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The Brussels Post, 1891-7-31, Page 3th. ay er- .rd 111. 4er art in - Me 1. n - tie tit dg V e a'S h, he hp !e- ny t. hp x - OU OU is • llS ire 1.J. tit- er- ate ece her ere ost on - vas the ; so al's ned rn- by by nn - his for ler- his 31, I.S91 Ras or BOYALTI. THE BRUSSELS POST. 3 Victoria, the Welbleeloved. The graeiousnesa which entleare the Ger 111411 Empress to her aubjeote has been ever her most individual chanced:n.1800. Like other royal women, oho had a ntocit careful and in tempo t training In her fathee'a Imes. hold, Early rising. nett systematie bodily exercise formed a pert of gaols day's duty, every species of seldulgence wan rigidly ttvoided, and the Ponce took long welks In all kinds of weether with his stately and vigoroes (laugh ter. Ladoe with gifts of food and comfort, the Empress made long ex- peditions on foot to relieve the distress of Ile suffering, and from het own small allow. once of pocket money, through Strict methodioal self.denial, she made eaoh year handsome Christmas offerings at the parte) church Many anecdotes aro related of her kindness among the peasants. How she would stop to take tho thorn from the foot of the liOle ohild limping tearfully homeward, or with her own halide wheel the vegetable -laden oar to Its destination for some ancient peasant, dame. The little mom at the old palace remains unchanged, and wonderful are the demonal retinue when she takee up her tbode there for a, time. From all the noisy revel she steals quietly away to go into the little church and kneel by her father's tomb. "Victoria, the wellsbeloved," 1 the title given to this Empress by the German people. -- one Lives Inge. father, plain ola " Farmer t Merge," which tut the whole, commended Min to Nova Suotians. Society in Halifax in those days was very gay, and it le Out the Prince, by his moderation M the tem of wino, and by refraining entirely from cards, had a good influence over the young mon of the town. To cure Intemperance among his mon, it in said he used to ;flake them turn eat at five &Week In the morning foe 1111, whioh of course, 'mule late hours away from law. nooks impossible. Hie punishments were very severe. For one poor soldier bo order- ed to thousand lashes on his bare bank, and on the grounds of the lodge is Shown at care Where another was confined for two on throe years, until be died. Once or twice, It is said, men committed suicide from fear of his punishment& Prince Edward's friend and companion during this Novo. Scotia life was a clever French woman, Madam Alphonsio Therese Bernadine Julie de Monts genet de Se Laurent, Baronne do Fortisson, whom he first met in Martitfiqui, and who, when he married the Queen's mother, retired to a &invent. The Halifax people were dazzled by the presence of royalty among them, and when the Prince's seven-yeer term had expired, it took society a long time to settle down to ite normal condition. In 1800 the Deka of Kent began the erection of the present, citadel in Halifax, first re- moving the old insecure fortifications and then building the massive walls that now enclose the fort. A conspicuous mounment of his Royal Highness still remaining 15 the scptare wooden clock tower below the &cis, throaty above the middle of the town. It iny interest good livers to read what wines are used as a rule at the table of the Emperor of Germany. When the members of the family eat alone, says a man who discovered the secrets of the imperiat table through an interview with the (mutt butler, Rhine and Moselle wines are served. At festive dinners Madeira port wine and ober- ey are served with the soup, German spark. Ung wines with the fish, and Rhine wtnes and red winos with the more substantial courses. French champagne also ornaments the bill of fare at great court dinners, al- though the etnperer would gladly use Gen man champagne Were it good enough. Old Tokay and Museat Lunel are aerved with the last course. Bea is nota favorite bever- age of the emperor. -- FlanTliree Years a quern. P.A.TRIO'Llfa nv strtssos. Every country Inc ite traieers an well las Ito marital:it' and every oottotry has both traitors andpatriots in times of peace as well as in them& of wee, 'Prai torisin an tl pat rice, Limn are not confined to tnilitary ffiaetatica. Won. Besides the trotters and the potrInte of camps and battlefields there are those of parliaments and also of polling booths, The !titter aro the more consequential to abont the same degree that e °A'S howl is of highot importenae than its claws, The best friende and worst Lam of the state are to be forted in its commonalty rather than 10 its army. A true patriot thinkas well Its fights for his country, He strikee ideas aa well as blows. On the other hand that mau is more to be feared who casts a triton's vote than he who simply wields a traitor's sword. The old national pastimea of war and strife aro fast going out of date and a now field of work is marked out foe the modern patriot. This work is to further the interests of so. ciety,morallyamd materially,ancl to strength- en and support social organization and give stability to its laws. In every notion there are to be found men who advocaats or passively submit to certain political measures which aro essentially hurtful and dishonouring, per. hapa suicidal to the etate. This may arise from sheer hack of patriotic haerest or per- haps more frequently from unthinking, (thaitormis,) and submissive adherence to some untested party doctrine, however such doctrine has arisen, The clangors which threaten any state lie not so much without as within. It is evi- dent in the light of reason and of experience that it is quite possible for a nation to °Wise its own ruin by a wrong course of policy. And it may thereby forfeit its own inde- pendence which are essential to national prosperity and growth. In this manner great empires sometimes cast themselves upon the rocks. Such occurs more frequent. ly then the unprovoked destruction of one nation by mother. History confirms this fact. The greatest dynesties of the past fell by thea own hands. Among dead empires there are not so many martyrs as suicides. Unwise policy along with moral decay, (often resulting from the former cause, brought upon them their ruin, and thus they perished having steered themselves upon the reef of destruction. The fact of this greet national danger renders necessary the highest patriotisen and intelligonce attain- able by the people of a nation. The prinei. plea of social order, progress and orgeniza- tion and the conditions of national develop- ment should be intelligently interpreted and patriotically adhered to by each of the nation. To reach this high state of social development is one great aim of secular and moral education. Patriotism is the first necessary condition, intelligence is the second. When those two qualities are present in the people, the material safety and welfare of the state are i mused. Add to these, high physical and moral cutters and we have the notional ideal. We have at present to speak of patriotism. Abstract qualities aro troublesome things to deal with, Let tis talk itt the concrete and define a patriot. A patriot is a man or womans—a eitizen of the state—who loves his or her country in return for the benefits derived frotn his or her citizenship and who generously acts for the national good and in defence of national rights. A national body may well be compared to an individual one. It is made up of different marts performing different functions yet all organized for the defence and welfare of the whole. Each pert fulfils Its own sphere of action as in the individual organ- ization. If an individual. member ()fettle national body fails to do his or her part as euch that Person is like a paralyzed arm or dead nerve, useless and unprofitable to the whole. Such is a traitor. Patriotism is one of the noblest qualities possessed by man or woman. It is essen- tinily the quality of a generous .ane noble - minded beteg. It is one of the best tests of unselfishness. Patriotism implies the sac- rifice of self if necessary for the good of all, end is thus shnply one phase of getter• osity or unselfishness. If we wish to instil patriotism into tho hearts of mon we must oultivate unselfish- ness, and patriotism will naturally follow. The soul that is naturally unselfish will be naturally patriotic. Thus how needful it is that the moral culture of grow- ing genoretions be faithfully,attended to, that ell that is noble and generous ht the child be developed in acconditnee with the requirements of senior education. Love, like the light from a hatminous body, extends in all directions and. the soul th,it loves its home and its immediate surround- inga will naturally love the land of its nativ- ity. In this truth we discern the guiding light of most aulthre as to the development of pititriotistn. Intelligens:a, knowledge, freffithought, etc. are all necessary to the building up and itting of the individnal for Society, but above all lot moraPoniture be advanced itnd faithfulness be as far ao is possible celiolvated in the minds of the pro- geny of the land. Then Isbell the state be upon a safe foundation. A nation which is composed, of faithful, unselfish people will flotirish and prosper Where its selfish, um patriotic neighbors are low in the dust. BismaEttvia, P O., Ont. beentali Sitelclon's Adventure. One of the most remsektuble incidents cf airs.'Vreefelt Sh'eldon's journey to Blillnan• jaro was the oireurn-navigatiou of Lake Chola, the small sheet of water 'which fill the °eater alt volcano a short ; istanee the ettst of the base ofKimaweezi. This beautiful lake was fleet discovered by one of the earliest missionary explorere of this region (New), who descended th the edge of the water—afeat that Thomson some yeansuftentvarcle seems to hay thought im- possible. The 'naives have, ho over, always held that there Was 1 way down this almost perpendioulan sides of tho orator, ithd only three or four years ago epothor missionaty explorer succeeded in makin the descent 'Mrs. Sheldon was not, however, content merely to touch the waters of this inysteri- ous lake. A party of Russian sportsmen hrid loft behind them at Kilnuanjoro n sort of pontoon boat in Emblem, which had eventually ennui tido the posseesion of ilir. Keith Anstruther, opaline Sootehmen; Who WaS at 'Peyote when Mrs. Sheldon arrived there. Mr, Ansteuthee suggested elle daring project or lawn:doing this boat on the waters of Lake Ueda, end Mrs. Sheldon at once offered to loin him in the attempt There sena a difficulty in obtaining porters, for local superstition is buy tvab the crater lake, which was once—the story runs—the elle of a greet Masai villager that was utter. ly destroyed whon the eruption took place which teaselled itt the intonation of the pees sent bale. This difficulty W0.5, however, at length ovetcome, mid after great danger and fatigue the edge of tho lake was reached, fund the bent -was found to be but slightly injured by its' rough jotweey. It is probable that Mrs. Sheldon if Iter health permits ana elle is back In Endlend in time, will read et paper deseriptive 1 'we teetatett in her journey at the Cardiff meeting of the Bristill Assosiation in August, No Bnoh Thing as Luck. "You young people,' said a successful banker, " are fond of talking of luck and olutnee. As for myself, I do not believe in either. "Each year that I live I am more im- pressed with the order and meaning whiell underlie events—the least as well as the greatest. Under this inexorable law the timeliest incident in our lives works for our good, if we try to do right. If you live Mng enough to look back, and are observing and thoughtful, yoa will find this to be true. " There was a certain snow -storm, for exempla, which for twenty years I regarded as the unluckiest accident of my life This is a true story, remember. At the time of this storm I was a young man just beginning my buainess career as a clerk in the employ of a large firm of cotton brokers. " A heavy hall storm had broken down he telegraph wires coming into the place, anal was bidden to take a dispatch to the nearest city, and send it by wire to New York. The suceess of &large venture which the firm had tnade depended on it. "I set out in a sleigh with a stout pole of horses ; but the fleeciest snow storm I ever knew set in, and before I had inade half the distance to my destination the dritts Were impassuble. '1 was forced to turn back, As I plow- ed my way through the night and storm, I heard a feeble cry for help, and found buried in the snow by the roadside a wotnan and her child, nearly frozen. The almhouse was near, and I managed to reach it with them. The mother died that night, but the ofild lived a.nd remained in the almshouse. " I oould not send the dispatch. In con. sequence our firm lost a third of its capi- tal, and in the financial embarrassment that followed I was thiown out of employment and went to the West. " Fot years, as I said, I regarded that storm as it cruel accident. "But when I look back at 1 now, I find that the loss of money u as but a temporary matter, which affected no human life seri- ously. The firm recovered front the shock in a, year or two. My luck' forced me to exert myself as I never bad done before, and now avenues of success opened before me. "The boy,who would have died if I had not been driven back by the storm, was a thin, nervous little fellow, full of energy and courage. He pushed his way through school and college, became a specialist itt medicine, and has ir.ade scientific discov- eries which have benefited the civilized world; • "We gremble against fate whenever our plans aro clefated by what we call ac- cident or luelc. Ib is not iu a day, perhaps, nor in a year, possibly not in this life, that we shall see the wheat) meaning of the defeat. Bet God sees it, incl I om store means the defeat as a part of our educa- tion in life." june '20th was the 53rd anniversary of the coronation of Vietoria as Queen of England, and the day was duly celebrated by Englielt- men the world over. lielow wilt be found a list of the more principal events of her reign t— Tlie rebellion in Canute, 1837.8. The Afghan War of 1839-42. The war with China, 1840, The Queen's marriage with Prince Albert Feb. 10, 1840. The repeal of the corn laws, 1845. The Irish famine, 3847. The Chartist agitation, 1848. The Crimean war. 1853.5. The geab Sepoy re- bellion, 1857.8. The taking of the direct evernment of India in 1859. The expedi. won against Mexico, 1861. The reform bill, 1867. The Abyssinian expedition, 1808. The disestablishment of the Irish Church Jan. 1, 187). The settlement of the " Ala Immo elettns," 1871. The growth of Home Rule Longue, 1873. The purchase of the Suez Canal, 1875. The thecking of Russia M the Russo•Terkish war and the acquisi- tion of Cyprus from Turkey in 1878. Irieh troubles since 1880. The Zulu difficulties, 1881-9. Annexation of New Guinea, 1884. Marriage of Princees Beatrice, 188°. The Sir Charles Dilke scandal, 1887. The Africon troubles, 1887-8. The Whitethapel murders, 1838.80. The Queen has had nine children : Vic- toria, the dowager Emprass of Germany ; Albert Edward, the Prince of 'Wales; Alice, the Grand Duchess of Hesse ; Alfred, the Duke of Edinburgh ; Princess Helena, Princess Louise, Arthur, the Duke of Con. naught ; Leopold, the Duke of Albany, and Princess Bentrice. -- Toilet or Austria'e emperor. The Austrian court does everything meg saficently, and the toilet of the emperor le presided over by the Chevalier de Bask - or, a descendant of the noble general who led the attack on the Turkish garrison of Pesth in 1686, and whose posterity has figured honorably in nearly every great wa- in which Austria has since been anger& Even the barber, a term by which he ts never know, is 0 neblerman'the Count clu Mattoon havIng been reisedbo that title in order to qualify him for his duties at the polace, for no plebeian can lay hands on the Anstrian emperor, writes n correspondent The Count dit Faueon is not a 'native of A tstrie, Ma a Saxon of birth. He was matinee by thefocsigtl itoqmcrnl artirit, who was also a man of lige, and ho is said to be -one of the most expert of his' trade hi the world„. He is, of ,eituree, of pjelaeinn origin. Ho. is somethiug of a doctor, as well as e hair trimmer, anil the' ltnitter is' said t6 spena many'an hoer .under the making in- fitience sI hie nuthiPuletions. ' Shoes the death 01..11rjpeessRod01p1? Nreectie Joseph lute beeibP11cd1Wily1.aiih1eet tO -headaches and shnilar ailments and his barber's min- istrations are more effective than it physi- eian's in driving away the pains that, op• piess him. The Collet du Femme has apartments in the paleces, both ett Vienna and 13tide, and is treated as ct, prominent, 0,111241i net a loading, °eget offioiel. As rranets Joseph , wears to full beard there is very little use for the razors 8.011MBE DRINK. Allixtures Tani Taste Well but Are Net Al. reholle, All theao are hannlese home dritika for uso 1 Itot weathets Not one of them cote tat tis alcohol. Almond milk is a delleimis beverage. Take throe dozen fresh almonds, blanehed, and pound to paste • two bitter almonds, blanOlted, and pounh to pule ; two lumps of intgar, me pint of vetaten. Mix one gill of boiling water with the almonds. When you hove pounded them in 05 mortar strain, return to the meter and poend with MOM water until you have need a pint In nil; sweeten to Mate. Fruit alleebets are now being sold at con. fectioners' stores, but they can be as easily made at home. Menlo any ripe fruit and pass it first through a coarite, then through a fine sieve. To every quarb of juice add a quart of stater and sweeten with powdered suer. When the ettgar is dissolved strain again and keep in the refrigettator until wan tad, Mulled olden Is ta cool and refreshing 'rink. In order to make it take one Tout of cider, eight eggs and a few grains alapice. If the cider be hard reduce it with water and put it to boil with tile tallspice; neanwhile beat the eggs light in to large pitcher, pour the cider on the eggs, and pour from one pitcher to another until it has a fine froth on it ; grate a little nutmeg on each glass no it is poured out. Russian tea, another cooling drink, is nude like ordinary tea, but Emceed in small glaesee with thin slices of lemon floating in them. It is to be augured to taste and taken Ice cold. Cambric tea is made from ono pint of fresh milk and the same of boiling weber; sweeten. to taste. In olden times this was known to Western people aa tea kettle tea. Cocoa, nibs is composed of one quart of boiling water, two ounces ot cocoa nibs and one quart of fresh. mills. Wet the nibs with little cold watermela to the boiling water, cook one hour and a -half, strain, add the milk, heat to boiling and take front the Ile. Lemon water ice is made from the juice of six lemons to each quart of water: the rind of a lemon grated and steeped in a lit- tle tenter s• the water strained, and a little of this added to the juice improves the flavor; sugar to taste, alwaye bearing . in nind that freezing diminishes the strength of sugar, and that Water requires more su„ear than either cream on a ilk ; then heat, Stir and freeze as for ice cream. SOME WORDS or rAsatoN, T;15 txtertsic mom.s. There 15, as a general rule, but little ehange if any, at this time of the year, Mitch iR graphically described as the " dead season," yet, nowadays, fashion's variations arc se numerous that certain modifications wed evevy month in elutpes and Omuta, DA is always our Mita, be noted as they pre- sent themselves. Von example, there loan apparent ehange ho the length of the eide.pieees, yet, on thorough investigation of this iseemingelten Minn of long sitheeffects, 1 will be found that it 1 the house dreesee—now termed "at home" dressed ottani widish this number eo05. tains the novel examples —and not the street costumes and Other dresses that aro thes shortened at the sides, and that this (Mange is simply to admit of the additional effoot of long lime ilounces added around the Waist, or of pleated or gathered ruffles of a Seeena material, as, fon example, chiffon muslin or pleated silk. Nov M. if MET'S. The very change noted above shows itself mainly, at preeent, in thin fabrics suited to the heated term, and constitutes one of tho prettiest and most desirable of the Wade of garniture that fashion has issued for many months. It may, indeed, truthfully be mad that the development of !artistic knowledge of dressof historic a'p- r'odsisbeginningtoevince itself in a clear clenionetrati up, showing an advance in the perfecting of shape, the true meaning of garniture as an aceessory apply- ing mainly to color, but occasionally useful as to form, and of many minor yet impor- tant Inettera. Creme a la rose is a delicious ice now sold at the uonfectionerst Take two quarts of rich, fresh cream ; sugar and rose water to taste ; cochineal in sufficient quantity to give a fine me calor; yolks of twelve eggs. Heat the cream boiling hot, stir in the sugar, flavoring and coloring; have ready the yolks, well beaten ; add the crown to the yolks, little by little, stirring continually ; strain, cook a bain marie—which means in one yes - set inside of another—until it thickens, and when cold, freeze. Kirsch is made by taking a pound of wild plums, mash them, take out the stones and crack them ; throw them into a gallon of artandy ; let them steep a, month, filter, and you have the famous Kirsch Sirup added to taste makes a delightful cordial. Orgeat is made from half a pound of al needs, blanched and pounded in a mortar and mixed with a little rose tvater said a quart of boiling water, When nearly cold strain, sweeten and flavor with rose water. UM TO BB HAPPY IN Trig OITY. Gni, of the first factors in the happinese of the woman who must remelt) in the city during the seminar, is to treat her household " godm as if She Were to leave thenl far awhile, bet her put away that pert of her plunishs ing withal accumulates moth and ruat, and rtslIo for tedious dustings. Then let her chence about the pictures and furniture, remembering that the WOMen who filled the insane asylums of New England, came from the fantilten whose rookingehairs wore groves Ito the same breadths of the Wife carpet& for generatiens, Gently swaying drapery often proves to youv senses that air in stirring when you be- lieve it not, The substitution of light hang- ings in place of heavy portieres and curtains is to be comniended on Nibs score, if on no other. 'Atkin one of the many hints Na- ture gives, let these draperies be leaf -green, the coolest, most restful of colors. Linen covers cool the brilliant hues of the (Maks and sofas. Scarfs, boleti, bags and the hand -painted varieties have been placed out of sight. The room look larger, cooler, and altogether more habitable. For your living -room choose some room which you have used the Iowa during the winter, Take up the carpet ; have it °leen- ed, end pid away in tar paper. If matting is Ism expensive—although rolls of forty yards can noW be beught for tee, seven and six dollars, and will last for years —havo the floor painted, The material and worin for an ordinary room will cost about four dollars. In either ease, your work will bu greatly lightened. After dressing for three hundred morn- ings, with the same wall-pi:1.1>er staring you in the face and the Male chairs seluting your waking gaze, common sense suggests an exodus. If vou are living in close querters, borrow a room front another member of the household, giving yours in exchange, and. you will go back to your own bed M autumn declaring it to be the besb in the world. Now that your surro mdings are changed, why not conaiaer the question of your ae- sociations t Seeing new faces ancl forming new friend- ships ere said to be the great delights of a vacation. The average woman lives at such higlo pressure that at the close of a winter full of philanthropic schemes'committee meetings, clubs, classes, (there'll work snd social duties, she has hard work sometimes not to hale her kind. She sighs, not for a vanished hand and the sound of a voice that is still,but for the touchofostranger's hand and voices she has never heard. To be happy in On city she must, in justice to herself, stop far a time at least, her philentbropie, sotiat and soolastic work, Lot her take a second bit frotn Nature, and find heeling, as the brutes do, in withdrawing from the herd and in quiet resting 10 familiar places. Uncon- sciously the winter's campaign, with its claims and interests, have come Et trifle be- tween the husband and wife. She has not been half as companionable as she wishes she had been. There is the very change ehe needs. Let her giveup committee monlbers and " °tutees," and devote more tint a and thought to the good man of the house. Saturday afternoon — that boon to most business men—can be made the occasion of many little outings into pleasant by-paths. A dinner in the Italien restau- rant—a description of which she has hardly had time to listen to—will be like a glimpse into another world. A demo- cratic ride on some pleasant 6ar line or stage route, will show her a city transformed ;and. her interest will be excited and her imagina- tion stirred by the groups of strangers met on every hand. It is a Met that men have more accurate ideas of comfort than women. They knowhow to enjoy themselvesin a semi - maim in fa hien unattainable to their sis- ters Their lives have not been darkened by the dreadful D's—dress, diseases sad' do- mestics. The change from the wife's complex ideas and many plans to the few broad rules which govern her husband, will both rest her and brighten hor up wonderfully. In the trunk of the ordinary tourist are to few stiff silks or velvets. Cotton gowns and light woolens obtain. One charm of the country, we say, consists in the fact that you. can wear what yen please. The truth Is, however that independence is nowhere so openly declared in these matters as in a large city, provided always that good taste be not violated. Style—that depostic ruler—now decrees thalcool, cotton gowns, simply made, re suitable for all occasions. If the woman who stays at home dresses as simply as she does in the country, she need not fear sun, dust or heat. If she hkes to read, no country town or hotel can yield her the treasures the city libraries hold. The sloops are not as hot and crowded. as they wore in the winter, and her own home is in better sanitary eondition than most summer resorts. Her own bath- room, the Turkisit bath, and the drug -store near at hand, are blessings not to be despis- ed ; while, who can measure the comfort of the thoutt that there, 1 a doctor on the. file character ofWW00:17:s is, in the tnain, unchanged, and will prebably remain so till the fall, the adopted effects being, in this respect, so varied already that there is a wide field tor choice and it would seem that, a statute.° shape 'nest, be found for every figure. Fvonts may be gathered morass the shoul- ders diagonally and lap under a belt, and, on such a crossing, n. wide frill may be dis- played, cut with selvage finish, Wide backs, sueli as now are preferred, ate often shirred at tile beltdine. A novel :node for dressee of silk shows a full pleating on the high shoulders, and no darts, there being a mimic under -arm form on the side. 51.1i5VEs. - Those which are full at tho elbow have a gathered frill below. The pagoda shape is greatly favored. The sleeve is still extended as far as it is possible to bring it cloven, and is seen quite down to the knucklss on nuiny thin dresses for home as well as street 0W - tomes, this effect being produced by mattes of lace, muslin, or fluted gauze, net, or rib- bon. Passementerie, on dresses of a fabric admitting of its use, is brought down as low on the hand as ean be done without absolute distortion of the sleeve. SKIRTs. Flat coat skirts are sob on the hips where the bodice is lengthened in an effect already noted by us both in illustration and &scrip. tion. This very full gathering on the edge of the waist tends to make the waist a:Lapeer much slimmer and is apparently gaining so much favor as a be likely to recommend it for one of the fall effects, Belted skirts are much seen. The materi- al is attached toe wide belt, in many dresses, whioh fastens over a. round bodice, or there may be a shallow belt over which is a deep corselet. In gowns of India silk where tho bodice is gathered and has several rows of shirring around the waist and the edge doubled under to form a frill, a full skirt is seen, having panniers made by a lengthening of the side - breadths which are then dropped in a slight effect of puffing. On sueh skirts, a recent effect is the use of two or three rows of insertion as garniture at the hem, below which trimming one, two, or three ruffles or flounces are often used, giving to a silk so thin as the India or China more body and dressiness. The edge of a skirt may. have a little frill of only one or two inches in depth and this garniture is among those inost used. The effect of complete plainness and cling- ing closeness as to thefront breadth, although retained in cloth and quite often as to gowns of silk, is set aside very often w en thin materials are made use of to give the great- er grace and lightness and full effect -to be denvecl from the obove-eited gathering of all the fullness of the skirt upon the lower edge of the bodice, which is elways length- ened in such a Cage, coming well dawn upon the front and bask in points, of which there atm frequently four, two being on the hips. This effect solves the problem by which a pretty omit becoming fullness Is to be had in a thin meterial, sech ns barege, grena- dine, net, piece -lace, and muslin, while the grotesque bunching about the very line of tho belt itself, where nature slopes the figure statuesepiely, is everted. Let us hope that it will never return to the archives of fash- ion, es the slenderest and most girlish figure loses all grace, picturesqueness, and lightness by its adoption. . 035.T BODICES. The ocathodicte is now put out, in many recent effects—as noted in this number oe other pages—into five well-defined peints falling beneath the belt -line either with or withoet a frill of lase, silk or muslin be- neath theft These -points are frequently adorned with it broad. or merrow trumning of metal gimp, or with scallops, scrolls, or simple straight rows ot braid., Very initiate rows of very narrow lace aro also used, three or fotir being the number, or, agein, on plain gingliams, rows of the pretty cotton or linen braids. The Triple &Mame. The Dreibund (which being interpre • ed moans alliance of three) has been renewed for six years. As is well known to all familiar with current history the psalm to the league are Gerninny, Austria; and Italy, The alliance is Bismarcles conception and west formed simply for a defensive purpose, the great statesman believing that a triple league between the countries above named and uniting formidable military and naval forces would be a guarantee of peace in Europe. And at the time the league was entered. into Germany and Italy were ax. tremely anxious that peace should be main. tisined, the. former in order that ahe tnight assure the firm possession of tho territory she heel acquired in 1870, the latter that she :night strengthen her hold on Rome, e territory of no great size but of supreme importance to the State. Nor has the treaty failed in the object for which it was formed, though in order to seise Flee aemy and nttey to tho standard required by its terms, Italy has had to undertake very henvy Raancial burilens, Still there coil be no question that the respite from war which Varopo hes enjoyed for these two decades has beee in large measure owing to'the ex- istenee of this fortnielable alliance. And if as some affirm, Russia. is fast appeoaching an internal revolution that will radically (Menge the condition of things in the Czar's empire, and France is growing poorer both in men and matey, year by year, end cense- cmently less able to play the part of the aggueesor, the continuance of the treaty for a few years longer will effect the selvation of Europe ; for while it helds together Bus- sia'encl France mated are hardly able to attack it. Some entertain the fear that Italy will be disposed to break away, from the theft owing te her former un- pleasant relations With Austria, to the (lit; ferenee in tare between the Italians on the ono hand and the Get:mans on the other, to the difference in the .popular opinion regarding tnilitary service (the Germans accepting subservience, to menarch5 as belonging to order of things, whores the Italians must be convinced ef their duty the scatter at every election and at every Parlittment), to the excessive taxation necessery to keep up the army ana the navy—that for those masons the ocirde whichbiud the sunny lend to thoother powers are compnentively weak ond liable 10 be seta, Mod et any moment, These fears would no doubt be well grounded had the treaty re- mained ite it Was. But important modiii. (Dittoes appear to have been Made in eon - motion withitsrenewal, moditiootionewhich, while they do not destroy the integrity of theleague, moterially lightest the burdens of the two weaker powers. According to the Mafia the new treaty suppresses three elanses contained in the old, namely ; 111 That clause which camisole Italy to send three army eorpS to the Alpine frontier in the event of e, Franco -Gorman War. (P) The obtuse compelling Austria to stetion troops ort the Russian frontier in tho event of e llatsse•Gennan war, (3) Tho °Muse fixing a ininimute peace effeative force of Daly and Austria. Thu throe powers, however, mutually guarantee the integrity of their respect -tee territories, ISTO rtlit, however long, is safe that does not match a thmight that is still longer, — Parkhurst. The first proof of a InaME$ incapacity for auything in lds endeavouring to fix the stig- int of failure upon others, -0, riestaeh, A despatch front Washington states that Secretory Rusk has revoked the. (seder by which Canadian sheep and swiue sont' into that country were required to remain in querantine at the frontier for fifteen days. This revotation was eltieto the fact that the Canadian government has estalaliehed os aimilar quarantine on all sheep and swine nupOlted.int0;the,Dontinionfrdin Great Bri- tain and the continent ffi Europe. All that is now tequived by the Washmgton author- ities is that their veterinary officers shell inspect the animals impontea MOM the case of any that have been brought. into Canada certificates shall be prodneed showing them to haVe been duly quarentined. ,Thisvirtos ally places the trade in thelesamitnale on the same footinfi it occupied previous to the lin - position of the restrietive regulation. The advantage to the lamb trade, whieh the farmers have found 50 profitable Lucent years is obvious. The New York Worlds dispesed to guar rel with certain writers in the North Amer: - ran Review, who are oaerying on a disous- sten concerning the responsibilities end ob. Itgations of math, because they have not expressed themselves with equal fullness cannoning other gifts and talents. Says the IFor/e/ ; ' The power of wealth ls not the fittest possessed by humanity. There ore men in the world who have a larger end finer influence than that wheal Money gives, Thorp aro gifts of tongues, of spirituality, of dominant intellect. "Inie poot and musician sing more happiness into the souls of men than tho gonerotts rich man sato buy for his wands. Thor° are thoustands in sae time who in every Material sense have been fail- ures 010 the world, but who hove lott to the after -coming generations a spirituel blessing rieltsr and more beneficient Wan endowed hospitals and sehoole of learning." All of winch may be perfectly true and yet it does not alter the Sact that money is a great power and thittili Carries WWI it tvemendbus responsibilities, nor does it aline the further feet Nutt it is ponfectly logitionate for moral- ists to discuss any single talent rind its ob. ligations without bringing in to the discus- sion the mature wed ectaponsibilRies of other Whets with which the one might be com- pared. Had the writere in the Reviewsought to belittle the influence and power of those elite to which the World refers there had beim some retteon for the °Wootton: This however they have itot due, Lot the Werfel be patient and probably when the moralists have had their say &Writ money they will take up the other talents which for the time Mug they have ignored, Ono cannot say everything at enee, Her 11InJestes Fattier tutiatundu: About seven miles west of the centre of Halifax, Nova &Min, near the head of Bedford Basin, is beautiful spot, pow used as a picn1c! groutul, which every Haligonian knoWs as' the Prineo's Lodge." Ws part of the estate in the old times lensed by Sir John' Wentworth to the Dnke el -Kent for his royal residence diming the seven years that 'Prince, the father of Queou Victoria, lived in Nova Seetia, Sir Jobe Weetworth had his smeary mansion them and calledit in antigen to ltoinoe and " Frian Laurence's 'Clell." The Doke enlarged the origiuml house uutil it was a fine two.storied villa, somewhat in the Italian style, with extensive wings at the north and south end a great hall caul drawingrooms in the centre, Boole of the house Nvere stables for his horses, and the rounds, though etistic, and having all the marks that lambent had originally pet upon them, contained many chamoieg suPptises. His Royal Highness, who was at this time commandee of all the fermi:in North Amnion, had a telegraph bat- tery on an adjoining hill, bymones of which he coeld send his orders to the citadel in town, In the neighborhood of the lodge wore artificere of various sorts, se that the place was like to little feudal town. Indeed, the Princes himself used to pub his hands to the jack.Plaue or drive the ernes -cut caw, niocb r !Riley there wee little' that wenb on that he did not personally over. see. He was if strict disciplinarian, but was very kind and affable' in-sootal life, and especially intereated in young men, for whom he often did numb. lIis life bad not boon a luxurious ono, and he in - limited many of the simple tastes of lois next bloc The Oar's Big Dog. One of the striking figures in the Rns- sitan palace at Gat:Boffin& is the greet Danish hound that stretches his powerful frame in the hallleading to the private apartments of the °zee. This gt..eat dog is said to be the largest of its species in the woria, and was presented to the czarina, about four years ago by her father, the King of Denmark. kis staid that the czar took a liking to the animal front the start, and never goes any long ;journey without his company. Having but little confidonee in those about him, he seeing to oentre his faith in the dog as ti guerclian of unfailing fidelity, and the dog apperently reeiproaates the attachment It was reported last Sumter, when Nihilist rumors were rife and documents of a threat- ening mature found their way to the very table of the czar's private cabinet, that the autocrat of all the Hussies permitted the Mend to sleep in the hell adjoining his bedroom. For some unexplamea reason the dog became veny suspicious of one of the guardsmen, and growled contintitilly when this man was put on duty es a senti- nel in the pekoe Nothing could be shown and nothing WW1 suspected against the man, Mit to stalsfy the clog he was withdrawn from seutry duty. In the ease of another sentinel it WaS reported in St. Petersburg that the hound leaped upon him and nearly tore him to pieces the first time he saw him. The czar, hearing the cries for help, went to the door of his apartment and hastily called the dog, which obeyed his stunmons. The sevitinel was found 1 bo sadly lacerated, The czar directed that the injured man should he cared tor and oompeesated, but else ordered that Ito never be permitted to enter the 5,01.0e0 again. The autoerat Inc faith in the Aft gaeity of the dog, whieb he lute named Peter, after the founder of Rimiest groat nese. FOR STLIZ DitflusEs. In drams of changeable silk it is, et present, very much the mode to use a yoke of lace which deeply mire od beneath the arms. An edge ef passementerie is set atthe part whero the yoke joins the dross material. The fullness nt the top of the sleeves may loci formed into a " true -lover's knot " shape by shirring, the shirring being earriea down beneath it, quite as low 00 the elbow in stylish eXaMples. There is it groat aced of variety in the topofaleevee as alreedy stated by us ie form. en nunthere where illustrations ewe given of certain notatbe examples which axe now ealopted, StiXott Sashes have takenagein the thane of deep folds without entis, eita 1.thhee, is arranged abort the hips, on thin dresses, in a way which siinulates the effect of the deep.set "Cleopatra" girdle, This folloWing of all Hgyptirui °Foots will certainly endure tioobll the fell, and, having a claseical end histori. cal grace to recommend them, it is more than likely theft, in the present advanced sante of desiga as applied to foshien, they will hold on till the whiter, and dint we shall eve them foo molly nett accessitoriem of gathiture as well as in shape, rivet. fly—. " Are reigning to the pienio Scooral tly-s." Whetter li'irst fly--" In N next room, There's a babl.heatintlillati aelee in there,"