Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 5, 1874, Page 10

-~ 1¢ THE ‘CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, APRIL 5, 1874 ‘METROPOLITAN ‘[ODES. Easter Gowns, and Holy-Week Finery. Raiment Adapted to Devotion-The Aumen-- icre a Purt of Every Cosfume. Velvet Out of ‘Season---The Chameleon ‘Qualities ‘of ‘Fashion. Combination of Colors---The Crepe-de-Chine Scarf. » From Our Ouwn Correspondent. NEw Yoms, April 1, 1674 As sou know, wo are iwithin four deys of Easter, and, naturally, thero is much fiuttering expectation among fashionsblo people. Thoy aro, in fact, 6o busy with their vernal ontfits-as to find the "extra church-going of Holy Weok a serions and most inconvenient 1nroad upon their time. They know they can be olothed without being good; but ther do not believe they can be good withont being clothed. The westher, though very bright and pleasant, I8 not warm enough to ronder thoe wearing of EASTER COSTUMES analloyed delight ; therefore it is probable that 1nany, perbaps & majority, of the new suits, will bo of black eilk. The use of black silk is getting to be like the would-be wit's advice to the learner of whist: When you don’t know what'to play, pley a card. When you don't know what to wear, wear black silk. While it renders strects and drawing-rooms disagreeably monotonous in tone to have twenty-four out of every twenty-five women draped in black from head to heel, yet so much a matter of habit has it become here that the native metropolitan is inclined to set down every woman who appears in a colored street- dress a8 from the *country,—i. e., from any spot on the globe except the Island of Manhattan.” A most pleasurable relief to the eye, now and then, is to see something of other than sable hue; and, for the sake of variety, a few gray, and brown, and blue, and brooze dresses have'been prepared to be shown next Sunday. ECCLESIASTIC ELEGANCE. A beautifal church-costume of silver-gray sillc ig in tbig form: The skirt is very narrow,=not more than threo'yardsand & guarier at 'the widest,—aund just rests upon the ground. Around the bottom is a biss flounce twenty-four inches wide, when finished of the same as the dress. Abont two inches and & half from the top of the flounce is inserted s four-inch band talso bias) of eilk, two shades darker than the tint of the dress. Then the flounce is shirred through the strip of dark,—the threads abouf balf an inch apart,—which gives the effect of & ehirred band set on the flonunce; when really it is .part of the flounce itsclf.” The bottom of tho flounce has & four-inch facing of the darkest &ilk turned up on the outride, with two pipings—one of each shade Zineerted between the upper edge of the facing and the flounce. Obviously, the two and & half inches of the light silk left above the shirred band forms a rafled head to the flounce, and is linod with the darker silk, which just shows ebove the edge. The costume is without an overskirt, and,'as thera is quite & plain space between the begin- ning of the flounce and tho end of the jackef, it ‘has, of course tobe’ covered by some kind of trimming. For this purpcee are employed two six-1uch, ghirred bends, combined of the two shades, after the manner of the up- per part of the flounce. The jacket, "of the Eamo length all round, fits ¢moothly over tho hips, falls abont fourteen inches below tho waist, and baitons to the edce in front. ‘It hes in front a plastron, of the darker shade of silk, reaching from where the revers tarn away at the neck to the bottom of the jacket, and being practically the same &8s s vest. The edge of tho jacket is finished by tws soft, covered cords,—one of each shade,—~whilea deh- cate double-edged Chantilly lace, three inches wide, follows the outline of the plastron, turns o square corner when it reaches the bottom of tho juoket, passcs under the cords till it reaches the back seam of the jacket (which is slashed), then is brought up the openivg, and gathered into & full rosette at tho waist-line. The peck hss a plaited fraise,—of the light silk lined with the dark,—which extonds abont half-way round when tho piece is turned. inside out, the -edge being sewed to the Vof the neck, and turned flatly back aiter the mancor of & revers_collar. Indeed, these combinations of ruff aud collar, or-lapels, are the most ,stylish mode of finishing necks. The eleeves of the jacket are naturally cost-shape, with curiously-contrived plaited cuffs of the darker shade of silk. The buttons are of_carved, smoked pearl,—very pretty, and decidedly expenkive. . THE AUMOSIEELE. - There! T had nearlv forgotten the anmoniore, which ig, just now, pari of every costum2. In this instance it i8' something like & shield in ehape, made of lapping folds of the iwo ehades of siik, and bordered by lace to match the jack- et. The aumoniera is charmingly suggestive of charity,—I do not remember when charity ap- ‘poaled in & prettior form,—but, alas! it is only - smggostive, for, in this Babylon, we should as £00n think of carrying our bearts in our hands 28 our purses in theso cunning devices of the modiste's art. To my taste, too great a uso of . VELVET s made in the epring costumes. When wo are, ins certain manmer, compelled to employ it throngh at least half the year, it beems a pity not to have a little variety and do without it, if only for chenge, during the other half. While velvot is not,in reslity, very warm, it looks warmer than any fabricin the world, and. in our climate, we want not only to be cool, but to look cool. The wearing of velvet petticoats, which widely prevailed in France last year, did not meet with Tauch favor hero, end is not likely to this scason, Tor once, it was discovered that a fashion is not necessarily good because it is French, and that there are certain climatic dierences which ought to modify nearly all uported styles. It is 80 eeldom that reason is brought £o bear on matters of mode that wo cannot alford to pass this instanee unobserved. MANTUAN VAGARITS. Did I tell you, last time, cr the time before, the pouf in_the back of skirts was indis- peneable? Deluded mortal that I was to truat tu anything Gallic for stability! All I can say is, thiat it wes indispenesblo a fortnight ago, but now it is already going out. At lezstso%ay the very Intest hints from Paris, wbough I oubt mot it will be back again be- fore I writo agaiv. To-day, _overskirts ‘a0 out and polonaises - quite in style; cest week, the reverse will, undonbtedly, be tho law. The ups and downs of these two gar- ments remind me more thau aught else of the contests of the houses of York and Lancaster, Now it is the Red Rose, and mow tho Whitc: 2ud, before you have time to eay which it i, it ia the other. (Tne odor of the peat-bugs, Iam aware, porvades the last sentence; but let it £tay.) 1may bave led you a¥ay in other par- ticalars, withul. Not voluntarily have I turned You ‘atray, but through my own too great fuith in that faithless monarch, the Queca of the Mantus. Have I declared, heretoforo, taat bias flounces and bias bisnds aro the vorrect way of cutting? Well, they are not. Straight flotnces and straight bands shzll alone save you iromflconnng under the odious hesd of **countri- . fied." Even striped goods, when used for trim- ming, whether verticat or horizontal, are cut so 28 to bring tho lines up and down. Doubtless you will agreo with me that this is o improve- ment, sicce no traight, full trimming can be ado to hang 80 gracefully as if cut crosswise, Let us bo congoled with the fact, however, that, if ot preti, it is new. Msshap, if it b ugl cnough, it will lessen the tendency to extrava- gant garitore ; in whick case we can well wfford n:,:‘ni:duu 8 Little present awkwardnesa for {uture It 18 rumored that wo mag still , singlo Lisck silk wiirs 1o by wors ared e " gcriptions of polandises. Pat even that stand by 13 given grudgingly, aad our enjoyment i poisoncd by the knowledge that it is higher style to have & skut, if not ehading to the tint of. at least tn a euitabl> contrast to, the polonaise, " Speaking of contras's reminds me that MARCON AND ECRU is one of the favorite combinations or tho sea- son. Ido ot sdmire it mysell, but here is a model of tue kind: The short demi-train is of - piaroon gros-grain of ratber a light quality. The tablier is covered with ehirred or elightly puffed Davds; the lower edge of each baud forming s “ mffie and lapping the upper edge ‘of the band bolow., - The shirred bands are msde-of a kind - of E which forms-the other fabric of the dress. The rufiles on_the edges of the ebirred bands are narrowly bound with the maroon sitk. The bot~ tom of the skirt is bordered from the tablier, back. by & deop straight flonnce of the silk, with a four-inch rufile of the grenadine on the edge. The, flnuncaisfiathered and beaded by & shirred *band of gronadine liko the tablior. The polonsise i8 quito simple in form, being open ia {ront, and looped high and -far back on the sides toward the tournure. It is Jined in the waist, with tho meroon, and is bordered -by a wido silk ‘lace ex- sctly matching the tint of the ufirealdme; the Iace being headed bya very full aund deeply- fringed raching of the marcon. The polonaiso had” square, page sleeves, hanging -open from the shoulder (trimmed to match the rest of the garment) over a very close coat- sleevo of the maroon, simply bordered abont the hand with s full box-plaiting of the grenadine. The V neck hay a full-plaited fraise of the grena- dune, lined.with the ik, and i3 open 8o low in front as to require an sbundant and fluffy ioner- roff of tulle. A3 sou sce, the ides of this costume is wholly -French, though not wholly in_good taste, aocording to our tamer tenets. Even Paris has grown demorslized in matters of toilet,—suflering from her war, a8 wo did from ours,—and has atmost come to believe that to be etriking is to be elegant, But, what- ever we think of the combination, the above is & very good model of its kind. THE LATEST CAPRICE in o comparatively-unimportant matter is a crepe- de-Chino scarf frora half to three-quarters of & vard wide and threo to four vards lovg. It #honld be bordered on three sides by a matching iringe, and siiould itself match the color of the dress-trimming. When ordinarily worn in the louso, or in the street, it is gathered in graceful plaits on the ehoulders, and sometimes in the middle of the back, The endsare frequently crossed on the bosom, and, spreading out flat, pats_under the arms, and are caught together behind on the tournure. When worn with evening—dress, the searf is used ag an apology for an overskirt, the unfringed edge being fastened by a few ekillful laits to the belt in front, and tiie ends carried Euk and tied loosely over the train. The scarf ig prettier and more effective in this form than in the other. FURBELOW. Fashion Items. 5 From the New York Bvening Mail. 2 Mascaline coats are io ba worn by the ladies next summer. ‘They are tho invention of Piu- gat, the only acknowledged rivel of -Worth in the Fronch capital. —A new necklaco is made of blocks of Roman gold, four inches squsre, fastencd by chains of the gold. They are unique, but rather over- whelmng. i 5 —Our wives, mothers, and sisters are wearing vests,—reul masculine waistcoats,—to be more explicit. They are made of. bright-colored 'silk or eatin, sud ave intended for evening wear. All kinds of trimming can be used. . —Many of the ladies are disappointed with the new bonpet. It is a nondescript sort of an af- fa1r, and it is difficalt to tell whirh is front -and which ig back. The grapes, grass; aud varions flowers give it arural appearance, at all events. —Strings, and ivnumerable sards of tapa (not aed tapo), form the mode of drapery with the spring costumes. Each and every. string has to bo puiled just 8o far, and tied just 8o lugh,othor~ wise your drees will present a ridiculons appear- ance. . —Colored silk handkershiefs are a new whim among the would-bo fashionable - demoiselles. Scarlet and Llue appear to be the most popular colors. - The handkerchiefs are made to *stick out” from the ontside pockets now the rage, which only goes to prove that they are fashiona- ble only to show and not to use, —Parisian bouquets of artificial flowers are now the rage, and used extensively by ladies_at balls, parties end the opera. They are exquisite, and, after close inspection. dificult to detect from natural exotics. Besides, they are eco- nomical, and that i3 cortainly a recommendation in these times, at all eventis. —Among some of the ultra-fashionables it is now the correct thing to have curtains of two Qistinct and soparate patterns hung ot your drawing-room windows. You must be sure to hava the shade drawn to enable tho neighbors and passer-by to study the now fashion &t leis- ure. —Amber jewelry is ehown in many styles and designs,- and, we are assured by thiose Laving a Jarge etook on hand, will be more fashionablo 1his season than ever before. -An amber neck- 1ace of the real article is s magnificent ornament with dark drees, but the car-rings reflect” upon tho face, snd we sympathize with Miss McFlim- scy under the impression that she has the jaun- dice. —The Ulster cost business has been rather overdone the past winter. Last year they wero novel aud toos immensely amoug “Lhe imitators of Beau Brummel, but now the garment is worn by gamblers, horse-jockeys, ** professional "’ gen- tlemen, and worse characters. - If we 8ro not 1mistaken, and our memory not deceptive, the Ulster iy only woin by gentlemen in England (whera it originated) "in _traveling, or i the country, A *'swell” clad in -the Ulster would create as great a sensation on Regent strect, London, as a member of the - Boston clubs in a linen duster -and straw hat, on Washington street, in tho middlo of winter. AN INDUSTRIAL HOME FOR -WOMEN. Just now wo must admit, whether we want to or not, that women are having things pretty much their own way. We may ssy this frankly w8 giving unto Cwmsar the things that are Cmsar's; or wo may confess it with tardy words that prove our willingness to have the world look upon us.as martyrs to man's inhumanity to (wo)man. However. I want to talk to you of something real; and I want to say it as much to one sex as to the other,—to anybody and to eversbody, I don’t care who, or where, or what, s0 that they are good, generous, rich, influen- tial, &e. One would naturally suppose that, in speak- -ing to moncyed men bere, it was superflu- ous to nso the word generous as & means of des- ignaling any; since to say that a man is a Chi- cagosn, and rich, s to say, the world over, that he is generous, if not lavish, with his money. You have made fortuncs with an easo that surprised yourscives; and you have liberally aided and patronized with them amusements, literature, art, religious and-social enterprises, and all the vast epeculative Bchemes that have added io our national prosperity and our na- tional pride—bave aided and encouragod almost everything worthy, and much that was worth- less; but, of the fow things yet untouched, I plead for but one. Uppormost ever in every mind is a strong, earnest, -loving desire to help the masses of women in some sabstantial, pormanent way. Already we have churches, schools, missions, Aid Societies, an Erring Womsn's Refuge, & Home for the Friendlcss, hospitals for tho sick, convents for the world-weary, a reform school for outcasts, a Foundling’s Home, and a Bride- well,—a formidable array, to which you will poiut as you ask what more I can possibly want. I want an Industrial Home, or School, for girls and womon,—something removed far from char- ity and depondenco,—something that - shall fit them to act-well their parts in life, and teach them that truly * There all the bonor lie: Iseeno resson under the son why such an institution may not as well be self-supporting a8 s Stato Prison; and, in one sense, it would noed to be on the same plan, so far as having all trades and occnpations taught, and all kinds of Dbusiness carried on, which women 2ro adapted to, each one epplying herself, or being applied, to that which she 15 best suited to or for. -Give them a safe and pleasant home within the insti- tution; give themfood for bods and mind; de- velop the physical, mental; and moral powers of each and all ; give them plain and tidy raiment; give them work for busy fingers and brains; and, a8 both fingers and brains become educated, ex- pert, nseful, 28 soon a8 the pupils, or appreu- tices can earn apything, pay them s fair price for their labor, until they are perfect in each branch-or art; aad place a nseful life beforo them in its most attractive form, as being the sonrce of that peace *‘which patseth under- standing,”’—that is born of: honest, industrious independence, even though it should entail upon them a life of self-denial and hard work. Let the place be, ao far a8 possible, officered by women,—women with largo hearts, warm sym- atbies, broad charities,—so broad, so Chnet- ike, 60 free from tho curse and taint of ceste, 80 fres from bigoted self-righteousness, that they can take by tho hand the most humiliated Magdalen that ever crept to their door to find refage from tho sin that appalls and the shame that sickens her, and lead her back to honor and virtue ; making that posaubly here' which were impoesible elsewhere. Aake the institation, in the fullest, brightest, cheeriest sense, honulike; no prison-walls, no hated place of "confinement and drudgery ; but put in it books, pictures, flowers, birds,—all and everything that will tond to cultivate domestic tastes, refinemont, and purity. Let it be, like the homes wherein your own sous and danghters ere reared, 3 Mecca to which Memory wiil make {aithful and loving pilgrimages when they have gune out from. its ehelter,—to which, wearr, oppressed, burdened, worn ' with the cares that womarhood 5o less than manhood imposss, they baskel-work, ecrn kilk !grenadine, | can evarlook back gratefully, as does the foyer- parched desert-wanderer to the moss-brimmed spring that slopt under the feathery boughs of stately palms. Not onty shall they be fitted here by you to go outinto the world, but your protection shall still be over them, and your induenca be theirs tosidin procuring work in which they sre skilled ; and diplomas or certificates given bv tho institution shall be & passport to profitabla and desirable positions. It must be clear to your mind, a8 to mine, that this wiil he, in every Bense, & good investment. Thero may come & day to {mu dsughter.—the sheltered, petted birdie whose wants and whims are gratified ere they are expressed,—as it came to me, when riches have taken to themselves wings and flown away; when your hands, that would ever bave protected in life, lié folded over a pulseless heart, when the friends of .other and brighter days stand aloof, ‘and extend at best.and. most but pity ; when she will ry, iu her anguish and desolation, “What shall I'do? Where shall I go for help and refuge?” Join your money. and your in- fluence now witls the money and influcnce of other fathers and mothers, and ercct a home that shall stand some_day, perhaps, botween her and misery, want, and ruin. .There is no reason why this may not be 8o, if only our thinking mea and women will interest themselves in the mat- ter, and our esrnost, practical men and women will tako it in hand; but we must worl: .8s well 89 think and talk. I know money is scarce now; but you get appropriations from the Govern- ment for anythingin the world that yon want them for,—why not for this? So far as private funds and reeources are concerned, if you want the means to build a church or a theatre that costa half a million, you raige it,—why not ral a'quarter of the saméd amount for this really needed object 7 With one-half the monsey there is now invest- ed in churches, and the othier half in projects of this kind, we should be afar better, ncher, wiser people than now,—at least if we may be- lieve tho teachings of the dear Savior we profess to follow. As itis, the world pointsto two thiogs which flourish eido by side: Our extrava- antly-magnificent churches that rival St. Peter’s, and our sinks of iniquityy that rival the world. The very spires that poiot Leavenward cry up to the Throuo of God azainst the facility with whicl' we carry on, and the art with which wo gloss over and apologize for, the very vices wo preach (or hire others to) against so elo- quently. Let our young city, that sits a queen on ber throne besids. tho blue loke, crown her- self. right royally by erecting’ and putting into active operation, an institution of this sort, and ehe will have reared a monument that will do her honor for all time, and * Her daughtors will rige up and call her blessed.” GARNET B. FREEMAN. LITERARY NOTES. Periodicals received: American Nafuralist for April (Peabody Academy of Science, Salom, Mass.); Ilinois Schoolmasler for April (Aaron Gove and Edwin C. Hewatt, Normal, IlL); Chi- caqo Teacher for April (Jeremiah Muhoney, Chi- cago); Voice of Afasonry for April (Bailey & Brown, Chicago). —Tho uumbers of Lillel's Living Age (Littoll & Gay, Boston) for March 23 and April 4 contain instaliments of ‘* Far from the Maddiug Crowd,” “International Varieties,” and ‘- Disorder in Dreamland ;" the Quarferly’s review of ‘John Stuart Mill's Autobiography ;" & critical notice of “Mrs. Gaskell and Her Novels ;" etc., ete. ~—B. P, Shillaber, aliag Mrs. Partington, ig now an invalid, and asks his friends to bny a book ho has published. —Prof. Proctor is preparing & book, detailing his travels and experiences in Americs, which will soon be published. —*¢ Davy Crockett” will be thenext * Pioneer and Patriot ” immorialized by the Rev. J. S. C. Abbott, by the help of Dodd & 3Mead. —The Athenaum objests totext-booksdesigned to popularize acience in schools. Itsays: “A nonledge of scientiflo trutha may bo imparted, with advantage, to the multitude, but the study ?f a science will ever be confined to o solect ow.”" 8 —Mr. Pierce, a brotherof the Boston Congress- man, will complete the editorial labor on Sen- ator Sumner's works, the tanth volume of which is in the hands of the printer, while the material for two more volumes kras been prepared. —An international society of men of letters is rojected, and amoug the interested are Victor Yiuiu, George Sand, Heuri Laube, Paul Heyso, Alphonse * Karr, Hackleender, and Paul Feval. Laube, the Vienneso journalist, hns convoked at Vienna & congress of Austrian writers, to medi- ate on literary questions between France aud the German Empire, from which besis the interna- tional society is to rise. —Book-publishing in Japan ia surrounded by many difliculties. Works on genersi subjects have to receive the approbation of the Educa- tional Department; religious treatises must meet with the approva} of the Kiobusho, or De- partment of Religious Instruction, and naval or militery works that of the Naval and War De- partments. Educational books have to undergo the most formidable ordeal. First, thoy mnst beinspected by the Busho Gokari; next by the Dai and Shojo, and finally by the Minister of Education. _The formidably-named first ap- provers aro Bureans, whose consent must be ob- tained before the libister condescends to look st the manuseript. 5 —The * Gilded Age.” the new work which bears the names of Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner, has been carefuily studied by able critics, and they have decided that it bears no marks of the presence of the peculiar wit and wikdom which characterizo eithor of these gifted men. 1t utterly lacks Twain’s quaintuess and Warner’s breezy freahness of style. But the secret is out. It is confidently asserted that the +Gilded Age” is n gigantic practical joke. It is declared that, wishing to test the credality of the public, these two notorious wits hsd tho book prepared by soveral obscure mewspaper locsl reporters. The covenant was solemnly made that the joke was to be kept a profound secret till 300,000 copies of the work were sold. The whole story is probably a canard, but any one who, out of respect for the alleged authors, will read the book, will feel that the account is extremely probable.—St. Louis Democral. —A worlk for teaching practical geometry on a somewhat novel plan is soon to be pablished by Claxton, Remuen & Iafelfinger, Philadelphia. It is entitled * Mechanics’ Geometry,” and i8 by Robert Riddel, the author of & well-known work on band-railing. tho * Carpenter and Builder,” ete. The present work has been specially pre- pared for tho use of learners, or for mechanics who desiro to improve themselves i their craft. The directions show how the de- gigus. may be drawn, by geometric rules, for the various =angics and curves needed by the workmen. An iilusiration of. these is given on the opposite psge, printed on thick cardboard, with muslin back. The designs are cut out and lift up from the page, #o that they serve both. as o projection and & plan. As a plan, they first show Low, by geometric rules, the figures are drawn, and ther, the page taking the part of the material, how each part is to be cut ont. Onlifting the parts up from tho page and fitting them togetner the object itself is formed, every anglo and burve being mathewmati- cally corract. —At the meeting in London of the Authropo- logical Institute the following paper was read: “ Ethnological Data from the Annals of the Eld- er Han,” I'art L., travslatod by Mr. A. Wyli Shanglini, withan introduction by Mr. L H. Ho- worth. The I[mperial Chinese annals of the varions dynasties, which are yot almost untouch- ed, are distinguished by the oxtreme accuracy of their datails, and in them is to be found o minute accountof the intercourseof Cluna witb its neigh- bors reaching back in contemporary aunals to at least- the second century L. C. Tho series of Chinese annals begine properly with those of the Han dynasty, which reigoed from sbout 202 B.C. to abont 220 A. D. That was_tho golden prime of Chinese history, when the Empire reached its farthest Limits, when Buddhism was introduced, and when a great literature flonnshed. During the dypasty of Cheou, the old Impenal unity had been invaded by tie creation of various feadato- ries, who becamo almost independent. It was the aim of the immadiate predecessors of the Han dynasty to destroy those feudatories, and to restore the unity of the Empire; and to offect tha: purpose all the enciont books and histories were ordered {o be barut. The anuals in the present cemmunication contain an ac- count of the numerous conques:s from the dato of lbli elder F“}’ and emorace toe history and migrations of a large portion of the people of Central and Esstern Asa, e POSSESSION.. A poet loved a star, And tot whispered nightly, 4 Bemg 80 fair, why art thou, love, fo far? Or wity €0 coldly shine, wio thinest s0 brightly? Bacuty, w0o'd and unpossessed, 0 mizht T to this beatiug brsst But clasp thee once and theu die blest 1% That star her poet’s ove, . ) mitdly warm, made humas And, leaving for his ako har hesven above, ‘His btar stooped earthward, and becdtte a woman, * T20u who has woo'd and hust possessed, . My lover, 2uswer, which was best, The star's team, Or the Womsn's breast 77 “I miss from heaven,” the man replie R Tight that drew s rpict to fLb " And to the man the woman sigh'd, *1 miss from exrth a post.” —From % OQuen Aleredsth's ™ neic boak, .floor, and commit & thousand | aro atrainiog every nerve to save enogh moncy THE WOMEN'S CRUSADE. Opposing Views Thereupon. What One Woman Thinks. Tothe Editor of The Chicago Tribune : Sm : All questions have two sides, in politics, morals, and. religion ; 0 in the present move- ment, called the “ Women's Crusade,” against whisky. I am astrictly temperance-woran, and would cheerfally do all in my power to legitimately put an end to the production and sale of intoxicating liquors, and the untold miseries caused thereby ; butI.am opposed from principle to all such excitoments a8 the one under discussion. The history of the world produces many par- allels, and plainly points to the end that inev- itably results after the first -excitement wears off and tho work becomes an old story. The great Crusades are casos in point, where, under intense excitement, the whole Christian world rushed to arms for the redemption of tho Holy City and the Savior's Tomb from the -polluting badils of the infidel Saracon ; and with what result ? After years of war and all its at- fendont miseries, the expenditure of untold sums, and the bloody eacrifico of millions of human lives, the excitement died away; and, to this day, all they fought and dicd for remains unaccomplished, and Jerusalem is yet n posses- sion of the followers of Mohammed. * But wo need not go to the dark ages for ex- amples of such fscts. In our own country and times, how many so-called religious revivals have been called into temporary existence by the eloquonce or earnesiness of some man, who no doubt felt gincerely the truth of all he preached, and actually beiieved he was doing God servica in creating a tremendous excitement and work- ing the people up to fever-heat, so that, like somo contagious disease, a great religious revival spread over the land like a tidal wave, creating intenss excite- ment ; and, through sweot-voiced prayers, vehe- ment exhortations, and thondering denuncia- tions, working upon the feelings of susceptiblo people, until, according to their story, one would think the Millennium was actually at hand, and the whole human race was going to be imme- diately converted and become humble followers of the Cross. Young women discard their fur~ belows and vanities, tear their adornments from their parsons, and, forgetting the greatest beauty of their age and sex, screech and yell at the ex- tent of their lunga, throw themselvos upon the foolish acts, sur- rounded by the older brothers aud sisters, all talking at once, encouraging them in their ex- cesses, adding fucl to the flame of erim- inal excitement, and congratulating each other on such a wonderful display of God's power. Young men forsake their evil ways, emulato the antics of the other sex, excr- ciso their lubgs inafrantic way, discard their formor companions, and g0 on, until finally they, too, **get religion;” and oh! what bhowls and shricks rend theair over * another brand plucked from the burning.” And so it goes on while the fuel lasts and they can kecp up the excitement, until exhansted na- ture dewands repose, and the *‘good and faith- tul servants,” who have been thae cause of this groat revival rest comsplacently from their In- ors, feeling certain that they have been doing God vervice in bringing sinners to repentance, and have for themsolves esrced an etermity of glory and_the highost place in the highest Deaven, But the cxcitemcnt dies away, and, long before snother is called into existenco by the exhortations of some otber enthusinst, first one, then another, aud finally crowds of the + brands that-have been plucked,” etc., fall back into their former ways of life, and their present state is far worse than beforo. 1t is needless to multiply the instances of all similar excitements, as we can all recall many of them in our own experience; and, s we con only judge the future by the past, does it need glass of extraordinary magnifyiug power to see where this present woman’s movement will eventuate ? Alas, no! Thoy themselves furnish too many good, sound argumonts {o thair opponents to over be able to accomplish any great good by their pres- ent course. How many of these ladios are actn- ated by tho proper motive ? How many of them sincerely-feel that thoy are enzaged in a greaz aud good wark, ready to do and daro all bocause itisright ? Ido not doubt that there are many who feel deeply and sincerely all that they profess; but are not the majority—yes, I mean ihe majorily—actuated by far diffcrent feel- ings? Do they not go into this thing because it is popular, and thoy dare Dot express dissenting views for fear they will offend soms leador of their circle of society, and endanger their own position in that society ? How many, do yon supposs, are really actusted by motives of love aud piety ; by ihe true epirit of Chnstinnity ? How muny of them act upon the Golden Rule, Do unto others as you would that othors shoald do unto you ?” How many aro ready to pluck the beam from therr own eye, that they may see clearly to take tue mote from their broshor's eyes?” How many of theso women can you convinca that they are them- selves the cause of thewr husLands, fathers, brothers, and sons flying tothe intoxicating bowl for o refuge from a broken heart or a desolated Lome ? How many of these women would believe you if you shonld tell thom, ** Go back to your nomes and do your plain, God-givon duty. Make your homo & paradiso end yoursolf 1ts guardiag- angel. Moet vour husband when he returns from the toils and tronbles of bis daily struggle for bread and existence, with love and sympathy. Keep the hu}iv vow youmade at God's altar, beforo God and mau, to *love, lionor, and obey, and, forsaking all others, Keep thee only unto hin as long as ye both shall live! Give him your sympathy in his zroubie, 2ud yonr counsel in his distress,—your aid in his efforts for a livelihood. Keop Lis sccrets as sacrod as the grave, Toach his children to love and honor him. Bave his hard carnings from oxtravagant oxpenditure. Don't spend every dollar you can squeoze out of him in fashionable gewgaws, because Mrs. So- and-go bas something similar, and grumble, and growl, and scold, and pout, becsuse, wheh he ouly ‘earns ten dollars, he cannot givo you twonty,—thus making bis home & hell upon earth, which you, and you alone, caa, if you choose, render the most atiractive and happicst place under God’s heavons.” “These women expect the ramsellor, who knotws them not, and cares less for them, to yield to their proyers and give up his busi- nesa. How many of them will yiold to tho pragers and entreaties of their husbands, and give upa whun of their own; cat an inch off the filthy length of their dress dragging through the muddy &treets, stop using the poi- sonous preparations for disfiguring their feces, which they foollshly imagine gives them a fair complexion and make them objects of envy to others, while pretendiog they use them solely to remove their shining ppesrance. How many will loosen & corset-string, wear a thick-goled shoe or a docout bat; deny themselves s metw dress, or cloak, or bonnet when their husbands topsy some just and preseing debt, or make a payuent on s little houso to hold his loved ones, and that they may call their home? How many, when times are hard, business dull, and money gcarce, will deny themselves a amg‘le article, cut off a single cent of uunecessa- 1y expenditure, save a little hero and there, or lessen by one doliar their domands on their hus- band’s purso ? No! no! don’t talk to me about this women's movement being under tho cspecial charge of Providence. Far from it, for ** God works in s mysterious way His wonders to per-' form ;" bat that he has no hand in this matter i8 plainly to be scen. for, in all cases mentioned in Holy "Writ, a3 well asall great reforms that Lave actually been carried ont in this world, Ho has first worked a reformation in His instru- ments, and fitted them especially for their woric. Bo, when those lady-crusaders show to tha worid that thoy bave abandoned their own evil " ways, and_commenced at the Tight end of tho work, by first making their own homes what they slionld be,~—thus providing a pleasant, happy place for their. husbands, fathers, and sona to rosort to in place of the bar-room and whisky-shop,—then will we believe that God has indecd taken hold of the work, and we can hope m:lt their eizflorgi will be &rjownad with succesa ; and nope will aid 8o readily, or wi beartier godspeed, than " Y ML s A Woiax Wao Tares 1o Do Her Dury. ‘What Another Woman Thinks. To the Editer of The Chicago Tribune: Sm: I would Lo to say ono word in reply to an editorial in arecentissue of Tz TRILTNE, called “A Word of Warning.” On fizst resding, it scemod g0 plavsible. Bat, in reading it over, Ieaw that it waa undoubtedly written by one of the doubting Thomnses,—one who lays out his work, fhen asks the Father to sanction it, and, if the work is not carried out and the answer given in his way, cries out, ‘‘There is no God.” Just 80, 1t seems to me, are some of those who hl.kJ 28 you do in that article. For instance, the man who says, *If the ealoons are not closed in a year, he is prepared to be an Atheist.” He is not prepared to be,—he is ome al- ready. Does God always answer our 'pray- ers just in_the way we esk him to? We know he does mot. Take one instance: When we ask for our loved one's .ife, ana he grants them life miyonTAL, “even length of days, forever and ever,” wo know ho has answered us; and, when the first blinding shock is over, we know that the suswer was far, far better than the asking, for them and for us. Just o, it scoms to mo, is this woman's move- ment. It may not result in closing the saloons; but the Lord wiLL answer these earnest prayers for the supprersion of this groeat evil. It may not be my way, 1t may not be thy way; And et in His own way, ‘The Lord will provide. And if, instead of closing the saloons, it strikes at the root of the evil, and makes our public men think more of the subject, and, at future elections, puts bettor men in power, shall we not see thehand of the Lord, and koow that He hag answered s in a far better way than we asked ? And, if there are thoge who will accept no an- swer but what comes in their own way, they slreaGy have need to cry out, *‘ Lord, save or I perish 1" For, if their faith will not stand this test, it is wenk indeod. As to the faiture hurting the Church and re- ligions movemants, 1 do not think it posaible, It will, withont doubt, weed out all those who are trying to serve two masters and are very willing 10 go back to the world. But_who shall 6ay that the Lord did not see that His temple needed purifying, when every denomination is having its own internal strife? At any rate, we, who do see the Lord's band in it, can afford to wait, and let Him do with the work ** what seemeth to Him good.” A READES. —_——— A SOBER AMERICA. An Appeal to the Citizens of the Vnited States. o It is proven boeyond a reasonable doubt that alcoholic drink is a social ovil, prodmciive of nine-tenths of the crime-and poverty existing in the arvilized world. To probibit the manulnc- ture, sale, and use of it, is considered impossi- ble, for two reasons: First, beoause tho great majority of the people want it; and, secondly, because the manufacture and sale of alcohol are asource of great rovenuo to the Governments of the city and country, andis a staple article of commerce. But, granted that the prohibi- tion of the manufacture, sale, and use of alco- holio beverages 18 in fact impossible, is it also impossible to probibit tke sale of slcololic drinks, sud to coase giving liconse to soll ench drinks? Certainly not, because it has already been done in & number of communities; and what hos been done before can ba done again, True, the prohibition of euch manufacture and sale was not altogether, in a commercial point of view, so eatisfactory to those temperance communities 28 1t mizht have been, for the reason‘that its manufscturo and sale were allowcd to go on undistarbed in neigh- boring places in the same country, which bad & contrary effect on the tomperaace communi- ties from what was expaoted; and in that the temperance societies went too far when they to- tally prohibited all kinds of beverages, as wine, beer, ale, and porter, even at wholesale, It is evident, therefore, that a partisl prohibition, like a partial care, will have no effect whatever in promotiug the result sought for. Of course,” the question to bo decided in this matter is, whethér or pot the majority of the people of the TUpited Btates are willing to getrid of drnnken- ness. If theyare, then I have no healtation in saying that they can get rid of it. If a majority of American citizens should de- cide to instruct their representatives everywhere to Ao act and legislate that, after acertain day,— say May 1, 1875,—no more Lcensesfor dram-shops should be iesued. and no gale of alcobolic drinks of any kind be allowed, what conld prevent them from_sccomplishing their intention =nd pur- 056 ? & An old German friend said to me, some time ago, when speaking of the evils of intompor- ace: *Sir, Ican truly say, were it not for the custom of my countrymen to meet and spend their evenings and_leisuro hours at the saloons, that I very likely should not drink more than two or three glasses of lager-boer & day, and no alcoholic drinks or wine ; but, in meeting at the ealoons every day with a number of {riends and acquaintances, now often drink fifteen to twenty lasses a day; and the same, I am sure, can bo said of sll men, of whatever nationality, who speund their time at the grog-shops.” Now, that man spoke from his own experience and knowledge; and can it bo queationed that hewas correct?” A young mav, for instance, goes o & saloon in the evening to get a glass of wins or beer. Meeting with nobody he knows, he re- torna home perfectly satisfied with his glass, and goes to bed sober. The next evening ho vigits the saloon agsin, with the samo intent, but ho happens to meet with & number of friends; he invites them to take a drink with him; they invite him in turn, and that night he returns home druck, passibly for the tirst time; but will it be tho last? In that way most drunk- ards are made. Even those frequenters of saloons who have resolution enough not to drink themselves dead drunk can, in fact, bardiy be Baid to go to bed one evening in the week en- tirely sober. Not, then, if the sale of alcoholic drinks wers 10 longer allowed, aud no more licenses wero given, those who wanted stimulants of the kind would be obliged to buy them ot wholesalo, in no less quantity than s gailon, and drink them at home. Can'it be doubted, that drunkenness in this way_wonld be reduced 75 per cont in a few years, becanse the temptation to drink too muoh would be leseened? It is not probable that wives, sisters, or mothers would permit their husbands, brothers, or sons, every day, or even onco or twice a week, to invite companions to their homes to drink and play cards with them. As for the custom of gentlemen to mest at saloons, billiard-rooms, or public places of amusement, the onportunity to_do eo would re- main the same, with only this differcnce: that soda-water, seltzer, coffee, toa, chocolato, can- dy, ciars, and the Like, would be served them. instead of stimulating drinks, the consequence of which would be, that the numberof such places would be reduced and the remeining ones be respectable, because no longer frequented by drunkards, loafers, and professional gamblers, who patarally would trv to meet in places where they, in one way or otber, could obtain stimm- lants, and whero they would be left alone by themselves, under tho surveillance of the polica aathorities, and where no decont, honest man would dare to show His face’. It secms to me that I propose nothing but what could easily be accomplished, if people were in earnast about it. If araform of that kind can't be brought abont through tha impulse of patriotism, and to save humanity from degra- TALKINGC. How TPeople Talk, and YWhat They Talk Ahout. & It is true that animals can communicate with ench other, and that the denizens of the air have & language of their ovn; but only human beings can fak. It is incredible that the whistling calls and trilling responses of two latels-introduced canaries should bo tha interchanging of their past histories ; nor did the most grotesque imag- ination ever conceive thaltwo dogs, sitting de- rurely opposite each other, and lolling out their red tongues, were gossiping the secrots of their respective masters. The inestimable privilege of dilating-upon your own affairs, and speculat- ing upon your neighbor’s business, is bestowed only npor human beings. Perhaps, aa the low- eat order of talier, we ought to consider firat THE MALE GOSSIP, This species is to be found everywhers on street-corners ; and, in small towns, ita habitat {8 beside tho atove of a flourishing grocery in winter, and in summer it may bo found in s chair tilted back on the ‘‘tavern™-piazza, or swinging its legs on an empty dry-goods box on the main sircet. From these commending points the DMale Gossip surveys the passers-by, and has some remarks apropos of whatever comes in view, Ho knows all sbout the love-matiers of every voung lady in town. He knows sall the domestic secrets of every housewife. He is an oracle ebont tho affairs of all the men. No business-defalcation, or em- ‘bezzlement, or failure, takes him by surprise. In fact, nothing in the way of human weakness or crime seems to astonish or grieve - him. -His only anuagiun:&pam tobe one of triumph as henods_his head and ejaculates, “‘I told you 80!™ “Y knew it all the time ! ” etc. He knows something detrimental or ridicnlous about every one in the town : and nothing can so disgust one with himeelf and his feilow-beiugs as an_hour's compauionehip with the )ale Goesip. Unlike the fominine gossip, be employs no AIDS TO TALKING, Ho lounges on his dry-goods box or in his tilted chair, or stands with his back to the fonce 2nd his elbowg thrust back among the pickets, and makes no pretense to any employ- ment. The feminine vendor of news has her knitting in her pocket when she runs into her neighbor’s for a csll, or she makes a feint of carrying a dish, empty or full, 83 an excuse for a five minutes’ errand. She stays two hours, sit- ting on the edge of her chair, or standing door- kpob in band. It is & curions contradiction in women, that, while they lift up their voices in wailing protest’ that their work is never done, not oue in & hundred of them will eit down with folded hands for a friendly chat. Even the young lady who never does = stitch of wuseful sewing for horself hasa piece of canvas with a pink-eved dog, or a bouquet geometrically laid off in squares, upon it, which ghe produces when she desires a conversational stimulus. How many a lover has fumed and fretted at the **fan- cy work” which engaged his compsnion’s eyes and bands, and admired the industry which atil- ized even the bours of idle courtship. He had yot to learn that & certain kind of industryis born of idleness. > ‘The best time to pursue the BTUDY OF CHARACTER is while the subject is talking, It is true that thers are somo jmr[m:uy-tminud faces, which, to the uvinitiated, scem ns expreasionless as & plaster cast. To the daily observer of ench s faca in all its varions changes, howaver, thera is o change more intelligible than the very blank- nees itself which comes over it liko vil when its owner approaches some important topie. To the keen.eyes of affection, no change on & famil- iar face can long remain unread. Then, too, as one grows older, he insenaibly begins to classify people by the facial expressions, and the similar- 1ty of theirgestures. There are the menwhohave their eyebrows raised to the middle of their foreheads, and whose conversation never leads %o anything definito; and their lives aro full as indefinite as their talk. Those are the men who, with the best intentions in the world, never get 2longinit. There nre the gentle-mannered men, with long beards, and s habit of stroking them down softly and slowly when they talk, Very pleasant men they are, and very much liked by the ladies; but they never, make any money, and consequently their wives, who were 5o much envied the first vear or two, are very much pitied afterwerds. Then there ars the men of silent, rock-hko ohstinacy, who bave a little toll-tale mugcle in . »ir jawa, whose uncouscious work- ing betrays them o s closo observer. Every- bLody knows the aggressive men, who shake their heads defiantly, and nod them de- cisivaly, aod five moments’ common-place con- verse with whom will leavg ono as uncomforta- ble as s cat with her fur all rubbed the wrong way. One enters into converse with such a man very much as he would into a powder-factory. Considoring how much talkdog is done, it may be well to think WIHAT WE TALK ABOUT. Generally the speaker chooses a topie in which he himeelf is 1nterested, regardless of his listen- er's tastes. A talented lady-lecturer was heard to complain that, while fresh from her Europesn travels, she met, at an eveniug's reception, an eminent Professor, who, regardless of tho fact that her spinsterhood would probably debar her from feeling sny deop interest in the subject, proceedod to favor her with a most minute and prolonged sccount of the passage of his eldest born through the wmeasles. Who can ever forget the hours spent in listening to the prolix recitals of some widow or widawer, who was never happy uulees boring somebody with personal reminiscences of the doar departed? This stylo of conversation is particularly trying to lovers. They are dying to make confidences, and talk about the adored one, and, at the very outset, they bring down a flood of recolleations, and they biave to wriggle and sigh, and listen' to these ghostly reminizcences of alove with & gravestone about it, when they came, in the joy of their egotism, to prata of a love of to-day. Surely it was a wise 48 well as 8 witty man who defined a_bore as one who per- sists in talking to vou abont his affairs when Tou want to talk to him about yours. It was stated of the Siamese Twins that they veryseldom talked with each other. What could they havo to talk about 2 Could anybody hold 8 discourse with himself ? It is the differonce in experience, tastes, and feolings, that gives conversation its gpice. There is a story that, two prisonars being confined in one cell, the recounted their lives the first year ; the sccou year thoy coofided their most ‘secret expe- riences ; and the third year were silant. Thoy had talked themsslves out. Of course the story cannot be vouckzad for. It is simply adduced as a warning to bridal couples contemplating the now fashionable two weeks' seclusion. Wircn-Hazer. —_——— IS MEDIOCRITY MORE SUCSESSFUL.THAN dation, crime, and poverty, it can't be accom- phished at all. The case is this: If wo will, we can do it ; if we will not, of conrse then we will not. But to say that we cannot,is to tell a story. Nataraliy the opposition would be powertul ; and it would bo neccessary, in ordor to accom. plish some good, with n prospect of doing more, to compromise 80 far as to tolerate, as hitherto, the salo of all kinds of beer, and possibly sine, 1t is certainly batter to do somo good than to do no good at all, because we can't accomplish ail we wish at once. Iam far from donying any man or woman the GERIUS ? Opportunity, not genius or worth, is the great stepping-stone to success. The man who is ready to strike at tho right bour and moment will gencrally win the object of his ambition. Itdoes notappear tomake much difference whether he has breing or not, if he only has ; THE AGILITY to catch the wheel of fortune when it comes right to drink whalever thoy plesse. 1 have no objection to & moderate usoe of wine or beer ; although I admit that the world would be much better-off without alcololic stimulants. DBut to license and keep up public drinking-places, in- stitutions of destruction, productive of crime and poverty, whero generation after generation is deyraded and transformed from human beings to animals xud brutes, is, 10 my opinion, not only the worst kind of folly, but also a willfnl and -delibarate mardor of souls, good morals, and socia! welfare, in the open face of the world and our owm consciences, for which we are and must be recponsible. 1defy anybody to prove that public dram-ghiops can ever bo productive of any good’; while, on the contrary, it Las often been proved, and cannot be denied, that they are the promoters of disorder and crime. Barely no one-who degerves the title of Amari- ean citizen can be indifferent to an evil of such magznitude; still leas oppase the effort to accom- plish & roform. 3 I will only 2dd that I know of no country where strong driuks were more gonerally used a fow years ago than Bweden. or where poserty and crime was more frequently met with, in con- sequence. The whole country seemed to be deluged with intoxicating drinks, and wide-. sErea.d destruction seemed inevitable. Bat, through tho earnest eforts of a fow patriotic wmen, who freely gave time and mouney to the cause, the use of sirong drinks has beon very much diminished within a fow years past. The salo of alcoholic Liquors ia now almoat entirely zround. Many a man of genius has gone down to the grave uuknown, because he was either a little too early, or a littls too Iate, to tale the fortune which most men have within their grasp once tn a life-timo. 1t certainly requires considerable energy and decision of character to bo ready to shape events to one’s advantage; but it is more on the muc!xocml plane of business than ihe high one of genius. It is hard to draw tke line between them ; mediocrity fills such a broad 8pace be- tween absolute stupidity and uncommon intel lect. Wo often hear of & book which has created & génsation in the reading world, and Tead it with greas expectations, only. ‘to find 8 very commonplace aifair,—the product of gome ‘mediocral mind, that happened to make a hit ab ihe right moment. Suc! people ecem to find the readiest accoptanca by the world. A man has but to announcs himsolf the groatest living suthar, or the greatest living actor, no matter if bo is the greatest living bumbug, 'and he will find people to swallow his blarney, and take him AT H18 OWN YALUATION. Perhaps one cause of his success is, that me- diocrity does not excite jealousy and antagon- ism like genius, which wounds the solf-love of many byits superiority. Most men huve the ¢gotism to believe thoy could do as well, if they only tried, 28 those whose minds are on a level with their own; they there- confined to wholesale dealers; and the o dram-shops that remain are a fow whose Iea:lez have not expired. They will soon close too,— let us hope, forever. Caanct the people of the United States accomplish what the Swedes hase done? We have now a sober Sweden; lot us have a sober America. C. 0. Luxoezag. fore feel good-natured towards the pluck: fellow Who wius fame without braica, or {l;nnng withont industry; it is a sort of follow-feeling. Mauy of the insignificant poets contemporary with Bhakspeare were more popular; and, no doubt, gome of them imagined themselven &eater poets- than the immoztal fate will not permit the seodsof gods to gin Who resds these littlo thymenters nons e few can tell their names. Tims, THE TRUE TEST OF GENTUS, has washed the sands sway, end on] geldis lott. £ ¥, ead only the pyy, 'his is not much encouragement i however. A man don't eare o hm;‘&.gf.,'.’,‘“ children Toap the benefit of his Isbors, when s bas to starve, liko Milton, who di p roceivo s much for all " bia it ot Whittier receives for lalf-a-dozen of° g little pretty poems. The poor plaser ** that struts and frots his hour upon the gtep,’ snd then is heard no more,” has ihe opportgy; ty, however inferior his performance, of ;" mentary guccess ; and it does not tronble b, that he will be no mora after his brief hoar, he can strut sud fret toa full hbuse. Bus g greas artiss who plays to empty beod H whose genins is only recoguized whan hg ; dead, or too ald to enjoy it, thinks ) ¢ He pays too high s prico For knowledze and for fane, Weo gives his ines to be wise, JLis tecth snd bones to buy a nams, America is the ’ PALADISE OF MEDIOCRITY, because reading is more general than in tikep countries. We necessarily must have my, trashy writars. Our taste is far from thayofyy, ancient Grecks, the humbleat of whom could de, » mispronunciation in tlie wpocch of their gray: est orator. Hannah More objected to oug people readiag Scott's novels; but most yours people of to-duy think them far too dull ang vy, intexesting. Tho writer who gives us one of th; thousand (imitations of Jane Ejro, with thy everlasting governess for & heroine, i3 apt to be 28 popular 28 the anthgr. ess ~ of the ‘onginal Tms dallar. store literature suits the tasteof artificial peg. ple. *My mind to me a kingdom is,"” the readap canssy who has the imagiation teclotis [ mental images of the author. We can test thy strength of the mind by seeing WHAT IT" FZEDS UFON. A lady who dotes up. v bles verses herself, asa-she thinks' Lads .. beth a very dull snd ucintorosting chatacier: bat the groat Mra, Siddons could not finish thy play, when she first attempted to stulyit, g terrible was the effect upon her mind. People are not to blame for what they dan} know or ean’t comprghend ; and, if man likag words better than ideas, 80 much the better for tho writer orspeaker Who has oulgewoyd, 1 offer. If ho likes flash and noisa better thiy acting, it gives the poor actor a chance (o earnz living. . WOMEN FARE BETTER than men in this respect. A pretty womsn, with _more yanity than talent, will attempttq play Lady Macbeth after a week's study ; and, it she manages to got through tho play without 3 complete bresk-down, eho 14 a great actross, eod ber fortune is made. If sbe be too poor in wtel. lect or too indolent to study, the eritics will inform us that she does. mot slavishly follow in the track of other great artists, and wear herself out with hard study, like Mrs. Siddons, who toiled seven yexra to go to London to succeed where 6le had once failod. Such drudgers ia not* necessary for our modern trazedy-queen. She don’t depend upon the suthor for her ideal, but fills it with her individuality ; and, wita her beauty undimmed by midaight study, she carries all before her by the wonderful magnat. ism of her presence. OR, IF SIE IS A LITERARY WOMAN, she has & borror of anything atrong andfg the point. There is nothing 8 woman of feebls in. tellect has o mpyeh dresd of 83 Lein thought masculine. “She imagines weak writing to be womanly. A man can be awfully tedious, and prove to bs what Dogberry wished be b been writ down ; bat it takea a woman to writs mawkish sentiment and litile npothings. Tka writer who caunot combine strength with sen- timent, a3_we see in George Eliot's novels, soon tires the discriminatiog reader; but some ean never get too strong doses of logic, whils others have to feed upon thin and waterish diet. As companions, mediocral people are THE XOST AGREEABLE if they are willing to fling away ambition and don’t try to teach us. A fool ora witis aptts be disagreesble. The former will poll nt down to his level, and the latter will put s throngh the eifting process. 0w we hate those gocial anatomista who are always discovering dieagreeable trnths, asd dampen our ardor by their cold-blooded reasona and propbecies of failure | We don’t lika to have our motives and actions questioned too closely, especially if they are a little shaky. We like bright, ~good-natured people, who don' mske wus feol as though +we wers oa the witness-stand. If one is as sharp a8 Sam Weller to parry the thrusts of his ad- vorsary, he rather enjoys meeting them, bul not if be is as unsuspecting as Dickans’ friend3 were when hs studied them to prodace his lifs like characters,—often wounding craelly hix warmest friends by = exaggerating their characteristics. ~ And _ ‘Lhackeray, wht invited a young man to visit him for tlio specia! urpose of studying his uwnsuspacting guest, lichelien had a cruel pleasure in working upoa the minds of his dependents. To bg sure, hs ro- warded them by his favor if they did not prove unworthy; but what comfort would thasebein life 1f we were CONTINUALLY OF TRIAL? As the parsou said, * There is slways eome- whero the weakest spot,” and wa sli are trying to hide it from the world. The trouble is, every one is trying to find out his neighbor's failiny and hide hisown. The man who knoiws enoujl to take the zood the gods provide him, aad make the most of it, is pretty sure to be su~cessful, T ‘Woop Braxsox. —_— THE NEED OF SACRIFICE. Unto each man his handiwork, unto each his crawn, “The just fate gives ; Whoso takes the world'a life. on him, and his own syt own, . He, d5ing 8o, lives. Whoso bears the whole hoavicess of the wruaged world’s weight, Aud piits at Ly, Ttis well with him’ sufferlug, though he fsos maal " Howshoulkdedie? Beeing death bas no part in him any more, no poret pon his head ; He has bought kis ctornity wich a littls hou, And 13 not dead, —Swinburne. —_—— A Clergyman Conquers & Buorglare A recent achievement of the Rov. D. F. M Leod, an Episcopaliaz clergyman resiling 8t ** Clark Hill,” near Niagara Falls, in Canads, it thus described by the Bafalo Commercial 4d: vertiser : ** On Wednesday night last Mr. McLeod waa awakened from sleep by the baking of bit dog. Thinking tuere might possibly be some- ibing wrong about the promiscs, he procesded t a0 adjoining room, and thero found s large-sized burglar. Dothmen being above the sversgs woight and strength, s pretty lively timo ensned for & fow minates. The miuister, determined oo forcing sn unconditional surrender on the part of the burglur, very soon brought his antsgon- ist o a realizing “senso of the power and Hinence of muscuiar Chriatianity whan properly directed. Sucoeeding, after o violent etrzrele, in throwing the burglar to the fioor, be held bim thero nntil the arrival of a male Servaut, WEo was sent to procure a rope. The servant wal ordered to tie the map, hat, through fear sod trembling, Lis fingers wore unable to perforn the aflice. Seeing thai he had only himself & rely on, the .parson placed his Lknoes upon tht breass of lus victim, and finally succeeded, with: out aid, in securely binding his limbs, after whick Lie Jashod him to o heavy piecdlof furniture, Aot then mounted guard over him till morniog. ] the coursa of thie struggle, Mr. McLood sustsiz ed quite a severe iujury to_one of his hands, bone baving been fractared. Tho barglar wh lodzed in Wellard Jail” 5 Among the London Aldermene There was a row in the London Court of Alder men a fortnight azo, Ald. Siduey begaa it b wanting to know why the reports of the &' gaols had been_handed in, contrary toall ca% tom, by the ncting eword-bearcr- instead of tht senior Sherilf. Ald. aud Bheriff Whestbam 1o pliod, spparently with some asperit, thet ba d nothing to do with the gaols, and thst be objected, on principle, to having a$tblnfi bod do with tho teports. Ald. Sir . W. Card?d called attention to the fect that the Sherifl * violating every precedent,” was in plain morm* ing dress instead of Lis officiel custume. The Sheriff retorted Luat the Aldermon bLsd best summoned to meet the Lord-Mayor and Sheri®$ “in their violet gowns,” yet not one of wae garbed in that manner. This seems t0 bad been a settler for tho Aldermen, a6 the mattef of the prigon returns was referred 10 Committes on Privileges, and other taken up. _ Dio. Dio Lewis ia not up to the work of the fem perance men in Boston. He 1s not 8 tiouist, and in & recent Tecture be said 5 proh® itory law could not be enforced in Doston b&: couse men would not look upon the keeper the Parker House “as the same 23 % thief.” Promptly the premding officer, 5 3% Bheafo, stepped to the front. He said howsé § tmmmuom:, and he “lknew that pruhlblug ta looked npon the selling of o glusa of best of cideras being Worwa thxn the atesliog o bard. “But | borsa” Tenoyson, and serig, © 2 oy TSN