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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1896-10-16, Page 10Vott0 gossomosmoo.vo for your age that I know. I appeeciate your desire formweil, the good. things ca this life ; but I confess I dorat fol - 16w yOU in your latest scaeme. If, as saema :eery probable, you are geing to Marry the worthy, if slightly 'obeee, Major. who Is a sort of second-class millionaire, why let your motherin tor the worry of this' impromptu guest ? Sere -1y O'Hara, if properly appealed to by you, would—" 4 What was that word you used a few moments ago, Tom? •Objection- able ? Does it ever occur to you that It might be applied, to you.? You don't know how you appear to ethers, I am sure," very sweetly. " or you would try to change yourself. 1To be dietinetly aulgar la of course the last thing of all; and you—" I She- hesitates, as if unwilling to go on—to point more clearly' his iniquities. "Yes—welVai Tom's tone ts me mild as ever. "Leave Me at that—the greatest brute you• ever knew—but answer me., 1)1d you iencourage your mother to take in t14—er—gueet into Year house?" . ' i - 4e1 encouraged her largely."' Olivia's eyes meet his unflinchingly. "We are very poor. aa you know; arid she -seems to be rich. She can, therefore, help us. And 1 thinle it more honorable to make money by fair means, everi at a loss to ones pride, than to owe money that we ca.nnet pay." Kis brows• contract, "So bad as that?" • "Quite as bad. We•crive.ri good deal for us. No doubt a trifle to another." "But I—we-ea trifle, and we were there! You might have aske ue—have tolc1—" "Oh! To tell!" She tilteiher Oaten- ing chfa. 'We'll ten when hope is ours again." "Not iotherielse?" "No, n -o!" She makes an :attempt to edge away from aira, to go back to the others, but he catches her by her arm, and by sheer force compels her to stand etill. "You mean that If yen were. dying you woukl not ask help from my tether, or from—" She checks him by a ned—iii very stream, deliberate one. "Of coarse not! Help trete Sir, Hard- ress—no!" "You speak for yourself, or for Your mother?" "Fair both"—quite calmly—"and 1f my mother were never bere, for my- self!" Iets her go. His eyes, half-clos- ed, look at her shrewdly. ' "That confirms my opinian Of you. You are a caeca unecrupulmes, Ungen- erous girl, and -worldly to yo-ur heart's core. You believe in nothing; in the goodness of no- one; only in the power - of money. And for rneney -eima are wiI/Ing to sell yourselt. No doubt you are right. Let me congratulate you; and let us retura to the .other, who seem to be eagerly discussing the new - corner." "We shall no doubt discuss our new- comer from this until to -morrow morn- ing." says Olivia, shrugging her shoul- ders indifferently, though her lips have grown a little white, "when. we ex.- pect to see her." "I hope you will like her when yeu do," says Tom; "but I think et probable the will sink you all in a Slough o • Despond. Fancy taking anyone int your house wtihout knowing who she was. or what she was, or—" "Yes, that's what I have been Just saying!" exclaims Laurence, sernewhat hotly, who has caught Torii' e last words. (They have now reached the, othcrs.) -te. woman utterly unkriewne Eave you girls"—glancing from Gassy to Olivia—"ever thought what a life she is going to lead you?" "Now, what do you rriean by that, Laurence?" asks Mrs. Fitzgerald, ner- vously. "Mean? Why—that I expectshe's ninety if a minute, with a red nose, and a temper to match, and—" ."Bad guess," says Cicely, with a con- temptuous shrug. "She's barely twen- ty. and charrnifige and if you faal. In love with her and she rejects yea, it wili be a just punishment for your sus- picior.s. Don't expect me to pity you, that's all." " Only twentyla Term is speaking* new'. "Good heavens! Only twenty, and no questions to be asked! What" —turning to Mrs. Fitzgeraid—awhat has the done ? " Done ?" Of course! You don't suppose a young person of means (isn't that how your cousin puts it?) has come down here to bury herself alive, without ba.ving a very special reason for -wish- ing herself forgotten by her own World —wherever that may be! Mara my words! you'll have trouble with your new importation." "What a raven you are, Tem ! " cried Cissy, throwing a rose against his mouth with very accurate aern, as if to stop him. A bird of iil-omen." CHAPTER IV. "Cali me any names you like now. It win be my glorious , vileg-e to call you names short- ly—and also • to bring you to witness that my words have come true and that you have lived to -rue the day you ever let a 'suspect' inside your dears. What will it be, I wonder?" continues Tom, Meditatively, with a iittie glance at Olivia, who is looking sorne-what cold and apart. "Petty lam eens--burglary with violencea-slow .0 poisoning—bigamy ? " He pauses- and tl b al eh ci E b to on la in, a -ell, never mind; we won't make he her too conceited. But unfortunately, he my dear Dora, some of the ta emartest people on record have 'brought their people to sorry passes, and I foresee the dee-a-ea:rak- ing with deep. feeling at Mrs. Fitzger- • .=', a aid—"when you and yours will be laga, ged, and brought before our b _ak Lia down -here, as an accessory after th° fact ! No onma-ill,believe you did iot give her hiding room -on purpose. If it is burglary with violence, they believe you have half of the swag. not very much up in low slang, that's all right, isn't it, Major ? and 1 ahouldrat wonder, Dody—poor Dod — if their meele it a life sentence." ' "The whole thing is abominab e," says Laurence, impatiently ; "that 3rou should take in a girl like this—' 1 "Body is not going to do that," Tom interrupts him carefully. "It's he girl who, is going to take her in." "It is beyond a joke." Laurence is still frowning. There is a touch of anger in his dark eyes. He is of qatek- fr emotion than las step -.brother ---at III e:vents, eutwardly. He is also roach tandsorner than Toth Lleyd, though ;here is a' distinct resemblaride be - ween them, but lioth are of a most ea - anent height. "Why"—turning now to iis aurit—" should there he such a vital iEcessity for this thing.? Even if aeou .re 'a little hard up, we could all have ielped you, couldn't we I-Iere the fajor taps his foot unconsciously but arnestly upon the gravel path. '..tw, Dorly, -why didn'e you speak to s first, before bringing down this in- ignity upon you ?' 1: "It is licit an indignity ! " says Oliv- e brea.king in with a sort of su reseed violence. -Why can't we do i Ali the world is doing? Why meet e he at a standstill in this senate retched, forgotten Ware ? Is it' 1,4... Luse we are et a. standstill that -we -e forgotten ? Other people de things anineent their incomes; wile multi not we do it ? You call this -ari dignity. but it is note' . . " it is, however, though you may fiat e it. a..ou girls of course cannot un-. had , derstand whet it may—probably will— mean to you later on. nut you, Dody" —with a reproachful glance at • Mrs, Fitzgeralci—"a etranger brOuglit into your midst, svithout even the vaguest knowledge of twit° she is—with Tee one "Row stupid ireir - are', Laure eel " Olivia, seeing- her mother's face' a, lit- tle sad tied pained, and very nervous, breaks in Ivehemently. "As if mamma mould have anyone here of whom MI a knew nothing! Surely You have heard her say that her .cousin, Mrs. Gilbert, hasigiven her 'word for Miss Jones— for the girl who is corning here to- morrow!" Gilbert,. says TOM, turning to the alajor and speaking in a low tone. "I've met her. Last season she won coneiderablv en evidence -as an aspirant to the honor of Lord Burling- ham'stitle. She failed, I remember. A bit of froth on life's ocean. ' "Yes, yes, yes!" Says the Major, in a hurried whisper; "but no more, my boy. A cousin of •Dorais---oti your— your aunt's, you knew." "Why not wire to her that you can't have ter ?" Laurence is still expostu- lating on in a clear and rather angry' tene. "I can tell you that if you let it go further, you will repent the day you ever let this, adventuress into your house." Cissiellifts her voice. "That i* top strong a term ! " cries she, indignantly. "When are do not know here --have not even seen her!" "For all that, adventuress is the word. A giel- who comes here refusing to have questions asked about hex— how can she be regarded but asean adventuress? Of course there may be arguments, but—" His arguments, at all events, come at this moment to an untimely end. Scrnething in the stricken air and at- titudes of those around him, the knowl- edge, more than anything else, that they are not listening :US him, brings him to a dead stop, and a glance in en. the di ection that all theirs have tale H0 ooks to -wards .the western gate that lads into the garden' --a gardee filled vith roses—an looks to his .un- doing. Chloe has come 1 - • CHAPTER V. The ""adventureseis walking towards them ; so close is the eittle wicket -gate -by whieh elle has entered to where they are all standing that she is amongst them before thEya are aware, and anus inevitably have -heard the laet sentence, if not armee. If !Lau- rence had a single,doubt still pertain- ing on this awful head, the dissi ates it at once. Having given a ch rm- ing smile to Mrs. Fitzgerald, who like all the ethers, dias 'been struck umb by her sudden appearance arid the guilty uncertainty as to allot she has or ha e not heard, she lets her eyesburn 1 ghtly to Where Laurence is stan 'Mg. nger or anrusement that warms heir here they res -t a moment, and—Tis it epths ? • "I am afraid," says the, In the very sweetest way, "that I have come a little too soon." Laureece almost groans aloud. Of couse she ,has heard! There is same - thing almost deabolical, if also sug- gestive of mirth, in the slight emphasis on the 'little." Like his luck • all through,he tells alinself : • "Oh, no, no; not at all !" Mrs. Fitzgerald Is sa.ying -in an eager, if rather jerky, sort of way. Everyone knows :instinctively that It is Miss Jon -es. "Of course It was to -morrow we expected yoti, but we are very pleased to see yea a day serener •, very —er—very pleased !" This is pitiable, and Olivia, ha.ving recovered, comes to her mother's. rescue. "You erre Miss Jones, of course," she says, with a friendly little gla,nce and smile, Olivia, in the clear, swift way of younuipeople, has erne to the con- clusion already that s e likes her. Miss Jones looks back at hr for a moment f time—as if not —for eemere fraetion quite Understanding, and. then says with a delightful air: "Yes I am Miss Rites, of course. But—I ape you won't call me that— it is ra, er a 'horrid name, don't you thin -k? As I have come to stay, If"— with a ittle frank and open look at Mrs; Ft agerald—"you will have me, I should like you all to begin by calling me Chloe" "Does that invitation go round ?" asks the *Major, who reaaly ought to be ashamed of himself, but, as he eeplaita ed afterwards at mach length to Olivia, (who didn't. care), he had: quite gene down befo-re this little stranger who had just stepped upon their stage. It may as weld be said at once- that they all go down before her i It is a case o -f love at first sight. From iVies. Fitzgerald and the girls to the miserable reattrencei'who is still pray- ing for the, earth la swallow WM up quick • she captivates them ell. : She 'le a email, slim, exquisite orea- ture; filled' with the gaiety of youth, with eyes like dewy violets, and soft and loose brown . hair that lies in lit- tle Tipples on .her daintyahead, and with that dainty head held delicately poised, as those women hold them who feel the world beneath their feet. She is •explaining to Mee. Fitzgerald.. Her smile., as she -speaks, is quite sweet and. friendly now, and without a sus- picion of affront or malice. ' In that eudden gla.nce she had given Laurence there had certainly been a little gleam f mischievous amusement, but now ere is nothing in her face but wel red contrition ; and, indeed, her whol k r is gently s lfeaccesative, in tha e has obtrude Leeself upon them ay in advanee of that agreed upen ut circumstances ,had arisen, and sh ad told herself. they would_ perh.ap rgive her, and so on. They all a ce forgive her. Even Tam Lloyd ho is a. trifle hard-hearted; but the finds it easy, because, looking a r, at her lane society air, 'her lit e fashionable gestures, her Pairielan garments, 'he says to lainself : a . I give her one fortnight 'here: and then, 'hey presto! for the world of ris Or London again ! But what the euce did she nica.n by getting Mrsi ibert to seed her 'here ?" Of course, item all right, he tells :him- self. All right in the most important sense of the weed. then, as one convinced: "Bigam3- for choice." ° Bigamy ! " Olivia. tilts her charm- ing chin --and she is ouly twenty." -Decausie of that! The world runs on greased -wheels now; and at twenty —if one can't do something' sniart at twenty, one will find oneself left be - bind. Why, the might be a tfigam. The girl is so. very ung, so very eivanguished-leolcing, spite of the 1 epressible gaiety of r air, an -d, more (than all that (which ally Might armee tet to nothing), there sorriething, about this extrao-rdinary Me that positively forbids a. angle u pleasant tb.aught about ber. And. now. the is being introduced to everybody; and . has given; her hand very -prettily to them all, with special friendliness indeed to Laurence (Who is !still a dark and very uncomfortable red) ; a fact that delights them, assur- ing them that She has not heaed his unhappy remark just at 'her entrance ,• aseurine; them • except the oulprit Ida:self. He 'had not mistaken that flret flash in. bee eyes—that toneh of exaggerated friendliness in her cool, little grasp. Half an hour goes by. The girls had been going to see the finals played at e emelt local tournament at 5 o'clock, ?mashed ordered tea isoirnewhat earlier in consequence, but now feel them- selves bound, of course, to stay at hotee. Somewhat of a, dis-aPpaintraera to theme but to desert mamma on this triring occasion is not to be thought of. Mies Jones, however, gets them oat of their difficulty. She is .now t lking to MTS. Fitzgerald. „No ; she is ,not at. tired, she as- suresand, her ; and these delicious oakes ems race creamy tea base- quite refreshed thee. No,- she a.d n t walk- ed from 'the station, though if he had known the Hermitage was sein.ear. She had found an oiftside care Oh,' yes! ste quite liked.' outside carS. She had once lived for a whole month 'la Dublin ("and hadn't died of it !" Tom thought she wanted to- ad -d this) and _ (there learnt how to sit on thent. 1 • She thought thein lovelr. She thought O tittle, view of ithe Valley just Slew, The Heititatage very lovely, bade Could she-eiaight-she go and see it now ? She had ltettra -that Oliviaas"May I call you Olivia. and Cissy ?" (another Pretty lit- tle questiotirng smile) were going to an "at, theme of some sort, or was it a tournament ?" Na, no they must go; It will make her avretc'hed if t.hey deny themselves this pleasure becatise of her corning ; and perhaps-- She leeks !prettily at liars. -Fitzgerald, and then at Litarence very directly, and finishes liee seetence to him. "Are you, top, going to alas tournament ?" asks she. 1 • redound to his great discrediti. but at all .events it. Witaikneok the bottom out Of this abantanitlel situation. aim. FitzgeraldIs qe pleased. ' "The prettiestiiiiNta Laurence, Is from' the w 1i4ou take Mass Jones—'' "Chlee !" says 1414 James, with eh -amity entreaty. "Weir —:—Srfri 1 ing—'take Miss Chloe, then, to the upper hill. The view is better from there." Mrs. Fitzgerald, dear and hospitable woman as ;he is, is 'undoubtedly secret- ly charmed at getting rad of this so lit-, tle expected guest for an hour or so. There are a few preliminaries to be gone through still—isuch as the final t.u. • • At • #.....44:F..frtir.r A r•-• •.101. 4 Actt,„ :.. • flags and floating Illies, to where the Winds of heaven have feller plea" Up here a. Sweet and playful breeze, glad with the ,perfumes of the scented Maly, is filling all the land with happy sig is. Each bugle each tree, .has life In it—a life apart frpna its ew 'strenu- ous throb—brateh and 'twig &d-man- ster stem being crowded by thy living things. And here is the stat ly elm, and •11 re the homely laurel, a d here littl further up the hill the white - thorn, now in its glory; Arid in it IS lilting the linnet UnstaYed, unafraid. Indeed, this evening, spring,. that Is toot 41. -romokszarmvometwoommocomess,orimbecorgoosveamomrostrzvretaboo Innumerable boulders, the many awk- ward stiles, that lie in; their way. I , Perhaps these . dlifil,cUltieS, or the beauty Of -the ,dyilpg day, have kept thern silent—or 'le -it their strangeness .te snit other a Xiat a all events, not mat li the "um:era hill, is reached, ,and all the vast grandeur o the land below liesstretched befo a hath, with the ocean gleaming d Ily in the fading light far far away, do any word, 'be- yond a bare fragm ntary one here and there, break from thc,n. It is he, strangely enough, who speaks arst. The ascent had been at the last a little steep—nay, Very ateep—yet she had disdained his assistance, springing t. `.;0111f..4,4ft We have arran.Y.,ed with THE GLOBE PRIX -TIN -G. COMPANY, Limited, Toronto, Canada, to supply our readers th . • • ••• 1.11!..1111•••••..........„.1111111.1MMOOMMONva!loilolammommlortotbaratt.,..sasubolonum .!INI11(111a •••••••••.11•••••••,[111•1•.••••••••11•LIL And Canada Farmer On the most favorable terms. 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With this week's issue of our °wit paper we give a supplement containing a libera instal- ment of an excellent story—"THE: COMING OF CHLOE "---by Mrs. Hunterford, which will be continued in. the following. issues Of THE WEEKLY GLOBE AND CANADA PARMER. lb SEE OUR CLUBBING OFFER IN ANOTHER PART OF THIS WEEK'S ISSUE. (1tWt.ftk asaitt s-3,q.airla*Zitt tta6b._-!fatt tbro,--ft-aft-a* You can have. The Weekly Gibbe tO the end of the year' for 15 cents, or to, the end of 1897 for $1.00, or in combination with Our paper atIthe 4ecia1 rate advertised in another column s 9p 1 If you want the balance of lhis exceIInt story leave your order or send your address to this office in time to get next week's WEEKLY GLOBE. • • • *I' • . to • tit !1.K.• :1.•• • . • As it happens, Laurence 4s not. • "No," returns he, proaneetlee The woratfhas already come ; he now feels brave as a lien. That she is bent on carrying him off and having it out with him is his distinct conviction, wbich Proves. aim a cleverer man tha.n he aad ever :before aielieved himself. "Then perhaps You will take rne to see this lovely view 7" • Walk will give him, the opportun ty of He hails the thought with joy. This explaining—though expla:nation 1can opereely help hien, arid will prebaibly • • •, 'A • Oo'• t,e 4.1 ." . r arrangement of rooms, the airing Qf sheets and. blankets, the putting of a .few flowers 1 the guest chambers that are still undone. To -morrow thely would all have been finished,: but tile guest' had come before to-naorrovr w ,born. So 'with. a relieved heart al Fitzgerald gladly speeds Laurence anjd this wonderful new Chloe to the upper hill. - And so they. go, Laurence and, his wonderful new Chloe, through fields of growing grasses, and 'by streams bright with stammer's cchning, glories Iv - so often gay, and sometimes so very sad, but never, never old, has put on its brightest ,colors, and looks beautiful - exceedingly. , To Laurence, in spite of the horror S of an hour ago, it seems fuller of life and h-ope, of fresh ver- dure, of splendid lights on the hill and valley, than ever it has been before. The buoyant steps—buoyant arid so untiring --of the so evidently town -bred girl beside hint fill him with Surprise. She has sprung up -the rising grouna with_ a glad vitality that gives him little chance of helping her over th ltiolcceriftste.little sure footed goat from rise "I must congr lulate you!" He turns htoaslolohrkeadtihnert.0 For a young lady who be considered quite aifeat." ogruneatatindewala,licasmyuosut have done, such a. mwi a "Yes?" She lets her voice die down, and looks deliberately on the splendid view before her. 'Bui, you see, I have not always lived in to m. I have lived In London—It is Londoji, I suppose, you Ole= ?—for BIT mon s only; ' on jump a little at conclusions, don't you ?" To Le continued in 'Weekly Globe, Oct. 14. -1=0,.••••••••••••••••••••il The Final Charges at Waterloo. Before the combined armies of Wel- lington and Blucher the French could not stand, but, in spite of inferior num- bers and the maalfeet signs of defeat, • Gen. Bonaparte night have conducted an orderly retrea-t, The ease was dif- ferent- with Napoleon, the Emperor, even though he were now a Liberator; to retreat would have -been merely a postponement of the day -o-t reckoning. Against this artny Napoleon. despatch- ed what was left of that force which was the peculiar product of his life and genius, the old and middle guard. Most of its members were the children of peasantsand had been born in ante - revolution days. Neither intelligent in appearance nor graceful in bearing, they nevertheless had the look of per- fect fighting ..machfries. Their huge bearskin caps and long moustache e did not diminish the fierceness of their as- pect. They bad been tielected for size, docility and strength; they had been well paid, well fed and well drilled f they had, therefore, no ties but those to their Emperor, no homes but their barracks, and no enthuelasm but their passion for Imperial France, They would ha„ve followed no leader unless he were distinguished itt their system of life; accordingly, Ney was selected for that honor, and, as they came itt proud confid•ence up the Charleroi road. their Emperor passed them 123. review. Like every other division, they had been told that the distant roar was tram Grouchy's guns'• when informed that all was ready for- the finishing stroke, that there was to be a general advance along the whole line, and that no man was to be denied his share in certain victory, even to the sick, it is said, rose up, and hurried into the ranks. The air -seemed rent with their hoarse cheers as their columns -swung in measured tread 'diagonally across the northern spur of the cress -line elevation which cut the surfa.ce of the inforrned -of the French movement, .ae it is *thought, by a- de- serter, issued -hurried orders to the oentre, ordered Maitland's brigade to where the charge must be met, and. pasted bimself, with Napieras leattery, somewhat to- eta right. While yet his words of warnIng were scarcely utter- ed, .th-e head of the French column era- ereared. The English batteries belolied forth a welcome, but, although Ney's horse, the fifth taat day, was shot, tte, men he led suffered little, and, with him on not at their side, They oadne steadily oneeard.The- Britisb, guards were lying behind the iiil-cres-t, and the Frencli could discern no foe—only a few me-tinted...officers, of -whom Wel- lington was one. Astonish:ed ancl in- credulous, the assailants pressed stead- ily on until within twenty yards of the English. line. "Up, guards! Inieke ready!" rang out the Duke's weld, - known call. The British jumped, and, fired; about 300 of Ney'e gallant eol- diers fell. But there was nio• confusion; on both sides volley euoceeded valley, and this lasted u-ntil the Bretieh charge ed. Then, end then only, the French withdrew. Simultaneously Donzelot hard fallen upon Alten'e division; but he was -leading _a forlorn hope, aad- making no impreseion. ,Aa Ney fell back, a body of French cuirassiers. ad-. 'warmed upon the English- batteries. Their success was partial, and behind them a second column of the g-nard was formed. Again the assault was renewed; but the second attempt fared worse than the first, To the eight Of Maitland, Adaeras brigade, With the. 52hd Regiment, had taken: atend; leg now, these poured a deadly flank" fire Into the advancing French, while the others poured ill a devastating hall of bullets from the front The front rankoof the French replied Nirith spirit, but when the British bad completed their manoeuvre, Colborne gave the order, his men cheered in reeponse, and the cluarker-charge began. aViv-e l'Erapereur!" mate the responsive cheer from the elainnang ranies of the assail- ants, and still they came on. But in the awful crash they reeled, eo-afusion followed, and almost in the twinkling of an eye the rout began. Twe, battal- ions of the old guard, under Cam - brat -me, retreated in fair order to the centee of the valley, Where they made their ;last mallept stand against the overwhelming numbers of alefikettie German brigade. They fought until but 150 survived. From all sides the despairing cry of "Sauve qui pet!" rang on their ears. To the final SUM - mons of surrender the leader ass-ented, and they file -d in -a ejection to the rear. Tads occaerence ;has passed into tradi- tion as an epic event; what Cambronne might well have said, "The guard dies, • but never surrenders," was not utter- ed, but it epitomizes their eharacter and in the phrase they and their leader ba„ve found linenortality.—William M. Sloane, in the October Century. Girls' EveningDresees. "The materials la vogue for young girls' go.weis for evening parties are simple but dainty," writes Isabel. A. Mellon, in. October Ladies' Home Jour- nal. "Light -weight eilks, chiffon over organdy or dotted muslin devel- oped in the 'same Way with decorations of youthful -looking - laces and many ribbons make particularly pretty gowns for evening arear. The young girl's bcrdice is made either quite thigh and findshed with a soft frail about her neck Or else it Is out out in What is known as the "Dutch square.', Long sleeves or elbow -puffs are proo-er with the 'Dutch square,' end, -many picturesque effects are obtained by this combina- tion. .No matter how rounded an arm may he, nor how pretty the than -d, evening gloves elieuld be worn with the party dress. The fan is net an abeeaute necessity to the evening toil- ette, hut It is always e. pretty and a gre,ceaul addition. '"Chtna silk, light --weight eordea silks, chiffon, organdy and mualin arm the materials dedicated to the young girl. When any one of them is made up for evening wear the lining should be of a light weight,' but not a corded silk, or an inexpensive satin. Pale blue, turquoise -blue, rose and salmon pink, pale silver-gray, and, best of all, white, are the colors in vogue for the young girl. No matter how -cha-rming the he- liotrope shade may seem, it eheuld not be chreeen for -a young girl, and no rna.tter how gloiving and attractive a bright red fabric is, it lie inartistic as a party deees, and -should on ne aa. count be chasen. In this -connection, it may be said that the prettiest of all. Party aresees for a young girl is the one made of White mate-rial." The Turks have seven different kinds of flutes. The Italian peasantry /rave -a horn called the serpentine, so called from its appearance and cueves. It is made of wood covered with leather, arid has six Ahger holes. The sons,, a Chincec clarionet, is the favorite instrument among the com- mon people, -especially at marriage or furseral. entertainments. Its scale Is front F to G above. The saekbut is a very ancient Instru- ment of the trombone family. It is -be- lieved by some authorities to ha-ve been providedwith -a slide like the trombope of the *present day. The Buddhist priests of both China end Japan 'have a musical instrument called rnokougyo, or Wooden ilsh, a kind of drum. It is need by the prests when reciting their prayers, One. '-taetht Nen ta every sellable, 4