A GOLDEN THREAD,
One diy last week I, an uninvited
guest, attend d an early morning con-
cert at which I longed to have even one
of my readers present. ‘How impo-
lite!” I hear some one exclaim, who
hourly makes obeisance to the great
od of Fashion ealled “Etiquette.”
es, horribly impolite I grant, but I
do not believe that the song-ters had
the slightest knowledge of my prese ce,
and if they did I do not think tuey
cared; nay more, 1 believe that their
little breasts throbbed with joy to think
that they were filling the cup of pleas-
ure to the very brim for ome poor,
weary mortal,
It was at an early, very early hour.
The first streaks of dawn were scarcely |
visible on the eastern horizon, and the |
old fashioned clock below, in the hall |
of the country house where 1 was stay- |
ing, had just chimed the quarter after |
four when 1 became conscious of a
gentle rustling sound in the trees on
the lawn before my wind ws. It was!
as if a light wind had swept through |
the branches; then all was silent as |
before.
there came a faint timid note as if the
owner thereof was not quite sure of his
ground, then followed in rapid succes- |
sion several notes which were taken up |
and repeated from side to side, and |
gradually swelled in volumn till the
whole air was replete with the sweetest, |
most musical sounds to which 1 had |
ever listened. It was magnificent, |
grand, and beyond all comparison,
How long 1 lay listening to this
heavenly choir I cannot tell. All my
cares and anxieties seemed to float off
and become lost in space, while these
tiny songsters sang to me of the loving
Father's tender care. At last I arose
and seating myself at the open window,
that 1 might better to this most
glorious of all anthems, I could not
help but think how ecareless and nn-
grateful we were for the manifold bless-
ings bestowed upon us: how we went
through life with our eves closed to the
beauties of nature and it« many subtile
influences; seeking not the numerous
AYVELUES ON every irposely placed
in our way to hel find “the pearl]
of great price,” but eagerly strivi
accumulate that which will seemingly |
give us a higher position than tie one!
We now occupy in rid of letters |
or of fashion. Alwavs sur.
pass our neighbors ane
dress, arra
or in intellectual
upon oar
listen
ng 10;
the we
striving to
ifrie
gement
pursuits;
advancement in these
0
simple words uttered in the long ago, |
but just as full of promise to us now, |
a8 to those to whom they were first
spohen. !
‘Therefore | say unto you, “Takeno
thought of your life, what ye shall eat, |
or what ye shall drink; nor yet for the |
body, what ye shall put on. Is not the
life more than meat, and the body more
than rainment? Behold the fowls of
the air; for they sow not, neither do
they reap, nor gather into barns; yet
your heavenly father feedeth them.
Are ye not much better than they?
And why take ye thought for raiment?
Oonsider the lilies of the fleld, how
they grow; they toil not, ncither deo
they spin: And ‘ot I say unto you
that even Solomon in all his glory was
not arrayed like one of these. Where-
fore, if God so clothe the grass of the
fields, which to-day is, and to-morrow |
is cast into the oven, shall he not much |
more clothe you, O ye of little faith?
Therefore take no thought, saying, What
shall we eat? or, Wherewithal shall we
be clothed? For your heavenly Father
knoweth that you have need of all t ese
things. But seek ye first the kingdom
of God, aud his righteousness: and all
these things shall be sdded unto youn.’
Foolish mortais! too blind to see the
precious gems, gems beyond all price,
whieh lie in our pathway; will we never
find the golden thread woven for us by
a loving band through the gray home-
spun of our daily life?
Ena,
Two beautiful sketches provided this
week for our readers, are from the
artists’ studio of the Redfern establish- |
ment, and are part of the outfit ofa!
Newport belle whose charming cos- |
tumes, as much as her beauty of face |
and figure, have gained her a rich and
eligible fiance. The first No. 1084, isa
delicate and most dressy carriage wrap,
of pi ikish heliotrope silk trimmed with
ruffles of cheflon embroidered in dif-
ferent shades of the same color. Be-
tween these ruffles are rows of narrow i
black velvet in the shape of a deep
plastron. The hat is of silk mull of the
same hue with black velvet loops and
a velvet orchid at the back. Parasol |
matches the wrap in material and trim-
ming.
The other model No. 1085, is a'
(house dress) of coral pink China silk |
almost veil d with black lace and fin-!
ished with deep, black velvet cuffs and |
velvet ribbon trimming. The fan is of
No. 1085.
and gold butterflies.
80 fine and thin that it
parent. It isa pearl grey ground bro-
caded with shell pink, and is made up
over a skirt of changeable silk in darker
shades. This is trimmed with a donble
row of jewelled passementerie, the
plastron ig of the silk, decorated to
the eloth draped below,
and caught with luckles under each
shoulder. The sleeves are of pale pink
silk mousschine, banded below the elbow
with the changeable silk. The pan-
cake hat is of pink crepomn, with a
match, and
ostrich tips in the two shades,
No, 1087,
No. 1087. This costume isalso gr y
EE ie pry and
tem ©
in an open lace pattern which iA
the palo green silk honing The
is in the fancy blouse order, and
is worn with a belt.
broidery supported on the lining, the |
front being closed on the left side un-
de the folds of surah. Double bias
tuids of surah form bretelle¥ on each
side of the embroidered centre, and
are slightly fulled across the shoulders,
terminating in the back at the top of
the arm-holes. Full sleeves finished at
the bottom by a pleated ruffle of surah,
and enfle of embroidery. Straight col-
lar of embroidery.
QUEER ILLUSIONS |
Bomething of Interest Concerning
6 Peculiar Malady.
$tartiing and Singular Forms of inennit)
Develoj 4 in People Otherwise Appure
ently SancIt Is Mard to Detect
and Dimbult te Cure
Notlong ago an old man, locking
ke w rich, rotived rmacreliant or banker
walked into the office of one of the
foremost publishing howses of, New
York and asked to sce the head of the
Srm. That gentlemen recognized his
No. 109]
trimming.
embroidery headed by insertion and
several rows of feather stitching, The
top is gathered and sewed to the lower
which is turned up on the wrong s
The yoke is made of alternate ba
which
No.
No. 1088, Dness ror A
TEEN Yeaus OLp.—A striped deep
1088
blue
em’ roidery, and bands { { plgue
are ornamented with feather-st
| a band of pique with
ing joins the frill of emby
i which the yoke is fini
{ A similar
the neck.
wri<tbands
stitching.
No. 1093
Tee (ins
with CRI
i panle ttes
the front are cul on
the pointed beln
Fitryaore
ged, 10 1h
narrower §
with
witli
band, but
Full
ornamented
EIoeVEes
Houser CLOAKS §
Coat in piaud hevio
sleeves, and pleated
facings
over
The pointed on
the bias as 18 also
bined with blue bengaline is used
this clegant costume. PI skirt
the wool goods cut on the bias; back
the bodice thie
straightway of the clotl
bodice composed of
oe n
of game, but us
Side bodies and basque of
pocket laps of
Flat collar {
row od
front
Dol jes,
ornamenting the
of the
bengaline held at the
of the dress iN
sleeve plain and fini
the striped
front and crossed in the
side
back with tab
No. 1
brow 0
Around { ‘
and above the
a band of er idery. Collar
same material and sash
bon, knotted in front with long loops
hie ant sleeves
skirt is plac od
of the
¥ sid
of Ottoman rib
NO, 1008, No. 10u4
No. 1005, Cuano's Arnow,— This nest
model is made of eresin-colored batiste:
the bottom of the skirt is finished with
8 broad hem and an edge of embroid-
narrow band
Dnesds von A Boy Five Yran: Op
No. 1900, shows a frock made of blue
bengaline trimmed with white guipure
and points of embroidery in bine silk,
The RO of the garment is of bine
bengaline made double breasted and
ormamented with a double row of but.
tons; it is finished by a flounce of
to the waist under a
| feather-stitohing.
The front of the plain waist ie orna-
mented with a V shaped pigoe of open-
worked embroidery finished at the upper
front is bordered with bretelles of the
same embroidery, with an edge mateh-
ribbon ornament the shoulders
his flounce is finished at the top by
n inted band of guipure. Large
rolling collar in bengaline edged with
inted guipure; full sleeves with wrist.
ds of the same points.
No. 1081. Box's Burovse — This
blouse for a boy eight years old is of
fine, light-gray flanvel. It hes a
plastron of blue silk which is fastened
to the blouse by battons on the under
edges; the lower edge of the blouse has
a rubber drawstring whi h confines it
at the waist. The sireves are full with
broad wrist-bands. The rolling collar,
band of the plastron, wristbands, fronts
of the blouse, and the pocket laps on
each side are ornamented with an em-
broidery of blue brad. A blue silk
cord passes beneath the collar and is
knotted in front over the plastron.
No. 1092. Cup's Froox. —This lit
«GOR BT ae
en
PS
=
ft 3
N
tle white pique frock has a box-pleated
embroidery. The skirt is sixty inches
MS As
A varen advertises for ‘girls for
cooking.”
Behn, noes Sh cosa se
i w con
vowels in their order. They are “ab.
caller ng & mun who twenty Ago
| dad been the junior member of a preut
Wall street firm, He also remembered
that the senior member
| Of Lincoln's trosted adeisers in
i finan The ex-bankoer said;
“You un member that my partner,
iwonths ago,
hand been one
10st
One day & tan. roshéd Into nollie
headquarteis much excited. He wm
Qeaf 4 Ail. He stoma Elom
prostrated With terron Allor thes hia
=8lroed dima litte, He CCDIGINEE Slaw
be Nad been robbed of four thousing
dallars by some men, who had thrown
nim down and nearly choked him to
death. The Inspector had a scarching
cxamination made, and after sa day or
two proved conclusively by the man’s
friends that he had wn been robbed,
and that he was not even deaf and
dumb. The indpector was not pleased
ot having this sort of 5 trick played
upon hire. B80 he sat the man down in
a chair and engaged him in conversa.
tion. One of the detective siFgeants
slipped up behind him and jabbed a pin
into his back about two iithes The
deaf and dumb aman rose straight up
sud yelled:
“Great God,
that?”
“That,” said fhe inspectos, "is my
Citbe for dumbness. Git!™
He was gone, and scems 10 have been
inspector, whi: wae
lisher
ments for
id ran riter
Quektiondd tisfied
that he
one of his partner
Lineoin administration
Instances of this kind are not uncom.
; mon, -anfl yet it Is a form of Insanity
that is alvhost and is liable
$0 become dangerous at any time. Jt
was this form of mania that possessed
fmybetty who murdered Dr. Lloyd
entrally, howeyer, it is content with
| pmfufatturing o great hoax and stin
| ¥ing ¢p an gxcitcment
{ & few years ago the police of Neve
Erk had an experienoe of fhis kind,
| @bout whith they decline’ to talk even
| get. Oneday s manof réspectable ap
scaranco. walked "9% police head
| quarters at Newarkandsaid: “fF do a
| dry goods merchant from Chicago. 1
| was passing through here and stopped
off at the station. I had a valise with
twenty-seven thousand dollars in bills
init. I left the valise om ascat in the
while I stepped out for a
back it was
not entirely
mey, as 1 happened to have
irs in my pocket”
Te Bi
h the
ho was
incarable,
wn | came
A
tunately
to
first inclined
x a
ys £
told of
in
Af 1 Lin frown Chicas
go and acted suspicidusly, the Chie
was interested. lie ordered diligém
starch {or the robbers. Circumstances
camo up vhich verified theman's story;
and the result was a great hue and orm
| The man went to a hotél to await de
| velopmenia, He spent hisown money
freely,
every way. Scveraldays passed. The
siory and the descriptions: of the sup
| posed robbérs were telegraphed all over
the country.
snail towns made arrests
| ipapers-were full of it and the anystery
ow cach day. Finally the saan fro
4 dein took une of the-drteelivesasial
tnd sid 40 him
“*Parhaps | should
featurd of this caso-spbBON iA
have an important . Phd of
is I'am Jesus Christ. § 1hiftlethese ppb
bers may hive bean the devil indie
ghise,™
The agtectivessrarea at Mimand hen
called in other detectives, who put the
man under abst AT Amb it was
thought. that the loss of the-money had
turned his heal. But it ot last came
out that aside from the Tact
that ho wan 8 Chicago merchant the
story was false in every particular.
The police were. enraged, and lotied
thé hoaxer in an Asylons 48-8000 us pos
sible, . They still remember the great
lstigh that arose all ter the country,
Inspector Liyrnes tells a stdry of
sane nature. A merchant ne liens
here and is reputed agssanc as -Anyohe
could be came to hit one day and said
that his wife was being annoyed by
annonymous letters from a woman who
was trying to blackmail Bim. He went
on to. tell all about the conténts of the
letters, and the inspector began to feel
greatly interestéd in the case, which he
realized was difficult. AL lencth he
said:
‘J oan soe only one way. We must
Ling this woman face tO face with
your wife"
“No, no," said the therchant “that
You soe my Wife is a
She san real
Captain Reilly tells of 8 man who
called og hima short time sro with an
oad com%ia He was fl net, gens
Uemanly well advanced
years. Ile said: “I am much troubl
swith large steamboats plowing up and
down at night. They
male blowisg,
gud I ea
Captain
lived nearihe wate:
“here is your 1
“1 live on 8
{ween
nua,”
dom
vary annoy
“It must be’
“I'll have
>
thie
no
©
a
e
fhe man
sna sald:
R
COIN
ecvenieronth
Seventh and
eo
said he,
i & YP 1 *
iv sLopr
ang wid
mboats
x
£
“
ne next day |
>» man that h
n. ib They
his ang 1
a
and we never could
pot be Aistuibed
Was
freed as
rn
Bei aid no
Way sixth day &
| contd niially that God had appetired tu
her in a vision, and had 161d her 0 go até
marry a ocrtaln. white-haired old may
who would weet hel in & certain place
She complained Litterly of the hardness
vf a lot which wonid compel her t8
wrame ber youthinl chiFins, bot she
said she must @ sg the Lord bade hel
“N. Y. Sun.
A Short Editorial
An Anglo-Indian editor once relieved
| bis feelings and increased his éirculfe
tion thus: Somewhere in the Yorligs
there was a paper culiefl the Mofustilite,
The great ccclesinstical dispute, Gore
bam versus the Bishop of Exeter, wal
at that time occupying men's minds
and filling the columns of the news
papers at home; and though a very
absorbing topic in England, it had bgt
faint interest for Anglo-Indians. Thefe
was then no telegraph to Indis nsb
© a monthly mail to keep in touth
with Europe. Any curtailment.of the
supply of such a con-
rather a serious
thing 16
™ ke a nresentalile BL TORTE NNO, The
inflclion was borne in zilende for some
time; but when. at length, after months
bad gone by, and the stream of dreary
disputation continued, the editor could
i bear it no longer. He indited. por
| haps, the shortest leader that ever was
written; but that leader told the whole
{ story of bis woes. It consisted only
of four'words, and those words were:
i *D the Gorman Case.” The effert
{ on the public was wonderful. The
| paper sold like wild-fire, and its circus.
lation was permanently increased by st
; least twenty per cent.
AL —— —
Unlacky Room No. 13.
“Yen,” said a hotel clerk, “we have
RB room numbered thirteen in this
house. There are plenty of people whe
don’t care whether their om is thir
teen or thirty, but we have frequently
had travelers refuse to sleep in this
room. If they happen to get in there
without noticing it they will ask to be
changed on some pretext or other,
usually alleging anything but the truth.
We have got so, however, that wo une
derstand this feeling. nnd often ask a
man if he has any objection to thirteen
before we assign him the room. Men,
as a rule, are not superstitious, but
when th(y are accompanied by ladies
they are usually governed by the super
stition of their companion. I never
saw a woman take thirteen in this
house if her attention was called to it,
euitable news by
{row y was, therelore,
rim df one nd
iL was no ensy