Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, October 25, 1874, Page 10

’ THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1874—BIXTEEN PAGES. eaver hat end feather (ridin o —_—————— . s 1 siress’ day, but it is reslly worth moro, and DRESS. Proposed Reform in Womean’s Costume. The [morobability of the Success of That Reform, Ean’s Opinions the Chief Obstacle in the Way, What Is Now Deemed Essential for a Lady’s Trousseau. A Lady’s Wardrobe During the Reign of the First George. Comparigon of Articles and Their Value. ke last week having brought us such differ- ®ent developments of dress, it would seem as if the world might have had a surfeit of the lul?- ject; but curiosity upon that matter is as insati- able 23 the daughter of the horse-leech, and not ouly cries ** Give!” but demands a now dish every time she is bidden to the feast. First we'had the subject of dress-reform, in which & smart and fashionablo Boston drase- maker—seeing s shorter road to fortnne than 1he ordinary overcharges and extravagant rates ‘which premicre modistes sre wont to lovy—de- vised ‘FEALTHFUL GARNENTS for women and children, and then proved their utility to the Womea's Congress, and got them totake bold of it. Not, however, beforeshehas carefully patented her so-called invention, and found & new way to put money in her parse. Being, a8 we understand, a woman of suflicient means, sccumulated through years of labor for the fair bel'es of Boaton and the adjacent towns, in making them more radiant than Solomon in all his glory. it wonld have been mors in kespiog with her professed benevolence and desire to benofit her sex had sho given the result of her expertments to her suffering sisterhood, instead of selling them. There was not & garment which sho displayed . that any woman of ordinary abilits conld uot make for Lerself We did not see Dr. Blake’s inventions, but sball take an early opportuvity of doiog 80, and als0 of comgaring their merits with those of Mrs. Swisshelm's. and can then tell our readers something definite about both, 50 that those who wich to get out of the old grooves into more healthful ones, may at least Bee their way clear toward so doing. It isdoubt- ful, bowever, if any consideration of health or comfort will induce the faskionable belle to lay aside her stays, or make Lor willing to forego -~ what she considers a line of heautr,—ths CORFING-TS AT THE WAIST. This line is not visible in the Venus de Medici, but in the Empress of Austria is strongly marked. Tho former typs of beauty demacds 80 ample girdle; the latter requires a wastband only 15inches in length. And 8o used have we become to the more modern ideal, as represented by Yhe slenderer, possibly-deformed fizure, that it is dificuit for us to realize the perfection of the former. And what is true of women is true 2180 of men. The latter rave about the beauties of the Venus, with her ample waist, good- eized hand, and foot calculated to mske pedes- trianism easy; aud immedisteiy pass by her copy in flesh-and-bjood with contemot, and fall jros- trato before the divinity whose waist they can soan, whose Liandis not lacger than a child's, aud can be squeezed into 514 gloves, and whose carmiage has been chauged from a dignified walk 10 a Cbinese toddle by tho weariog of Bhoes sov- eral sizes too small for her, 2nd mountad on high, uarrow heels. Whilosuch is the case, we must look for the majority of women, who have never thought excepting_sccording o the dictates of the other sex, to be far mure interested in the details of a Parisian troussean, even including the stays themselves, than in 2ny approsch to an sttire which sill bring them nearer in proportion to the Greek statua. Lhey bave become accustomed to their bunds, aud thoy do not care (o cast them off. It is even Gonbuful if they could do so ° WITHOUT A GREAT DEAL OF SUFTERING § for the result of eramping tae vital s for generations has left them iu 8o weaka coudition that they fequirc certamn props to mupport them. Most women have lost the rounduces of form, the firmness of flech, the strength and elasticity of muscle, winch made it possible for their Grecian models to move majestically, and withal gracefully, untrammeled by bands or girths. It is this which gives the midern wom- sa, whea deprived of her supports, euch a tloppy, uncomforiable appearauce. There is ither firmuess nor elasticity in her form; ~and her tect have been cramped and tortured 8o long that elegance of motion is well nigh impossible. It is quite trae that many have become 8o used to thess inherit- ed gyves that, with the ductilityof Nature, they Lave conformed to their now conditions: tho strongest bave survived, and A XEW ORDER OF BEINGS has been created, wholave a cortain plisncy 2nd grace, despite their bonds, which & have become Deceseary to them. They ate even more at 0ase 21 they &re, znd move with more plisncy and grace, cramped as the action is, than they could 1f they wors set free. It will probably take a5 many generations to ot woman back to the orginal firmness and boanty of form whish were Lers befora sho com- wernced Lo alter her figure according to the Fashion, as it has to evolve hcr present dif- Torence, which has almost assumed s structural chiaracter. Therefore, 1t will be difticult to find the many willing to nudertnke the untiative step in the matter. Could they bo changed at once iuto the perfect, original tvpe, they might ac- cade to iE or bo persuaded into the attompt ; but the long, weary retrograde motion 1o the atart- ing-place will be evor & mertyr'a path, pierccd with the thorns of public criticism ; and there are few of us anxious to wear tho martyrs crovn, ‘Twning, therefors, to the modern fashions, wo find that there are some bealthful modifica- tions introduced. The last weei has shown us, through the public printa, WHAT 1S DEEMED ESSENTIAL for » Youog lady’s troussean, and, howevermach wo may condemn the drasging forth, for public inspection and criticism, tho minor accessorics of her toilette, designated as the neglige portion, still it serves the purpose ef contrast with the past, snd may answer the same purpose iu the future. Individually, the wiiter of this articls . does condemn both' the publia cariosity that moust peep benind .he scenes, ssit were, and bave every little detail dragged forth to light aud ‘paraded for public gratilication, as well as the peitiness that can waylay aud’ interview laun- dresscs, and poater drv-zoods men until the Frivacy individnals would fain preserve 18 wrest- ed from them. It detiacts from the dignity of Journalism, and invades, not the castle, but the erntory and the boudoir. I¢ will not be necosasry for us to recapitulate what every one must have read durimg tho past week, and we will, thera. fore, introduce to our readers s list-of garments deemed eaeential to evesy Iady's wardrobe, & DURING THE REIGN OF THE FIRST GEORGE, in the secoud decade of the ecighteench century. The following is the list, wich every article valned —thus giviog us an opportunity to make comparisout Smoek of cambric Holtand. Murseilles quilted Justticoat., Hoop~pxt.dcuat covared w, rench Lrocade. Tianders lace head-dsess, cher ornmp, coccecoosconcooacanson coacol 1. isthii Tuteatring . 8 3ir thitead stockings.. .. o 10, <h ).ad¥erchief. v 55 8 o Riding Labit . o ° 0 eseentials " will bo found to amount 1o about $2,300 ; snd. allowing for tha differonce in tho value of money, wo find that, at Lhie present day, these ** essentinls " would be WORTH NEARLY $12,000. It secms, {herefore, that, 8 century and a half ago, it cost & fine lady about 25 much to bo prop- erly and becomingly costumed a8 it does st tle present day; nor ia tias mentioned as_an espe- cial occasi Glanciug agmn ai the list of ar- ticles, we find three handkerchiofs, valued at £15 158, which, being brought down' to_present values, would make thom worth about $390. The most expensive of theso wonld not Lave com- pared unfayorably in point of extravagance wich {hie fine point-lace of tho present day. In fact, flio recent Lridsl prosent sent to tlus city by A. 1. Stewart, snd distinznished as a point- lsce bhandicerchief from Europe, was of precicely the eame worth, allowing for the beforo-meutioned differencoe in tbe value of tho cireulating medium, 25 the Flanders lace Dbaudkerchief—exacy the same thing, by tho way—which was & ‘necessity to the lady of fash- 1719, We find, further, that the lace garoiiure of Frorch poiot, or Flanders lace— comprisiog head-dress, tucker, and rfiles, and answering to the modern barbe, ruff, and rufiles —cost, &t that time, £80, equivalent 10 2 modern lace set wo:th £2,000,— QUITE AS ELEGANT a8 any_one would dire drezmof. We find but. one pair of silk hoso mentioned. worth $25, while now the elegante buya them by the dozen,—s pair to match cacb dress,—for $100 tho dozen. (Tho printer will pleage not make that §1.) We find the Lats cos: over $100, which does not seem very high; but there wero a's0 tso hoods which " brought this portion of the dress up to§180 more : theiefore, $230 was necessarily cxpended for tbese articles. We doubt if any modern belle would ask for more expensive bead-coverings. ‘Thers was not a mulliplicity of neckties; but our fashionablo ancestress’ single embroidered bosom-knot cost about £56. Quite = comfortable how of ribbous might bo bought for thavsum. The French girdle correep.nded fairly with our modern bolt, and may ve valued 2t 20, The Itelian fan may be considered as worth §125,~more oxpensive than anything at yresent for sale in this city.—the costlicst atticle in point-lace, white sutin, and pear! sticke, not exceeding §75. ‘Lhe ormamenis for tbe bair only, desiznated as French or Italian flowers, were worth £50; for which sum, at cresont, an entiro parnre might be bought, in- cluding dress-trimmings. The walkiog or 1eceplion dress seems {o have come under the title of mauniua and petticoat of French brocade, and was worli $1,950,—quita equslto & Lalf-dozen modern dresses of the most elegant description. But this was not the only dress that demands sitention. There was evidently the graud toiotte for S:ate occasiona, known as tho Parisian dress of green veivet, a la Sultane. This dress cost the wearer AT TOE RATE OF $8.140, or, at that time, 4123 15s. Wortn would fur- nirb Miss McFlimsey with several drosses for that amount. Three dresses fcr maosquerade, two from Venice, mas bo estimated at $900. Faney peckets were evidently as much in voguo then 24 aumonietes wero last scason, and one of these was aléio deemed an esseniial. It was worth alout §25. It is evident our lady did not stint herself in regard to these little matters, or, iudeed, any otber srticie of dress. Her furs, mufl, £able tippet and lining, cost $725. Mod- ern senl-tkin does not exceed that in its most elegant share aud finest quahty, aven when trimmed with otter bauds, or, it might even be, sable or blue-fox fur. Madame also bad Ler Fronch necklace, worth €50, which, if not equaling modera jewelry, is Ecascely to ba reckoned among her jewals. ' Of her undersear thero seems to be littlo montion. A hoop-skirt, worth nearly $70, would be consid- ered_something of an exirsvagance, even if it suould e covered with tabinet. There was also the Mareeilles quilted ekurt, worth vearly 8100, aud the French or Italian quilted skirt, valued at £250, while her rarters were worth $20. This serves as proof that TIMLS ARE NOT VERY MUCR ALTERXD. A fine and fashionable lady required 58 many and as expeusive artic.es ia 1719 as she dues in 1574 Bhe eent abroad for them to France aud Tialy. She tad not €0 many diffcrent articles, perbaps, but they were more expensive. The world iudeed moves, but it would seem to b in acircle. A few drop fiomoff tho wheel, and would fain pick cut new paths; but they aro cithor crushed in thie sttempt, or are solitary wayfarors ovcr an unbroken road through a new country, with only now and then a pilgrim and mattyr, like themselves, to keep them in countenance. It may bo that we ehall deviso a new wheel, to be worked upon original and hygieric_prineiples; bnt it wiil require cateful eagineering, and 1t is doubtful, zfter all, if it vl ever displace thoe o'd one. It will require a much more concentrated effort than has yet been made; and tho SUREST WAY TO ACCOMPLISE IT vould be to make the masculire portion of the community woubmit by forea to all that compression by ill-fitting or tor- turing clotling to 'which we yield from 2 msh to look the samo a8 our neighbors. They would not staud such thralldom au hour, aud wo bave borue it for years. There 18 not an ertifice which a woman nées that men do not ob- lncz toin theory and worship inieality. They know the beauty which they often aimire is meretricious ; they would object to it in sisler or wifo; but, i any other woman, they vraiso it. ‘They may deny the fzct, but their actions speak for them. As we have often said, ths masculina 1deal must be chanzed and brought up to the proper standard before the majority of women will alter their ideas, or change from prosont fashions. A.D. H, The Canse of Womnan’s Murderous Style of Dress. To the Editor of The Chiczgo Tribune: S : Fashione, and other *afflictions, coms Dot out of the ground,” but have their origin either above or below it. 1o may fail to reach the great first cause, but kuow enough to con- cludo that men are quite a8 responsiblo s wom- en for whatever is pood or ovil in them. Wom- en's souls have 50 long been in the keoping of male priests, their bodies in the hands of male physicians, that the memory of the race *run- neth pot back to tho contrary.” Now, if the clay may not eay to the potter, * Why hast thou made mo thus #" it ill-becomes the potter to eay to the clay, ** Why art thou thus made?” In the days of England’s Spenser, Shakspeare, Thompson, JoLoson, Addison, and Lacon, public sentiment was molded by men ; and, by it, 8 woman with- out stays was considered adowdy. I thiuk it was Thompson who, in addition to his * Seasons,” gava the world a standard by which all woman- kind was to bo measured, and in his list of signs of a slattern occurs thess important and immor- tal hmes : When Betty walts withont her etayy, §bo copdes but Ler mistress’ wzys | ‘This was a sleuth-hound sent into the privacy of every woman's chamber to acent out her habits, whep tho eve of her critic and judze could wot detect her iapsos from that stern, weatherboarded sirte of figure demunded by her poiter. Mistress might be as solid as a block of wood in the drawiog-room, a veiy patiern of propriety, and yet, 1 the careless abandon of her own room, fall iuto the homeliness of loose wrappers, and how was any one to bothe wider ? It wasa knotey question, but the ingenuity of the poet was equ:! to its solution. ‘*Just watch her ser- vants,” says thia fashion-dictator, ** and if you find one of them at work without her waalebone- srmor, take it for granted thatler mistress is often stayless, and stamp the delinquent a dowdy.” Under the public sentiment created by this whalebone virtue of the old English clasues, 1 was brought up; and, forty-five years ago, when T had just entered my tcens with & curved spine, from sitting on the back- lesa school-benches of that day, and consump- tion was immiuent, the doctors ordercd coreots, witt a board in frunt, made from & pine slungle, to make sure it would pat bend, and two stout oak-stripe up tho back. These wereto be Iaced on, *not tight” but looscly; and I wora them until a very fow years ago, when [ invented & substitute. Such corsets were worn, with. the general approval of physicisns, ubtil about thirty years ago, when it was found that the de- mand for waists tuat 2 man conld span with Lis hands hi2d induced 80 many women to double the ribs, bLreak them loose ficm the sternum, and crueh this in o the lungs, that the doctors cried, “Hld! Enongh! Take off those corsets:™ and the women took them off. But no one created a public senziment in favor of natural woiets, and an hour-glass was still tho standard of fumale loveliness, before which all men bowed in hunible adoraucn.. This figure was se- cured by lengthesing the Wezist go the belt was below the rils. As thers are o Loues in this part of the vady, to rrotect the viscers, of course the smallest w: could be mado here, ard, to increase tho =ppear- suca of smallnese, maesos of skirta and bags of bran were suspended just below this precions ceutre of attraction, The imgitful morislity which foliowed alarmed the goctors, aud they cried out, * Pat on corzets to wupgort thess slirtal” and the wemen pas on corsota; but, this tizio, 1t Wax & uew varisty, for thay ware witkeal g | support from the shoulders, and, of course, slid down, keeping the nmallest part’ of the body szt the softest part, where comprestion is easio ¢, and maintaining the old blocksde, which tho blood must run every time it pauses from the centre to the extremities of the body. Tlo ad- vantage of the corset is, that it distributes tho pressure of the etrings and bands over a larger surface, snd 8o this pressare is not 80 soon fatal. Well, Tour years ago the evils of this pascion had become 8o apparent, and so much haa boen said about the bettor way of supporting the clothing on tho shoulders, that corsets seemed to be in danger of a discard; when, who would you £uppose camo to its rescue? Not the mantua- makors, who could not fit a dress without them; not the women who wore them ; not the mer- chants who made money by sollng them; nor the wealthiv firms who coined it by making them ; but William Draper, Professor of Physiology, osteemed the highest authority on the physical causes which mold tho race. He wrots two claborate articles, which appearedin tho Galazy, —I always wondered that Harper’s Bavar and Godey's Lady's Book did not at onco engago him a8 a regular contributor,—and, in theeo articles, taught, distinotly, specifiowlly, and earnestly, that tho only proper point, ia the remale figure, on which to snpport clothiug, is tho bips, just a8 tho sboulders are in the malo, becauso women do not breathe below the diaphragm, and men do ? Yo gods and William Draper!” How I dud stare, and read and reread these fateful articles, in which I saw the death-warraut of thousands. He elaborated and illustrated his opinion by specifying thet s weight on tho pretty shonlders of women would drag them down, and crush the lungs placed under their protection. He did not explain what kind of hinge & woman's sboulder- bones zre hung upon which permits this danger- ous descent, or in what particular the bones in man's shoalders differs from thoso in 2 woman'a; but he urged the propriety and healthfulness of ressurs around & woman's body by quoting the {feu. or girdle, worn by gladiators; tne Seripture phrase, ** Gird up your lions !” aa preparatory to berd work ; the castom of athletes and black- amithu in= drawing & band tightly around the body, below the ribs, when about to make unusual exertion. He urged the retention of the precont stylo, on the ground that it corre- eponded with the costume of women in ancient Greeco, where, he assumed, the clothing was all suppoited on thie hips by & girdle, on which e held tl:o _corset to bo & vast improvement. In short, this great physical scientist wrote ot s most elaborate certificate of mascuiine 1znorance in what most concerns the physical well-being of women,—a certificata a8 fall, explicit, sud con- clusive ns that eince given by Dr. Clarse in his “*Sex on Education ;" as fall of pbysical ignor- ance as Goldwin Smith's * Female Suffrage” is of mental aud moral darkness. Now, surely womea aro not sololy to blame for their crippled forms. It iz, as you eay, their re and duty to look as well as possible. Tuerwr standsrd of beauty must be that of the man it is thoir duty and pieasurs to please ; and, it this is falsc, thoy must, s at present, ba at faul: in their efforts. It is their mature and Gty to learn of those whom thoy regard as their Leaven-appointed teachers; and, if these tesch them to distort their bodies aud cramp their souls, where shall we look for aid ? This fashiun, fickle as it is, is amenable to law.—the law of public Laste ; avd, if wa can slevate and correct this, wo will surely coutrol the absurd vagaries of the reigning divinity, JANE GREY SWISSHELY. 618 WesT MoxRoz STREET, CHHICAGO. Corsets and the Dress=felorm. Tothe Lditor of The Chicago Tridune ; Sin: The Boston women have beon here and gone, and, if you will allow me to use s volgay expression, they have **done i%” too. Done what, did you say? Whv, inflicted evorlasting misery uron us women-folks by persnading us to adopt their pew-fangled notions. It was all well enough whilo we wers in sight svd Learing of the dignified Mrs. Livermore, or the shrowd and crafty Mrs. Flvnt, or tho s~eet, earnest lit- tle Dr. Blake (with hor short droes), who can, by her eloquont appeals and sincera maaner, porsuado anybody to do slmost avything sho wishes. Iu listening to her anathemas sgainst corsets, I imugived I eaw my long- doparted youth returning, with bounding end elastic step, rosy cheek, aad brilliact eye, #0d all the other accompanimonts of youth; I thought, with fast-beasing pulses, of tha beauti- ful comoliments my rojuvenated appaaranco would elicit from my geutlemen-friends. Oh! whnt bappy dresms aod bright visiors werte mine; I could ecarcely wsit nnul I got home 1o got rid of thore corete, the batoful thiugs!—I could not bear them notw; and my antipatiy was iutonsified by the thought that only lzst woek I paid 7 for s new pair that was warrautod to improve the figare, Weil, I rushed home, nd toro them o, and pus them where not even the might of them sbould ever again distort my organs of vision. I washappy,andretired that night tilled with blissful anticipasions of what tbe future had in store for me. Lelieved of my corsets, I was a different be- ing from the one who was beld in bondage a forv hoursago; for, besides bLeing beautiful, I was going to do s powerof good in the world by bringing my less favored sisters into frecdom, Bat, zlas for human foresight and anticipation ! I s00n began to wilt; and, on the second dar, felt as if all the props of Jifo had enddenly do- serted me, and I was hopelessly sinking into the gull of despair. The ** all-monis feeling ™ they told us about was npothing compared with this utter prostiation. Mind snd body sultered, alike, 8 perfoct wrock. Ob, my! Oh, mv! Dear friends, Jot me warn you. You may **throw physic to the dogs ” it perfect impunity ; but nevar—no, nover—I boscech you, turow sway your corsets. MIy afiliction is doubly trying fiom the fact that X have not the sympathy of my husband,~do not even dsro 28k him to manipulate me ; for, when [ asked permission toattend the Woman's Congreas, he said, as it did mot cost anything, I might, but I saw on his faco that look which, as Dr. Blske said of the creases in our bodies, **means eomething ;" and so L dared not lst a groan escape me, but sufer on in silence. And go, Mr. Editor, T bave not dared to appeal to you,~—not that I wish to injure that woman's business with the bard name, nor the enterpris- ing dreesmaker on the West Bide ; but I feel a3 if the truth must bo told. And do not—Ohb ! pray, do not—let this teeble effort to benefit the erratic sisterhood be crowded out by the brill— iant elfusions from the pens of your score or moro of talented contributora ; but, in this as in all other cases, hold to your motto, to do good to the needy and despatring. ) A Nox-REroRMER. CaICAGO, Oct, 23, 1874, i e e e OVER A CUP OF COFFEE. The sun cf 2 sweot Spring-moraing Unturlol its bright wing on tae floor, And tle May-flower's perfumed censars Swung In at the open door. The air was burdened with fragranes, ‘With dews and the hum of tue bess, And tha song of a lark uprising Over tho sun-bruslied tress. Her wonderfal eycs, nst dawning Over the white cup'a brim, 8hione througl the steam of the coffes, Ax stars through a vapor dim, And ovor our breakfast we dailicd, Al BEoke of an evaniahed areaim ¢ cn sipped batween laughing and sighing: Alas 1 twas 3 Qangerous themer A miseel-thruah gafly wae sicglug, Out in the bloom~crowned Liedze, And the wind wan rocking and busming In thetresx of the tall pond-redge. “This day ix 10 like the other,” P Sdha Bald :(lh = d?wnr;.lt oye; nd our coflee we sipped, aud grow silend, Ay friond’s Soung wife and 1. “ You remember that othar day, Occil 1" She maid, with 3 balf-drawn sigh, *When the world sccmed to laugh into flowers, And the morning-birds wheeled througn the sky,— That day when you whispered *lave's nothings Into my young, willing esrs ;" And sbo twirled Lho trotli-ring on ber fingar, Looked up—and burst 1nto tears, Tanswered, A doy like that other piermity bever can bring, ough the fields were to burst with thatr bloming, And the trusbes forever 10 sing. Thero are no days lika the other 1n tho cycle of incoming years ; Their dawning will not bring the maldea, Bus only » woman in tears,” BShe #aid, with her goft lips atremble, “ Qut from the elds of the uight, 1any a bright star has wanderwd, Impalied by somo Ligh, bidden might,” And rhe 1aid ber white hand in the sunshins, ‘While a tear dirumed her bright ‘weddiug-ring . And rlie said, OB ! that bands whould be given ‘WEen bLearts to the old idols eling.” Ard over the sun, st that moment, A cloud spread her gosamer wiag; Avd the wind in the sedger prew sileats And the lart and the thrush corsed 0 ring, And there, in that sbadow-Blod stiliness,— Forzelil, regretful, untnanned,— My bot, fevered lips (God forgive them 1) Latt & siain on the suow of her hixd, Thst I Jearned over that cup of cofee, In tizt golden Sprinz-mnoralng gons by, Will never bo kzowu nuto ave my frieud's youry Tuough & world of d v drein ocr cyj Btir & thoight, suect a3 Kad, fa my besrt, Caicaga, Mad Cuaarm L, Br, Jax, WOMAN'S TIME. Reasons Why K Is Worth Kothing—The Valuo of a Boustkeeper's Day, Should Ifarried Women Earn IMoney ? Making Money on the Sly. Theoretically, time is the same thing to men and women ; fractionally, it is entirely different. Tho highor valus of tims tp men is & tacitly- recognized fuct, as shosn in the evory-day phraaes, **If you hire a man, you must pey him 2 man's wages;" *A woman would do the work cheaper.” Now, why will a woman work cheaper than a man? Every good housewife koows that the itinerant wood-sawyer, with his Faw- buck on his shoulder, will strido away, and leave her wood untouched, and take his chances of snother job, rather than work for lower wages thaa hua bretbren of the eaw. So with the coal- Leaver, the ash-mao; 2nd even tho obscure rep- Tesentative of the strongor sex who lurks at the alley-gate with his garbage-cart will not abats one cent of his demand=d pittanco. On thecon- trary, women seom to havo no gettled price for thoir labor, but work for what thoy can gt Now, the popular explanation of this stata of things is, that women crowd certain professions nd reduco its wagos. Butdo ot men crowd into cerlain professions? Look at the doctors and lawryers who graduate every year, and tha army of saloon-keepors; and yet dying gets no cheaper, vad lawyers’ fecs nover abate, and a drink's a dniok for a’ that. Now. in considering thig problec: of the disparity of wages between mon and wonen, which ia simply the question of the vaiue of tima to each, no ous seema to take into account the domoralizing forco of AMATIUR WORKWOMEN. No ono would believe ia their numerical strength, unless he kad given tho subject more than a casusl examination. A man, let his oo cupation bo what it witl, must pay for ths work of other men. No man makes his own bat, and shirt, acd boots, and cravats. Yet there is mavy and many & woman in modsrate circumstances whoss clothes, with the excoption of her shoes, end stockings, and gloves, are mads entiroly by her own lbands. She * will proudly display to you some bewildering combination of festhers. velvet, and flowers,—sud combina- tion being knorn as *ta bet,"—and while claim- iog your bestily-gizen ndwiration, she wili add, proudly, It ouly cost me 8o mach,"—naming x¥omo inadoquate sum,—* vocause 1 boaght the meterials, and made itmyoolf. Of course I don't count my lime as worfi anylking.” Now, my observation shows tlst au industrious womsn whosa timo is° worih nothing is deprecisiiog the time of - ail working women. It scems & very small matter thet & youvg Isdy, married or singlo, should choong to fuss over ber own wardrobe, and Le Letter dressod on $300 or $100 & yeartuan a professional woman can bs ‘on twico that sum. Moreover, it wonld appear to ba the business of nobody but the lady herself. Dut, whon the ama- teur diessmak: r, and milliner, and plain seam- stress, combin: in ono person, bec mes the rop- resontetivo of a class vumbering hundreds, the effect of thoir Jow-pricad work ja seenin the futile effer.s of tha professional needle-wvomen to get work epough to enable them to livo. ‘The result ir, they underbid each other and marve. IE 13 not a sup~a-able c by the wildest atretch of imagiustioa, bat, if the clerks, and bookkeepers, aud salesmen, should 2l go'home and speud their avcnings construct- ing their coats, snd pants, and hats. sod slurts, 1 doubt not we should soon bave barrowing ac: counts of the distress prevailing amoog the tail- ors and hatters, and the rapera swould inform us that thousands of the bow-legzed fraterni:y were Btarving at tho paint of the shears, and cutting out pauls at 2 tew cents & pair. 1do not know that any oue bias auy righl to protest against the fominine economy of howe-milline-y and dress- making, and certainly no piotests would avail anything; and set I know o more powarful aigument for the business-education of women than the fact that tho ausolate worth- lossness of some women's 3ima conduces to tha CHEATESING OF FEMALE LADOR. Doss somo povertv-atricken iavalid try to eke out & miserable pittance by waking wax-flowers, or skeleton leaves, or struw pictura frames, &ny oo of tho thousand ornamental nicknacks whose manufucture calls for tho expenditure of little money and much time. sho finds that her competitors sre innumerabie beaithy roung womea in velvet cloaks, ostrich plumes, and dia~ mond rings. Tho voung womon are wnot to blams. Tuoy raw that naw siyls of tidies or bead-work cushion, or wbatever tho oruament was, in the stoie down-town, and it struca their fancy. Thoy wanted it. bot they couldn't afford to pay the price demauded ; so they purchased the rojuisits materials, and went bhome and made it. The tidy or pin-cushion— whichever it was—absorbed dars and wesis in its manufacturo; but then it didat cost mach, bocausa—don't you ses P—tnair tima dido’t count_for anvthing. They had nothing elso to do. Now, there can be Do question tbat the time of 2 hundied or 8o Lealthy young women, who have been ‘‘sent away o school,” an taught painting in oil, and drawing in crayon s0d gymnastics, and *The Maideu's Prayer 2ud **Norms " on the piano, and hava traversed & four years' college-courso, and can even nsk you what time it is in_French, and bid you good-morning in German, ought 1o bo worth mors than the time of one uneducated, cripplod girl in a garret, who wishes to earn a meagro livelihood by the manufacture of cheap parlor-ornaments. Bat it isn't. And the more ¢hame for Lhe parents who educated tho young women. ‘But there ia still & worse foaturo of this case. I have been informed tbat it is no nocommoon cccurrence for theso women of leisure to go further than the making of ornaments for their own houses, snd_thst they often take home work, aud, loving other means of sup- port, and doing their work at their leis- ure, they =are sblo to underbid sl othor applicants for work, acd so turn their otuerwise protiticss tims to account, and make 1t of some pecuniary value. In other words, io order to earn a little pin-money, theso wives and daughters of well-to-do men take the bread out of working womow's months. Oftentimes this is done witbout the knowledge of the Lusband, or brother, or father; and bhe little imagines that tho dainty crochoting bo sees in progiess about him is shopwork, and that his wife, or axughter, or sister, aa the case may be, is making money on the sly. The old sdage, TOAY, 18 3ONZY, is & masculice adege. The Lusband, who ix looking on with a sereno sense of proprictorship in Ins remarksblo wife, whiie slie displays the troplies of hor ekill in jaunty home-made hats and stylish homo-made dresses, Las s profound counviction that lis wife is a wonderful econo- but all tho same, down deep in hig mint; boart of bearts, is & secret belief that sho might as well make her clothes,— for, if whe wasn't doing that, she wouldn’t be doing auything. Wuich ia probably trae. 1f you sugpested to him that his wifo's time was money, Lis would laugh at yon. Bat it ought to be, and, what is more, it ought to be equal to more’ money than -the time of a scamatress. Now, if a woman is fulfilling the duties of a motbier and housekeeper, ber time is above ptice. - A mother's care aud love cannot ba Lought ; neither can the housewifely pride and scrupulous oversight which a woman gives to tus home of which sbe is tho mistress. Yet often it i this vory class of women who feel thot their timo is ruoming to nsught. A liltle while spent in mending children’s clothies ; & little tume in the collar, sceing that the little sprouting potatoes were being cared for ; an examination of the refriger- ator; a talk with the gas-man; 2 call from & neighbor ; the weekly counting up and clean- ing of all’ tho spoons, and forks, and Dapkin- nnge; an interview with the rag-man; a look- ing over the grocer’s book ; an ailing to those squeaking binges, and n tacking down of the losened curpet on the etair-landing,—sna so runs the day away, and tho woary housewife queries 2t night what it all amountis to. Well, nobody knows what it cll amounts to till they bave lived in 2 house whers tha children’s clotiies weren't mended, and the potatoes spront- ed at their own eweet will, and the refrigerator vever got nn overhauling. and the gas-man charged what he pleascd, aad the spoons and forke never wers connted or polished ; whore tue raga had no settled babitation, bas were sl boase ; whers ths grocars eatered the samo thiag twice over, to maks sare, sud the stair-carpet, once untacked, would siay so till somebcdy nearly kroke his meck. A HOUFEZIEPIN'S DAY doet xel make so mueli 6f & shos &4 & soam- brings beiter pay in tho market. The dear old paticut mother, who has been pouring out ber precious time, 2nd thought, 2od scrength, to oil the wheels of the bousefiold machinery, bss not s0 much to show for the day's work as the stylish young wife who has just finished off ber velvat polonaite, but ob! the difference the housokeeper's day has mate in the lives of the household she governe!. On the other hand, 1 do po: know thaca velvet polouarse, though an excellont thing to bave, confers much happi- ness on any ono except its owner, The summiung-up of the whole mattor 87 far would scem to be, that women cught to be traglt that it is & crime for thom to count their timo worth nothing, aod that girls shonld be so educated that their timo shonld be wortls monoy totuem. But then what are they to do AFTER MAREIAGE, E sod beforo they are burdenod with the care of ahouse and family ? In Amocrica, men have o groat repugnauce to their mewly-made wivea ‘oing auything for their own support, They will “defor marriago, they will even sometimes consummate a secrot marriage, sud continue in their separata avocations, if she be a working women, rather than, after ke bas publicly as- sumed ‘the burdsn of her wupport, she shiould coutinue to labor. It would seem that this was & nonsenrical and peruicious idea, and that, if it was respectable in a woman to trim bonpets, or Bive music-lessons, or whatever it was she earn- ed monoy by bofore marriago, 1618 18t a8 re- spectaple for her to continus doing it until she is called mpon to 2ssumo uew responsibilities, and fue new cares make bresd-winuing impracticable for her. Very often, when o young couple start out tegether, the husband finds tho firat year a bard pull, and ho is Jucky if he kesps out of debt. What is the wife doing? Nuthing. Absolutely nothing. She lias zbandoned ber old means of gaining a snp- port, and, since huusekesping is too expensive, they have gone to boarding, and. mith all ber wardrobe in good order, she has_only t> amuse Lerself, and envy the better-dreesed women with whom she comes in contact. Sho s idle, and ergo discontented. Her discontent preys on her husband, and Dbe seeks lo remove it by siraining every nerve to give ber more luxuries and more ease, 1t is a1l 2 mietaze, -She would Lave been a hap- pier woman had she been helping her Lusband, inatosd of banging ke & clog up lum, I think many women see this, aad would gladly help in money-matters while they can, but mascuting prito forbids. ¢ is natural that s mau should lke to feel _ thai he i3 supporung his wife, aad be onght to Support Lier when she cannot snpport berself; aud ha takes pride in thioking she is dependent uuon Lim, aud she Las a rixh to do- reud on him shen Livr dutios 88 wife sad mother supersede former dutics.. It Las bean argued that it is A BAD POLICY for a woman. after waniago, to do anything towards her own suppoit, as tie husband soon learns to think it no wore than rignt that sho ehould assume the entiro burden of ber own maintenauco, and graduzlly leaves tho bresd-earning for the famuly to her, and finally ends_by laving upou ber yielding shonl- ders the additional burden of his own support. Eszamyles azo plentiful to prove the reasomng true. ~But & husband of that stamp will turn out 2 good-for-nothivg partner. whaserer policy the wife may edopt in the boginaing. Wirca-Hazxr. e HCW TO REACH THZ MASSES. T the Elitor cf The Chicado Trtbune: Siz: Oue of the great, probably fhe great- est, questions that is before the world's reform- c18 tu-dav,—one that is most importantto the poloit,—ous that- ts most important to 2he State,—is, bow to reach the massos. Ino our cities there are tens of thousands of dollars invested in churches,—churches grand and gloomy, aud the minister who enters his pulpit koows that he preaches to s small sod compacatively-select sudienco of cultivateda poo- ple, and that, within a short distauce of where Le stauds, are thousanda who never hear his voice,—never enter lus church or any other chureh. The Womar's Congress, that met in this aty, discovered the affairs that swers of most impor- tance to womep,~the maling of homes; the caring for children, and woman's work in the world,—questions that saffected the wife znd danghter of the poorest day-laborer 1n the land ; ond yet tho masses were not reached, and the Congross was not attcaded by s titho of the women of this city. Lectures are copsfantly being given o3 finance, oo art, on busivess-traite, on the means of attaining snccass in the world, and tho young man who would he benediied by these lectures keeps as far from them as if the lecturer were a packago of nitro-glycurine. 1t took'a wiso man to say, * Lot me but make the Dballadsof a couutry, and I caro not who makes its laws ;" vot that wiztlom will not apply 10 -the present ago; the songs of to-day may amuso, but they “do not instruet. Tho songs that bave auy influcnce aro {ho hymns and tas £0ngs that mey bo sung on tie battle-Sield, and these are no: the root and branch of joligious fervor or patnotic feeling.—they are but tho great enthusiasm of a people blossoming w song. And to-dny tho world's laborer sits in his omn home, a secure castlo a3 ever was builded, sud laghs at the incTectual attempts to reach him mado by Church and State. Iuto this lair of Ignoraacs is permitted to enter but one insituctor, tho presa; and, potent asis this power, 1t must sssume but ony form,—that of fiction. Whon the youths of England wera cultivating their muscle till it threatoued to absoro brain and heait; when the star-member of the college-class was mnot the man whose koowl- edge was most profound, whose studies wore hsrdest, whose mind was fincst, but tho Iad who could hit bhaidest, row the festest, aod wrestls Jongest; when Wilkie Collins saw this, did be call the attention of college-professors to this state of facts? Not by any meaus: tuoy knew it alrcady. Did he gather statistics of the mea who bad exhausted the strength of @ hfetimo in a rowing-match, or wjured themselves irreparably in a wrestle ? Not atall: they would have talkea these atatistics to Ligut their pipes with. Did he 2ppeal to parents ? They would have met the appeal with thh romark that has met every appesl for the improvement of young mea,~—the old story that boys will be boys. Ho wrote a novel, aud * 3aa and Wife" won tho argnment, When the Saxe-Holm storics wers issued in book-form, in a very able review of them occurs a remark something like this: he needs no forum, no pulpit; she goes strsight to the homes of the people. and by every hearthstono preaches a sermon that poes straight to the bearts and elevates tha livos of the resders.” When the great question of Slasery was threatening the very life of the mation; whon press and puipit were bound hand and foot, their ineffectusl atruggles wers as nothing compared with the power that swept through the land, and roused tha people to the enormity of the po- culiar institution.” The sristocrat, who feared toexpross his views lest he might offend his Southern friend ; tha woman who thought it must be o nice to live in the Sonth, and bave devoted blackservanta, who loved their mustress, as they were all supposed to do; the man of tho world, who gave all his attention to his gloves, the theatre, and his necktie, and whose ideas scldom rose abovo his boots, 2ud wio nover read a newspaper; the mechanic, who was too tired after his dsy’a labor to attenda public discussion of tho subject,—cach and sll of these sat under *‘the shadow of his own vine and lig-tree,” and read * Uncls Tom's Cabin,"—the bvok that ths Premier of England *read thres times for the statesmanship of it,"—and every 1osder of the book suw the plainest pictare, heard the ablest argument, with *naught extenuste mor aught sct down' in malice,” and heard tho plainest, |s=m-.t poworful sermon ever preached egeinst lavery. ‘With these few, plzin facts, thet mous can gaingay, we should’ proceed in the question be- fore us in the most sensiblo manuner. Itis use- less to sneer at *‘ sugar-costed knowledge.” ‘The world is oly in itsinfancy, and mnst take the onl: medicino that will cure its manifold disorders &2d, il it cannot be induced to take it in a legiti- imate, proper, dignitied way, why, then, sagar- coat1it; both ways ere logitimala. So, to the reformera of all kinds, wesay: Work in har- st-eld, but uso the now machivery. And, if fiction is in its purest forms, boih in the drama and in the noval, it will gatherin ths harvess with & rapidity svrrassms that of argument or porauazion,—tho vonderfal power of exsmple. Denth of o Circus Giant, The Wilmington (Del.) Commercial of AMon- day, 12¢) jnst., saya: * (While the Chicago Circus was traveling down the Pecizaula the ginat boy, 0017 15 yeurs of ago, was taken sick with the t7phoid farer, and being unable to proceed far- ther, was left at Fraokfort, a small village. in Sussax County, &8 the caravan passed through. He was withoat money or friends, and subsisted upon the charity of sirangers uniil desth relioy- d him ou the Gth inet. leganflfl!d'lfm :ifld:lli.hshflflfilwm THE ADIROWDACKS, Experiences of Y.ady-Artists. A Day in the Hills, and Another in the Woods. The Pleasures of a Gypsy Life. EEESE Prats, N, T., October, 1874, T will give you a sketch of aday on- the hills, also one 1n tho woods, together With o ac- count of some little trips around here ; ana per- baps, if 1 have the power to portray with pon 2ud iok, you can form some iden of the trials, tribmlations, pleasares, and adventures, incident tosketching in the country. FIBST, POR THE MILIS: We started off in good seaeon, each carrying = luoch in our pockets. Let me here observe, that, 1f you eser intcud to learn tho painter’s trade, you should have plenty of pockets,—ine larger the better. We climbed a rau-rence, over old trees, crunching the beautiful ferns which wore bending with dew-arops, brustiag the branches of cedara and spider-webs from cur faces, and, after expending oar last breath, con- claded to sit down zud procuresome more. Atlast the goal was reached. 'The wind was dancing the Bostoo dip with tho tall grasses, and evidently tnought he could do the same with umbroll for, when I attempted to raise mine, it whirled in & maoner which shocked my *‘ Hard-Shell Baptist” nouors. I thought toiostill a little common senso into it byapplying a granite rock: but only succeeded 1o breaking the handle, bruis- ing my fingers, demolishing my patience, and causing me to say, **1 will,"—and I did. I tied it by a cord to my waist, langhed at the wind, and was conteot. Soon after this victory came lunch-tims. We selected 3 rock on which was a flssure,—a fine plsce in which to put our bottle of tea, and eata- vles. An umbzellz of oue of the laaies took this time to fly off, aud, in trying 1o catcn the eams, she collapsed aud foll into the fissure, scatter- ing cake and cbicken to the four winds. We saved the pieces, however, and, shutting our 108 to the dust that might be on them, pre- tended to 2njoy everything. Painting nntil E;e, wo roturned. aud, on the wav, picked up & sheep's skull 28 a specimen for some disciple of Darwin, XOW, FO=R TIIE WOODS: We started for those haunta of the znits and mosquitoes, with brave Learts to doand dare, aud solocted a 8pot which wes fine for a study of rocks and birches. Thero was nothing to dis- tarb our spirite, but little green worms which were apinning down upon us. Mosquitoes wore there, of course. A: first we triod to kill thom. ‘That was when we were ignorant of the elastici- ty of these nymphs of the woods, Wo have eince learned by biter experience that these in- sects must be like Achilles, vulnerable only in the heel, and it takes too much time to cstch thom in this way. At noon our Juucheon was brought ns, sod we wera all bangry (I begin to think that {iys s coniitutional). ‘Our losation waa 3 veautiful place for o banqust, and apple-* sarse,” gingorbread, with bread and milk, losked tempting. ' We began to feel poetical; our eyes were fixed on a distant squir. rel, and our thoughts were more distent still,—when a hornet made bis appearance, 253 tasting committee of one. Al poetry vaaisheds everything was in confasion. Spoons wers in came t0 see whas Was tho matter. The only way wa could manage that hornet was iovested by a New Youk lav. Sho ate Ler azuce up, put sugar in the dieh, and let the hornet hava Lis sweet will ; and, while he was eating quietly, we kept our eyes on him aud ate in suspense. Yeaterday, & SNOW HAD FALLEX on the mountain, 2nd the weather was very cold, and wo were busy all the morning goiog from window 0 window to seo snow-effects. In the safternoon, we weont ont about half- s-mile (for 'wo bave to work hard to get sketches, aund ars not mere Mdlers). Soon our fingers wers like frozen abickens' fect, aod 25 clumsy. Tnen it rained, and the mad waa thick beyond comparison. A. pleture of our appearance og our return would bave been Lighly oruamontal to the List paga of Earper's Weekiy. Ovo stormy-looking morning we sallied out and walked to the Fiazs; but no sooner had wa got there thantho rain came down tho moun- tas, walked reross tne valloy, and sent us home in pretty quick time. The oext day the storm seemed to be breaking away, and we tried to paint it; butit would mot s:ev broke, and we, with breaking hearts, went to the dinner-table. A good puwpkin-pie soon Lealed them, however; after which we were willing to stay in the house and enjoy a good fire. During tho raivy weather, we saw something conting up tha rosd. drawr be a forsaken-looking borse ; and the cry was raized, *“A PEDDLHR! 7 A rash to the windows ensiued. He was a real Yaniee, with red bairand face to match. It was whispered to us that he was rich and romasutic ; bad been ** disappinted,” and was not married. He sold silks, ribbons, laces, and resi goid jewelry ; it must have beon real gold, becsuso [ inquired for a pioeobeck pin, snd e hado't any. He 13 the most wonderful man in the country,— tho Field, Leiter & Co. of the mountains. Perhaps you would prefer me to write 3 more sonaible letter, descrigtive of the country, &e.; but I do not feel seriously iaclined to-day, though I bave mado devperste attempts to bo mo. Perhaps it ia just a3 weil that I have not suc- eoeded, ag1tisarainy day, and I might have the home-fever, The trials of lady-artists’ life in _these hills aro fow, sod_the pleasuros many. It is & wild, gspsylife. Wecan go without gloves, which is deflgmrul 3 can dres our haic in the style, once a week or not, just #5 we please; can wesr as farge shoes as we liko: in fact, have our own wav all the timn; and, what ia best of all, there is hardly a young goutleman to be seen for miles around.” S5, you 8ea, there is nothing to pro- vent our hoing happy zod contented. Now, don't you wish you wers au old-maid artist ? Sundsay,2s Istood in 2.chair m order to got on cur buckbosrd-carrisce, the horses suddenly started, landing me caretully between the wheels. Iwas fortunately roscaed” without injury. and I got into that vehicle in & hurry. A pleasaat drive brought us to THE VILLAGE-CHURCE. It was in an unfivished stste, but the snn shone in, and made everything pleassat. The ministor gave us s good rermon. He is pastor for threo churches, which are 3 and 5 miles apart, and all for tho sum of $700 per y2ar. Ho ‘must be looking for * racomponse of reward " in the hereafter. Tho clioir was composed of those who couid read musie, from 16 to 60 years of zge, Although it was04d to hear each ona takiig the pitch,—Do, fa, 8o, oic.,—and the harmony was sometimes Ppeculiar, yet, as the singing was 80 earnest, I enjoyed it as well as I nhould some of our fashionable music in city ¢hurchea. b One day we went to & meadow. Thero go Eeen a heavy froat the night bofora, and to uq tarough it was like fordivg a river. We wo oi not turn back: so, Sodiog a zood Tiew, we tocu our poeitious, and would havo palnted un oW, but one cow in the field thonght she would have = little sport, and we wars either in her way, or else she wanted to admire onr pictares ; for she shook her bead, and proceeded full gal- Iop for my companion, who started for a thicket, upsetting eversthing around her. I was theo exposed to her pranks, and took to the woods also. Here the unfaling umbrells came into use ; for the cow did not liko the looks of it, sud xan off. After that we were sure that it was tao cold and damp to paint any longer in that place. ;‘z.zcmay was s dull, gloomy day; but we weu! CASCADE FALLS, on the Flume, as it is celled, and the scens was beautiful. Thu rocks 'were elippary, sod it was very dficult to kesp one’s footing; we reached our point at leat, z0d seatod ourselves, with camp-stools, onm rocks, in the middle of the brook, where, if we changed our positions, or loaned back, we shonld be in ice-cold water. We painted until it began to rain. It was awful cold and damp thers. The sun never shines in this place. Perhsps yon can imugine how one would feel packed inica; that is as pear as I can describe our feelings. At S P. . we gave up, &od wens home feeling aa if we were 101 years old to a dsy. We went to the kitchen, sst by the warm stove, draok hot ginger, at® warm doughnuts, and soon felt bet- ter. Thuradsy morning, XMaj. Hull took his family and ourselves a S-wile drive np tho valles. It was a bezuiful morning,—one in which it seemed zood' to live. We crossed Joha's Brook. Mount Maroy, which we passed, had & cap on 8o wecould 1:0t ses it well. Wa forded the Au Bable, and, arziviog at our doatinatien, we took a bay aa & guido to Tiwas quite s vt kod we had st was 6 3 1/ 3 we AR fa e sinating L rook (43 ws ki3 b i £2> pping from sto wron tue loo: e stones u:ut'w fect, wheu it was 4 sapall be cascado wzs picturesy 22 mOss-covero rucks 63 or 70 jagh, (R oy avar toogh the woads in 5 pegercd ming Atlor sponing a deieltfal gor 2! b Lived onr gaido back, and sat does s ¥ i did supper. to wirich wa did ful juams S e The luet dav of our 8ojourn hc-;e' rpead in the woods, gathering biees pe® il aud othor woodiawd ‘tressnres, foe w.,ff;’tv,' 5 Pturm; MABARE LA FRINCESSE J:\ELONOWS"L The promenade “ Shoubrah thao usual, for it is recepnnn::?:;t, dive's Court. a0d tho favorcd anes, mpy 2* ing tha appointed Lour, enjoy 5 sifa g "5 splendid chanssea leading to the palare T, 2 Nile in view o0 one wile and the P’;"‘?"“" the othor. Seeing the troops of nlk:d". working in ths Selds, and the prigitie .2 auces for the purposes of imgaiiay, spe surprised to behold ths glittering v g 8 with sorsanta in livery, rolling ander e trees, and wonders at the ternblg cnnxm;md’ Mv friend, the Buron Martino, of the Legation, is giving mo an airing i Lia aplengyy baroache, and kiadly Informa me ag o e ey Comeg gy prominent partics passing us, equipage of more than nspal vauts in livery herty mith 'g‘m’i‘:’ futerior of the open coach concainin'y jag fz? ! Ne manquez-pas celle-la,” told O 7 fijang ;, time, and 1 rezardod with surprisy jus o1 lite form of tho youngar ous of we e T in full consciodmnoss of her - ajpenc M0 beagty, Iay back in her seat wit aa epppeli e chslages. & OR, che bellezza, o Pro e e Thore caltiveria! exclaimed tho 5 Wit her\ our old proverb, o ta sano, e chi va sano, aloniano,” 2% right i iz second part. Reming :?".'gi'um see the Kbedivo, and when Lis abomiua slcians are plaving in tho Kiosk, ty petoe 3 her history.” 1 accoptad the proposition fos thauks, aud at the proper tine, asked for 1 fattillment of the prowiss, ooticed, bor fore, tha: the carsiage with t80 two ladies | bos adaitied to the paiseo, bat that theay. instead of coming, with the other invited Bues; inio the recaption-room, weat directly into 1y garden, wheta wo coald noe follow fime o thon, because’ tho Viceroy's haron wes proi ading at that tims, and & canieh with b oa sword refused sdmittance to geatloma® ™ Now the garden was cleared from Tamaj] P‘!c[h“'-bba‘im} halvgds; lx;cl Wearassatedin alitily allery built alonguide of a nvalet. ! fa:e"ir;a folloma: B e ** That handsomo lady calla hersclt *La pr cipessa de Jablonowski,’ and claims llofbet'limfin.: LT ol sou ihat sho wss oue of (o lames which our good Vittorio Immannels i dulges i, you may guess haeltoi Piano, right she' has to our mationality, heg bow he made her scquainiance, and ‘gay nd of her, 18 a curions story. Haye you ever beep in Vienna? Yes. Vell, th Lnow the * Sperl,’ which is the nm?' m%;:nfz.fl the Jardin Mabilis to Paris, or Cremorne to Lope don. Well, our imrosma beauty bagan her sscent in that very place, Whether she had any other occapation bosidos exposing overy nichi the butter, sugar on the ground. 2nd snidera ber beautiiully-shaped leg aud irm to ths sg. miring gaze of the Vienna clorks, in the cachags g whirl of the concan, history does nottell; only this much is certain that sha obiained thy reputsiion for beiug thoe nighest kicker, bay champagoe-drmmier, and wildest csocaze dancer, of Vienus. Ono evenivg shs ai. tracted the s:tention of 3 young Hangariaa uobloman, who has eince turned another leaf iz nis life aud becomo = celebrated polit:cian i zealons Ulirsmontaps. His name is Jab lonowski. His _money beat aul I eome potitors _our Juno's graces from the tield, and he took Lier for s irip through Earops, I suppose as » compagnou-de-voyage. 80 trare eling, they haprened in Susa, mesr ths Hoel Cenis, whero the then King of Ssrdinis and Piedmont was hnntmg. The inflammabls tage tore which composos the heart of s Italaa King is woil known, sud, 1gnited by & spack from ke lady's eye, broka fortn in such volumes cf fsme that the Hungarian was glad to quit ths ecene io o1dernot to be barat by the conflagration. Vittorio, a well-known_ hunter before the Lord, goes for all bis gamo in the eame wild manner. Aud thus it came that the beautiful young dancer from the Vienna Sperl found herself trensplaated to the Royal pziace at Turin, as ons of the Eiug’s afiipities.” But it appears that she had heard of tue Fronch saying, that ‘Lappetit vien! en mangeant ;* for tho King's love alone_ did ngt satisfy her any more, and she wanted, besides being presented as thoe Princess Jablonowski, to try her hand at politics, for which the vexed Romao question at that tima offered Ler s good opportuoity. She became exceedingly pioas, and endeavored very likely to regain iloaven's graces by kind actions to the Pope, and trying to dissuado tie King from the libezal policy ihea urgued. ‘““She received several anoaymous notices, warning her not to interfers mn politica; bud never paid any attention to them, until. one fice moruing, one of ber servanis orought hars bouquet which had been seut for her. After hav- 1ng touched it with her nossand burying het face in the tlowers several Limes, she discorersd to ber dismsay, in the very centre of the bouquet, and well hidden by tlie Icaves, a diminutive bomb, the fuse of which bad been light ed, but extingnished probably by tas dew of the flowers. That was a damper for har pohtical zeal, and ths szms sfternoon she - copted with tloods of tears the proposition of her “eariggimo Bo” o pay a visit to the land of tha Sphinx. %4 in vofla 1" finished my friend. #And & you know taat the Russtan Cousal and tise Por- Bian Ambassador almost cut each other’s thross on acconnt of lier; and that & ceriain American ofliciat received a sound thrashing on ber e count,—having made some 1nsulting remark 18 she passed him, which eho heard, and for which Tho bad him bosten almost to 8 jally? Dat they aro all misiaken; sha is fighing for higher game. You watch to-day, and ses whashar v8 hava tne samo opiniol After half an nour's stroll throngh the most deserted and shady parts of thae park, I had come to the conclusion that la Principessa would e quite willing to act Dido’s part, if Ismail wers readv to impersonate /Eneas, and I wished to advise the Istter gentleman (now living) to resd Homer, and principally the Odyasey; thers 8 sirens living even yot. And now, three yosra later, I am sorry to best that my advice would have been right, for s Principesas has bocomo an Egyptisn afinity, e e AN ARGUMENT. 1 hiold it right for expart eyes to scan ‘The heavens, and peet into the rock; And well enough for exper: Lands to hold “The Xoys that mystery un.ock. What though the spade of Scienco should diried The olden loro of Genesis, It cannot stop the wheels of Time and Light, Nor shake the Father's conatancies | ‘The Wisdom whosa sphered reslm no quétticn Raldl Placsd cortetn solid values deaply down In nopn:lh\{»zflpu{ night, but placed, ze last B sight of a ‘Tke happy Sowers rejoicing in the Sum ! And Science, toiling downwsrd aftar forcs sad faely Doemeth jta cholco most right and proper-wise: Na leas, eur tender, tremulous Humanity Looks upward for a Father in tho akicx. We marval much to note our robust brother’s streTg® Delving for caura with such strong-handed aris] And yet, through law of Like produciag Lids ¥ know There is a Father of our humen hearts And while fust Science lators, adding fack to feh To circulate in knowledge ‘round the sphers, We linger on Life’s suuny levels, prizing mea Love's flowers, that bloom froia year i@ yesr§ b Howver, no scom should yass between W, sl wwizn God knows, 2nd Life and Wisdom provs, That miads Kke yours must Bavo iheir tacit, And b aurs love, o . . H. Caoxnie CHICAGO. S A Rascally Rnsclan Satlers From the London 1¥:rer. Daring the Crimezn camprizn one of the priz ¢ipal regimsntal 0s in the Bussian sy w23 suddenly clcwed in the faccs of officars, men withont notice or ¥acning. Prince Gork cankoff, furious, rode up 1o the Purvesor 22 demandod an explznation, wheseapon the latter replied that, inatead of yielding him, a3 wib commonly supposed, £20° of clear daily profit his business was landing him 1a downright 7ty inasmuch as the gzeater pert of bis recaipts co sisted of faise bank-noes. The Geaeral, st bt wit's eud, tolographed to the Emperor, sad oa 7o coiving a'Teply toid the Purveyor that if be vould opea his casteen the sparicus sotas % question shoald bercashed by the bank as if 550 had bean genaine. Armed with this sasurice the Parveyor briskk7 resumed his businoss, 12 Iabored it his vocazion withs such zosl and gence thas at tha 1nfaction of beiz, the Impezial ke ad wosres)] ;:’3?4.,..;’.:11;--“ i