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Ras or BOYALTI.
THE BRUSSELS POST.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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,"