PII OUR PARIS LETTER, The attention of all the fashionable world seems, for the present, to be cen red on “walking costumes.” These are not the cloth costumes worn early in the day, perhaps for ehnrch services or for visiting the poor and s:ck, which are costumes of typical simpl erty, (nd may even be adapted to bluck cashmere “with a warm jacket or a large cloak of sombre hue. For church service. one ought not to attract attention by the elegance of her dress or by an exag- gerated ecqnetterie; and when one becomes a +i-ter of charity, that is to say, when she goes into a hospital to minister in any degree to the needs of the poor sufferers, it is nec. ssary to put herself, at least as far as outward dress is conerned, in harmony with the work nndertaken. For this part of the day then, consecra‘ed to picty and good works, the most modest ma- terial and the most simple forms are the best, But the toilette which we lave in mind is that whieh occupies, and with good reason, the entire attention of our Parisians; it 1s the one to be worn from three to five o'clock in the alterno nn on the promenade of the Bois, There the children, young ladies and mamas, of a certmin age, abandon ther car- risges for the promensde sceording to “hygienic” Inws, Itis similar to the beach at Trouville, the terrace Dieppe, the English promenade at Nice and the gardens of Monte Carlo, Ata stated hour the fashionable world meets here, waiks together and talks. Every day the same iadies come here, for the most part very baundsome, who dress especialy for th s occasion, During the season when all Parisians withdraw from reunions and fetes, here alone-are displayed pretty toilettes nnd all the novelties whieh appear; here, may be seen the most coquettish, the most 1nconceivalle of wraps, A well known “grandma,” siill beaun- tifnl and very stylish, wears a gown of black peau-de-soie tnmmed with a flounce of the same material, and a long jacket of broche black-silk lined with sable. The design of the brocke is a tangle of knots extending in every direction; aronnd the neck is a sort of scarf of Chantilly luce, forming a fichn and then separated into two cascales which border the fronts of the jacket. | The sleeves are high with lace cuils| falling over the hand. 3 of Her little grani-daughter is as pretty | as a dream ina robe of gray eloth em- broidered with moss green pastilles The bottom of the skirt, which j elears the ground, is bordered with deep band Bf veliet of the same sha The c' ak isa triple Carrick of same cloth with velvet braiding, a Kate Greenaway hat in jleated velvet. faced with rose co ored completes this charming costume, i le. | the i wl green 1" faille, A lovely capote for a young married lady 1s of iris-colosed velvet draped in an exquisite manner, In front, close to the hair, is vlaced a beautiful, an- cient ring, a Hungarian jewe , set with multicolored stones. A butte: fly of white lace, mounted on an invisible wire, seems poised only for a moment, above. In the Lack is a cluster of os- trich tips and aigrettes, Verv charnn ing, delicate and elegant are the little plumes of jet, in clu-ters of three, and | eomposed of cibochons and pearls of | an extreme delicacy. a Lent is never very strictly observed in Paris, at least the first part of it, and so subscription nights at the Opera are always well attended. The most ele- gant costumes are displayed here: one of extraordinary beanty had a skirt of beatiful white pean-de-soie open over a tablier of rose-col rel satin embroid- ered with pearls; a flue embroidery of pearls edged the train. The pointed corsage and the basque, with need! po nts, were ornamented with knots oF rose-colored velvet embroidered with pearls. The Medien collar was also embroidered with pearls, Short sleeves | of white peau-de-soie, trimmed with | two flounces of lace, fell over the close slinging sleeves of rose-colored satin dotted with pearls. Necklace and comb | of pearls, If seems an if su bh a toilette, | #0 refined 1 its details, 80 harmonious | in all its “tout ensemble,” shonll be alle to replace the decolietee robe, often so immodest and comuwon in its character. Frrice Lea, No. 918, Carore.—Capote of white cloth with pheasact’s wing. Oa the center of the front is placed a red d hlia and a knot of wo i ye velvet ribb n. BSirings of black velvet, No. 914. Boy's Cosivumn —This suit consisting of knee-tronsers and a belted jacket is made of blue diaconal, the jacket being ornamented with fancy stitching in black silk. The jacket is closed on the right side and is finished with a straight embroidered collar and No. 915. Serixoe Warkixa Cosroxe, —This costume is of blue-marine bure, The skirt is plein in front and laid in fan pleats in the bmek; the vest shape corsage is open in [front and trimmed with a tailor collar in silk, with revers of fhe same material bordering the vest fronts. High eollar snd plasiron, of jersey red and blue, placed on the lining of the fronts which close in the centre. The plasiron is he d in place by the shoulder inl under arm seams aud fastened on the left side under the edge of corsage front. Sleeves full on the wrist. Belt in bl: e gros-grain silk fastened with a gold buckle, Hat of | "wane A cmc ATI MN . con Sly ITB ORGY ve wane Og O Jacket bronze ani EQ Vi Ivet. plaid wool goods, colors, Ue ge, No. 916, Recerr elegant toilette ix atin duech se and velvet, with irimmivgs silver em- broadery. The dress of bisck velvet is cut in princess form over a petticoat of hght-Llge satin duchesse. The back o the corsige and side bodies, which exe tend in narrow panels to the bottom of the dress, also the plastron and straight eollar are of satin duchesse., The front of the corsoge of velvet, pointed, and ent in a deep point at the neck, is fin- ished*with a fliring collar. Sleeves of velvet, The front of the corsage, sleevez and front edges of the tran, which border the tablier fof satin, are ornamented wth silver embroidery, also the flaring collar, tox Tornerre. —This {fm Of r ? 5 } i © $ No. 920, Toque —Toqune of cream- colored velvet with flaring brim of gold lace set with co ored stones; cluster of black and eream-colored a srettes, are placed slightly to the left of the front. i i i i ENGAGED, {A 80 xET1.] Etrange, arbitrary, hoop of gold ; how mneh Thou mean’ st to me: how Little jo thyself | Yet though thy jeweled circlet were of delf "Twould tell the » ifswme tae, and at thy touch All, all bt one, would flee, with whisperings., suen Ax. “eaten her being stuck npon the shelf!” To me thou wilt not bring renter sil or pif, Through thee uo added freedoon shall | elnteh. He came—he whispered somethong--"twas a charm: I answered--less with words than with Blush, And, ere I woke to consciousness, was caged! Ilove hia; yet at twenty tls a balin To Know one's free, and not be pledged to hush Each tender word with, “Slop, sir; I'm en- gaged!” a Thomas Frost. A CONSENSUS OF THOUGATS UPON THE PRESEXT AND THE FUTURE OF WOMAY, One of the most remarkab’e assem. blazes of modern times was the recent Women's Convention held »t Washing- | ton City. Here for the flrs time were shown woman's ambitions, hopes, as- pirations sud desires, and her deter- | minations for somethnng higher, bet er, | nobler, more equuble than her present condition. It war an us emblage cone taining all the advanced thought of | the prescut day upon the unsettled question of the rights apd dues womanhood. We give copious tracts from the address of Miss Willard and in them may be found much fool | for per ous, houghtful reflection by all intellects of both sexes, In the course hir addriss Miss Willard said: that she held, with the President of the previous couneil, tht a differer ce of opinion on one question | must not prevent the women of America | from working upitedly on those on wh ch they can agree. T ey were en- gaged io a heroiestroggleto Ht women from mere sexhood up toward glorwus won anhood, and to do this for ham n- itv's sake was the problem. jut it has taken women of brains and purpose | more than forty years to find ont this simple truth—to learn that they must agree to disagres on many things in order thst to the greatest numbers greatest good might be attained. She dist ne ly diavowed any ban gether of women as maleontents or hos. tiles tow ard the correlated oti er half of the human race, and s:id ti at brute force, to her mind, means ecnstom cpposed to rea on, prejadic autagonist of fair play. What sctuuily mean is thet wuatever tom law i contr ry fo that of one's neighbor which to hm her all privile that one's a relic of brute to be enst «nt as ev ) some © Americar of $x A of ing to ns 3 the we fs : or 1% or tLe es onr his is st li be father can will ithat a ¢ iis held to be the fn in ! wiil Nena _i tld : CRITE OF hut t ol . An irl in a erime where another an er the principai been many ways bLampered and harmed by laws and cousloms porta ning to the past, We reach ont our hands «f help, espe. i overtake the procession progress; for its sake, | that it m 1¥ pot slacken ites speed on ber acconnt, as mach as for hers that she be not eft behind, We thas represent the bnman, rather than the woman, Every atom says to other “Combine,” and, doing so, they change chaos into order. Wien every | woman shall say to every other, aud | every workinpgmon shall say to every other “Combine,” the war-dragon stall be slain, the poverty-vip r shail be ex- terminated, the go d bug transfixed by | a silver pin, the mloon drowned out, and the fst white slave hiberated from | the wo «ds of Wisconsin and the bagn os of Chicace and Washington. Miss Willard then spoke of the detaild | 18 186 BIE IK 10 80 oues of the organiz tion, and favored the | ble—one that should include and com- prehs nd local couucils in every state, | county, city, town and village in the | land, We have long met, she said, to read | essays, make speeches and prepore petitions; 1 t u« here meet in this g council to legislate for womanhood, for! childhood and the home. She reviewed the sdvance of women, and particulary since the last council, meserting that these threo years have prodaced greaer | resulta than the previous fen years. Cons der the fact that more than | e guty-two per cent. of all our public | school teachers are women; that over | two hundred colleges have now ove: i reat! forr thousand women stodents: that indastrial schools for girls sre being founded in almost every state; that hardly a score of col eges in all the pation atill exclade ns, and that these begin to look sheepish and spesk in tones apologetic, while the University of Peunsyivania was lately opened, Bar- pard College, mn New York, in the an- nex to the magnificent Col mbia, and the Methodist University of Washing- ton. D. C., the Lelind Stanford and Chicago Universities, with countless millions bck of them, are, in a!l their departments, including divinity, to be open to women. Refleot that we are admitted to the theclogienl seminaries of the Methodist, Congregational and Universalist Churches, to say nothing of hall a dozen smal er ecclesiastical communions; the Free Baptist and other churches now welcome women delegates to their highest councils, while we vote in the local assembly of amost every churchin Christen. dom, except the Catho ic; and that while some of us were re ected as del- egates by the General Conference of the M. KE. Chureh in 1858, that body submitied the question to a vote of 2,000,000 Methodists, and sixty-two per cent. of those “present and voting” de- elared in favor of omplete equality within the “household of faith,” Puss in review the philantropies of women, involving not fewer than si societies of netional scope or valu with their hundreds of state and tens of thousands of loeal suxidaries, both North and South, sud the conntless loeal boards organized to help the de- fective, dependent and delinquent clnssos in town and city (all of whom wonki be strouger if each class were correlated nationally); study the *‘eol- Ob solomien of . on the y lan of Toynbee Hall, London; think of the women's protective agen- cier, women's sanitary associations and exchanges and indnstrisl sebools and societies for physical culture, all of which are but clusters on the heavy laden boughs of the Christian civil z- ution, which raises woman up and, with her, lifts toward Heaven the world, i Con emplate the women's foreign] and home wissionary societies, relative | to which an expert tells us that the | firet was “organized about a quarter of | a century ago, and now most ot the denomnuations have both associatious, ! with a contribut ng membership of about one and one-half millions, They | bold, at least, a hall-m lion missionary meetings every year, presided over Ly | women. ‘lhey raise and disiribute | about two millious of money every year, and these several boards sea | each little investment with as much care as if a fortune were to be made in | discovering an er or in the aecconuts. | Marshal in blessed srray the Kong's Daughters, two hundred thousand with their motto, *‘In His! fere the Catholie Toal Abstinence So- | ciety at i's late meeting, in the pres-| enee of distinguish d prelates of that clinrels, which, while most others atiliz ug the money, u and work of woman, is most conserva- tive of ull when their publ e efforts are concerned. Hemember the p i ta 1s as she stood plendin r the cause of h carte Hin widows upon this p for. vee years ago, and rejoice that in ber school ut Poona the dream is culming true. bey on i devoti sth gh OO ii A THIDUTE TO MISS GARRETT, The air of the ¢ ast dave is i tiding In New city, suen lesders as Mary Jacobs snd Mrs, Avnew Lave around Dr. Exuma Kempin, the le srne lawyer from L asanne, and are belpin York Put } IE. tm women to en er the learned profess that has most thickly he away frcm them In Baltimore, 6 most progressive at oar country ut th i niversity to tuspged its Leen % 1 ALK 3 fit Pp vit open ot us, me rosie ced, vad the move hos Hopk =" fiready oO ius | and bL mn 2 medical vent fin fe ide On ex #1 ie by and plans, Mussachn Wien BL 3 participated, la lies repre alan ums of Mt Holyoke Co longer a ‘fe seminary,” i ankially observed; also, Wel esley-—a tableau that, in inherent college couservstism, oould not bave been furnished for ir 3 had not ¢ disenthral- of women become most muaie v.ew Or © ment a In speaking of Parnell, she ent disecrowned estate had been but tle emphasized, question ha: had no triumph so signal generation. It 1s pot many years, alie said, since sny man of great gifts and sp end d schievemen = in the lnterest of human ty was entirely sep- As a hero, te stool knew of him in his relations to the world; bunt, as s two characters, altog ther a different personality, with whom the public had nothing whatever to do, and, no matter how basel: ho cern « f theirs, becanse the estima'e of woman was #0 much beneath that which 18 now held, Ou the subjee’ of “co-operative hap- piness,” she said that, in the ep ch on which we have entered, labor will doubtless, come to be the only potent- ate, and “for value received,” will have the skilled toil 0o' the human species as its sole basis of any *‘specie payment”; “a note of hard” having no offset save the hnman hand at work. For man, added to nature, i« ail the epital there is ou earth; and ‘the best that any moral hath is that which every m rtal shares,” But netare belongs equally to all men; hence, the only geunine cap tal and chanveless medium of ex- change, always up to par value, is labor itself; and there will, eventually, be no more antagoni-m letween capital and labor than betwnen the right band and the leit. Labor is the intelligeat a .d bene:icent reseti n of man upon na- ture. This reaction sets force enough in motion to float him in all waters aud to carry him across all continents. His daily lab r, then, is the nataral eqaiv- a ¢ut he furn shes for food ana eloth- ing, fuel and shelter, and it is the sn. preme interest of the state to prepare he individual in head, hands and heart to put forth his higiest power. Car ried to its legitimate conclusion, this 18 the soo aliem of Christ; the Golden Rule in rection; the basis of that golden ag6, Wich shall suocend this age of gol A passion comes to an end; it drops out of life 0 e way or other, aad we seo it no wore, Dut ii has beea part of our souls, and it is eternal, If a woman was as careful in select ing a husband to m teh ber dispo-ition us she 8 in selecting n dress to mat h ber complexion, there would be fewer unhappy marries than there are, A man who looks at his wife a< though the moon was sbout $» turn to blood whenever she asks him for a couple of do lars is not likely to become very elo quent in prayer at lis family altar, The social affections are the refiners and softeners of life, the main sources FOOD For THOUGHT, Nature never pretends, Time stands close to eternity, The sun isalways shining somewhora ITe who does nothing 13 very near dos ing ill, One-half of heroism is bravery; the other half 18 modesty, A close mouth ealls for few assessments and pays big dividends, Suff-ring Is always a consecration Pride ean come nearer making a per- Next to the virtue, the fun in this Great hearts alone understand how It 's alwavs onr own feelings that 1. Crime flies with the wings of Mercury, but Justice pursues It on crutches, No one is useless in this world who Helens the burdens of it for any one else, Woman possesses in good, as well as evil, an energy which surpasses that of man, the luck of per- stupid ties ouly aller baviog 4 Lwin, Some pers ns have esiving comni.t Adver-iiy is aj wel that sh nes bright. Hour Beigiho.rscrown Luan in our own, er | A man’s gray matter is hus only pos session that is sulliciently extensive to tsalisty Lim, Men show their character in nothing | micre clearly than by what they think Liughabie, Aboy 2 i wrutls all things always speak the ; your word must be your bond the i fof srough Life, hine ning on to take Next to lazines ear is Lit LO resist ina Lunt, s hardest t 8 lmpulse Sides We swallow at one mouthful the lie that Oatters, an! drink drop by dropthe Lrath that is bitter, Wiatever else sr ah + be pure, SAU RUG Douest, may be wrong, it must to just and tender, ought to sn Lut hatll 1, but e'y a ceriain rs begin to WO nr and n, shows ? ea, ind of fauli-g Rtadiag When you : t r dical, and are right you cannot be too wrong you when you are The lives of some great men make us oul her the doors of success are i whetl ' 1 or ‘pull’ i ? marked “push It is a good policy to tell the truth, | because if you don’t you can’t expect to | be believed when you tell a lie, Coune=el is a good thire: but it 13 bes er 10 take counsel of one’s own indis cietion than of another man’s, Every sorrow has its limits, and the most violent oulh irsts exhaust most | quickly the fountain of pain, ¢ A dead man is given more charity than he can make use 0 ; a living man isn’t given as much as he deserves, The words of m*n are 1 ke the leaves of the trees; when they are too many ibey hinder the growth of the fruit. Very old people often are free from all appeara’c2 of sin, b ciuve they have avthing left fr either to feed upon, Every man feels in