acknowledgment for a long while. Beware, sir! In two years' time you will repent having had your leg amputated above the knee; you will think that below the knee would have been sufficient. In three years you will feel convinced that the loss of the foot would have been enough; in four years you will repent the sacrifice even of the big toe; in five the amputation of the little toe will appear a great deal; and in six years, my dear sir, you will certainly confess that the paring of the nails would have been more than sufficient. All this I say without detriment to the merits of your charming lady. Women are better able to preserve their beauty and virtue than men their judgment and opinions. In my younger days, I would, at any time, have sacrificed my life for the girl I loved, but never my leg The loss of the former I could, of course, nevertre int repent; whilst the latter I should have lamented for life, and had I submitted to it, I would now sayThevenet, thou hast been a fool!"

AN EVENTFUL NIGHT.

ABOUT a century ago there stood in one of the
this house which we do not care to particularize any
richest districts of Kent, a large farm-house. In
further-a singular incident occurred. A gentleman
named Woods, who, contrary to the almost universal
tendency of the times, was hardy enough to deny the
existence of anything supernatural, happened to pay
a visit to the owner of the house during the month of
March. The proprietor had, by extravagance and fool-
ish speculations, squandered a fair fortune, and his
friend had called upon him to offer assistance and con-
solation.

had been for some time busily engaged at their accounts,
One rainy, dull evening, after the family and visitor
the conversation by insensible degrees turned on super-
natural appearances. While Mr. Woods was endea-
avoring to convince them by the union of reason and
banter, of the folly and absurdity of such opinions, the
lady of the house left the party and went up stairs.

I have the honor to be, sir, getsvitneb 191 10 Your very humble servant, "THEVENET."

La se boer Amos tiers1 902 to 1979 wod stotela nod to an

In the year 1793, during the reign of terror, M. Thevenet (in order to escape the guillotine) was obliged to seek refuge in England. He arrived safely in London, and for pastime, or for the sake of making acquaintance, he inquired after "Sir Charles Temple." The mansion was pointed out to him; he was announced, and received. On entering the room, he found a stout gentleman sitting in an arm-chair near the fire, a bottle of sparkling port before him, and several newspapers around him. So corpulent was he, that he was scarcely able to rise from his chair.

Ah, my dear Thevenet, is it you? Glad, very glad, to see you! How are you?" exclaimed the gentleman, who was no other than Sir Charles Temple himself. Don't be displeased at my not rising, but this cursed stump here prevents my doing anything. My dear friend, you come, perhaps, to see if your right has ripened?"

No. I come as a refugee, and seek protection in this country.

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Really? Well, my dear Thevenet, you must live with the. I have found you to be a clever fellow, and you shall comfort me. Believe me, Thevenet, I could be Admiral of the Blue now, if that cursed stump did not disable me from serving my country. There! Now I read the newspapers, and curse and swear the whole day long, because I cannot be anywhere fighting with our enemies. Do remain here, and comfort

"Allow me to ask, my dear sir, where is your good lady? I am sure she will do this much better than I

can."

- “No, Thevenet, no! Pray do not say a word about it. You see, her wooden leg preventing her from dancing, etc., etc., she spends nearly all her time either in playing cards or gossiping. There is no possibility of getting her out of it. Notwithstanding all this, however, she is as good a wife as you may wish for."

She had hardly quitted the sitting-room three mimost piercing shrieks. The husband trembled in his nutes, ere a dreadful noise was heard, mingled with the chair, and his friend looked serious. At last the husband rose from his seat and ascended the wide flight of stairs in search of his wife, when a second series of screams was heard. One of the maid-servants now mustered resolution to follow her master and a third exclamation of terror and affright ensued!

Mr. Wood, who, to speak the truth, was not quite at ease, now thought it high time to search into the cause of all this hubbub; when, arriving at the landing-place, he found the servant girl in a fit; the master lying flat, with his face upon the floor, which was stained with blood; and, on advancing a little further, the mistress in nearly the same unpleasant position.

To the latter Mr. Wood gave his first care; and, finding that she had only swooned, carried her in his vigorous arms down stairs and placed her on the floor of the kitchen; the pump was at hand, and he had the presence of mind to run to it to get some water in a glass. But what was his astonishment and dismay when he found that he pumped only copious streams of blood!

All these extraordinary circumstances made the unbeliever tremble in every joint; a sudden perspiration overspread the surface of his skin, and the supernatural possessed his imagination in all its colors of dread and horror. Again and again he repeated his efforts to revive the lady, and again and again he threw away the loathsome contents of the glass. After a time, however, Mr. Woods found the color grow paler, and at last pure water filled the vessel. Overjoyed at this, whose recovery was hastened by the appearance of her he threw the limpid stream in the face of his patient, husband and Betty.

The mysterious events were now soon explained. The good housewife, when she knew that possession was about to be taken of the house on behalf of her husband's creditors, had concealed some of her choice cherry-brandy from the rapacious gripe of the harpies “Well, my dear sir, I was in the right, after all, in of the law on some shelves in a closet up-stairs; this my prediction?”

“Quite so, my dear Thevenet, quite so. But, pray, let us pass this over in silence. I have acted foolishly. Believe me, had I my leg again, hang me if I would give the clippings of a single nail! Entre nous, I was a madman; but I must ask a favor, namely-of all you have now heard from me, don't mention a single word to any one!"

closet also contained, agreeable to the antiquated archi-
tecture of the building, the trunk of the pump below;
and, in trying to move the jars to get at a drop for the
party down stairs, the shelf gave way with a tremen-
dous crash, the jars were broken into a thousand
pieces, and the rich juice descended in torrents down
the trunk of the pump, filling with its rich ruby cur-
rent the sucker underneath. This was the self-same

THE noise and din of the city is stilled,
The turmoil of business is over :
With church-bell music the air is filled;
Hope, angel-winged, doth o'er us hover.
Rest to all, both high and low,

The Sabbath morn doth bring;
Peace and rest to all below

Is the message its deep bells ring.
Then, oh, my soul, greet gladly,
The lesson that its quiet pleadeth,
Let not my feet turn sadly,

From the world whence it leadeth:
But hopefully and trustingly be my heart turned to God,
Bowing with a contrite spirit to his chastening rod.

From a moss-grown church embowered in trees,
The porch thickly hung with roses fair.
The organ's voice floats forth on the breeze,
Drawing the righteous soul to prayer.
Down the quaint old spire and over the sod,
A sunbeam steals softly, and rests on a grave,
Like a message of love coming down from God,
To tell of his power and will to save.
In its warmth the purple violet springs

From its blackened seed to beauty and light;
And through faith in Christ, the spirit wings
From the dust of death to heaven its flight.
How gladly this hallowed Sabbath morn
My soul would mount, leaving this world of storm.

III.

IN A VILLAGE.

There's a silence unbroken, save by the sound
Of the sweet village organ pealing,
And the pious peasants from far around,

On the neat church floor are kneeling;
The zephyr that enters the open door,

To heaven waft up their prayer,
What tho' it come from the lowly and poor,
It finds surer welcome there.

The pastor in simple and homely phrase,
Tells of God's mercy, which ever abounds;
Then through the air a song of praise,
From honest hearts and lips resounds-
A song that thrills the listening angels' ears,
A song that God himself rejoicing hears.

THE BRIGHT LITTLE GIRL.
HER blue eyes they beam and they twinkle;
Her lips have made smiling more fair;
On cheek and on brow there's no winkle,
But thousands of curls in her hair.
She's little you don't wish her taller!
Just half through the teens is her age;
And lady, or baby, to call her,

Were something to puzzle a sago.
Her walk is far better than dancing.
She speaks as another might sing;
And all by an innocent chancing,
Like lambkins and birds in the spring.
Unskilled in the airs of the city,
She's perfect in natural grace;
She's gentle, and truthful, and witty,

And ne'er spends a thought on her face-
Her face, with the fine glow that's in it,
As fresh as an apple-tree bloom;
And oh when she comes, in a minute,
Like sunbeams she brightens the room.
As taking in mind as in feature,
How many will sigh for her sake!
I wonder, the sweet little creature,
What sort of a wife she would make!

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[WINTER CUFFS.]

NETTING.

HIS delightful art produces not only objects of beauty but of comfort so indispensable in our severe winters, that the fair hand employed in netting may be deemed useful as our grandmothers' were when they seamed enormous quantities of yarn away in winter socks and stockings. In our cold seasons, when parties most prevail, sleeves, cuffs, rigolettes, and over-shoes of delicate Berlin wool, have saved

Engraved expressly for the New York Journal.
many a fair form from colds and their consequent
diseases, which, without such care, prove so fatal,
when heated rooms are exchanged for the biting cold
of a winter's night. With soft warm cuffs, or over-
sleeves, to draw over the arms, a snowy web of netting
and tassels upon the head, and shoes thickly wadded
with silk, drawn over the satin slippers, added to the
usual wrappers, no lady need expose herself to cold
though the atmosphere be at Zero and her dress of
gossamer, with low neck and short sleeves. It is not

has

always that fashion blends so gracefully with taste and comfort, as it does in these charming little trifles ma nufactured at odd moments, from Berlin wool, by the fair hands of those who intend to presents or wear them. Besides, the fabrication of these articles is a pretty accomplishment that possesses a social value, independant of time well employed, and comfort secured. On no occasion does a lady seem more lovely than when half occupied with some feminine art which keeps her fingers employed, and gives an lig supe bas 91

[EDGE FOR FRONT OF A

GENTLEMAN'S SHIRT.]

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excuse for downcast eyes and gentle pre-occupation. | moments are thus gathered up. It is only minds But now we begin in sober earnest to explore the This sort of playing at work, and working at play, composed and serene in their joy, or submissive in complicated mysteries of a sheds a home feeling around the guest which no sorrow, that can constrain themselves to the gentle studied effort at hospitality can produce, and forms monotony of work like this. habits of usefulness which consumes many an hour of idle time that might be put to far more harmful uses. There is an air of tranquility, and a proof of innocent contentment in these domestic accomplishments, that have a beautiful significance in the family circle. It is only in well regulated households that leisure

8th. X 8 black, 1. gold, 2 black, 5 gold, 6 cerise, 2 gold, 1 black; X 6 times. Finish with 7 more black over the first seven cr eight, to bring the first stitch of next round over the one black just before the one gold.

9th. X 1 black, 1 gold over 1 gold, 3 black, 6 gold, 3 cerise, 7 gold, 4 black; X 6 times.

10th. X 2 black, 5 gold, 3 black, 12 gold, 3 black; X 6 times.

11th. X 1 black, 6 gold, 5 black, 2 gold, 6 cerise, 3 gold, 2 black;

X 2 gold, 5 cerise, 2 gold. 6 black, 1 gold, 4 cerise, 3 gold, 2 black; X 6 times.

16th. X 2 gold, 5 cerise, 3 gold, 5 black, 7 gold, 3 black; X 6 times.

17th. X 3 gold, 3 cerise, 2 gold, 1 cerise, 3 gold, 3 black, 6 gold,

4 black; X 6 times.

18th. X 1 black, 7 gold, 3 cerise, 5 gold, 3 cerise, 4 gold, 2 black; X. 6 times.

19th. X 2 black, 6 gold, 5 cerise, 2 gold, 6 cerise, 2 gold, 2 black; X 6 times.

20th. X 6 black, 2 gold, 5 cerise, 2 gold, 6 cerise, 3 gold, 1 black; X 6 times.

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25th. X 8 black, 5 gold, 2 black, 9 gold, I black; must of course depend on the depth of the point. As on the top of the head, where it falls to a point over X 6 times. we shall give immediately some very novel designs in the forehead.

26th. X 17 black, 6 gold, 2 black; X 6 times.

Now do four rounds of s c with the black silk. Then two rounds of open-hem, thus: X 2 d c, 2 ch, miss 2; X all round. In the second round, the de stitches shou'd be worked under a chain, X 3 ch, d c under the same, de under the next; X all round.

2nd. Cerise silk. X 6 dc under one chain of 3, 1 sc under the next chain of 3; X all round.

c stitch of last round.

Run the cord in the two rounds of open-hem; cover the joins with the slides. Sew on the chalice to cover the open part at the end of the purse. Add the tassels, as in the engraving.

FASHIONS

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netting, it is desirable that our friends should become A pearl necklace and bracelets are admirable with adepts in working the foundations before they attempt this dress, but all other jewels would seem too heavy the more elaborate parts, for which reason we now give for its cloud-like lightness.2 16239137br, #ol practh these general instructions." We have received the description of another balldress from a Parisian friend, which is represented as very elegantro It consists of blue tulle over white alk The upper dress has two jupes. The under jupe is trimmed with narrow flounces up to the knee, and 3rd. Gold. Se on every de stitch, and over the sAST month we gave some attention to the mate- each flounce is edged with a ruch of tulle, enriched rials most in use for winter dresses, and in this with white chinelle!The upper jupe descends to these particular but little change is visible. Large plaids, flounces, and, scalloped at the edge, is trimmed, with broad stripes, bouquets and wreaths, floating in clouds three ruches of tulle that follow the windings of each of rich colors, still prevail. Velvets and silks are in-scallop, The upper jupe is looped up som the left side, terwoven in many styles of goods, blending the un- with a bouquet of magnolias and pendant sprayss of equalled richness of one fabric with the lightness and tiny flowers and buds. The corsage is in folds, disgrace of another. Indeed, in all our garments, either of posed in a slight point before and behind, which are silk, cashmere, or merino, velvet is introduced, either joined at the shoulders with small branches of flowers: in the fabric or as a trimming. ali neke trifa atrodɛtsar l.ma étiw arodt gaiqqit vd HOUSE DRESSES, Ĥ-wena Velvet jackets are in greater favor than ever but jackets of every material are also in use. Some are made of cashmere, wadded, and ornamented with galoon and cut velvet. Many of these pretty gar ments are made with full sleeves, and loose enough to be worn over another dress. These may be gracefully adapted for cazawecks, suitable for wearing over lownecked dresses a style well adapted for the opera or theatre, especially when made of white cashmere, eme broidered with silk, gold, or silveris s ni qesto jadi

EDGE FOR FRONT OF GENTLEMAN'S SHIRT. This pattern for embroidery is intended for the bosom of a gentleman's shirt. The leaves are made of delicate satin stitch, and the grape clusters are ilet holes with tendrils and stems; the ribbon and bows, around which the fruit and leaves cluster, is also of satin stitch. Embroidered on linen cambric, it is one of the prettiest designs imaginable.

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CLOAKS

Are still shaded with embroidery, and when that is not
used, fringes of the most expensive kind or guipure
lace supplies its place. We have seen cloaks made in
two shades of velvet ribbon, alternately blue and black,
arranged in talma form. Over each row of blue velvet
is placed a fall of black guipure lace, softening the
direct contrast of blue and black; for the blue is only
seen through the open meshes of the lace, while the
black is left uncovered. Two or three cloaks of this
pattern appeared in the avenue last week, and were

CENTRE OF A QUILT IN CROCHET.
Materials. Crochet Cotton, No. 8, or Knitting Cot-
ton, No. 12. The same pattern may be done in square
netting, darned, in which case Crochet Cotton, No. 4,
should be used for the netting, with a mesh that will
make each square the third of an inch in length and
breadth; and it should be darned with Knitting Cot-distinguished for peculiar elegance.
ton, No. 4.

The pattern is to be worked in square crochet, from the engraving. It is designed for the centre of a large bed, and needs only to be worked in finer cotton to diminish the size. It should be used with a valence. Three borders to surround the centre will be given in early numbers of our work.

VANDYKE NETTING, FOR TRIMMING CO-
VERLETS, &c.

To form netting in points was long considered almost impossible, although specimens of this sort of trimming were to be found in many of the ancient specimens of Flanders and Portuguese guipure. Like most other things, it is very easy to do when you know how it is to be done; and as it forms the most appropriate border for all sorts of articles in square netting, we hope to make our readers perfectly au fait at it with a very little trouble to themselves.

Begin on one stitch, in which net two. Turn the work, net one in the first, and two in the second of them. Turn the work, and in the following rows net one in each stitch except the last, in which always do two, until one side is as deep as you may wish the the heading of your vandyke to be. X Then begin the point, by increasing at one edge, and not at the other, until you have the required depth to form one side of the point. To make the other, in netting the row without increase, leave at the end as many stitches as will form the point. You will then have one point completely done; and as much of the heading of the next as will be wanted before you begin the next point. Repeat from the cross. The lines of thread in the netting appear perpendicular and horizontal, as in square netting.

To form the last point for the length of border, you will have to net two stitches together, instead of doing two in one at the straight edge. The number of times

CARRIAGE DRESSES

Are usually of silk or black velvet, which is again
coming into favor. We have seen one velvet dress
that struck us as particularly rich and elegant. The
skirt is quite plain, and sweeps the floor in glowing
folds. The corsage, cut high and close, is fastened up
to the throat with buttons, in which brilliants are cir-
cled with black enamel. This corsage terminates in a
basquine at the waist, and has pagoda' sleeves; both
the basquine and sleeves are edged with Chantilla lace,
headed with cut velvet.

Carriage dresses of blue, green, or crimson silk are
often checked in patterns, with black satin stripes,
which have a bold and rich effect. The skirts are made
perfectly plain, and sweep the ground. The corsage is
in the jacket style, open in front, with rather deep
basquines, somewhat pointed, in front and behind.
The sleeves are cut open to the elbows, and laced
together with cords and tassels, revealing a portion of
the embroidered muslin undersleeve.“

BALL DRESSES...

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EVENING DRESSES

Are sometimes made of two shades of silk, set on in flounces. White flounces are introduced in alternate contrast with pink or blue, covering the entire skirti Mrs. Farnsworth, of 327 Broadway, has a beautifully adapted this fashion to walking dresses. The one we saw had two shades of fawn-colored silk in alternaté flounces, and the effect was really beautiful as new, Still, it requires exquisite taste, like hers, to render the style in the perfection of which it is capable Ans inferior dressmaker might very readily give it altoc gether another appearance, and none but a true artiste should venture upon its

BONNETS.

Never, it seems to us, was the variety of bonnets so extensive, or the bonnets themselves more beautiful, than they are this season. Our milliners have broken over their French thraldom for once, and have given free scope to their own inventive genius; and no imported bonnets that we have seen (come up to those exhibited in the show-rooms of our own milliners. It is worthy of remark, that the heavy frames which, sometime since, made a winter bonnet somewhat for We have seen two ball dresses, fresh from the midable from its weight, are, no longer used. Light Parisian modestés, particularly beautiful. One is a fabrics of wire and muslin form a foundation that fits white tarletan, formed with a double jupe. The upper to the head as light and easy as a cap. This relieves : one is surrounded by a wreath of dwarf rose-buds and the head from that unhealthy warmth and pressure leaves, which terminates in soft spray at the point of produced by stiff foundation frames and double folds of the corsage; while satin and blonde, in alternate rows, thick velvet. This season, a bonnet, entirely of one form a heart-shaped trimming in front of the corsage, material would be a novelty, indeed.». Velvet, satin, which connects on the shoulders in short puffed and lace are all brought into requisition, before thes sleeves, relieved with blonde. Among the blonde and most simple bonnet is ready for the last artistic touches: satin folds, which ornament the corsage and sleeves, of the dainty hand that wreathes the flowers or ar tufts and tiny wreaths of rose-buds and leaves are in- ranges the feathers. Nothing can be more elegant: terspersed, and the whole dress has an appearance of than this combination of rich materials. A profusion exquisite freshness. The hair, done up in waving of blonde lace and flowers fill the open front, till bandeaux in front, is relieved by light bouquets of wild glimpses only of the original material can be guessed roses, united by a graceful wreath of buds and leaves at.

One of the most beautiful winter bonnets we have THE LIGHT OF OTHER DAYS. they had discussed as too vile to look for pardon?

seen is of black velvet, trimmed richly with guipure lace, with folds of purple satin edging the cape and the beautiful fall of velvet trimming that passes over the crown towards the right side. Two glossy black ostrich plumes float down towards the left shoulder, and the warm purple of a third plume breaks through the glossy blackness, scattering a glow over it as if the whole had been struck by a sudden gleam of sunshine. An insides trimming of white japonicas and buds, blended with purple velvet leaves and blonde lace, complete this, one of the most elegant, bonnets of the seasonon This abonnet was exhibited at the Crystal Palace by Mrs E. W. Cripps, 111 Canal street, and is ories of the most perfect! things we have seen this seasomqa tnebroq bis asılouper, te bepped -The favorite colors for velvet bonnets are, dark blue, purple, and black Ostrich plumes are much used for trimming. Sometimes an additional lightness is given by tipping them with small marabouts, that seem like snow-flakes drifted through the original plumage. tu We have seem avvery superb bridal bonnet of white satin, entirely covered with blonde lace, edged with gothic points, around which floats a soft feather-trimming, light as gossamer, and restless as thistledown, stirred by every breath of air that passes over it. Two falls of this feather-edged blonde lie back on the crown, failing partly over the volante. Three other rows fall softly on the front, the last dropping its snowy points over the edge and mingling with the white rose-buds that creep in a wreath inside the brim.

season.

DHEAD-DRESSES.

natural curiosity, he inquired what kind of iniquities

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"Why, sir,” replied their spokesman, we thought THE THE life and adventures of the Cornish clergy dur- that if a man should find out where run goods was deing the eighteenth century would form a graphic posited and should inform the gauger, that such a vilvolume of ecclesiastical lore. Afar off from the din of lain was too bad for mercy." the noisy world, almost unconscious of the badgewords, How widely the doctrinal discussions of those days High Church and Low Church, they dwelt in their differed from our own! Let us not, however, suppose quaint gray vicarages by the churchyard wall, the sad- that all the clergy were as gentle and unobtrusive as dened and unsympathising witnesses of those wild old Parson Trenworth. A tale is told of an adjacent fierce usages of the west, which they were utterly pow-parish, situated also on the sea-shore, of a far more erless to control. The glebe wherein I write has been stirring kind. It was full sea in the evening of an the scene of many an unavailing contest in the cause autumn day when a traveller arrived where the road of morality between the clergyman and his flock. One ran along by a sandy beach just above high-water mark. aged parishioner recalls and relates the run, that is the The stranger, who was a native of some inland town rescue, of a cargo of kegs underneath the benches and and utterly unacquainted with Cornwall and its ways, in the tower stairs of the church. "We bribed Tom had reached the brink of the tide just as a "landing" Hockaday, the sexton," so the legend ran, "and we was coming off. It was a scene not only to instruct had t the goods safe in the seats by Saturday night. a townsman, but also to dazzle and surprise. At sea The parson did wonder at the large congregation, for just beyond the billows, lay the vessel well moored divers of them were not regular church-goers at other with anchors at stem and stern. Between the ship times, and if he had known what was going on he and the shore boats laden to the gunwale passed to could not have preached a more suitable discourse, for and fro. Crowds assembled on the beach to help the it was Be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess.' cargo ashore. On the one hand a boisterous group surOne of his best sermons; but there it did not touch rounded a keg with the head knocked in, for simplicity us you see, for we never tasted anything but brandy of access to the good Cognac, into which they dipped or gin. Ah! he was a dear old man our parson, mild whatsoever vessel came first to hand; one man had as milk, nothing ever put him out. Once I mind in filled his shoe. On the other side they fought and the middle of morning prayer there was a buzz down wrestled, cursed, and swore. by the porch, and the folks began to get up and go out of church one by one. At last there was hardly three left. So the parson shut the book and took off his surplice, and he said to the clerk, 'There is surely something amiss.' And so there certainly was, for when we came out on the cliff there was a king's cutter in chase of our vessel, the Black Prince, close under the land, and there was our departed congregation looking on. Well, at last Whorwell, who commanded our trader, ran for the Gullkoch (where it was certain death for anything to follow him,) and the revenue commander sheered away to save his ship. Then off went our hats, and we gave Whorwell three cheers. So, when there was a little the peace, parson said to us all, And now my friends, let us return and proceed with divine service.' We did return; and it was surprising after all that bustle and uproar to hear on a busy congregation. how Parson Trenworth went on, just as if nothing had come to pass: Here beginneth the Second Lesson.?"?

During the holy days, our fashionable milliners have surpassed any previous year in their display of headdresses Ribbons of gossamer silk, and gold lace; broad leaves of gold and silver, mingled with tulle or blonde, have been in high favor with elderly ladies. Some of these head-dresses were finished at the sides with marabouts; to others were attached pendants of golden flowers or streamers of ribbon starred with gold, and in everything gold and silver shone out like im prisoned sunbeams fun to m -It seems impossible for art to reach greater perfection than we have witnessed in flower head-dresses this Not a wild flower in the woods or a queenly plant in the conservatory, but has had its sweet counterfeit blooming on some fair brow during the festive week. Among a whole wilderness of blossoms, we can scarcely designate one as more beautiful than an But, on another occasion, the equanimity and forother; but occasionally we have been struck by the bearance of the parson were sorely tried; he presided, novelty of some field flower, or the graceful fall of a as the custom was, at a parish feast, in cassock and hot-house blossom that will fasten itself on the memory bands, and had, with his white hair and venerable One, a wreath of simple field daisies twined with mea countenance, quite an apostolic aspect and mien. On dɔiv-grass, we'saw in the show-rooms of Miss Jarvis, a sudden, a busy whisper among the farmers at the 72 Canal-street, and think it the most exquisite com lower end of the table attracted his notice, interspersed bination of blossoms ever woven together. Another of as it was by sundry nods and glances towards himself. myrtle blossoms,♫ shining like silver stars among the At last, one bolder than the rest, addressed him, and thick green leaves, is a chaste and beautiful novelty, said that they had a great wish to ask his reverence a better fitted than almost anything we can think of for question if he would kindly grant them a reply; it the broad light of a New Year's morning. Indeed, was on a religious subject that they had dispute, he unlike more glowing flowers, these field daisies and said. The bland old man assured them of his readiwhite myrtle blossoms, gleaming through green grasses ness to yield them any information or answer in his and leaves, appear as simple and pure in the sunlight as in the evening, a great advantage which those who know the difficulty of selecting a proper costume for the reception of company can appreciate with us. moledorg A

HOWELL, & Writer of the time of Charles I, likens translating from one language to another, to "turning the coat, the seamy side without."

power.

"But what was the point in debate?"

"Why, sir, we wished to be informed if there were not sins which God Almighty would never forgive?"

Surprised and somewhat shocked, he told them "that he trusted there were no transgressions, common to themselves, but if repented of and abjured they might clearly hope to be forgiven." But, with a

Horrified at what he

saw, the stranger lost all self-command, and oblivious of personal danger, he began to shout, "What a horrible sight! Have you no shame? Is there no magistrate at hand? Cannot any justice of the peace be found in this fearful country?"

"No. Thanks be to God," answered a hoarse, gruff voice, "none within eight miles."

"Well then!" screamed the stranger, "Is there no clergyman hereabout? Does no minister of the parish live among you on this coast?"

"Aye! to be sure there is," said the same deep voice.

"Well, how far off does he live? Where is he?" "That's he, sir, yonder, with the lanthorn." And sure enough there he stood, on a rock, and poured, with pastoral diligence, the light of other days

THE SECRET.

In a fair lady's heart once, a secret was lurking,
It toss'd and it tumbled, it long'd to get out;

The lips half betray'd it by smiling and smirking,

And tongue was impatient to blab it, no doubt.
But honor look'd gruff on the subject, and gave it
In charge to the teeth, so enchantingly white,—
Should the captive an elopement, to save it
By giving the lips an admonishing bite.
'Twas said, and 'twas settled, and honor departed;
Tongue quiver'd and trembled, but dared not rebel,
When right to its tip, Secret suddenly started,

And half in a whisper, escaped from its cell.
Quoth the teeth, in a pet, we'll be even for this,

And they bit very smartly above and beneath,
But the lips at that instant were bribed with a kiss,
And they popt out the Secret in spite of the teeth.