1 by ,c4 ,t4 ,hinckley1 #bie ,the ,orphan's ,departure1 by ,margaret ,floyd1 #caj ,there's ,music1 by ,horace ,g4 ,boughman1 #cec ,the ,song-,birds of ,spring1 by ,norman ,w4 ,bridge1 #cee ,the ,souvenir2 or1 ,the ,arrival of the ,lady's ,book4 ,a ,sketch of ,southern ,life1 by ,pauline ,forsyth1 #cch ,the ,toilet1 #chb ,the ,trials of a ,needle-,woman1 by ,t4 ,s4 ,arthur1 #cbf ,the ,turkish ,costume1 #cdh ,the ,was and the ,is1 by ,o4 ,everts1 ,m4 ,d41 #cef ,the ,wild ,flowers of ,early ,spring-time1 #cdc ,to an ,absent ,dear ,one1 by ,fannie ,m4 ,c41 #cee ,to ,ida1 by ,horace ,phelps1 ,m4 ,d41 #cef ,true ,happiness in a ,palace1 #cfg ,undersleeves1 #cfb ,washing made ,easy1 #cgi ,willie ,maylie1 by ,cornelia ,m4 ,dowling1 #cec ,zanotti3 a ,romantic ,tale of ,italy and ,spain1 by ,percy1 #cjj ,illustration3 ,,departure ,,of ,,the ,,orphan4 ,engraved for ,godey's ,lady's ,book4 ,illustration3 ,the ,arrival of the ,lady's ,book4 ,illustration3 ,latest ,fashions for ,godey's ,lady's ,book4 ,illustration3 ,,seasonable ,,patterns4 ,,designed1 ,,by ,,mrs4 ,,suplee1 ,,expressly ,,for ,,godey',s ,,lady',s ,,book4 ,,camilla ,,mantilla4--,light green silk1 trimmed with ,honiton lace4 ,,le ,,printemps ,,mantilla4--,lavender or pearl-colored silk4 ,the yoke and point cut in one piece4 ,the trimming is a rich fringe of the same color4 ,illustration3 ,,the ,,columbine4 ,from the establishment of ,g4 ,,brodie1 ,no4 #ea ,canal ,street1 ,new ,york4 ,,for the early portion of the season1 we illustrate a mantilla of great beauty4 ,it is made of black-green or ruby-colored1 with a richly embroidered ornamental design4 ,should it prove desirable1 the upper portion of the garment may be left off1 and the lower alone worn4 ,the mantilla is trimmed with a netted fringe1 seven inches wide4 ,illustration3 ,,the ,,snowdrop4 ,from the establishment of ,g4 ,,brodie1 ,no4 #ea ,canal ,street1 ,new ,york4 ,,for the close of this month and the early summer1 we present a mantilla which shares largely the public favor4 ,this garment has appeared elsewhere before1 somewhat in advance of its time2 but1 as we desire to present accurate reports of what are actually the reigning modes1 we publish it here for the benefit of our lady friends4 ,it is in the berthe style1 composed of white poult de soie1 heavily embroidered4 ,the collar is slashed upon the shoulder1 and cross-laced with cords terminating in neat tassels4 ,it is fringed with extraordinary richness4 ,illustration3 ,,eugenie ,,costume4 ,,designed1 ,,by ,,mrs4 ,,suplee1 ,,expressly ,,for ,,godey',s ,,lady',s ,,book4 ,suitable for the coming season4 ,material4--,brilliante or lawn4 ,the corsage is cut square and full1 and trimmed with inserting and edging4 ,the skirt has a hem and two tucks1 each six inches deep1 trimmed as above4 ,illustration3 ,l',,anglaise4 ,,designed1 ,,by ,,mrs4 ,,suplee1 ,,expressly ,,for ,,godey',s ,,lady',s ,,book4 ,material4--,tissue1 barge or silk4 ,five folds on the skirt1 each five inches deep4 ,scallops trimmed with ,no4 #a ribbon4 ,looped up at intervals with ,no4 #c ribbon1 as in plate2 the ribbons to suit the colors in the dress4 ,corsage the same4 ,gimp or braid is to be used with silk4 ,illustration3 ,,spring ,,bonnet4 ,,this ,,bonnet1 which is suited to a plain walking-dress1 is made of straw1 and trimmed with ,leghorn-colored ribbon1 disposed in a simple and tasteful style1 with two long flowing ends on the left side4 ,the bonnet is lined with white rophane1 laid in small neat folds2 and the under-trimming consists of loops of black velvet ribbon4 ,the second figure is the reverse side of the same bonnet4 ,,godey',s ,,lady',s ,,book4 ,,philadelphia1 ,,april1 #ahed4 ,,everyday ,,actualities4--,,no4 ,,xviii4 ,,illustrated ,,with ,,pen ,,and ,,graver4 ,,by ,c4 ,t4 ,,hinckley4 ,,the ,,manufacture ,,of ,,artificial ,,flowers4 ,,the manufacture of artificial flowers1 first brought to a high degree of excellence by the ,italians1 is one of no small importance1 considering the amount of skill and labor which it brings into requisition4 ,the first attempt at making artificial flowers among civilized nations was by twisting ribbons of different colors somewhat into the shape of flowers1 and fastening them to wire stems4 ,this yielded to the use of feathers1 which were far more elegant1 but could not always be made to imitate in color the flowers which they represented1 there being considerable difficulty in getting them to take the dyes4 ,where the plumage of birds is of great brilliancy1 the natural colors admirably answer the purpose1 and do not fade or lose their resplendent hues4 ,thus1 in ,south ,america1 the savages have long known how to fabricate beautiful artificial flowers from such plumage4 ,in ,italy1 the cocoons of silkworms are often used1 and have a soft and velvety appearance1 while they take a brilliant dye4 ,in ,france1 the finest cambric is the chief material1 while wax is also largely employed4 ,the arrangement of the workshop1 and the variety and use of tools1 where flower-making is practised on a large scale1 are as follows3-- ,illustration3 ,fig4 #a4 ,a large and well-lighted room1 which has the means of warmth in winter1 is selected1 and along its whole extent is placed a table1 similar to the writing-tables used in schools1 where the work-people may have a good light as long as possible4 ,this table is fitted with drawers containing numerous compartments1 arranged so as to receive and keep separate the small parts of flowers1 such as petals1 stalks1 minute blossoms catkins1 buds1 leaves not mounted on their stalks and all other parts not fit to be placed among more finished specimens4 ,it is desirable that the table be covered with oil-cloth1 so that it may be frequently cleansed1 by washing1 from the stains of the different colors employed4 ,along the whole extent of this table are placed flower-holders1 that is1 light frames with horizontal iron wires1 to which the flowers1 when attached to their stalks1 are suspended by merely crooking the end of the stalk1 and hanging it on the wire4 ,sometimes tightly strained pack-thread is used instead of wire4 ,figs4 #a and #b represent two forms of flower-holder2 in both cases the frame is fixed to the table4 ,along the tables are also ranged bobbin-holders in considerable numbers1 not unlike those used by weavers4 ,the bobbin-holder is a rod of iron1 ,fig4 #c1 about six inches high1 fixed in a massive leaden or wooden base4 ,on this rod is threaded a large bobbin1 on which is wound a quantity of silk or wool4 ,on its summit may be fixed a nut1 to prevent the bobbin1 when in rapid motion1 from whirling off the rod1 but this is often omitted4 ,ladies who work for their pleasure frequently have this bobbin-holder made in an ornamental form1 the base being covered with bas-reliefs1 and the nut at the top taking the form of an arrow1 a blossom1 c4 ,but the more simple and free from ornament1 the better is the holder for use1 any unnecessary projections only acting as so many means of entangling the silk4 ,illustration3 ,fig4 #b4 ,illustration3 ,fig4 #c4 ,the flower-maker does not take up flowers or their parts with the fingers1 but with pincers of the simplest description1 ,fig4 #d1 which are incessantly in use4 ,with these1 the smallest parts of the flower can be seized1 and disposed in their proper places1 raised1 depressed1 turned about and adjusted1 according to the taste of the artist1 and her appreciation of natural forms4 ,it is with the pincers also that any little contortions of the extremities of petals1 and irregularities in their form and in the arrangement of stamens1 are copied4 ,the proper length of this tool is about five inches4 ,each workwoman brings one for her own use1 and keeps it close at hand4 ,dressing-frames of various sizes form another part of the furniture of the work-room4 ,on these are stretched the materials1 which are gummed and dyed4 ,a dressing-frame1 ,fig4 #e1 consists of two uprights of hard wood1 with two cross pieces of the same1 capable of adjustment4 ,the frame is fitted with crooks for the attachment of the material1 or with a band of coarse canvas to which the material can be sewn4 ,these frames have no feet1 and are fitted sometimes against a wall1 sometimes upon a chair4 ,when covered with the material1 they are hung up against the wall by one of the cross pieces1 until it is time to dismount them4 ,illustration3 ,fig4 #d4 ,illustration3 ,fig4 #e4 ,illustration3 ,fig4 #f4 ,illustration3 ,fig4 #g4 ,illustration3 ,fig4 #h4 ,there are also various useful implements1 called by the work-people irons1 for cutting out petals1 calyxes1 and bracts1 and for giving to leaves those various serrated and other forms which produce such wonderful variety in foliage4 ,these cutting tools1 two of which are shown in ,figs4 #f and #g1 are of iron1 with a hollow handle1 flat at its upper extremity1 that the hammer may be readily applied4 ,they are about four or five inches long1 and of numerous sizes and varieties4 ,that they may cut rapidly and clearly1 the edges are occasionally rubbed with dry soap4 ,when a leaf becomes attached to the interior1 and cannot be shaken out1 a little ring of wire1 ,fig4 #h1 is introduced in a hole j1 ,fig4 #g1 left for that purpose to disengage it4 ,the material is doubled several times under the cutter1 so that several petals or leaves may be cut out at once4 ,the block on which the leaves are cut out is rather a complicated affair4 ,it is placed near a window1 and as far as possible from the workers1 that the blows of the hammer may not interfere with their employment4 ,sometimes it consists of a very stout framework of timber1 on which is placed a mattress of straw to deaden the blows1 and upon this mattress a thick smooth piece of lead1 forming a square table1 ,fig4 #i4 ,in some cases a solid block of timber is used1 a portion of the trunk of a tree taken near the root1 and on this the mattress and the leaden table are placed4 ,the hammers used at this work are short and heavy2 one is especially adapted for smoothing the surface of the lead when it becomes indented all over by the blows of the workman4 ,illustration3 ,fig4 #i4 ,illustration3 ,fig4 #aj4 ,illustration3 ,fig4 #aa4 ,illustration3 ,fig4 #ab4 ,illustration3 ,fig4 #ac4 ,the cutting out of the leaves and petals is only a preliminary operation to the more perfect imitation of nature2 the leaves must next be gauffered to represent the veins1 the fold1 and the endless touches and indentations which are found in the natural plant4 ,gauffering is executed in two ways1 the first and simplest being that which merely gives the hollow form to the petals of roses1 cherry-blossoms1 peach1 hawthorn1 and numerous other flowers which preserve1 until the period of decay1 somewhat of the form of a bud1 all the petals beautifully curving inwards4 ,to imitate these1 the gauffering tools are simple polished balls of iron fixed on iron rods1 with a wooden handle attached1 as shown in ,fig4 #aj4 ,the balls are of various sizes1 from a pin's head upwards1 to adapt them to the minute blossoms of such flowers as the forget-me-not1 which require only the slightest degree of curvature1 and to the large flowers of camelia1 dahlia1 mallow1 c41 where the curvature is of often very great4 ,these balls are made slightly warm1 so as to fix the forms decidedly1 without effacing the colors4 ,the petals are placed on a cushion1 and the iron is pressed against them4 ,but curvature alone is not sufficient2 there is1 in many petals1 a decided fold or plait up the centre1 springing from the point where it is attached to the germen4 ,this fold can be obtained by the use of a prism-shaped iron1 ,fig4 #aa4 ,conical1 cylindrical1 and hooked irons1 ,figs4 #ab1 #ac1 are also useful to imitate the various minuti of the blossoms4 ,a cushion near each artist serves as a rest to the gauffering irons1 which must be preserved from the least taint of dust1 seeing that they are applied to the most delicately-beautiful portions of the flower4 ,the veins and curves of leaves are given by gauffers composed of two distinct parts1 on each of which is severally moulded in copper the upper and under surface of the leaf as shown in ,fig4 #ad4 ,sometimes1 one part is of iron1 the other of copper4 ,it is necessary to have a very large assortment of these gauffers2 in fact1 they should correspond in number with the cutting-irons by which the forms of leaves are punched out4 ,the leaf or leaves being inserted in the gauffer1 a powerful pressure is given to stamp the desired form4 ,this is accomplished either by means of a heavy iron pressed on the lid1 or by two or three smart blows of a hammer1 or1 better still1 by the uniform action of a press1 such as is shown in ,fig4 #ae4 ,besides the above articles1 the workshop is provided with an abundance of boxes1 scissors large and small1 for cutting wire1 as well as textile fabrics1 camel-hair pencils1 sponges1 canvas-bags1 c41 that everything likely to be needed by the work-people may be immediately at hand4 ,illustration3 ,fig4 #ad4 ,illustration3 ,fig4 #ae4 ,the material of which flowers are made is1 first and best 7as already stated71 ,french cambric1 but a great quantity of ,scotch cambric1 jaconet1 and even fine calico1 are also used4 ,for some descriptions of flowers1 clear muslin1 crape1 and gauze1 are wanted2 and for some very thick petals1 satin and velvet are necessary4 ,these materials are provided in various colors1 as well as in white1 but fresh tints have frequently to be given4 ,these are laid on with a sponge1 or a camel-hair pencil1 or the petal is dipped in color2 a quantity of green taffeta should always be at hand for leaves4 ,the coloring matters used in dyeing the material for the petals are as follows3 ,for red1 in its various shades1 ,brazil wood is largely used1 also carmine1 lake1 and carthamus4 ,the best way of treating ,brazil wood is to macerate it cold in alcohol for several days2 a little salt of tartar1 potash1 or soap1 will make this color pass into purple2 a little alum gives it a fine crimson-red1 and an acid will make it pass into yellow1 of which the shade is deeper according to the quantity employed4 ,carmine is better in lumps than in powder2 diffused in pure water1 it gives rose-color2 a little salt of tartar brightens the tint4 ,carthamus is dissolved cold in alcohol2 heat1 as well as the alkalies1 causes it to pass to orange4 ,the acids render it of a lively and pure red2 a very delicate flesh-color is obtained by rinsing the material1 colored with carthamus1 in slightly soapy water4 ,blue colors are prepared by means of indigo1 or ,prussian blue4 ,sometimes balls of common blue are used1 steeped in water4 ,indigo is first dissolved in sulphuric acid4 ,this is then diluted with water1 and powdered chalk or whiting is added until effervescence ceases4 ,the liquor is afterwards decanted off1 and the sediment1 when washed1 gives a paler color4 ,greater intensity is given to indigo by adding a little potash4 ,yellow colors are given by turmeric dissolved in spirits of wine1 by saffron1 chrome-yellow1 c4 ,green colors are obtained by mixtures of blue and yellow2 violets1 by mixtures of red and blue1 and by archil and a blue bath2 lilacs1 by archil only4 ,the method of making a rose will give a good idea of the manufacture in general4 ,first of all1 the petals are cut out from the finest and most beautiful cambric4 ,the pattern-shapes must be of different sizes1 because1 in the same rose1 the petals are never equal2 a good assortment of patterns enables the artist the better to imitate the variety of nature4 ,when the petals are thus prepared1 they have to be dyed in a bath of carmine in alkaline water4 ,for this purpose1 they are held separately by means of pincers1 and dipped first in the bath1 and then into pure water1 to give them that delicacy of tint which is characteristic of the rose4 ,but as the color of the petal usually deepens towards the centre1 a tint is there laid on with the pencil1 while a drop of water is laid on the point of insertion of the petal1 to make the color there fade off1 as it does in nature1 to white4 ,if the right tint is not given at first1 the processes are repeated2 any slight imperfection1 such as is seen in the petals of most living flowers1 being also accurately imitated with the pencil4 ,the taffeta employed in making leaves is dyed of the proper green in the piece before cutting out4 ,it is then stretched out to dry1 and afterwards further prepared with gum-arabic on one side1 to represent the glossy upper surface of leaves1 and with starch on the other1 to give the velvety appearance of the under side4 ,this preparation1 colored to suit the exact shade to be given to the leaf1 must be just of the proper consistence1 making the leaf neither too stiff nor too limp1 while it gives the proper kind of under surface4 ,where the leaf requires a marked degree of this velvet texture1 it is given by the nap of cloth reduced to fine powder1 and properly tinted4 ,a little gum is lightly passed over the surface1 and when partly dry1 this powder is dusted over it1 the superfluous portion being shaken off4 ,these preparations having been completed1 it yet remains to give to the leaves1 after they are cut out1 the appearance of nature1 by representing the veins and indentations which they always exhibit4 ,for this purpose various gauffering-tools are made use of4 ,the material for the leaflets of the calyx in roses1 is subjected to another process immediately on coming out of the dye1 in order to preserve the firmness which it is necessary the calyx should have4 ,to this end1 the taffeta1 while still damp1 is impregnated with colored starch on both sides1 and stretched on the drying-frame3 when perfectly dry1 the leaflets are cut out according to pattern4 ,buds are made also of taffeta1 or1 if partially open1 they are made of white kid tinted of a suitable color1 stuffed with cotton1 or crumb of bread1 and tied firmly with silk to slender wires4 ,the stamens are prepared by attaching to a little knot of worsted a sufficient quantity of ends of silk to form the heart of the flower4 ,these ends of silk1 cut to the proper length1 are then stiffened in kid jelly1 and1 when dry1 the extremities are slightly moistened with gum-arabic and dipped in a preparation of wheaten flour1 colored yellow1 to represent the pollen4 ,each thread takes up its separate grain1 and is left to dry4 ,the heart of the flower being thus prepared1 and fixed to a stem of wire1 the smaller petals are arranged round it1 and fixed by paste at their points4 ,the larger petals succeed1 some of which are hollowed or wrinkled1 while constant care is taken to give them a natural appearance in disposing them around the centre4 ,the calyx comes next1 and incloses the ends of all the petals4 ,it is fixed with paste1 and surrounded with more or less of cotton thread1 which also generally incloses one or more wires attached to that which bears the heart of the flower1 and forming the germ4 ,the whole is covered with silver-paper tinted green4 ,the leaves are mounted on copper wire1 and are arranged on the stem in the order which nature teaches1 the covering of cotton and tissue-paper hiding the joints4 ,in addition to the manufacture of flowers intended as closely as possible to represent their living models1 there is a large branch of the art in which the aim seems to be to depart from nature as far as possible4 ,these fancy flowers are the fruit of the artist's peculiar taste1 and are therefore as impossible to describe as we sincerely wish they were impossible to execute4 ,there are also flowers of natural forms1 but of unnatural colors1 being made to assume mournful hues to suit the circumstances of their wearers4 ,there are also gold and silver flowers1 more resplendent1 but equally unnatural4 ,of these1 sometimes the stamens and pistils alone are metallic2 sometimes the petals are gilded1 and sometimes the leaves and fruit glitter in the same precious metal4 ,an easy method of applying the gilt in any device or form1 is to prepare a cement which shall fix it to the cambric1 paper1 or other material 7this cement may be honey and gum-arabic boiled in beer71 and then to moisten with it the surface1 placing thereon rather more gold-leaf than is necessary to cover it1 pressing it down with a cotton rubber1 and1 when it is dry1 rubbing off the superfluous gilding with the same4 ,flowers are also made in chenille1 but do not pretend to an accurate imitation of nature4 ,there are two or three methods of making them1 the simplest being to represent merely the shapes of flowers2 for instance1 apple-blossoms1 represented by small loops of pink chenille arranged round a centre4 ,another method is1 to make out the distinct petals1 by rows of chenille placed close together4 ,a third and prettier method1 is that of uniting chenille with ordinary flower-making4 ,flowers made of feathers may be extremely rich and brilliant in their effect4 ,yet ordinarily feather-flowers are more difficult than satisfactory1 and there are very few of our own familiar flowers that can be successfully copied by them4 ,one of the best imitations is that of the wild clematis when adorned1 as it is in autumn1 with its plumed seeds4 ,these can be admirably imitated in white marabout feathers4 ,some of the most available feathers for flower-making are those found under the wings of young pigeons4 ,the manufacture of wax-flowers is carried on by using the purest virgin wax1 entirely freed from all extraneous matters4 ,wax that is either granular or friable must be rejected4 ,it is generally melted in vessels of tinned iron1 copper1 or earthenware4 ,to render it ductile1 fine ,venice turpentine1 white1 pure1 and of an agreeable odor1 is added4 ,the mixture is constantly stirred with a glass or wooden spatula4 ,all contact with iron must be avoided1 and if the vessels are of that material1 they must be well and carefully tinned4 ,when stiff leaves are to be executed1 two parts of spermaceti are added to eight parts of wax1 to give transparency4 ,much care and tact are needed in coloring the wax4 ,the colors being in fine powder1 are made into a paste by adding little by little of essence of citron or lavender4 ,when the trituration is perfect1 this paste is mixed with melted wax1 stirring rapidly all the while2 and while the mass is still liquid1 it is poured into moulds of pasteboard1 or tinned iron1 of the shape of tablets1 and is then ready for use4 ,sometimes it is passed through fine muslin as it flows into the moulds4 ,another method is1 to tie up the color in a muslin bag1 and wave it about amongst the molten wax until the desired tint is obtained4 ,to combine colors1 it is only necessary to have two or three bags containing different colors1 and to employ as much of each as shall have the desired effect4 ,these bags1 far from being spoiled by dipping in wax already containing other shades1 have only to be rinsed in pure water to fit them for coloring other wax4 ,the colors most in use in wax flower-making1 are pure forms of white-lead1 vermilion1 lake1 and carmine1 ultramarine1 cobalt1 indigo1 and ,prussian blue1 chrome1 ,naples yellow1 and yellow ochre4 ,greens and violets are chiefly made from mixtures of the above4 ,the wax being prepared1 the manufacture of flowers is carried on in two ways4 ,the first consists in steeping in liquid wax little wooden moulds rinsed with water1 around which the wax forms in a thin layer1 so as to take the form of the mould1 and thus to present1 when detached from it1 the appearance of the whole or part of a flower4 ,in this way lilac and other simple blossoms are obtained with much rapidity4 ,the branches are also executed with wax softened by heat1 and moulded with the fingers round a thread of wire4 ,as for leaves and petals1 they are cut out of sheets of colored wax of the proper thickness4 ,these sheets are glossy on one side1 and velvety on the other4 ,to express the veining of leaves1 they are placed in moistened moulds1 and pressed with the thumb sufficiently to get the impression1 which is accurately copied from nature4 ,the petals are made to adhere simply by pressure2 the leaves are placed on a little footstalk1 and the latter fastened to the stem4 ,the manner of procuring moulds for the accurate imitation of leaves1 is as follows3 ,a natural leaf of the plant it is wished to imitate is spread out on a flat surface of marble1 for example4 ,it is lightly but equally greased with olive oil1 and surrounded with a wall of wax1 which must not touch it4 ,then1 in a small vessel containing a few spoonfuls of water1 a few pinches of plaster of ,paris are to be thrown1 and briskly stirred till the liquid has the consistence of thick cream4 ,this is poured over the leaf1 and left till it is well hardened4 ,it is then lifted up and the leaf detached1 when it will be seen that the plaster has taken a perfect impression of every vein and indentation4 ,such moulds are rendered far more durable if they are impregnated while warm with drying oil4 ,this gives them greater solidity1 and prevents their crumbling from frequent immersion in water4 ,it is necessary to impress strongly on all amateur wax flower-makers the necessity for having all tools and moulds completely moistened with water1 otherwise the wax will be constantly adhering1 and preventing neatness of workmanship4 ,the variety of the materials used in artificial flower-making was displayed to an amusing extent in the ,world's ,fair4 ,in addition to the really beautiful and artistic productions already noticed1 and to the elegant flowers constructed of palm-leaves1 of straw1 and of shells1 as well as of all the materials named in this paper1 there were flowers fabricated in human hair1 in chocolate1 in soap1 in wood1 marble1 porcelain1 common earthenware1 and other unpromising materials4 ,illustration ,,zanotti3 ,a ,,romantic ,,tale ,,of ,,italy ,,and ,,spain4 ,,by ,,percy4 ,,chapter ,i4 ,thou favored land ,of art and nature1 thou art still before me2 ,thy sons2 to whom their labor is a sport1 ,so well thy grateful soil returns its tribute ,thy sunburnt daughters1 with their laughing eyes ,and glossy raven locks4 ,oh1 ,love1 thou art a strange wild thing1 ,a dancing beam of ,mayday sun1 ,a life-morn song that angels sing1 ,a gift from ,him1 the ,highest ,one6 ,thou art a claude-tint thrown among ,the ,rembrandt shades that limn our strife6 ,the olive on thy lip is hung1 ,thou dove1 that bringest words of life4 ,love1 ,,by ,,percy4 ,,count ,,carlo ,,zanotti was a son of one of the noblest families in ,venice--the heir of its titles1 its wealth1 its hereditary renown1 and his prospects in the spring of life were golden as the trees in autumn4 ,an incident in his father's history1 which tinged the old man's declining years with a gloomy shadow1 had also its effect upon the son1 and1 unmindful of the brilliant future1 he brooded in sadness on the past4 ,his mother1 who was the beauty of her day1 had yielded to the fascinations of a young and handsome ,englishman1 and in an unguarded moment left her home and her husband1 to throw herself upon the poor protection of a profligate1 and to meet the cold sneers and savage slights of a selfish and unforgiving world4 ,how much the character1 in its gradual development1 is biased by a mother's influence1 it is difficult to estimate2 but we all know that the thought which mirrors ,eden in the face of home has saved even the best of us from many an error and many a sin1 and generated1 even in the worst1 some softening emotions1 and caused some kindly acts4 ,this holy influence1 linked with a mother's memory1 makes each thought of her1 as the ,german beautifully expresses it1 a prayer to ,god1 and we rise from musing upon her gentle love--kinder1 better1 wiser4 ,the wild sea of our hearts lies mute1 and o'er the waves the ,saviour walks4 ,how terrible then to have that sanctuary defiled1 to be taught that purity has fled1 even from ,dian's temple--to be brought up an atheist in the religion of the heart6 ,calm1 gentle1 passionless in outward aspect1 the count became noted as an earnest scholar1 and yet his heart contained many a hidden stratum of volcanic passion1 which burned scathingly at the thought of his mother's shame6 ,from an intense consciousness that the conduct of his parent entailed its measure of reproach upon himself1 he shrank from the society of men1 and sought sources of relaxation in tracing to their sequences those great thoughts which the thinkers of all time1 in their debasement and their exaltation1 have written down and immortalized--some1 on the undying page2 some1 on the living canvas2 some1 on the ever-moving firmament of ceaseless action6 ,the shadow of the wing of time fell upon him as a man1 at an age when most of us are immature1 unthinking boys4 ,the epochs of strong natures are dialed upon the mind not by the sunshine but by the darkness of the heart6 ,our sorrows are the evil genii who transform in a moment boyhood to manhood1 and manhood to age6 ,every day1 every hour1 this young man acquired something from ancient or from modern lore2 at twenty-four he was versed in a learning beyond that of many a lifelong scholar4 ,his studies1 within a year of the period at which we introduce him to the reader1 had taken a form different from any he had before pursued2 the old disciples of a gorgeous mythology being neglected for the mystical and alluring spiritualism of the exponents of modern ,german philosophy4 ,the ,english philosophy is entirely destructive of the grand1 the lofty1 the divine6 ,it lowers and debases by its precepts1 and chills by its explanations4 ,the ,french1 on the other hand1 attempts no explanations2 but the system is an elaborate sneer at all that is good1 and true1 and high1 and noble4 ,the aim of the ,german is at least the nobler one1 and elevates1 not dwarfs1 the souls of men4 ,there is a ,godlike within us that feels itself akin to the ,god2 and if we are told that both the ',godlike and the ,god are dreams1' we can but answer that so to dream is better than to wake and find ourselves nothing6 ,who among us--but worms of the dust1 low things1 fit only for the mire in which they wallow--but has at one time or another demanded initiation into the secret order of the searchers after truth8 ,who among us but1 unsatisfied with the knowledge that may be achieved1 grasps wildly after heaven's thunderbolts1 and would embrace the unattainable1 feeling1 as we so terribly do1 the restlessness and the might of the ,deity in our burning veins8 ,who among us but has tried to look deep into the future1 and read the fate1 not of the next year or moment1 but of the undying spirit in that other world1 of which we dream so much1 and know so little8 ,and who among us who has had the heroism honestly to make the attempt1 and to pursue to their sequences the terrible thoughts to which such reflection gives rise1 but has gone down headlong to the pit8 ,if no actual phantoms haunt the waking dreams of such unsuccessful neophytes1 yet a more terrible thing is that accursed skepticism--that coldness that does not brook to be questioned1 and that cannot be understood--that fills his soul4 ,it does not come over his hours of mirth1 when the wine-cup passes and the jest goes round2 but1 like the fabled fiend of the romancers1 comes only over the lost one's soul1 when his intellect would aspire and his genius dare4 ,comes it1 with its eternal sneer1 that sees nothing so high that it does not make it appear utterly despicable6 ,when his genius would dare1 comes it with its evil eyes1 and he loses faith in his genius and doubts his power2 loses faith when he knows that faith only can bear him through life's tempests2 doubts while he feels doubt to be the unpardonable sin4#a ,count ,zanotti had passed through each of the stages of which ,i speak--first1 an unquenchable yearning for forbidden knowledge2 next1 the rapture that glows when the lip touches the sparkle on the brim of the cup--and then the flatness and the weariness that follow6 ,but for him1 there was yet a hope4 ,his heart had never beat with the quick pulse of love6 ,its youthful vigor was unimpaired1 and in a contest with the intellect there was strong hope of it proving victorious4 ,the struggle came soon enough4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,chapter ,,ii4 ,two souls with but a single thought1 ,two hearts that beat as one4--,,ingomar4 ,,at the end of the long1 gloomy day following the conclusion of the carnival1 ,zanotti accompanied his father to a midnight mass1 and there for the first time saw ,leonora ,d',alvarez1 the daughter of ,spain's ambassador to the court of the winged ,lion of ,st4 ,mark's4 ,she was one of those beautiful creations that we so often dream of1 and sigh for1 and sometimes1 but very seldom1 see4 ,soul there shed its spiritual attributes over one from whose features even the bloom of youth seemed to catch a brighter hue4 ,like all ,italians1 ,zanotti had dreamed of love--the love of the poet and the dreamer2 and now he felt it in its strength--the love of a pure1 unselfish1 yet deep and ardent nature6 ,to shorten a long story 7for we must leave much to be divined in this history71 he felt the inspiration growing out of love impelling him to give him his feelings to the world in immortal song4 ,he wrote1 and he became famous6 ,then1 when a nation bowed before his genius--when a world re-echoed his name with reverence--he sought the woman who had roused his soul to exertion2 he told her that he loved her2 he told her that all the bright thoughts and sparkling fancies the universe had claimed as its own were hers--all hers2 that she1 and she alone1 had made his name as deathless as the ethereal essence the ,almighty had endowed his body with--and that unless she gave still another gift--her heart--fame1 fortune1 name1 genius--were but empty1 and hollow1 and useless6 ,the whispered reply was no denying one1 and he seemed to have attained all of happiness the world can offer4 ,months flew by--months in which life seemed born1 like ,venus1 of a rosy sea and a drop from heaven2 months when each to-morrow hung an arch of promise1 a ladder of sunlight1 each round of which seemed made to lead the feet through ,ivan gardens--up--up towards the sky6 ,the glorious sun1 warming like a lover's glance the beautiful bosom of the ,doge's bride--the swelling ,adriatic--the churches1 the palaces1 the prisons1 whose gloom was hallowed by romantic memories1 the legends attached to the palatial home of his own proud sires--these were subjects upon which1 all the livelong day1 he could expatiate1 and she delightedly listen2 and when night stole like a dream through the soft atmosphere1 the stars1 with their ,chaldaic interpretations1 furnished a new page from whence he could cull prophecies of their fate6 ,then would he weave old superstitions with the fancies of the poet and the lover1 till he grew amazed at his own strange eloquence6 ,she1 too1 on her part1 had an exhaustless theme in telling how1 by degrees1 his soul had1 as it were1 become a part of hers2 how every emotion in his own mind1 by an imperceptible and view-less magnetism1 awakened hers to action4 ,the simplest speech had a charm for him2 there was music in her voice2 her thoughts were dimless mirrors reflecting the spirituality of her soul2 to use his own language1 each word was the spray of her heart1 which mirrored in its sparkling globule all the beauty and none of the defects of the world around it6 ,the days glided by upon the swift pinions lent by unclouded happiness4 ,they lived in an atmosphere where all was of the past1 save their love and their hopes2 the multitude of traffickers and idlers that crossed their daily path were as unheeded shadows2 they mingled only with beings of other times4 ,their friends--for the friends of the scholar became those of the maiden--were ,homer and ,virgil1 ,tasso and ,marino1 the graceful ,catullus1 and the rough1 but noble-tongued ,lucretius6 ,they strolled in imagination through ,ilion's ,scn gate1 along the luxuriant banks of her winding rivers1 and lay down to repose beneath her wild and broad-leaved fig-tree4 ,and then1 when they had gathered around them the heroes and the poets of past and buried ages1 unlike ,alaric1 they would weigh the myrtle crown against the laurel wreath1 and see glory kick the beam6 ,could year after year of their lives have rolled away with such feelings and amid such employments1 they would have indeed been blessed6 ,but no6 ,alas6 that could not be6 ,love1 and youth1 and hope1 are but the sun-fringe of the cloud of life1 the flame that gilds the bark it consumes1 the lightning flashes that foretell a rent and shattered heart6 ,for love1 if no outward influences assail 7or assailing1 are conquered and driven back71 there is custom1 that slow1 insidious lullaby1 singing in ,morphean tones unceasingly1 till1 wearied and overcome1 that passion1 that would have repelled a visible foe1 sinks at his post in quietness--asleep6 ,it came6 ,it burst upon them without a warning6 ,fate had suspended a sword above their heads2 but1 unlike the tyrant's envious favorite1 they saw it not ere it fell6 ,it came--crushing and blighting the flowers that had blossomed for them1 and1 tearing their young hearts from the beautiful dream-world in which they revelled1 brought them back to the harsh and dull and cold realities of this6 ,the father of the lover was suddenly arrested by the myrmidons of the terrible ,council of ,ten4 ,it was discovered he was the head of a wide-spread conspiracy against the state1 and the expiration of the month of his arrest saw the noble and powerful family of ,zanotti exiles--its lord sent forth with the boon of life1 but with ruined fortunes and a tarnished name--its heir an outcast1 though spotless of a single crime4 ,the parting of the lovers was brief and terrible4 ,she swore to him that death only should take the bloom from her love1 that1 ruined in name and fortune as he was1 he was1 as ever1 the high priest of her heart's temple1 and that no other could ever approach its altar4 ,he offered no vows1 but said to her1 that if five years sped by without his presence1 to deem him dead1 and know he had died in striving to win laurels worthy to lay before her father's daughter6 99 99 99 99 99 ,,chapter ,,iii4 ,,years passed1 and in a foreign land ,alfieri sought to win wealth and a new name to offer the idol of his heart4 ,he succeeded beyond his wildest hopes1 and with an impatience that would have been unsatisfied with the swiftness of the lightning1 sped over the waters1 in a richly freighted argosy of his own1 back to his native city of the ,siren ,sea4 ,trusty adherents of his house had1 in the mean time1 procured the reversion of the attainder as far as it touched him1 and1 as his father was no longer alive1 there was a strong prospect of his estate being restored to him4 ,arrived at ,venice1 he learned that the ,duke ,d',alvarez had been recalled1 and in the course of conversation the new ambassador mentioned that there was talk in ,madrid of a projected nuptial between the ,donna ,leonora and the ,prince ,carlos of the blood royal of ,spain4 ,zanotti's lip quivered1 and his eye flashed fiercely as he heard the rumor1 but not a word escaped to betray the hot feelings that were pressing at his heart4 ,ere the sun sank into his bed of rosy clouds that night1 his gallant ship1 with straining masts and every stitch of canvas set1 was speeding1 like a gull1 over the waters1 and ,zanotti paced the deck through that night and the next with a stride that betokened troubled thoughts4 ,he reached ,madrid in safety1 and lost no time in finding the residence of the ambassador4 ,there were bright lights flitting from window to window1 and the sound of music was borne upon the night-wind1 betokening revelry within4 ,he stopped to question a lackey who was lounging at the entrance4 ,the ,donna ,leonora was married this night three weeks ago1 and ,monseignor gives a feast to-night to his son-in-law1 the prince6 ,zanotti clutched one of the pillars that supported the massive doorway1 and kept his hold for a moment convulsively1 for he felt his limbs failing him4 ,this movement brought his face beneath the jet of a lighted chandelier1 and the servant shrank with affright--it was like the countenance of the dead6 ,terrible as was the struggle in his breast2 fearful as was the sudden contest of passion and despair2 lost as he was to aught but a blighting sense of the wreck and desolation of his hopes1 he still could not be oblivious to the significantly curious glance of the affrighted servant4 ,by an almost superhuman effort he repressed further show of feeling1 and his voice was without a particle of tremulousness1 although very hollow1 as he told the menial to announce ,general di ,romano4 ,such was his new rank and name6 ,many a fair dame started as that tall1 majestic figure1 with its proud head and features1 pale and rigid as if hewn from the quarries of ,pentelicus1 passed her1 as straight he proceeded to the extremity of the apartment1 where1 in a group conversing with smiling looks1 stood the ,duke de la ,darca1 his daughter1 and the ,prince ,carlos of ,spain4 ,the count 7or1 as we should now call him1 the general71 unobserved by the group1 placed himself near one of the large ,gothic windows1 opposite to which was a group of statuary that effectually concealed him from view4 ,here he paused to gaze upon the woman who had wrecked his happiness6 ,four years had passed without robbing her of a single grace1 and she stood there sparkling with diamonds1 radiant with beauty1 and with a regality of bearing that well became her new and princely station4 ,an hour had elapsed1 and he had watched her through many a stately measure in the pompous dances of her country1 and heard her light jest and her gay laugh1 and saw the same haughty fire in her magnificent black eyes1 through all6 ,jealousy has often been described1 and the burning words of the poet have wrought out an appalling picture2 but if1 during that hour1 each wild throb of his bursting heart1 if each shooting fire of his seething brain1 if the madness and the agony and the fierce black promptings that fashioned each thought into shape1 and called it murder6 could have been conveyed in words or upon canvas to the minds of less volcanic natures1 they would have laughed to scorn the artist or the author1 and accused him of conjuring up the ,titan agonies of hell to confine them in the contracted space afforded by the heart of a mere mortal man6 ,he turned from the revellers1 sick and dizzy1 and gazed out upon the night4 ,the scene was as fair a one as ,god's smile ever lighted into beauty4 ,the moon--floating in a sea of blue1 cloudless1 with the exception of one fleecy-looking mass of vapor that covered a small space like a veil of silver tissue--poured a flood of radiance upon a garden 7surrounding the house on three sides7 filled with rare exotics1 and in the distance the steeples of the city rose up towards the sky1 as if formed of luminous mist4 ,the stars1 too1 were scattered round night's queen in rich profusion1 and the air was fragrant with the breath of orange-blossoms4 ,the ,venetian1 even in that land of sunshine and of flowers--his native ,italy--had never looked upon as beautiful a scene4 ,but it suggested no soothing fancies6 ,it only revived the memory of hours of which it was now madness to think6 ,hours that were freighted with dreams and aspirations as lovely as itself6 ,hours that were passed--and forever2 and aspirations that were coffined and dead6 ,his brain seemed bursting with the heat of the room1 and1 as the window was a casement but a few feet from the ground1 he sprang out1 and walked with a hasty step in a direction in which1 from a plashing sound that smote his ear1 he hoped to find a spring or fountain4 ,he found his conjecture a correct one1 and1 stooping down1 laved his fevered temples in the liquid1 which was as cold as ice1 but seemed ineffectual when applied to the terrible fever that consumed him6 ,he threw himself upon a richly sculptured seat that was supported by two marble ,dryads on the edge of the fountain1 and1 in spite of every restraining effort1 groaned aloud4 ,he had remained thus for some time1 regardless of time1 place1 everything but a dull leaden weight of misery1 when a light footfall on the hard gravel roused him1 and1 springing from his recumbent position1 he was about to conceal himself amid the foliage of the adjoining shrubbery1 for he was in no mood for society just then4 ,he also had been heard1 however1 and a rich1 musical voice exclaimed-- ,dear father1 are you there8 ,good heaven6 it was her voice6 ,he stood spell-bound--volition was suspended4 ,the next moment they were face to face6 ,with a low thrilling cry1 she cast herself upon his breast4 ,there was a gleam half of terror--partly of surprise and partly of joy--within her eyes4 ,there were the two again6 ay1 even as of yore6 ,leonora and ,carlo6 ,the ruined noble and his betrothed bride--the princess and the soldier6 99 99 99 99 99 ,,chapter ,,iv4 ,the heart hath whispered in its bliss1 ,who could be sad in scenes like this8 ,but1 hist1 a sound the night-wind bears1 ,a voice of love and sighs and tears6 ,,ms4 ,poem4 ,,an instant1 but a single instant1 the lady remained upon his breast1 and then ,zanotti1 removing her clinging arms1 placed her upon the seat which he had himself just occupied4 ,she looked upon him1 her full dark eyes flowing with tears1 and seemed struggling for utterance1 but no words came6 ,at length1 with an averted face1 he spoke-- ,your highness forgets our relative positions1 and-- ,forgets6 said she wildly1 interrupting him2 forgets6 ,ay6 ,i did indeed for a moment forget all but you2 and you1 ,oh ,carlo1 is yours the voice to bring back reality8 ,is it for you to whom every pulsation of my heart has been dedicated2 for whom in the long hours of night ,i have wept tears that seemed of blood--is it for you to restore me to a reality which contains no elements but those of despair1 those that break hearts1 those that frenzy the exhausted brain8 ,alfieri's voice was sepulchrally hollow when he replied1 and the quivering of his manly frame showed the violence of the emotion within4 ,leonora1 said he1 ,leonora1 four years ago we parted in ,venice4 ,i vowed never to see you more till ,i had won a name you could not shame to wear2 and you swore never to betray my deep devotion4 ,i was then unacquainted with life2 ,i was young and trusting2 ,i looked upon the flower and inhaled its perfume1 nor sought to analyze what hidden poisons lurked within it2 ,i looked not for a serpent or a viper in its folded leaves6 ,i gazed upon the diamond-sheeted waters1 nor thought upon the noxious elements that1 uniting in malaria1 might rise from their bosom to desolate many a neighboring home4 ,i turned my eyes upon the moonlit sky without a thought of a possible hour when the same azure face of heaven would frown and the live thunder launch its bolts to ruin and destroy6 ,ay6 ,i then looked but at the fair outside of all created things1 and heeded not the motive or the soul within6 ,leonora1 ,i looked on you1 and ,i believed you6 ,i went forth cheerfully to the hard fight ,i had before me2 ,i kept my vow--,i am a field-marshal of ,austria4 ,have you kept yours8 ,she cast upon him an imploring1 a piteous glance4 ,the moon was beaming through an interstice in the foliage and shone full upon his features1 making their paleness ghastly1 but showing no violent emotion--nothing but a hushed1 cold1 haughty sorrow4 ,she trembled perceptibly as she replied to his concluding question4 ,yes1 as truly as ,i have my faith in ,god2 ,alfieri1 they told me you were dead4 ,circumstances too complicated to explain placed my father in a position with the government that involved his life4 ,prince ,carlos saved him1 and1 for the priceless service1 asked but the poor repayment of my hand4 ,i told him my heart could not accompany the gift4 ,he still urged his suit4 ,could ,i refuse8 ,ay1 madam1 the tale sounds well1 was the bitter reply2 but your grief seemed of a strangely merry sort2 but now your laugh was as light as any in the room1 your jest as gay6 ,zanotti6 said the lady1 and there was something of indignation in her tone1 ,i am not what the world in its cold carelessness deems me1 and you judge me as the greatest stranger of them all would do6 ,the face may be wreathed in smiles1 the lips may be musical with laughing jests1 and yet1 in its unrevealed depths1 the heart may writhe in anguish1 the soul sink with despair6 ,but this recrimination is vain1 all vain6 ,she clasped her forehead as if in pain1 and hot tears forced themselves through the tightly pressed fingers4 ,her lover maintained a cold and scornful silence4 ,all the pride of his race had combined with a deep sense of injury in a trusting and betrayed nature to make him stern and apparently heartless in his resentment4 ,suddenly ,leonora started to her feet1 the woman's pride within her revolted at what seemed the silent sarcasm of his look4 ,her eyes1 with the tears checked suddenly within them1 emitted a wild1 singular1 startling light2 there was something of the ,medusa in her aspect4 ,she gazed at him with a strange mingling of supplication and haughtiness in her look2 her glance penetrated his soul and softened it2 he heard the panting throb of her heart1 and knew there could be no acting in that4 ,her breath came warm upon his cheek2 he trembled at the recollections that were crowding upon him4 ,and then1 too1 she spoke-- ,you use me too cruelly1 she said2 ,i do not deserve this silent scorn6 ,i have wronged myself by giving way to emotions for which you but mock and despise me6 ,he started--were not her words true8 ,had he not been unjust in his grief8 ,leonora1 said he1 abruptly1 hear me6 ,from my earliest youth--ever since remembrance avails me to recall events--rash1 impetuous feeling 7my inheritance from a long line of hot-headed ancestors7 made me in every feeling extreme and violent4 ,i rushed to my studies as to a conflict with a foe1 and rested not till ,i had conquered every difficulty4 ,the same in pleasure1 obstacles were but the stones that made the stream of life sparkle brightly in its sun1 and ,i leaped over them1 or cast them aside with an exulting sense of power4 ,my love for you concentrated all this vagrant impetuosity into one earnest and undying passion4 ,it subdued and soothed the sinuosities of my outward nature2 it checked the headlong restlessness that was before apparent in all ,i did1 and turned all the various bubbling springs within me into one noiseless1 but deep1 resistless stream4 ,it made an ocean of the rivers of my being2 that ocean rose and fell1 tinted with the sun's glorious beams for a brief space6 ,oh6 how brief6 and then storms arose2 and now1 when ,i know the tempest is to last forever1 is it strange if ,i am indignant when ,i look on her who wrought all this misery1 this fearful misery8 ,he had spoken without looking up at her4 ,he now raised his eyes1 and found her again weeping bitterly4 ,and do ,i not share that misery1 with all the aggravation of a fruitless remorse8 ,oh1 you know not1 she added1 her voice assuming a tone of beseeching earnestness1 the days and nights of intense anguish that dragged their slow length along1 when thinking you lay beneath the deep sea 7for they said your grave was there74 ,when tears would flow1 ,i wept for you1 and mourned in silent anguish when they were refused me6 ,you know not how stronger than a woman's that heart must be that can resist the appeal1 continued day after day1 when it comes from the lips of 'all1 whom we believe to be in the wide world1 whom we would bless4' ,words may be met and combated2 but the mute lip and imploring eye--they cannot be resisted2 the tenderness that veils its dearest wish for fear of grieving us2 the grief unspoken1 and the more bitter from concealment6 ,who can see this1 and in a father1 every day1 every hour1 every minute1 and nerve their hearts to deny the relief they can bestow8 ,but all this avails nothing2 the tie is irrevocable that binds me to misery and severs us forever4 ,for you1 ,zanotti1 you will go forth into the world2 excitement is an antidote provided for the grief of man4 ,you will win admiration and applause2 your fame as a scholar and a poet1 your renown as a soldier1 will secure you a high position among men1 higher than your rank alone would give4 ,you will be loved1 you will love again1 and our hours of rapture will linger in your mind but as the recollection of a dream6 ,i ask but a kindly remembrance and forgiveness of my unintentional sin4 ,farewell6 ,and is it thus we part6 ,there was a proud repelling sorrow in the lover's tone as he thus replied3 ,is this1 then1 the end of our golden dream6 ,he paused1 and1 suddenly advancing1 bent his head close to her ear1 ,leonora1 do you love me still8 ,the question was in a whisper4 ,she started1 a singular1 a terrified expression mounting into her face4 ,she was about to speak1 but even as the words seemed on the eve of utterance1 a crashing sound1 as of some one forcing his way through the thickly intertwined branches of the neighboring vines1 caught the attention of both herself and her companion1 and1 with a stifled shriek1 she looked round as if seeking an opposite path by which to escape4 ,her intention was frustrated1 however1 for in an instant after the intruder made his appearance4 ,my husband6 ,leonora said but these two simple words1 but there was a desperate impassibility in the tone in which they were spoken1 that told of a heart whose terror was frozen into despair4 ,zanotti1 whose face had flushed crimson on the first appearance of the prince1 was again as pale as death4 ,the moon looked calmly down upon all1 and ,god knows she had seldom shone on three persons whose hearts1 in their agony1 came nearer epitomes of hell than the group assembled there4 ,leonora seemed rooted to the spot1 bound by a spell1 a charm4 ,her small1 beautiful hands were clenched convulsively together2 her breath came with quick and labored gasps2 her form seemed convulsed with a terrible and racking agony6 ,she looked from her lover to her husband--a look beseeching their mutual forbearance--made a step forward1 seemed struggling to articulate1 and fell heavily to the earth4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,chapter ,v4 ,ah1 'mid this scene ,of loveliness and deep serenity1 ,the traces of despair1 and woe1 and death ,were darkly visible6 ,,she fell at the very feet of her husband1 and he looked down with a smile that was sardonic in its bitterness4 ,zanotti1 under an impulse that paused not to reflect that under the circumstances the action was an insult to the man who deemed himself already foully wronged1 advanced with the intention of raising her1 but ,prince ,carlos waved him back4 ,not a syllable had either of these men uttered4 ,their glances were sufficiently intelligible without speech4 ,they seemed mutually fascinated2 a kind of magnetism seemed to draw upon each the other's eyes4 ,at length1 the terrible silence was broken4 ,it was the prince that spoke1 and1 as he did so1 his look was terribly significant4 ,come1 senor6 ,you wear a sword6 ,what would your highness have8 said ,zanotti1 in the low1 hoarse tone of a man struggling to subdue irrepressible emotion4 ,i have said it4 ,draw6 was the short reply4 ,what1 here8 ,the remark escaped ,zanotti unconsciously1 as his eye sought the extended body of the insensible ,leonora4 ,ay1 sir6 said the prince4 ,she'll heed it not4 ,in these little plays1 you know1 a tragic scene is indispensable to keep up the interest4 ,why should not the heroine witness it8 ,zanotti shuddered beneath the maniac look that accompanied this affected jocularity4 ,as you will1 sir1 said he1 sternly1 repressing all show of feeling4 ,but1 he ventured to add1 the lady1 prince4 ,it were unnecessary cruelty to leave her thus4 ,rather say kindness1 said the other1 solemnly4 ,it were a mercy if she never recovered4 ,the prince drew his sword as he spoke1 and motioned to ,zanotti to do the same4 ,he did so1 and1 even in the momentary period occupied by the action1 what a world of thoughts thronged upon him6 ,he thought of his old cloister life1 when books were at once his mistresses and his friends2 he thought of his first meeting with ,leonora d',alvarez2 of their parting1 mitigated by a hope of reunion under happier auspices2 of the miserable disappointment of that hope2 and of the fearful future that was before ,leonora1 whether he lived or died1 unless--and how weak the chance6--her husband could be convinced of her innocence4 ,prince ,carlos1 said he1 abruptly1 as the other placed himself on guard1 before we enter upon a struggle beside that inanimate body--a struggle in which death may seal my lips forever--,i must crave a moment's attention4 ,your wife--the word seemed almost to choke him--is innocent of any wrong at which your suspicions would point4 ,the prince smiled--a smile of bitter1 disdainful incredulity4 ,it is true1 and it were useless to deny it1 ,i love her4 ,the prince started as if stung by an adder1 the first departure he had made from his courtly immobility4 ,zanotti observed the gesture1 and it gave him confidence2 it showed this icy statue had human passions4 ,he added1 in a firmer tone than he had been capable of using before-- ,yes1 ,prince ,carlos1 the only being my heart worships lies there at your feet2 but that love is of an earlier birth than her knowledge of your highness1 and therefore the acknowledgment cannot be insulting4 ,to-night ,i met her for the first time in the space of four years1 and the meeting was accidental4 ,with scarcely the hope of its finding faith1 ,i make this asseveration4 ,it is necessary for the reputation of that much injured lady4 ,her virtue--her purity is as untarnished as yonder sky6 ,of her reputation1 said the other1 haughtily1 ,i know how to guard it4 ,for her ,,virtue4 ,a cold1 venomous look of unbelief said the rest4 ,prince1 said ,zanotti1 and his face showed some indignation1 mixed with a haughty assumption of calmness--prince1 my words are probably those of a man about to solve the mighty secret of futurity1 and ,i swear to you she is innocent6 ,i pledge you all my hopes of eternal salvation1 and trust that ,god may spurn me from his throne of mercy if my words contain an element of falsehood6 ,oaths1 on such an occasion1 said the other1 coldly1 are worthless4 ,this is a superfluous waste of words4 ,leave her defence to herself4 ,the question is now between you and me4 ,your presence here1 with the avowal of passion you have made1 is in itself an insult demanding reparation4 ,i consent to forget the difference of rank between a hireling soldier and a prince of ,spain1 and you can hardly refuse to meet my vengeance4 ,enough1 sir6 said ,zanotti2 that slight was unnecessary4 ,i am ready4 ,their blades crossed1 and1 at first1 every movement was studied and cautious1 as if each sought to measure the other's skill1 and hesitated to risk consequences that1 in the situation in which they were placed1 involved life or death4 ,many a feint passed between them1 and each found in the other a much more formidable antagonist than he had anticipated4 ,the ,italian1 the moment his sword touched that of his adversary1 regained at once the calm1 resolute bearing of one accustomed to rely upon those qualities for existence2 and the ,spaniard1 at first1 exhibited an equal degree of coolness4 ,gradually1 however1 he grew more excited1 and made one or two lunges1 which were quickly parried1 but no effort made to return them4 ,this indicated1 on the part of ,zanotti1 an intention either to confine his action to defence1 or murderously wait an opportunity of ending the struggle by a single1 fatal stroke4 ,either supposition1 as be-speaking a consciousness of superiority1 was sufficiently galling to add to his excitement1 and his thrusts increased in number1 leaving him at each more and more exposed4 ,but1 suddenly1 ,zanotti altered his tactics4 ,he brought his forte in contact with his opponent's foible1 and the next instant the prince's weapon1 twirled from his grasp1 was spinning through the air and fell upon the ground at some distance from where they stood4 ,for one moment1 one single moment1 the ,spaniard glared upon him1 his face bearing a look of concentrated venomous hate1 then1 snatching from its jewelled sheath a short stiletto1 he sprang with the bound of an enraged panther upon his foe4 ,taken unprepared--for1 the moment his adversary was disarmed1 he had dropped the point of his own weapon--,zanotti staggered and fell1 and the next instant the dagger was1 as it seemed1 plunged up to the very hilt in his heart4 ,drawing the weapon from its still palpitating sheath1 he wiped the blade1 and then1 with hands wet with her lover's blood1 took the form of ,leonora1 yet happily insensible1 and bore it to the palazzo4 ,there was still revelry and mirth within4 99 99 99 99 99 ,years have passed2 it is night1 and the stars are scattered over the broad1 clear face of heaven1 an archipelago of worlds4 ,there has been a thunder storm during the afternoon1 and large rain-drops still burden the foliage and the grass1 sparkling like a maiden's bridal tears4 ,the sky hangs1 as it were1 in quiet fondness over the earth1 and the night-wind is sighing love tales to the flowers4 ,in a garden1 situated a few miles from ,cordova1 which incloses within its high walls a lightly1 but tastefully built edifice of considerable size1 are assembled some six or eight persons of both sexes4 ,their attitudes and occupations are various4 ,one young girl reclines negligently1 but gracefully1 on the still damp grass1 and touches the chords of a guitar with no unskilful hand2 a fine-looking man1 in the prime of life1 paces up and down a long avenue1 and seems to be absorbed in meditation2 and another1 a lady1 is weaving flowers into garlands4 ,she is a splendid-looking woman1 of perhaps five-and-thirty years of age1 with those large1 liquid black eyes that seem to absorb and reflect back to you a portion of your own soul4 ,her look1 however1 is sad and hopeless1 even her smile giving but a pale1 wintry gleam4 ,ever and anon she sighs1 too1 and talks to herself in a tone unintelligible to the ear1 but breathing a sad1 olian strain to the heart4 ,her eye wanders in bewilderment1 seeking imagined forms4 ,her emotions seem to be all mute1 expressionless1 without a language1 and translatable only by signs4 ,it is ,leonora2 she is crazed6 99 99 99 99 99 ,,chapter ,,vi4 ,and thus1 untaught in youth my heart to tame1 ,my springs of life were poisoned--'tis too late3 ,yet am ,i changed2 though still enough the same ,in strength to bear what time cannot abate1 ,and feed on bitter fruits without accusing fate4 ,,byron4 ,,again 'twas night2 but this time deepening into morn4 ,in a spacious chamber1 furnished with all the appliances of opulent luxury1 sat a man1 upon whose massive brow forty winters had traced many a deep and rugged line4 ,he seemed one who had not been slighted by fortune1 for the insignia of several illustrious orders hung upon his breast4 ,a small cabinet table1 upon which were strewed gorgeously bound books and written papers of various kinds1 was drawn up beside him4 ,the materials for writing were also there2 but he heeded them not1 but sat with his head leaning upon his hands apparently in abstracted meditation4 ,he remained in this position for full an hour1 not moving a single muscle1 and more like a dead than a living thing4 ,then he arose suddenly1 and paced the apartment with a vigorous and hasty step4 ,his limbs were firm and his form athletic2 it was his head only that looked old4 ,this also lasted some time1 and then he sat down once more1 and1 unlocking a concealed drawer1 drew forth a letter and a miniature4 ,upon the letter he gazed long and earnestly1 his look assuming an expression of mingled terror and dejection piteous to behold4 ,laying down the picture with a sigh1 he then opened the billet and began to read1 his countenance becoming each moment more careworn and haggard4 ,and it was not strange it should be so2 for it is a mournful thing to look upon the letters that once told of the throbbing affection of some friend or loved one1 when the friendship is dead or merged in a deeper feeling for another1 or the love is banished forever from its chosen temple4 ,to recall the words that dropped on the page2 archangels proclaiming with trumpet notes that we were the idol of one beating heart at least2 to bring up again our old smile1 and find it gleams1 and with no ,promethean power1 upon affection's corse4 ,ah me1 'tis sad1 indeed6 ,the reader muttered to himself ever and anon1 but his words were disjointed and unintelligible4 ,he sighed1 too1 frequently and deeply1 and even groaned aloud as he read the following passage3-- ,oh1 believe me1 your highness1 it is fate1 and not my own will1 that makes me seem ungrateful6 ,the gratitude your priceless favor has engendered in my breast is so warm1 so fervid1 that my life would be cheerfully given in requital2 but when you ask my heart1 alas6 ,i can only say1 ,i have it not to give4 ,years ago1 ere ,i had seen your highness1 or dreamed of the possibility of our ever meeting1 ,love had in my heart a ,minerva birth1 and1 though the object of it lies in a bloody grave in a stranger's land1 it will live in my own weary soul while it remains on earth1 and accompany it when it flees to join him4 ,you say1 ',perhaps ,i have not yet been fortunate enough to win your love or attract your regard but let me beseech you at least to receive and weigh the depth1 the purity1 the strength of my devotion against that of other men ere you decide4' ,monseignor1 you compel1 even were ,i not willing to accord1 my 'esteem2' my worthless 'regard1' and all the love my father and the dead do not claim1 you also have2 but were ,i to consent to your request1 and become your wife1 at his own altar should ,i send up a perjured vow to ,god4 ,carefully1 he placed both letter and picture in the drawer from whence he had taken them2 but1 instead of locking it1 drew forth another billet4 ,it was much shorter1 a mere note1 in fact1 but seemed to contain matter as pregnant with agitation as its predecessor4 ,he paused some time over the following postscript3-- ,you tell me that the grave1 in closing over the object of my love1 severed the tie between him and me forever--that death pronounced a divorce which gave me liberty to form another attachment4 ,you know not woman's love to say so4 ,it is impossible1 when once ignited1 to quench it entirely4 ,it may be unseen1 the ashes may be cold2 but a spark certainly slumbers beneath them1 and will never1 never die6 ,oh1 your highness1 let me entreat you to select some worthier object than myself upon which to lavish your affections6 ,i can never be yours6 ,the man read this to the end4 ,when he had finished1 there was a smile of mockery upon his face2 but a spasmodic shudder which convulsed his frame evinced the pain which it was meant to hide4 ,how we learn to cheat ourselves by playing the hypocrite to others6 ,the letter fell from his grasp to the floor4 ,his head assumed its old position on his hand1 and he gazed on vacancy4 ,he remained in this posture so long that the candles one by one flickered and went out1 not even perceiving1 so great was his abstraction1 the glare they gave just before they expired4 ,the large gothic window immediately opposite to where he sat was open1 and the air grew cooler and cooler each moment4 ,it seemed1 however1 as if there were no stars in the sky--all was darkness4 ,suddenly1 a terrific flash of lightning illumined earth and heaven1 and cast a strong ruddy glare upon every object in the apartment4 ,a tremendous peal of thunder followed1 and the man started to his feet and advanced to the window4 ,the rain was now coming down in large drops1 and flash after flash of lightning1 and peal after peal of thunder followed each other with astounding rapidity4 ,the wind1 which had lain motionless and dead previous to the beginning of the storm1 now at one moment went rushing by with extreme violence1 and the next sank into a low moan that was awful enough to blanch the cheek and palsy the heart of the stoutest4 ,it was like the wailing voice of a ,god sorrowing over the sins of man1 or the spirit of earth singing a dirge over vanished time4 ,the tenant of the chamber stood with folded arms1 regardless of the fierce gusts that ever and anon dashed the heavy rain-drops in his face1 and the ghastly blue tint cast upon his countenance by the lightning made him look unearthly enough to be the arbiter of the dreadful contest then raging between the shrieking storm fiends4 ,his eye grew brighter and more glistening4 ,there seemed a sympathy between the unchained elements in their rage and his own proud spirit4 ,his form dilated1 and he seemed to look with a strange delight upon the swaying trees bending beneath the terrific blasts of wind1 and to list to the crashing thunder with a fierce joy4 ,a magnificent oak1 which had resisted every attempt of the tempest to more than shake its smaller limbs1 was suddenly torn up by the very roots1 and1 with a rushing noise1 fell to the ground4 ,the very earth seemed to groan as it fell4 ,thus would ,i die1 exclaimed the looker on1 exultingly--thus would ,i die6 ,amid a world's agonizing throes1 when the mountains seem to bend their scathed tops1 and the ocean roars its submission to the storm4 ,as he spoke1 he advanced1 heedless of the elements1 through the casement1 and stood upon the extreme edge of the battlemented parapet4 ,a shrill1 mocking laugh greeted his concluding words1 and a voice1 that seemed to his excited imagination preternaturally hollow1 exclaimed-- ,and die thus you shall6 ,for a moment he stood perfectly paralyzed2 but a heavy hand was laid upon his shoulder1 and he turned to meet the glare of two eyes that shone as if lit with fire from hell4 ,the person from whom the glance proceeded held in a threatening position a long1 keen-looking dagger1 and the blade gleamed brightly in the electric light with which a sudden flash of lightning illumined the scene4 ,the man who had a moment before looked defiantly upon the wrathy heavens shrank from the danger which now threatened him from a human foe4 ,it was1 however1 but for a moment4 ,he saw in the implacable countenance of the man who had so strangely come upon him1 sufficient evidence of some dark and evil purpose to make him look for mischief4 ,he suspected the existence of a danger that would tax his every energy4 ,he turned upon the intruder a look of inquiry1 firm and proud1 and somewhat rebuking in its aspect4 ,the next moment1 however1 recollecting that1 in the intervals between the flashes1 all was invisible1 he put the question audibly1 which before he had mutely expressed4 ,a tremendous peal of thunder drowned the words in its frightful reverberations1 and the lightning that followed showed him the arm of his foe raised to strike4 ,even as the blade touched his breast he caught his adversary's wrist and threw himself upon him4 ,powerful he found him beyond all expectations1 and his cheek turned ghastly pale1 for he felt hope deserting him4 ,the struggle was terrible2 a look of vengeful despair sat on the beaded brow of one1 and deep1 dark1 unmitigable hate gleamed in the strained eyeballs of the other4 ,the assailed man chafed like a maimed lion in the hunter's toils1 and his efforts bore that character of ruthless savageness which is the consequence of hopeless fear--of rayless despair4 ,the other1 in the proud consciousness of tried strength1 dashed his dagger into the bosom of the clouded chaos that formed the atmosphere in which they fought1 and1 by the exertion of resistless bodily power1 bore his victim back towards the verge of the parapet4 ,too pale to seem human1 like the animated statues of two contending gladiators1 they rocked to and fro on its extremity4 ,a momentary strife ensued1 in which the muscles of each seemed cracking with the might of their exertions4 ,for a single instant1 the assailant seemed to give way1 and the heart of his victim beat with a hope that intensity made an agony2 but the relaxation was but the prelude to a more violent effort4 ,again they were upon the verge of the battlement--they balanced upon the edge--and then sank into the darkness4 ,a wild1 sardonic laugh1 and a cry of agony that seemed to freeze the very elements and hush their destructive howl into silence1 went up to heaven1 succeeded by a dull1 heavy sound that announced the departure of two souls to judgment4 ,the next day the patrol discovered1 beneath the postern that opened upon the castle fosse1 two mangled bodies1 quite dead4 ,the one was the ,prince ,carlos1 ,regent of ,spain1 and the other the ,count ,carlo ,zanotti4 ,,footnote3 ,footnote #a3 ,i have liberally availed myself1 in the above theory1 of the hints of my talented friend1 ,j4 ,j4 ,woodward1 contained in an epistolatory criticism on ,bulwer's ,zanoni1 written to a mutual friend4 ,,the ,,orphan',s ,,departure4 ,,by ,,margaret ,,floyd4 7,see ,plate47 ,,the early years of few have been so carefully guarded and protected as were those of ,edith ,frazier4 ,her father was the rector of a church in a beautiful but secluded country village in the south of ,england4 ,in addition to his sincere piety and high-toned moral character1 ,mr4 ,frazier possessed a well-cultivated mind4 ,his wife was also a superior woman1 and as ,edith was their only child1 her early training was the object of their most careful attention4 ,in a lovely and sequestered home1 surrounded not only by the comforts and luxuries1 but the elegances of life1 and in close association with persons of high refinement and elevated goodness1 the young girl grew slowly up to womanhood4 ,there was no undue excitement of vanity or the passions to force her1 like some hothouse plant1 into an early maturity2 and no unseasonable call upon her for self-reliance or exertion1 which entirely blots out of some lives the sweet carelessness of girlhood4 ,at sixteen1 she was still almost a child1 when the death of her mother1 her first great sorrow1 made her sensible for the first time that this world is not the place for that uninterrupted happiness which had1 until then1 been her portion4 ,edith was almost heart-broken at the loss of her mother4 ,they had been constant companions1 and she missed her every moment more and more4 ,mr4 ,frazier tried to supply to his daughter the place both of father and mother1 but he was a studious1 reserved man1 and himself suffering deeply from his bereavement1 so that they did little else but remind each other constantly of their great sorrow4 ,about a year after ,mrs4 ,frazier's death1 finding that his daughter did not rally from the depression so foreign to her nature1 ,mr4 ,frazier proposed a tour through the northern part of ,england and ,scotland4 ,it was just at the beginning of the pleasant summer weather1 and1 arranging matters in his parish so that his absence for two or three months would not be felt1 he decided to leave immediately4 ,on the ,sunday before his departure1 a stranger was seen in the little parish church4 ,he was a man who would have been noticed in any place1 and who1 in a quiet country village1 was an object of general attention4 ,tall1 handsome1 and with a strikingly high-bred and gentlemanlike appearance1 he would have been singled out anywhere as one of nature's nobility4 ,edith was struck and gratified by the stranger's evident interest in the sermon her father preached that day4 ,it was one with which he had taken especial pains1 and the daughter1 proud as well as fond of her father1 was glad to see that he had at least one appreciative listener4 ,a few days after1 ,mr4 ,frazier and ,edith set out on their journey4 ,london was their first stopping-place1 and several very busy days were spent there1 while ,edith1 with the vivid interest of one to whom almost everything in that vast and crowded city was strange and new1 visited the many places of interest and note within it4 ,while they were standing in ,st4 ,paul's1 the stranger who had attracted their attention in ,hillcomb1 their own village1 a few days before1 passed them with a look of evident recognition4 ,they met again while going over ,westminster ,abbey2 and it so happened that they were at the same time paying to the genius of ,shakspeare the homage of a visit to his grave at ,stratford1 and that they passed each other again while strolling over the grounds around ,newstead ,abbey4 ,by this time they had advanced so far on the way to acquaintanceship1 that1 when they again encountered each other near the lakes in ,westmoreland1 the home of so many of the poets of ,england1 a bow was the almost involuntary mark of recognition4 ,english reserve and shyness might have prevented any more intimate intercourse1 but for an accident that happened to ,edith in ,scotland4 ,mr4 ,frazier1 finding that the cool and bracing air of that country had as favorable an effect on his daughter's health as the wild and romantic scenery had on her mind1 and being pleased with a quiet country inn which he had found1 proposed that they should make it their home for two or three weeks4 ,they could not have found a pleasanter resting-place1 for ,lock ,lomond was spread out in its calm serenity at their feet1 and ,ben ,lomond towered in savage grandeur above their heads4 ,the first person whom they recognized on taking their seats at the table of the inn was the stranger whom they had met so frequently4 ,edith could not repress a smile as she shyly returned the stranger's salutation1 at the chance that seemed to take such a whimsical pleasure in thus bringing them together4 ,a few days after1 while walking with her father in the rude paths on the side of the mountain1 she strayed a little way from him when he stopped to admire the scene from some particularly favorable point of view2 and when she attempted to return1 she found herself1 to her dismay1 so perplexed by the intricate windings of the paths that she was at a loss which to take4 ,she called to her father and heard his voice in reply1 but it grew fainter and fainter1 until1 at last1 it could no longer be discerned4 ,becoming aware that every step she took only led her farther from home1 she stopped to see if she could not in some way distinguish the right path4 ,but she was so utterly bewildered that she found it to be impossible4 ,she thought that the only thing that was left for her to do was to remain stationary2 in that way she would1 at least1 avoid the danger of falling into the mountain streams around1 or down any of the precipices4 ,night closed around ,edith as she sat alone under the shelter of a gray rock that jutted out from the side of the mountain4 ,she had around her only the light shawl she had thrown on for an afternoon's walk1 and it was but a slight protection from the chilling night-air4 ,in her hurried and toilsome search after her father1 she had bruised her feet and wearied herself so that she could no longer stand4 ,she called at intervals1 in the faint hope that some wanderer might hear her and come to her assistance2 but her voice died away from exhaustion1 and she was still alone4 ,it was not so much a feeling of fear that weighed upon her1 for the perfect trust in her all-seeing ,father1 which her mother had taught her from her childhood1 was a tower of strength to her in this her hour of need2 and the physical discomfort she could bear2 but the thought of her father's anxiety and distress on her account almost overcame her4 ,the stars were going out one by one1 when ,edith heard in the distance a faint shout4 ,she could not answer it1 but1 almost as if led by some unseen spirit1 it came nearer and nearer4 ,at last she gathered voice to reply1 and she had evidently been heard4 ,she could distinguish the sound of footsteps1 and at last dimly discern a man's figure as it stopped before her4 ,is this ,miss ,frazier8 said the man in a voice that revealed its owner to be a person of refinement and tenderness4 ,yes1 said ,edith1 rising with difficulty4 ,i am ,mr4 ,hildreth1 the gentleman whom you have met so frequently lately4 ,i heard of your disappearance from your father1 and have been seeking for some hours4 ,could you walk a little way with me8 ,he is not far from here2 we can soon find him4 ,edith tried to walk1 but found it impossible4 ,taking her in his arms1 ,mr4 ,hildreth carried her a little way2 then meeting her father1 he resigned her to him while he went before to act as a guide4 ,with some difficulty they reached the bottom of the mountain1 and obtaining a rude vehicle from some of the country people near1 conveyed ,edith to the inn4 ,the acquaintance thus begun soon ripened into a friendship4 ,mr4 ,frazier and ,edith learned that ,mr4 ,hildreth was an ,american from the city of ,new ,york4 ,the letters of introduction that he had with him proved that he had a right to the best society in ,england1 for which his polished manners and uncommon conversational powers showed that he was well fitted4 ,he had been taking an invalid aunt to the south of ,france for the benefit of the climate1 he told them1 and after seeing her comfortably established there1 he had taken advantage of a few months' leisure to travel wherever his fancy led him4 ,he readily accepted ,mr4 ,frazier's invitation to join him and his daughter in their tour4 ,the similarity of taste they had shown so singularly was a sufficient evidence1 he said1 that any course they might take would be equally agreeable to both parties4 ,the next six weeks1 ,edith thought1 were the most delightful she had ever spent4 ,nowhere does the society of an agreeable and intellectual person add more to the enjoyment of the company than in travelling4 ,although grave and quiet1 ,mr4 ,hildreth was full of thoughtfulness and observant care for the comfort of his fellow-travellers4 ,whenever he spoke to ,edith1 there was a gentle deference in his manner that1 from one of his superior abilities1 was irresistibly attractive4 ,on his side1 ,mr4 ,hildreth was no less charmed by those with whom he had been so strangely thrown4 ,on the ,sunday in which he had first seen them1 he had been pleased and impressed by ,mr4 ,frazier's sermon1 and thought that he had never seen a face of more artless and attractive loveliness than ,edith ,frazier's4 ,she reminded him of ,chaucer's beauties1 of a rose half opened and still wet with the morning dews1 and of all that was most fresh and delicate in nature4 ,her mind answered to the promise of her countenance4 ,ignorant of the world and uncontaminated by it1 she walked in almost unconscious innocence the simple path of duty4 ,her disposition1 naturally cheerful and bright1 had already begun to recover its buoyancy1 and her happiness reacted on her graver companions1 who seemed to vie with each other as to which should add most to her pleasure4 ,seasons of unshaded happiness are generally as brief as bright4 ,by the end of the six weeks1 ,mr4 ,hildreth received a letter from his aunt1 who wrote urgently for his immediate presence4 ,he took a reluctant leave of his companions1 but not before he had had a long conversation with ,mr4 ,frazier1 in which he asked his permission to reveal to ,edith the love that had already become a strong feeling in his heart4 ,heretofore he had been thrown1 he said1 among a set of worldly and fashionable women1 and had come to look upon simplicity and unworldliness as traits no longer to be met with among the educated and polished members of society1 and ,edith ,frazier exhibited a character as new as attractive to him4 ,she was the only woman that he had ever met1 whose society and conversation never wearied or lost their interest to him4 ,mr4 ,frazier's paternal pride was gratified at the tribute thus paid to ,edith by a man like ,mr4 ,hildreth1 but he could not bear to think of giving up the only object of affection left to him1 nor contemplate without pain the idea that his daughter's home might be in a distant land4 ,he did all that he felt justified in doing to avert the day of separation1 and pleading ,edith's youth1 requested ,mr4 ,hildreth to postpone for a year his declaration4 ,to this delay ,mr4 ,hildreth was unwilling to consent2 but at last was obliged unwillingly to yield to a probation of six months4 ,he left ,edith1 in accordance with the promise he had made ,mr4 ,frazier1 entirely unconscious of his feelings towards her1 and for some time almost equally unaware of her own4 ,she knew that the loss of his society had deprived her of the greater part of the pleasure she had taken in the new scenes through which she was journeying1 but it was not until she was again settled in her own home at ,hillcomb that she began to feel that ,mr4 ,hildreth had been far more to her than a mere agreeable casual acquaintance4 ,this discovery mortified her extremely4 ,she felt as though it was both wrong and humiliating1 that one whom she had known so short a time1 and who had shown no proof of regarding her as anything but a very young and rather pleasing girl1 should engross so much of her thoughts4 ,she resolved to use every means to crush the feelings that1 new as they were1 seemed to have struck their roots so deeply in her heart4 ,but first she could not resist asking her father one question4 ,do you think we shall ever see ,mr4 ,hildreth again1 father8 said she one day1 with affected indifference4 ,perhaps so1 said he1 quietly2 we can never tell what may happen4 ,he can never have spoken to my father about coming here1 thought ,edith1 or he would not have seemed so uncertain about it2 and1 with true feminine pride1 the young girl forbore any farther mention of the one whom yet she found it impossible to forget4 ,two months of the six had passed away1 when ,edith was called to bear another heavy trial4 ,her father died suddenly1 leaving her unprovided for and alone in the world4 ,such an event was apparently the last in the world to be expected1 as ,mr4 ,frazier had always seemed to be a man in vigorous health1 and with a fair prospect of long life4 ,to a long life he had evidently looked forward1 for he had made no arrangements for his cherished daughter1 and had left no directions by which she might guide her future course4 ,in her desolation1 ,edith could think of but one person from whom she might expect protection2 a half-sister of her father's1 who resided in ,london4 ,she had seen her aunt1 ,mrs4 ,burnleigh1 but seldom1 but knew that she was a widow in easy circumstances1 with a large family of children4 ,to her she accordingly applied1 and received in return an invitation to come to her until she had decided on her future course4 ,with a sorrowful heart1 ,edith left the home where so many bright and happy years had been passed4 ,as she sat alone waiting for the coach to pass that was to convey her to ,london1 with no attendant but the gardener's boy1 and no companion but her canary1 a parting gift from ,mr4 ,hildreth1 sent to ,hillcomb by him from ,dover just before he embarked for ,france1 the contrast between her present desolation and the warm1 sheltering love in which she had so long lived1 almost overcame her4 ,but the lonely soon acquire the power of self-control1 and ,edith had already begun to learn the hard lesson of self-reliance4 ,with an outward composure that hid the painful throbbings of her heart from her travelling companions1 she took her seat in the coach1 and in a few hours arrived safely at ,mrs4 ,burnleigh's4 ,edith found her aunt an apparently well-meaning1 proper kind of a woman1 kind and sympathizing in her manners1 but who evidently had not the slightest intention of denying herself or her children the smallest luxury for the sake of her brother's orphaned daughter4 ,for a few weeks ,edith was left to the quiet indulgence of her grief1 and then ,mrs4 ,burnleigh1 thinking that she had done all that society could possibly demand of her in the way of respect to her brother's memory or kindness to his child1 began to sound ,edith as to her intentions for the future4 ,the young girl1 thrown so suddenly upon her own resources1 had not yet begun to think for herself1 and the idea of seeking a home among strangers made her heart sink within her4 ,she begged her aunt to take upon herself the task of finding for her some position that she could fill creditably1 but she hoped1 she said1 timidly1 that it might be somewhere near her aunt1 her only remaining relative4 ,this did not suit ,mrs4 ,burnleigh exactly1 who1 being of that turn of mind that always foresees the possible evil in all cases1 was not pleased with the idea that she might at any time be called upon to offer a home to her friendless relative4 ,like a prudent woman1 however1 she forbore saying anything that might reveal her true feelings1 but was none the less resolved that1 if two equally favorable situations offered themselves1 it would be wiser for her to advise ,edith to accept the one at the greatest distance4 ,she succeeded beyond her hopes4 ,coming in one day1 she said to ,edith1 with unusual animation-- ,my dear1 ,i have found a most delightful situation for you4 ,two hundred pounds a year for teaching one little girl4 ,you can speak ,french1 can you not8 ,yes1 ,i have spent a year in ,france4 ,and you play unusually well1 and draw and paint beautifully1 so that ,i think the parents of the child may consider themselves quite fortunate4 ,who are they8 asked ,edith ,they are ,americans--a ,mr4 and ,mrs4 ,blake1 from ,south ,carolina4 ,edith's heart had bounded at the mention of the country1 but it sank when the state was named to which ,mrs4 ,burnleigh wished to send her4 ,unlike most ,english girls1 she knew enough of the geography of the ,united ,states to remember that a wide distance separated ,south ,carolina from ,new ,york1 so that1 even if ,mr4 ,hildreth had returned to his own country1 which was unlikely1 she would be almost as distant from him there as if she remained in ,england4 ,the idea of going so far away from all on whom her relationship or early association gave her any claim1 was exceedingly painful to her4 ,don't you think1 dear aunt1 said she1 hesitatingly1 that ,i might find something to do nearer home8 ,it would be impossible for me to find you another situation so advantageous in every respect2 but1 if you think you could succeed1 you had better make the attempt1 replied ,mrs4 ,burnleigh1 coldly1 while a displeased expression settled upon her face4 ,there were a few moments' silence1 and then ,edith said-- ,how soon will ,mr4 and ,mrs4 ,blake expect me8 ,they are now here4 ,i have just met them at one of my friends1 who had been speaking to them about you4 ,they told me that they intended to sail for ,america in about two weeks1 and that1 if you were ready by that time1 they would like you to accompany them4 ,very well1 said ,edith2 you can tell them that ,i shall be ready to go with them4 ,they are charming people1 said her aunt1 caressingly2 ,i am sure1 my dear1 you will like them very much1 and be very happy with them4 ,of course1 ,i would not wish my brother's child to go where she would not be with those who are likely to take some interest in her4 ,edith could not help perceiving that her aunt was relieved by the prospect of her departure2 and this thought1 while it strengthened her in her resolve1 made her feel her isolation still more deeply4 ,on board the same steamer with ,mr4 and ,mrs4 ,blake and ,edith was a little girl1 an invalid1 who interested the young ,english girl extremely4 ,edith had brought her bird with her4 ,it was the only thing she had to remind her of happier days1 and she could not bear to part with it4 ,at little ,ellen's earnest request1 she hung the cage in her state-room1 and1 before the end of the voyage1 the little sick girl had become so attached to the pretty bird1 whose sweet song was almost the only cheering sound she heard during the long and weary days at sea1 that she could not speak of parting with it without showing by her tearful eyes the pain it gave her4 ,edith felt that she ought not to deprive the little sufferer of so great a pleasure1 and1 concealing her reluctance to give up a souvenir she had cherished so long1 she told little ,ellen that the bird was to be hers4 ,the child's evident delight was some compensation to ,edith for her self-denial1 yet it was with a sharp pang that she watched the cage as it was put in the carriage1 after the arrival of the steamer at ,new ,york1 to be conveyed to the upper part of the city1 while ,edith1 with her new friends1 went on board another steamer about to sail for ,charleston4 ,mr4 ,blake's residence was among the pine forests of the ,state2 a region healthful1 it is true1 but peculiarly desolate1 especially to one accustomed to the soft verdure and smiling landscape of ,england4 ,the tall dark trees2 unceasingly sighing forth their low and mournful murmurs1 seemed to ,edith a fit emblem of the griefs that were henceforward to darken her life4 ,there was but little in her new home to call her thoughts from the sad recollections to which they were constantly recurring4 ,mr4 ,blake and his wife were very kind to her1 treating her rather as a guest than one to whose services they were entitled2 but they lived in a part of the country very thinly settled1 their nearest neighbor being at a distance of seven or eight miles1 and there was a wearying monotony in ,edith's daily life that weighed upon her spirits4 ,gratitude for the unvarying and thoughtful kindness shown to her by ,mrs4 ,blake induced ,edith to make every exertion to regain her accustomed cheerfulness1 and she had1 in some measure1 succeeded1 when the ,christmas holidays came to remind her1 by the contrast between her own position and that of the persons by whom she was surrounded1 more painfully of her isolation4 ,the little family gatherings1 from which she could hardly absent herself without appearing unmindful of ,mrs4 ,blake's gentle yet urgent requests1 and yet where she felt herself among them1 but not of them1 recalled to her so forcibly the former seasons1 when her happiness and pleasure were to all around her the one thing of the greatest importance1 that1 for the first time since her departure from ,england1 ,edith yielded to her feelings of loneliness1 and every night wet her pillow with her tears4 ,the reply of the ,shunamite woman to the prophet's inquiry about her wants1 ,i dwell among mine own people1 came with a new and touching significance to her mind1 now that she began to feel that never again would she feel the sweet security and protection implied in such a position4 ,on ,new ,year's eve1 ,edith slipped away from the merry group assembled in ,mr4 ,blake's parlors to indulge her sad meditations for a little while without interruption4 ,as she stood on the porch listening to the mournful music of the pines1 whose aromatic incense filled the air with its healthful fragrance1 and watching the moon as it slowly waded through the clouded sky1 now shining out in full brilliancy1 and then almost entirely darkened as it passed behind the thick masses of vapor that were hanging in the vast concave1 she thought that just such sudden alternations of darkness and light had been her lot in this life4 ,the clouds hang heavily over me now1 thought she2 but there will be brightness soon4 ,almost at the same moment there came the sound of an approaching arrival1 and ,edith hastily retreated to the house4 ,she had hardly time to mingle with the gay family party1 when1 hearing her name called1 she turned suddenly1 while a thrill of amazed delight passed over her at the familiar tone1 and saw before her ,mr4 ,hildreth1 whose smile shed a light and warmth upon her heart to which it had long been a stranger4 ,the clouds were at once lifted off from her soul1 and she was once more the light-hearted girl she had been in her ,english home4 ,in the midst of her happiness there was a feeling of insecurity1 a doubt as to its continuance4 ,but that ,edith would not allow herself to dwell upon4 ,it was happiness enough for the present to think that one whom she so highly esteemed still cared enough for her to seek her out in her secluded home4 ,but before the last hours of the old year had passed away1 walking in the serene moonlight under those pine-trees to whose mournful murmur her thoughts had been so long attuned1 ,edith listened with a beating heart to the avowal of the same feelings which ,mr4 ,hildreth had confessed to her father more than a year before4 ,what had become of all the sadness that had brooded over ,edith's heart so many months8 ,it was gone like the clouds from the sky1 but not to return1 like them1 in a few short hours4 ,how did you find me out8 asked ,edith1 after many more important questions had been asked and answered4 ,ah1 a little bird told me where ,i should find the runaway4 ,a bird8 said ,edith1 wonderingly4 ,perhaps it was the cage rather than the bird1 replied ,mr4 ,hildreth4 ,i had been for some two or three months in search of you1 or rather your aunt1 with whom ,i was told you were staying4 ,but she seemed to be possessed by some perverse and wandering spirit2 for1 when ,i went to ,london to find her1 she had just left with her family on a tour through ,germany1 and1 when ,i followed her there1 ,i learned she had gone into ,italy4 ,into ,italy ,i went post haste1 and reached ,naples just in time to learn that ,mrs4 ,burnleigh had left the week before for ,egypt and the ,pyramids4 ,no whit daunted1 ,i was about to seek you1 even if ,i had to go to the heart of ,ethiopia1 when the sudden illness of my aunt recalled me to ,marseilles4 ,her death obliged me to return to ,new ,york2 but ,i arranged my business there as soon as possible1 and had already engaged my passage in the next steamer to ,liverpool1 when1 walking through ,fifth ,avenue1 my eye was attracted by a cage that ,i recognized instantly1 by certain peculiarities1 as one that ,i had sent you just before ,i left ,england after our pleasant tour4 ,a sudden hope seized me that some happy impulse had led your travel-loving aunt to my very hearthstone1 and ,i lost no time in making inquiries of the lady of the house1 from whom ,i learned all about the little ,edith for whom ,i had been seeking in such far away places4 ,and now1 dearest1 he continued1 after a pause1 have you any objection to a tour through ,europe8 ,i went in such haste before that1 far from satisfying my curiosity1 ,i only increased the desire to see everything more at my leisure4 ,none at all1 said ,edith1 with a smile and blush4 ,well1 then1 ,i will see how soon ,mrs4 ,blake can spare you1 and we will set off on our travels4 ,i hope she will be very obliging about it4 ,she was very obliging1 and gave ,edith1 to whom she had become strongly attached1 a grand wedding in the southern fashion1 which lasted two days1 and she hung the pine grove with colored lamps1 so that the dark woods took1 for that occasion only1 quite a festal appearance4 ,illustration ,,celestial ,,phenomena4--,,april4 ,,by ,d4 ,w4 ,,belisle4 ,,leo4--,this is one of the most clearly defined and brilliant constellations in the winter hemisphere1 containing an unusual number of very bright stars4 ,it is situated east of ,cancer1 and comes to the meridian the sixth of this month4 ,this constellation contains ninety-five stars visible to the naked eye4 ,two splendid stars of highest dignity1 ,two of the second class the ,lion boasts1 ,and justly figures the fierce summer's rage4 ,five very bright stars in this constellation are grouped in the form of a sickle4 ,regulus1 in the shoulder of ,leo1 is the lowest of this group1 and forms the end of the handle in the sickle4 ,it is the brightest star in the cluster1 and is of great use to nautical men in determining their longitude at sea4 ,eta1 a small glittering star1 marks the other end of the handle1 while ,al ,gieba ,adhafera1 ,ras al ,asad1 and ,lambda form the blade4 ,two small stars1 at an equal distance from ,lambda1 form a small right-angled triangle4 ,denebola1 in the brush of the tail1 is a star of the first magnitude1 and1 with ,zozma in the back1 and ,theta in the thigh1 form a triangle whose vertex is ,denebola4 ,according to ,greek mythology1 the ,lion was one of the formidable animals killed by ,hercules in the forests of ,nema1 and was placed by ,jupiter in the heavens to commemorate the event4 ,egyptian mythologists claim the honor of having placed it there1 asserting it was placed in the heavens to commemorate the haunting of the banks of the ,nile during the heat of summer by these monsters1 the river then being at its highest elevation4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,leo ,,minor4--,this constellation is of modern origin1 occupying the space between ,ursa ,major and ,leo ,major4 ,the stars in the cluster are of the third and fourth magnitude1 with no particular interest attached to them4 ,it comes to the meridian the #fth of ,april4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,sextant4--,this is a small constellation south of ,leo1 and contains forty-one stars1 all very small and unimportant1 and comes to the meridian the #fth of ,april4 ,this constellation is sometimes called ,urania's ,sextant1 in honor of one of the muses who presided over ,astronomy4 ,urania was daughter of ,jupiter and ,mnemosyne4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,hydra4--,this is an extraordinary constellation1 winding through a vast space from east to west for more than one hundred degrees4 ,it lies south of ,cancer1 ,leo1 and ,virgo1 and reaches from ,canis ,minor to ,libra4 ,it contains sixty stars1 principally of the second1 third1 and fourth magnitudes4 ,the head of ,hydra may readily be distinguished by four bright stars south of ,acubens1 in the ,crab4 ,they form a rhomboidal figure4 ,the three upper stars form a beautiful curve1 and are too distinct and conspicuous to be forgotten when once seen4 ,alphard1 twenty-three degrees south south-west of ,regulus1 is a very brilliant star of the second magnitude1 and is in the heart of ,hydra1 and comes to the meridian twenty minutes before nine o'clock on the #ast of ,april4 ,when the head of the ,hydra is on the meridian1 its other extremity is many degrees below the horizon1 so that its whole length cannot be traced out in the heavens until its centre is on the meridian4 ,near the ,equator rolls ,the sparkling ,hydra1 proudly eminent1 ,to drink the ,galaxy's refulgent sea2 ,nearly a fourth of the encircling curve ,which girds the ecliptic his vast folds involve2 ,yet ten the number of his stars diffused ,o'er the long track of his enormous spires2 ,chief beams his heart1 sure of the second rank1 ,but emulous to gain the first4 ,according to mythology1 the ,hydra was a terrible monster that infested the ,lake of ,lerna1 in the ,peloponnesus4 ,it was reported to have had a hundred heads1 and1 as soon as one of these was cut off1 two grew in its place1 unless the wound was stopped by fire4 ,art thou proportioned to the ,hydra's length1 ,who1 by his wounds1 received augmented strength8 ,he raised a hundred hissing heads in air2 ,when one ,i lopped1 up sprang a dreadful pair4 ,the formidable monster was at last destroyed by ,hercules1 with the assistance of ,iolaus1 and who afterwards1 dipping his arrows in the gall of the ,hydra1 rendered every wound inflicted by them incurable and mortal4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,the ,,cup4--,this small constellation lies south of the ,lion1 and rests upon the ,hydra4 ,six of the principal stars form a crescent or semi-circle1 opening to the west4 ,the crescent of the ,cup is so striking and clearly defined1 when the moon is absent1 that no description is necessary to point it out1 as it is the only one of the kind in that part of the heavens4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,comets4--,these objects of extraordinary interest form a part in the economy of the solar system4 ,since the time when the presence of a comet was considered by nations to be the sure precursor of war1 famine1 and pestilence1 up to the present period1 these visitors have created much speculation and excitement2 and1 no longer ago than the fall of #ahec1 it was predicted by an eminent professor that one of these waifs in the heavens would come in collision with the earth1 and destroy a portion of ,china4 ,this1 however1 like many other pieces of mischief which had been predicted it would accomplish1 failed1 and the professor has retired from observation covered with the laurels won by his research4 ,a comet1 so brilliant that it could be seen at noonday1 made its appearance seventy-three years before the birth of our ,saviour4 ,this date was just after the death of ,julius ,csar1 and by the ,romans the comet was believed to be his metamorphosed soul1 armed with fire and vengeance4 ,this comet appeared again in #aajf1 and then resembled the sun in brightness1 being of great size1 and having an immense trail4 ,in #adef1 a large comet made its appearance4 ,the terror it created extended through all classes1 and the belief was universal that the day of judgment was at hand4 ,at this time1 the ,turks1 with their victorious armies1 seemed destined to overrun all ,europe4 ,this added to the gloom and terror4 ,the people became regardless of the present1 and anxious only for the future4 ,to prepare the world for its expected doom1 ,pope ,callixtus ,,iii4 ordered the ,ave ,maria to be repeated three times instead of twice a day1 and to it was added1 ,lord1 save us from the ,devil1 the ,turk1 and the ,comet6 and thrice each day these obnoxious personages suffered excommunication4 ,at length1 the comet began to retire from eyes in which it found no favor1 and the ,turks retired to their own dominions4 ,the comet of #afhj was of the largest size1 having a trail ninety-six millions of miles in length4 ,dawning science1 however1 robbed it of its terrors1 assisted by the signal failure of its illustrious predecessor4 ,such are many of the fantasies which these peculiar visitors have called up4 ,the beautiful comet of #ahaa1 the most splendid of modern times1 was considered1 even by many intelligent persons1 as the harbinger of the war which was declared the spring following2 and the remembrance will be fresh in the minds of many of an indefinite apprehension of some dreadful catastrophe1 which pervaded both continents1 in anticipation of ,bela's comet in #ahcb4 ,comets1 unlike the planets1 observe no one direction in their orbits1 but approach to and recede from their great centre of attraction in every possible direction4 ,some seem to come up from immeasurable depths below the ecliptic1 and1 having doubled the heaven's mighty cape1 again plunged downward with their fiery trains1 ,on the long travel of a thousand years4 ,again1 they seem to come from the zenith of the universe1 and1 after doubling their perihelion about the sun1 reascend far above human vision4 ,others1 again1 seem to be dashing through the solar system in every conceivable direction1 apparently in an undisturbed path2 others are known1 however1 to obey laws like those which regulate planets4 ,nothing is known with certainty as to the composition of these bodies1 although it is certain they contain very little matter1 for they produce little or no effect on the motions of planets when passing near those bodies4 ,upon what errands they come1 what regions they visit when they pass from view1 what is the difference between them1 the sun1 and planets1 and what is their mission in the economy of the universe1 are questions often pondered over1 but the solution of which is beyond the limited powers of human understanding4 ,illustration ,,mrs4 ,,murden',s ,,two ,,dollar ,,silk4 ,,by ,,the ,,author ,,of ,,miss ,,bremer',s ,,visit ,,to ,,cooper',s ,,landing1 ,,getting ,,into ,,society1 ,,mustard ,,to ,,mix1 ,,etc4 ,,etc4 ,,isn',t it perfect8 said young ,mrs4 ,murden1 drawing her husband towards a shop window as she herself made a halt in front of it4 ,i think it is the loveliest shade ,i ever saw1 and that satin stripe gives it such an air so perfectly genteel6 ,what8 asked ,mr4 ,murden1 simply1 roused from his calculation of percentage on certain articles just consigned to him4 ,it was certainly an indefinite pronoun1 with all that display of elegant silks1 ribbons1 laces1 and embroideries1 so skilfully arranged to attract the promenaders of ,chestnut ,street4 ,why1 that silk4 ,i've stopped to look at it twice this week4 ,that blue and red plaid8 ,yes1 it is very handsome2 just the pattern of your woollen shawl1 isn't it8 ,plaids6 exclaimed ,mrs4 ,murden1 contemptuously4 ,why1 that's only a dollar silk2 besides1 everybody wears plaids--they're so common6 ,then a thing is not pretty when it's common8 ,why1 of course not4 ,i heard ,mrs4 ,george ,barker say yesterday that no real lady wore such gay colors on the street2 that1 in ,paris1 plain colors are all the rage4 ,i mean that rich purple1 with the thick satin stripe4 ,it's perfect4 ,young ,mrs4 ,murden had thought the plaids the very height of fashion1 until she overheard this conversation between ,mrs4 ,george ,barker and her mother4 ,who should know what was stylish1 if ,mrs4 ,george ,barker did not1 when she lived in a house with a marble front1 had a coachman in livery1 and the family arms1 done in the best manner1 on the panel of her crimson lined carriage8 ,people said she had made a mistake in the last1 however2 that the stately swan of the crest should have been a tailor's goose4 ,but1 then1 these were people who had no carriage of their own1 and were obliged to patronize omnibuses4 ,no doubt1 if they could have afforded it1 the paternal awl and lapstone would have been transposed into a dagger and shield1 in a similar manner2 so their opinion is no manner of consequence4 ,mrs4 ,murden had gone into ,evans ,gilman's to price1 as she called it1 the very plaid she now scorned--for her best silk was giving way--when she overheard its sentence pronounced by those red lips1 with a shrug of the sable-caped shoulders of the fashionable lady4 ,mrs4 ,barker pronounced the purple exceedingly stylish2 ,mrs4 ,murden caught the verdict as it fell2 and1 from that moment1 her affections were centred upon it4 ,not that she had any claims to being stylish herself2 on the contrary1 her little home1 in a far away cross street1 was exceedingly plain2 but the young wife had undeveloped aspirations towards a less humble sphere1 shown by being1 in some sort1 a leader of the circle in which she visited4 ,it was not large1 or very select1 but there were some well-educated1 well-bred people1 some very warm1 true hearts1 and1 as the case will always be1 others as empty-minded1 selfish1 and frivolous as if they were really in fashionable life4 ,mrs4 ,murden1 as her husband sometimes noticed1 had rather an inclination to court the latter party1 as they dressed and furnished the most showily1 and1 in fact1 to outvie them--a disposition which the far-sighted ,mr4 ,murden dreaded not a little4 ,he was decidedly a domestic man1 and1 besides1 as his wife often said1 so her dress was put on properly1 with a clean collar and undersleeves1 he did not know half the time whether it was silk or calico4 ,indeed1 he had brought quite a serious attack of pouting upon himself1 by calling his wife's new green foulard a calico4 ,you may be sure1 he had entirely forgotten that purple silks were ever manufactured by the next day at dinner1 when he was reminded of it by ,mrs4 ,murden abruptly terminating a long fit of musing by the exclamation-- ,i should be perfectly happy1 if ,i had it4 ,mr4 ,murden1 foolish man1 supposed at first that she meant a picture of the children1 who were marvellously near of an age--two of them4 ,well1 dear1 when shall we take them down to ,root's8 ,say the word4 ,for ,mr4 ,murden himself thought it a great pity that such remarkable beauty should be lost to the world4 ,no doubt1 ,root would insist on a duplicate for his show-case4 ,root's6 ,i was talking about that silk1 ,mr4 ,murden4 ,what has ,root got to do with it1 ,i'd like to know8 ,mrs4 ,murden seemed inclined to help to tarts before the dessert was served4 ,oh6 ,and ,mr4 ,murden resumed his carver1 helping himself to a second cut of beef4 ,bless my soul1 how much women do think of dress6 ,who's going to have a new one8 ,it's high time ,i had1 dear4 ,only think1 we've been married three years next month1 and ,i've only had one silk in that while4 ,why1 you had one in the summer--that striped frock and cape4 ,that's an ,india2 we don't call these thin things anything4 ,i mean a good1 heavy poult de soie1 like my mazarine blue ,i had when we were married4 ,it's fairly gone now1 careful as ,i have been4 ,it's been turned and cleaned1 and now it's so shabby ,i hate to put it on4 ,i'm sure1 you never look better in any dress you've got1 insisted ,mr4 ,murden1 who had very pleasant associations connected with their early married life and the dress in question4 ,why1 it's a perfect fringe around the bottom1 and has two great stains on the skirt4 ,what are you thinking of1 ,john8 ,well1 well1 ,i'll give it up4 ,i like it1 that's all4 ,how much will a new one cost8 ,mrs4 ,murden1 slightly diplomatic1 could not present an estimate4 ,her husband had told her of a business loss when he came in2 it was not a very favorable moment4 ,wonderful as it seemed to her1 the purple silk was still unsold when a week had passed2 but1 then1 it is a color very few dare to try their complexions by1 which ,mrs4 ,murden did not reflect upon4 ,the celebrated ,purple ,jar was not more attractive to ,rosamond1 as chronicled by ,miss ,edgeworth1 than was the dress to its constant worshipper1 who made an errand into ,chestnut ,street daily that she might pause for a moment before it4 ,mr4 ,murden said she reminded him of his father's old pony1 who always halted of his own accord at the houses of the doctor's principal patients4 ,mrs4 ,murden did not thank him for any such comparisons4 ,that same evening there was a perceptible rise of spirits observable in the father of the family4 ,he tossed the baby1 accordingly1 so far that its anxious mother was sure its poor little head would be dashed against the ceiling2 he gave ,george ,washington1 the eldest hope1 three several rides on his boot1 and carried him up to bed in a fashion best known to nurses as pig-a-back4 ,mrs4 ,murden wondered what had happened2 she little knew the good fortune in store for her4 ,well1 ,barney--,mr4 ,murden always called his wife ,barney when in particularly good humor1 though her name was a very romantic one1 ,adelaide ,matilda--how about that dress8 ,tell us1 out and out1 how much it would cost4 ,let's see if it would break a fellow4 ,it's a splendid piece1 began ,mrs4 ,murden4 ,so ,i have been told every day for two weeks4 ,you know ,i'm not very extravagant2 and1 once in a while1 dear1 ,i do take a fancy for something handsome4 ,mr4 ,murden thought the proposition would have been stated correctly1 if she had said1 every little while2 but ,mrs4 ,murden was warming his slippers for him1 and looking very pretty in the bright firelight1 so he made no ungracious comment2 he only said-- ,come1 ,barney1 out with it4 ,what's the entire figure8 ,well1 it's a two dollar silk1 ,i find--,mrs4 ,murden made a desperate attempt to look unconcerned--and it will take ten yards4 ,whew6 ,mr4 ,murden had thought a ten dollar gold piece would have been all-sufficient1 and was turning one over in his pocket at the moment4 ,why1 as much as an overcoat almost4 ,and will last twice as long1 dear2 just remember that4 ,well1 well1 for once in my life--there's a nice piece of extravagance2 but1 as you've set your heart upon it1 you shall be indulged1 ,barney4 ,take them both4 ,and he dropped the two eagles1 received that afternoon for what he had considered a bad debt1 into her outstretched hand4 ,it was thus that ,mrs4 ,murden came into possession of her two dollar silk1 the envy of her next door neighbor1 ,mrs4 ,keyser1 her intimate friends1 ,mrs4 ,hopkins and ,miss ,lippincott1 to whom it was shown in the piece4 ,how are you going to have it made8 asked ,mrs4 ,keyser4 ,i'd have a basque1 by all means1 and have it open4 ,mrs4 ,keyser was one of those ladies who accomplish so much on a committee of foreign affairs1 and so little in the home department4 ,oh1 so would ,i1 said ,miss ,lippincott1 who always assented to everything that was said4 ,i don't believe a basque would be becoming1 enviously interposed ,mrs4 ,hopkins1 who was herself remarkably stout and dumpy in figure4 ,perhaps not1 said ,miss ,lippincott2 very likely not4 ,i don't believe ,miss ,johns could fit a basque either1 pursued ,mrs4 ,hopkins1 who had no intention of being outdone by her neighbor2 her dresses were all made for the winter4 ,nor ,i1 added ,miss ,lippincott4 ,i wouldn't trust ,miss ,johns to put scissors into that silk anyhow1 ,mrs4 ,keyser said2 for1 having relations living in ,spruce ,street1 she was considered to have unusual claims to knowingness in matters of fashion1 and was not slow to put them forth4 ,surely1 thought ,mrs4 ,murden1 it never would do4 ,miss ,johns was well enough for a plain dress2 but a two dollar silk6 ,how ,i wish you could afford to have it made at ,miss ,stringer's now1 continued ,mrs4 ,keyser4 ,emma ,louisa always has everything done there1 and so does ,mrs4 ,coleman1 she's so intimate with1 and ,mrs4 ,george ,barker4 ,you never saw such splendid fits4 ,it is presumed that ,mrs4 ,keyser did not allude to convulsions2 but ,mrs4 ,hopkins always elevated her little flat nez on a mention of these ,spruce ,street relatives2 for every one knows she said to ,miss ,lippincott1 as they walked down the street together-- ,every one knows that she never is invited there when any one else is expected1 not even to the wedding4 ,i wouldn't own such relations1 if ,i had shoals of them2 would you1 ,miss ,lippincott8 ,no1 indeed1 returned that lady1 with unusual animation for her1 for she was rather worn out with allusions to the ,spruce ,street relations herself1 in an intimacy of some months' standing4 ,it was a very daring thing1 but young ,mrs4 ,murden1 revolving all these things in her mind1 the basque1 the open front1 ,miss ,johns's lack of style1 and that she was employed by all her acquaintances1 came to the conclusion that her dress should be made at a ,chestnut ,street shop1 although she had never had anything made out of the house before4 ,but it's once in a lifetime1 as she said to ,mr4 ,murden1 walking down with him after dinner2 and he1 who had never seen a fashionable mantuamaker's bill1 thought it of very little consequence to whom the important commission was intrusted4 ,the little woman felt rather nervous1 it is true1 on entering such awful precincts as the shop of ,miss ,stringer1 which was by no means diminished by the manner of the lady in waiting1 who pursued1 at the same time1 her gossip with another damsel seated in the window with a dummy on her knee1 shaping a cap on its unconscious head1 not less empty1 perhaps1 than the one it was destined to grace4 ,i should like a dress made1 if you could do it1 stammered forth ,mrs4 ,murden as the girl leisurely surveyed her from head to foot1 taking an exact inventory of her dress1 and knowing to a fraction the cost of every article4 ,certainly1 madam4 ,and then over her shoulder to the cap-maker at the window3 ,is it possible that she has white feathers on a blue bonnet8 ,i wouldn't wear such a thing myself4 ,who's with her8 ,young ,rushton1 returned the street surveyor1 turning dummy's blank face for another fold of lace4 ,he's devoted1 they say4 ,i beg your pardon1 madam4 ,it was not a pardon asked for inattention1 but a suggestion to ,mrs4 ,murden to finish her business4 ,a dress1 continued ,mrs4 ,murden1 falteringly4 ,when could you make it8 ,next week1 or week after1 perhaps1 or early next month4 ,you can call on ,wednesday1 and ,miss ,stringer will make an appointment to fit you1 vouchsafed the attendant with the ,jenny ,lind silk apron4 ,you can send round the material in the mean time4 ,street or evening-dress8 ,strictly speaking1 ,mrs4 ,murden never had had an evening-dress2 her silks were worn to the parties she usually attended4 ,she had the precious purchase with her1 and she considered it quite handsome enough for any ball that ever was given2 but she would not have offered it to the young woman then on any consideration4 ,she felt convicted of carrying her own bundles1 and consequently carried this one home again1 to be left next day by ,mr4 ,murden on his way to the store4 ,wednesday1 and ,mrs4 ,murden1 dressed in her best1 waited again upon ,miss ,stringer4 ,this time1 the lady herself appeared1 and proved not to be quite so withering as her assistant--principals seldom are4 ,there were several fashionable ladies in waiting1 all on the most gossipping and familiar terms with ,miss ,stringer1 who was besieged with petitions for impossible work to be done in incredible haste1 enforced by ,you kind1 good creature1 and other terms of endearment written in the wheedling vocabulary4 ,according to their piteous statements1 not one of these splendidly attired women had a dress to cover them1 or a cloak to shield them from the cold4 ,mrs4 ,murden had a fine opportunity of seeing and hearing while she waited exactly one hour for ,miss ,stringer4 ,she had never been in such close contact with fashionable women before4 ,like many others of her own position in life1 they had always been her envy and her admiration from a distance1 as they swept across the pavement from their carriages1 or brushed past her at the entrance of ,bailey's or ,levy's1 at whose fascinating windows she was spell-bound4 ,they could not have a wish ungratified1 she was sure2 their lives must pass like a fairy tale1 all flowers and music4 ,but1 now that she saw them nearer1 the wan and restless eyes1 the half hidden wrinkles painfully distended in the glare of a bright winter's morning1 and the querulous1 fretful tones1 told another story4 ,they were tired to death--they whose feet scarcely touched the pavement1 and who had servants at every call4 ,the party of last night was so stupid6 ,the ball of ,thursday wouldn't be worth the trouble of dressing for4 ,what should they wear8 ,miss ,stringer must tell them4 ,did she know ,rushton's engagement was broken with ,bell ,hamilton8 ,her ill health1 it was said2 but every one knew1 because he had been flirting so all winter with ,mrs4 ,mc,cord4 ,but then she had such a brute of a husband1 ,coleman ,mc,cord1 who could blame her8 ,he was devoted to the southern beauty1 ,miss ,legree4 ,was lemon color quite out of date8 and should they get crimson fuchsias with gold tips for the wreath8 ,mrs4 ,murden was so deep in moral reflections suggested by this style of conversation1 that she did not perceive ,miss ,stringer was ready for her at first4 ,she was almost sorry when the moment arrived1 for she dreaded an interview with this maker of fine ladies1 who dictated to them so coolly1 and was so besieged1 and coaxed1 and petted by them4 ,the lady's distant1 preoccupied manner added to her embarrassment1 when1 finding she had an unoccupied half hour1 she proposed to fit her forthwith1 and asked ,mrs4 ,murden into the inner apartment1 with its curtains and lounges1 its cheval glass reflecting the little woman's figure from head to foot1 and reminding her that the dress she wore was at least two inches shorter than the flowing robes of the birds of paradise who had just taken their departure4 ,silly little body1 she felt so awkward and old-fashioned1 and wished in her heart she was in her own back parlor1 with ,miss ,johns and her heart-shaped pin-cushion4 ,she was quite a mirror of fashion to ,miss ,johns1 who was indebted to ,mrs4 ,murden for half her new sleeves and trimmings1 caught by those observing black eyes1 and shaped out at home with the aid of old newspapers4 ,but here it was the mantuamaker's place to dictate4 ,a basque1 of course1 or is it an evening-dress8 ,what name8 ,murden--,mrs4 ,murden4 ,and she knew perfectly well it was one entirely foreign to the ears that caught it1 low as was her tone4 ,but when ,miss ,stringer came to see that silk her opinion might change4 ,mrs4 ,murden longed to have it brought forth and note the effect4 ,a silk2 for the street1 ,i suppose8 ,basque1 of course4 ,we only make bodices in full dress4 ,open body8 ,and ,miss ,stringer's rapid fingers measured the shoulders1 the waist1 the arms1 presented to her1 mechanically4 ,customers were but lay figures to the fashionable modiste1 to be made up at pleasure4 ,miss ,elbert1 ,mrs4 ,murden's silk4 ,but ,miss ,elbert feigned entire ignorance of its reception4 ,mrs4 ,murden--she could not remember the name4 ,and a bustle of search ensued1 while the forewoman from the work-room made her appearance for orders1 bringing skirts and waists of such rich and dazzling materials as ,mrs4 ,murden had never dreamed of1 while she trembled for the fate of her own precious purple4 ,two errand girls1 charity children they looked like1 with their little sharp1 thin faces and faded shawls1 were dispatched to match buttons1 and gimps1 and galloons1 with handsful of patterns1 and heads full of instructions1 which last did not stay where they were put1 which accounted for ,miss ,lawrence appearing at the ,thursday ball with yellow fringe on a lemon-colored dress1 and ,mrs4 ,johnson ,rogers finding her gray silk--she was in half mourning for the late lamented ,mr4 ,johnson ,rogers--decorated by brown velvet acorn buttons4 ,however1 both passed for ,parisian novelties1 and were greatly admired2 so ,miss ,stringer1 and not the stupid errand girls1 who came back too late to admit of a change1 received the credit of these novel decorations4 ,much to ,mrs4 ,murden's relief1 the silk was at last forthcoming1 from an out-of-the-way drawer1 and she awaited with inward satisfaction ,miss ,stringer's inspection4 ,but two-dollar silks were everyday bread and butter to that lady1 who merely glanced at it1 and tossed the package upon a neighboring sofa1 as if it had been so many yards of crash towelling4 ,very good quality1 she remarked4 ,you got it at ,evans ,gilman's4 ,trying to most complexions4 ,what now1 ,miss ,elbert8 ,no1 ,i shall not touch ,mrs4 ,cadwalader's dress before ,monday4 ,tell her she can wear her white moire d'antique2 she's only worn it twice this season to my knowledge4 ,tell her to wear her ,honiton scarf1 and no one will know what kind of a dress she has on4 ,that will do1 ,mrs4--,i beg your pardon--,mudon4 ,you can come again on ,thursday week4 ,how will you have it trimmed8 ,mrs4 ,murder did not venture to suggest a trimming1 and prudently left the whole matter to ,miss ,stringer's abler hands4 ,prudently1 in one sense2 she had never seen a bill from a fashionable shop1 recollect4 ,she had been just about to inquire what ,miss ,stringer would charge4 ,fortunate escape6 ,the question would have been met with paralyzing coldness4 ,it is a risk to procure your own trimming2 but to seek to place a limit as to ultimate expense--unpardonable in the eyes of an autocrat of fashion4 ,so ,mrs4 ,murden departed very much cast down1 and very insignificant in her cashmere dress and the fur she had thought so handsome--so it was in her own set2 but her eyes had been dwelling upon velvet cloaks and sable victorines the past two hours4 ,alas6 for her last year's mantle1 pretty as it had been2 embroidered merinos looked so common--fatal word4 ,miss ,stringer had entirely forgotten the appointment when she presented herself again on ,thursday week4 ,meantime1 it had been very difficult to parry the inquiries of her trio of intimates as to when and how the dress was to be made1 without betraying her all-important secret4 ,but she succeeded to admiration4 ,it was in vain for ,mrs4 ,hopkins to remark that ,miss ,johns was engaged for nearly all the week1 to her certain knowledge1 or for ,mrs4 ,keyser to allude to ,emma ,louisa's green poplin1 the sweetest thing she had ever seen2 ,mrs4 ,murden did not give out a clue4 ,she saw the identical green poplin at ,miss ,stringer's1 on her second audience1 and heard ,miss ,elbert remark1 with her accustomed freedom1 upon its possessor1 who was set down by ,miss ,stringer's young woman as decidedly vulgar and over-dressed4 ,mrs4 ,keyser never would have survived overhearing this assault upon her kinswoman4 ,mrs4 ,murden treasured it up for future remembrance4 ,it does make me sick1 remarked ,miss ,elbert1 to see people load on such things4 ,thank my stars1 ,i'm not a rich woman6 ,poor things1 ,i pity them6 in a fever from morning till night about a dress or a cloak4 ,half of them murder the king's ,english4 ,don't you say so1 ,miss ,replier8 ,miss ,replier1 who still fitted dummy to one unending round of caps1 assented with a nod4 ,then they're so afraid some one else will have something1 continued this free-spoken1 candid young person4 ,did you see ,mrs4 ,james ,thomas1 the day of our opening1 take up that garnet hat ,miss ,stringer had ordered out for ,mrs4 ,mc,cord8 ,mrs4 ,mc,cord wouldn't have it1 after all1 when she heard there was one made from it4 ,and there's ,miss ,thornton thinks she's got the only ,eugenie robe in the country4 ,levy imported three to my certain knowledge4 ,for my part1 it makes me sick as the head boy at a confectioner's4 ,if ,i was as rich as ,mrs4 ,rush1 ,i wouldn't have a thing better than ,i have now4 ,and here she condescended to see if ,miss ,stringer was disengaged1 and ushered the possessor of the purple silk into the fitting-room4 ,it was quite a picture as ,mrs4 ,murden entered it4 ,the lounges spread with dresses that surpassed her imagination4 ,two bonnets1 all lace and flowers1 the frame seeming only intended to support them1 were on stands in one corner1 and wreaths1 gloves1 ribbons1 and embroideries made up the graceful confusion4 ,miss ,stringer was on her knees before a large deal box1 folding and packing these wonderful creations4 ,a bridal order1 she said1 for the ,south4 ,look around1 if you would like to4 ,mrs4 ,murden would not have touched any of them for a kingdom2 it seemed as if a breath would soil the gossamer-like evening-dresses1 with their light garlands of flowers4 ,a velvet robe fit for a queen1 destined for the mother of the bride2 a morning-dress of ,french cambric embroidery1 over a violet-colored silk2 flounced dresses1 with borders of woven embroidery1 in the most delicate contrasting shade2 glove-knots1 shoulder-knots1 breast-knots1 of ribbon and gold lace1 were some of the items of this costly trousseau4 ,the cherished purple silk faded1 as if it had been exposed to a summer sun1 in ,mrs4 ,murden's eyes4 ,it looked so very common--to think of a two dollar silk being common--beside those brocades and flounced taffetas1 when it came to be tried on2 and then the prices dealt out in the most amiable manner by ,miss ,stringer conscious that she had made a good thing of it4 ,the velvet had cost a hundred dollars before scissors had touched it4 ,the lace on the skirt of the bridal-dress was seventy-five dollars a yard2 the morning-dress was a robe imported1 of course1 at sixty dollars2 and so on to the ermine-bordered mantle1 at four hundred and fifty4 ,mrs4 ,murden asked when her dress would be sent home1 as she resumed her bonnet and cloak4 ,she had lost nearly all interest in it1 as ,miss ,stringer pulled and puckered1 let out1 and let in1 the nicely fitting basque4 ,it was not lost1 perhaps1 but swallowed up for the time in the contemplation of so much elegance1 which1 come what would1 she could never hope to attain4 ,and she colored1 we grieve to record it1 as she gave the lynx-eyed ,miss ,elbert her address1 so far away from the fashionable quarter4 ,perhaps she saw the glance exchanged with ,miss ,replier as it was named4 ,mrs4 ,murden anticipated the arrival of the purple silk with dread forebodings4 ,she hoped her husband would not be at home if the bill came with it4 ,making up was a trifle when she sewed with ,miss ,johns1 and found her own trimmings4 ,she knew that ,mr4 ,murden had not calculated on any extra demands1 the dress once purchased4 ,besides1 he had been losing money all the week1 and besides1 she had anticipated the last dollar of her month's allowance4 ,she was more abstracted than ever as the time drew near4 ,but it came1 and there was no help for it--on ,saturday evening1 the night of all others when ,mr4 ,murden was sure to be at home4 ,it was very1 very stylish2 the trimming1 a broad embossed velvet ribbon1 matched the shade to perfection4 ,mr4 ,murden wanted to have it tried on at once1 and did not think the absence of a chemisette detracted at all from the tout ensemble4 ,he felt very much pleased with himself for having allowed his pretty wife to have her own way1 and gave her a kiss by way of approval to her taste1 which chaste matrimonial salute was interrupted by the reappearance of their one servant1 to say that the girl was waiting in the hall1 as the bill was receipted4 ,ah1 the bill6 ,there it was1 pinned conspicuously on the flap of the basque4 ,mr4 ,murden detached it1 and read the amount3 #ac #bi cts4 ,received payment1 ,ann ,stringer4 ,good gracious1 my dear1 what a mistake6 ,more than half as much as the dress cost6 ,mrs4 ,murden caught at the straw4 ,perhaps it was a mistake1 and the wrong bill had been sent to her4 ,but there was no such good fortune2 there it was1 in ,miss ,elbert's own hard1 angular handwriting1 item by item4 ,and ,mr4 ,murden paid it on the spot1 for he never allowed a bill to be presented twice2 but he went out without returning to the parlor1 and shut the front door with a bang1 to countermand the new overcoat which he had been measured for that afternoon1 and which he needed badly4 ,it was weeks before the purple silk was again alluded to by him1 and spring before ,mrs4 ,murden could afford to purchase undersleeves and a chemisette to wear with it4 ,she walked to church in the mazarine blue beside the shabby overcoat1 with its threadbare sleeves and rusty collar1 a humbler and a better woman4 ,it was only when ,mr4 ,murden discovered what a cure the surfeit of finery in ,mrs4 ,stringer's fitting-room had wrought1 that he quite pardoned the folly and extravagance of the purple silk4 ,for1 as ,mrs4 ,murden said1 there must always be a great many people better dressed1 spend what she would1 so where was the use8 ,and1 after all1 comfort was the thing1 not show4 ,the purple silk became quite a favorite eventually1 for ,mr4 ,murden did not consider the lesson dearly bought at thirty-three dollars and twenty-nine cents1 since it was to last a lifetime4 ,illustration ,,management ,,of ,,canary ,,birds4 ,,by request of a correspondent1 we publish the following from ,mrs4 ,hale's ,new ,household ,receipt-,book3-- ,canary birds that are kept tame will breed three or four times in the year4 ,towards the middle of ,march begin to match your birds1 putting one cock and hen into the breeding-cage1 which should be large1 so that the birds may have room to fly and exercise themselves4 ,place two boxes or little basket-nests in the cage1 for the hen to lay her eggs in1 because she will sometimes have a second brood before the first are fit to fly1 leaving the care of them to the father bird1 who feeds and brings them up with much care1 while she is sitting on her second nest of eggs4 ,whilst your birds are pairing feed them1 besides the usual seeds1 with the yolks of hard-boiled eggs1 bread that has been moistened1 or1 if hard1 grated fine1 and pounded almond-meat4 ,when the young birds are to be fed1 give the same soft food1 and be sure have it fresh every day2 also furnish the old birds with fresh greens1 such as cabbage-lettuce1 chickweed1 groundsel1 c4 ,give fresh water every day1 and a clean bath every morning4 ,the hen lays1 commonly1 four or five eggs1 and sits fourteen days4 ,when the young are hatched1 leave them to the care of the old birds to nurse and bring up till they can fly and feed themselves1 which is1 usually1 in about twenty days4 ,,godey',s ,,course ,,of ,,lessons ,,in ,,drawing4 ,,lesson ,,iv4 ,fig4 #cf shows the position of the two ellipses a and b1 which form the bases of the ornamental sketch shown in ,fig4 #cg4 ,in like manner1 the half-ellipse1 formed on the horizontal line in ,fig4 #ch1 is the foundation of the sketch shown in ,fig4 #ci4 ,so also is the foundation of a flower-petal1 shown in ,fig4 #dj1 made clear by the analytical sketch in ,fig4 #da1 where the preliminary forms are shown drawn4 ,again1 the ornamental scroll in ,fig4 #db is drawn by sketching a half-ellipse on the horizontal line4 ,illustration3 ,fig4 #cf4 ,illustration3 ,fig4 #cg4 ,illustration3 ,fig4 #ch4 ,illustration3 ,fig4 #ci4 ,illustration3 ,fig4 #dj4 ,the convolvulus flower and stem in ,fig4 #dc are also drawn by previously sketching an ellipse to form the flower4 ,illustration3 ,fig4 #da4 ,illustration3 ,fig4 #db4 ,in sketching the flower in ,fig4 #dd1 the pupil must first draw an outline which will take in the whole figure1 making it as near the shape of the sketch as the eye dictates4 ,after the correct outline is formed1 the details must be drawn4 ,illustration3 ,fig4 #dc4 ,illustration3 ,fig4 #dd4 ,illustration3 ,fig4 #de4 ,illustration3 ,fig4 #df4 ,illustration3 ,fig4 #dg4 ,illustration3 ,fig4 #dh4 ,illustration3 ,fig4 #di4 ,the flower1 stem1 and leaves of the sketch in ,fig4 #de must be drawn in1 the form being estimated chiefly by the eye2 the stem ought to be put in first1 thereafter the distances between the leaves1 and then filling in the details4 ,the ivy-leaf in ,fig4 #df is to be drawn in the same way as the last4 ,the ivy-stem and leaves shown in ,fig4 #dg should be drawn by first sketching out the length1 form1 and direction of the stem1 then ascertaining and marking the distances between the leaves1 and filling in the details as before4 ,the leaf in ,fig4 #dh1 and the leaves in ,fig4 #di1 should next be copied4 ,fig4 #ej is the leaf of the common dock4 ,it is to be copied by first drawing an ellipse1 thereafter filling in the details4 ,fig4 #ea is the stem and leaves of the burdock4 ,the sketch may be put in at once by the assistance of the eye2 it may be better1 however1 to draw a circle for the part a1 and an ellipse for that of b4 ,illustration3 ,fig4 #ej4 ,illustration3 ,fig4 #ea4 ,the scroll in ,fig4 #eb may be sketched by drawing an outline which would touch all the parts of the design1 thereafter filling up the details4 ,illustration3 ,fig4 #eb4 ,illustration3 ,fig4 #ec4 ,in drawing the sketch shown in ,fig4 #ec1 the pupil will have to trust greatly to the eye4 ,the stem should be drawn first1 its length and direction being carefully noted2 the distances of the extremities of the leaves from the stem should next be marked off2 next1 their general outline1 and thereafter the details4 ,the proportions the parts bear to one another must be attended to4 ,,the ,,trials ,,of ,a ,,needlewoman4#b ,,by ,t4 ,s4 ,,arthur4 7,continued from page #bbg47 ,,chapter ,,vi4 ,,the efforts made by ,perkins to find the residence of the stranger proved unavailing4 ,half suspecting that ,michael had deceived him1 he returned to the shop of ,mr4 ,berlaps1 and asked the direction anew4 ,it was repeated precisely as at first given4 ,but ,i have been there4 ,well1 wasn't she at that number8 ,no4 ,i don't know anything about her1 then4 ,it often happens that these sewing-girls deceive us as to their whereabouts4 ,perkins turned away disappointed1 but with his interest in the stranger more than ever excited4 ,who and what can she be8 and why do ,i feel so deep an interest in a perfect stranger1 who cannot possibly be anything to me8 were involuntary questions which the young man endeavored1 but in vain1 to answer4 ,that night1 as he sat alone in his room1 his friend ,milford came in and found him with the miniature before alluded to in his hand4 ,whose sweet face is that8 ,bless me6 ,but she is a lovely creature6 said ,milford1 as his eye caught a glimpse of the picture which ,perkins made a movement to conceal4 ,aha6 ,mr4 ,sobersides6 have ,i found you out at last8 ,but seeing that his remarks had the effect to disturb1 even agitate his friend1 he said1 in a changed tone-- ,forgive me if ,i have thoughtlessly jarred a string that vibrates painfully6 ,i knew not that you carried in your heart an unhealed wound4 ,and yet ,i do1 my friend4 ,a wound that1 ,i fear1 will never cicatrize4 ,five years have passed since ,i parted with the living original of this picture4 ,the parting was to be only for a few months4 ,we have never met since1 and never will1 in this world6 ,the sea gives not up its dead6 ,there was a solemn earnestness in the voice of ,perkins that showed how deeply the loss still affected him4 ,to me1 said his companion1 after a pause1 it seems strange that you should never have alluded to this subject1 even to your nearest friend4 ,i could not1 ,milford4 ,the effort to keep my feelings under control has been severe enough1 without permitting myself to speak of the matter at all4 ,but now that it has been alluded to1 ,i feel inclined to talk upon the subject1 if you have any desire to hear4 ,i certainly have an anxious desire to hear1 replied ,milford4 ,perkins shaded his face for a few moments with his hand1 and sat silent and thoughtful4 ,he then gave1 in a calm voice1 the following narration3-- ,you are aware that1 when ,i came to this city to reside1 a few years since1 ,i removed from ,troy1 ,new ,york4 ,that is my native place--or1 at least1 ,i had lived there from boyhood up1 when ,i removed to ,boston4 ,it is now about ten years since a man named ,ballantine1 who seemed to possess considerable wealth1 made his appearance in the place1 accompanied by his daughter1 a young girl about thirteen years of age4 ,he came from ,new ,orleans1 where his wife had died1 and where he was still engaged in business4 ,his object in coming north with his child was to secure for her the advantages of a good seminary4 ,he seemed to prefer ,troy1 and after remaining there for some months1 concluded to place his child in the family of a newly-married man1 whose wife1 somewhat matronly in age and in habits1 happened to please his fancy1 as a maternal guardian for his child4 ,after making every requisite arrangement in regard to her education1 he returned to ,new ,orleans1 from which city money to defray her expenses was regularly transmitted4 ,once a year he came north to visit her1 and remained in our town for a few weeks4 ,i happened to know the family in which ,eugenia ,ballantine was placed1 and became acquainted with her immediately4 ,i was then but a boy1 though some four years her senior1 yet old enough to feel for her1 from the beginning1 something more than a mere fraternal regard4 ,and this sentiment was reciprocal4 ,no place was so pleasant to me as that which was cheered by her presence--no smile warmed my heart like her smile2 and ,i could always see her countenance brighten the moment ,i came where she was4 ,gradually1 as year after year passed1 and she still remained among us1 our early preference for each other1 or rather our early affection1 assumed a more serious character4 ,we loved each other2 she was just seventeen1 and ,i twenty-one1 when ,i ventured to tell her how deeply1 fervently1 and purely ,i loved her4 ,the formal announcement did not seem to create surprise1 or agitate her in the least4 ',i never doubted it1' was her innocent reply1 looking me tenderly in the face4 ',and do you love me as truly as ,i love you1 ,eugenia8' ,i asked4 ',have you ever doubted it8' was her quiet response to this1 also4 ,from that moment ,i was bewilderingly happy4 ,my family was one of wealth and standing1 and ,i immediately wrote to ,mr4 ,ballantine1 who1 after sufficient time to make inquiry in regard to the character and position of his daughter's lover1 returned a cordial assent to my proposal for her hand4 ,thus far everything had gone on as smoothly as a summer sea4 ,we smiled sometimes together at the carping adage1 ',the course of true love never did run smooth1' and referred to our own case as a signal instance of its falsity4 ,during the summer succeeding our engagement1 ,mr4 ,ballantine did not come on to the north4 ,in the ensuing spring1 ,eugenia's term of instruction closed at the seminary1 after having been in ,troy nearly five years4 ,she was a tall1 beautiful woman1 with a mind highly cultivated1 and externally accomplished in every respect4 ,i was proud of her beauty and acquirements1 at the same time that ,i loved her with fervent devotion4 ,spring passed away and summer came2 with the advancing season her father arrived from the south4 ,he had not seen his child for two years1 during which time she had grown up into a mature and lovely woman4 ,i could forgive the jealous pride with which he would look into her face1 and the constant tenderness of his allusions to her when she was away from his side4 ',i do not think1 ,mr4 ,perkins1' he would say to me1 sometimes1 'that ,i can let you have my ,eugenia1 unless you will go south4 ,i am sure ,i cannot part with her again4' ',why not come north1 ,mr4 ,ballantine8' ,i would suggest4 ,but he would shake his head as he made some disparaging remark in regard to the north1 and playfully insist that ,i must go with him to the sunny south4 ,it was about the first of ,september that ,i asked that our marriage might take place at an early day4 ,but the father shook his head4 ',be content that the flower is to be yours4 ,do not become too eager to pluck it from its parent stem4 ,i must have my dear girl with me for at least one winter4 ,in the spring she shall be yours4' ',oh1 no6 ,mr4 ,ballantine1' ,i said1 in alarm1 'you are not going to rob me of her for so long a time8' ,i spoke with warmth4 ',rob you of her6' ejaculated the father1 in seeming half indignation4 ',you are unreasonable and very selfish1 my dear boy6 ,here you have had her for five years1 and after a little while are to have her for life1 and yet are unwilling to give me even the boon of a few short months with my own child4 ,you are not generous6' ,i felt the rebuke1 and confessed that ,i had been moved by too selfish feelings4 ',if you think the time long1' he added1 'all you have to do is to take a packet and come round--we shall welcome you with joy4' ',that ,i shall no doubt be compelled to do1 for ,i will not be able to exist for five or six long months away from ,eugenia4' ',so ,i should suppose4 ,well1 come along1 and after ,i get you there1 ,i will see if ,i can't inoculate you with a love of ,southern people1 ,southern habits1 and ,southern manners4 ,i am sanguine that you will like us4' ',well1 perhaps so1' ,i said4 ',but we will see4' ,the time for the departure of ,mr4 ,ballantine and his daughter was set for the first of ,october4 ,the few remaining days passed on fleet wings1 and then1 after completing the necessary arrangements1 ,eugenia left ,troy with her father for ,new ,york1 thence to go by sea to her native city4 ,i accompanied them down the river1 and spent two days with them in the city1 previous to the sailing of the ship ,empress1 in which they were to embark4 ,our parting was tender1 yet full of hope for a speedy meeting4 ,i had already made up my mind to visit ,new ,orleans about ,january1 and remain there during the winter4 ,our marriage was then to be solemnized4 ,after the sailing of the ,empress1 ,i returned to ,troy1 to await the news of her safe arrival at ,new ,orleans4 ,i felt gloomy and desolate1 and for my uncompanionable humor received sundry playful jibes or open rebukes from my friends4 ,in about a week ,i began to examine the shipping lists of the ,new ,york papers1 in the hope of seeing some notice of the good ship that contained my heart's best treasure4 ,but no record of her having been spoken at sea met my eyes as ,i scanned the newspapers day after day with an eager and increasing hope1 until four1 five1 and six weeks had passed away4 ,so much troubled had ,i now become1 that ,i went down to ,new ,york to see the owners of the ship4 ',has the ,empress arrived out yet8' ,i asked1 on entering their counting-room4 ',not at the latest dates1' was the reply1 made in a voice expressive of concern4 ',is not her passage a very long one8' ',we should have had news of her arrival ten days ago4' ',has she been spoken on the passage8' ',never but once1 and that after she was three days out4' ',is she a good ship8' ,i next inquired4 ',none better out of this port1' was the prompt answer4 ,for ten days ,i remained in ,new ,york1 eagerly examining each morning the shipping lists1 and referring to all the southern papers to which ,i could get access4 ,i met during that time but one reference to the ,empress1 and that was contained in a paragraph alluding to her long passage1 and expressing great fears for her safety4 ,this thrilled my heart with a more palpable and terrible fear4 ,on the next day but one1 ,i met in a ,new ,orleans paper a farther allusion to her1 coupled with the remark that a suspicious-looking vessel1 clipper-built1 with a black hull1 had been seen several times during the past few weeks cruising in the ,gulf1 and expressing a fear lest she had come across the ,empress4 ,i thought this would have driven me beside myself4 ,but why prolong this painful narration by attempting to describe my feelings1 as day after day1 week after week1 and month after month passed1 and no tidings came of the missing ship8 ,from the day ,i parted with ,eugenia1 ,i have neither seen her nor heard from her4 ,the noble vessel that bore her proudly away neither reached her destination1 nor returned back with her precious freight4 ,all--all found a grave in the dark depths of the ocean4 ,it is a terrible thing1 my friend1 to be thus reft of all you hold dearest in life4 ,if ,i had seen her touched by the hand of disease1 and watched the rose fading from her cheek1 leaf after leaf falling away1 until death claimed at last his victim1 ,i could have borne the severe affliction with some degree of fortitude4 ,even if she had been struck down suddenly at my side1 there would have been something for the bruised heart to rest upon4 ,but to be taken from me thus6 her fate shrouded in a most fearful mystery6 ,oh6 it is terrible6 ,and the young man set his teeth firmly1 and clenched his hands1 in a powerful struggle with his still o'ermastering feelings4 ,at length he resumed1 in a calmer voice-- ,no matter what terrors or violence attended her death--no matter how deep she lies in the unfathomable sea1 her spirit is with the blessed angels1 for she was pure and good4 ,this ought to be enough for me4 ,the agonies of a fearful departure are long since over4 ,and why should ,i recall them1 and break up afresh the tender wounds that bleed at the slightest touch8 ,henceforth ,i will strive to look away from the past1 and onward1 in pleasing hope1 to that future time when we shall meet where there will be no more parting4 ,she must have been a lovely creature1 indeed1 said ,milford1 some minutes after his friend had ceased1 holding1 as he spoke1 the miniature in his hand1 and looking at it attentively4 ,she was lovely as innocence itself1 was the half abstracted reply4 ,although ,i never saw her1 yet there is an expression in her face that is familiar--,milford went on to say--very familiar2 but it awakens1 ,i cannot tell why1 a feeling of pain4 ,this face is a happy face2 and yet it seems every moment as if it would change into a look of sadness--yea1 of deep sorrow and suffering4 ,this may arise1 and no doubt does1 from the melancholy history connected with her1 that ,i have just related4 ,perhaps that is the reason1 ,milford returned1 thoughtfully4 ,and yet ,i know not how to account for the strangely familiar expression of her face4 ,did you ever see a picture in your life that had not in it some feature that was familiar8 asked ,perkins4 ,perhaps not1 the friend replied1 and then sat in mental abstraction for some moments4 ,he was not satisfied with this explanation1 and was searching his memory for the original of that peculiar expression which had struck him so forcibly4 ,he was sure that it did exist1 and that he had looked upon it no very long time before4 ,but he tried in vain to fix it4 ,the impression floated still in his mind only as a vague idea4 ,there6 ,i have it6 he at length exclaimed1 but with something of disappointment in his tones4 ,i remember that the young seamstress we were speaking of a few days ago1 a single glimpse of whose face ,i obtained1 had that very look which strikes me as familiar in this picture4 ,i thought ,i had seen it somewhere else4 ,perkins started1 and looked surprised and agitated4 ,but this was only momentary4 ,now you speak of her1 he said1 calmly1 ,i remember that ,i always thought of ,eugenia when ,i saw her1 which is no doubt the reason why ,i have felt strongly interested for the young stranger1 who has doubtless seen better days4 ,i related to you1 ,i believe1 the adventure ,i had near the bridge1 in which she was concerned8 ,you did4 ,i wonder what in the world takes her over to ,charleston so often8 ,she goes1 ,i believe1 almost every day1 and usually late in the afternoon4 ,several persons have spoken of her to me2 but none seemed to know her errand there1 or to have any knowledge of her whatever4 ,there is some mystery connected with her1 certainly4 ,this afternoon ,i went in to make some inquiries in regard to her of ,berlaps4 ,i was just in time to hear ,michael1 his salesman1 give her some insulting language1 for which ,i rebuked the fellow sharply4 ,indeed6 ,how did she take it8 said ,milford4 ,she did not seem to notice him1 but glided quickly past1 as he bent over the counter towards her1 and left the store4 ,did you see her face8 ,no4 ,her veil was closely drawn1 as usual1 answered ,perkins4 ,i don't know why it is1 but there is something about this young female that interests me very much4 ,have you yet learned her name8 ,it is ,lizzy ,glenn--so ,i was told at the clothing store for which she works4 ,lizzy ,glenn8 ,an assumed name1 in all probability4 ,very likely4 ,it sounds as if it might be1 said ,perkins4 ,if ,i were you1 remarked the friend1 ,i would learn something certain about this stranger2 if for no other reason1 on account of the singular association of her1 in your involuntary thought1 with ,miss ,ballantine4 ,she may be a relative2 and1 if so1 it would afford a melancholy pleasure to relieve her from her present unhappy condition1 for the sake of the one in heaven4 ,i have already tried to find her2 but she was not at the number where ,michael said she resided4 ,she may not have given him the right direction1 said ,milford4 ,so he pretends to infer4 ,but ,i would rather believe that ,michael has purposely deceived me than that she would be guilty of falsehood4 ,if ,i see her again1 said ,milford1 ,i will endeavor1 by all means1 to discover her place of residence4 ,do1 if you would oblige me4 ,it is my purpose not to lose sight of her at our next meeting1 be it where it may4 ,our present conversation has awakened a deeper interest1 and stimulated a more active curiosity4 ,i am no blind believer in chance1 ,milford4 ,i do not regard this meeting with the stranger as something only fortuitous4 ,there is a ,providence in all the events of life1 and ,i am now firmly assured that these encounters with the seamstress are not merely accidental1 as the world regards accidents1 but events in a chain of circumstances that1 when complete1 will result in positive good4 ,of the nature of that good--as to who will be blessed or benefited--,i do not pretend to divine4 ,i only feel ready to act my part in the drama of life4 ,i must and will know more about this stranger4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,chapter ,,vii4 ,,as little ,henry1 after parting with his mother1 hurried on by the side of ,mr4 ,sharp1 who took his way directly across the bridge leading over to ,charleston1 where he had left the chaise in which he had ridden from ,lexington1 a handsome carriage1 containing a mother and three happy children1 about the age of himself1 ,emma1 and the sister who had just died1 drove rapidly by4 ,the children were full of spirits1 and1 in their thoughtless glee1 called out gayly1 but with words of ridicule1 to the poor1 meanly clad child1 who was hurrying on at almost a run beside the man who had become his master4 ,their words1 however1 were heeded not by the full-hearted boy4 ,his thoughts were going back to his home1 and to his much-loved mother4 ,this incident is mentioned here1 as a striking illustration of the practical working of that system of grinding the poor1 especially poor females1 by which many men make fortunes1 or at least acquire far more than a simple competence for life4 ,that carriage belonged to ,berlaps1 and those happy children were his4 ,but how could he buy a carriage and horses1 and build fine houses1 and yet not be able to pay more than the meagre pittance for his work that the reader has seen doled out to his half-starving workwomen8 ,how could his children be fed and clothed sumptuously every day1 and the widow1 who worked for him from early dawn until the silent watches of midnight1 not be able to get wholesome bread and warm garments for her little ones1 unless he took more than his just share of the profits upon his goods8 ,if he could only afford to pay seven cents for coarse shirts1 and so on1 in proportion1 up through the entire list of articles made1 how came it that the profits on these very articles enabled him to live in elegance1 build houses1 and keep his own carriage and horses8 ,such questions apply not alone to the single instance of ,berlaps1 here introduced4 ,they are pertinent in their application to all who add to their profits for the purpose of a grand aggregate1 at the expense of reducing the pay1 even a few cents1 upon the hard toiling workwoman whose slender income1 at best1 is barely sufficient to procure the absolute necessaries of life4 ,this cutting down of women's wages1 until they are reduced to an incompetent pittance1 is a system of oppression too extensive1 alas6 in this1 as well as many other countries4 ,it is one of the quiet and safe means by which the strong oppress the weak--by which the selfish build themselves up1 cruelly indifferent to the sufferings of those who are robbed of a just compensation for their labor4 ,the record of a conversation overheard between two of the class alluded to will illustrate this matter4 ,they were tailors--or1 rather1 what are sometimes called slop-shop or clothing men4 ,let it not be supposed that tailors alone are the oppressors of workwomen4 ,in most of the employments at which females engage1 especially such as admit of a competition in labor1 advantage is taken of the eager demands for work1 and prices reduced to the lowest possible standard4 ,in the eager scramble for monopolizing more than a just share of custom1 or to increase the amount of sales by the temptation of extremely moderate rates1 the prices of goods are put down to the lowest scale they will bear4 ,if1 in doing this1 the dealer was content with a profit reduced in some proportion to the increase of his sales1 no one would have a right to complain4 ,he would be free to sell his goods at cost1 or even below cost1 if that suited his fancy4 ,instead of this1 however1 the profits on his articles are often the same that they were when prices were ten or fifteen per cent4 higher1 and he reaps the advantage of a greatly increased sale1 consequent upon the more moderate rates at which he can sell4 ,the evil lies in his cutting down his operatives' wages2 in taking off of them1 while they make no party to his voluntary reduction of prices1 the precise amount that he throws in to his customer as a temptation to buy more freely4 ,but to the promised dialogue3-- ,money don't come in hand-over-fist1 as it ought to come1 remarked ,grasp1 of the flourishing firm of ,grasp ,co41 ,merchant ,tailors1 of ,boston1 to the junior partner of the establishment4 ,the nimble sixpence is better than the slow shilling1 you know4 ,we must make our shears eat up cloth a little faster1 or we sha'n't clear ten thousand dollars this year by one-third of the sum4 ,although that would be a pretty decent business these times4 ,i don't call any business a decent one that can be bettered1 replied ,grasp1 contemptuously4 ,but can ours be bettered8 ,certainly6 ,how8 ,by selling more goods4 ,how are we to do that8 ,by putting down the prices1 and then making a confounded noise about it4 ,do you understand8 ,i do4 ,but our prices are very low now4 ,true4 ,but we may reduce them still further1 and1 by so doing1 increase our sales to an extent that will make our business net us beyond the present income quite handsomely4 ,but1 to do this1 we must cut down the prices now paid for making up our clothes4 ,in this way1 we shall be able to greatly increase our sales1 with but a slight reduction upon our present rates of profit4 ,but will our workmen stand it8 ,our needle-women1 particularly1 work very low now4 ,they'll have to stand it6 replied ,grasp2 most of them are glad to get work at any price4 ,women1 with half a dozen hungry mouths around them1 don't stand long to higgle about a few cents in a garment1 when there are so many willing to step in and take their places4 ,besides1 what are three or four cents to them on a vest1 or pair of pants1 or jacket8 ,the difference in a week is small and will not be missed--or1 at the worst1 will only require them to economize with a little steadier hand2 while upon the thousands of garments we dispose of here1 and send away to other markets1 it will make a most important aggregate on the right side of profit and loss4 ,there is no doubt of that1 replied the partner1 the idea of the aggregate of three or four cents on each garment occupying his mind1 and obscuring completely1 for a time1 every other idea4 ,well1 ,i'm with you1 he said1 after a little while1 in any scheme for increasing profits4 ,getting along at the rate of only some two or three thousand a year is rather slow work4 ,why1 there's ,tights1 ,screw1 ,co41 see how they're cutting into the trade1 and carrying everything before them4 ,tights told me that they cleared twenty thousand dollars last year4 ,no doubt of it4 ,and ,i'll make our house do the same before three years roll over1 or ,i'm no prophet4 ,if we are going to play this cutting down game1 we had better begin at once4 ,oh1 certainly4 ,the sooner the better4 ,but first1 we must arrange a reduced scale of prices1 and then bring our whole tribe of workwomen and others down to it at once4 ,it will not do to hold any parley with them4 ,if we do1 our ears will be dinned to death with trumped-up tales of poverty and distress1 and all that sort of thing1 with which we have no kind of concern in the world4 ,these are matters personal to these individuals themselves1 and have nothing to do with our business4 ,no matter what prices we paid1 we would have nothing but grumbling and complaint1 if we allowed an open door on that subject4 ,yes1 there is no doubt of that4 ,but1 to tell the truth1 it is a mystery to me how some of these women get along4 ,very few make over two dollars a week1 and some never go beyond a dollar4 ,many of them are mothers1 and most of them have some one or more dependent upon them4 ,food1 rent1 clothes1 and fuel1 all have to come out of these small earnings4 ,by what hocus-pocus it is done1 ,i must confess1 puzzles me to determine4 ,oh1 as to that1 returned ,grasp1 it is1 no doubt1 managed well enough4 ,provisions1 and everything that poor people stand in need of1 are very cheap4 ,the actual necessaries of life cost but little1 you know4 ,how far above the condition of the starving ,irish1 or the poor operatives in the manufacturing portions of ,england1 is that of the people who work for us6 ,think of that for a moment4 ,true--very true1 replied the partner4 ,well1 he continued1 ,i think we had better put the screws on to our workwomen and journeymen at once4 ,i am tired of plodding on at this rate4 ,so am ,i4 ,to-night1 then1 after we close the store1 we will arrange our new bill of prices1 and next week bring all hands down to it4 ,and they were just as good as their word4 ,and it happened just as they said--the poor workmen had to submit4 99 99 99 99 99 ,but we must return from our digression4 ,the child who1 under the practical operation of a system of which the above dialogue gives some faint idea1 had to go out from his home at the tender age of ten years1 because his mother1 with all her hard toil early and late1 at the prices she obtained for her labor1 could not earn enough to provide a sufficiency of food and clothes for her children--that child passed on1 unheeding1 and1 indeed1 unhearing the jibes of the happier children of his mother's oppressor1 and endeavored1 sad and sorrowful as he felt1 to nerve himself with something of a manly feeling4 ,at ,charlestown1 ,mr4 ,sharp got into his chaise1 and1 with the lad he had taken to raise1 drove home4 ,well1 here is the youngster1 ,mrs4 ,sharp1 he said1 on alighting from his vehicle4 ,he is rather smaller and punier than ,i like1 but ,i have no doubt that he will prove willing and obedient4 ,what is his name8 asked ,mrs4 ,s41 who had a sharp chin1 sharp nose1 and sharp features throughout2 and1 with all1 rather a sharp voice4 ,she had no children of her own--those tender pledges being denied her1 perhaps on account of the peculiar sharpness of her temper4 ,his name is ,henry1 replied her husband4 ,henry what8 ,henry ,gaston1 ,i believe4 ,isn't that it1 my boy8 ,henry replied in the affirmative4 ,mr4 ,sharp then said-- ,you can go in with ,mrs4 ,sharp1 ,henry4 ,she will tell you what she wants you to do4 ,yes1 come along4 ,and ,mrs4 ,sharp turned away as she spoke1 and retired into the more interior portion of the house1 followed by the boy4 ,mrs4 ,sharp will tell you what she wants you to do6 ,yes1 that tells the story4 ,from this hour the child is to become the drudge--the hewer of wood and drawer of water--for an unfeeling woman1 whose cupidity and that of her husband have prompted them to get a little boy as a matter of saving--one who could do the errands for the shop and the drudgery for the house4 ,there was no thought for1 and regard towards1 the child to be exercised4 ,he was to be to them only an economical little machine1 very useful1 though somewhat troublesome at times4 ,i don't see that your mother has killed you with clothes1 said ,mrs4 ,sharp to him1 after taking his bundle and examining it1 and then surveying him from head to foot4 ,but ,i suppose she thinks they will do well enough2 and ,i suppose they will4 ,there1 do you see that wooden pail there8 ,well1 ,i want you to take it and go to the pump across the street1 down in the next square1 and bring it full of water4 ,henry took the pail1 as directed1 and went and got the water4 ,this was the beginning of his service1 and was all well enough1 as far as it went4 ,but from that time he had few moments of relaxation1 except what the night gave him1 or the quiet ,sabbath4 ,all through the first day he was kept busy either in the house or shop1 and1 before night1 had received two or three reprimands from ,mrs4 ,sharp1 administered in no very affectionate tones4 ,when night came1 at last--it had seemed a very long day to him--and he was sent to bed alone1 in the dark1 he put off his clothes and laid himself down1 unable1 as he did so1 to restrain the tears and sobs4 ,poor child6 ,how sadly and yearningly did his heart go back to the narrow apartment1 every nook and corner of which were dear to him1 because his mother's presence made all sunshine there6 ,and how earnestly did he long to be with her again6 ,but he soon sank away to sleep1 from which he did not awaken until the half angry voice of ,mrs4 ,sharp chided him loudly for lazing it away in bed until after sunrise4 ,quickly getting up and dressing himself1 he went down and commenced upon a new day of toil4 ,first he had to bring in wood1 then to grind the coffee1 afterwards to bring water from the pump1 and then to scour the knives for breakfast4 ,when these were done1 he was sent into the shop to see if ,mr4 ,sharp didn't want him1 where he found plenty to occupy his attention4 ,the shop was to be sprinkled and swept out1 the counter to be dusted1 and various other little matters to be attended to1 which occupied him until breakfast-time4 ,after he had finished this meal1 ,mrs4 ,sharp managed to find him plenty to do for some hours1 and then her husband laid out work for him1 at which he devoted himself all the rest of the day1 except when he was wanted in the kitchen for some purpose or other4 ,and so it continued1 day after day1 from morning until night4 ,not an hour's relaxation was allowed the child2 and if1 from weariness or disheartened feeling1 he sometimes lingered over a piece of work1 a severe scolding or some punishment from ,mrs4 ,sharp was sure to follow4 ,thus things went on1 every day adding to the cold of a rapidly advancing northern winter4 ,but ,mrs4 ,sharp still thought1 according to her first conclusions in regard to ,henry's clothes1 that they would do4 ,they were not very warm1 it is true--that she could not help admitting4 ,but then he is used to wearing thinner clothes than other children1 she reasoned1 or else his mother would have put warmer ones on him4 ,and1 any how1 ,i see no use in letting him come right down as a dead expense upon our hands4 ,he hasn't earned his salt yet1 much less a suit of winter clothes4 ,but the poor little fellow was no more used to bearing exposure to the chilling winds of winter than she had been when a child4 ,he therefore shrunk shiveringly in the penetrating air whenever forced to go beyond the door4 ,this did not fail to meet the eye of ,mrs4 ,sharp--indeed1 her eye was rarely off of him when he was within the circle of its vision--and it always irritated her4 ,and why8 ,it reproved her for not providing warmer clothes for the child2 and hurt her penurious spirits with the too palpable conviction that before many weeks had passed they would be compelled to lay out some money for the brat1 as she had begun frequently to designate him to her husband1 especially when she felt called upon to complain of him for idleness1 carelessness1 dulness1 stupidity1 wastefulness1 uncleanliness1 hoggishness1 or some other one of the score of faults she found in a child of ten years old1 whom she put down to work as steadily as a grown person4 ,a single month made a great change in his external appearance2 such a change as would have made him unfamiliar even to his mother's eye4 ,while under her care1 his clothes1 though poor1 had always been whole and clean--his skin well washed1 and his hair combed smoothly4 ,now1 the color of his thin jacket and trowsers could scarcely have been told for the dust and grease which had become imbedded in their texture4 ,his skin was begrimed until it was many shades darker1 and his hair stood stiffly about his head1 in matted portions1 looking as if a comb had not touched it for weeks4 ,one would hardly have imagined that so great a change could have passed upon a boy in a few weeks as had passed over him4 ,when he left his mother's humble abode1 there was something about him that instantly attracted the eye of almost any one who looked at him attentively1 and won for him favorable impressions4 ,his skin was pure and white1 and his mild blue eyes1 with their expression of innocent confidence1 looked every one in the face openly4 ,now there was something repulsive to almost every one about the dirty boy1 who went moping about with soiled face and hands1 a cowed look1 and shrinking gait4 ,scarcely any one seemed to feel a particle of sympathy for him1 either in or out of the house where he dwelt4 ,time passed on1 and ,new ,year's day rapidly approached1 that anxiously longed-for time1 to which ,henry had never ceased to look forward since he left his mother's presence4 ,every passing day seemed to render his condition more and more uncomfortable4 ,the air grew colder and colder1 and the snow lay all around to the depth of many inches4 ,a suit of cloth clothes had been cooked up for him out of an old coat and trowsers that had long since been worn threadbare by ,mr4 ,sharp4 ,thin though they were1 they yet afforded a most comfortable substitute for those their welcome appearance had caused him to throw aside4 ,but the pair of shoes he had worn when he left ,boston were still considered good enough1 if thought of at all1 notwithstanding they gaped largely at the toes1 and had been worn so thin in the soles that scarcely the thickness of a knife-blade lay between his feet and the snow-covered ground4 ,in regard to sleeping1 he was not much better off4 ,his bed was of straw1 upon the floor1 in a large1 unplastered garret1 and but scantily supplied with covering4 ,here he would creep away alone and in the dark every night1 on being driven away to bed from crouching beside the warm kitchen fire after his daily toil was done1 and get under the thin covering with all his clothes on4 ,there he would lie1 all drawn up into a heap to keep warm1 and think of his mother1 and long for ,new ,year's day to come1 until sleep would lock up his senses in unconsciousness4 ,at last it was ,new ,year's eve1 but the poor child had heard no word about going home4 ,he could sleep but little through that night for thinking about the promised return to his mother on the next day1 and for the dread he felt lest ,mr4 ,sharp had forgotten1 or would disregard his promise4 ,the bright morning of another new year at length arose1 clear and piercingly cold1 and ,henry crept early from his bed1 and went down stairs to make the fires as usual4 ,when ,mr4 ,sharp at length made his appearance1 he looked wishfully and inquiringly into his face1 but no notice whatever was taken of him1 except to give him some order1 in the usual short1 rough tone in which he always addressed him4 ,ain't ,i going home to see my mother to-day1 sir8 was on his tongue1 but he feared to utter it4 ,after breakfast he watched every movement of ,mr4 ,sharp1 expecting each moment to see him go out and get the chaise ready to take him to ,boston4 ,but no such idea was in the mind of the thoughtless1 unfeeling master4 ,nine1 ten1 and eleven o'clock came and went1 and the poor child's anxious heart began to fail him4 ,several times he was on the point of recalling to the mind of ,mr4 ,sharp his promise to his mother that he should be sent home at ,new ,year's1 but as often his timid heart caused him to shrink back4 ,at last dinner-time came1 and yet nothing was said1 nor were there any indications that the boy was to go home4 ,the meal passed1 and then ,henry was directed to go on some errand about a mile away4 ,but ain't ,i going home to-day1 ,mr4 ,sharp8 said he1 with a sudden1 despairing resolution1 looking up with tearful eyes1 as he spoke4 ,what's that8 eagerly asked ,mrs4 ,sharp1 coming forward4 ,what's that1 ha8 ,the frightened boy slunk back1 and stood with his eyes upon the floor4 ,go where1 did he say1 ,mr4 ,sharp8 ,go to see his mammy1 to be sure6 replied the hatter1 in a half-sneering tone of surprise4 ,his mammy1 indeed6 ,and pray what put that into his head1 ,i should like to know8 ,mr4 ,sharp told mother he would send me home to see her on ,new ,year's day1 the child ventured to say1 in explanation4 ,clear out6 ,off with you1 ,mr4 ,assurance6 exclaimed ,sharp1 in an angry voice1 at this1 half raising his hand to strike the lad4 ,how dare you6 ,henry started back trembling1 at once conscious that all hope of seeing her he had so pined to meet for many long and weary days of suffering and privation1 was at an end4 ,slowly he left the house1 shrinking in the cold blast1 and went on his errand through the hard frozen snow4 ,did any one ever hear such impudence6 ejaculated ,mrs4 ,sharp1 in breathless surprise4 ,sent home on ,new ,year's day to his mammy6 ,a pretty how-do-you-do1 upon my word6 the dirty little ill-conditioned brat6 ,i believe1 now ,i come to think of it1 said ,sharp1 that ,i did say something of the kind to his mother1 just to pacify her1 though ,i had no thought of doing it2 and1 indeed1 ,i don't suppose she cares any great deal about seeing him4 ,she didn't look as if she could keep soul and body together long4 ,if she wanted to see him so dreadful bad1 why didn't she keep him at home with her1 tied all the while to her apron-string8 said the unfeeling woman4 ,she would have had to work a little harder to have done that4 ,no doubt she was glad enough to get rid of the burden of supporting him4 ,well1 all that ,i can say is1 that any mother who is not willing to work to take care of her children1 don't deserve to see them4 ,so say ,i1 returned the husband4 ,and as to ,henry's going home1 ,i wouldn't hear to any such thing4 ,he'd not be a bit too good to trump up any kind of stories about not being treated well1 so as to prevail upon her not to let him come back4 ,i know just how boys like him talk when they get a chance to run home4 ,even when they do come back1 they're never worth a cent afterwards4 ,oh1 no6 ,as to his going home1 that is out of the question this winter1 replied ,sharp4 ,if his mother cares about seeing him1 she'll find her way out here4 ,with a sadder heart than ever did poor ,henry grope his way up into the cold garret that night1 with but one thought and one image in his mind1 the thought of home and the image of his mother4 ,he dreamed of her all night4 ,he was at home4 ,her tender voice was in his ear1 and his head rested on her bosom4 ,she clothed him in warmer garments1 and set him beside her at the table1 upon which was tempting food4 ,but morning came at last1 and he was awakened from visions of delight to a more painful consciousness of his miserable condition by the sharp1 chiding voice of his cruel mistress4 ,slowly1 with stiffened limbs and a reluctant heart1 did he arise1 and enter upon the repulsive and hard duties of another day4 ,as he had not been permitted to go home1 his next consolatory thought was that his mother would come out at once to see him4 ,this hope he clung to day after day1 but he clung to it in vain4 ,it mattered not that1 every time the shop door opened when he was in it1 he turned with a quickened pulse to see if it were not his mother1 or that he would pause and listen1 when back in the house1 to hear if the strange voice that came suddenly from the shop1 were not the voice of her he so longed to see4 ,she came not2 nor was any word from her brought to him4 ,and thus passed the whole of the severe month of ,january1 the long and cold winter adding greatly to his other causes of suffering4 7,to be continued47 ,,footnote3 ,footnote #b3 ,entered according to ,act of ,congress1 by ,t4 ,b4 ,,peterson1 in the ,clerk's ,office of the ,district ,court of the ,eastern ,district of ,pennsylvania4 ,illustration ,,letters ,,left ,,at ,,the ,,pastry-,,cook',s3 ,,being ,,the ,,clandestine ,,correspondence ,,between ,,kitty ,,clover ,,at ,,school1 ,,and ,,her ,,dear1 ,,dear ,,friend ,,in ,,town4 ,,edited ,,by ,,horace ,,mayhew4 ,,the ,,fourth ,,letter ,,left4 7,dated ,march #ith47 ,,showing ,,what ,,kitty ,,thought ,,of ,,some ,,more ,,of ,,her ,,schoolfellows4 ,,in my last letter1 ,i forgot to tell you about the two ,miss ,suetts1 ,emilia and ,julia4 ,they are fat1 and round1 and heavy1 like 7,meggy says7 a couple of yeast dumplings4 ,their parents are in ,india1 and they never go home4 ,no one cares much about that1 however2 for they are great teazers1 and the most dreadful tell-tales4 ,but they are never without preserves and pickles of some kind1 and have such delicious pomegranates and guava jelly sent to them1 in such large blue jars1 that1 after all1 ,i doubt if any two girls would be more missed from the school than the two ,suetts--disagreeable things as they are4 ,you should only taste their tamarinds1 ,nell6 ,there is also ,ada ,steele1 the poetess1 who writes verses1 some of which have actually appeared in print 7in the ,family ,page1 ,i think71 and you cannot imagine how conceited she is about it4 ,i am told she knows every line of poetry that ever was written4 ,she is such a dreadful plague1 that ,i never go near her if ,i can avoid it4 ,you cannot ask her what's the day of the month1 but she'll give you a hundred lines of poetry right off from some poet or other4 ,meggy calls her a tap of poetry1 which once turned on1 will go on running till you stop it4 ,byron is her especial favorite1 and she always calls him dear4 ,his works are not allowed in the college2 but ,ada ,steele has got a copy of them1 and she puts it under her pillow every night4 ,but the girl ,i dislike most is ,susan ,carney4 ,fancy a tall1 thin creature1 with hair the color of blotting-paper1 and with eyes like an owl's1 that cannot look at you1 and you have her standing before you4 ,she is the sneak of the school2 and moves about like a cat4 ,when we are talking secrets1 and turn round1 there she is--pretending to look for something1 but in reality listening4 ,or1 if a girl has comfortably got one of ,james's delicious novels inside her grammar1 and looks up to see that it is all right and snug1 there is ,carney's cold1 fishy eye sure to be fixed sideways upon her4 ,meggy says her eye is so sharp1 she's confident that1 like a needle's1 it would cut thread4 ,we cannot have a bit of fun but ,miss ,carney is sure to spoil it4 ,we cannot read or write a letter in class without her knowing it4 ,we cannot talk to the masters1 or have a comfortable bit of gossip about the filthy dinners and the lady principal1 without our being requested1 before the day is half over1 to step to ,mrs4 ,r4's boudoir1 after which you will see the girls coming back with red eyes and burning cheeks4 ,the oddest thing is1 no one is sure that it is ,carney who tells1 though every one is convinced that she does4 ,she manages it so cleverly that she is never found out4 ,we tease her as much as we dare1 calling her policeman1 spy1 tell-tit1 and everything we can think of2 but it takes no effect upon her4 ,she turns a little pale1 talks morality in a whining tone1 and leaves it to ,mrs4 ,rodwell to redress her wrongs4 ,another curious thing is the way in which she wheedles a secret out of you4 ,though on your guard1 she flatters and fawns1 and coaxes and lectures till you have parted with your secret long before you are aware of it4 ,you would imagine she was chloroform1 so cleverly does she extract it1 without the smallest consciousness on your part4 ,the fact is1 she crawls over you1 ,nelly2 and as for talking1 it is my firm belief she would talk a letter out of a letter-box4 ,she is exceedingly neat and clean1 with not a single hair out of bounds2 and1 somehow1 her dresses do not rustle1 nor her shoes creak1 as other persons' do4 ,she is down upon you1 like a shower at the horticultural fte1 before you have time to run for it4 ,what with her crawling1 and her sleek appearance1 and her gliding so noiselessly about the room1 she looks like a big lizard1 or some slippery serpent1 that was advancing towards you2 and ,i always feel inclined to scream1 or to put up my parasol1 when she comes near me1 to frighten her away4 ,nor is she much a favorite with the remainder of the school4 ,the little girls bribe her with oranges and cakes1 and lend her small sums of money1 to prevent her telling4 ,but the big girls know it's no use1 and waste nothing upon her2 they know well enough she will take the bribe one minute1 and go and blab the next4 ,the governesses are even afraid of her1 and begin talking of the weather whenever she approaches4 ,but what shocks me the most1 ,nelly1 is that she is righteous4 ,she moans and groans1 and turns up the whites 7or the yellows1 rather7 of her eyes1 and is so pious at church1 and is always inveighing against the shameful wickedness of the school4 ,then she reads hymns1 and is embroidering a prie-dieu for her godpapa1 who is something in the church1 and exceedingly rich2 and she writes such insufferably long sermons1 twice the length of anybody else's2 and after service she begs to see ,mrs4 ,rodwell1 pour confier son cur as she calls it1 but we all know what that means1 for as sure as plum-pudding on ,sunday1 some one is sure to be punished that same afternoon6 ,i only wish we could find her out in anything4 ,i really believe the entire school would rush up to the lady principal1 and tell of her4 ,but ,miss ,carney is far too cautious to be caught tripping6 ,they tell me she even sleeps with her eyes open4 ,let us turn from this hateful creature 7,i can't help hating her1 ,nelly7 to some more agreeable subject4 ,i will not tire you with descriptions of ,miss ,smiffel1 the butcher's daughter1 or ,miss ,embden1 the baker's daughter1 except to tell you that they have a sad time of it1 and are called rare ugly names1 because their papas happen to be butchers and bakers1 just as if they could help it4 ,i need not tell you1 either1 about ,lizzy ,spree1 a little1 merry1 fidgety1 laughing thing1 with black eyes1 who is the romp--the bad girl of the school4 ,she is always playing tricks1 making apple-pie beds1 or sewing up the tops of our stockings1 or hiding the dancing-master's shoes1 or tying the cat's tail to the parrot's leg1 or filling ,miss ,blight's bed with bread-crumbs and cockchafers1 or breaking a window1 or tearing her dress every day4 ,the consequence is1 she is always in punishment2 but she cares no more for it than a duck cares for an umbrella4 ,she spends all her pocket-money on crackers and detonating balls and valentines1 and is always going to be expelled2 only ,mrs4 ,rodwell relents1 and gives her one chance more4 ,the maid fell down stairs with the soup-tureen yesterday1 from the fact of her strewing the kitchen-steps with marbles and orange-peel4 ,it was too bad4 ,we had to go without soup in consequence4 ,but1 ,nelly1 you would quite love little ,jessie ,joy2 she is the wee'st little thing you ever saw4 ,you might hang her to your chtelaine4 ,you would declare that she was not more than ten1 and yet she was sixteen last birthday4 ,she has a rosy round face1 and little flaxen curls1 exactly like a pretty doll1 if you could only keep her still for a moment to look at her4 ,she plays about the room like the sun on a looking-glass1 and her whole body seems to quiver with light4 ,i defy you to catch her1 unless1 perhaps1 it was in the dark4 ,we call her pet and tiny4 ,i don't know how it is ,jessie cannot be taught2 and yet she is far from being an idiot1 for the little thing understands2 nor is she stupid1 for she is quick enough to outwit us all4 ,still1 they have never been able to teach her anything4 ,her eyes 7,i don't know what color they are7 fly away like butterflies directly you attempt to catch them1 and settle on all places but on her book4 ,we think she can read1 but no one is sure of it4 ,if told to learn1 she pouts her lips like cherries1 until you feel inclined to bite them2 and her little head swings to and fro1 ,nelly1 like the bells on a fuchsia when set a dancing by the wind4 ,the lady principal cannot scold her4 ,the utmost she can do is to call her to her in an angry tone1 when she takes up her little head in her two hands as if it were a bowl of milk1 and kisses her gently on the forehead4 ,this is all her punishment2 and the little culprit runs back into her place as quick as a rabbit4 ,but if she can't read1 or spell1 or learn1 you should only hear her sing1 ,nell6 ,it is like a wild bird4 ,she warbles every air she hears4 ,music seems to gush from her like water from a fountain4 ,once she was caught playing1 and they say it sounded like the rejoicing of good spirits2 but she cried when they wanted her to do it again1 and has never touched the instrument since4 ,she dances more like a fairy than a human being4 ,and yet when ,monsieur ,viaulon 7the ,french dancing-master7 attempted to teach her the polka1 she ran away and hid herself behind the great globe in the music-room4 ,the truth is1 her dancing has nothing of the ball-room in it4 ,she flits about so restlessly1 it makes your eyes wink to look at her4 ,her feet never seem happy on the ground1 and ,i always have a curious fear when the window is opened that ,jessie will fly out of it4 ,the girls are rather frightened at her restless ways and her strange beauty1 which seem to belong more to the air than to the earth4 ,they declare that she is a fairy changeling2 and that the tale which is told of her father being shot in a duel1 and of her mother dying when ,jessie was born1 is all a story4 ,jessie rarely goes home4 ,the only person who comes to see her is an aged aunt1 with a face all over lines1 like a railway map4 ,she brings her plenty of toys and plenty of sweeties2 but ,jessie1 apparently1 does not care the least about her4 ,the only person her flighty disposition stops in its giddy career to alight upon is ,amy ,darling4 ,she listens to no one else without impatience--she will play with no one else1 except it is a young kitten that belongs to the cook--she will obey no one else4 ,but then ,i believe1 if ,amy spoke to the lightning1 that she would stop it4 ,i am so tired of scribbling1 dear ,nelly1 that ,i can't write any more to-day1 though ,i could fill a whole band-box with particulars about this place4 ,so no more at present from your dear affectionate4 ,,kitty4 ,illustration ,,some ,,thoughts ,,on ,,training ,,female ,,teachers4 ,,by ,,miss ,m4 ,s4 ,g4 ,,in a former communication1 we sought to awaken the more lively and practising interest of ladies generally 7especially those possessed of large means and influence71 in the subject of teacher-training to an extent and thoroughness of method which have hitherto been scarcely deemed requisite1 especially in those portions of the country where education has been conducted too much1 if we may say so1 at hap-hazard4 ,such of our readers as have traversed various sections of our wide-spread land will realize what we mean1 as they recall juvenile groups1 collected or bustled together1 because something must be done with them1 to be coaxed1 awed1 or driven by a leader who occupied the post as a pis aller1 or as a mere half-way house to some less wearisome or more lucrative avocation4 ,we are not fearful here of wounding the self-love or better feelings of any truly estimable or conscientious teacher1 for such we have ever found the most prompt to welcome improvement1 the most open to suggestions of amendment4 ,but perceiving1 as we do1 throughout the community1 marked signs of a willingness1 a desire to assign to instructors a more elevated position1 a post of honor among the benefactors of the race1 and knowing1 by experience1 the readiness of many to meet the requisite claims of expenditure1 it is to teachers themselves1 to young teachers especially1 and to those aspiring to that high and responsible office1 that we would now offer a few earnest1 and we trust heart-stirring questions and remarks4 ,we would ask on whom and on what must mainly rest the position they are to hold1 the character of the work to be effected8 ,surely1 in themselves and in the disinterested and docile spirit with which it is entered on and pursued4 ,short of high aims and pure motives1 no course can leave its valuable impress1 and it is an acknowledged1 even if too little credited1 maxim1 that they who best learn to obey and submit to lawful rule1 best know how to govern4 ,let us therefore be permitted to persuade the young and high-spirited to remember that their time will come to take the lead1 and that no premature assumption of authority or airs of control will avail for half the benefit to be derived from a teachable spirit1 and quiet observing and waiting for opportunity4 ,we know full well and practically that this simple method is capable of eliciting the most harmonious and beautiful results1 and that between teachers of experience and those seeking preparation for the work1 a friendship will grow of a character the most extended and the most varied in its points of interest4 ,we will not pause to enlarge on the sad contrast to this state of things1 its multiform evils--for we do not like looking on the dark side of subjects which should bring out every latent grace and virtue of the soul4 ,moreover1 we are fully persuaded of better things1 so far at least as intention and desire are concerned1 yet a friendly hand may offer some warning hints of evils which are wont to creep in and mar the benefit and beauty of fulfilment4 ,a trite motto tells us that manners make the man6 ,it is1 at least1 by all conceded that they are the outward garb and indication of that which is within1 and that to a degree of which the actor is often unaware and unconscious4 ,can the young teacher then deem unimportant any measure of care in deportment1 or regard as too severe a self-sacrifice the gentle and habitual control of those ebullitions of spirits1 those out-of-place familiarities which we have oftentimes seen sweeping away the outguards of reverence by action1 word1 or look8 ,if these are in an isolated individual annoying or unseemly1 how great are their effect and potency when a sympathetic influence pervades a number met for the same purpose1 and that avowedly one of the highest improvement and culture6 ,a little true reflection on this point would1 we are assured1 convert many a well-meaning1 but unpolished1 and therefore ill-prepared young woman into the well-mannered lady1 the true helper of her presiding teacher1 and1 in time1 the consistently dignified instructress of others4 ,again1 we know that simplicity is ever the expression of the highest truth1 of elegance1 and of purity4 ,we need not rake up classical authority1 or quote the poets1 to prove what makes its own way to every unsophisticated mind and heart4 ,but would indeed that the daughters of the land might consider this1 and reflect on ,st4 ,paul's caution1 ,not the outward adorning of plaiting the hair1 or of wearing of gold1 or of putting on of apparel1 ere they present themselves as examples to the young1 so especially1 on this point1 prone to imitation and emulation4 ,far higher1 we feel assured1 would they then rise in the true esteem of their juniors1 far more secure would they be of reaching and maintaining that position to which every teacher should aspire1 that of feeling that in a real superiority none has the claim or the power to surpass them4 ,our time and space are limited1 and we do not desire to crowd on our readers too much of our own practical experience1 and notes taken from life by the way4 ,if welcomed1 however1 with the sincere good-will with which they are offered1 other thoughts may yet find utterance1 and1 we would fondly trust1 find their counterpart in the efficient action of many an unknown young teacher1 and their reflection in many a childish scholar4 ,illustration ,,don',t ,,overtask ,,the ,,young ,,brain4 ,,the minds of children ought to be little1 if at all1 tasked1 till the brain's development is nearly completed1 or until the age of six or seven years4 ,and will those years be wasted8 or will the future man be more likely to be deficient in mental power and capability1 than one who is differently treated8 ,those years will not be wasted4 ,the great book of nature is open to the infant's and the child's prying investigation2 and from nature's page may be learned more useful information than is contained in all the children's books that have ever been published4 ,but even supposing those years to have been absolutely lost1 which is anything but the case1 will the child be eventually a loser thereby8 ,we contend1 with our author1 that he will not4 ,task the mind during the earlier years1 and you not only expose the child to a greater risk of a disordered brain--not only1 it may be1 lay the foundation for a morbid excitability of brain1 that may one day end in insanity--but you debilitate its bodily powers1 and by so doing1 to all intents and purposes1 the mind will eventually be a loser in its powers and capabilities4--,dr4 ,robertson4 ,,the ,,souvenir2 ,,or1 ,,the ,,arrival ,,of ,,the ,,lady',s ,,book4 ,a ,,sketch ,,of ,,southern ,,life4 ,,by ,,pauline ,,forsyth4 7,see ,plate47 ,you may train the eagle ,to stoop to your fist1 ,or you may inveigle ,the ,phnix of the ,east2 ,the lioness1 you may move her ,to give up her prey2 ,but you'll ne'er stop a lover1 ,he will find out the way4--,old ,song4 ,a ,,southern plantation lying1 as so many of them do1 at some distance from any town or village1 presents a phase of life peculiar to itself1 and very singular to one unaccustomed to it from childhood4 ,it has not the loneliness of isolation1 for each planter's house is in its way a sort of a palace1 the residence of the superior authority1 while at a little distance are clustered together the cabins of his retainers1 sometimes in such numbers as to form almost a little village of their own4 ,yet the members of the family are often separated for weeks or months from all congenial companionship1 excepting what they can find in each other2 for1 besides the distance1 the state of the roads is often an insuperable obstacle to all intercourse with their far-off neighbors4 ,eminently social as ,southerners usually are1 this is no slight drawback to their enjoyment1 and the arrival of the post is looked forward to as the one great weekly event to relieve the monotony of the leaden-footed hours4 ,bessie ,egerton was in this respect more fortunate than many of her companions1 her father's plantation being but about five miles from the village of ,oxford1 in ,south ,carolina4 ,this was only a pleasant ride when the roads were good2 but there were weeks during the winter and early spring when even ,bessie ,egerton1 general belle and favorite as she was throughout the surrounding country1 had nothing but the mails to remind her that there were other interests and more stirring events in the world than those of which her home was the centre4 ,mr4 ,egerton was not one of those wealthy planters whose income rivals that of the merchant princes of the ,north1 and would be a pretty fortune for a person of moderate wants2 but he was in comfortable circumstances1 and ,bessie's home was a very pleasant one4 ,the house stood on a gentle slope1 and with its wide verandas covered with roses1 jessamine1 and honey suckles1 and overhung by live-oak trees1 from whose gnarled branches hung drooping long fringes of the gray moss1 giving them the venerable appearance of age1 it suggested ideas of coolness and shade1 the peculiar comforts of that part of the country4 ,it was in the latter part of ,february2 the early spring was already coming on with the laggard steps of one sure of its dominion1 and therefore in no haste to assert it4 ,the rose-bushes1 that had but a few weeks before shaken off their summer's burden of leaves and flowers1 gave tokens that they were about to take it up once more1 and the yellow jessamine in the woods1 with those many beautiful1 but as yet unnamed vines and flowers that adorn the swamps and marshes of the ,south1 had already begun to awaken from their winter's slumber4 ,bessie had been busy all the morning4 ,her mother was a confirmed invalid1 and upon the eldest daughter of the house were devolved all the active duties that belong to the mistress of a plantation--much heavier and more arduous than those of a ,northern housekeeper1 requiring the exercise of more thought and discretion4 ,after breakfast1 with her basket of keys1 that invariable accompaniment of a ,southern housekeeper1 she went to the store-room to give out the dinner for the family4 ,there1 after having measured out the flour and spices1 and counted the eggs1 and portioned off the vegetables required1 she stood to see that everything was replaced in its proper order4 ,her next visit was to the smoke-house for the meat1 and there she was often required to superintend the distribution of certain portions of it1 both to the house and field-servants on her father's place4 ,then giving a scrutinizing glance at the poultry-yard as she passed1 she sought the spring-house1 which was a dairy also1 and remained there for an hour overlooking the operations of the dairy-woman4 ,from thence she bent her steps to the negro-quarter1 where there were two or three sick servants1 of whose condition her mother wished to have a particular account4 ,to obtain an idea of their ailments and their needs was the work of no little time1 for to be sparing of words is not a characteristic of either the ignorant or the suffering4 ,she ended her duties here by a visit to her nurse1 now a bedridden old woman1 and1 after talking with her for a little while1 and reading to her1 as was ,bessie's daily practice1 she returned to what was called1 par excellence1 the house4 ,when she entered her mother's room to give a detailed account of all that she had done1 she was greeted with-- ,bessie1 dear1 ,i want you to cut out directly a shirt and a pair of trowsers for ,peter4 ,he has just been in to say that his old ones are not fit to wear to church1 and1 if he don't have some new ones1 he cannot go next ,sunday2 and1 as it is communion-day1 ,i do not like to have him compelled to stay away by any neglect of mine4 ,but he ought to have given us a little more time1 ,i think1 said ,bessie4 ,to-day is ,friday4 ,yes1 dear2 but ,dinah can make the shirt1 and you can have ,elsie1 your little maid1 to help you with the trowsers4 ,she is quite a neat seamstress4 ,but ,i told ,elsie to sew on my new dress to-day4 ,i intended to wear it next ,sunday4 ,you have plenty of old ones that you can wear1 my dear4 ,peter must be attended to first in this case1 ,i think4 ,bessie was so accustomed to be the hands to do the bidding of her mother's thoughtful and considerate head and heart1 that she made no farther objection to complying with ,mrs4 ,egerton's suggestion4 ,since she was fifteen1 she had been in the habit of cutting out1 under her mother's supervision1 not only nearly all her own clothing1 including her dresses1 that very abstruse and difficult portion of female attire1 but also the clothing for all the servants1 men1 women1 and children1 on her father's place2 so that the particular portion of the work assigned her was quickly and skilfully performed4 ,but1 pressed for time as they were1 she had also to assist in the sewing1 and she was busily employed with her needle1 preparing for ,peter his ,sunday habiliments1 when the noise of a carriage driving up to the door attracted her attention4 ,it is ,nannie and ,virginia ,lanning1 said ,bessie to her mother1 after a glance from the window1 and she ran to welcome her guests4 ,now1 ,i hope you have come to stay with me two or three days1 said ,bessie1 after the first greetings were over1 with the hospitable warmth common to the class to which she belonged2 an invitation to pass the night at their houses being usually the shortest time to which a ,southern planter restricts his invitations1 equivalent to the ,stay and take tea with us1 of the ,northerners4 ,yes1 replied ,nannie1 we have come to pass ,sunday with you1 and the idea of going to church once more is quite a treat2 it is three months since we have been off our place4 ,the roads have been so bad1 and ,prince got lame1 and pa1 who thinks almost as much of his horses as he does of us1 would neither sell him and buy another1 nor allow him to be used till he was quite well2 so that we have really been prisoners4 ,it is a great favor that he allowed us to drive with him so far1 but we promised to come very slowly4 ,we have been nearly six hours coming these ten or eleven miles4 ,don't you often feel very lonely8 asked ,bessie4 ,yes1 indeed4 ,sometimes for two or three weeks we do not see a human being out of our own family2 and it comes very hard at first1 after we have been travelling about all summer2 but it is astonishing how soon we get accustomed to it4 ,we have occasional visitors1 though1 that break in on the monotony1 if they do nothing else4 ,you know we have no tavern within twelve or fifteen miles of us1 and1 as father has the largest house in the neighborhood1 travellers are often directed there to pass the night1 and sometimes they prove to be very agreeable people4 ,yes1 said ,virginia1 there was a lawyer from ,philadelphia travelling through the country on business1 that ,nannie declares she fell in love with2 and then there was a ,yankee quack doctor that stayed with us nearly a week1 and amused us very much4 ,he took our house for a tavern1 and ordered the servants about1 and made himself quite at home4 ,he told father that he thought that he had rather a tumble-down sort of a place1 but1 if he would just spry up a little and go to work1 he might fix up considerable4 ,and1 continued ,nannie1 when he was going away1 he pulled out an old pocket-book and said1 ',wall1 ,squire1 what's the damage8' ,and when pa told him1 ',nothing1 that it was a private house1 but that he was very happy to afford travellers the shelter they could procure nowhere else1' the man looked quite confounded4 ',wall1 really1' said he1 'ef ,i ain't beat out4 ,i hadn't the least idea that this wasn't a public house2 but ,i thought you had a dreadful shiftless way of doin' business4 ,why1 there was enough on your table at dinner to last our folks to hum for a hull week4 ,but1 ,i must say1 you've treated me fust rate2 and1 of you ever get up as far as old ,connecticut1 and will come to ,peterboro'1 just ask for ,isa ,jeffries1 and ,i will do as much for you4' ,and he went to see if his horse was ready2 but he soon came back with a bottle in his hand4 ',here1 ,squire1' said he1 'that youngest darter of your'n has a very peaked sort of look4 ,ef she will take some of my ,electron here1 it will do her a sight of good4' ,and so he left the bottle for ,virginia4 ,poor ,virginia6 ,it was quite a shock to her to hear herself called peaked-looking1 especially since ,mr4 ,chapman has persuaded her that she was sylph-like4 ,it only shows with what different eyes different people look on the same thing1 said ,virginia1 with philosophic composure4 ,and now let us go to your mother4 ,you seem to be very busy1 ,bessie1 said ,nannie1 after they were seated in ,mrs4 ,egerton's room4 ,what are you doing8 ,making some clothes for ,peter1 our waiter4 ,he is something of a dandy1 and made the discovery this morning that he had nothing fit to wear to church next ,sunday1 so we have been a little hurried about it4 ,oh1 we can help you after dinner2 and1 together1 we can soon finish them1 said ,virginia4 ,at dinner1 ,bessie asked her father if he could not send ,peter to the post-office that afternoon4 ,why1 ,bessie1 said her father1 ,i sent him for you yesterday1 and ,i cannot conveniently spare him to go every day4 ,you seem to have a post-office mania lately1 coming on at regular intervals4 ,yes1 father1 said ,agnes1 ,bessie's younger sister2 ever since the ',lady's ,book' began to come so mysteriously1 ,bessie is never easy till she gets it2 and ,i want it quite as much4 ,do1 please1 send for it4 ,of course1 ,mr4 ,egerton could not resist his children's entreaties1 and ,bessie had the satisfaction of seeing ,peter set out for ,oxford soon after dinner4 ,towards the close of the afternoon1 ,bessie proposed that the work now nearly completed should be left to ,elsie to finish1 while they went out to enjoy the fresh1 soft air1 full of the sunshine and life of the early spring4 ,don't you think the other side of the house is less sunny8 suggested ,nannie1 as ,bessie seated herself on the green bank by the house1 with ,agnes standing at her side4 ,this is much pleasanter1 ,i think1 and the sun will soon be away4 ,but take my parasol1 dear2 ,i have a bonnet1 and do not need it4 ,oh no1 thank you2 ,i am going to finish this story1 and could not trouble myself to hold it4 ,virginia and ,i pride ourselves on complexions that neither sun nor wind can affect4 ,and1 in truth1 their clear1 dark1 colorless1 yet healthful complexions gave to their features the firm1 unimpressible look of finely polished marble4 ,i will tell you1 said ,agnes1 why sister always chooses this seat4 ,we can see ,peter from here long before he reaches the gate4 ,then1 said ,nannie1 ,i quite agree with her in thinking it decidedly the pleasantest4 ,i am as impatient as she can be to see the ',book2' but ,i candidly confess that the fashions are its chief attraction to me4 ,it is a great thing to know exactly how other people dress1 so as to be sure1 when you come out of your winter's shell1 that you are not making a fright of yourself4 ,pa and ,i like the stories1 said ,agnes4 ,so do ,i1 said ,virginia4 ,but ma likes the serious part of it1 continued ,agnes1 and ,bessie the poetry1 especially if it is marked4 ,i see her crying over it sometimes4 ,oh1 ,agnes6 said ,bessie1 while her face flushed suddenly4 ,i would like to know what all those blushes mean1 said ,nannie2 whenever we mention the ',lady's ,book1' ,i see ,bessie's cheeks growing red4 ,what can be the association of ideas that produces such a remarkable effect8 ,you know ,wallace ,cuthbert8 said ,agnes4 ,agnes1 hush2 you do not know anything about it1 interrupted ,bessie4 ,yes1 dear1 ,i know ,wallace ,cuthbert4 ,go on1 said ,nannie1 encouragingly4 ,do1 just let me tell this1 said ,agnes1 too eager to impart what she considered her wonderfully acute conjecture to show her usual deference to her elder sister4 ,you know1 ,wallace ,cuthbert asked pa if he might not write occasionally to ,bessie when he went away1 and pa would not consent to it4 ,but ever since he first went to ,philadelphia the ',lady's ,book' has been coming regularly1 and ,i have no doubt he sends it1 and marks the poetry1 too4 ,now1 ,agnes1 ,i hope you have finished your revelations1 said ,bessie1 a little impatiently4 ,of course1 continued she1 turning to ,nannie1 this is a mere conjecture of ,agnes's1 and a very childish one4 ,on the contrary1 ,i think it a very shrewd one2 it is putting cause and effect together in a wise and discreet way that is entirely satisfactory to me4 ,for one1 ,i feel myself under great obligations to ,wallace ,cuthbert1 and intend to tell him1 when ,i see him1 that he could not have chosen a more judicious means if he wished 'to keep his memory green1' and connect pleasant associations with thoughts of himself4 ,pa has promised me that1 when ,i am eighteen1 ,i may take the ',lady's ,book' for myself1 and ,i am quite impatient for my next birthday to come4 ,see1 there is ,peter6 said ,virginia1 who had1 with her usual quiet sagacity1 seated herself so that she could catch the first glimpse of him4 ,he seems to be waving something4 ,oh1 he has brought it6 said ,agnes1 springing up joyfully4 ,i am so glad6 ,i was afraid it would not come before ,monday1 because1 when you wait and watch so for anything1 you are almost sure to be disappointed4 ,peter seems to understand what we are expecting1 and to be as delighted as any of us1 said ,nannie4 ,oh1 yes1 replied ,agnes2 he knows how glad we are to get it2 besides1 he feels sure that it comes from ,wallace ,cuthbert1 and he has always been very fond of him4 ,he said to me one day1 after the ',book' first began to come regularly1 and when we were all wondering about it1 ,i am certain sure1 ,miss ,agnes1 ,mas'r ,wallace has a finger in dat pie4' ,that gave me my first suspicions about ,mr4 ,cuthbert2 and ,i asked pa about it1 and he said1 ',very likely4' ,peter says1 too1 that if ',miss ,bessie will only marry ,mas'r ,wallace1 and take him for her head waiter1 his earthly hopes will be suspended4' ,agnes1 how can you repeat such nonsense8 said ,bessie1 in a state of desperate confusion4 ,i like to hear little people talk1 said ,nannie2 a great deal of useful information can be obtained from them4 ,you seem to have a wonderful faculty1 ,agnes1 for putting this and that together2 but ,i have a little sister at home that is almost equal to you4 ,give it to me1 ,peter1 said ,virginia1 springing forward to take the offered prize2 the others seem to be absorbed in such an interesting discussion that they will not care about it4 ,but1 notwithstanding this assertion1 the cover was no sooner torn off1 which ,bessie took an opportunity1 when unobserved1 to slip into her pocket1 than the four heads were crowded together over the engravings and fashion plate with an eagerness and delight that it would be difficult to express4 ,for the first few minutes they all talked at once1 exclaiming1 ,isn't this pretty8 ,isn't it lovely8 ,i wonder what it means6 ,let's read the story about it4 ,do look1 what an odd fashion6 ,it is pretty1 though4 ,i mean to make my new dress so4 ,see here1 girls1 said ,mr4 ,egerton1 leaning over the veranda1 if you go on in that way ,i shall have to make the same rule the ,scotch laird did with his thirteen daughters--that not more than seven of them should speak at a time4 ,what has caused this outburst of enthusiasm8 ,the ',lady's ,book1' pa1 said ,bessie4 ,look at that picture2 isn't it beautiful8 ,it is1 indeed1 replied he1 taking the ,book4 ,how much they have improved lately in the art of engravings6 ,why1 when ,i was a boy1 a picture like that would have been considered wonderfully fine1 and would have been carefully laid away and preserved as a rare treasure2 and now they are flying about on the wings of the post-office department into the most distant parts and by-places of the country4 ,they must be of no small advantage in cultivating the taste of the community1 coming as they do to many persons who see but few other books during the year4 ,here1 ,bessie1 you had better take the ',book' to your mother2 she is always pleased to see it1 and this evening we will have a family reading party4 ,excusing herself to her companions1 ,bessie hastened to comply with her father's suggestion1 but returned with the welcome arrival after a few minutes1 when an animated discussion was held over the fashion-plates and the descriptions of them4 ,the conversation was serious and earnest4 ,no assembly of divines ever debated a knotty point in theology with more intent gravity than these young girls wasted over the questions as to whether bodices1 which were evidently going out1 were not in the main superior to round waists1 which were coming in2 whether basques were likely to be a permanent fashion1 or a mere fleeting freak of fancy1 was also warmly discussed2 and the question of trailing skirts1 or those just long enough to touch the ground1 might have caused a schism1 if ,bessie1 with great presence of mind1 had not changed the conversation to the arrangement of the hair4 ,here all differences were swept away by the unanimous agreement that bandeaux of curls1 la ,jenny ,lind1 was a much prettier and easier way of dressing the head than any other4 ,a summons to tea interrupted all farther discussion4 ,after tea1 the whole family assembled1 as was their custom1 in ,mrs4 ,egerton's room4 ,mr4 ,egerton1 without his hat1 which many ,southerners seem to think as useful in the house as out of it1 was seated in the large arm-chair by the side of a blazing fire1 which the chilliness of the evenings still rendered necessary2 ,nannie heaped up the cushions on the lounge1 a home-made1 chintz-covered affair1 and made herself perfectly comfortable2 the other two girls1 constituting themselves the readers for the rest1 seated themselves by the centre-table2 while ,agnes sometimes sat on the bed by her mother1 and sometimes hung over the reader1 to make sure with her own eyes that they were scrupulously giving each word--skipping was1 in her eyes1 a most unjustifiable and unpardonable act4 ,there is still enough to occupy us to-morrow evening1 said ,bessie1 as she closed the ,book2 but it is time now for mother to go to sleep4 ,as she bent over to kiss her mother for good-night1 ,mrs4 ,egerton whispered-- ,that was a very cunning plan ,wallace hit upon1 dear1 to evade your father's prohibition about letters4 ,he gives us all so much pleasure that we do not think of objecting to it4 ,don't you think he must be a very designing sort of a man8 ,we don't know at all that it is ,wallace1 said ,bessie1 stoutly4 ,we shall see what we shall see4 ,has he marked anything8 ,there are a few foolish verses marked2 but ,i do not know who did it1 replied ,bessie4 ,well1 leave the ',book' with me2 ,i would like to read them4 ,that was very hard4 ,bessie had only had time to glance hastily over some lines signed ,w4 ,c41 and speaking in woful strains of the pangs of absence and hope deferred1 but breathing the most devoted constancy and love4 ,these verses which1 in her reckless confusion1 she had stigmatized as foolish1 she was longing to read over and over in the silence of her own room4 ,but she would not1 for the whole of ,carolina1 have expressed her wish4 ,she quietly laid the ,book on her mother's bed1 placed the candles near her1 and retired with her companions4 ,did you hear1 my dear1 said ,mrs4 ,egerton to her husband1 when they were left alone1 what ,mr4 ,littleton1 who has just returned from ,philadelphia1 says of ,wallace ,cuthbert--about the high estimation in which the professors of the university hold him8 ,one of them told ,mr4 ,littleton that he regarded ,mr4 ,cuthbert as one of their most promising students1 and that he bid fair to become one of the first physicians in the country4 ,no1 ,i have not heard it before2 but ,i always had a good opinion of him4 ,i refused to allow him to write to ,bessie when he went away1 three years ago1 because they were both too young1 ,i thought1 to entangle themselves in any way4 ,bessie was hardly sixteen1 and he but four or five years older4 ,and he had not only his profession to acquire1 but also to establish himself2 for he has little else than his own talents to depend upon4 ,besides1 ,i did not think ,bessie cared much about him2 she did not appear to4 ,i think she always preferred him2 but her preference was not a very decided one when he went away1 said ,mrs4 ,egerton4 ,indeed1 she was too young to know herself exactly whether she loved him or not2 but it has happened that in each one of these monthly souvenirs that ,mr4 ,cuthbert has been sending1 there has been some pathetic story or touching little poem1 by marking which he has contrived to indicate his own feelings1 and not only preserve1 but deepen ,bessie's interest in him4 ,i can perceive1 ,i think1 that her liking for him has grown stronger almost day by day4 ,it is very clear that she cares for no one else4 ,here were ,george ,musgrave and ,robert ,linn1 two of the richest and finest young men about1 whom ,bessie dismissed without a moment's hesitation4 ,well1 said ,mr4 ,egerton1 ,i am perfectly willing to trust ,bessie to make her own choice1 now that she is old enough to judge for herself4 ,we will leave the matter to time to settle4 ,time justified ,mrs4 ,egerton's previsions4 ,wallace ,cuthbert did not disappoint the high expectations that had been formed of him1 and was soon able to claim ,bessie's hand as a reward for his assiduity and devotion to his profession4 ,i think you may thank the ',lady's ,book' for ,bessie's constancy1 said ,mrs4 ,egerton one day to ,mr4 ,cuthbert4 ,if it had not been for some such suggestive memorial1 ,i am afraid she would hardly have resisted all the attacks made upon her4 ,very likely1 said ,mr4 ,cuthbert1 smiling4 ,but1 though his words expressed such proper humility1 in his inmost heart1 with that generous self-appreciation so unusual perhaps in his modest sex1 he attributed the love and the patient waiting of ,bessie ,egerton entirely to his own peculiar merits4 ,peter's earthly hopes were suspended4 ,,the ,,wild ,,flowers ,,of ,,early ,,spring-,,time4 ,there is at times a solemn gloom ,ere yet the lovely ,spring assume ,sole empire1 with the lingering cold ,content divided sway to hold2 ,a sort of interreign1 which throws ,on all around its dull repose2 ,dull1 not unpleasing2 when the rest ,nor snow1 nor rains1 nor winds molest2 ,nor aught by listening ear is heard ,save first-fruit notes of vernal bird1 ,alone1 or with responsive call1 ,or sound of twinklings waterfall2 ,yet is no radiant brightness seen ,to pierce the cloud's opposing screen1 ,or hazy vapor to illume ,the thickness of that solemn gloom4 ,,mant4 ,,those accustomed to the gay and busy life of a city know little of the ennui that generally attends a rural life4 ,those who live in the bosom of nature1 as it were--in the very midst of ,god's beautiful works--ought not to feel wearisome2 and they would not if their eyes were open to the interesting phenomena that continually go on around them4 ,every season of the year1 every day1 nay every hour1 brings about some instructive change on the face of ,nature2 and there is no more interesting and improving pursuit than the observation of natural phenomena4 ,to watch the opening of the buds1 the leafing of the trees1 the blooming of the flowers1 the ripening of the fruit1 and the decay and death which autumn brings1 is of itself an interesting occupation2 but when we connect these various events with their proximate causes1 and endeavor to trace those general laws by whose operation they are regulated1 then the study becomes a truly philosophical as well as a pleasant one4 ,we may also gather spiritual wisdom from such contemplations4 ,our beloved ,saviour sought to illustrate his teachings by a reference to the phenomena of plants2 we are directed to ,consider the lilies how they grow2 they toil not1 neither do they spin2 yet ,i say unto you that ,solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these4 ,every reader of this page may have considered the lilies and admired the beauty of their various parts2 but in the passage which has been quoted there is1 perhaps1 a deeper meaning than many have guessed at4 ,consider the lilies how they grow2 examine their structure1 and their beautiful mode of development2 see how the fair form of this beauteous flower rises1 like a resurrection from the dead1 out of its scaly1 withered-like bulbous root1 perfects its fruit1 and then decays4 ,to know how the lily grows is to know the most important principles of vegetable physiology4 ,it is a gratifying fact that the physical sciences are now becoming important branches of general education1 and no department is more popular than botany4 ,it is a science peculiarly adapted for ladies2 the objects whose purpose it is to investigate are beautiful1 and esteemed by every one--a striking contrast to the forbidding directions and dirty experiments which are necessary in the prosecution of many other departments of natural science2 even ,entomology--the study of insects--requires the bottling of poor beetles in spirituous solutions1 the pinning of innocent moths and gay butterflies1 and other cruel operations1 at which every kind-hearted woman ought to shudder4 ,in pursuing botanical investigations1 even very slightly1 it is necessary to form a herbarium1 or collection of dried specimens of plants4 ,in these collections much taste may be displayed in the arrangement1 as well as in the careful drying of the specimens2 and the writer of these observations--a public teacher of botany to extensive classes of both ladies and gentlemen--can testify to the fact that the herbaria formed by ladies are1 as a general rule1 pre-eminent for neatness and artistic beauty in the arrangement of the specimens4 ,it is difficult1 however1 for ladies who have not the benefit of a teacher1 nor friends devoted to botanical pursuits1 to get an acquaintance with the method of preserving plants properly2 and it is therefore deemed advisable to offer a few observations on this subject on the present occasion1 before going on to consider the characteristics of the ,spring ,flora4 ,the process of preparing botanical specimens may be shortly described to be1 the pressure of plants between sheets of soft absorbent paper for the purpose of extracting their moisture without destroying their beauty1 and thus enabling them to be kept for an indefinite period in an arranged form1 for future reference and study4 ,when well dried1 plants may be kept for hundreds of years2 they are almost as indestructible as books1 if properly cared for4 ,german botanists excel in the beauty1 and well-preserved specific characters1 of their specimens2 as is well evidenced by the beautiful specimens which they send to this country4 ,one reason of their success is no doubt to be attributed to the very soft paper 7made from woollen rags7 which they use in the process2 but it is no doubt due1 in a larger measure1 to the great care which they take1 and the time and patience which they bestow upon their specimens4 ,plants ought1 in all cases where practicable1 to be gathered when dry2 or1 if moist with rain or dew when gathered1 they ought to be exposed to the atmosphere of a dry room for an hour or two previous to being put into papers4 ,for the conveyance of specimens a tin box1 called a vasculum1 is used1 which prevents the plants withering during a long journey1 and otherwise protects them4 ,some of our readers may not think the japanned tin vasculum a very elegant accoutrement1 but it is quite usual for ladies to carry such along the streets of ,modern ,athens1 where1 through the labors of ,professor ,balfour and others1 botany has1 of late years1 become of high repute as a feminine accomplishment4 ,in proceeding to dry the plants1 procure a quantity of soft blotting-paper4 ,four or five sheets are to be laid down on the table 7each folded within the other1 as in a ream71 and on the uppermost one the specimen is to be laid4 ,spread it out carefully1 separating the branches and leaves so that they do not overlap2 and after this is done1 a slip of paper or label put beside the specimen1 indicating its botanical name1 the locality where collected1 and the date when2 then another four or five sheets1 folded as before1 are to be laid over the plant4 ,on the surface of this latter layer of paper1 another specimen or specimens may be spread--an additional layer of four or five sheets being placed over them--and so on until all the specimens collected are spread out4 ,a board of the same size as the paper is to be placed above the uppermost sheet1 and on the top of that a heavy weight1 fifty or sixty pounds4 ,a bundle of large volumes will serve the purpose of a weight1 if no better is at hand4 ,some recommend a screw-press for pressing the plants1 instead of a weight2 but presses of all kinds are objectionable1 as the shrinking of the plants renders the pressure unequal from the want of elasticity1 which is so easily attained by means of an ordinary weight4 ,after the specimens have been allowed to stand in this manner twenty-four hours or so1 they should be taken carefully out2 such leaves as are disarranged should be spread out properly1 and the whole put into dry paper1 in the same way as in the previous operation4 ,the moist paper from which they are taken should be spread before the fire to dry2 it will be ready for use another time4 ,the plants are to be supplied with dry paper1 in this manner1 once every twenty-four hours1 until they have become quite dry1 when they may be taken out and put apart in single sheets of gray paper4 ,the operation of drying the specimens has been here described1 but that of mounting them on white paper is equally important4 ,gum ,arabic is generally used for this purpose1 but it is very bad2 does not adhere sufficiently1 and thus allows the specimens to spring off from the sheets4 ,fine glue1 prepared in a very thin state1 is the best material for fixing the plants4 ,the melted glue should1 when very hot1 be spread over the specimen carefully with a brush1 a sheet of dirty absorbent paper lying beneath the specimen to prevent the glue soiling anything1 and then the specimen is to be put down upon the sheet of white paper previously laid out for its reception4 ,a towel is then taken to press the different branches or leaves gently down upon the surface of the paper4 ,after this is done1 a few sheets of drying paper are to be laid over the specimen1 and on the top of this another sheet of white paper for the reception of another glued specimen1 and so on until all are completed4 ,a board is then to be placed over the whole1 and a weight1 in order to press all parts of the plants equally to the sheets of paper1 until they are made firm by the drying of the glue4 ,after the specimens have stood in this manner a few hours1 they are to be taken out1 their names1 localities1 and dates written at the bottom of the sheet1 and the whole arranged in such manner as the possessor may think proper4 ,any refractory stems or branches that have sprung up from the paper in spite of the glue1 may be fastened down by slips of gummed paper4 ,the marginal portion of postage-stamp sheets supplies these to those who can obtain them in sufficient quantity4 ,the plants of each genus are to be put together inside of a double sheet of paper1 with their generic name written at the bottom of the sheet upon the outside at the left hand corner2 for instance1 the pansy1 the sweet violet1 the dog violet1 the yellow mountain violet1 c41 are all to be put inside of one double sheet1 the generic name ,,viola being written upon the corner of it4 ,this is to facilitate references4 ,we now proceed to point out what spring flowers are likely to reward the exertions of those who go in search of them among the woods and fields4 ,and first of all the primrose and the cowslip demand attention as general favorites4 ,the wild plant1 with its modest flower of pale yellow hue 7which has given rise to the name of a tint known as primrose yellow71 is probably familiar to every one1 but it may not be so well known that the gay polyanthus of our florists1 and the rich double-flowered primroses of every hue which decorate our gardens1 all owe their existence to the wild plant as their original stock4 ,the cowslip1 although local in its geographical distribution1 is abundant in many localities1 and is associated right pleasantly with cowslip wine4 ,beneath the hedges in early spring-time there is a pretty little plant which seldom catches the eye of the passer-by2 it is aptly styled the gloryless1 for its little flowers are of greenish-yellow hue1 and so small as to be inconspicuous to any one save the botanical explorer4 ,when examined1 however1 it is an object of great1 though simple beauty4 ,it sends up a delicate stem1 which bears a little rosette of divided leaves1 and from amidst this rises the flower-stalk1 pale and slender1 bearing on its summit a compact head of a few tiny showless flowers4 ,its botanical name is ,adoxa ,moschatellina4 ,it is summer time before the buttercups begem the pastures2 but one member of the family already welcomes us by hedge-rows2 it is the ,lesser ,celandine of ,wordsworth1 which received a special favor from his pen in the dedication of a pretty little poem4 ,the ,lesser ,celandine 7,ranunculus ,ficaria7 grows abundantly on wet shady banks1 and produces a profusion of its bright glossy golden flowers1 which1 in fading1 assume a pure white hue4 ,this ranks as one of the economical plants of ,britain2 and humble as it is1 it has been brought forward as a substitute for that unfortunate vegetable1 the potato4 ,plants of the ,lesser ,celandine1 raised from roots which had been gathered in ,silesia by the ,rev4 ,mr4 ,wade in #ahdh1 were grown in the ,edinburgh ,botanic ,garden1 and exhibited by ,mr4 ,m',nab1 the curator of the garden1 to the ,botanical ,society4 ,these roots had been exposed over a large extent of country in ,austria by heavy rains1 and the common people gathered them and used them as an article of food4 ,their sudden appearance gave rise to various conjectures as to their nature and origin1 and in the ,austrian journals they were spoken of as if they had fallen from the sky4 ,the small bodies 7roots7 were used as peas by the inhabitants4 ,either in a dried state1 or when fresh1 they are found1 on boiling1 to be very amylaceous2 that is1 they contain much starchy matter4 ,there is no acridity in the roots even in a fresh state1 which is a remarkable fact when we take into consideration the acrid and poisonous nature of the entire race of plants allied to it in structure1 viz41 the ,ranunculace1 to which order it belongs4 ,for instance1 one of these plants1 the ,indian ,aconite1 is thus spoken of by ,professor ,balfour3-- ,the root of the plant possesses extreme acrimony1 and very marked narcotic properties4 ,it is said to be the most poisonous of the genus1 and as such has been employed in ,india4 ,wallich says that in the ,turraye1 or low forest-lands which skirt the approach to ,nipal1 and among the lower range of hills1 especially at a place called ,hetounra1 quantities of the bruised root were thrown into wells and reservoirs1 for the purpose of poisoning our men and cattle4 ,by the vigilant precaution of our troops1 however1 these nefarious designs were providentially frustrated4 ,in the northern parts of ,hindoostan1 arrows poisoned with the root are used for destroying tigers4 ,the root1 according to ,rayle1 is sent down into the plains1 and used in the cure of chronic rheumatism1 under the name of ,metha tellia4 ,roots1 apparently of this plant1 were sent by ,dr4 ,christison from ,madras under the name of ,nabee4 ,pereira made a series of experiments on the roots which had been kept for ten years1 and still retained their poisonous properties4 ,the roots were administered to animals in the form of a powder1 and spirituous and watery extract4 ,the spirituous extract was the most energetic1 the effects produced being difficulty of breathing1 weakness1 and subsequent paralysis1 which generally showed itself first in the posterior extremities1 vertigo1 convulsions1 dilatation of the pupil1 and death apparently from asphyxia4 ,one grain of the alcoholic extract killed a rabbit in nine and a half minutes1 and two grains introduced into the jugular vein of a strong dog caused death in three minutes4 ,this is the general character of the crowfoots1 and they are indeed the most destructive cattle poisons that infect our pastures2 it is a curious fact1 therefore1 that one of them should be so harmless and so nutritious as we have seen the ,lesser ,celandine to be2 and a still more curious fact that ,linnus1 the father of naturalists1 should have thought that agriculturists should endeavor to extirpate this pretty flower1 not only as acrid and poisonous1 but as injurious to all plants growing near it4 ,,beauty4 ,,by ,,miss ,m4 ,h4 ,,butt4 ,,yes1 there is beauty in this world of ours4 ,in looking throughout ,nature1 we see its impress everywhere4 ,at early morn1 wander forth to the verdant fields1 mark the flowers of every tint1 and inhale their perfume4 ,when ,spring dawns1 see the trees laden with delicate blossoms1 foretelling a plentiful harvest2 watch the tall grass waving so gracefully as the zephyrs sport there4 ,surely such a sight is beautiful4 ,stop for a moment and list to the murmuring of the streams as they skip on joyfully2 watch the pearly bells which dance upon their brow all sparkling and bright4 ,look above1 and view the thousand birds on gay wing1 singing so merrily1 welcoming the dawn of ,spring1 and chanting a lay as a requiem to the departure of ,winter4 ,look around still1 and view the myriads of insects sporting in the sunlight or sipping nectar from flowers4 ,oh1 is not beauty there8 ,when ,night comes forth with spangled robes and diadem of gems upon her brow1 while each planet and star with tiny harps welcome her coming1 touching those gentle chords1 the echo of which glides like a bright meteor to earth1 charming the very soul--is this not beautiful8 ,or1 when spirits from dream-land watch by our couch during the hours of repose1 painting scenes to enchant us--are they not beautiful8 ,nor are all these scenes alone lovely4 ,there is that which hath greater beauty3 it is woman4 ,she stands forth1 like some brilliant star1 to guide man through the path of life and cheer his way4 ,whether she be in the lofty or lowly walks of life1 if she possess certain mental qualifications and traits of character1 she is beautiful4 ,her beauty does not consist alone in the bright flashing eye1 which seems to speak the sentiments of her heart2 it depends not upon the graceful form or gorgeous equipage2 it is her mind1 well cultivated and endowed with all those intellectual qualifications1 which will make her a brilliant star1 and which will enable her to enlighten those with whom she may become conversant4 ,it may be found1 also1 in her heart1 one which possesses all those fine and exquisite feelings whereby she can sympathize with the sufferings of others and minister to their wants4 ,woman holds a dignified position in life1 and she should cultivate all those traits which will cause her to be the very pillar of the society in which she moves4 ,yes1 woman is truly beautiful2 she is earth's greatest ornament2 of her too much cannot be said4 ,in whatever light we view her1 she is lovely4 ,although ,nature possesses so much beauty1 ,art has also her share1 for she endeavors to copy her works and invest them with beauty1 as one has said of man-- ,he plucks the pearls that stud the deep1 ,admiring beauty's lap to fill2 ,he breaks the stubborn marble's shape1 ,and mocks his own ,creator's skill4 ,look at the artist1 who toils day after day upon a painting which he has copied from ,nature2 he endeavors to paint the flowers with accuracy1 give that exquisite emerald hue to the leaves of the trees1 the same tints to the horizon1 and that gorgeous light to the sun4 ,why8 ,he saw beauty in ,nature1 and desired to imitate it4 ,the sculptor works with all his skill upon the bust of some celebrated person1 all his power is employed2 he wishes to delineate every feature with accuracy1 and determines1 if possible1 to accomplish it4 ,soon he has the gratification of seeing the soulless and once rugged block of marble transformed into an image of symmetry and beauty4 ,is there not great pleasure to be felt while beholding works of art8 ,we can but admire and love the fruits of genius4 ,it is very true that there are many who can look upon the works of art1 still no effect will be produced2 yet a person of nice perception and correct taste could gaze for hours upon them1 and see each time something to admire4 ,it is so in ,nature even4 ,many might walk forth on a lovely morning when ,spring first smiles1 yet see no beauty whatever1 but merely cast a careless eye upon all around4 ,one may see much to admire in the storm-cloud which rises darkly o'er the sea1 while streaks of lightning dive 'neath the briny waves1 and the peals of thunder rattle furiously2 we may have feelings of awe1 yet1 at the same time1 see sublimity1 and in our hearts we exclaim1 ,how beautiful6 ,yes1 beauty dwelleth everywhere2 from the tiny flower which blooms1 to the stupendous heavens at night lighted with innumerable stars1 being the impress of the ,one who created all things4 ,,dress--,,as ,a ,,fine ,,art4 ,,by ,,mrs4 ,,merrifield4 ,,ornament--,,economy4 ,,ornament1 although not an integral part of dress1 is so intimately connected with it that we must devote a few words to the subject4 ,under the general term of ornament1 we shall include bows of ribbon1 artificial flowers1 feathers1 jewels1 lace1 fringes1 and trimming of all kinds4 ,some of these articles appear to be suited to one period of life1 some to another4 ,jewels1 for instance1 though suitable to middle age1 seem misplaced on youth1 which should always be characterized by simplicity of apparel2 while flowers1 which are so peculiarly adapted to youth1 are unbecoming to those advanced in years3 in the latter case1 there is contrast without harmony--it is like uniting ,may with ,december4 ,the great principle to be observed with regard to ornament is that it should be appropriate1 and appear designed to answer some useful purpose4 ,a brooch1 or a bow of ribbon1 for instance1 should fasten some part of the dress2 a gold chain should support a watch or an eye-glass4 ,trimmings are useful to mark the borders or edges of the different parts of the dress1 and in this light they add to the variety1 while by their repetition they conduce to the regularity of the ornamentation4 ,the subject of economy in dress1 an essential object with many persons1 now claims our attention4 ,we venture to offer a few remarks on this head4 ,our first recommendation is to have but few dresses at a time1 and those extremely good4 ,if we have but few dresses1 we wear them1 and wear them out while they are in fashion2 but1 if we have many dresses at once1 some of them become quite old-fashioned before we have done with them4 ,if we are rich enough to afford the sacrifice1 the old-fashioned dress is got rid of2 if not1 we must be content to appear in a fashion that has long been superseded1 and we look as if we had come out of the tombs1 or as if one of our ancestors had stepped out of her picture-frame and again walked the earth4 ,as to the economy of selecting the best material for dresses1 we argue thus3 ,every dress must be lined and made up1 and we pay as much for making and lining an inferior article as we do for one of the best quality4 ,now1 a good silk or merino will wear out two bad ones1 therefore one good dress1 lining and making1 will cost less than two inferior ones1 with the expenses of lining and making them4 ,in point of appearance1 also1 there is no comparison between the two2 the good dress will look well to the last1 while one of inferior quality will soon look shabby4 ,when a good silk dress has become too shabby to be worn longer as a dress1 it becomes1 when cut up1 useful for a variety of purposes1 whereas an inferior silk1 or one purely ornamental1 is1 when left off1 good for nothing4 ,plain dresses1 that is to say1 those of a single color1 and without a pattern1 are more economical1 as well as more quiet in their appearance1 than those of various colors4 ,they are also generally less expensive1 because something is always paid for the novelty of the fashion2 besides1 colored and figured dresses bear the date on the face of them as plainly as if it was there in printed characters2 the ages of dress fabrics are known by the pattern1 therefore dresses of this description should be put on as soon as purchased1 and worn out at once1 or they will appear old-fashioned4 ,there is another reason why dresses of various colors are less economical than others4 ,where there are several colors1 they may not all be equally fast1 and1 if only one of them fades1 the dress will lose its beauty4 ,trimmings are not economical2 besides their cost in the first instance1 they become shabby before the dress1 and1 if removed1 they generally leave a mark where they have been1 and so spoil the appearance of the dress4 ,dresses made of one kind of material only are more durable than those composed of two1 as1 for instance1 of cotton and silk1 of cotton and worsted1 or of silk and worsted4 ,when the silk is merely thrown on the face of the material1 it soon wears off4 ,this is also the case in those woollen or cotton goods which have a silken stripe4 ,the question of economy also extends to colors1 some of which are much more durable than others4 ,for this we can give no rule1 except that drabs and other quaker colors1 as they are frequently called1 are amongst the most permanent of all colors4 ,for other colors1 we must take the word of the draper4 ,there is no doubt1 however1 that the most durable colors are the cheapest in the end4 ,in the selection of colors1 the expense is not always a criterion2 something must be paid for fashion and novelty1 and perhaps for the cost of the dye4 ,the newest and most expensive colors are not always those which last the longest4 ,it is not economical to have the dresses made in the extremity of the fashion1 because such soon become remarkable2 but the fashions should be followed at such a distance that the wearer may not attract the epithet of old-fashioned4 ,we conclude this part of our subject with a few suggestions relative to the selection of different styles and materials of dress4 ,the style of dress should be adapted to the age of the wearer4 ,as a general rule1 we should say that in youth the dress should be simple and elegant1 the ornaments being flowers4 ,in middle age1 the dress may be of rich materials1 and more splendid in its character2 jewels are the appropriate ornaments4 ,in the decline of life1 the materials of which the dress is composed may be equally rich1 but with less vivacious colors2 the tertiaries and broken colors are particularly suitable1 and the character of the whole costume should be quiet1 simple1 and dignified4 ,the ,french1 whose taste in dress is so far in advance of our own1 say that ladies who are fifty years old should neither wear gay colors nor dresses of slight materials1 flowers1 feathers1 or much jewelry2 that they should cover their hair1 wear high dresses1 and long sleeves4 ,tall ladies may wear flounces and tucks1 but they are less appropriate for short persons4 ,as a general rule1 vertical stripes make persons appear taller than they really are1 but horizontal stripes have a contrary effect4 ,the latter are not admissible in garment fabrics1 since1 crossing the person1 the pattern quarrels with all the motions of the human figure1 as well as with the form of the long folds in the skirts of the garment4 ,for this reason1 large and pronounced checks1 however fashionable1 are often in bad taste1 and interfere with the graceful arrangement of drapery4 ,is it to show their entire contempt for the principles of design that our manufacturers introduced last year not only horizontal stripes of conspicuous colors1 but checks and plaids of immense size1 as autumnal fashions for dress fabrics8 ,we had hoped that the ladies would show the correctness of their taste by their disapproval of these unbecoming designs1 but the prevalence of the fashion at the present time is another evidence of the triumph of fashion over good taste4 ,a white and light-colored dress makes the wearers appear larger1 while a black or dark dress causes them to appear smaller than they actually are4 ,a judicious person will therefore avail herself of these known effects1 by adopting the style of dress most suitable to her stature4 ,to sum up in a few words our impressions on this subject1 we should say that the best style of dress is that which1 being exactly adapted to the climate and the individual1 is at once modest1 quiet1 and retiring1 harmonious in color and decoration1 and of good materials4 ,we conclude with the following admirable extract from ,tobin's ,honeymoon1 which we earnestly recommend to the attention of our fair readers3-- ,i'll have no glittering gew-gaws stuck about you1 ,to stretch the gaping eyes of idiot wonder1 ,and make men stare upon a piece of earth1 ,as on the star-wrought firmament--no feathers1 ,to wave as streamers to your vanity-- ,nor cumbrous silk1 that1 with its rustling sound1 ,makes proud the flesh that bears it4 ,she's adorned ,amply that in her husband's eye looks lovely-- ,the truest mirror that an honest wife ,can see her beauty in6 ,julia4 ,i shall observe1 sir4 ,duke4 ,i should like well to see you in the dress ,i last presented you4 ,julia4 ,the blue one1 sir8 ,duke4 ,no1 love--the white4 ,thus modestly attired1 ,a half blown rose stuck in thy braided hair1 ,with no more diamonds than those eyes are made of1 ,no deeper rubies than compose thy lips1 ,nor pearls more precious than inhabit them1 ,with the pure red and white1 which that same hand ,which blends the rainbow mingles in thy cheeks2 ,this well-proportioned form 7think not ,i flatter7 ,in graceful motion to harmonious sounds1 ,and thy free tresses dancing in the wind1 ,thou'lt fix as much observance as chaste dames ,can meet without a blush4 ,illustration ,,the ,,turkish ,,costume4 ,i ,,remember1 says ,mr4 ,st4 ,john1 once seeing a ,falstaff fasten his ,kashmire1 six or seven yards long1 to a door-handle1 and having gone with the other extremity to the opposite side of his court-yard1 began to wind his huge form into it with as much gravity and decorum as if he were performing a pious mystery4 ,he had a peculiar theory as to the position of every fold1 and if he failed in arranging them exactly1 would unwind himself again with a rapid rotary motion1 his hands raised in the air4 ,the operation1 with all its vicissitudes1 generally lasted about half an hour2 and ,i have rarely seen a magnificent ,effendi1 without thinking of how he must have looked whilst putting on his shawl4 ,,dairy-,,house ,,and ,,piggery4 ,illustration3 ,,cheese ,,dairy-,,house4 ,,we do not present our readers the following as model cottages2 but we give them a model ,dairy ,building and a model ,piggery4 ,they are from ,c4 ,m4 ,saxton's work on ,rural ,architecture4 ,,cheese ,,dairy-,,house4 ,this building is one and a half stories high1 with a broad1 spreading roof of #de pitch2 the ground plan is #aj feet between joists1 and the posts #af feet high4 ,an ice-house is at one end1 and a wood-shed at the opposite end1 of the same size4 ,this building is supposed to be erected near the milking-sheds of the farm1 and in contiguity to the feeding-troughs of the cows1 or the piggery1 and adapted to the convenience of feeding the whey to whichever of these animals the dairyman may select1 as both1 or either are required to consume it2 and to which it may be conveyed in spouts from the dairy-room4 ,illustration3 ,,ground ,,plan4 ,interior ,arrangement4--,the front door is protected by a light porch a1 entering by a door b1 the main dairy-room4 ,the cheese-presses c1 c1 occupy the left end of the room1 between which a passage leads through a door l1 into the wood-shed h1 open on all sides1 with its roof resting on four posts set in the ground4 ,the large cheese-table d stands on the opposite end1 and is three feet wide4 ,in the centre of the room is a chimney e1 with a whey and water boiler1 and vats on each side4 ,a flight of stairs f1 leading into the storage-room above1 is in the rear4 ,a door b1 on the extreme right1 leads into the ice-house g4 ,there are four windows to the room--two on each side1 front and rear4 ,in the loft are placed the shelves for storing the cheese1 as soon as sufficiently prepared on the temporary table below4 ,this loft is thoroughly ventilated by windows1 and the heat of the sun upon it ripens the cheese rapidly for market4 ,a trapdoor1 through the floors1 over which is hung a tackle1 admits the cheese from below1 or passes it down when prepared for market4 ,the cheese-house should1 if possible1 be placed on a sloping bank1 when it is designed to feed the whey to pigs2 and even when it is fed to cows1 it is more convenient to pass it to them on a lower level than to carry it out in buckets4 ,it may1 however1 if on level ground1 be discharged into vats1 in a cellar below1 and pumped out as wanted4 ,a cellar is convenient--indeed1 almost indispensable--under the cheese dairy2 and water should be so near as to be easily pumped or drawn into the vats and kettles used in running up the curd1 or for washing the utensils used in the work4 ,when the milk is kept over night for the next morning's curd1 temporary tables may be placed near the ice-room1 to hold the pans or tubs in which it may be set1 and the ice used to temper the milk to the proper degree for raising the cream4 ,if the dairy be of such extent as to require larger accommodations than the plan here suggested1 a room or two may be partitioned off from the main milk and pressing-room for washing the vessels and other articles employed1 and for setting the milk4 ,every facility should be made for neatness in all the operations connected with the work4 ,different accommodations are required for making the different kinds of cheese which our varied markets demand1 and in the fitting up of the dairy-house1 no positive plan of arrangement can be laid down1 suited alike to all the work which may be demanded4 ,the dairyman1 therefore1 will best arrange all these for the particular convenience which he requires4 ,the main plan and style of building1 however1 we think will be generally approved1 as being in an agreeable architectural style1 and of convenient construction and shape for the objects intended4 ,,piggery4 ,,the design here given is for a building #cf feet long and #bd feet wide1 with twelve-feet posts2 the lower1 or living-room for the swine1 #i feet high1 and a storage chamber above for the grain and other food required for his keeping4 ,the roof has a pitch of #dj from a horizontal line1 spreading over the sides and gables at least #bj inches1 and coarsely bracketed4 ,the entrance front projects #f feet from the main building1 by #ab feet in length4 ,over its main door1 in the gable1 is a door with a hoisting beam and tackle above it1 to take in the grain1 and a floor over the whole area receives it4 ,a window is in each gable end4 ,a ventilator passes up through this chamber and the roof1 to let off the steam from the cooking vats below1 and the foul air emitted by the swine1 by the side of which is the furnace-chimney1 giving it1 on the whole1 as respectable an appearance as a pigsty need pretend to4 ,interior ,arrangement4--,at the left of the entrance is a flight of stairs b1 leading to the chamber above4 ,on the right is a small area a1 with a window to light it4 ,a door from this leads into the main room c1 where stands a chimney d1 with a furnace to receive the fuel for cooking the food1 for which are two kettles1 or boilers1 with wooden vats on the top1 if the extent of food demands them2 these are secured with broad wooden covers1 to keep in the steam when cooking4 ,an iron valve is placed in the back flue of the furnace1 which may fall upon either side1 to shut off the fire from either of the kettles1 around which the fire may revolve2 or the valve may stand in a perpendicular position1 at will1 if both kettles be heated at the same time4 ,but1 as the most economical mode is to cook one kettle while the other is in process of feeding out1 and vice versa1 scarcely more than one at a time will be required in use4 ,over each kettle is a sliding door1 with a short spout to slide the food into them when wanted4 ,if necessary1 and it can be conveniently done1 a well may be sunk under this room1 and a pump inserted at a convenient place2 or1 if equally convenient1 a pipe may bring the water in from a neighboring stream or spring4 ,on three sides of this room are feeding pens e1 and sleeping partitions f1 for the swine4 ,these several apartments are accommodated with doors1 which open into separate yards on the sides and in rear1 or a large one for the entire family1 as may be desired4 ,construction4--,the frame of this building is of strong timber1 and stout for its size4 ,the sills should be eight inches square1 the corner posts of the same size1 and the intermediate posts #h by #f inches in diameter4 ,in the centre of these posts1 grooves should be made1 two inches wide1 and deep1 to receive the plank sides1 which should be two inches thick1 and let in from the level of the chamber by a flush cutting for that purpose1 out of the grooves inside1 thus using no nails or spikes1 and holding the planks tight in their place that they may not be rooted out or rubbed off by the hogs1 and the inner projection of the main posts left to serve as rubbing posts for them4 ,above the chamber floor thinner planks may be used4 ,the centre post in the floor plan of the engraving is omitted1 by mistake1 but it should stand there1 like the others4 ,inside posts at the corners1 and in the sides of the partitions1 like the outside ones1 should be also placed and grooved to receive the planking1 four and a half feet high1 and their upper ends be secured by tenons into mortices in the beams overhead4 ,the troughs should be made of cast-iron1 or the hardest white oak plank1 strongly spiked on to the floor and sides4 ,illustration3 ,,piggery4 ,illustration3 ,,ground ,,plan4 ,poetry4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,the ,,interview4 ,,by ,t4 ,,hempstead4 ,,there are oracles true in the depths of the mind1 ,there are prophecies borne on the wings of the wind1 ,there are omens that dwell in a flower or a leaf1 ,to unbosom the future1 its rapture and grief2 ,there are voices of night with a language as plain ,as the accents of love or the moanings of pain1 ,and ,i turn from the glare and the murmur of day1 ,to the warnings and woes which their whispers betray4 ,there is gloom on thy brow1 there is grief in thine eye1 ,there is night in thy heart1 on thy lip is a sigh1 ,and thy summer of beauty has faded away1 ,like a dream from the brain1 like a leaf from the spray ,oh6 dark must the cloud of thy sorrow have been1 ,and mighty the fetter that bound thee1 and keen ,as the fangs of despair1 as the arrows of ,death1 ,as the terrors that rain from the hurricane's breath1 ,thus to wilder thy brain1 thus to wither thy brow1 ,as thou standest before me all tremblingly now4 ,thou art come to my hall with the sound of the storm2 ,oh1 the tears of his pity flow fast from thy form1 ,and the beams on thy face but a shadow impart ,of the strength of the woe that is wringing thy heart4 ,in the silence that midnight around me hath thrown1 ,in moments the brightest my bosom hath known1 ,in the gloom of the tomb1 on the slope of the wave1 ,where the green hills grew red with the life of the brave1 ,in its desert of sorrow1 its garden of bliss1 ,my heart hath dreamed never of meeting like this6 ,my ,inez1 the love of my manhood1 my bride1 ,who art won from the arms of the grave to my side1 ,from the last hour thy brow to my bosom was prest1 ,have thy tones and thy form been a shrine in my breast2 ,thou hast haunted my steps when the breathings of spring1 ,the light swallow and bee to the water-brink bring2 ,in the calm of the hills1 by the blue rushing streams1 ,i have gazed in thine eye through the mist of my dreams2 ,thou art come with the storm and the banners of night1 ,pale ,inez1 the love of my youth1 my delight6 ,like a wreck from the wave1 like a shade from the tomb1 ,thou art now at my side1 and thy step in my room1 ,but the glory that beamed 'neath thy lashes is gone1 ,there is woe in thy mien1 there is grief in thy tone1 ,and the beauty that fed on those sweet lips of thine ,has died with the lustre that made it divine4 ,where the dim-whispered sounds that gave ear to our vows ,were the audible steppings of ,god in the boughs2 ,by the beaming of stars through the tremulous vine1 ,thou didst pledge through the rolling of years to be mine6 ,let oblivion steal from my bosom that hour-- ,may the frosts of forgetfulness wither that bower2 ,they have darkened my soul1 they have furrowed my brow1 ,but my manhood no more to that sceptre shall bow6 ,thou wast won by the perishing glitter of gold1 ,from my heart to the arms of another wast sold1 ,who hath cast thee away as a scorn1 as a weed1 ,on the love of a world that hath doomed thee to bleed4 ,like a palace whose feasting and music are ended1 ,whose lights to the dim gulf of death are descended1 ,whose footfalls are silent1 whose arches lie strown1 ,where the cold wind of night makes a desolate moan1 ,thy trusted hath left thee1 deserted1 alone1 ,to the rains and the ivy1 sad1 beautiful one6 ,had thy heart been as true--ah1 no6 never my tongue ,may add gall to the grief that thy spirit hath wrung2 ',tis enough that ,i gaze on thee here as thou art1 ,on the wreck of thy hope1 in thy ruin of heart1 ,who art drifting right on to that desolate shore ,where the storm of thy sorrow shall chase thee no more4 ,as ,i slept1 o'er my spirit strange terrors there came1 ,wrought with drapery of midnight1 in crimson and flame1 ,dread as death-fires that burn on the fear-smitten eye1 ,when the far-shaking thunder-tramp reels through the sky4 ,on a fragment that flew from the van of the blast1 ,like a leaf on the stream of the hurricane cast1 ,now spurned from their bosom1 now hid in the abyss ,of black waves that sparkle1 crack1 thunder1 and hiss1 ,it was thou on my breast through the war of the storm1 ,pale1 pale as the shroud that shall compass thy form4 ,there was death on the gale1 there was night on the sea1 ,where ,i sat on that wreck with the tempest and thee2 ,through darkness and thunder1 flash1 shriek1 din1 and foam1 ,now deep-clasped in the vale1 and now rocked on the dome ,of the wave1 ,i was borne o'er the windy expanse ,of chill vapor and spray by the terrible glance ,of the lightning2 ,i pressed thy cold cheek unto mine2 ,from thy locks fast down-trickled the luminous brine2 ,by thy breath on my brow1 by the serpentine path ,of the death-flame that blazed on its journey of wrath1 ,i knew thee2 ,i knew1 my beloved1 thou wast there1 ,in the battle of waves1 through my night of despair4 ,lips of blood through the gloom1 and pale phantoms of fear ,howled the peals of their horrible glee in my ear2 ,the thin fingers of demons stooped round me to clasp1 ,to wring thy cold form from the strength of my grasp2 ,with their dim eyes upturned1 newly torn from the grave1 ,glared the dead from their weltering shrouds on the wave2 ,oh6 dark was the struggle and fearful and vain ,thy cold limbs from their place in the deep to restrain2 ,dread as ,death the black bulk of a surge rumbled o'er1 ,i clasped thee1 ,i felt thee1 ,i saw thee no more6 ,that vision of woe1 that wild dream of the sea1 ,is fulfilled1 ,o pale1 desolate weeper1 in thee2 ,no more shall the joy of thy glance on me shine2 ,while the sun on me beams1 ,i may never be thine2 ,yet know in thy sorrow1 sad ,inez1 my love1 ,thou art mine in the ,eden that blossoms above6 ,ah1 the pent tears1 at last1 'neath thy dark lashes start1 ,and the words that would heal it have broken thy heart4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,sonnet4--,,clouds4 ,,by ,,wm4 ,,alexander4 ,,ye welcome clouds6 what praises have ye won6 ,host after host ye ever thronging come1 ,careering on athwart the ethereal dome1 ,to tell of tempests past or hastening on4 ,with magic hues ye often deck the sky1 ,enamelling it with red and purple1 gold2 ,like molten silver oft ye are unrolled1 ,and oft changed into palaces1 ye lie4 ,the rainbow oft is pictured on your breast1 ,to tell of peace and plenty ye do bring2 ,hail1 snow1 ye bear oft 'neath your ebon wing1 ,and tempests in your blackest mantle rest4 ,the thirsty earth ye wet with freshening showers1 ,floods flowing from ye speak your desolating powers4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,willie ,,maylie4 ,,by ,,cornelia ,m4 ,,dowling4 ,,oh6 do you not remember1 love1 ,the sunny morn when we were plighted8 ,your eye was bright in loving light1 ,and dancing like a star benighted4 ,that eye is dim and sunken now1 ,but still around it love reposes2 ,and bright the smile upon your cheek1 ,though withered long are all its roses4 ,oh6 my ,willie ,maylie dear1 ,my true1 my noble ,willie ,maylie1 ,years have rolled1 ,and we are old1 ,but still together1 ,willie ,maylie6 ,and do you not remember1 love1 ,the baby bright we used to cherish1 ,not dreaming that so fair a bud ,might early fade away and perish8 ,oh6 sad it seemed to lay the form ,so bright upon an earthy pillow2 ,now1 she is softly sleeping1 love1 ,alone1 beneath the drooping willow6 ,oh6 my ,willie ,maylie dear1 ,my loving1 earnest ,willie ,maylie1 ,roses bloom ,upon the tomb ,of her we loved1 my ,willie ,maylie6 ,and do you not remember1 love1 ,that we have journeyed long together1 ,the heart-light ever gilding o'er ,the path of life in wintry weather8 ,we've almost crossed the ocean now1 ,still breasting every billow gayly2 ,we soon shall reach the heavenly shore1 ,and rest together1 ,willie ,maylie6 ,oh6 my ,willie ,maylie dear1 ,my own true-hearted ,willie ,maylie1 ,heart to heart1 ,and ne'er to part1 ,we'll rest together1 ,willie ,maylie6 99 99 99 99 99 ,,ellie ,,maylie4 ,,by ,,jennie ,,dowling ,,de ,,witt4 ,,the light of other days1 my love1 ,is o'er my vision softly stealing2 ,the music of thy bridal vows1 ,like harp-notes1 up the past is pealing4 ,but lip1 nor eye1 nor sunny brow1 ,nor cheek with witching dimples lighted1 ,were half so dear to me as now1 ,when years have proved the love we plighted4 ,oh6 my ,ellie ,maylie dear1 ,my ever-winning ,ellie ,maylie1 ,love like thine ,to hearts like mine ,is air and sunlight1 ,ellie ,maylie4 ,down ,youth's bright tide1 our shallop light ,went floating on through banks of flowers2 ,but riper years brought clouds and night1 ,for ,life must have both sun and showers ,well might thy ,willie brave the storm1 ,and breast the adverse billow gayly2 ,for what were ,youth and ,flowers to ,love1 ,or all the world to ,ellie ,maylie ,oh6 my ,ellie ,maylie dear1 ,my artless1 clinging ,ellie ,maylie1 ,breath to being1 ,eye to seeing1 ,wert thou to me1 my ,ellie ,maylie4 ,not where above a little grave ,the early summer buds are springing1 ,where willows in the sunlight wave1 ,not there--not there my heart is clinging2 ,but there1 amid those deathless flowers1 ,that up from ,heav'n's pure soil are springing1 ,where waits that angel-babe of ours1 ',tis there--'tis there my heart is clinging6 ,oh6 my ,ellie ,maylie dear1 ,my gentle1 trusting ,ellie ,maylie1 ,lulled to rest ,on ,jesus' breast1 ,we'll meet in ,heav'n1 my ,ellie ,maylie6 99 99 99 99 99 ,,there',s ,,music4 ,,by ,,horace ,g4 ,,boughman4 ,,there',s solemn music in the billows ,of the mighty1 restless sea2 ,lively music poured from brooklets1 ,as they gambol in their glee4 ,there's stirring music in the gale2 ,soft music in the breeze2 ,music sweet when winged minstrels ,carol 'mid the verdant trees4 ,there's awful music in the thunders2 ,lulling music in the rains2 ,music echoed from the forest1 ,in a thousand living strains4 ,there's silent music in the flowers1 ,and in the planet's genial fires2 ,music grandest in the rivers1 ,where they tune their cat'ract lyres4 ,there 's cheering music all around us1 ,thrilling music from above2 ,and those magic tones should teach us ,sweeter1 nobler strains of love4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,dream ,,picture4 ,,an ,,impromptu4 ,,by ,,mrs4 ,a4 ,f4 ,,law4 ,,behold1 upon ,life's swelling tide1 ,a little boat doth gently glide6 ,its freight a ,soul2 ,sin guides the helm1 ,and steers for ,pleasure's baseless realm3 ,at prow1 the gay-robed ,tempter stands1 ,obscuring1 with his jewelled hands1 ,the ,spirit's view2 whilst shines afar ,hope's radiant1 but deceiving star2 ,for1 see1 it fades1 e'en as we gazing stand1 ,and leaves that bark a wreck upon the strand6 99 99 99 99 99 ,i ,,was ,,robbed ,,of ,,my ,,spirit',s ,,love4 ,,by ,,jaronette4 ,,on6 give me some strong human will1 ,to lull this dream of woe2 ,it binds me with its iron chain1 ,and will not let me go4 ,oh6 give me strength to curb this strife1 ,and make my spirit know ,my early days of happy life1 ,of days long1 long ago4 ,but now there's darkness on my path1 ,a shadow on my heart2 ,i each fond feeling seek to hide1 ,trembling in ev'ry part6 ,they think that ,i'm forgetting thee2 ,but ah6 they do not see ,the coursing tears1 when ,i'm alone1 ,flowing so fast and free6 ,i list my bird's sweet matin song1 ,its wild and gladsome chants2 ,but no1 the dead'ning weight is here1 ,and still my spirit pants ,for long-lost dreamy hours of joy1 ,when thou wert by my side1 ,and care seemed but a thing of name1 ,not to my life allied4 ,now1 when the smile is on my lip1 ,it turns that smile to tears1 ,stemming the life-blood of my heart ,with weary weight of years4 ,it makes the strong proud limbs refuse ,to roam this gladsome earth1 ,and sends me reeling1 mad1 within1 ,from out the sounds of mirth4 ,i pet each blossom from my shrubs1 ,and call them by thy name2 ,i ask them if their spirits tell ,that ,i am still the same4 ,a pure white rose that bloomed this morn ,i went this eve to take2 ,the spirit of the flow'r had fled1 ,the cold its heart did break6 ,they tell me that thou carest not ,for woman's love or fame2 ,that thou speak'st lightly of them all ,that bear the gentle name4 ,but oh6 ,i heed them not the while1 ,they have not read thy heart2 ,i know you have not chang'd so much ,since we were forced to part4 ,and though they bid me see thee not1 ,my spirit meets thee oft ,in dream-land1 where the flow'rs bloom bright1 ,the air so calm and soft4 ,the angels then are by my side1 ,they kiss me with thy lips1 ,and clasp hope's rainbow round my heart1 ,in that dream-hour of bliss4 ,and sometimes in thy weary hours ,recall the past1 and weave ,the dream of hallowed love and hope ,i'll ever for thee breathe4 ,then wander forth amid the throng1 ,and seek some gentle one1 ,one that will honor thy dear name1 ,and take her to thy home4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,the ,,elixir ,,of ,,life4 ,,by ,,charles ,,albert ,,janvier4 ,the following lines were suggested by a remark in ,washington ,irving's ,student of ,salamanca1 that the old alchymist died just as he was on the point of discovering the philosopher's stone4 ,,the walls were sweating with a festering damp1 ,an icy coldness filled the dreary room1 ,a little solitary flickering lamp ,with sickly radiance glimmered through the gloom1 ,while on a tattered couch an old man lay1 ,half-starved with hunger1 weary1 gaunt1 and gray4 ,his feeble eyes with ardor yet were strained ,upon a yellow parchment dull with age1 ,as1 while one lingering ray of life remained1 ,that single ray must shine on ,learning's page2 ,and while he lay immersed in study deep1 ,he murmured thus1 as one who speaks in sleep3-- ,one little hour more1 and all is mine6 ,mine the bright prize so long ,i've sought in vain6 ,mine the lost secret1 which for countless time ,philosophers have labored to regain6 ,mine wealth1 and youth1 and joy1 and nevermore1 ,o ,death6 shall ,i be subject to thy power6 ,one hour more1 and all these golden dreams ,which still have cheered me on from day to day1 ,shall be no more like fleeting radiant beams1 ,glancing one moment bright1 then snatched away2 ,but all my visions1 howe'er bright their hue1 ,no more be false1 no more be aught but true6 ,ye elementary spirits1 who so long ,with ready wiles have baffled all my art ,one hour more1 and ,i in power strong ,shall see ye all in helpless rage depart6 ,at last your devilish malice all o'erthrown1 ,at last the great elixir all my own6 ,thus spoke the alchymist2 but ruthless ,death1 ,who strikes alike the mighty and the low1 ,and stops the monarch's and plebeian's breath ,with equal haste1 and with the selfsame blow1 ,had laid his icy hand upon his heart1 ,while bidding him in iron tones depart6 ,the lamp burnt lower1 still his eye was fixed ,upon the parchment1 while his trembling hand ,within a crucible the compound mixed1 ,with which completed he would soon command ,unending treasure1 boundless glittering wealth1 ,the priceless draught of endless youth and health4 ,but from his stiffening band the parchment dropped1 ,as from his lips broke forth a hollow moan1 ,the coursing current of his life-blood stopped1 ,his spirit fled just as its task was done6 ,closing his eyes upon the lifelong strife1 ,he left untouched the sparkling cup of ,life4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,the ,,song-,,birds ,,of ,,spring4 ,,by ,,norman ,w4 ,,bridge4 ,,from out the airy balcony ,of many a sylvan cot and dome1 ,is poured soul-melting minstrelsy1 ,that cheers my lonely heart and home4 ,around each warbler's chosen haunt ,are heard sweet notes of joy and praise2 ,from fruit-trees comes the robin's chant1 ,and from each bush the sparrow's lays4 ,amid the poplar's trembling lyre1 ,that o'er the lawn its shadow throws1 ,rich warblings of a linnet-choir ,my soul with melody o'erflows2 ,while from a willow waving near1 ,and where the vine its trellis girds1 ,steals softly o'er the tuneful ear ,the symphony of yellow-birds4 ,upon the elm-tree's lofty bough ,the oriole serenely sings1 ,while from a puerile branch below ,his loved one in her castle swings3 ,and in the flower-enamelled leas1 ,where alders grace the streamlet's brink1 ,i hear the charming melodies ,of many a sweet-voiced bobolink4 ,and from yon wildwood's emerald crown ,come oft1 in notes of heavenly tone1 ,the hymns of thrushes1 wood1 and brown1 ,and warbling throats to me unknown4 ,bird-notes are all so rich and clear1 ,it seems as though their vocal powers ,were borrowed from some higher sphere ,than this discordant world of ours4 ,nor is their magic gift of song ,the only charm they o'er me throw2 ,they ne'er the poor and helpless wrong1 ,nor swell the tide of human woe4 ,their voice is ne'er with slander fraught1 ,or friendships in misfortune change1 ,nor speech or deed betrayeth aught ,of av'rice1 hatred1 and revenge4 ,they seek not1 with malicious tongue1 ,to stir the bosom with mistrust1 ,by telling what 's been said and sung1 ,how all our faults have been discussed2 ,till ,jealousy within awakes1 ,and ,love with doubt is much annoyed1 ,the golden clasp of ,friendship breaks1 ,and peace of families destroyed4 ,no rival's fame they derogate1 ,a brother falsely charge with sin1 ,hoping thereby to elevate ,their name above more worthy kin3 ,they seem not e'er to envy those ,whose brilliant plumes their own outshine1 ,or to rejoice at others' woes ,whose powers of song are more divine4 ,nor have their hearts the cruel pride ,o'er humbler garbs and gifts to sneer2 ,the lame1 their hapless fate deride1 ,or o'er the weak to domineer4 ,no bitter taunt1 unfeeling jest1 ,the boast of pow'r1 wealth1 rank1 or birth1 ,e'er flow from soaring warbler's breast1 ,to wound the heart of lowly worth4 ,nor do they play the hypocrite ,with faithful1 fond1 confiding friends1 ,looks1 manners1 language counterfeit1 ,to gain ignobly selfish ends4 ,no word or act their aim belies1 ,or yield they e'er to sin's control1 ,and sell1 for worldly merchandise1 ,the jewels of a virtuous soul4 99 99 99 99 99 ,a ,,mother',s ,,love4 ,,to ,a ,,young ,,friend4 ,,by ,,mary ,,neal4 ,,thy heart is young and light1 maiden2 ,thy sunny brow is fair2 ,for ,love1 and ,joy1 and ,hope now weave ,life's brightest sunbeams there4 ,brothers and sisters turn to bless ,thy ever-welcome form1 ,and a father's arm is near to shield ,thee from life's lightest storm4 ,but more1 still more than this1 maiden-- ,a mother's heart is near1 ,to watch thy fair cheek1 pale or flush-- ,to note each starting tear-- ,to gaze upon thy happy face1 ,and pray that thy young heart ,may long be spared the bitter woe ,from cherished friends to part4 ,oh1 ,love will make fond hearts1 maiden1 ,to offer at thy shrine2 ,and ,friendship many a blooming wreath ,around thy path entwine3 ,but the tears that o'er thy restless couch ,from a mother's eyes were shed1 ,will moist a green spot in thy heart ,when those bright flowers are dead6 ,then watch those loving eyes1 maiden1 ,that beam upon thee now2 ,and cherish every silver hair ,that stealeth o'er that brow3 ,for a mother's love's the purest ray1 ,the brightest day-star given1 ,to light us o'er ,life's darkened way1 ,and lead us up to ,heaven4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,to ,,an ,,absent ,,dear ,,one4 ,,by ,,fannie ,m4 ,c4 ,,oh1 where art thou1 beloved one1 at this hour1 ,so meet for fond affection's holy power1 ,for all the tender memories that will ,the lonely bosoms of the absent fill8 ,far1 far away6 ,yet as my tearful eye ,dwells on yon little watchfire in the sky1 ,this thought comes stealing on its beam of light1 ,our hearts shall meet at ,mercy's throne to-night6 99 99 99 99 99 ,,to ,,ida4 ,,by ,,horace ,,phelps1 ,m4 ,d4 ,,the gale is fresh upon my brow1 ,the evening dew my cheek has wet1 ,the bark moves merrily1 and now ,the moonlight and the wave have met2 ,the mountain heights their shadows throw1 ,in dark and frowning majesty1 ,upon the rolling waters' flow1 ,as sorrows cross young memory3 ,what wants this scene to be divine8 ,thy gentle heart to beat with mine4 ,the lover's star her watch doth keep ,in the blue vault of yonder sky2 ,while all around is hushed to sleep1 ,i deem thy angel spirit nigh2 ',twere rapture never felt before ,in this serene and midnight noon1 ,to hear from yonder lonely shore ,the watch-dog bay the full bright moon1 ,couldst thou be here to share this hour ,my heart's beloved and buried flower4 ,there is a spirit rides the air2 ,i hear its murmur on the stream1 ,i see its form of beauty fair ,disporting in the moonlight beam ,it is the spirit of delight ,of young affection's ecstasy1 ,and in its form and features bright ,thine own fair face and form ,i see3 ,it hovers o'er my head1 and now ,i feel its hand upon my brow4 ,i see the light of feeling play ,and sparkle in its winning smile1 ,to chase my brooding cares away1 ,and all my sorrows to beguile2 ,i hear the voice ,i loved to hear ,mix with the music of the stream2 ,the well-known accents strike my ear3 ,away6 'tis fancy's wildest dream3 ,i am alone beneath the star1 ,and thou art in thy grave afar6 99 99 99 99 99 ,,the ,,was ,,and ,,the ,,is4 ,,by ,o4 ,,everts1 ,m4 ,d4 ,,away in the mist of past ages1 ,the was-life of wondrous renown-- 7,which lives but in ,history's pages1 ,and the tales which ,traditions hand down1 ,or in marbles that still o'er us frown7-- ,yet looks as if towering away ,far above all the ,is or ,to-be ,and a power still seemeth to sway1 ,though the present convulse to be free1 ,and the future no prophet-eyes see4 ,but only it seemeth--not real6 ,a shadowy monster untruth6 ,an image of vapors ideal1 ,that floats in the sky of our youth1 ,ere we see with strong visions in sooth6 ,and thus1 while we gaze it departs1 ,and a better1 a nobler appears2 ,the ,is-life more wonderful starts ,from its home in the heavenly spheres1 ,and fills us with hopes and with fears6 ,and we rise1 while our hearts strongly beat1 ,and say to our fears1 all begone6 ,they vanish1 like clouds that retreat ,before the all-conquering sun-- ,and we nerve for the deeds to be done6 ,ah6 now does the youth feel his strength6 ,see his cheeks1 how they glow6 and his eye1 ,how it sparkles and gleams6 till at length ,his soul reaches out to the sky1 ,and his thoughts through the universe fly6 ,and his steps are elastic as air1 ,yet consciously proud--and his tread ,over ruins of temples that were-- ,and religion whose priesthoods are dead1 ,is as if there no prayer had been said4 ,the ,is-life is now all to him6 ,with a glance toward the future1 inspired ,he moves with his might every limb-- ,his soul with ambition is fired-- ,and he grows in his task never tired4 ,he triumphs6 ,the truth is his sword1 ,and the shams and the phantoms that are1 ,shrink back to antiquity's horde1 ,to be buried with falsehoods that were1 ,whilst fame everlasting's his share6 ,oh6 the ,is is the life then for me6 ,the ,was had its tasks and its men2 ,and others will crowd the ,to-be1 ,and laugh at all this that hath been-- ,but to me1 what matters it then8 99 99 99 99 99 ,,the ,,last ,,moments4 ,,by ,r4 ,,griffin ,,staples4 ,,it was a beauteous eve6 ,on high1 ,the moon's bright silver ray1 ,and stars gleamed softly down1 to guide ,the traveller's weary way4 ,gently the balmy breath of night ,sighed o'er the distant lea1 ,and birds their cheerful warblings hushed ,with eve's serenity4 ,the shades of death were falling slow ,within a chamber1 where ,a meek one lay1 and1 sinking1 gazed ,into a world more fair4 ,sweet hour for one so pure to die1 ,to pass from earth away ,to that bright land where naught corrupts1 ,and all is perfect day4 ,father6 she breathed1 ,thy will be done6 ,and closed her eyes in death2 ,father6 re-echoed through the sky1 ,thy will be done on earth6 ,,our ,,practical ,,dress ,,instructor4 ,,lady',s ,,scarf ,,mantelet4 ,illustration ,,the newest style of mantle is the ,scarf ,mantelet4 ,its graceful shape1 lightness1 and elegance have made it a great favorite4 ,this mantle is made of muslin or silk1 and trimmed with lace as fancy dictates4 ,,description ,,of ,,diagrams ,,of ,,lady',s ,,scarf ,,mantelet4 ,fig4 #a4--;,front4 ,fig4 #b4--;,back4 ,join a to a and b to b4 ,we also add the diagrams of a very pretty jacket4 ,,description ,,of ,,diagrams ,,of ,,lady',s ,,jacket4 ,fig4 #c4--;,front4 ,fig4 #d4--;,back4 ,fig4 #e4--,side-piece4 ,join a1 a1 a4 ,fig4 #f4--,sleeve in full4 7,this shape is very much worn for morning and evening dress47 ,a ,shoulder4 ,illustration3 ,,diagrams ,,of ,,lady',s ,,scarf ,,mantelet1 ,,and ,,lady',s ,,jacket4 ,illustration ,,crochet ,,tassel ,,cover4 ,material4--,crochet thread1 ,no4 #a2 ,penelope needle1 ,no4 #c4 ,,commence with #ab chain1 make it round by working a single stitch in the first chain stitch4 #ast round4--7#d chain and #b plain in the foundation chain1 #g times47 #b;d4--#a chain 7#b treble1 #c chain and #b treble1 all in the #d chain of the first round71 then #a chain1 #a plain on the #b plain4 ,repeat #f times more4 #c;d4--,miss #a1 #a plain in the #a chain1 #c chain1 miss #b 7#c treble1 #c chain and #c treble1 in the #c chain of the last round71 then #c chain1 miss #b1 #a plain in the next #a chain4 ,repeat #f times more4 #dth4--#e chain1 keep this chain at the back of the last round1 and work #a plain between the #b plain stitches of the last round4 ,repeat #f times more1 leaving the points formed in the last round in front4 ,illustration #eth4--7#b chain and #a plain1 #c times1 in each of the #e chains of the last round47 #fth1 #gth1 #hth1 and #ith4--7#b chain and #a plain1 in the #b chain1 #ba times47 #ajth4--7#a chain and #a plain1 in the #b chain1 #ba times47 #aath4--#db plain4 #abth4--#da plain1 #a single4 #acth4--7#f chain1 miss #d1 and #b plain1 on the lower edge of the stitches of the last round1 #g times71 the upper edge of the stitches of the #abth round are left at the back to form the foundation of the inner part of the tassel4 #adth4--#b chain 7#c treble1 #c chain1 and #c treble1 all in the #f chain72 then #b chain and #a plain1 on the #b plain of the #acth round4 ,repeat #f times more4 #aeth4--#a chain1 miss #b1 #a plain in the #b chain2 then #b chain1 miss #b 7#c treble1 #c chain and #c treble1 in the #c chain71 #b chain1 miss #b1 #a plain in the #b chain4 ,repeat #f times more2 then #a plain in the #ast chain stitch4 #afth4--#d chain1 miss #f1 #c treble in the #c chain2 then #e chain1 turn1 miss #d1 #a single on the #ast stitch of these #e chain to form a round loop2 turn1 and work 7#e chain and #a plain1 in the round loop1 #e times71 then #c treble in the same #c chain of the #aeth round as before1 #d chain1 miss #f1 #a plain in the #a chain4 ,repeat #f times more1 and fasten off1 which finishes the outside4 ,to form the under part of the tassel1 return to the #abth round1 the upper edge of the stitches having been left on the inside of the tassel1 and commencing on the first stitch1 work for the #ast round4--#db plain1 #a single on the #ast stitch of the round4 #b;d4--7#e chain1 miss #b1 and #a plain1 #ad times47 #c;d4--7#e chain1 miss #d1 and #a plain1 in the #e chain1 #ad times47 #dth4--#a chain1 miss #d1 #a plain in the #e chain1 then #i chain1 #a plain in the same #e chain1 then #a chain1 #f treble in the next #e chain4 ,repeat #f times more4 #eth4--#a chain1 miss #e1 #a treble in the #i chain 7then #c chain and #a treble in the same #i chain1 #c times72 #a chain1 miss #e1 #c treble in the #c;d stitch of the #f treble1 then #c treble in the next stitch4 ,repeat #f times more4 #fth4--#a chain1 miss #e1 #a plain in the #c chain1 then #c chain1 miss #c 7#b long1 #e chain and #b long1 all in the next #c chain71 #c chain1 miss #c1 #a plain in the next #c chain1 #a chain1 miss #e1 #c treble in the #c;d treble stitch1 and #c treble in the next stitch4 ,repeat #f times more4 #gth4--#a chain1 miss #e1 #a plain in the #c chain1 then #b chain1 miss #c1 #a plain in the #e chain1 then 7#e chain and #a plain1 in the same #e chain1 #e times7 #b chain1 miss #c1 #a plain in the #c chain1 then #a chain1 miss #e1 #c treble in the #c;d treble stitch1 and #c treble in the next stitch4 ,repeat #f times more4 #hth4--#c chain1 miss #i1 #a plain in the #e chain1 #c chain1 miss #e1 #a treble in the next #e chain1 #c chain1 miss #e1 #a treble in the next #e chain1 #c chain1 #a treble in the same #e chain as before1 #c chain1 miss #e1 and #a treble in the next #e chain1 #c chain1 miss #e1 #a plain in the next #e chain1 #c chain1 miss #i1 #a plain on the centre of the #f treble4 ,repeat #f times more2 then #c chain1 miss #c1 #a plain in the first #c chain4 #ith4--#c chain1 miss #c1 #a treble in the next #c chain1 then #c chain1 miss #c1 #a treble in the next #c chain1 #c chain1 miss #c 7#a long1 #c chain1 #a long1 both in the #c chain71 #c chain1 miss #c1 #a treble1 #c chain1 miss #c1 #a treble1 #c chain1 miss #c1 #a plain in the #c chain1 miss #a1 #a plain in the next #c chain4 ,repeat #f times more4 #ajth4--,miss #b1 #c plain in the #c chain1 991 miss #a1 #a plain1 #a treble1 #c chain1 #a treble1 and #a plain1 all in the next #c chain4 ,repeat from 99 #d times more2 then miss #a1 #c plain in the #c chain4 ,repeat from the commencement of the round1 #f times more1 and fasten off4 ,illustration ,,netted ,,cap1 ,,for ,,morning ,,wear4 ,materials4--,crochet thread1 ,no4 #d2 and1 to embroider the pattern1 a skein of pink or blue ,shetland wool1 or embroidery cotton1 ,no4 #af2 steel mesh1 ,no4 #ad1 and a flat ivory mesh1 one quarter of an inch in width--this will make an ordinary cap2 but1 if any other size is required1 the meshes and thread must be coarser or finer4 ,,commence with the crochet thread1 and ,no4 #ad mesh1 on a foundation of #bj stitches2 work #dj rows of #bj stitches each4 ,this piece forms the centre of the crown1 cut it off the foundation1 and run a string along the four sides1 about four or five stitches from the edges1 so as to work all round the square4 #ast round4--,work down the first side thus3 net a stitch plain1 then net #b stitches in one stitch1 #ae plain1 #b stitches in one1 #b plain1 and along the other side1 991 net #b stitches in one1 #ae plain1 #b stitches in one1 and #b plain4 ,repeat from 99 twice more4 #b;d4--,net #c plain then 7#b stitches in one1 and #aj plain1 #h times74 #c;d4--,plain4 #dth4--7,net #aa plain1 and #b stitches in one1 #h times47 ,it will now be advisable to take out the string1 and run it into the #ast round to keep the work even4 ,net #ae rounds plain4 #bjth4--,net #b stitches in one1 then #bj plain1 #b stitches in one1 #gi plain4 ,net #d rounds more the same as last1 working #b stitches more at the end of each round1 so that the #bj plain stitches are always over those of the preceding round2 when finished1 turn back4 ,net to within #bj stitches of the end of the round1 turn back again1 and leaving the #bj stitches to form the back of the cap1 work for the front1 #h rows plain1 netting two stitches in the last stitch of each row4 ,then #ab rows plain without increasing2 and for the foundation of the border double the cotton and work #f rows plain4 ,illustration ,embroider the cap with the pink wool in darning stitch1 passing the needle about #f times in each square of the netting4 ,,the ,,border4--,with the thread1 and ,no4 #ad mesh1 net #f stitches plain1 and continue working backwards and forwards for about #i yards2 then to form4 ,,the ,,edge4--,run a string in the loops which form the selvedge1 so as to work on the other selvedge4 #ast row4--,with flat mesh1 net #d stitches in every other stitch of the selvedge4 #b;d4--,with #ad mesh1 plain netting1 working a stitch in every stitch of the first row4 ,then1 with the pink wool1 embroider the plain netting4 ,to make up the cap1 sew a row of the border to the last thick row of the cap1 fulling it at the ears1 plain across the front to the centre1 then draw #e loops close together to make it rather pointed1 plain again1 and full at the other ear1 and across the back1 sew on another row of the border the same1 attaching it to the first thick row2 then sew on a third border1 very full1 and in a zigzag form on the ears1 but the same as before across the front4 ,,the ,,strings4--,with the thread and ,no4 #ad mesh1 net #ab stitches1 and continue working backwards and forwards for #e inches1 then net #b stitches in one at the end of every third row1 until it is increased to #bh stitches2 then net #h rows1 leaving #c stitches unworked at the end of each row2 and for ,,the ,,edge4--,with the flat mesh1 commence in the last stitch of the side1 and net #d stitches in every other stitch across the uneven rows2 then one row plain1 with ,no4 #ad mesh4 ,work another string the same1 and embroider them as the cap4 ,illustration ,,border ,,and ,,corner ,,for ,,pocket-,,handkerchief4 ,illustration ,,chemisettes1 ,,undersleeves1 ,,and ,,caps4 ,illustration3 ,fig4 #a4 ,illustration3 ,fig4 #b4 ,illustration3 ,fig4 #c4 ,illustration3 ,fig4 #d4 ,,our readers can scarcely imagine the difficulty we meet with in presenting novelties in this department4 ,the shades of fashion are so various1 and yet so slight1 that1 in giving new designs from month to month1 those not accustomed to scrutinize closely may not notice the peculiarities they are intended to present1 or that each month has its peculiar and seasonable adaptation4 ,for instance-- ,illustration3 ,,apron ,,in ,,broderie ,,en ,,lacet4 ,fig4 #a1 a wrought lace chemisette and stomacher1 is intended for the mild opening season1 when cambric embroideries would be too heavy for the style of dress4 ,the prevailing form of the opening of the basque corsage is also denoted by it--low1 square1 or a broad oval on the bust4 ,the construction of the chemisette of broad scalloped lace1 is simple enough1 on a foundation of ,grecian net or coach blonde4 ,fig4 #b is an undersleeve to correspond1 made sufficiently loose at the wrist for the hand to pass through4 ,the box plaiting or quilling of satin ribbon1 which heads the lace in both ,figs4 #a and #b1 is fastened in the sleeve by a rosette4 ,this is of course only caught on1 and is easily removed when the lace is to be done up2 it may be of any shade1 and is very stylish in evening dress4 ,fig4 #c is a rather close morning cap for a lady of middle age1 made of alternate rows of clean muslin puffs and fine ,valenciennes insertion4 ,it has a crown1 front piece1 and frill4 ,the border is a medium ,valenciennes edge sewn in the insertion1 two rows slightly frilled4 ,bows and strings of violet-colored satin ribbon4 ,fig4 #d4--;,breakfast cap for a young married lady1 consisting of a crown piece1 and two rows of edging1 of ,maltese lace4 ,bows and ends of rich ribbon1 medium width between the rows1 a knot of broader ribbon behind1 a little to the right4 ,for description of ,maltese lace1 see fashion article4 ,illustration ,,apron ,,in ,,broderie ,,en ,,lacet4 7,see ,blue ,plate in front of ,book47 ,materials4--,seven-eighths of a yard of wide black glace silk1 two knots of cerise ,russia silk braid1 one knot of pale vert-islay ditto1 and a dozen skeins of sewing-silk to match each braid4 ,,broderie ,,en ,,lacet signifies a design out-lined as if merely for braiding1 but with the flowers and other parts filled in with point lace stitches1 so as to make a solid piece of embroidering on the silk4 ,for no article is this novel style of work more suitable than for aprons1 which it renders exceedingly ornamental1 at a very small expenditure of time and trouble1 the very simplest of the point lace stitches only being used in this work4 ,of course1 the size of our page precludes our giving even the half of the apron the full size4 ,the design must be enlarged according to the size required1 the pattern procured1 and the silk marked in the same way as ordinary braiding or embroidery4 ,braiding should always be done with a strand of the silk of which the braid is made4 ,before beginning1 cut off a yard of the braid and draw out the threads for sewing with4 ,thread the end of the braid on a large darning-needle1 and draw it through the silk to the wrong side for the commencement1 and do the same at every necessary break1 sending the ends down4 ,run the braid on very smoothly1 taking the stitches across it slanting and cut along the centre1 as is usually done4 ,the braid should lie perfectly flat1 and the edges be smooth and even4 ,the knots at the side suspending the wreath are done in the green braid1 the two parallel lines of which are connected by close herring-bone stitch1 or point d',alenon1 as it is called in lace-work4 ,all the fancy stitches are done with the common sewing-silk1 not with the strands of the braid4 ,the leaves need have merely the veinings worked in ,venetian bars2 those1 however1 who do not mind the trouble1 will do well to fill them first with ,brussels lace1 and work the fibres over that2 the improved effect will quite repay the extra work4 ,the roses are filled up closely in the ,brussels and ,venetian lace1 the narrow parts being connected with ,english bars4 ,the lower part of each bud has a rosette in it1 the remainder is filled with ,venetian lace4 ,illustration ,,lady',s ,,slipper4 ,gold braid on velvet or cloth4 ,illustration ,,jacket ,,for ,a ,,riding-,,dress4 ,illustration ,,the material is merino1 or very fine lady's cloth2 the color a light shade of cinnamon brown4 ,the basque1 or skirt1 at the waist is rather long1 and the jacket is edged all round with a ,greek border in soutache4 ,it is made rather open in front1 so as to show a waistcoat of plain blue cashmere fastened with gold buttons4 ,the collar to be worn with this jacket is of cambric1 and may be either worked or plain4 ,the undersleeves1 also of cambric1 are full1 and the fulness gathered at the wrists on bands of needlework4 ,necktie of black velvet4 ,our illustration shows only the jacket of this riding-dress2 but we may mention that the skirt of the habit should be of the same material1 and that the hat worn with it should be of gray felt1 ornamented with a feather of the same color1 and the crown encircled by a band of blue ribbon fastened in a rosette on one side4 ,illustration ,,cottage ,,furniture4 ,illustration3 ,the above figure is a handsome pattern for a couch4 ,the castors are sunk in the legs4 ,,patterns ,,for ,,embroidery4 ,illustration ,,editors' ,,table4 ,,we put aside1 for this month1 a number of short articles1 in order to give our readers the pleasure of an introduction to the celebrated singing-master1 to whose instructions the ,swedish ,nightingale owes1 in a great measure1 the restoration of her wonderful voice1 and her unequalled power in using it4 ,very important lessons are contained in this interesting sketch1 translated from the ,german of ,elise ,polko4 99 99 99 99 99 ,rue ,chabannais1 ,no4 #f4--;,in one of the most insignificant streets of splendid ,paris1 the narrow little ,rue ,chabannais1 there stands a tall1 dark-looking house known as ,no4 #f4 ,ugly1 rambling1 old-fashioned buildings stand on each side1 and have posted themselves opposite to it also1 like old duennas mounting guard1 squinting down incessantly with their dim eyes1 their unwashed windows1 upon the gray house with its broad doorway4 ,the inhabitants of the little street1 on the contrary1 regard it with a certain pride mingled with a tender friendliness of feeling1 and rejoice like children over each brilliant equipage that stays its rapid course before ,no4 #f1 as well as over every unpretending fiacre that there deposits its light burden4 ,at all hours of the day1 graceful female figures glide over the threshold of the large dark house1 and the modiste of the ,rue ,chabannais1 who arranges her fluttering caps1 ribbons1 and veils so invitingly in the corner window1 might make valuable studies for costume from the many and divers figures1 great and small1 who so heedlessly pass by her well-displayed treasures4 ,one may see rich heavy silks1 and simple black woollen robes1 superb velvet mantillas and delicate light shawls1 the careless and yet striking costume1 the carefully-chosen and usually brilliant garb of slender ,german women1 the elegant and coquettish ,french bonnet1 and the great roof-like straw hat which shelters the fair brow of the ,english lady4 ,one might be tempted to think some skilful gardener must have his abode here1 and all the flowers were flocking to him for advice about their tender lives1 from the glorious exotic of the greenhouse to the humblest field flower that needs only its drop of dew4 ,but men too1 young and old1 whose figures and faces remind us neither of flowers nor spring1 enter mysterious ,no4 #f with rapid steps1 and strangely do their countenances differ in expression as they come out again4 ,sometimes there is a bright smile and a beaming eye1 but most of them have a deep and earnest look1 and a brow furrowed with anxious thought--traces which vanish soon enough in the ,place ,louvois or the gay and brilliant ,rue ,richelieu4 ,perhaps a second ,lenormand has fixed her residence in the large house1 disclosing strange secrets to the curious1 and uttering dark oracles6 ,ah1 no6 such magicians are sought only under cover of twilight and the dark shadows of night--never in bright day4 ,now1 shall ,i solve the riddle of the gray house8 ,will you follow me up the broad stone stairway8 ,forward1 then6 ,many a light foot has lingered anxiously on these steps1 doubtful whether to go further2 this iron railing has been touched by many a trembling hand1 and these white walls have echoed many a sigh4 ,at last we have mounted the third flight2 let us take breath6 ,many a young heart has beat audibly before this closed door1 believe me6 for we are standing before the dwelling of ,,manuel ,,garcia1 the greatest singing-master of our time4 ,one of the most charming of fairies 7and ,i tell you for your comfort there are still many of them who1 to escape the roar and tumult of our mad world1 hide themselves far down in the flower-cups71 at my earnest request1 has lent me her fragrant veil for an hour or two2 we wrap it around us and are invisible1 and now we can boldly enter the rooms of the artist4 ,passing through a small antechamber1 we carefully open a folding door on the right1 and enter a simple apartment1 partially darkened1 and tastefully and comfortably furnished4 ,two beautiful busts arrest our attention2 one bears the inscription ,eugenie ,garcia1 the other the immortal name ,marie ,malibran4 ,two familiar portraits adorn the walls3 the pleasant kindly face of the ,swedish ,nightingale1 and the earnest countenance of ,pauline ,viardot4 ,silvery sounds1 full and powerful1 reach our ear from the adjoining room2 they attract us irresistibly2 we follow them1 gently open a side door and find ourselves in the very sanctum of the master1 in the atelier of the artist4 ,the long folds of the red silk curtains are partially drawn1 so that a rosy light falls upon every object2 a fine piano stands in the middle of the room2 arm-chairs by the fireplace2 a luxurious divan on one side covered with scattered music2 the elegant marble table loaded with books1 portfolios1 music-books1 papers of all kinds2 music-stands in every direction1 on one of which1 beside the singer1 we see an open volume of exercises4 ,l'cole de ,garcia1 l'art du chant4 ,a breath of poetry seems to pervade the apartment4 ,garcia sits at the piano1 his scholar stands at some distance before him4 ,the maestro is very tall1 unusually slender1 and of a truly feverish vivacity4 ,his face is small and deadly pale2 his dark1 slightly curled hair falls over a high forehead4 ,his eyes are dark1 restless1 flashing1 and inspired4 ,now he listens with fixed attention to the full1 swelling notes that flow from the lips of the songstress2 the next he throws back his head impatiently2 a word of warning or of blame is rapidly addressed to the pupil2 sometimes a kindly smile1 a slight sarcasm1 a pleasant jest1 all strangely intermingled with sudden starts1 angry stamping of the feet1 and stern frowns of displeasure4 ,how rarely a word of praise6 ,but one single warm word of commendation from such a master is a sunbeam that has power to penetrate and unfold every fast closed bud of zeal and earnest effort4 ,how cautiously ,garcia handles the precious possession intrusted to his care1 the human voice6 ,how tenderly he protects it6 how carefully he watches it6 how anxiously he strives to preserve that pure1 brilliant freshness of youth which is the greatest charm a voice can possess4 ,it is really impossible to lose this flower-like bloom under ,garcia's guidance2 whatever may be said or has already been said to the contrary1 such a reproach can never come home to a master whose whole method is so entirely according to nature4 ,and how strenuously does he insist upon resting pauses in his hours of instruction6 ,hear what he says to that listening pupil who looks up to him with such eager expectation3-- ,freshness and spontaneousness are the most precious qualities of the voice1 but they are also the most fragile4 ,the voice which loses them never regains them2 its tone is gone1 never to return4 ,during the first days of practising1 the pupils should not devote themselves to their exercises more than five minutes consecutively2 but studies thus regulated may be resumed four or five times a day1 provided they be separated by long intervals4 ,afterwards1 the time devoted to practice1 by increasing it five minutes at a time1 may be extended to half an hour1 a limit which should never be exceeded4 ,at the end of five or six months1 you may increase the number of half hours of exercise to four1 but be careful in going beyond it1 remembering always that these periods be separated by long rests4 ,the singer begins again4 ,her own figure stands before her in the large mirror that hangs behind the master's back2 no movement of her face can escape her2 every contraction of her eyebrows1 every slight wrinkle in her forehead1 every ungraceful movement of her mouth is truly reflected there4 ,and no trick passes unreproved1 for ,garcia's piercing eye watches with fixed attention every feature of the singer4 ,but he does not arrange and prescribe how the cheekbones are to move1 or the lips to open2 he does not confuse the ideas of his pupils by incomprehensible1 wordy descriptions of the position of the mouth and the posture of the head2 he simply repeats the teaching of the famous old ,italian singing-masters1 ,tosi and ,mancini3 ,every singer should hold his mouth as he is in the habit of doing when he smiles naturally1 that is1 so that the upper teeth may be moderately and perpendicularly separated from the lower ones4 ,without directing the posture of the body like a drill-sergeant1 ,garcia says briefly1 but decidedly3 ,keep the body erect1 tranquil1 well-balanced on the two limbs1 and at a distance from any other point of support4 ,the arms must be held a little back1 so as not to interfere with the play of the chest4 ,the lesson is finished4 ,the maestro kindly dismisses his pupil1 again repeats1 with condensed brevity1 the main point of to-day's instruction1 appoints the task for home practice1 and encourages the timid departing scholar with heart-cheering words of courage and hope4 ,but look6 scarcely has the door closed when it is again opened4 ,a pale young man1 accompanied by some sober-looking1 elderly gentlemen1 bows in an awkward and yet assuming manner1 and1 with a smile of conscious self-satisfaction1 presents different letters of recommendation1 among which such names as ,meyerbeer1 ,auber1 ,spontini1 shine out4 ,it is a singer from one of the provinces2 enchanted with the praises of his table-companions1 he is about to devote himself to the stage4 ,his rich father and richer uncle have come with him to ,paris2 ,cousin ,meyerbeer sends him to ,garcia1 as he has already sent him from ,pontius ,auber to ,pilate ,spontini4 ,with what indifference ,garcia throws aside these great letters1 but how carefully he begins to test the young man's abilities6 ,the aspiring devotee to art has brought with him his favorite air1 his show-piece2 ,verdi is his idol among composers6 ,the recitation begins2 ,garcia accompanies him4 ,the voice is weak and yet sharp1 already half-cracked2 the flow of it unnatural and cramped2 the most terrible effort is apparent at every note2 false respiration too1 and indistinct pronunciation4 ,the master grows more and more impatient2 his feet begin to jerk as if seized with sudden cramps2 he plays faster and faster2 with feverish haste1 his slender hands run over the keys1 his face changing with every sound2 his eyes flash more and more restlessly2 his teeth are pressed against his lips2 suddenly1 he springs from his seat1 with the half-smothered exclamation1 ,assez1 ,monsieur1 assez1 je vous prie6 ,he sinks exhausted into a chair2 an awful pause ensues4 ,at last the master quietly and decidedly explains to the singer the grounds upon which he is obliged to refuse his request1 in spite of all the recommendations of ,meyerbeer and ,spontini4 ,his candor and calmness towards the offended amateur are worthy of admiration4 ,he concludes by kindly advising the astonished aspirant1 if he has not implicit faith in his words1 to seek another teacher1 and dismisses the deluded worshipper of ,verdi with the most refined courtesy4 ,how frequently does he reject lady pupils who1 with great assumption and half-ruined voices1 come to him that his hand may scatter a few flowers over their remains6 ,how impatient he is of all musical narrowness1 want of talent1 and laziness6 ,his severity in such cases has given him a bad reputation1 his violence has forced tears from many eyes2 but his justice remains unimpeachable4 ,he will not for a moment feign for a scholar an interest he does not feel1 or that has been forfeited by any of the defects ,i have mentioned2 he is unsparing in making them feel how little he cares for such pupils4 ,holding a book in one hand1 with the other he carelessly strikes an accompaniment1 and as he diligently reads on1 only the monotonous encore at the end of a solfeggia proves that the ear of the master has been attending4 ,the more untrained and untutored the voice that is brought to him1 the more thankfully he receives it4 ,how joyfully does he then devote himself to his arduous task6 how unwearied is his attention6 how carefully and conscientiously does he watch over the treasure intrusted to him6 ,on the other hand1 he is most unwilling to under-take repairs and final embellishments1 which1 artist-like1 he confesses without disguise2 and singers who1 with this in view1 seek the master's studio1 will have but little satisfaction in his lessons4 99 99 99 99 99 99 ,but hush6 hush6 ,my gracious protectress gives me a gentle warning1 and touches the magic veil we had wrapped about us4 ,let us obey her timely hint1 nor provoke one kind spirit to anger6 ,farewell1 good master ,garcia6 ,heartily do we rejoice that we have listened to thee2 believe me1 we shall often wing our way back to thee without fairy help1 even in the spirit1 that we may look on thee with gratitude and admiration4 ,and the golden and silvery sounds which thy magic power draws from young rosy lips will again flow forth and bear us on in their clear stream2 the bright1 pearly drops of brilliant roulades will refresh and quicken us into new life2 and oh1 joy6 the poor troubled heart will hear no more the sharp1 cutting1 irreconcilable discords of the everyday world4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,an ,,american ,,artiste ,,abroad4--,miss ,adelaide ,phillips1 of ,boston1 has lately made a very successful dbt at ,brescia 7,italy71 in the character of ,arsace in ,rossini's ,semiramide4 ,the public were lavish of well-merited applause1 says the ,italian critic4 ,miss ,phillips first sang1 as a child1 at the ,boston ,museum4 ,she went1 about two years since1 to ,italy1 to complete her musical education4 ,biscaccianti sang for her benefit1 and ,jenny ,lind1 though she refused to sing for her1 it is understood1 gave her #a1jjj1 and letters of recommendation to her old teacher1 ,garcia4 ,miss ,phillips is the fifth ,american who has1 within the last few years1 succeeded on the ,italian stage4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,true ,,happiness ,,in ,a ,,palace4--,frederick ,william ,,iii41 ,king of ,prussia1 married1 in #agic1 ,louisa1 daughter of the ,duke of ,mecklenburg-,strelitz4 ,the union was one of elevated love and perfect confidence1 the character of the wife presenting a combination of excellencies that dignify her sex and ennoble humanity4 ,among her graces1 that of doing good to the poor was always in exercise4 ,the king allowed her a certain sum for her charities1 which she often exceeded1 and when the treasurer informed the king of this1 he had a way of gradually replenishing the drawer in her desk4 ,she would say1 ,what angel has filled that drawer for me again8 ,to which the king--that the angels were legion1 although he knew only one2 and then repeated the beautiful verse-- ,he gives his favors to his favorites while sleeping4 ,this high and tender appreciation of the queen's graces and virtues appeared at all times4 ,himself grave1 often morose1 silent1 and somewhat sarcastic1 he knew well how to make use of and shelter himself behind the serene smiles and ever-genial1 gracious demeanor of the queen1 to whom he used to say1 when assailed by the plaudits of their subjects3 ,now1 ,louisa1 you must salute them for me2 you can do it better than ,i2 but how you can hold out so long1 ,i cannot think4 ,much is said of her sly playfulness and ready repartee1 one anecdote of which we cannot resist giving4 ,the king1 who was extremely careful and judicious in his expenditure1 and whose maxim it was that the secret of dollars lies in groschen--exactly similar to our saying about pennies and pounds--on entering the queen's apartments one morning1 espied a pretty new headdress1 of which he jestingly inquired the price4 ,the queen replied in the same tone3 ,it is not always right that men should know the price of women's dress2 they don't understand it1 and think everything too dear4 ,well1 but do tell me the price for this cap1 for ,i should like to know4 ,oh1 certainly ,i will6 ,i bought it a great bargain2 ,i only gave four dollars for it4 ,only6 an enormous price for such a thing4 ,what a large sum of money6 and running on in the same vein1 he saw from the window an old invalid veteran of the guard1 whom he beckoned to come in1 saying to him as he entered3 ,the lady who is sitting on that sofa has a great deal of money2 now1 what ought she pay for that little cap on the table8 ,you must not be dazzled by the beautiful pink ribbons1 but say what you think it is worth4 ,the old soldier shrugged his shoulders1 and said1 after a pause3 ,why1 ,i suppose it would cost some groschen 7pence74 ,there1 now6 said the king2 do you hear that8 ,groschen1 indeed6 ,that thing cost four dollars4 ,now go and ask that pretty lady for four dollars4 ,she can well afford to give you as much as she can afford to pay for that4 ,the queen smilingly opened her purse1 and presented the four dollars to the old man4 ,and now1 continued the queen1 archly imitating the king's tone1 you see that noble gentleman standing at the window2 he has much more money than ,i have4 ,all ,i have is from him1 and he gives very freely4 ,now go and ask for double of what you have got from me3 he can afford to give you eight dollars4 ,the king saw at once that he was caught in his own trap1 and laughingly gave the old man the sum she had so charmingly forced from him4 ,such domestic happiness is seldom found in a palace2 when it is1 we see how it adds to the glory of royalty4 ,every married pair are royal in their own home1 and if every husband and wife would study to make each other happy1 like ,frederick and ,louisa of ,prussia1 there would be no question about the rights of either4 ,both would find their best happiness in their respective duties4 99 99 99 99 99 ,a ,,mistake4--,the following paragraph we are sorry to see ascribed to the lady editor of the ,book3-- ,mrs4 ,hale says there is more talent and general information displayed by the press of the ,united ,states1 taken collectively1 than can be found in ,congress and all the ,legislatures taken collectively4 ,mrs4 ,hale never presumed thus to criticize or compare the merits of editors and statesmen4 ,the opinion belongs to ,mr4 ,godey--he can answer for himself4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,to ,,correspondents4--,the following articles are accepted3 ,mrs4 ,clark's ,experience as a ,servant1 ,the ,schottisch ,partner1 ,stanzas1 ,autumn ,dying1 ,the ,thrice ,wedded1 ,memory's ,retrospect1 ,the ,mother's ,lesson1 ,my blighted ,rose-buds1 ,come unto me1 ,to ,miss ,laura1 ,lines1 ,two ,mothers1 ,i ,pray for the ,loved at ,home1 ,the ,smiling ,boy1 ,a loving ,heart1 ,legend of ,long ,pond1 or ,lake of the ,golden ,cross1 ,deacon ,downright4 ,the following articles are declined3 ,valuable ,copyrights1 ,the ,grave2 ,the ,sabbath of the ,soul4 7,poetical in idea1 and evinces genius as well as taste2 but unequal1 and the closing lines poor4 ,the writer may feel sure of success if energy does not fail47 ,turkish ,battle ,song1 and the translation of the ,forty-seventh ,ode of ,anacreon1 are both declined4 ,neither war nor wine is a fitting theme for our ,book1 nor do we need poetry of any kind4 ,to ,belle ,irene4 ,the following1 the first and best stanza1 is all we have room for4 7,there is power in the writer1 and he does not lack imagination1 but he dashes off his lines in such hot haste1 that he often leaves metre and measure far behind4 ,a little more care in the versification would be a great improvement47 ,i may not love thee1 yet within my heart1 ,when night and darkness set my spirit free1 ,and ,i am musing from the world apart1 ,soft low requiems murmur words of thee2 ,and upward gushing from joy's smouldered fire1 ,shadowlessly1 in fresh and tameless glee1 ,a wind-wail sweeps through ,hope's halcyon lyre1 ,like zephyr's music o'er summer's golden sea4 ,lines about ,tecumseh1 ,to ,mary1 ,i ,would2 ,tears4 ,we give below an extract1 the poem being too extended for its one idea2 the writer is capable of better things3-- ,tears my bleeding heart hath known1 ,tears of sorrow sadly shed1 ,tears ,i've mingled with thine own1 ,tears while weeping for the dead4 ,tears so brightly let them flow ,tears from eyes too freely given1 ,tears that none but angels know1 ,tears from kind hearts wildly riven4 ,mrs4 ,penelope ,pennington's ,disappointments4 7,the article is well written1 the subject commonplace47 ,a ,leaf from the ,life of an ,old ,maid was declined2 the acceptance noted in ,september was by mistake2 the ,book is sent1 nevertheless1 as the author will undoubtedly succeed1 and we can wait4 ,many articles on hand are not yet examined4 ,literary ,notices4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,books ,,by ,,mail4--,now that the postage on printed matter is so low1 we offer our services to procure for our subscribers or others any of the books that we notice4 ,information touching books will be cheerfully given by inclosing a stamp to pay return postage4 99 99 99 99 99 ,from ,,lippincott1 ,,grambo1 ,,co4 7successors to ,grigg ,elliot71 ,no4 #ad ,north ,fourth ,street1 ,philadelphia3-- ,a ,,new ,,and ,,complete ,,gazetteer ,,of ,,the ,,united ,,states4 ,giving a full and comprehensive review of the present condition1 industry1 and resources of the ,american confederacy2 embracing1 also1 important topographical1 statistical1 and historical information1 from recent and original sources2 together with the results of the census of #ahej1 and population and statistics in many cases to #ahec4 ,by ,thomas ,baldwin and ,j4 ,thomas1 ,m4 ,d4 ,the enterprising publishers of this valuable and important work may very justly feel gratified in being able to present it to the public1 and with equal truth do they claim it to be the most elaborate1 comprehensive1 and perfect ,gazetteer of the ,united ,states that has ever issued from the press4 ,instead of #hjj pages1 to which the work was originally restricted1 it has swelled to #a1djj pages1 embracing at least #aj1jjj names of places not to be found in any other ,gazetteer1 together with the appropriate statistics and information4 ,neither the hope of profit1 nor the pressure of competition has induced the publishers to present their work before it was complete1 or before all the ample materials furnished by the census of #ahej1 and other statistics and important facts in the hands of editors1 were fully digested and arranged4 ,the expense incurred in the production of this unequalled ,gazetteer1 in which1 besides the editors and their assistants1 several thousand correspondents in all parts of the ,united ,states were engaged1 has consequently been very great1 amounting1 as we learn1 to more than #cj1jjj4 ,but1 if the publishers have reason to feel gratified in the result of their labors1 we think the ,american public should be congratulated in having within command and ready for use a volume which presents so faithfully the present condition of the country1 in all the ramifications of population1 trade1 commerce1 wealth1 etc41 and which foreshadows the future as unerringly as it records the history of the past4 ,the great public1 therefore1 always alive to its own interests1 will lose no time in discovering the propriety1 as well as the justice of rewarding the spirited publishers of the ,new and ,complete ,gazetteer1 by purchasing the volumes as fast as they can be got ready4 ,and this1 we think1 will be the result as soon as its merits are generally known4 ,as a book of reference1 it will be indispensable to editors1 authors1 merchants1 and men of enterprise in all the departments of business4 ,in families1 it will also be found to furnish the readiest means in impressing the young inquirers with an amount of history in relation to the extent1 climate1 soil1 productions1 and general statistics of their country1 which they might search in vain for in the various histories prepared for their exclusive benefit4 99 99 99 99 99 ,from ,a4 ,,hart 7late ,carey ,hart71 corner of ,fourth and ,chestnut ,streets1 ,philadelphia3-- ,,heroic ,,women ,,of ,,the ,,west3 containing ,thrilling ,examples of ,courage1 ,fortitude1 ,devotedness1 and ,self-,sacrifice1 among the ,pioneer ,mothers of the ,western ,country4 ,by ,john ,frost4 ,,ll4,d41 author of ,pictorial ,history of the ,world1 ,history of the ,united ,states1 etc4 etc4 ,this is a handsome and interesting volume1 in which are graphically narrated the heroic deeds of forty of the pioneer women of the ,west4 ,it has many beautiful illustrations4 99 99 99 99 99 ,from ,,ticknor1 ,,reed1 ,,fields1 ,boston1 through ,c4 ,g4 ,henderson1 ,philadelphia3-- ,,haps ,,and ,,mishaps ,,of ,a ,,tour ,,in ,,europe4 ,by ,grace ,greenwood4 ,this is a very clever and readable book1 its style fluent1 flashy1 and flowery4 ,every sentence is highly wrought and carefully polished1 and every sentiment1 good1 bad1 and indifferent1 is expressed in the highest pitch the ,english language will bear2 and1 when it would bear no more1 the climax has sometimes been given in words borrowed from softer1 sweeter1 or stronger and more thrilling vocabularies than our coarse mongrel ,saxon4 ,we know ,grace ,greenwood to be a graceful and polished writer2 but in this volume she has evidently labored too ardently to dignify and garnish poetically common incidents and common sayings1 which would have appeared to much better advantage in commonplace prose4 ,but all this1 we presume1 proceeds from her determination to let her feelings have their full sweep2 and thus1 as they have directed her1 and as she has been differently impressed by similar sights and images1 we find her at one time subdued and almost in tears before a painting of the ,madonna1 and at another hurling impassioned imprecations upon the heads of those who foster a worse than pagan superstition4 ,we do not wonder1 therefore1 after reading her book1 that1 near the close of her tour1 the over-excited author felt an inexpressible longing for rest in a comfortable home among her dear ,english friends4 99 99 99 99 99 ,from ,r4 ,t4 ,,young1 ,new ,york1 through ,j4 ,l4 ,,gihon1 ,philadelphia3-- ,,history ,,of ,,new ,,amsterdam2 or1 ,new ,york as it was in the ,days of the ,dutch ,governors4 ,together with ,papers on ,events connected with the ,american ,revolution1 and on ,philadelphia in the ,times of ,william ,penn4 ,by ,professor ,a4 ,davis1 ,corresponding ,member of the ,n4 ,y4 ,hist4 ,society1 ,hon4 ,member of the ,n4 ,y4 ,s4 of ,letters1 and formerly ,chaplain to the ,new ,york ,senate4 ,six fine illustrations4 ,the younger classes of historical readers will find this a very attractive and very instructive volume4 99 99 99 99 99 ,from ,,ticknor1 ,,reed1 ,,fields1 ,boston1 through ,w4 ,p4 ,,hazard1 ,philadelphia3-- ,,autobiography ,,of ,,an ,,actress2 or1 ,eight ,years on the ,stage4 ,by ,anna ,cora ,mowatt4 ,these simple and unaffected memoirs will greatly interest the many warm and ardent friends of the authoress4 ,they will1 at the same time1 endear her to a numerous class of readers who have hitherto had no opportunities to form just judgments of her character1 her talents1 and her noble struggles through a professional life1 such as is generally supposed to be more dangerous to those who enter upon it than almost any other they could make choice of4 ,we see1 however1 in this instance1 as in many that have passed before1 that where the virtues of the heart and the energies of the mind are combined in motive and effort1 the profession itself is elevated1 and the professor triumphs4 99 99 99 99 99 ,from ,,phillips1 ,,sampson1 ,,co41 ,boston1 through ,r4 ,h4 ,,see ,,co41 ,philadelphia3-- ,,outlines ,,of ,,the ,,geology ,,of ,,the ,,globe1 ,,and ,,of ,,the ,,united ,,states ,,in ,,particular3 with two ,geological ,maps1 and ,sketches of ,characteristic ,american ,fossils4 ,by ,edward ,hitchcock1 ,d4,d41 ,,ll4,d43 ,president of ,amherst ,college1 and ,professor of ,natural ,theology and ,geology4 ,this work has been prepared as a sequel to ,elementary ,geology1 published by the author in #ahdg4 ,it forms a most valuable addition to the original work1 as will be seen by a single glance at the maps4 99 99 99 99 99 ,from ,m4 ,w4 ,,dodd1 opposite the ,city ,hall1 ,new ,york1 through ,c4 ,g4 ,,henderson1 ,philadelphia3-- ,,the ,,lectures ,,complete ,,of ,,father ,,gavazzi1 as ,delivered in ,new ,york4 ,reported by an eminent ,stenographer1 and revised and corrected by ,gavazzi himself4 ,including translations of his ,italian addresses with which the greater part of the lectures were prefaced4 ,to which are prefixed1 under his authority and revision1 the life of ,gavazzi1 continued to the time of his visit to ,america4 ,by ,g4 ,b4 ,nicolini1 his friend and fellow-exile1 author of the ,history of the late ,roman ,republic4 ,the fulness of the title1 and the great celebrity acquired by the author in the delivery of his lectures1 release us from any obligation we might otherwise be under of explaining the controversial character of this work4 ,,oriental ,,and ,,sacred ,,scenes1 from ,notes of ,travel in ,greece1 ,turkey1 and ,palestine4 ,by ,fisher ,howe4 ,this is a very beautiful volume1 with maps and colored illustrations4 ,the incidents narrated1 the descriptions of the cities and monuments visited1 and the just and appropriate reflections of the author1 are calculated not only to gratify the curiosity1 but to leave deep and salutary impressions upon the mind of the reader4 ,the ,christian public will be the more interested in the sale of this handsome volume1 when informed that the profits are specifically devoted to the cause of promoting the ,gospel in the ,east under the ,american ,board of ,commissions for ,foreign ,missions4 99 99 99 99 99 ,from ,j4 ,s4 ,,redfield1 #aaj and #aab ,nassau ,street1 ,new ,york1 through ,w4 ,b4 ,,zieber1 ,philadelphia3-- ,,sketches ,,of ,,the ,,irish ,,bar4 ,by the ,rt4 ,hon4 ,richard ,lalor ,shiel1 ,m4 ,p4 ,with ,memoir and ,notes1 by ,r4 ,shelton ,mackenzie1 ,d4,c4,l4 ,in two volumes4 ,these volumes will greatly interest such readers as may desire to investigate the ,irish character1 as displayed under the higher influences of education1 talents1 and patriotism1 and when aroused into action by motives of rivalry or ambition for place and power4 ,independent of these personal characteristics1 the volume contains a great deal of information connected with the actual history of ,ireland not yet embodied in any other work that has come under our notice4 ,,the ,,partisan4 ,a ,romance of the ,revolution4 ,by ,w4 ,gilmore ,simms1 ,esq41 author of ,the ,yemassee1 ,guy ,rivers1 ,martin ,faber1 etc4 etc4 ,a new and revised edition4 ,the first edition of this work was so favorably received by the critics1 and was so generally read1 it would seem unnecessary for us to call particular attention to its merits as a history or a romance4 ,we may say1 however1 with great justice1 that in his revision of the work the author has availed himself of all the new facts brought to bear upon his subject by the critical observations of friends1 and that the volume now presents a complete history of all the leading events in the war of the ,revolution in ,south ,carolina1 dating from the fall of the city of ,charleston1 in #aghj4 99 99 99 99 99 ,from ,j4 ,p4 ,,jewett ,,co41 ,boston3-- ,,dress ,,as ,a ,,fine ,,art4 ,by ,mrs4 ,merrifield4 ,the publisher1 in his preface1 says3 ,this work of ,mrs4 ,merrifield's has been circulated among the forty thousand subscribers of the ',london ,art ,journal4' ,he might have added1 and also among the hundred thousand subscribers of the ',lady's ,book2' for we have published nearly every word of it4 ,still1 the book before us is beautifully got up1 and1 the articles being gathered together and placed before the reader upon beautiful type and paper1 it must command a great sale1 as it is an admirable work4 ,that may be taken for granted1 or it never would have appeared in ,godey4 ,the book is a splendid specimen of typography4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,novels1 ,,serials1 ,,pamphlets1 c4 ,from ,garrett ,co41 #ah ,ann ,street1 ,new ,york1 through ,t4 ,b4 ,peterson1 #ajb ,chestnut ,street1 ,philadelphia3 ,dashes of ,american ,humor4 ,by ,howard ,paul4 ,illustrated by ,john ,leech4 ,this is a collection of amusing stories4 ,from ,bunce ,brothers1 ,new ,york1 through ,t4 ,b4 ,peterson1 ,philadelphia3 ,annie ,vincent2 a ,domestic ,story4 ,by the author of the ,twin ,sisters4 ,from ,d4 ,appleton ,co41 #bjj ,broadway1 ,new ,york1 through ,c4 ,g4 ,henderson ,co41 ,philadelphia3 ,an ,attic ,philosopher in ,paris2 or1 a ,peep at the ,world from a ,garret4 ,from the ,french of ,emilie ,souvestre4 ,there are many excellent thoughts and worthy examples within the unpretending paper cover of this little volume4--,linny ,lockwood3 a ,novel4 ,by ,catharine ,crowe1 author of ,susan ,hopley1 etc4 ,from ,t4 ,b4 ,peterson1 #ajb ,chestnut ,street1 ,philadelphia3 ,the ,young ,duke2 or1 the ,younger ,days of ,george the ,fourth4 ,by ,b4 ,d',israeli1 ,m4 ,p41 ,p4 ,c41 author of ,henrietta ,temple1 etc4 etc4 ,with a beautiful portrait of the author4 ,complete4 ,price #cg cents4--,memoirs and ,correspondence of ,thomas ,moore4 ,edited by the ,rt4 ,hon4 ,lord ,john ,russell1 ,m4 ,p4 ,part #f4 ,price #be cents4--,contarini ,fleming3 an ,autobiography4 ,by ,b4 ,d',israeli1 ,m4 ,p41 ,p4 ,c41 author of ,the ,young ,duke1 etc4 ,with a portrait of the author4 ,from ,j4 ,s4 ,redfield1 ,new ,york1 through ,w4 ,b4 ,zieber1 ,philadelphia3 ,the ,partisan3 a ,romance of the ,revolution4 ,by ,w4 ,gilmore ,simms1 ,esq41 author of ,the ,yemassee1 ,guy ,rivers1 etc4 etc4 ,this is a new and revised edition of one of the author's most popular works4--,poems1 ,descriptive1 ,dramatic1 ,legendary1 and ,contemplative4 ,by ,william ,gilmore ,simms1 ,esq4 ,in two volumes4 ,the first of these volumes contains ,norman ,maurice3 a ,tragedy2 ,atlantis3 a ,tale of the ,sea2 ,tales and ,traditions of the ,south2 ,the ,city of the ,silent4 ,the second volume embraces ,southern ,passages and ,pictures2 ,historical and ,dramatic ,sketches2 ,scripture ,legends2 ,francesca da ,rimini4 ,these1 and the prose writings of ,mr4 ,simms1 have established his fame as a chaste and brilliant writer4 ,we hope he will receive from the publication of his prose and poetical writings1 in their present complete and uniform editions1 the pecuniary reward to which his incessant literary labors so justly entitle him4 ,from ,ticknor1 ,reed1 ,fields1 ,boston1 through ,w4 ,p4 ,hazard1 ,philadelphia3 ,poems and ,parodies4 ,by ,phbe ,carey4 ,the name of this author and the character of her poetry are familiar in every town and country in the ,united ,states that can boast a newspaper4 ,this is a handsome collection1 and will be sought after by her numerous friends4--,the ,young ,voyagers2 or1 the ,boy ,hunters in the ,north4 ,by ,captain ,mayne ,reid1 author of the ,boy ,hunters1 ,the ,desert ,home1 etc4 ,with twelve illustrations by ,w4 ,harvey4 ,captain ,reid has been a great traveller1 and he describes men1 and birds1 and beasts1 and strange and startling incidents with wonderful minuteness4 ,from ,herman ,j4 ,meyer1 ,new ,york3 ,the ,united ,states ,illustrated2 in ,views of ,city and ,country4 ,with descriptive and historical articles4 ,edited by ,charles ,a4 ,dana4 ,we have received ,parts #h1 #i1 and #aj1 ,east and ,west1 of the first volume of this beautiful and truly national work4 ,all connected with this work deserve great credit for the literary and artistic excellence exhibited in every number4 ,godey's ,arm-,chair4 ,,our ,,april ,,number4--,we do not perceive any falling off in the ,lady's ,book4 ,as we commenced1 so we go on4 ,we have1 at a very considerable expense1 procured the very latest style for bonnets1 dresses1 and mantillas1 for spring wear4 ,these may be depended upon1 as they are not mere reprints taken from other publications1 but designed and engraved expressly for ,godey4 ,we will furnish patterns of the dresses for #a #ej1 and of the mantillas for #a4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,the ,dairy ,house and ,piggery in this number are from the excellent work on ,rural ,architecture published by ,c4 ,m4 ,saxton1 ,new ,york4 ,we can furnish the work complete1 postage free1 on receipt of #a #be4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,the ,trials of a ,needlewoman continues to increase in interest4 ,our exchanges and private letters pronounce this ,mr4 ,arthur's best story4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,by the way1 for the last ten or fifteen years1 we have considered ,godey's ,fashions unrivalled4 ,no other magazine equals him in this particular4 ,so says the ,illinois ,union1 and so says almost every one of our exchanges4 ,it is useless to enlarge upon this subject4 ,it is conceded4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,the ,germantown ,telegraph1 whose editor was also caught with the imported story--,marrying through ,prudential ,motives--comes out like an honorable gentleman1 as he is1 and thus speaks he3-- ,,justice1 ,,though ,,the ,,heavens ,,fall6--,some two or three weeks ago1 we found in one of our respectable ,new ,york exchange papers an excellent story1 purporting to have been taken from ',la ,belle ,assemble2' entitled ',marrying through ,prudential ,motives1' which was no doubt much admired by our readers2 but the paternity of which belongs to ',godey's ,lady's ,book1' instead of the ,parisian journal1 which1 it appears1 had unhandsomely appropriated the production without any acknowledgment of the original ownership4 ,coming back to us with a ,french godfather1 of course1 it was a thousand times better than the domestic article1 and therefore it 'took' surprisingly4 ,our own apology is1 not that we ever deny our friend ,godey any of the merit that belongs to his elegant and popular magazine1 but simply that the story in question was overlooked at the time of its publication1 in the multiplicity of good things always filling its pages1 and that when it was published in our own columns1 it came under our eye for the first time at the opportune moment4 ,our desire is at all times to do 'justice though the heavens fall2' and to none would we yield it more promptly than the gentlemanly proprietor of the ',lady's ,book4' 99 99 99 99 99 ,,back numbers from ,january can be supplied throughout the year1 as the work is stereotyped4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,white',s ,,bonnet ,,establishment ,,in ,,second ,,above ,,chestnut ,,street4--,mr4 ,white has got into his new building1 and we unhesitatingly pronounce it one of the handsomest fronts in the city4 ,it is of brown stone of the finest quality1 and is now the palace of the longest business street probably in the world4 ,second ,street is about five miles long1 and if one side of the street was placed at the end of the other1 it would make a straight line of ten miles of stores4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,the ,georgia ,times has caught us4 ,we certainly must plead guilty to his charge3-- ,godey is up to the highest notch1 and seems determined that none shall outstrip him4 ,our junior has just given us an idea4 ,oh1 we've got you1 ,uncle ,louis--caught you in a mistake one time6 ,you said there should be no 'difference between your ,january and ,february numbers3' and there is1 for the ,february number is the better6 ,now then1 sir1 ain't you caught8 99 99 99 99 99 ,a ,,proper ,,acknowledgment4--,we find in the ,new ,york journals copies of a correspondence between ,w4 ,c4 ,bryant1 ,gulian ,c4 ,verplank1 ,jonathan ,sturges1 ,f4 ,w4 ,edmonds1 ,a4 ,b4 ,durand1 and other eminent citizens1 as a committee1 and ,abraham ,m4 ,cozzens1 ,esq41 ,president of the ,american ,art ,union1 on the occasion of presenting a service of plate to the latter1 as a testimony on the part of the donors of their appreciation of his long and faithful services to the cause of ,art in the ,united ,states4 ,we can add our own assurance to that of the committee--for circumstances have made us familiar with the fact--that1 for a series of years1 ,mr4 ,cozzens has devoted both time and labor1 at a great sacrifice of his personal interests1 to the promotion of a taste for the ,fine ,arts among his countrymen1 and to the encouragement of native artists1 and we cordially agree with them that his distinguished services render him worthy of this tribute--the tribute being a complete and costly dinner set of massive silver4 ,we may add1 moreover1 that besides his special merits as a patron and promoter of ,art1 ,mr4 ,cozzens is a fine1 frank1 generous1 right-minded1 true-hearted gentleman1 who wins his honors fairly1 and knows how to wear them gracefully4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,burton has produced ,shakspeare's ,midsummer's ,night ,dream in most splendid style at his theatre in ,new ,york1 and ,marshall has brought it out at the ,bowery4 ,opinions seem to differ among the ,new ,york press as to which house has produced it in the best manner4 99 99 99 99 99 ,a ,,happy ,,hit4--,the ,three ,bells1 gratefully dedicated to the noble ,captain ,crighton4 ,a very pretty piece of music1 which everybody ought to purchase4 ,it will keep before them the memory of the greatest captain of the age4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,the ,sewing-,machine published in our ,february number is ,messrs4 ,grover1 ,baker1 ,co4's patent1 whose advertisement will be found on our cover4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,that ,republican man of ,mc,arthur is hard to please4 ,we have not a4 little ,godey to spare4 ,there are five of them1 and we wish there were a dozen4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,french ,,furniture4--,the furniture which is now made in the ateliers of ,paris is unparalleled in magnificence and extravagance4 ,bedroom1 as well as drawing-room furniture1 is laden with sculpturing and ornaments4 ,gilt furniture is much in vogue for drawing-rooms2 the rich brocatelles and damasks produce a beautiful effect in the gilt frames4 ,the superb furniture of the state-rooms of the ,tuileries is of gilt2 when illuminated by a thousand wax lights1 the effect is gorgeous4 ,this style of furniture is only suitable for large reception-rooms4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,the following is dreadfully touching1 and what is more1 it is pointed4 ,it cannot possibly affect any of our subscribers1 however1 for there is not one of them but would scorn the implication of being a delinquent to the ,lady's ,book4 ,we need hardly say that it is an imitation of ,hood's ,song of the ,shirt3-- ,toil1 toil1 toil6 ,as the constant drop on a stone1 ,so this ceaseless1 endless work1 ,wears away body and bone6 ,though the ,poet sputter and write1 ,though the ,orator bully and bawl1 ,if it were not for the ,editor's pen1 ,what were the use of it all8 ,toil1 toil1 toil1 ,christians1 ,mormons1 and ,jews3 ,is there a man on this weary earth ,but grows richer by reading the news8 ,richer1 richer1 richer1 ,as they read it by sunlight and taper8 ,and yet there isn't a soul of them all ,but grudges to pay for his paper6 99 99 99 99 99 ,,the ,,instructive ,,character ,,of ,,the ,,lady',s ,,book4--,this is the point that we wish to urge upon the public2 that every number is full of instruction as well as amusement4 ,several of our exchanges have commented upon this matter4 ,our title would seem to mislead--and why it should1 it is hard to tell4 ,we would not publish a book for a lady1 and pay so poor a compliment to her understanding as to fill it with mere trifling matter4 ,we aim at nobler purposes1 and we challenge an investigation and a comparison with any magazine1 as to which contains the most instructive matter1 either to a lady or gentleman4 ,look at our descriptions of ,factories of various kinds2 our ,model ,cottages2 our receipts upon every subject2 our essays2 our practical instructions to every lady how to cut and make her own dresses2 the various kinds of needlework for ladies2 our accounts of the several gold regions1 ,nineveh1 ,babylon1 c4 ,the editor of the ,ithaca ,chronicle says3 ,we have just received the ,january ,no41 for #ahed1 and can truly say it is more welcome to our table than any other magazine we now receive4 ,the present number contains one hundred pages of reading matter--not flimsy trash--but of such as is instructive to any person who will read it with a desire to gain knowledge4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,young ,,hyson ,,and ,,potatoes4--,the ,stroudsburg ,jeffersonian says3 ,our wife would rather go without her ,young ,hyson at any time 7and she is passionately fond of it too71 than miss the smiles of ,godey2 or a new dress1 rather than to be without his patterns for making it4 ,the ,christian ,advocate of ,missouri expresses his astonishment that we are acquainted with the virtue of the potato3-- ,mr4 ,godey1 at the back of his ,,arm-,,chair1 gives a list of excellent receipts for cooking potatoes4 ,from the nice and superb manner in which he has always gotten out his book for the ladies1 we had no certain evidence that he had much acquaintance with that invaluable esculent1 the potato4 ,it seems1 however1 we were mistaken4 ,success to him4 ,not acquainted with potatoes6 ,why1 my dear sir1 it is the ,a ,b ,c of cooking1 and is the first thing to be learned2 besides1 as a caterer for the ladies1 we are bound to know a little of everything4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,the ,,new ,,manteau ,,de ,,la ,,cour1 required to be worn by the ladies at the ,french court1 is even more unpopular than was anticipated4 ,husbands don't like it on account of the expense1 and wives shrink from the dancing-master's drill1 without which1 the wearers of the costume cannot hope to avoid appearing ridiculous4 ,the ,empress alone has train-bearers2 but other ladies must concentrate all the powers of their mind upon their trains to escape a catastrophe4 ,at the last reception-night there were not more than two hundred ladies present out of eight hundred invited4 ,under these circumstances it is thought impossible to enforce the regulation announced1 that ladies not availing themselves of invitations on ,january the first1 would not be again asked to court during the year4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,very neat and pretty compliment from the ,north ,carolina ,whig and ,advocate3-- ,godey is always prompt1 always welcome1 and always interesting4 ,if we were asked to point out the best number of the ',lady's ,book1' we should reply in the language of ,dr4 ,johnson when asked which of ,shakspeare's plays he most admired8 ',the last ,i read1' the ,doctor answered4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,there has been some pleasantry on the part of the press touching that unfortunate milkmaid in our ,february number being on the wrong side of the cow4 ,our answer is very plain1 and gentlemen should make inquiry before they criticize4 ,the girl was left-handed1 and the cow would not be milked on the other side4 ,she was--that is the cow--a queer creature4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,dedicatory ,,address1 delivered before the members of ,hesperian ,lodge1 upon the opening of their new hall1 by ,anson ,g4 ,chester1 of the ,morning ,express4 ,in as short a notice as our space will permit us to give1 we cannot do justice to the merits of this beautiful address4 ,we could only do so by publishing the whole of it4 ,mr4 ,chester is well known as one of the best poets in this country4 ,his prose is poetic1 and worthy of its distinguished author4 ,we wish also to pay a compliment to the handsome dress in which the pamphlet is presented to the public4 ,messrs4 ,a4 ,m4 ,clapp ,co4 may well be proud of it4 ,the cover is the prettiest piece of type-work we have seen in a long time4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,franklin ,,institute ,,report of the twenty-third exhibition4 ,the address1 by ,george ,harding1 ,esq41 that is given in this number1 is an able production1 and worthy of its author4 ,there is perhaps no similar case on record of a young man1 who has hardly been at the bar for two years1 who has taken so high a stand as ,mr4 ,harding4 ,he is engaged in almost every patent case that is brought before our courts4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,the ,charleston ,weekly ,news says of ,mrs4 ,hale's ,new ,book of ,cookery1 and the ,new ,household ,receipt ,book3-- ,these two works will prove invaluable to housekeepers4 ,mrs4 ,hale has absolutely exhausted her subject4 ,there is nothing in the wide world1 we believe1 appertaining to the 'cuisine1' from the homeliest to the most recherch dishes1 receipts for the preparation of which cannot be found in these volumes4 ,we think that all the ladies who have the direction of 'a home department1' should send a vote of thanks to the author of this ,encyclopdia of what should certainly be ranked among the fine arts4 ,we can furnish one or both4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,we enter our protest against those children's sayings that are now going the rounds of the press4 ,they are horribly blasphemous2 and the whole wit in them seems to be in making a familiar use of ,god's holy name4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,the ,boston ,olive ,branch comes to us in a new dress1 and looks very handsome4 ,it is an excellent paper1 and well conducted4 ,its circulation is very large4 ,mr4 ,norris1 the publisher1 has authority from us to club his paper with the ,lady's ,book4 ,we wish also to say a word of another excellent paper published in another part of our ,union1 the ,georgia ,citizen1 ,l4 ,f4 ,w4 ,andrews1 editor and publisher4 ,there is no paper we open with more satisfaction4 ,it is sprightly and solid4 ,mr4 ,andrews1 its editor1 is a man of sterling sense and honesty4 ,we know him well1 and esteem him highly4 ,our merchants would do well to select it for their advertising patronage4 ,the price is #b #ej a year4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,dorsey',s ,,dispatch1 at ,wetumpka1 ,ala41 is another of our excellent exchanges4 ,mr4 ,d4 formerly edited the ,state ,guard1 which is now the ,dispatch4 ,dorsey is as well known in ,alabama as we are in ,pennsylvania1 and the reason is that he publishes an excellent paper4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,rapp',s ,,pens4--,if those persons ordering these pens will please say whether the order is their own writing1 we shall be the better able to tell what kind of a pen will best suit them4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,much obliged to ,a4 ,t4 ,t41 and publish her acrostic3-- ,,acrostic4 ,god speed thee1 beauteous book1 in thy pathway to fame6 ,oh1 may thy life be long1 and cherished be thy name6 ,deem not my humble song one-half thy charms could tell1 ,e'en if ,i were a bard of some romantic dell2 ,yet can ,i sing thy praise in my own humble way3 ,sweet friend of lonely days1 despise not thou my lay4 ,long may thy coming be welcomed by young and old1 ,as1 gathering round the hearth1 they do thy leaves unfold6 ,dressed in thy wintry garb1 or in thy summer sheen1 ,yet beautiful art thou1 our literary queen4 ,bright are the smiles thou bring'st unto the humble cot1 ,our lonely hours to cheer1 to ease our humble lot4 ,oh1 may'st thou ever be admired as thou art now1 ,kind wishes thee attend1 and laurel wreath thy brow6 ,,theresa4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,bedchamber ,,of ,,the ,,empress ,,eugenie ,,of ,,france4--,the upholsterers have furnished it a magnificent sky-blue silk tenture along the walls1 which is fixed by gold frames1 in the style of ,louis ,,xv4 ,the arm-chairs1 chairs1 sofas1 and lounges are of the same style and like silk4 ,as for the bed1 all made with gilt carved wood1 it is covered with a couvre pieds of ,maline lace1 and the curtains1 of blue silk and lace1 are hung down all around it1 in the same manner as the old beds of our grandmothers4 ,the carpet is also of a blue color1 and so thick that one would take it for a bear skin4 ,it was made at ,aubusson1 expressly for the place in which it lays4 ,the ceiling of the room was painted by ,mr4 ,bresson1 and it represents a group of geniuses throwing flowers from rich baskets4 ,the painting is so well done that no one could believe that the figures are not alive4 ,in short1 this magnificent bedroom is the ne plus ultra of riches and elegance4 ,well1 this is all well enough in its way2 but who would not prefer being plain ,mrs4 ,smith or ,mrs4 ,godey1 or any other ,mrs4--never being certain1 for a moment1 when your husband goes out1 that he is not to be shot at4 ,even if you want to go and pay a friendly visit only one or two squares off1 you must wait until six horses are harnessed up1 a body of cavalry dressed and mounted1 the streets cleared of the crowd1 and a host of other little etceteras4 ,dear me1 we should soon be tired of royalty6 99 99 99 99 99 ,,female ,,shoemakers4--,it is stated that in ,washington some of the most respectable women1 married and single1 engage in the shoemaking business as an agreeable pastime1 as well as from motives of economy4 ,the gaiters which cost us three dollars at the stores1 writes a female1 cost us one day's labor and sixty cents for the best material bought at retail4 ,one of us has made five pair of ladies' gaiters in a week4 ,many of us make shoes for ourselves and children1 without neglecting other household duties4 ,on ,capitol ,hill1 alone1 there are thirty ladies thus employed1 and about two hundred in the city4 ,we find it very easy to make two pair of children's shoes in a day1 and they cost here one dollar and twenty-five cents a pair4 ,we understand that many ladies in this city stitch and prepare their own gaiter boots1 and have them made up by the shoemaker4 ,others again find out the journeymen and employ them4 ,we understand that at least one to one and a half dollars are thus saved on one pair of boots4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,punch--than whom there is no greater satirist upon women--says3-- ,a ,,living ,,superiority4--,woman has this great advantage over man--she proves her will in her lifetime1 whilst man is obliged to wait till he is dead4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,new ,,york ,,spirit ,,of ,,the ,,times4--,this excellent paper1 under the editorial supervision of ,w4 ,t4 ,porter1 ,esq41 continues to flourish and take the lead as a paper of genius1 wit1 and humor4 ,it is one of the most successful and popular publications of the day4 99 99 99 99 99 ,a ,,compliment ,,to ,,two4--,i inclose you the amount necessary to pay for ',godey's ,lady's ,book' and ',arthur's ,home ,gazette1' which ,i have taken and paid for since the first number was issued4 ,the ',lady's ,book' ,i have taken for fourteen years4 ,i would not be without either of them for twice the amount of the subscription4 ,s4 ,a4 ,m4 ,it is a pleasure to record such instances as the above4 ,this is one of our long-continued subscribers4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,precocity4--,a young lady1 twelve years of age1 has sent us a club of subscribers to the ,lady's ,book4 ,she will make a good wife some day for one of the unfortunate bachelor editors who loan their ,lady's ,books4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,tears ,,and ,,laughter4--,god made both tears and laughter1 and both for kind purposes2 for as laughter enables mirth and surprise to breathe freely1 so tears enable sorrow to vent itself patiently4 ,tears hinder sorrow from becoming despair and madness1 and laughter is one of the very privileges of reason1 being confined to the human species4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,an old maid1 who confesses to thirty-five1 says she doesn't believe--not a bit of it--in the nonsense that men talk about breaking their hearts6 ,it's her firm belief that there never was a man yet who broke his heart1 or1 if there was1 that he broke it as a lobster breaks one of his claws1 another one shooting up very gradually in its place4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,little ,,children4--,no man can tell1 wrote ,jeremy ,taylor1 but he who loves his children1 how many delicious accents make a man's heart dance in the pretty conversation of those dear pledges4 ,their childishness1 their stammering1 their little anger1 their innocence1 their imperfections1 their necessities1 are so many little emanations of joy and comfort1 to him that delights in their persons and society4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,we are receiving repeated applications from our subscribers to publish in some number this year the celebrated engraving of ,,christ ,,healing ,,the ,,sick1 from ,benjamin ,west's great picture4 ,if we thought it would be agreeable to the mass of our subscribers1 we would do so with pleasure1 but we don't like the idea of publishing one engraving twice1 it looks as if we were short of engravings4 ,shall we republish it for the benefit of the new subscribers this year8 ,what say you8 99 99 99 99 99 ,,the spring patterns in this number1 from the establishment of ,mrs4 ,suplee1 must command general attention4 ,they are the style for the present season4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,railroad ,,polka and the ,reading ,polka1 the first dedicated to ,r4 ,l4 ,stevens1 ,president of the ,camden and ,amboy ,railroad1 and the other to the ,rev4 ,w4 ,a4 ,good1 ,a4 ,m4 ,the ,grave of my ,mother1 and ,mary's ,beauty1 two songs4 ,these last have the prettiest colored vignettes we have ever seen printed on music sheets4 ,j4 ,w4 ,gougler1 of ,reading1 is the publisher of the above1 and our city music publishers must look to their laurels1 for such attractive music is seldom found4 ,j4 ,g4 ,gould1 ,swaim's ,buildings1 has all the above for sale4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,the ,keeseville ,gazette is responsible for the following3-- ,when is ',godey's ,lady's ,book' as great a source of self-abnegation as a certain observance in the ,catholic ,church8 ,when it is ,lent4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,how ,,to ,,make ,a ,,dress4--,by the time this number reaches our subscribers1 the second edition of this work will be ready4 ,we have been obliged to delay numerous orders3 but we shall now be ready with a very large edition to supply all who may order the work4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,the editor of ,moore's ,western ,lady's ,book says3-- ,we have heard it said that ,godey is a bachelor1 but ,,we don't believe it1 for we cannot see how he can remain such in his present business4 ,how is it1 ,godey8 ,suppose you 'let the cat out4' ,the ,western ladies are very ,,curious to know4 ,yes1 my dear madam1 we are married4 ,sorry to disappoint the ,western ladies2 but we have a son fast growing up to man's estate4 ,he will be in the market soon1 and is almost as good-looking as his father4 ,it was to him that the following lines were addressed3-- ,i believe you isn't married1 ,ned8 ,you doesn't know the sweets ,vat waits upon that happy state ,ven man and vomen meets4 ,the buzum's warm emotions1 ,ned1 ,the drops within the eyes2 ,the nice vashed things1 the darned stockings1 ,and all them tender ties4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,very brief1 expressive1 and complimentary3-- ,p4 ,s4 ,when ----'s subscription runs out1 don't stop her ',book4' ,next to myself and her sister1 loves she ',godey's ,lady's ,book4' 99 99 99 99 99 ,,worthy ,,of ,,being ,,imitated4--,a subscriber in ,maryland1 who was in arrears1 sent on his subscription at the full price1 #d a year1 and added the interest4 ,another1 a lady1 sent us #d a year for three years1 and paid her subscription to #ahee4 ,another1 a gentleman1 remitted his subscription in full up to #ahfj4 ,we fancy that there are few other publications can give such instances as these4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,something ,,about ,,cooks4--,we heard an anecdote about the new cook that is worth telling4 ,betty1 says the mistress1 ,i want those shells warmed for dinner--meaning the pastry shells4 ,yis1 ma'am4 ,and1 sure enough1 ,betty brought up the shells after dinner--a large tray full of them4 ,why1 what have you there1 ,betty8 ,the shells1 ma'am2 and they are quite hot4 ,shells6 exclaimed the indignant mistress4 ,why1 those are oyster shells6 ,sure they are1 ma'am2 and1 as you had oysters last night1 and ,i didn't see any other shells1 ,i thought it was these you wanted warmed4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,we extract the following from ,mrs4 ,partington's ,carpet ,bag of ,fun3-- ,a ,,string ,,of ,,epitaphs4 ,,weep1 stranger1 for a father spilled ,from a stage-coach1 and thereby killed3 ,his name was ,john ,sykes1 a maker of sassengers1 ,slain with three other outside passengers4 ,here lies the body of ,james ,monk1 ,suddenly drowned when he was drunk2 ,he paid his score1 and cheated no man-- ,de mortius nil nisi bonum4 ,his jacet1 ,tom and ,titus ,tressel1 ,lost by the swamping of their vessel4 ,a leak she sprung and settled fast2 ,payment of ,nature's debt was asked1 ,and it was paid--the debtors failing ,to give security by bailing4 ,full many a storm they nobly braved1 ,and tho' they're lost1 we hope they're saved4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,mrs4 ,,partington ,,on ,,funny-,,graphy4--,and ,ike read1 ,mr4 ,wightman submitted a detailed report on the subject of introducing phonotopy1 as a study1 into the primary schools4 ,stop1 ,isaac1 said ,mrs4 ,partington1 threateningly holding up her finger1 and slightly frowning1 don't make light of anything serious that you are reading--it isn't pretty4 ,but it's so in the paper1 aunt1 said ,ike2 and he again read the sentence1 emphasizing the word phonotopy prodigiously4 ,mrs4 ,partington adjusted her specs1 and looked at it1 letter by letter1 to be assured4 ,well1 if ever6 said she1 holding up her hands2 ,i declare ,i don't know what they're gwine to do next4 ,they're always organizing or piano-fortin the schools1 and now this funny topy comes along to make 'em laugh1 ,i s'pose1 when they ought to be getting their lessons4 ,sich levity is offal4 ,they do have sich queer notions1 nowadays6 ,i can't make head nor tail of 'em1 ,i'm shore4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,concert ,,hall1 ,,philadelphia4--,we beg leave to recommend this splendid room to all who wish to occupy it for exhibitions of any kind1 concerts1 balls1 lectures1 c4 ,mr4 ,andrews1 the lessee1 is very attentive1 and he is ably seconded by his right-hand man1 ,mr4 ,hood4 ,in fact1 politeness to visitors by all concerned seems to be the ruling feature4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,the ,,eyelashes ,,and ,,eyebrows4--,in ,circassia1 ,georgia1 ,persia1 and ,india1 one of the mother's earliest cares is to promote the growth of her children's eyelashes by tipping and removing the fine gossamer-like points with a pair of scissors1 when they are asleep4 ,by repeating this every month or six weeks1 they become1 in time1 long1 close1 finely curved1 and of a silky gloss4 ,the practice never fails to produce the desired effect1 and it is particularly useful when1 owing to inflammation of the eyes1 the lashes have been thinned or stunted4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,la ,,pierre ,,house4--,the ,boston ,olive ,branch says of this magnificent hotel3-- ',la ,pierre ,house4' ,such is the name of a new hotel just opened in ,philadelphia1 of the most magnificent character4 ,as described in the ',inquirer1' we should deem it to surpass1 in finish and in splendor of furnishment1 the regal glory of a palace4 ,hear how it describes one of the suite of rooms3 ',it consists of a parlor and chamber1 is extremely beautiful1 and furnished in the very richest possible manner1 yet with a quietness and repose of taste that are very pleasing and striking4 ,the rooms are separated by a rose-colored and white brocatelle curtain1 intertwined with a graceful drapery of lace1 suspended from a golden arch4 ,the bedstead is of the richest carving in rosewood1 exquisitely adorned with rose and lace drapery1 pendent from an ornamental canopy above4' 99 99 99 99 99 ,a ,,circumstance of this kind could only happen in ,paris1 and we somewhat doubt that it ever occurred there3-- ,on ,thursday1 a beautiful equipage was seen in the ,champs ,elyses1 containing an elderly gentleman and a lady2 the latter1 though her face was covered with a thick veil1 appeared to be young and handsome4 ,the gentleman1 an ,englishman1 ,sir ,edward ----1 is said to be one of the oddest and most eccentric fellows ever produced by prolific ,albion4 ,a talented pianist was lately summoned to his house4 ,his services were required for an evening party1 and a generous recompense was promised4 ,the musician came early1 and he was introduced into a spacious drawing-room1 where many persons were already assembled4 ,this apartment1 which was magnificently furnished1 was but dimly lighted by two lamps1 and scarcely heated at all--the splendid fireplace1 adorned with costly bronzes1 containing only a wretched fire1 which cast a sepulchral glare over the rich furniture4 ,the host went to meet the musician as soon as the footman had announced him1 and received him in a most flattering manner4 ,a lady1 most sumptuously and elegantly dressed1 was seated on a sofa4 ,allow me to introduce you to ,lady ----1 my wife6 said ,sir ,edward4 ,the musician made a profound obeisance1 which the lady1 nevertheless1 took no notice of2 she sat straight and immovable1 and fixed an unearthly gaze on the new-comer4 ,there was another lady in an arm-chair1 leaning with her elbow on a round table1 and apparently reading a book with the greatest attention4 ,my sister1 ,miss ,emily1 said ,sir ,edward4 ,mademoiselle1 said the pianist1 with a bow2 but in vain did he repeat the word and the salutation to call the attention of the young lady2 she neither moved nor raised her eyes from the book4 ,she has always loved reading very much1 said ,sir ,edward4 ,rather more than politeness would warrant6 thought the artiste to himself4 ,the remainder of the company consisted of five or six gentlemen4 ,the artiste observed1 with astonishment1 that all these persons affected a strange immobility1 just like the lady and sister of ,sir ,edward4 ,will you take a seat at the piano8 said ,sir ,edward4 ,what do you wish me to play8 asked the musician4 ,shall ,i select the pieces1 or will madam have the kindness to point out some favorite morceau8 ,miladi did not reply1 and ,sir ,edward1 answering for her1 said1 ,my wife and ,i have the same taste in music1 so play a piece of ,mozart or ,listz1 and one of your own compositions4 ,i will begin my own1 therefore2 for after those masters mine would not be acceptable6 modestly replied the artiste4 ,the sofa on which ,miladi was seated was very near the piano1 and placed in such a manner that the artiste had the lady opposite him4 ,he looked at her while he was playing1 in order to read in her countenance the impression which the music might produce on her4 ,the handkerchief which ,miladi held in her hand1 having1 after a while1 fallen to the ground1 the musician rushed forward to pick it up3 and1 in doing so1 could not refrain from uttering an exclamation of surprise4 ,what is the matter with you8 said ,sir ,edward4 ,oh1 sir1 the lady--the pretended lady6 ,alas6 interrupted ,sir ,edward1 ,i only possess the image of an adored wife6 ,and it was then explained that the worthy baronet1 being inconsolable for the loss of certain friends1 always travelled about with their image in wax6 ,a party of living friends afterwards assembled1 and the evening was spent very agreeably4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,housekeepers1 look at this2 and1 before you engage a cook1 inquire if she has a husband4 ,this is an illustration of that that said husband going to the paternal abode1 with something to feed the young ravens1 after having paid a visit to his wife4 ,it is simply the husband of your cook leaving your house4 ,illustration 99 99 99 99 99 ,,sound ,,reasoning--and1 as such1 will be recognized by those who have been humbugged by the ,brown and other lecturers who have honored us with visits from abroad3-- ,lectures vs4 ,books4--,why a man should put on his overcoat and comforter1 and a woman wrap herself in furs1 mufflers1 cloaks1 and shawls1 and the children bundle up1 to face a strong nor'-wester1 and go out to hear a lecture of dubious excellence1 or a concert that1 after all1 is little better than a bore1 while at home a goodly array of philosophers and poets1 story-tellers and grand advisers1 stand waiting to offer their services2 yet not one of which looks sad if his neighbor is preferred before him--this we would wonder at1 if it were not everybody's habit4 ,if a man has weak eyes1 or his thoughts find no anchorage1 and if he cannot afford the luxury of a private reader1 let him visit the public lecture-room1 and he can get much good from it4 ,or if1 for his sins1 he has lost his home1 let him go to the concert and mortify himself4 ,but we who have homes cannot afford1 first1 the sacrifice of our home comforts1 second1 the loss of precious winter evening hours1 and third1 the price of tickets1 unless we know of a surety that they will admit us to choice performances4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,singular ,,inscriptions ,,on ,,tombstones4 ,on the ,duke of ,marlborough3-- ,here lies ,john1 ,duke of ,marlborough ,who run the ,french through and through2 ,he married ,sarah ,jennings1 spinster1 ,died at ,windsor1 and was buried at ,westminster4 ,in ,st4 ,bennet's1 ,paul's ,wharf1 ,london3-- ,here lies one ,more1 and no more than he3 ,one ,more and no ,more6 how can that be8 ,why one ,more1 and no more1 may well lie here alone1 ,but here lies one ,more1 and that is more than one6 ,from ,broom ,churchyard1 ,england3-- ,god be praised6 ,here is ,mr4 ,dudley1 senior1 ,and ,jane1 his wife1 also1 ,who1 while living1 was his superior2 ,but see what death can do4 ,two of his sons also lie here1 ,one ,walter1 t'other ,joe2 ,they all of them went in the year #aeaj below4 ,in ,st4 ,michael's ,churchyard1 ,aberystwith1 is another1 to the memory of ,david ,davies1 blacksmith3-- ,my sledge and hammer lay reclined1 ,my bellows1 too1 have lost their wind1 ,my fire's extinct1 my forge decayed1 ,and in the dust my vice is laid2 ,my coal is spent1 my iron gone1 ,my nails are driven--my work is done4 ,the following epitaph is transcribed from one of the local histories of ,cornwall3-- ,father and mother and ,i1 ,lies buried here as under1 ,father and mother lies buried here1 ,and ,i lies buried yonder4 ,from ,cunwallow ,churchyard1 ,cornwall4 ,it may be read either backwards or forwards4 ,shall we all die8 ,we shall die all1 ,all die shall we-- ,die all we shall4 ,in ,st4 ,germain's1 in the ,isle of ,man1 the following very singular epitaph is yet to be seen1 in ,latin1 over the tomb of ,dr4 ,samuel ,rutter1 formerly prebendary of ,litchfield1 and afterwards ,bishop of ,sodor and ,man3-- ,in this house1 ,which ,i have borrowed from ,my brethren1 the worms1 lie ,i1 ,,samuel1 by ,divine permission1 ,bishop of this island4 ,stop1 reader2 ,behold and smile at ,,the ,,palace ,,of ,a ,,bishop6 who died ,may #cj1 in the year #afec4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,some ,,few ,,instructions ,,in ,,crochet-,,work1 which may be of use to some of our lady readers4 ,in the first instance1 the crochet-hook should be very smooth1 made of fine steel1 and fixed in handles4 ,the stitches used are chain1 slip1 single1 double1 treble1 and long treble crochet4 ,chain ,stitch 7ch7 is made by forming a loop on the thread1 then inserting the hook1 and drawing the thread through the loop already made4 ,continue this1 forming a succession of stitches4 ,slip ,stitch is made by drawing a thread at once through any given stitch and the loop on the needle4 ,single ,crochet 7sc74 ,having a loop on the needle1 insert the hook in a stitch and draw the thread through in a loop4 ,you have then two on the hook2 draw the thread through both at once4 ,double ,crochet 7dc74 ,twist the thread round the hook before inserting it in the stitch1 through which you draw the thread in a loop4 ,there will then be three loops on the hook2 draw the thread through two1 and then through the one just formed and the remaining one4 ,treble ,crochet 7tc71 and ,long ,treble 7long tc71 are worked in the same way2 in treble the thread is put twice1 in long treble three times1 before inserting it into the stitch4 ,square ,crochet is also sometimes used4 ,the squares are either open or close4 ,an open square consists of one dc1 two ch1 missing two on the line beneath before making the next stitch4 ,a close square has three successive dc4 ,thus any given number of close squares1 followed by an open1 will have so many times three dc1 and one over2 therefore any foundation for square crochet must have a number that can be divided by three1 having one over4 ,to contract an ,edge4 ,this may be done in dc1 tc1 or long tc4 ,twist the thread round the hook as often as required1 insert it in the work1 and half do a stitch4 ,instead of finishing it1 twist the thread round again1 until the same number of loops are on1 and work a stitch entirely2 so that1 for two stitches1 there is only one head4 ,to join on a ,thread4 ,in joining1 finish the stitch by drawing the new thread through1 leaving two inches for both ends1 which must be held in4 ,to use several ,colors4 ,this is done in single crochet4 ,hold the threads not in use on the edge of the work1 and work them in4 ,change the color by beginning the stitch in the old color and finishing it with the new1 continuing the work with the latter holding in the old4 ,if only one stitch is wanted in the new color1 finish one stitch and begin the next with it2 then change4 ,to ,purl in ,netting4 ,bring your thread forward1 and take up the inner side of the stitch1 putting your needle downwards in the stitch instead of upwards1 as you do in plain knitting4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,philadelphia ,,agency4 ,w4 ,j4 ,m4--,cannot send the ,lady's ,book previous to ,january1 #ahea4 ,wish we had the eight years to send you4 ,clara ,s4--,will find explanations of the abbreviations of crochet terms in this number2 also ,march number1 page #bgi2 and in our ,may number we will give further directions4 ,l4 ,m4 ,h4--,sent you patterns by mail on #ahth4 ,miss ,a4 ,r4--,sent your hair bracelet on the #ahth4 ,miss ,p4 ,s4--,sent your ring and thimble on the #aith4 ,o4 ,v4 ,h4--,sent your gold pen on #aith4 ,b4 ,a4 ,c4--,sent the cap patterns by mail on #aith4 ,m4 ,p4 ,r4 commits the common error of not dating letter nor giving place of residence4 ,the postmark1 like every other postmark1 is illegible4 ,one-half the letters we receive have the same omissions1 giving us a great deal of trouble4 ,we can supply the numbers2 but how can we tell what the postage will be when we don't know their destination8 ,the price of the numbers will be #be cents4 ,the communication was received too late for ,march number4 ,miss ,e4 ,p4--,sent your patterns on #bjth4 ,graduate is informed that he had better advertise in the papers here for the situation he wants4 ,there is no other way of procuring it4 ,we have used the masculine in answering this1 as ,graduate omits letting us know whether we are addressed by a male or female4 ,if a female1 why not write the first name in full1 or prefix ,mrs4 or ,miss8 ,t4 ,g4 ,b4--,sent ,rigolet by ,adams's ,express on #bhth4 ,c4 ,c4 ,d4--,sent ,odd ,fellows' ,regalia by ,adams ,co4 ,miss ,e4 ,c4 ,g4--,sent cotton on the #cjth4 ,j4 ,w4 ,k4--,sent jet cross on #cjth4 ,miss ,c4 ,r4 ,l4--,sent apron pattern on the #b;d4 ,m4 ,r4 ,e4 ,p4--,sent jacquette pattern #dth4 ,one of our subscribers wrote us upon the subject of cutting dresses by our patterns4 ,we have mislaid the letter4 ,will she please write again8 ,miss ,t4--,sent cotton by mail4 ,the postage will be expensive2 but cheaper than express4 ,a4 ,s4 ,c4--,sent dress on the #gth by mail4 ,miss ,d4 ,h4--,sent patterns by mail on #gth4 ,helen4--,boots to button at the side for winter wear are very fashionable here4 ,bronze or blue gaiter boots #c1 ,french kid slippers #a #ej4 ,never heard of such a mono-mania2 make him wear girl's clothing until he reforms4 ,s4 ,s4 ,s4--,sent goods by mail 7the cheapest way7 on the #gth4 ,t4 ,s4 ,h4--,sent ,rapp's pen by mail on the #adth4 ,miss ,m4 ,f4--,sent breastpin by mail on #adth4 ,mrs4 ,j4 ,a4 ,c4--,wrote and sent you circular of prices of ,boardman ,gray's pianos4 ,m4 ,s4 ,l4--,sent jewelry by mail on #ahth4 ,bed ,quilts4--,marseilles are almost invariably used now4 ,of course1 they are fashionable4 ,j4 ,s4 ,b4--,too late for ,march number4 ,cannot furnish ,lady's ,book from the commencement4 ,we have only as far back as #ahea4 ,mrs4 ,a4 ,v4 ,du ,b4--,sent patterns by mail on #ahth4 ,no orders attended to unless the cash accompanies them4 ,all persons requiring answers by mail must send a post-office stamp4 ,the ,borrower's ,department4 ,the wicked borroweth and payeth not again4 ,,the ,pennsylvania ,trojan says3 ,the present is decidedly the best number1 in point of illustrations1 reading matter1 paper1 and typography1 ever issued1 and every way worthy of the wide-spread reputation of ,l4 ,a4 ,godey4 ,we cannot lend this number1 to show it to our friends1 for ,mrs4 ,m4 has taken charge of it1 and is copying some very pretty patterns of embroidery from it4 ,however1 she will take pleasure in displaying its beauties to you4 ,sent you a duplicate of that prospectus sheet1 friend ,trojan4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,good4--,a letter from a ,ky4 editor3 ,i have about one dozen ,,borrowing subscribers1 who all like your ',book' remarkably well1 ,i presume1 from their eagerness to get hold of it4 ,i have lost one or two of these1 however1 as they have sent on and subscribed for themselves4 ,don't lend1 and we shall have the remainder of them soon4 99 99 99 99 99 ,a letter from a lady in ,new ,york ,state3-- ,,sir3 ,i have endeavored to be as punctual as possible in making up my club for #ahed4 ,the ',lady's ,book1' with its many charms1 has become very necessary to our happiness4 ,i am gratified that there are a few ladies among us who are sufficiently endowed with a sense of the beautiful and interesting to appreciate its worth4 ,one of its admirable traits is that it bears acquaintance well4 ,that race of beings who borrow everything they read is not extinct in this vicinity4 ,but that habit1 like that of drinking ardent spirits1 is growing less1 as decent people are ashamed to practise it4 99 99 99 99 99 ,no loss but what falls on my head4 ,the ,advocate1 ,stamford1 says3 ,by the way1 if the individual who so unceremoniously borrowed the ,august number will be kind enough to return it1 we shall be saved the necessity of troubling ,mr4 ,godey for a duplicate4 ,of course1 we had to send it4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,one of our lady subscribers takes two copies of the ,lady's ,book1 so that she can have one to lend4 ,hard case2 but it is the only way1 she says1 that she can secure a copy for her own perusal4 ,we would suggest to her to slip in the copy proposals for a club of six4 ,the price to each one would only be #a #fg for a year's subscription4 ,enigmas4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,answers ,,to ,,enigmas ,,in ,,march ,,number4 #i4 ,mist4 #aj4 ,the letter ,g4 #aa4 ,a windmill4 #ab4 ,faith1 ,hope1 ,charity4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,enigmas4 #ac4 ,,the treasure that ,i render you ,surpasses any mine of gold2 ',tis clear my sterling value1 too1 ,is far too precious to be sold4 ,my current stock your wants supplies1 ,your draughts on me ,i liquidate1 ,relieving your necessities1 ,and keeping solvent your estate4 ,in my transactions1 though ,i'm deep1 ,still truth is e'er ascribed to me2 ,and well continually ,i keep ,with folks who use me prudently4 ,in banks1 ,i never do intend ,my floating capital to trust2 ,on firmer footing ,i depend1 ,and what ,i am would you be--just4 #ad4 ,i',m able1 by the aid of tea1 ,a banquet to support2 ,and when ,i'm following the sea1 ,retain my ship in port3 ,but when effaced1 then must ,i be ,fictitious in report4 #ae4 ,i',m good for nothing1 save when kept1 ,as many a soul can tell2 ,and should exist conceal'd1 except ',gainst honor ,i rebel4 ,the happiness of many a heart ,will oft depend on me2 ,its ease1 alas6 will oft depart1 ,whene'er ,i cease to be4 ,receipts1 c4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,cheap ,,contrivance ,,for ,,filtering4--,a very cheap and good contrivance for filtering is to take a large garden flower-pot1 and lay in the bottom a piece of sponge1 so as to cover the hole4 ,upon this put a few smooth1 clean pebbles1 to keep the sponge in its place1 and fill up the pot1 to within two or three inches of the brim1 with a mixture of one part of powdered charcoal to two parts of fine sharp sand4 ,then cover the top of the pot with a piece of clean white flannel1 tied tightly round the rim with a twine1 but so as to sink or sway down in the centre4 ,set the flower-pot in a pan or tub1 and pour the water into the flannel1 letting it filter through the charcoal1 c42 and1 by the time it has passed through the sponge1 and come out at the bottom1 it will be clear4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,to ,,cleanse ,a ,,teakettle ,,from ,,fur4--,heat the kettle rapidly over a fire of shavings1 having previously made it quite dry4 ,the expansion will separate the fur from the metal1 and it may then be easily removed4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,to ,,remove ,,stains ,,of ,,acids1 ,c4--,stains caused by acids may be removed by tying some pearlash up in the stained part2 scrape some soap in soft cold water1 and boil the linen till the stain is gone4 ,many stains may be removed by dipping the linen in some sour buttermilk1 and drying it in a hot sun1 washing it afterwards in cold water4 ,it may be found necessary to repeat this once or twice4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,to ,,take ,,out ,,ironmould4--,wet the ironmould with water1 and then lay the linen on a hot water-plate and put on the part a little essential salt of lemons4 ,when it becomes dry1 wet it again1 and renew the process1 being particular that the plate is boiling hot4 ,dip the linen into a good deal of water1 and wash it as soon as the stain is removed1 to prevent any damage from the acid4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,to ,,preserve ,,steel ,,pens4--,metallic pens may be preserved from rusting by throwing into the bottle containing the ink a few nails1 or broken pieces of steel pens1 if not varnished4 ,the corrosive action of the acid which the ink contains is expended on the iron so introduced1 and will not therefore affect the pen4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,french ,,polish4--,to one pint of spirits of wine add a quarter of an ounce of gum copal1 a quarter of an ounce of gum arabic1 and one ounce of shellac4 ,let your gums be well bruised1 and sifted through a piece of muslin4 ,put the spirits and the gums together in a vessel that can be safely corked2 place them near a warm stove1 and frequently shake them4 ,in two or three days they will be dissolved2 strain it through a piece of muslin1 and keep it tightly corked for use4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,domestic ,,receipts4 ,,custards1 ,,creams1 ,,jellies1 ,,and ,,blanc ,,mange4 ,fourth article4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,charlotte ,,russe4--,line the bottom of a plain round mould with ,savoy biscuits1 placing them close together in a star or some device2 line the sides1 placing the biscuits edgewise1 to make them form a compact wall2 put the mould upon ice2 have ready a ,crme au ,marasquin1 adding a glass of brandy4 ,fill the mould as it stands on the ice1 and leave it till the time of serving1 when turn it over upon the dish and take off the mould4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,charlotte ,,russe4 ,an easy way4--,mix with the yolks of four eggs a quarter of a pound of sugar pounded fine1 and add to this half a pint of new milk4 ,put it over the fire till it begins to thicken like custard1 but do not let it boil2 then add half a pint of very stiff calves-foot jelly4 ,strain it through a napkin2 put in a pan placed on ice1 a pint of very rich cream1 flavored or not1 as you like1 and whip it until it looks like float2 pour the cream into another dish1 and put the custard in the pan on the ice2 stir it on the ice with a paddle until it becomes thick like jelly2 then add the cream very lightly4 ,the mixture should look like light sponge-cake before it is baked4 ,a round tin pan must be prepared with sponge-cake1 called ladies' fingers1 placed around and at the bottom very evenly and closely2 pour the charlotte in it1 and place it on the ice till wanted4 ,when wanted1 put a round dish or plate on it1 and turn it out4 ,the bottom will then be at the top--and no cake at the bottom4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,cream ,,hasty4--,take a gallon of milk from the cow1 set it on the fire1 and when it begins to rise take it off the fire1 skim off all the cream and put it on a plate1 then set the skillet on the fire again and repeat the skimming till your plate is full of cream2 put to it some orange flower and sugar1 and serve it4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,cream ,,au ,,naturel4--,take some thin cream1 mind and let it be fresh1 and put it in a bowl on ice to cool2 add to it powdered sugar1 and serve it4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,cream1 ,,to ,,keep4--,cream already skimmed may be kept twenty-four hours1 if scalded without sugar2 and1 by adding to it as much powdered lump sugar as will make it sweet1 it will keep good two days in a cool place4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,curds ,,and ,,cream4--,with about half a tablespoonful of rennet1 turn two quarts of milk just from the cow2 drain off the whey1 and fill a mould with the curd2 when it has stood an hour or two1 turn it out4 ,strew colored comfits over it1 sweeten some cream1 mix grated nutmeg with it1 and pour it round the curd4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,curds ,,and ,,cream1 ,,as ,,in ,,scotland4--,put two quarts of new milk into the dish in which it is to be served1 and turn it with a teaspoonful of rennet2 when the curd has come1 serve it with the cream in a separate dish4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,naples ,,curd4--,put into a quart of new milk a stick of cinnamon1 boil it a few minutes1 take out the cinnamon1 and stir in eight well-beaten eggs and a tablespoonful of white wine2 when it boils again1 strain it through a sieve2 beat the curd in a basin1 together with about half an ounce of butter1 two tablespoonfuls of orange-flower water1 and pounded sugar sufficient to sweeten it4 ,put it into a mould for two hours before it is sent to table4 ,white wine1 sugar1 and cream may be mixed together and poured round the curd1 or it may be served in a sauce tureen4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,the ,,sick ,,room ,,and ,,nursery4 ,,cure ,,for ,,squinting4--,squinting frequently arises from the unequal strength of the eyes1 the weaker eye being turned away from the object1 to avoid the fatigue of exertion4 ,cases of squinting of long standing have often been cured by covering the stronger eye1 and thereby compelling the weaker one to exertion4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,scratches4--,trifling as scratches often seem1 they ought never to be neglected1 but should be covered and protected1 and kept clean and dry until they have completely healed4 ,if there is the least appearance of inflammation1 no time should be lost in applying a large bread and water poultice1 or hot flannels repeatedly applied1 or even leeches in good numbers may be put on at some distance from each other4 ,,centre-,,table ,,gossip4 ,,the ,,household4 ,,it is a long time ago since we rejoiced in the possession of a new spelling-book1 with a bright blue board cover 7so liable to get the corners chipped off71 and learned from its fascinating pages that ever-to-be-remembered lesson for the household-- ,whatever brawls disturb the street1 ,there should be peace at home4 ,what else of profit we gleaned from its double-columned pages1 our readers1 or perhaps our printers1 are the best judges2 but the poetic bit of family government1 though faded with years1 comes out now and then feebly in remembrance1 as sympathetic inks brighten by firelight4 ,it is at present recalled by a subject suggestive for this month's chat1 the duties of an elder daughter at home1 or1 as we would have it read1 of daughters at home4 ,the mother of a large family has had demands on her time1 health1 and spirits in their infancy1 which they cannot understand until they come to be situated in like manner1 but certain it is1 and as the daughters grew up around her1 she naturally looks to them to aid her in the cares and responsibilities of the home4 ,of course1 to all well-ordered governments there must be one head1 the centre of all action2 but inferior officers can ofttimes take the whole burden of petty detail4 ,the silver1 the mending1 the wash1 must be seen to1 and here it might be a daughter's pleasant duty to see her mother's instructions faithfully obeyed4 ,how much better this1 than adding to the general discomfort and disorderly careless habits1 and inconsideration or rudeness to the servants4 ,then as regards her brothers--the daughter of the household has much to think of3 to be considerate for their comfort1 to respect their feelings1 to care for their amusement1 to enter into their plans and pursuits4 ,how many a brother is driven to seek idle1 expensive1 and too often vicious company from the lack of such sympathy at home6 ,and yet one so often hears--brothers are so troublesome--or1 we can't practice just to play for a brother--or1 the boys have their company1 and ,i have mine4 ,the taste may not always be congenial1 but good feeling and gentle manners will accomplish far more than a sarcastic repulse4 ,thus1 in course of time1 the stepping-stones safely passed1 the girl becomes the young wife--housekeeper--mother--fitted for the duties of her station1 and therefore contented with it1 finding nothing harsh or irksome in domestic routine1 and satisfied with the pleasures and enjoyments of home4 ,far more likely to do so than she who leads a careless1 idle life as a girl--to become a fretful1 discontented wife1 or neglectful mother4 ,our ,daily ,paths6 with thorns or flow'rs ,we can at will bestrew them2 ,what bliss would gild the passing hours1 ,if we but rightly knew them6 ,the way of life is rough at best1 ,but briers yield the roses1 ,so that which leads to joy and rest ,the hardest path discloses4 ,the weeds that oft we cast away1 ,their simple beauty scorning1 ,would form a wreath of purest ray ,and prove the best adorning4 ,so in our daily paths1 'twere well ,to call each gift a treasure1 ,however slight1 where love can dwell ,with life-renewing pleasure6 99 99 99 99 99 ,,laces ,,and ,,embroideries4 ,,we promised1 in speaking of new caps1 a paragraph in our fashion chat on laces2 but1 as that has its own material1 in discussing the merits of shapes and styles1 we lay our laces upon the centre-table instead4 ,we have now in preparation some very new and tasteful designs for chemisettes1 to be worn in mourning1 every one understanding that embroideries are laid aside with a black dress4 ,for the strictest styles1 plain linen1 cambric1 and ,swiss muslin are worn2 but when silks or fringed dresses are put on1 fluted ruffles1 edged with plain narrow lace1 on collars and open sleeves1 are not out of taste1 or edges of needle-work in scallops and points4 ,laces1 or very thin muslin embroidery1 will be worn this summer2 cambric1 whether plain or embroidered1 being seen only in morning-dress4 ,we speak to those who dress for dinner4 ,there is a new style of lace1 the ,maltese1 which is very heavy and apparently durable1 somewhat resembling ,honiton1 at about half its cost4 ,it is very pretty for caps1 as seen in our design for the month4 ,heavy laces are still in vogue2 ,valenciennes and the still more delicate and lady-like ,mechlin have given place to them4 ,there is an ,irish point occasionally to be met with1 the most durable of all1 being of the purest linen thread4 ,collars1 or chemisettes1 and undersleeves are worn to match4 ,nothing is more untidy--save soiled muslins--than to see cambric sleeves and a rich lace collar1 or muslin sleeves and ,english flouncing for a chemisette4 ,better to have both of plain cambric or linen4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,washing ,,made ,,easy4 ,,the truthfulness of the ,washing-,day song1 with its disagreeable effects on the spirits and temper1 has never been questioned or doubted4 ,for ourselves1 our spirits fall with the first rising of steam from the kitchen1 and only reach a natural temperature when the clothes are neatly folded in the ironing-basket4 ,if any of our club sympathize with us1 they will rejoice that a better day is at hand1 and consider the invention described below as full of the deepest interest to our sex as housekeepers4 ,the one thus commented on is in use in the ,st4 ,nicholas ,hotel1 ,new ,york3-- ,a strong wooden cylinder1 four feet diameter1 and four and a half feet long1 is mounted on a frame1 so as to be driven by a band on one end of the shaft4 ,this shaft is hollow1 with pipes so connected with it that hot or cold water1 or steam1 can be introduced at the option of the person in charge4 ,the cylinder being half full of water1 a door at one end is opened1 and #cjj to #ejj pieces of clothing are thrown in1 with a suitable quantity of soap1 and an alkaline fluid which assists in dissolving the dirt and bleaching the fabric1 so that clothes1 after being washed in this manner1 increase in whiteness without having the texture injured4 ,when the cylinder is changed1 it is put in motion by a small steam-engine1 and made to revolve slowly1 first one way a few revolutions1 and then the other1 by which the clothes are thrown from side to side1 in and out1 and through the water4 ,during this operation the steam is let in through a double-mouthed pipe--somewhat of this shape1 ,x--which has one mouth in and one mouth out of water2 the steam entering the water through the immersed end1 and escaping through the other1 by which means it is made to pass through the clothes1 completely cleansing them in fifteen or twenty minutes4 ,the steam is now cut off1 and the hot water drawn through the waste pipe1 and then cold water introduced1 which rinses the articles in a few more turns of the cylinder4 ,they are now suffered to drain until the operator is ready to take them out1 when they are put into the drying-machine1 which runs like a millstone1 and its operation may be understood by supposing that millstone to be a shallow tub1 with wire network sides1 against which the clothes being placed1 it is put in rapid motion2 the air1 passing in a strong current into the top and bottom of the tub1 and out of the sides1 carries all the moisture with it into the outside case1 from whence it runs away4 ,the length of time requisite to dry the clothes depends upon the rapidity of the revolving tub4 ,if it should run #c1jjj revolutions a minute1 five to seven minutes would be quite sufficient4 ,when there is not sufficient steam to run the dryer with that speed1 it requires double that4 ,in washing and drying1 there is nothing to injure the fabric4 ,ladies' caps and laces are put up in netting bags1 and are not rubbed by hand or machine to chafe or tear them in the least1 but are cleansed most perfectly4 ,it can readily be imagined what a long line of wash-tubs would be required to wash #e1jjj pieces a day1 and what a big clothes-yard to dry them in2 while here the work is done by four persons1 who only occupy part of a basement-room1 the other part being occupied by the mangle1 and ironing and folding-tables4 ,adjoining are the airing-frames1 which are hung with clothes1 and then shoved into a room steam-pipe heated1 when they are completely dried in a few minutes4 ,small ,family ,machines4--,almost the first thought1 after witnessing the operation of this machine1 was1 can washing be done upon the same principle in small families8 ,to our inquiries upon this point1 we have received the following satisfactory information3-- ,for common family use1 hand-machines are made to cost from #dj to #ej1 with which a woman can wash fifty pieces at a time1 and complete #ejj in a day without laboring severely4 ,for the purpose of washing1 without driving the machinery by steam1 a very small boiler will be sufficient4 ,it is not necessary to have a head of water1 as that can be found in the cylinder1 which can be turned by horse or any other convenient power4 ,the plan of cleansing clothes by steam is not a new one2 but it is contended by the inventor that his process is an improvement upon all heretofore applied to that purpose4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,appletons'4 ,,appletons' is the very conspicuous gilt-lettered name of a large brown-stone building just opened on ,broadway1 ,new ,york1 for the business purposes of this well-known firm4 ,it was built originally for a public library1 but was bought last spring by the present owners1 and the lower story has since been fitted up for them4 ,henceforth1 ,appletons' will be one of the lions of ,broadway4 ,it may not be a very flattering comparison1 but one at least easily understood--what ,stewart's is to the woman of fashion1 or ,taylor's to the gourmand1 ,appletons' is now to the student or the book fancier4 ,the design and decorations are in perfect keeping with the business1 the very windows1 deep set as they are1 suggesting the alcoves1 with which it is lined1 as in a public library4 ,the ceiling walls are ornamented in fresco1 of quiet1 yet cheerful tints2 fourteen ,corinthian columns are the central support1 and these have the effect of ,sienna marble4 ,the book-cases and shelving are of plain oak4 ,the proportions and whole interior effect are admirable2 and here are to be found everything that is bindable or readable1 from superb ,london editions of the classics to the last new school-book1 in its plain cloth cover4 ,a good hour's lounge would scarcely give a just idea of the united elegance and utility of the new establishment2 for the curious visitor should not neglect to glance at the wholesale ware-room1 occupying the warm1 well-lighted basement1 which has its own exits and entrances1 its own salesmen1 attendants1 and purchasers1 and gives perhaps a more just estimate of the immense business of the firm4 ,there is certainly nothing approaching to it in this country or in ,england4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,to ,,correspondents4 ,,we must enforce upon our correspondents the necessity of being explicit in forwarding their addresses2 for we agree with them in thinking it rather awkward for a young lady to be addressed as ,m4 ,s4 ,jones1 ,esq41 or a married lady to find herself suddenly divorced1 and written to as ,miss4 ,but how are we to help it8 ,how is the editor1 especially in the haste and confusion of a correspondence the uninitiated cannot imagine or comprehend1 to discover from internal evidence whether the said ,m4 ,s4 ,jones is a noun masculine or feminine1 or1 being feminine1 to decide upon her state and condition regarding the holy bonds of matrimony8 ,let the letter read thus1 and all doubt and misdirection are at an end3-- ,,dear ,,sir3 ,inclosed is #aj for the following subscription to the ,lady's ,book4 ,,miss ,m4 ,s4 ,,jones1 ,dalton1 ,ohio-- or ,mrs41 as the prefix may be4 ,that agreeable young lady will not1 in this case1 have her feelings hurt by being addressed as ,esq41 and so supposed to belong to the ,woman's ,right party1 at least2 nor we be obliged to waste1 to us1 very valuable time1 in reading letters of explanation or writing notes of apology4 ,not to mention the two postage stamps saved--a consideration2 since1 by ,poor ,richard's rule of compound interest-- ,a penny saved is two pence got4 ,,mrs4 ,,barnard4--,let your children wear aprons1 by all means4 ,they are not out of fashion2 but1 on the contrary1 new patterns are constantly being designed4 ,see our fashion article for the present month4 ,a ,,new ,,mamma will find several editions of ,mother ,goose in the market4 ,one is contained in ,harry's ,ladder to ,learning1 published by ,evans ,brittan1 one of the best juveniles we know1 as there are many excellent things inclosed in its covers4 ,it can also be had separate1 postage and all1 for less than a quarter of a dollar4 ,a more elaborate edition1 as full of clever designs as the ,christmas-pie of little ,jack ,horner was supposed to be of plums1 is published by ,john ,rund ,smith1 ,london1 under the title of the ,nursery ,rhymes of ,england4 ,also imported by ,evans ,brittan4 ,,miss ,a4 ,b4 ,l4 can safely have her white and muslin dresses for the ensuing season made with infants' waists4 ,if her figure is small and light1 they cannot fail to be becoming2 and1 for quite young ladies1 the style never is out of date4 ,,mrs4 ,p4 ,l41 of ,darien1 ,geo41 can have her books by package or mail4 ,we add to our list for reading aloud1 ,an ,attic ,philosopher in ,paris3 being the ,journal of a ,happy ,man1 published by the ,appletons4 ,its tone is most genial and pure1 entirely free from the ,french sentimentality that borders on frivolity1 and1 at the same time1 full of pathetic truths4 ,for the children1 we would particularly commend ,our ,little ,comfort and ,love's ,lessons1 both of which are admirable4 ,,mrs4 ,h4--,an infant's skirt should not be over a yard in length4 ,of course1 the petticoats should be a hem shorter1 the flannel shortest of all4 ,,miss ,,lizzie ,n4--,see fashion article4 ,,ellen had better send an order for patterns1 now that they are so cheap--much cheaper than words4 ,of the work that ,,mrs4 ,r4 has asked our opinion as a book for the family1 we must be allowed to say that we do not consider its morality to be pure1 nor the sympathies it arouses womanly4 ,dwelling on such scenes cannot do the general good that some critics seem to expect from it4 ,we agree with them that ignorance is not virtue2 at the same time1 there is much to be dreaded in familiarizing the innocent mind with the details of sin and wickedness4 ,to the pure1 all things are pure1 again urges the specious moralist2 but1 alas for our nature that it should be so6 the seeds of impurity are to be found in every earth-born mind1 only too ready to be developed4 ,poison the mind1 the imagination1 and you open the flood-gates of innumerable temptations4 ,only too true is the lesson of a sterner moralist-- ,vice is a monster of such frightful mien1 ,as1 to be hated1 needs but to be seen2 ,but seen too oft1 familiar with its face1 ,we first endure1 then pity--then embrace4 ,we may seem to speak warmly on the subject1 and thus overstep our limits2 but books that wrong1 under a pretence of virtue1 are worst of all to be dreaded4 ,our sex are more exposed to their influence than to any open temptation4 ,books are to us companions4 ,they lie under our pillows1 and on the empty seat beside us2 they hide in our work-baskets1 or under the sofa cushion1 to come forth at a moment's notice2 while1 with men1 they have but the passing notice of an idle hour4 99 99 99 99 99 ,fashions4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,notice ,,to ,,lady ,,subscribers4 ,having had frequent applications for the purchase of jewelry1 millinery1 etc41 by ladies living at a distance1 the ,editress of the ,fashion ,department will hereafter execute commissions for any who may desire it1 with the charge of a small percentage for the time and research required4 ,bridal wardrobes1 spring and autumn bonnets1 dresses1 jewelry1 bridal cards1 cake-boxes1 envelopes1 etc4 etc41 will be chosen with a view to economy1 as well as taste2 and boxes or packages forwarded by express to any part of the country4 ,for the last1 distinct directions must be given4 ,orders1 accompanied by checks for the proposed expenditure1 to be addressed to the care of ,l4 ,a4 ,godey1 ,esq41 who will be responsible for the amount1 and the early execution of commissions4 ,no order will be attended to unless the money is first received4 ,instructions to be as minute as is possible1 accompanied by a note of the height1 complexion1 and general style of the person1 on which much depends in choice4 ,dress goods from ,levy's or ,stewart's2 cloaks1 mantillas1 or talmas1 from ,brodie's1 #ea ,canal ,street1 ,new ,york2 bonnets from ,miss ,wharton's2 jewelry from ,bailey's or ,warden's1 ,philadelphia1 or ,tiffany's1 ,new ,york1 if requested4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,description ,,of ,,steel ,,fashion ,,plate ,,for ,,april4 ,fig4 #ast4--,dinner-dress of rose-colored cashmere1 the flounces trimmed with velvet points of a rich dark brown2 the opening in the front of the basque is made by laying the corsage back from the shoulder to the line of the waist1 sloping the width gradually4 ,short wide sleeves trimmed to correspond4 ,bonnet of rose-colored taffeta ribbon1 with a border and bands of pale green1 tied with strings of the same4 ,the inside has a very full ruche of blonde1 with a single damask rose placed high up on the right side4 ,fig4 #b;d4--,plain walking-dress of mode-colored silk1 the skirt entirely plain4 ,the corsage is close and high1 with a short basque1 trimming of black guipure lace and velvet ribbon2 the sleeves are opened on the back and forearm1 trimmed to correspond4 ,knots of velvet ribbon close the corsage4 ,white drawn bonnet1 the brim very shallow1 full trimmed1 the lace having blue crape convolvulus bells1 intermixed at irregular distances4 ,child's dress of plain white cashmere1 flounced2 blue cloak of full ,talma pattern4 ,white drawn bonnet1 with double wreath of daisies inside the brim4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,chitchat ,,upon ,,new ,,york ,,and ,,philadelphia ,,fashions ,,for ,,april4 ,the month of ,april with us is principally devoted to shopping2 the changes of dress do not begin to be general before ,may1 although the preparations are1 of course1 made at this time4 ,the principal consideration of the month would seem to be mantillas1 scarfs1 etc41 bonnets1 and the making up of dresses4 ,for a large variety of styles1 in the mantilla department1 we are indebted to ,brodie1 of ,new ,york1 who ranks at the head of this manufacture4 ,in our next number1 we shall give a more detailed account of his large establishment1 entirely devoted to cloaks1 mantillas1 and scarfs4 ,and here we are bewildered with the variety1 in attempting to select for our readers4 ,although velvet is not in season1 strictly speaking1 we must notice a scarf mantilla of royal purple1 the rich and costly fabric being decorated by embroidery1 the design a heavy wreath of grape leaves1 purple clusters1 and twining tendrils4 ,they are shaded with exquisite art1 the leaves and tendrils in different stitches1 the clusters in rich raised work1 the effect of which it is impossible to describe4 ,a bridal scarf of rich embroidery on a white ground1 as pure as the bridal dress itself1 is one of the next most costly importations4 ,no other house uses so much embroidery as ,brodie1 and we are assured by him that the ,french needle-work1 exquisite as it is1 can be excelled in this country4 ,his establishment alone affords employment to hundreds in this branch of female industry1 through the busy seasons of the year4 ,the woven embroidery now so much the style1 where bouquets1 wreaths1 etc41 are brocaded on a plain ground1 is brought into service the present season4 ,the ,oriental scarf we notice1 as combining richness of material and effect1 with plainness of form and decoration4 ,it has a deep border of palm leaves in bright shades1 gold predominating1 on a plain ground of royal purple2 the heavy fringe is of the same hue4 ,the form is the simple close-fitting mantilla scarf4 ,another style1 destined to become a favorite from its richness of effect1 is composed of several flounces of black guipure lace on a plain silk1 deep blue1 green1 violet1 brown1 etc4 ,the lower one1 much deeper than those on the body of the mantle1 falls over the dress1 and that next to the row which forms the upper finish follows the curve of the shoulder4 ,there is a space between each the width of the lace1 and the several rows are headed by a box-plaited ruche of narrow black satin ribbon4 ,another style has bands of velvet ribbon an inch and a half in width1 placed lengthwise on the scarf1 the ends falling over the flounce of lace below4 ,they are at a little distance apart1 and each is encircled or edged by a narrow row of lace placed on flat1 giving an effect at once elegant and novel1 which it would be impossible to describe by words4 ,these are a few of the leading spring styles2 and others less costly1 and in lighter fabrics1 will be described in our extended notice of ,mr4 ,brodie's establishment4 ,for those who do not order their mantillas and scarfs from the city direct1 or who depend upon home manufacture1 we would advise them to send to ,demorest1 #fg ,canal ,street1 a few doors from ,brodie's1 for a set of patterns1 and make them up according to the very accurate idea given by his styles4 ,here1 again1 we have several new varieties1 the establishment also importing direct from ,paris4 ,one of very graceful shape has plaits at the back1 as in the cloaks of the past season1 with a tablier1 or scarf front passing around and forming a deep collar on the shoulder4 ,all the mantillas of the season1 be it remarked1 are very low and open1 to display the collar1 chemisette1 etc4 ,another1 of plainer scarf form1 has a collar pointed in front1 and a shoulder-piece coming below it has the effect of a double collar1 ending in a bow of ribbon upon the shoulder4 ,still another1 especially suited for a matron1 has a slight fulness in the back1 which is cut in the same piece as the front1 coming into a very low pointed yoke on the shoulder2 the collar corresponds in form and style4 ,all ,madame ,demorest's patterns are made in tissue paper1 fitting to the figure with the same grace as the real garment1 and the trimmings are imitated with wonderful exactness4 ,for several new sleeves1 we are also indebted to the same establishment1 although the season is too early to admit of a judgment as to what will be the prevailing styles4 ,the bonnets are all very small1 with open shallow brims and long low crowns4 ,the stiff round crown has entirely gone out1 and the ingenuity of the milliner is almost exhausted in draping this very necessary part of the bonnet in the most graceful way4 ,dress1 or drawn bonnets are made of silk and crape1 with a profusion of ribbon and lace2 the bonnet itself seems of little consequence1 so that the crown has a good shape1 and the inside of the brim is gracefully decorated4 ,our fashionable ladies have a remarkable air of one-sidedness in this respect4 ,for instance1 a large bow of pink ribbon1 set high up on the right1 and a drooping spray of flowers on the left1 connected by blonde or narrow laces of any kind4 ,in wreaths running around the face1 one side is made heavier than the other1 and continued so to the forehead1 or crosses it perhaps1 instead of the old-fashioned well-balanced bouquets on each side1 connected by narrow wreaths at the top4 ,white is the prevailing color so far1 with crape flowers in purple1 with bright green leaves1 as lilacs1 heartsease1 convolvulus1 clusters of glycena1 etc4 etc4 ,delicate shades of pink1 green1 violet1 and blue are also seen2 lace1 either blonde or less costly styles1 is used in all4 ,of ribbons for straw bonnets we have endless varieties of colors and patterns1 brocaded1 plaided1 and plain4 ,for ourselves1 we are no fanciers of a ribbon that at a little distance looks like a strip of gay-colored chintz2 a rich1 thick satin1 or ,mantua1 of one shade1 is always more lady-like1 and sufficient variety can be found in the different stripes1 pearlings1 etc4 ,gold brocaded ribbons--by brocaded1 we mean a raised figure upon a plain ground--are more suitable for headdresses1 or evening-dress1 than the street4 ,they will be entirely out of place on a straw bonnet2 as much so as a rich gimp or velvet trimming on a chintz dress4 ,silks1 mousselines1 and light spring cashmeres1 indeed1 any fabric of like thickness1 will be made1 as in the past winter1 with basques1 closed all around1 over the hips1 and without the rolling-collar at the bust1 which was so long the style4 ,the sleeves will be worn decidedly larger at the top1 even when they are not intended for puffs or plaits4 ,these open on the inside of the arm1 and require to have the seam set very far forward1 so as to have the opening fall away from the wrist4 ,it is now the style to face a silk sleeve far up with white ,florence1 and box-plait a white satin ribbon about an inch in width around the inside edge1 no matter as to what the dress itself is trimmed with3 it gives a very stylish finish4 ,ribbons1 galloons1 and frills of the same are the favorite trimmings1 which1 in all cases save black1 should match the shade of the dress exactly4 ,black silks are much worn this spring1 with ribbon trimmings of deep purple1 blue1 green1 and even crimson2 the flounces are bound in this style1 and the barque and sleeve trimmings correspond4 ,bows of ribbon1 medium width1 either flat or with flowing ends1 close the basque and sleeve openings on most of the new silks1 etc4 ,guipure lace is the richest and most costly of all1 and comes of every shade and width1 ranging from #ge cents to #e per yard4 ,the galloons are rich1 light1 and fanciful2 satin and velvet1 watered1 pearled1 etc4 ,our ,may number1 besides a more elaborate notice of ,mr4 ,brodie's establishment1 will contain many items of great interest in this department1 as the openings are announced for an early day4 ,,fashion4 99 99 99 99 99 ,the ,toilet4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,to ,,extract ,,essences ,,from ,,flowers4--,procure a quantity of the petals of any flowers which have an agreeable fragrance1 card thin layers of cotton1 which dip into the finest ,florence or ,lucca oil1 sprinkle a small quantity of fine salt on the flowers1 and lay a layer of cotton and one of flowers alternately1 until an earthen vessel or wide-mouthed glass bottle is full4 ,tie the top close with a bladder1 then lay the vessel in a south aspect to the heat of the sun1 and in fifteen days1 when uncovered1 a fragrant oil may be squeezed away from the whole mass1 quite equal to the highly-valued otto of roses4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,to ,,improve ,,the ,,voice4--,beeswax1 two drachms2 copaiba balsam1 three drachms2 powder of liquorice-root1 four drachms4 ,melt the copaiba balsam with the wax in a new earthen pipkin2 when melted1 remove them from the fire1 and while in a melted state mix in the powder4 ,make pills of three grains each4 ,two of these pills to be taken occasionally4 99 99 99 99 99 ---------------------------------------- ---------------------- ,transcriber notes3 ,p4 #bih4 'or crum of bread'1 changed 'crum' to 'crumb'4 ,p4 #cjb4 'ever appoach'1 changed 'appoach' to 'approach'4 ,p4 #cfh4 444 the subject commonplace47 ,closed brackets4 ,p4 #cgd4 'a silkly gloss4' ,changed 'silkly' to 'silky'4 ,p4 #cgh 'line the slides'1 changed 'slides' to 'sides'4 ,fixed various punctuation4 ---------------------------------------- ----------------------