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YOL. XIV NO. 149.
PHILADELPHIA, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 24,J870.
TRIPLE SHEET THREE CENTS.
limiSTJIASLLGENDIlY.
rho Old-Time Legends of the fhrlntmnn Sfa.
oa The Unixlnt ( nrolit noil Paalins The
PnprrMlllona nnd t'uM.inn.
The recnrreuce of tbo annual festival of fesll-
als, Christmas, brings forcibly to mind the
Many quaint legends, superstitions, and cus-
prns which, in all acs and in every country,
ave attached themselves in a particular mao
er to this particular feast dy of the Christian
L'hurcn. I'robably no other day which has ever
ecn generally observed has more old, peculiar
ssoeiations connected with it, and certainly
hose of other seasons do not beurin to be of the
ame interest either to antiquarians or to the
ieople generally.
The moit conspicuous legends are connected
lirect'y with the birth of our Saviour. It has
en a common tradition that Christ was born
-iont the middle of the night. The custom in
toman Catholic countries of ushering in Christ
jas day by the celebration of three masses, one
I midnight, the second at early dawn, and the
lrd In the morning, dates from the sixth cen
iry. The day was considered in the double
urht of a holy commemoration and a cheerful
iptlval, and was accordingly distinguished by
votlon, by vacation from business, and by
errlmcnt. During the middle ages it was
ilcbratod by the gay fantastic spectacle of
amatic mysteries and moralities p crformed
7 personages in grotesque masks and
Ingulnr costumes. Scenery usually repre-
nted an infant in a cradle, surrounded by the
irgln Mary and St. Joseph, by bull's head,
licrubs, eastern magi, and manifold ornaments.
f be custom of singing canticles at Christina?,
lied carols, which recalled the Bongs of the
epherds at the birth of Christ, dates from the
me when the common people ceased to irn-
rstand Latin. The bishops and the lower
ergy often joined with the populace in caroll-
g, and the songs were often enlivened by
nces and by the music of tambours, guitars,
olins, and organs. Fathers, mothers, sons,
d daughters mingled together in the
.ncc; it in trie night, eacn bearing in
s hand a lighted wax taper. Many
Uections have been made of thste
uve meuia-vai carois wnicn miea trie
urs of nocturnal masses, and which some-
lies took the place of psalms in the churches.
if perhaps the oldest of these collections only
jingle leaf remains, containing two carols,
ceerved in the Bodleian library, in a volume
"Chrihtmasee Carollcs," printed by Wynkin
Worde in 1521. Davles Gilbert published a
ilume of "Ancient Christmas Carols," with
e tunes to which they were formerly sung in
gland, and William Sandys made a more
mplete collection (London, 1833). The carols
the Welsh are especially celebrated, and
eir I-ffyr Carolan (Book of Carols) contains
, and their Jllodeugerdd Cymru (Autnology of
ales) contains 48. The German carols were
llected by Welnhold (Gratz, 1853), and one of
e beet of the many editions of French carols
oelt) was published at Poictiers in 1321.
luring the last days preceding Christmas it is
11 the custom for Calasrtaa minstrels to de-
nd lrom the mountains to Naples and Home,
luting the bhrines of the virgin mother with
elr wild music, under the poetical notion of
eerlng her until the birth-time of her infant
the approaching Christmas. In a picture of
e nativity by Raphael he has iatro lueod a
epherd at the door playing on a sort of bag
pe. Preparatory to Christmas the bells are
Dg at dead midnight throughout England aud
e continent; and after the solemn celebration
the mass, for which the churches in France
id Italy arc magnificently adorned, It is used
r the revellers to partake of a collation (re
illon), that they may be better able to sustain
e fatigues of the night.
The carols themselves mainly had refereuce to
me custom connected witn trie season, or
me fact relating to the nativity itself. One of
e beet known of the ancient ones is tus
koar'e Head Carol," which was sung on the
'Jrival of one of the great Christmas dishes, the
fused boar's head, in the great dining hall of
Je English castle, convent, college, or private
dwelling. In Queen's College, Oxford, the cus-
om is still kept up. There is a tradition that it
originated at this college in commemoration of
the valor of a student, who, while on a walk
eading Aristotle, being suddenly attacked by
It furious wild boar, rammed the volume into
jLe throat of the aggressor, crying Grtecum est
ill he had fairly choked the beast to death. It
kvas long observed iu the Christmas festivities
f the Inns of Court. At Queen's College the
b oar's head is brought in ou a large dish by the
t.lef cook, preceded by a baud ot trumpeters,
nd followed by a procession of all the re
tainers belonging to the college. The following
s a correct copy of the words of the carol, half
Lati half old English, taken from a collection
f ChrJsfmas carols, printed by WyuUyn tie
Wort'e (1521):
"Oaput aprl diil'uro,
Reddens Unties Uuuiino.
The bore's heed la hande bring I,
AVhU garlands gay aud rosemary ;
pray you all synge merely,
yul estls lu cjnvlvio.
"The bore's heed, I understands.
Is the chefo servyce of this Uude .
Loke where ever H b3 fanfie,
Servile cum cautlco."
Tn ihpcp othpr fctnnrnH huvA hp on odilfld at dif
ferent tlmcb. The quaint and almost monotone
nusic to the carol is well known.
From "The Christmas Prince," London, 1607,
t appears that another poetical effusion was
Lsed at St. John the Baptist's College, Oxon, on
i similar occasion. The professors and stu
dents in the great hall rose to their feet when
ike ferocious head made its appearance, aud
i hunted a ditty which concluded as follows:
Tbcn sett down the swlneyard,
The foe to the vineyatd,
r i.ei tsacuuuH crowoe jus ian ;
Lei i ins ioarts ceau ana luusur.t
Stand fur pigg, goose, aud custard.
And so you are welcome &u."
The "Forklngton MS." furnishes u suggestive
V icturc of a Christmas dinuer in the early part
i me uuceum century:
'iud bred, alle, aud wyln, dare I welle say.
The boare'B hede with muit&rd arinyd S'ts gay,
-unuante to pottaga with weuuluaun fvne.
Mid Die noiubuls of tuo dow, aud all that evi-r
coinmesin;
' 'appoDal-bake, with pesys of the roow,
Keysons of torroni, with od.vre spysls woo."
"Juvenilia," by George Wither (10ti-4), makes
be earliest allusiou to the moderu system of
juecoratlon. The first and fifth verses are (rioted
telow:
"tso, now is come our joyfulst feast ;
Let every man be jolly ;
Each room with ivy leaves Is drear,
ALd every post with holly.
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"Now, all our neighbor's chliuniea smoke,
And Christmas blocks are burning ;
Tbeir ovens xhff wltu bak d meats choke,
Aed a.'l iteir nl'.s are turniug."
A carol from the Sloano M3S. has the follow
ing Introduction and etan.as:
"Nowel cl el tl el tj el el el el cl Mary was
grct with Gabriel."
"Mary modcr, meke and myldc
Fro si'hame and synne that ye us snriylldo,
For gret on grownl je gon with chllde;
Gabriel nunclco.
"Mary rooder, be not a-dred,
.Hicbu Is in your foodv bred,
And of your bryst be will be fed ;
Cum pudorls llllo."
Nowcl or Noel, it must be remembered, has
nearly the same significance as the verb "to
carol."
A bard of about the same time as Chaucer has
written a long carol or hymn in what is for
thcee days a very peculiar style. The manu
script is still preserved. After methodically
rhyming twenty etan.as of perfectly unlqio
theology, be addresses the sacred babe in the
following pathetic strain, and thus winds up his
hymn:
"l.nlluy 1 1.ullay ! lylll cliyld, qwy wepy thou so sore ?
And nrt thou bothlu God and man ? quat woldyst
tliou be more ?
So blessed be the tyme!"
Theologians and metaphysicians have found
the doctrine of redemption a fruitful theme for
discussion and hair-splitting. The ideas in the
following curious stanzas are probably new to
some modern dogmatic cavillers on knotty
points of religion. The lines are from the Cot
ton MSS.:
"Of wornanlicdp, lo ! thre degrcs there be,
Wldowhede. wedlochp, and verglnnltie;
Wldowhede clamed heaven, her title Is this,
liy oppressions that mekelle suil'eretli she ;
And verglns clnme by chasllle alone;
Then God thought a woman should set them at one ;
A wedlockeby generation, heaven hires sliuld be,
And cease the strife;
For Marie was maden, widowe, and wife."
In an age of abject superstition, whon the air
was densely populated with spirits, when the
commonest occurrences of every-day existence
were regarded as omens, and when lucky days
were absolute facts, it is but natural that great
importance should be attached to the particular
day of the week on which Christmas happened.
Accordingly, in the Ilarleian MSS. there is a
doggerel poem containing a number of weather
wise and personal predictions of what shall
happen during the subsequent years whon the
festival falls on certain days. Here is the
prophecy, and a gloomy one it is:
"Yf Crystmas day on the Saten'ay falle,
That wy nter ys to be dredden aire ;
Hyt shall so full of grete temppsie,
That nyt shall sle bot.he man and oesfe ;
Frnlte and come shall fayle grete won,
And olde folke dyen many on.
W hate woraau that day of ehylde travayle,
They shall be borne m grete perelle;
And chyldren that be bonii that dav,
Within halfe a yer they siiaU dye, par fay.
The homer than shall wete ryghte ylle ;
Yf thou awglite stele, hyt shal the'spylle;
Thou dyest yf sekcucs take tho."
According to the same manuscript there is
also a prophecy connected with the occtirrcuco
of the day upon Sunday. This applies directly
to the festival this year. The prophecy is not
quite so bad as that for Saturday, it being
peculiarly lucky in many particulars. The
weather-wise and the almanac-makers will do
well to follow its weather suggestions when
making their conjectures. Here it is:
"Lordlngcs, I warne you al berorne,
Y'el that day that Cryste was borne,
Fall uppon a Sunday ;
'1 hat wy nter shall be poid per fay,
Hut grete wyndes alorte sh i,
That somer shall bo fayre and dry;
liy kynde skylle, wliytiiot.vn lease,
Throw all loudes shalbe peris,
And good tyme all thyngs to don,
Hut he that steli th he' shalbe founde soue,
Whate ehylde that day borue be,
A great lord lie shalbe."
The prophecy is evidently on the principle of
"the better the day the better the deed."
A belief was long current that at midnight on
Christmas eve cattle in their stalls fell down on
their knees in adoration of their infant Saviour
in tho same manner as the legend reports them
to have done in the Btable of Bethlehem. A
bard of the fifteenth century perpetrates an
amusing variation of the belief in ths following
unique etanza:
"In a cracche was that ehylde layde;
Doth oxe aud asse wytti hyin playde,
Wyth joye aud blisse;
Miserere nobis."
A beautiful phase in popular superstition is
that which represents a complete prostration of
the powers of darkness as taking place at this
season. Chanticleer is then supposed to crow
all night long, and by his vigilance to scare
away all malignant spirits. Tho idea is incom
parably expressed by Shakespeare, who puts it
in the mouth of "Marccllus":
"It faded at the crowing of the cock;
Some say that ever 'gainst that season comes
Wherein our Saviour's birth Is celebrated,
The bird of dawning slngeth all night long;
And then they say no spirit cau walk abroad,'' etc.
Among the revels of tho Christmas season
were the so-called feasts of fools and of asses,
grotesque saturnalia, which were sometimes
termed "December liberties," in which every
thing serious was burlesqued, inferiors personi
fying their superiors, great men becoming fro
licsome, and which illustrate the proneness of
man to occasionally reverse the order of society
and ridicule its decencies. In the Protestant
district of Germauy aud the north of Europe
CliriEtmag is often called the "children's fes
tival," and Christmas CY i devoted to
giving presents, and especially between parents
and children, aud brothers and sisters, by
means of the so-called Christum tree. A large
yew bough is erected, lighted with tapers, and
hung with manifold gifts, sweetmeats, apples,
nuts, ploythiDgs, and ornaments. Each of these
is marked with the ii:uuu of the persons for
whom it was inf.cndcil, but not with the name
of the donor, aud n heu the whole family party
is assembled, the presents are distributed around
the room according to their labels, amid joyful
ucclamatlous and congratulations. A more
sober scene succeeds, for the mother takes this
occasion lo Bay privately to the daughters, and
the father to tho sous, what has been observed
D)06t praiseworthy and what most faulty in
their conduct. Formerly, aud still iu some
of tbejsmaller villages of North Gerinauy, the
presents made by all the parents were sent to
some one person, who, in huh buskins, a white
robe, a mask, and enormous lx wig, becoming
the bugbear of children known as Knnht Jiu
pert, goes from house to house, is received by
the parents with great pomp and reverence,
calls for the children, aud bestows the intended
gift upon them according to tho character which
he hears from the parents after severe Inqui
ries. A teautlful poem of Hebci, Christ' Bau m,
celebrates the German ceremonies on Christmas
eve. Ills an old Swedish tradition, preserved
in the history of Olaus, archbishop of Upsal,
that at the festival of Christmas the men living
in the cold northern parts are suddenly aud
strangely metamorposed into wolves; and that
, a huge multitude of them meet together at an
j appointed place during the night, and rage
' jo fierce! $ut Biapkjn tyl ptjjer vr?4-
turcs not fierce by nature, that the Inhabi
tants of that country Buffer more from their
attacks than ever they do from natural wolves.
Christmas has always been at once a religious,
domestic, and merry-making festival in Eng
land, equally for every rank and age. The
rvcls used to begin on Christmas eve, and con
tinued often till Candlemas (February 2), every
day being a holiday till Twelfth-night (January
0). In the houses of the nobles a "lord of mis
rule," or "abbot of unreason," was appointed,
whose ofllce was to "make the rarest pastimes,
to delight the beholder," and whose dominion
lasted from "All-hollow evo" (October 31) till
Candlemas day. The larder was filled with
capons, hens, turkeys, geese, ducks, beef, mut
ton, pork, pies, puddings, nuts, plums, sugar,
and honey. The Italians have the following
proverb: "He has more business than English
ovens at Christmas." The tensnts were enter
tained at the hall, and the lord of the manor
and his family encourgod every art conducive to
mirth.
The following selection and what follows it
in tho original, from Scott's "Marmlon," gives
the Christmas eve picture exactly:
"On OhrlRtmas-eve the bells were rung;
On Christmas-eve the mass was sung;
That only night, In all the year,
Saw t he stoled priest tlntehalice bear.
Then opened wide the baron's hall
To VBssid, tenant, serf, and all ;
Power laid his rod of rule aside,
And ceremony dotTert his pride.
The heir, with roses In his shoes,
That night might village partner choose.
All hailed, with uncontrolled delight
And general voice, the happy night
That to the cottage, as the crown,
Brought tidings of salvation down.
Kagland was merry Kngland when
Old Christmas brought his sports again.
'Twas Christinas broach'd the mightiest ale;
'Twas Christmas told the merriest tale;
A Christmas gambol oft would cheer
A poor man's heart through half the year."
Many of the Christmas customs had the r
origin far beyond the time when Julius Csear
had set his foot in Britain, or St. Augustine had
preached Christianity to the men of Kent. They
are simply Christian teachings grafted on
heathen rites. No festival is more amalgamated
in this way than Christmas, the festivities of
which, oriciually derived from thcKoman Satur
nalia, were afterwards intermingled with the
ceremonies of the Druids, and, subsequently,
with the grim mythology of the Saxons and
Normans. The quaint old carols illustrate these
facts admirably, and at the same time show the
joyous character of the festival, as well as the
peculiarly perverted piety which surrounded it
in remote nges.
It was the practice of our ancestors to lay
aside the charred remains of the Yule log where
with to kindle its successor. 1 he preservation
of last year's Christmas log was, In their belief,
a most effectual security to the house against
fire. Further, it was regarded as a sign of ill
luck if a squinting person entered the hall when
the log was burning; and a similarly evil omeii
was exhibited in the arrival of a barefooted
person; but the direst calamities of all certainly
followed if a Hat-footed woman made her ap
pearance. The common custom of deckiug the houses
and churches at Christmas with evergreens is
derived from ancient Druid practices. It was
an old belief that Bj lvan spirits might flock to
the evergreens, and rcmaiu unnipped by frost
till the milder season. The holly, ivy, rosemary,
bays, laurel, and mistletoe furnished tho favor
ite trimmings, which were uot removed till
Candlemas. Chaplcts of these were also worn
about the head, a practice to which the phrase
to "kiss under the rose," to "whisper under
the mistletoe," are allusions. Iu old church
calenders Christmas eve is marked Templa
exornantur (adorn tho temples). Holly and
ivy still remain in England this most esteemed
Christmas evergreen, though at the two univer
Ritlcs of the college chapels arc decked with
laurel.
It is said that there was a famous hawthorn
in the church-yard of Glastonbury Abbey, which
always budded ou the 21 ih and blossomed on
the 25th of December. After the change of
6tylc it was observed that it blossomed ou Janu
ary 5, which would have been Christmas day
O. S. It Is said that slips from this thorn are
preserved which blossom on January 5th to the
present time. Near Raleigh there is a valley
said to have been caused centuries ago by an
earthquake, which swallowed up a whole vll
lagc and church. It was formerly a custom for
people to assemble here ou Christmas morning
to listen to the ringing of the bells of the church
beneath them. The Christmas celebrations in
England have lost their primitive boisterous
character, the gambols and carols are nearly
gone by, and family reunions and evergreen
trimmings are all that remain of the various
rough merriments which used to mark the fes
tival. The last memorable appointment of a
lord oynisrule was in 10J7, when he had come
to be denominated ' a grand captaiue of mis
chiefe."
The institution of the festival itself in honor
of the birth of a Saviour is attributed by the
decretal letters to Pope Telcsphorus, who died
A. D. 138. At first It was the most movable of
the CkrhHinn kslive tluys, often eolebrated by
the Eastern churche s in the months of April and
May. In the fourth ceutury the urgency of St.
Cyril ot Jerusalem obtained from Pope Julius I
an order for au investigation to be made con
cerning the day of Christ's nativity. The result
of inquiry by the theologians of the East aud
the West was au agreement upon the 25th of
December. The chief grounds for the decision
were the tables of the censors In the
archives of Rome; aud although, in the
opinion of some of the fathers, there was
not nutheullc proof of the identification
of the day, yet fie decision was uniformly
accepted, and from that time nativity has
been celebrated throughout the Church on the
eameday. In England ihe Christmas season
began on Christmas and contlilued for a fort
night, uutil Twcltth day, which was formerly
celebrated with greater ceremony than the be
ginning of the season and consequently became
the old Christmas Day (Kplpbany). Now the
first day, or the 25th of December, U the most
generally observed.
The respectable S.imue. Pepys iu his diary
makes several notes about Christmas as he did
about everything else that came within his
knowledge. The following is not the least
amusing entry in that quaint aud curious
diary:
C'hrisimas day (lM.t) To church la the morning,
and then uaw a wedding lu toe ctiurcli, which 1 have
not Bieu many a da) ; aud lite young people so
Bit rry one with another, and strange to see what
delight we man ied people Jiave to see these poor
fools decoyed In our condition, every man aud
woman gazing and smiling at them.
A longer note is made for Christmas, lot),
tut U pJ Of n0 ereclU Interest- for t!ie tme
date of 1W8 we have the following melancholy
entry: "To dinner alone with my wife, who,
poor wretch, sat undressed all day Ull 10 at
night, altering and lacing of a noble petticoat;
while I by her making the boy read to me the
Life of Juliu Cirsar' and 'Dcs Cartes' Book of
Music."
It is sincerely hoped that none of our readers
will be obliged to pass the present Christmas
day in the manner described, leaving out of the
question the impropriety of altering "noble
petticoats," or reading lives of Julius Ca'sar on
a Sunday.
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fi GEORGE STCK & ClVS
PIANOS,
Urand, Square and Upright.
A-LHO,
HAINES BROS.' PIANOS.
Only place in Philadelphia for sale of
Mason & Hamlin's World-Renownea
Cabinet Organs.
For kale or rent, or to rent wilh view to purchase, and
pan of rental apply. 9 1 0 tf
iiUI LU Jk, ri8ciii:it.
t he.nut Mir ret,
. .. 1018 Area Street.
J. K. GOl'I.D,
Wfll. J. F1WCIIEK.
STElNWAY & SOUS'
Grand Square and Upright Pianor.
Special attention Is called to their ne
Patent Upright I'luuos,
With Double Iron Frame, Patent Resonator, Tumilar
Metal Frame Action, eta, which are raatehleHs in
lone ana ioucn, ana uurivaueu in durability .
CHARLES III, A I UK,
WAREROOMS,
No. 1006 CHESNUT STREET,
13tfrp PHILADELPHIA.
fiW? MEYER'S
World-Renowned, Crescent-Scale, Im
proved Overstrung
ri aivo-ito irr ias .
FIRST PRIZES AWARDED IH EDROl'E AN
A.MEttiCA.
INSTRUMENTS FULLY WARRANTED.
Salesrooms, No. 722 ARCH STREET.
laiJbBtulm PHILADELPHIA
UMBRELLAS, ETC.
CHRISTMAS PRlSEHrS.
EVERY VARIETY OF
Silk,
Alpaca, asd
Gingham
1IIHRE 1 IiVN,
WITH IVORY, PIMENTO, AND PAR
TRIDGE HANDLES,
FOR SALE liY
VM. A. DEOVN & CO.,
Wo. i4G MARKET Stroet,
1314 10Hp
PHILADELPHIA.
rpn IS VATICAN, NO. 1U10 CHESNUT STREET.
A Statuary, Bronzes, Clocks, Vases, Pedestals,
and elegant articles of tante for lha arioru'nen!. ol
the parlor, dining-room, library, hall, aud boudoir,
and for bridal presents, purchased In Europe pre.
flout to the war at a great sacrifice, aud will now be
sold, retail, at correspondingly low prioea. We in
vite an inspection at our spacious store and alio w
rooms, op stairs. The price of all article marked
In plain figures. Uocas packed an shipped free of
Charge. 10 't 'urp
ORGANS.
MASON & HAMLIN ORGAN CO.
The CABINET ORGANS made by this Company
are of such nnivertal reputation, not only through
out America but also In Europe, and are so gene-
rally the ACKNOWLEDGED STANDARD OF
EXCELLENCE among Instruments of the class,
that few need to be assured of their superiority.
PRICES REDUCED, OCTOBER, 1670.
RANGE OF PRICE FROM C0 to 11000.
A NEW ILLUSTHATED CATALOGUE, with full
Information, and TESTIMONY CIRCULAR, will be
sent free to any ono desiring them.
OOULD & FISCHER,
No. 923 CHESNUT Street,
J. E. GOCT.D. PHILADELPHIA.
Wm.G. FwcnER. 12 10 13t4p
HATS.
WINTER CAPS.
A large and superior stock of tasteful CAPS, la
Otter, Seal, and Astrachan, and In fine Imitations.
Also in Beaver Cloth, Plush, Casslmere, Velvet, and
Silk, proper for skating, sleighing, walking, horse
back riding or railroading, as well as for party and
opera-going. Genuine SCOTCH CAPS !n great
variety. Melton's celebrated London DRESS and
"DERBY" HATS, for which the undersigned is
agent.
WAR15URTON,
HATTER,
CHESNUT Strce
H 20 6trp Next door to Po.it, Ofilee.
THE
DKESS HAT OF THE PERIOD.
In style most elegant, "yet not expressed !n fancy."
Of materials the rlchct and of workmanship the
best.
In durability and In brilliancy most enduring.
In price most moderate. In ventilation perfect.
In comfort and easy fitting quite unequalled.
"A combination and a form Indeed," as Shake
speare has It. Dome and see.
WARBUItTOX,
HATTER,
CHESNUT Street,
Next door to Post Oai :e.
12 20 Ctrp
CLOVES, ETC.
OPEN UNTIL 9 O'CLOCK P. 31.
DURING THE REMAINDER OF TOE YE ill
AT TUB
Great Kid Glove Emporium.
PRICES ARK LOW.
SALES IMMENSE.
POPULARITY INCREASING,
ASSOKTMSNT STILL (ioOD
THE UKEAT KL'Sil UNABATED.
CALL EARLY IN THE DAY TO GET TO THE
COUNTER.
HANDKERCHIEFS IN FANCY BOXES, SILK
HANDKERCHIEFS, HOSIERY, GLOVES.
LARGEST STOCK OF GLOVES IN THE CITY.
FOKTEMONNAIES, WALLETS, 10c. toll.
SASH RIBBONS, BOW RIBBONS, SCARFS.
KID GLOVES.
JOSEPH KID GLOVES, 95c.
LA BKLLK IMD ULOVKS, $1-25.
BfcST 11-26 KID GLOVES IN AMERIJi.
JOUVIN KID GLOVES. 1145.
HARTLEY KII GLOVES, tl'65.
BA.IOU KID GLOVES, 11-85.
CHILDREN'S KID GLOVES, 1.
LADIES' 8-BUTTON KID GLOVES, fl-M tofi
LADIES' 8-BUTTON KID GLOVES, 8115tO$2. .
UEN1S' KID GLOVES, $100, 11-75, U io2-i.
LINED GLOVES FOR LADIES, MISSES, AND
CHILDREN.
ALL KINDS OF FANCY GLOVE?.
A. & J. P. IUUTH0L0UEr,
NO. 23 N, EIGHTH STREET,
USOtutbBtf PHILADELPHIA.
LOOKING CLASSES, ETC.
jytSIHABLE AND ELEGANT GIFTS
FOU CHRISTMAS.
T1CTURES of every character. Encravincs,
Chroiuoa, etc. etc : ,New Moonlight Photographs;
Views in Southern India.
LOOKING-GLASSES.
SWISS CARVINGS, embracing aliiio.st every
thing, at moderate prices, rallying from Mo. up
wards. Direct Importation from luteilakeu. The
celebrated
ROGERS GROUPS,
Sole Ageney. Two new subjects now rca ty.
PORTFOLIOS. BAP ELS. New Folio-stands,
v iih our excellent patent fastening.
EARI.ES' GALLERIES, open at al' ti-r.cs, free.
No. SI 6 CHESNUT STliK ET.
M I L. L. I N E R Y .
R.
D I
O N,
NOS. 823 AND 831 SOUTH STREET.
FANCY AND MOURNING MILLINERY, ORATE
VEILS.
Ladles' and Misses' Crape, Felt, Gluip, He r, Satiu,
Silk, Straw and Velvets, Hats aud &iiie s. l-Yeo-fi
Flowers, Hat and Bounet Fraini-s, af Lacen,
Silks, Satins; Velvet, Ribbons, Sasln a, , canie.ni
an U kinds of Milliner Goods. t