Evening Star Newspaper, December 16, 1871, Page 2

NEW POEM BY BRET HARTE. ed to advance sheew of the for January, which will be Published in about ten days, for the following Rew poem by Bret Harte.) Grandmother Tenterden. Masacueserts Si nd it was bat y: i was dim, the iy peer, Howbeit that night T took no note of shy, for all was drear; od meer. hough carved and clear, like scad did drive and deat. with ony darting went the } veda and meadows browa; a the Little t sowmend am if ¢ went 4 With bim, my only darling boy . + foam white, Tt was the miditle of the ight— ‘The sea upor th wu lept. Aad m oo And there he stood aad trippin « his seaman’s dross med ty "he exit wat throug’ night and storm " pi right he, peyond it Peace His, and he who sent his steep a ~ hike a dream, he OF what my clearer © And when the oks brought him mot, nght besid»; rahe. hor pri; nd I. — ome all hope ind dicd, Antmy son passed as if forgut. Th was about the next spring-ti = nd faded where aby of HL or go: Md Edwards "blood and so she died onght. before sh parsed, ace. butere I epak it I first to break 3 and his sake Kk antil the last. yw we { her And every abip at last comes home. And son have sailed the Spani«h And know my Jacob’... Gh? Marcy’ fwiedota hath the sea tot ite dead to humble me" i By bey ”....my Jacob Tarn again —__-~ee- The Minister's Housekeeper. BY MRS. HARRIET BEECHER STOWE. (Serve 1—The sha re—Som Lawson —Sam leg.| side of @ blucherry A the boys picking blacks ri “Wal, you see, boys—‘twas just here—Parson Carryt’s wite, she died along in the tore part of March—my cousin Ha she undertook to keep house for him. The way on't was that Huldy, went to take oe) Carryi in the fust fust took sick. Huldy was she was one o' these that has a gift for most that was how Mis Carryl come to store by her, that when she was sick for ber but she must have all the time, and the minister, he her all the same, ani »y it, and so Hald ty! fall three m: ing care o” things, along spell—and 30 ng & spell and poured 0 it his close, and made pi-s and cooked, and washed, and irone f, verything as neat as a pin—Huldy was a 1 chipper sort o” gal, and work sort o° ff tiki er off aduck’s back. There belburne that could put such asi work through as Haldy, and yet, San- day mornin’, she always come outin the singer's sent like onc 0° those J and smi was jest as clear and sweet masy—I"mem- ber how she used to sing someo’ them are plac where the treble and counter used to go t gether, her voice kindo” trembled a little, and it sort o” went thro’ and thro’, a feller! tack him right where he lived.” ere Sam leaned contemplatively back with his head in a clump of sweet fei treshed h green. ang wintergreen, boys, is jest like a feller s thoughts o’ things tir pened I you © stinging—I ng wintergreen ' when a feller is indianing round these ere pleasant summer days, a feller’s thoughts gits like a flock ©” young patridges—they’s up and down and everywhere, ‘cause one place is jest about as good as another, when aa* all se kind 0° com- le and nice. Wal, about Huldy—as I was a sayin’—she was jest as handsome a gal to look at as a feller could have, and I think @ nice, well-behaved young gal im the singers’ seat of Sunday ix a means 0° grace, it’s a sort o’ drawi to the unregenerate. you know. Why, boy: them days, I've waiked ten miles over to S| . burne of a Sunday mornin’ jest to play the bass’ viol in the same singer's seat with Haldy. She was very much respected, Huldy was, and when he went out to tailorin’ she was allers bespoke six months abead, sent for in waggins up and down for ten miles round, fur the young fellers was allets "mazin anxious to be sent after Huldy, and was quite free to offer to go for her. Wal, atter Mis Carry! died, Huldy got to be sort © housekeeper at the ministers, and saw to everything so that there warn’t a pin out o” the way. But you know how ‘tis in parishes, there ailers ‘+ women that thinks the minister's affairs be- to them, and the lon ought to have the rutin’ there was Mis Amaziah Pipperidge, a wok widder with snappin’ black eyes, and @ nose —kind ©” like a hawk— she was one o’ them up down, commandin’ sort o’ woman, that feel that they have a call to be seein’ w everything thet goes on im the parish, aud to the minister. it say that Mis Pipperidge sot 0° sot her eve on the parson herself if—wal—now, that might have been, or it might not. Some folks * connection,— yor of her own, right ad was allers kind 0” thin; ler if Mis ht that Providence pointed that may Tate she went upto Deakin Blod- and they two sort o” put their heads together a mournit, and condolin’ about the Way things was likely to go ou at the minister's now Mis Carryl was dead. Ye ste the parson’s fe, she was one of thera women who hed their eves everywhere and on everything. She was a little thin woman, but tough as Injer rubber and smart as 4 steel trap, and there warn't a hen laid an egg er cackled, but Mis Carryl was right there to see about it, and she had the gar- den made in the spring. and the medders mowed in summer, and the cider made. and the corn husked, and the apples got in the fall, and the Doctor bad nothin’ to do but jest sit stock still a meditatin’ on Jerusalem and Jericho and them | things that ministers think about—but Lordy massy' he didn't know nothin’ about where thing he ea ent to—his with an- | ipperidge | his silk stocking, and his shoe backles was —— SP. and his cost brashed, and warn't no bread and biscuit like Hual- equal hors, and so Doctor ne: loss of Mis Carryi at le. Then there was Huldy allers te to with her blue eyes and her checks like two fresh peaches. She was kiudo’ pleasant to look at; the more the Doctor looked at her the better he liked her, and so things seemed to be goin’ Saanict vest ameae | it heda’s beon thas ‘ipperidge and Mis Deakin Blodgett and i» Sawin got their heads together @ talkin’ ebout things. “<*Poor man!" says Mis Pipperidge, “what can that child that he’s got there do towards taking care of all the place ? It takes amature woman, the nays, to tread in Mis Carryl's shoes.” That it does,” says Mis Blodzett, “and when | things once gets to rannin’ down hill there aint | no stopping on em,” says she. | _ Then Mis Sawin, she took it up. (Yesee, Mis | 8 used to go out to dress makin’ and was | wort o'jealous, cause folks sot more by Huldy | than they did by her.) “Haldy Peters is well enough at her trad never denied that, though say [ never did believe in her wayo'makin’ button holes, and [ must say, if "twas the dearest friend I had, that I thought Hutdy, tryin’ to fit Mis Kittrldge's | plumb-colored silk was actear piece of presamp- tion—the silk was just sp! ied 90 "twarn't tt to come into the meetin’ bouse. I must say Hal- dy’s a gal that’s always too ventares.me about ‘akin’ “sponsibilitics she don't know nothin’ about.” “Of course she don’t,” raid Miss Doa Blodgett. at does she know abot all t and secin’ to that there ought to be the min house. Huldy's win’ and she's good at her work, and in the singer's seat, but Lordy Mass rience. Parson ¢ 4 vod she haint rryloughtto have | p house for him. nin,’ and the fall to, and the things to way from oths, and then gettin” ready Tor the associa! and allthe ministers’ mset- md the making the soap and the candles, and settin’ the hens and turki watchin’ the calves aud seein’ after the hired men and the garden—and there that are blessed man jist sets at home as serene, and has nobody roand but the gal, and don't know how things mast be nnin’ to waste !"* Wal, the upshot on’t was they tussed and fuzzled and whuzzled till they'd drinked up all the tea in the tea-pot, and then they went down and called on the parson and whazzled him ail up talkin’ about this, that, vl Cother that | wanted lookin’ to, and that it was no way to | leave everything to a young chit like Huldy, | and that he ought to be looking about for an experienced woman. arson, he thanked | "em kind! said he believed their motives | house-clean were good, but he didn’t go no turther. He didn't ask “Miss Pipperidge to come and stay | there and help him, nor nothing o° the kind, , but he said he'd attend to matter himself—the | fact was, the parson had got such a likin’ for | havin’ Huldy, round that he eouldn't think | such a thing as swappin’ her off fur the widder | Pipperidge. ut he thought to himself Hulity is a good girl, t I oughtn't to be leavin’ everything to her— it’s too hard on her. I ought to be instructin’, ned —— and helpin’ of her, "cause ‘taint everybody could be expected to know and to do what Mis Carryl did; and so at it he went, and Lordy Massy, didn't Huldy have a time’ on't when the minister began to come out of his study and want to 'tend ‘round and see to things? Huldy, you see, thought all th rid of the min- | ister, and she was ‘most afraid to langh, but she told me she couldn't for the gup ina most singular way, bat jist say ‘yes sir,’ and get him oif y and goon her own way. Huldy,”’ says the minister, one day, “ aint experienced out doors, and when you w. must come to me. we can Md the | she'd Wal, the very next day the | y¥ was found killed, st to old dim Scroggs’ baru—folas said Scroggs killed it, though Scroggs, he stood to it he didn’t—at y rate Sereggses, they made a meal on’t, and Huldy, she feit bad about it, ’eause she'd set her beart on raisin’ the tarkeys—and says she, ‘oh dear, I don't know what I shall do, [ was just realy to set her.” «Do, Huldy ?” says the parson, “ why there's the other turkey, out there by the dvor, anda fine bird, too, he is.”? there was old Tom turkey a idlin’ and @ quitterin’ and a flountin’ is i feathers in the sun, like a lively young widower, already to begin lite over again. “But,” said Iuldy, “ you know he can’t set on eggs. - fe can't? I'd like to know why,” says the shall set on eggs, and hatch ‘em, Yh, Doctor,” says Huldy, all ina tremble, ‘cause you know she didn’t want to contradict ister, and she was afraid she should ver heard that a Tom turkey would cht to,"" said the parson, gitting what else be they for? Toa just being out the engy, now, 20% pat om in the nest, and I'll make Lim set on ’em.”” So Huldy, she thought there wern’t no way to convince him but to let his try; so she toak the and fixed em all nice in the nest, and then she came back and found old Tom a skir- mishin’ with the parson pretty lively, I tell ye. Ve see, ok Tom, he didn’t take the ‘idee at all, and he topped, and gobbled and tit the parson, and the parson’s wig got ‘round so that his cue stuck stra:ght out over bis ear, bat he'd got his blood up. '¥ the old Doctor was used to carrying his p doctrine, and he hadn't fit Arminians and Socinians to be beat by a Tom turkey—so fipally be le achve and ketched him by the neck in spite o° his flopping’, and stroked him down and put uldy’s apron cound r * dy," he says, quite redin the face, got him now,” aud he traveled off to the barn with him as lively as a cricket. Huldy came behind, jist chokin’ with laagh, and afraid the minister would look round aw sce her. « Now, Huldy, we'll crook his legs and sot him down,” says the parson, when they got him to the nést, “ you see he is ‘getting quict, and he'll set there all right.” ‘And the parson aot bim down, andold Tom, he sot there solemn enough and held his head down all droopin’, looking like s rail pious old cock, as long as the parson sot by him. “ , YOu sce Low stili he sets,” says the parson to Huldy. Huldy, was auoet. dying laugh. “I'm afraid he'll “when you do.” Ob, no he won't,” says the parson, quite confident, “there, there,” says he, laying his hands on him, as if he was pronouncin’ the blessin’. But when the parson riz up, old Tom he riz up too, and began to march’ over the € for fear she should get up,” says she, SF Stop now,” said the parson, get down again; hand me we'll put that over him.” Se he crooked old Tom’ te and got him down again, aud they put the corn basket oyer him, and then they both stood and waited. * That'll do thejthing, Haldy,” said the par- 01 “1 don’t know about it,” says Haldy. “Ob, yes itwill, child-1 andersiand,” says «TT make him corn basket, he. dust as he spoke the basket riz right up and stood, and wey could see old Tom's long legs. i make Lim stay down, confound him,” Says the parson, for ye see parsons is men like the rest on us, and the doctor had got his spank sp. 6 *You jist hold him a minute, and I'll get something that'll make him stay, I guess,’ and out he went to the fence and brought in | tomy thin, flat stone, and laid it on old Tom's | Old Tom he wilted down consiterabie under | this, and looked raily as it he was goin’ to give in. He staid there a long spell, and the | minister and Huldy left him there, and come up to the house, but they hadn't more than got to the T hippin’ | along, “talk! talk jitter tin’ and | goblin’ as if he'd come through the Red Sea and got And sure enough they were smashed flat him in enough under the stone. him—for there | “9 him killed,” said the parson, ‘ where ‘round. Why, when he De- | won't have such a critter remade? as crees and Elec But the parson, he slept on’t and then dida’t ord xi = the *rigital ° top sermon on - Tow 0’ ns tiaras err go contrary ever since. and pulsey, and Canada thistles, cut - was rattlesnakes—the Doctor very impres- oe sive and sort Scat the bebaty cocks Wane tees Vike a flock 0° laughing two of the sermon when text seemed with the his Greek and po bell- ver to fence arter idder é Hi tor, of cow = i flicted when railly » Huldy about the house that males nothin’ he ea finer an and hyn Griren snow, @ brack in on But not and jist then Hill, told him a ME, ne vent, for ad 8 merece : curb ‘round the told he might ‘Wal. old Aikin, the , he didn’t come till "most the middle of atternoon, and then didn’t get up the well- then he went off and said mn Carryl, he driv’ into his pig.’ He'd tied up to keep him from squealin’, and he see what he thought was the pig-pen—he was very near-sighted—and so he ran and threw piggy over, and down he dro; into the water, Et ths minister put ep his bora: and pranced off into the house, quite delighted. “ There, Huldy, 've got you a nice little pig.” “ Dear me,” says Huldy, ‘where have you pat | him?” Why, out there in the pig-pen, to be sure.” Ob, dear me!” says Huidy, « ou curb. ‘There ain't no pig-pen built,” says she. “ Lordy massy!” says the parson, “then I've thrown the pig in the well !” Wal, Huldy, she worked and worked, and finally she fished piggy out in the bucket, but he | was as dead as adoor nail, and she got him out of the way quietly, and didn’t say much, andthe parson he took @ great Hebrew book into his study, and says he, * Haldy, I ain't mach in the temporals,” says he. Huldy says she kind 9° felt her beart go out to him; be wastort 0 mock and helpless, and learned, and says she, “ Wal, Par- son Carryl, don't trouble your head no more about it; I'll see to things.” And, sure enough, & week after there was a nice pen, all ship- shape, and two little white bigs that Hutdy | b = bought with the money for the butter she soid | at the st “Wal said the parson, ‘you are a most a 4; you don't say nothin’, bat you do more than most folk: Arter that the parson set sic that he come to her and asked thing, and it was amazin’ how put her band to prospered. Haldy planted marigolds and lark-spurs, pinks and carnations all np and down the path'to the front door, and | trained up morning glories and scarlet ranners round the windows, and she was aiways gettin’ @ root here, and a sprig there, and a seed from somebody else, for Huldy was one of them that hay the gift, ‘so that ef you jest give 'em that largest sprig of anything they make a great bush out of frig it away, so that in six mouths Huldy bad roses, and geraniums, and lilies sich “as it would a took a gardener to raise. The parson he took no notice at fust, but when the yard was all ablaze with flow- ers he used to come and stand in a kin maze at the front door, and say, ‘beautiful, beautiful; why Huldy, I never see anything like it. And then when her work was done atter- noons, Huldy would sit with her sewing in the porch, and sing and trill Away till she'd draw the meadow larks and the bobolinks, and the orioles to answer her, and the great big elm tree overhead would get perfectly rackety with the birds, and the parson settin’ there in his study, would git to hind o° dreamin’ about angels, ad golden harps, and the new Jerusalem—but he wouldn't speak a word, ‘cause Huldy, she was jist like them wood-thrushes, she never could | {ing so well when she thought folks was hearin.’ Folks noticed, about this time, that the parsun’s sermons got ty be like Aaron's rod, that badded and blossomed—there was things in ‘em about flowers and birds, and more ‘special about the music o’ heaven. | And Huldy, she noticed that efthere wasa hymn run in her head while she was ‘found a workin,’ the minister was sure to ive itout next Sunday. You see, Huldy, was ist like @ ber, she always sung when she was | workin’, and you could hear her triilin’ down in the corn patch, while she wa the corn; and now in the battery, while s workin’ the butter; aud now she'd go singin’ down cellar, +o that she seemed to til a house full o? music. dy was sort 0” chippe spoken, t she got the hired mena! thumb— her and took her orders jest as nvek . 3, and she traded at the store, and kep nts, and she hed her eyes verywhere, and tied up all the ends so tightihat theré wan't no gettin’ ‘round her. She wouldn't | let nobody pat nothin’ off on Parson Carry *cause he was a minister. Huldy was allers up ody that wanted to make @ hard barg aod aore be knew jist what he was about she vt the best end of it, and everybody said that faldy Was the most capable gal that they'd ever traded with. Wal, come tothe meetin’ of the Association Mis Deacon Blodgett and Mis Pipp callin’ upto the parson’s, all in a st ferin’ their service to get the house r the Doctor, he jist thanked ‘em, quite quiet, and turned ’em over to Huldy, and Huldy, she told "ema that she'd got eve rgthing ready showed em her pantries, and‘her cakes, anil her pics, and her u's, and took ’em'all over the house, am 'y went peekin’ and pokin’, openin’ cupboard doors, and lookin’ into draw: ers, and they couldn't find so much asa thread out @” the way, from garret to cellar, and so they went off quite discontented. Arter that the women set # new trouble a brewin’. Then they begun to talk that it was a year now since Mis Carry! died, and it rally wasn’t proper such a young gal tobe stayin’ there, who everybody could see was a settin’ her cap for the minister. Mis Pipperidge said that so long as she looked on Huldy as the hired fitlyshe hadn't thought much about it, but Huidy was railly takin’ on | airs as an equal, and appearin’ as mistress 0° the | house tn a way that would make talk if it went on. And Mis Pipperidge, she driv ‘round up to | Deakin Abner Snow's and down to Mis "Lijah Perry's, and asked them it they wasn't afraid that the way parson and Huldy was agoin’on | might make talk, and they said they hadn't | thought on't before, but now, come to think on’t they was sure it would, they all went and talked with somebody ‘else, and asked themif they didn’t think it would make talk. So. com Sunday between meetin's there warn't nothi else talked about, and Huldy saw folks a nod in’ and winkin x thing she | I | Degan to fi Hg MisSawin, she says to her, “My dear, didn't | you never think folks would talk about you and | the minister 7” “Ne; why should they?” says Huldy, quite innocent. “Well, dear,” says she. “I think it'sa shame, bat they say you're Pyine to catch him, and that it's so bold improper for you tw be courtin’ of him right In his own house—you kuow folks will — thought I'd tell you ‘cause [ think so much ot you,” says she, Huldy was a gal of spirit, and she despised the talk, but it made her drefful uncomfortable, and | when she got home at night she sat down in the | aeaee lory porch, quite quiet, and didn’t say a word. The minister, he had heard the same thing from one of his deacons that day, and when he saw Huldy so kind 0’ silent, lie says to her, ** Why don't you sing, my child 7” He hed a pleasant ‘sort o’ way with him, the minister nd Huldy had got to likin’ to be | with him, and it all come over her that she ought | to go away, and her throat kind a filled up so she coule hardly speak, and says she, “I can’tsin to-night.” ‘sage he, ** You don’t know how much good your singin’ has done me, nor how much mT ou have done me in all ways, Huldy. I wish I new how to show my gratitude. ir,” says liuldy, ** is it improper for me “ says the minister, gently, “but olks will talk, but there is one way we can stop it, Huldy—if you will marry me. You'll make me very nape nd L'il do all can to make you happy. you? Wal, Huldy never told me jist what she said to the miniaster—; never does give you the particulars of them thiags jist as you'd like “em— only | _know the upshot, and the hull on’t was that Huldy she did a consid’able lot o’ clear storchin’ and irouin’ the next two days, and the Friday o” next week the minister and she rode over together to Dr. Lathrop’s, in Old Town, and the Doctor he jist made ‘em man and wife, ite of envy of the Jews,’ as the hymn says. you'd better believe there was a starin’ an wonderin’ next Sunday mornin’ when the sec- ond bell was a tollin’, and the minister walked up the broad aisle with Huldy, all in white, arm im arm with him, and he ope the minis- ter’s pew, and handed her in as if she wasa princess, ‘for you see Parson Carryl come of a good family, and was born a gentleman, and had asort o° grand way 0’ bein’ polite to women. folks. Wal, T guess there was a rus'lin’ among the bunnits. “Mis Pipperidge gin a bounce, like corn pin’on @ shovel, and her | eyes glared through her glasses at Huldy as if | they‘ sot her atire, and everybody in the meet- in’ house was a starin’, 1 tell yew. But they couldn’t none of ’em say nothin’ agin Huldy's . for there warn’t a crimp nor a frill about her that warn’t jist so, and her frock was white as the driven snow, and she had her bunnit all trimmed yin whit —— old Doc: the and Huldy at ie deo sean | cane : ‘hands and laughin’, for by that time they were | ‘they'd got to let putty well ‘how you've come it over us.” Blodget, Parson Carryl’, says Mis Deacon a0, it it becca egy some sraw After this sublime introduction, the poet con- Sr ranean to q.iZ; The favorite bird with the baby is tts ttle | of Worth's suggestions that our modistes have | bine faille. The front of the skirt | a delicate Chiua pink petticoa’ j train, and white velvet pl | ers or feathers, for 850; wiite tulle dresses el j - last season’s dresses. milk | silks, woolens, and for muslins over silk is lon- NEW YORK FASHIONS. | @pera and Ball Totlettes. WHITE TULLE. The gayetics a:tendant on the visit of the Grand Alexis it out some not opera and bail tuilettes. H were pure white dresses of diaphancoas tulle, brightened by folds of lustrous satin. Fiat trimmings, such as row after row of side pleat- | ings, trim the trained skirts; the upper skirts | are double tulle, ingeniously folded to conceal any defined edge, and draped | lands of flowers; the low cor gar- | niture, and sometimes rare old lace, such as the gossamer Malines. ornaments it. Such a dress | Was worn at the Academy ball py the Marquise | de S. Marzano et Coragho, formerly Miss Gil- | lender. It consisted, first, of a trained taffeta | skirt, with a flounce of stit pleatings to support | the skirt preper. Over this is the Lyons talle | skirt, bordered with a wide ruche of tulle, and | clusters 0 triple puffs drooping to overlap like | rofties, with asatin fold between each r. | These extended to the knee, and the upper part of the skirt is covered by a misty drapery of talle, doubled, very bouflant behind, with many easy folds in front draped by clusters and sprays ot great blush roses mingled with white lilacs. Square court train of tulle, widel satin, is added, and the low, douh sage has sott tulle drapery on the bh exquisite Malines lace. Ts are placed with gracefui irregularity on the reage and skirts. The coiilure is a ross clas- ter just above the erown braid, with long sprays of halfopened buds and white lilacs drooping among the long curls. Necklace of diamonds with three stars pendant. White kid gloves —- above the elbow. Another fresh and dainty dress of white tulle, worn by a fair voung girl, hada ruche bordering the skirt, head clusters of Ue ated tulle fulls with sati and -erect pleatings. Boudlant t showing no edge, but exquis: bouquets of white Mar, dress was worn at the opera by Madame ‘off, the wife of the Russian general, on the evening when the Duke and his suite were present. The trained skirt trad six side of doubled tulle, held down by wide pi white satin. Over-skirt of white | at the sides and behind by scarlet geranii and clusters of gold balls. Low white silk | corsage with peasant waist of black lace. Bou- quet of scarlet leaves in front of corsage and on the left shoulder. Scarlet velvet belt and pos- tilion bow. | WATTEAU DRESSES. | Among the dresses that have been most talked about are the Watteau costumes of faille, in which three or four colors appear. This is one ¥ drap rites. A third tulle 1 with A Wattean dress rose pink, and sk; shows a peari- colored petticoat, with two bias flounces draped i j } carried out most tastefully. | at the top with two aprons, the lower rose-color, | worn by a blonde is of pear the upper blue, and both edged with wide Va- lencienneslace. The back of the tisasquare court train of blue fajlie, trimmed with many rufies. The corsage is a blue basque with Loui XIV vest of rose-color, and @ jabot of Val ennes. The palest tints are used in these dresses in order to prevent striking contrasts. One has pearl-colored ings; another tri- | skirt, Sevres blue color, tied with a with one wide end color dress has a flesh-color train,and sash of palest ro: loop bow on the tournu hanging each side; athird is violet over pale French gray, and a fourth, in Spanish colors, is @ salmon skirt with sultan red train, trimmed with black Spanish blonde. Thi gests an economical we of two dre partly Worn, and a good way of retreshing skirts uaving soiled frout breadihs. BATIN DRESsEs. Some of the richest bail dresses were of the lustrous satins that are so beautiful by gas- One, of water-g n, had white Ver rt id flatly on the skirt and et, of pearl color, hal an isse edged with a floa dress, worn by r dged with trimmed with flounces and revers of Chantilly lace; an opera dress, worn by a young married dy, is a white satin skirt, with i alle pufls to the knee, dot over-skirt of mauve satin, with wi and pansies; a novelty is ‘a tr. pale blue satin, low in the i bordered with white Marguerites, worn over a skirt of blue faille; an am! n, with Watteau pleated train, is founced with black Chantilly lace, and has corsage bonquets of pink rose-buds. TARLATAN £ND MUSLIN. White tarlatan dresses were tastefully worn by debutantes at the late festivit One, ex- ceedingly fresh and pretty, had four notched | Tuches of tarlatan on the train, separated by | marquise puffing. The bouffant over-skirt had | aruche on the edge, and was draped by pale | 1 | | t s# rare old lace, anotl puts and polonaise of b; blue ostrich tips. The low corsage was a Galque of tarlatan over a Swiss muslin Tsing, trimmed with ruches, and with black y. et ribbon ar- ranged across the bust, and forming a Watteau bow with long ends behind. Modistes furnish graceful dresses of white tariatan, without flow- ¥ made, but without dowers or the skirt, are $100. | White muslin, in kilt pleating three-fourths of | a yard des trims trained skirts of light siiks—a | suggestion followed by those who wish to freshen A model is a pale blas skirt trimmed with a single deep pleating of Swiss muslin in inchewide pleates, all rarned aye way, and aninch space between; this kilting is edged below with three rows of ‘insertion and Valenciennes lace, and headed by a pleated ruche edged with a'narrower Valencienne. The | Swiss over-skirt is in two parts; the front apron extends to the back like a basque, while the | back is trained, aud trimmed up th: waist. Blue silk high corsage, with Vale ennes bretelles. Bows and loops of vlack velvet ribbon, and pink rose-buds. orate! w OPERA WRAPS. Deep Watteau mantles, large circulars, and very loose paletots are ‘all worn for evening cloaks. White ottoman silk paletots, wrought wrought with soutache or with colored émbroide- | ry, are among the handsomest. A favorite wraj this season is a talma of quilted silk covered wit a black lace mantle. One arran, y & modixte ged | has @ lavender silk mantle fringed with chenille, | over with a Chantilly lace point is dra: d, and ornamented by bo Jor black taille, Ladies BALL press. i At the Grand Duke's balls gentlemen wore | low-rolled dress-coats, vests, and pantaloons ot | black cloth. White vests are entirely ont of | fashiomtor evening dress. A white lawn or silk neck-tie scarcely an inch wide is stillin vogue; but the Grand Duke appeared in a black tie, and itis said many gentlemen to whom the cler, ical white is unbecoming will imitate him, and try to make the fashion general. VARIETIES. A new over-skirt that is much admired for | | | | rin front than behind, reqniring the back readths of the dress to be tlounced ver: high. ‘To construct it take three front widths of sill, a yard long, and two back breadths only three eights iong. It opens behind, the back widths being in double box-pleats to ‘form as postilion flounce, and the lon gathered down the side seam. Kilt ——— is the trimming that meets with most favor on lower skirts. Itis made straight, is lined with foundation muslin, the lower edge | is hemmed in loose stitches on the wrong side, « bias band holds the top flatly, and a row of } pe fe vin straight aronnd three inches ve the edge. Astanding ruffle of Valenciennes lace, with a large jabot or ova! rosette in front, is worn in- | stead of @ collar with dressy street toilettes in the evening. These are becoming and more dressy than the linen collars and muslin frills worn with colored ties in the daytime. They cost from $3.50 to $13, according to the qualit of the lace. Softly folded ina crape edge with Valenciennes is formed into el coll called fichu-collars, to wear with black and dark | slik dresses in the house.—Harper's Bazar. | pron breadtis being | — ——_<es. Medels for the ew Year's Reception FERNS. Among the many handsome toilettes me are ~—& New Year's receptions are the following: dress of rich poult de soie in the three shades of cameo, the darkest shade — vet, the lightest for the vest, tunie overskirt, and as quiiling to edge the velvet upon the bod: part of the entire dress, The skirt was cut wit * moderate train, bordered with a festooned’ — narrow silk headed with velvet and aire | evened upon the i red the velvet and q @ vest fastened A, pocket astonishment. > TENNYSON CORRECTED. The following lines are to be found im Tewny- son's last poem : A low sea-sunset glory ing ro: And glossy throated Abd Shen she heard veliest among these | The ™ Down ii Graces Tentthe The foot of Trastseee ot am grind ve heen tampered with while in the _— mast bi nds of the Lablisher, for the lines, asorigimally written, were as follows : The Fort Bis dorsal bos Whereat « fi Veit Then quickly ‘got’ this Tab, likewise v cat. by ar! den fence and climb the woedsn from the casement dashed this Tom, ind porch, ne higheury lerce voles cried od and fi Pish Cit Tomas ——————— Darwin in Uruguay. On the first night we slept ata retired little country-house; and there [ soon found out that T posressed COMPASS, two o1 three articles, especially which created’ unbounded show the compass, and by its aid, together with a& map, to 7 jon an country) to At ene hon bed, sent the compass. In every house I was asked to | point out the direction of various | should know the road (for d road are synonymous in this open places where [had never been. nse A Young Woman, who was fll in entreat me to come and show her If their surprise was great, mine Was greater, to tind such tgnorance among people wh and ‘estan: be accounte retired part foreigners. andor ent names informed w America we: and that England wasa large town in London Tcarried with me some pron possested their thousands of cattle, as” of great extent. It can only d for by the circumstance that this of the country is seldom visited by I was asked whether the earth or whether it was hotter or colder to vain was, and maty other he greater. namber of the indistinct idea that E yn, and North America, were di for the same place; but t ell knew that London and re separate countries close t; which I ignited by biting; it was thought so wonderful that a man should strike fire with histeeth, that it was usual to collect the whole family to see it; | was once offered a dollar for a single one. Washing my face in the morning caused much speculation at the village of Las Minas; a st uperior tradesman closely eross- questioned me about so singular a practice; and likewise why on board we wore oar beards: He be pe me heard of abl and, knowing me to be a heretic, prob came to the Turks. to avk for a ient house. It is the | for he had heard trom my guide that we cid. so. with mach suspicion; perhaps he had jutions in the Mohammedan religion, conclusion that all hereti general custom in this country 's lo at the first conve and my other feats in jagglery, was toa certain degree a stories my g ing venomous trom har insects, ete., tageous, as with that, and the long nides told of breaking stone: less shakes, collect Trepaid t Iam writing as as if [had been among the im- habitants of central Africa Banda Oriental would not be flattered by the comparison; but such were my fe: Voyage roun' ings at the time.—Varwin's id the W 3 Berlin write versation I had with Bismarck in Versaille: said that it correspondent ‘on paper: Ina long o » he was nearly impossible for a nohle- man to get rid of all the prejudices and inclina- tions of th battles agai all his migh| and br r high q e Junkers. The gi net these views and t, but even be with all his firm will men try like Bismarck; on the ink their views to be To be~ seems to them degrading, and they therefore defend their position with all nected with ies oF th: people, who: tained’ all Th their might. measures whi tutions of former ages. ported by most of the old g: the idea of being loo As this position is intimat h that of the king, the: ly con- oppose all These ne e civili n service Who cannot bear ed upon as servants of the m they despise, the arrogance li hate B Emperor ag: liest admiration that | in j and prepare th. system for the fret prove and ultimately make coud, hoalthy Alter this preparatory treatment maine to cure most cases of Consumpti s veri use of ks Pulm The Pulmonic Syrup nourishes the «yste the blood, and 1 readily absorbed into the cire nean matches, | | of free expec ly he | were | | Consumption, and if = person is very bad. if z tor their hospitality. | Lit intellect is not able to conquer them. | Not all nob contrary, they do not t udices at all, but cheri yet ANCHOR LIFE INSURANCE | COMPASY, OF NEW JERSEY. HOME OFFICE, 1738 BROADWAY, N. ¥. E. ©. FISHER, President. BRANCH OFFICE, 517 7th street, ep. Pv LIGH Invites Parti First.—Its vent ITER & MARCHE, G icular Attention to ita Special and Pop- wlar Fearurce. Rates are lower than those of most 2 Fourth —& Forfritaile. Pfth Mn i Sever Tt pape ent of Premiums. m Il of its Policies are absolutely Non- Dividends are declared Annually apon in. and forfeitable Residence. n_npon Trave Thirty Days | sion of my new building at the northeast race in the | tghth.—Itx Charter permits it to make invest- | nents in any section o' the U vest in all its » and its does in- General Agencies, thereby rendering ita Home Company everywhere. h—It with you hon for your mot iy men. Ty ‘Company. invites you to insure. expecting to deal etly, und to give you a fair equivalent ne: e one of its policies and ite its Board of Directors fer this city and JIumubia are some of our best business ‘alk with them before you insure in any son toe 38-0.8ea C= WINTER STOCK, A 2011 at STRAUS’, PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE, Between 10th and lth streets. GLENG. GI aeis BuYs’ SUITS, ‘The above Goods have been marked down from 15 OVERCOA OVEBCOA ov. 2 CBOSS PRH $3883SS33ss ma 7 zi ‘a IS > is be pavaaaee peeccene c AR 3 need BO. WINTER FUITS, & WINTER SUITS, TEEES WINTER &U 15 00. WINTER 8U 16 00. w toe s 15 00. WINTER &§U 14 00, bd WINTER 8 13 00. WINTER & 10 00. WINTER & 9 00, WINLER 8U 7 00. ‘Sy to 25 per cent., in order to reduce stock. A. STRAUS, 1011 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUR, decl3 ‘Third Door from lth street. P2®/ EER BOOKS AND BIBLES in fine binding. det-w.s Sw ions EORPE £2.%, BPECIAL NOTICES. . This derangeme: Drodeces deficient nutrition and assimilation. By process by which the nat ment of the food is converted into blood, and thence into the solids of the body. Persons with digestion thus impaired. having the slightest predisposition to pulmonary diseass,or if they take cold, will be Yery liable to have Consumption of the Lungs some of ite forme; etd I hold that it will be tips sible to cure any Case of Consumption without frst 1g 8 good digestion and healthy assimitat The very first thing to be done is to cleanse t stomach and bowels from all di macas and slime, whieh is clogging there organs so that they canuct perform their functions. and then rouse u and restore the liver to @healihy action. For this rpose the tnd bee fandrake Pil bowels of ail the whole system. All ciseased bile that as nulated there, and rouse it up to a new and healthy action, by which natural and healthy bile is secreted ‘The stomach, bowels, and liver are thus by the use of uck's Mandrake Pills; rei remedy ever dine: < will neutralize all xcors of acid. making the stomach sweet and fresh, it will Tanent tone ty this rtant organ, and create a good hear Hon, and thence distributed ts the diseased lung There it rij morbid matters, whether in form of absccases or tubercles, Nature to expel all the diseased m: ‘ation, when once ft then, by the great healing and purifying prep: cties of Schenck’s Palmonic Syrap, that ail_ulc-rr cavities are healed up sound, my pe <“Thevessential thing to be done in caring on fe to get upa gomd appetite and a co. that the body willgrow in des aud get strong. a as anes ity or aba thererthe cavity caapot healy the matter cana ripen, 90 long asthe eyatem is below par. Waat new order my Sppetite, @ eved the body to grow in oy at is Consamp- digestion, so if xd nutrition is and get fat: then Nature svities will > e M1 ripen and be thr: a ntitiee, and the person regain health and large quantis creneth. is the true and only pian too tungs are m ntirely destroyed, or even if one lung ie entirely if there iv enough vitality loft is ths other to 10De. I have seen m cured with only one seund bap oe 4 old age. This is w ™ They will clean Consemptic the ceten and strengthen it, get up a good dij nd give Nature the assistance ahs neds toch ayatem of all the disease that is in the lung ver the form may . " “Tris important that while asing Schenck’s Moti cines, care should be exercised uot to take cold, ki i 5 damp 3 take out-door exercise ouly in a aud and genial ine istinctly understood that when T recom as but partially recovered cold is tar inore linbl, been nt regard relapse than » be it is precisely the same in So long as the 1 are net long is there imminent da disease. Hence it is that pulmonary paticnt# against exposing t an atmosphere that is vot genial and pleasant firmed Consumptives” Inn: & Maes of ©: which the least change of atmosphere will infla: success with my Medic duc inflamma! ine i any of the faculty do. flamed Jung cannot, with aafety to the patient. b: exposed to the biting Masts of Winter or the chilling winds of Spring or Autumn. It shoald be carefully jed from all irritating influences, would be observed in this particular, without it acre under almost any circumstances is ‘an impossibility ‘The person should be kept wholesome and nutritteus diety and all the Blodicines soutinucd until the body has restored to it the nataral quan- ty G flesh aid atrength: 1 was myself cared ty this treatment of the worst kind of Consumption, and beve lived to get f hearty these many years, with oue lung mostly one. 1 have cured thousands since, and very many ave been cured by this treatment w! have A bant the first of October expect to take poanes- w An on raer 1 be pleased to Sixth and Arch atreets, where 1 shal give advice to all who may require it i “Full dircetions accompany all my Remedies. so that a persen in any part of the cured by a strict observance Price of the Pulmonie Syrup a1 1. @ bettle, or $7.0 a Tate lon: x abo by ail drugsiste and Pills. 25 cents @ box. For sale Baltimore, Md. ‘THOMPSON YILLT,# 00. 26 Hanover street holesale Agents. seé-#.t.th. untarnished rep to the only perfect Hair or Brown. pra drtgaists. Ropiled at 16 Boni etree. Ee THURSTON’S IVORY PEARL TOOTH POW DER is the best article fey cleansing and preserving Seld by all di sts. Price, 3 and 3) centa. ‘TOUVEN S INODOROUS KID GLOVE CLEAN EK restores soled gloves equal tonew. 8 cents, sped CLEARING SALE aT MABLE BROTHERS Will commence on December Sth, and continue from er be day bo pa pry A oned of, giv: rm Ms fered fore in an opportuni ty whi-b was never off READY-MADE CLOTHING. OVERCOATS _ GENTLEMEN. + OVERCOATS FOR YouTHS. OVERCOATS FOR BoYs. OVERGARMENTS OF ALL STYLES AND SIZES. SWALLOW-TAIL DRESS COAT SUITS. WEDDING OUTFITS, DRESS AND BUSINESS OUTFITS. FOR CHBISTMAS PRESENTS ‘The largest and most varied selection of ROBES DE CHAMBRE Ever offered in this District. BOY'S DRESS SUITS. BOY'S EVERYDAY SUITS. COACHMAN'S COATS. RKING £UITS. S7 For solid substantial Bargains, this is an un- _dec8 U1. W.OOR OF Tru AND DSTREBTS. SFLune OFF TO CLOSE BUSINESS. eee puree assortment of helped, the cavities will | 2 | arices. skenp | A night air, Winter Gloth- | LADIES’ GOODS, &. oper ASD HATS FROM PARIS, JUST RECEIVED. MADA DCBoIs" HUMAN HAIR STORE AND PRENCH Mii INERY EST«8. So. 1811 Peanesivanie i OPERA’ LOAES EMBROIDERED JACKETS, te.. & CLOAKS and DRESSES made to order,on reasem- able terms Special attention paid to ALTERING VELVET LOAKS. noe 3 [= A. McCOBMICK J8 IN CONSTANT BECEIPT OF THE ST AND MOST ELEGANT DESIGNS EAT ETS DURNETS AND ROUND a oTS FOR THE WINTER SR ASON Alse,a fine stock of MILLINERT and FANOT oops A full assortment of GROS GRAIN RITD nodl tr 506 oh « wren Ea ARIS KID GLOYRS NEW IMPORTATION IN ALL COLORS. ‘One Button, $1; two Buttous, Gee, G sizes, lw the JOUVIN GLOVES, in black andy = 15 tm* 207 Pen GRAND OPENING ar NH. KING, Jr., MASONIC TEMPLE, CORNER NINTH AND F STERE’ of an entire Bew and Selected Stock of MILLINERY an@ FANCY GOODY FLOW BS. FEATHER BRON! FRENCH PATIERN HONNETOAND BATS, And sll the LATEST VELTIES of the Seasce LADIES’ HOSIERY, GLOVES AND CORSETS at the lowent market rates net tr Ver aarane 20 Lapins mals ove LING done at 2 cents « Set. S. HELLER. ne? TIS Market space. SETS IN REDUCED PRICE COPETS SELLING AT REDUCED Px - Bot ee _ J eSCKRIVED—A fine assortment of Berg | J man's TR EMBROIDERED SLIPPER | SEMLIN ZEPHYR EMBROID Market Space. Sc., Re. which Iam prepared to sell at the lowest . Osll and be convinesd M P. LERCH, 714 Teh ete berween G and enw tr WASHINGTON HOTELS. THE ARLINGTON, VERMONT AVENTR. T. BUESSLE & 50n, wiv aa EBLITT HOUSE WASHING TY Paornierons ed es for M. —— ee yee mn hands Breet, between #th and Sli strecta, ae D. Hest MPORTED CANARY BIRDS, Jan Racaved. BIKD FOOD ant CA on for wale at nd G % a ey Penney! vania avenue. ‘Peep. Zattar Bole Im’ | CANARY ceived per <teamer Ber! | Corre tine Tor of CANARY BIRDS. which, | Will be sold at 83.99 apiece. Also, one fine as ire CAGES. at the low Birde—e od riment of Bras and Wire CAGES. st th cente per bottle kept constant! UPrk. noble PROFESSIONAL. B. FOSTER. M. D.. DE + New York avenue, near 12th Cc ‘Minis Fare f pr fessional experience in New York and Phila- dciphia, enables Br. F toeuhenrse the best intereste of thoee who engage his services. poll-colm jeune. WILLIAMS, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, Boom 2, on second floor of Barbour's Law Buildiag Washington. _Remored from @$4 Lows Re Siok Ad DR. JOHN HW. DARKRALL has removed, his DENTAL ROOMS to 1227 Pa. over Fravklin & Co., Opticians, | JL. WoLr mp. } eee BeRON DENTIST, 729 Pennsylvania avenue, between 17th sth streets. gs HANNA. RAPTORNEY AT Law, «Building, * Washogton. D.C. (AB* BicurEe. j TEACHER OF MUSIC, | | | ! | sly 935 Pa. ave.. bet. %h and lth ste. 905 Pexwetivawia Avenve, FASHIONABLE BATTERS AND FURRIERS HAVE THE LATEST STYLE ! HOLIDAY SILK BAT, FOR WINTER, NEW AND HANDSOME. Ded tr REAL ESTATE AGENTS. w. MAVENNER @ oo. TATE D NOTE BROKER ae ae vf atetioN ets, aos, No. 643 LOUISIANA AVENUE, ‘THIRD Doox East oF Sevente Strerr. We bave the following sums to lend on real estate: | Soo." 3,000; McROBERTS @ Co., SEAL ESTATE AND INSURANCE OFFICE Corner Lath and @ streets, opp. U. 8. Treasury, ‘WASHINGTON, D. Corner of Hew York avente and 15th strest. SETS