NECESSITY.
What stern Neeeeilyhnlh onoe ordained
'or mortnl's hre.
Lot him not mnrmur, howsoo'erconrt rained,
Hi lot to bear.
Nor Time, nor Chnnoe, nor I.w, nor Gods,
nor Men,
Her voloeonn stay t
fler icy finger point the way, nnd then
Man mint obey.
Ami I.ove, nnd Hate, nnd Fear, nnd Joy,
anil Pnln
She portion each ,
Nor vanieho 1 bliss will e'er restore again,
Whoe'er beweeeh.
'Tl weakness to riflst her Mem decree,
'Ti Impiou to rnliol ;
The lr"nifnt mind, the noblest heart lias lie,
Who follow wall.
Temple Bar.
A E01PITAL NURSE.
r.v nnt.F.N foriiemt oravkh.
WELL, mother, " said
Dora Trafford,
"what are we go
inn to do non ?"
iJfV? And Mr. Traf-
t o r d answered
with a nigh, that
"sho wa sure hIio
didn't know."
'Have vou had
any breakfast ?'
said Dora, fond
litis the Uttli
wrinkled linud
wuero the worn
weddicR i hiq; Lung o loose.
"i'vo had Home toast nnd a cup of
tea," nuhwered Mr. Trafford. "And
tli ' t.vipot ih waiting on the hack of
the stove for yon. We have got to
vacate the premise before night,
lenr. Tho man ha sold them, aud
needs n ciretaker uo lunger. "
' Yea, I know," nodded Dora. 'I
wight to have lieeu up earlier to help
yon pack our poor little odda and enda.
Knt I was no tired and alept no
heavily. Mother, what are these?-'
She touched with the tip ol her
nihil, taper foot a slovenly bundle of
thing that l'y mi tho floor.
" .Soiled ailk dresses, crumple dlacea,
lial.'-woru embroidery," said she, ele
vating her pretty little noae. "One
would think tho errand boy had mis
taken No. VI for the lodging of the
second-rat-! actress at No. 17."
Mrs. Trafford I lushed up to her
faded eyebrow. What had she been
thinking of not to have hurried the
thing out of Night before Dora came
down stairs?
"It's from your Cousin Mainwnr
ing," anid she. "I eut them a little
note yesterday."
"A little note!" Dora'a Diana-like
figure iuroluiiUrily straightened it-iM-lf
up a vivid carmine stained her
cheek. "About what, mother?"
"Oh, nothing, dearest a mere mat
ter Of hllHillCHH !"
"But, mothor, it can hardly be
nothing ! Tell me what all thia mean.
I insist upon knowing. Surely you
uever aokod them for a package of
secoud-haud clothe!"
Mr. Trn5ord burnt into feeble
tjur.
"Dou't look no aternly at me,
Dora," alio bewailed herself. "I I
couldn't help it! I'vo had to do it
this long time, but I never meant that
you should know it. Yon're like your
father, Dora --you ro no proud. And
people muHt live."
Dora had grown Tory pale.
"Mother, have you been borrowing
mouey of theae huughty relation of
our.' crieil sue.
"You're hurting me, Dora I Dsn't
squeeze my arm o!"
"Oh, I beg pardon, dear! I didu't
mean to hurt you," stooping to kiss
the bony wrist. "But you haven't
answered me."
"How could I borrow money of them
when they wouldn t lend it? quoru
lously retorted Mr. Trafford. "But
they sent these things. They thought,
perhaps, we might make them useful."
"Oh ! said Dore, curling her short
upper lip with iuttuite acorn. "Then
that account for the remarkable ward
robe you've beeu sending me while I
was nnucr-teacucr at Miss MHgallo
way's I As long as 1 thought it was
youc iaste in selections but all the
while it was aeoond-hand finery !"
"What could I do?" plained the
widow. ".Some of the thiugs I sold at
Kimous's place. It all helped to pay
tho grocer and the baker. The Main-
wariugsought to help us, Dora. They're
o much richer than we are!
"There's no ought about it!" re
torted Dora. "Dives never lent money
to Lazarus that I know of, although
they might have been distant rela
tions. "
"Dora, what are you doing?" cried
Mrs. Trafford.
"Tying up thete things, mothor, into
smaller bundle.
"What are you going to do with
thorn?"
'.' "I am going to send them back
where they came from !"
' "But, Dora, stop 1 Borne of the
thine are quite good "
' A great ileal too good lor us,
mother," bitterly answered Dora, "or
else not ' goo I cuougu, I cau't quite
fcctt.e w uiaa !
"And Htmous really gives quite
fair prjoe "
"He will not have the opportunity
Bgaiu. Don t try to argue the point,
mother, dear. This thiug never would
have happened if I had been at home.
To think that these Mainwarings should
msult us by an oner of their soooud
hand clothes 1" -
Mrs, Traflord shrank iuto the chair,
appalled at the pullor in Dora's cheek,
the Ughtuiug of her eye.
"What would she say." thought alio.
"if she knew all I had borrowed from
Cousin Celis, and couldu't pay back
uv'i'f on, near'i but uosr couiu
help it, with all our expense and not
a cunt ol income?"
Mi Adcla Mainwaring wa Just re
turning from a drive on Hiverido
Park, whon alio aw the district tele
graph boy toiling up the step with a
colossal package.
"What' this, mamma?" she said.
"The folk i much obliged," said
the boy, hurriedly inventing a anbsti
tuto for tho note'which not without
previously acquainting himaelf with
it contents he had contrived to lose
whilo running after a fire engine;
"but they've gone where they ain't no
need o' such thing no more!"
"What I" cried Mr. Mainwaring;
"dead?"
"That's the message," said the boy,
making good his eucape with no un
necessary delay.
"Addie, dear, yon must go and sec
about this," said TV" rav. Mainwaring.
"Poor, dear Henry 'a widow! And
there wa a girl, too, wasn't there?
Thomas, Thomas! don't put the horse
up. Mi Adela want to use the car
riage again. Stay a minute I I'll go,
too!"
Put when the elarct-colored landau
reached the shabby brick house in St.
Aloyiu Hqure, it was locked, barred
and shuttered.
"My goodne me!" said good
nslnred Mrs. Mainwaring. "What a
pity !"
Mis Adela shrugged her sealskin
shoulders.
"Well, after all," said she, "per-
hnn things happen for the best ! The
woman was alwavs begging and bor
rowing. I'm sure I got out of all
patience with her long ago.
Meanwhile Mr. Tralt'ord, looking
listlessly out of the window of an
economical lodging over a baker's
shop, was quite certain that nothing
short of starvation awaited herself and
Dora.
"Now, mother, that' all nonsense,"
said tho latter. "We are independent
now, and that is what we need most of
all. Mrs. Totten" Totten wa the
name inscribed in gilt letter over the
store door "knows of some fancy
knitting yon can get to do, and I have
al read v secured a place in St. Iran
eita's Hospital. Dr. Hope alwaya told
me 1 wis a horn nurse, and it wa so
nice that ho happened to recognize
me when I went to enter my applica
tion as a helper there.
But the sight of blood ! said Mrs,
Trafford. "And the smell of ether
and all those horrid things! Dear,
ar ! I am sure it would kill me !
"Somebody has got to care for the
poor surterers, said brave Vara
And why Bhonldn t it be me?
"And to think that the Reverend
Henrv Trafford' daughter should
write her name in the hospital books!"
groaned poor Mrs. Trafford, who, like
the proverbial ostrich, hiding its bead
n the sand, all along maintained the
pitiful fiction of exceeding geutility
Oh, that s all provided for ! said
Dora. "1 wrote my name 'Dorcas
Travers.' I don't ee why I'm not as
well entitled to a nomine de plume as
the pen-and-ink women.
"It no laughing matter! sighed
the mother.
"Isn't it always better to laugh than
to cry? cheerily domanded Dora.
Dorcas Travera had scarcely been a
week in attendance at the hospital,
when its bustling, imperious, little
head surgeon sent an imperative sum
mon for her.
"You're not afraid of scarlet fever,
are you? aid he, curtly.
I am afraid of nothing! said Miss
Traver.
"Good !" said Doctor Hope. "Then
I shall detail you for instant duty in
Madison avenue, Xour bag
"It's here in my arm, all packed,"
said Dorcas. "I thought it would be
well to be prepared, so I loft word
with my mothor not to expect to see
me at present.
"Good again! said the doctor,
drawing on his gloves. "Jump into
the carriage ! I'll take you there at
once."
"Is the the young person quite ex
perienced?" gasped Mrs. Mainwaring,
her pink checks bleached white, her
point lace cap pinned on awry, "Be'
cause Richard is so very ill."
"She'll do very well," said Doctor
Hope, gruffly. "Be so good as to turn
all these people out of the room
madam. Quiet and fresh air, above
ail things, must be maintained."
And this was the first Dora knew
that she was in the house of her rich
relations. Her first impulse wan to
run after Doctor Hope and tell him
that she could not remain there ; her
next to accede quietly to the dictates
of fate.
"After all," said she to herself,
"it's simply in the way of business.
To think that I am to be installed as
nurse to that Grand Mogul of a Rich
ard Mainwaring !"
She went quietly about her avoca
tions, a sort of crowned queen in the
sick room, to whom everybody de
ferred a second only to Doctor Hope
himself.
"Well, really," she thought, a time
passed by, "he isn't so intolerable I I
really think I should have been sorry
if he had died that night when his
life-barque drifted so near the Oreat
Unknown. He's very handsome and
very patient. "
"Really, doctor," aaid Mrs. Main
waring, "that little blue-eyed nurse of
yours is an educated lady. I found
her reading a volume of Guethe in the
German the other day, and it's won
derful how well she manages Richard
in his convalescence The Mainwar
ing w ere always difficult to ooutrol in
sickness."
"A lady? Of course she's a lady,"
assented the doctor. - "A clergyman's
daughter, I believe. Taught in a
school before she took to nursing. By-the-way,
I shall need her in an inter
esting diphtheria case to-morrow, I
think Mr. Mainwaring will do very
well with yourself and the housekeeper
alter to-day."
"Hut she can t go! ganpodtho lady.
"Rut she must got" declared the
doctor.
Mr. Mainwaring hurst into tear.
"Mis Travers," she cried, a tho
lender, velvet-stepping nure came
into the room to get a carafle of iced
water for the convalescent, "what's
thi about your leaving n? Yon can
not I I will double vonr salary.
"If yon were to quadruple it," aaid
Doreaa, in that low, wcet voice of
her that wan no potent in tho sick
room, "it would make no difference.
I am at Doctor Hope's disponal."
'Bravo, Min Travers! wild
the
his
head surgeon, softly clapping
handn.
'Dear Dorca. do not levo n!"
IjobbedIi Adda, flinging herself on
thn girl' shoulder"."" --iio-v -
"t have a debt to pay, said Dorcas,
quietly. "I must earu all I can."
"V hat debt? questioned Adela.
"I am a poor girl," aid Dorca.
Mill in the nmo even, molodion
voice, "and all my life some rich
relatives have been helping me. Now
have resolved to be dependent no
longer, nor shall I rest until I have
repaid every whit of the obligation.
Perhap, Mi Mainwaring, you do not
know who I am? My real name in
Dora Trafford'
'Eh !" said the doctor. "Flinging
off tho mask alreadv?"
"And I think" Dora was glancing
around with a frightened air "that I
had better go with yon now, doctor.
Mr. Mainwaring, you will please
keep my twenty -five dollar a week to
ward my debt. I will just go in and
tell Mr. Mainwaring good-by, oud join
you presently, doctor."
And before Mr. Mainwaring or
Adela could recover themselves, she
wa gone.
But Mr. Richard Mainwaring, from
the inner room, had overheard some
thing of w hat wa going on.
'no you are going away? said he.
detaining her with one emaciated,
claw-like hand "No, Doroa no,
dear little disciple of the Red Cros
you shall not escape so readily. Dor
ca, I love you you shall stay!"
' I think you must he a little de
lirious still," murmured Dora, faintly.
"You spoke of a debt, said Richard
Mainwarinn;, and there certainly was
magnetic light in those deep, darn
eye of hi. "Well, granted that such
debf exiHt. ion can only pay it
with yourself. Sweet, if yon have
saved my life for me, it would be a
cruel kindness for you to blast it
now."
"1 don't know what to think,"
hesitated Dora.
"Well," aid Doctor nope, "I think
I'd better look up a uaw nurse for that
diphtheria cae.
And Dora Trafford s tirst situation
wa her last.
"There's no use in trying to mould
one s own destiny, said she, piteously
Thing work themselves out so dif
ferently from what one expects I"
Saturday Night.
Buffalo Bill a Fighter.
"I notice a disposition on tho part
of certain newspapers to cast reflec
tious on Buffalo Bill," said George
Henderson, of Helena, Montana, to
writer in the Washington News.
"Every now and then somebody will
come ont and call him a dross-suit In
dian flgher or a fakir or something of
that sort, but don t you make any mis
take about Bill Oody. He's a tighter
and as game a one as ever wore out
shoe leather.
"Ever hear abont his duel with the
big chief? Well, if that don't prove
he's game and aomothing more than a
long-haired oircns entertainer 1 m mi'
taken. Let's see, that was in 187!).
Cody was then a Government scout
under General Crook. It was during
the trouble with the Cheyennos aud the
Arapahoes. Crook had 3000 men un
der him, mostly green recruits.
"They went out into Northwestern
Nebraska and conquered the Indians
without ever firing a shot Just be
fore the Indians surrendered the two
armies camped within two miles of
each other. There was a tremendously
big Cheyenne who used to go ont on
the plains every day and brandish his
knife and wboopand dare any white
man to come out and tight him,
He did this for three or four days,
Cody got tired of it. He went to Gen
eral Crook.
"Look here, General, I'm going out
to lick that Indian, said he.
"The General told him not to pay
any attention to the Indian, but Bill
persisted aud he finally gave his con
sent. Bill took his knife, stripped to
the waist and started out for mm.
"I wish you could have seen that
fight. Both armies turned out to
man, the Indians lined upon one hill
and the whites on another. The big
chief, as soon as he saw Bill coming
towards him, quit hollering and pranc
ing. They circled around each other
once or twice, closed and Bill's knife
found hia heart in about two seconds.
Game? Well, you just bet he' game.'
Be Contented.
Some people are always grumbling
There is nothing like contentment.
young lady resorted to tears the other
day because her father thought $25
was too much to pay for a bat.
that youug lady had only considered
that there are thousands of young
girls who don t spend that much
money in a year for hats, she would
have reoeived oonsolation. Another
cane in point is of a youth who gruin
bled because his father oould not, just
at that time, pay for the boy's shoes
being mended. That boy little
thought that at the same time be
should have been contented and put
up with what be had, for bis next door
neighbor had recently met with an ac
oident, aud be had no feet to put
suoes on. rhilaJeJiihi Uaiu
ISLE OF BEAUTY.
SI II.Y, t,Ail OK HISTORIC VEX-
OKTTA AMI UK( KT RIOT.
he Native Rebel Against Heavy Tax
ation Some of the Kmnen 11
Htid's Rlche of Mature
nnd Art.
NK of the most in-
if teres! ing inlands of
the world i Sicily.
It i noted for it
people of volcanic
tempernme n t, a
well a for it fa
moil Mount Etna,
and it is recorded
of the native Sicil
ian that he would leave a fet to at-
end a flghl, o belligerent are hin in-
diiicts. Hut this time, savs the De-
roit I'rce Pre, it i not the tradi
tional vendetta that i bursting into
ction, but the revolt of an ovf-r-taxed
peoplo against oppression. They can
not pay their tax, which l bo heavy
Hint thero i nothing left for their liv-
ng expense. While the Italian resi-
dent in other part of tho country
does not affiliate with tho Romau-
Greek-Norman-Italinn of Sicilv, he
does sympathize with a revolt against
injustice, and an outbreak of local war
upon the island i usually followed by
similar uprisings in other parts of the
kingdom. It i a volcanic example
emanating from the most beautiful
and fruitful country in the world, of
which historians record thrilling
deeds of valor, and poet sing in his
toric measure.
There Archimedes discovered spe
cific gravity, and his tomb is shown
in Syracuse to students, who, like
him, cry Eureka! Roman and Vene
tian and Greek colonics may still be
traced there. He who would have a
souvenir of Sicily has only to look at
the street fruit seller on the nearest
corner, who will give him good-day in
tho Sicilian tongue, and sell him
oranges that were lately plucked in
Messiua, which supplies half the world
with fruit. Naturally harmless citi
zens, these people in a country they
have adopted, but where a strange
language is spoken, and still volcanic
in the nature they inherited from fiery
ancestors ; ready to revenge with the
knife the half understood badinage of
the stranger, but quiet and attentive
to their own business if unmolested.
Within a stone's throw of Detroit is a
Sicilian citizen of a higher caste, who
scans the daily papers eagerly for news
of his country which he left within
THB CASA DKOLI INOLE8I HTT OT
three years. He speaks with fluency
of the reason why revolt is imminent
in Sicily.
"A merchant there cannot sell a
quart of wino from the casks in his
cellar without paying toll on every
quart be owns, in order to prevent
seizure. The land ia taxed first, then
all it produces is taxed, and there is
nothing left. If a man kills a sheep
be must pay tax on the mutton.
Everything, everywhere is taxed, and
the people cannot stand it," Mr.
Fenic, tho young Sicilian, aaid de
jectedly. But he grew enthusiastic
over the natural beauty of the country,
the climate, where it ia always sum
mer, and insisted that the school sys
tem was better there than in America,
since the industrial professions are
taught in the free schools, and there
are three line universities in Sicily,
from which scholars are graduated
every year. He admitted that the
Sicilians had been in the habit of
pointing back to a splendid post of
eight centuries, but that now, with
Government railroads, submarine tele
graphs and other modern improve
ments, they had grown ambitious for
the future. But that hot blood which
led to the historic tragedy of the
Sicilian Vespers ho not yet grown
oool.
At the time of the massacre, known
historically as the Sicilian Vespers,
which occurred in 1282, when the
French were refuted with terrible
CATACOMB: AT PALERMO.
bloodshed, every foreigner who could I
not pronounce tho word "ciceri to
the liking of the Silician im put to
death. Thi teat wa compared to the
biblical shibboleth inntitnted by
Jeptha on the alnughter of tho Israel
ite. Charlen, of Anjou, had tyranni
cally enslaved the Sicilian, and cauaod
the death by beheading of the hered
itary King of Naples, son and heir of
Conrad IX. He was but a youth of
sixteen, but he died a patriot and a
martyr, and hi death and martyrdom
have been 'embalmed in song.
Palermo, tho capital city, the Gol
den Shell, ia open on one side to the
sea, and on the other three side it has
orange and lemon groves, and so gra
cious is the climate that even in mid
winter tho air is, fragrant with tho
breath of lilies nnd roses blooming
unhoused. Thero i always a pictur
esque division of light and shade, the
sun shining in a blue sky one moment,
the next obscured by masse of copper
colored cloud that break into peek
of gold and silver, or roll themselves
up into dense masse, moving seaward,
or up to the mountains with magnifi
cent effects of color.
The cathedral of Palermo retain the
Norman tower of tho twelfth century,
to which has been added an unsightly
Neapolitan dome. In it are found the
magnificent sarcophagi in which, near
ly a century ago, the remains of fcm
peror Frederick were discovered, clad
in roval splendor. They had been
buried there for 500 year, and the
skull cap he wore is ou exhibition in
tho Bacristy. It was really an Arabic
crown covered with uncut gems, and
embroidered with pearl.
Another church of great antiquity
is of ancient bastarn origin. It re?m
hie, even in it ruin, St. Mark's, of
Venice, with it large central dome,
and four smaller ones, and it is histor
leal that the bell of this church rung
the alarm when the massacre of the
Sicilian Vesper wa enacted in 1282,
The Archbishop's palace is another
twelfth century memorial.
The Museum of Antiquities ha
many fare treasure, among them the
bronze ram, a remarkable piece of
ancient sculpture, the work of Greek
artists. A flue collection of Siciliau
coins, of interest to the numismatist,
is seen there, and a bronze group from
Pompeii.
The catacombs are very repulsive to
the American or European tourist at
first, tho exposed dead givtug one
horrible sense of the emptiness of all
worldly fame or pleasure. The bodies
are stood up in rows, dressed as in life,
and holding out a card, with age and
date of death. Glass eyes being sub
stituteu tor real ones obliterated by
BKFl'dK AT FOOT OP MOUNT KTNA.
decay, make the scene more horrible,
The friends of the deceased used to
dress them at intervals in fresh clothes,
until the authorities luterterod on
sanitary grounds, and that practice is
no longer permitted.
Syracuse is so rich in historic lore,
and traditions of the past, that to visit
it is almost equal to oourse in the
classics. The tomb of Archimedes is
not its greatest attraction. It bas
remarkable cathedral, formerly an
open air temple whore Plato pondered
his new philosophy, and Uicero lorniu
lated hia theories of wisdom. There,
also, ia the "Ear of Dionysius," acave
with an entrance resembling a human
ear. At thia horrible and grotesque
slit, the tyrant was accustomed to sit
and listen, hoping to discover the poll
tical secrets of his prisoners chained
within.
Marble and granite pillars, Greek
theatres and Roman amphitheatres and
the premises of the fair Arethusa, now
turned into fountain lor washer
women, make scenes of interest for the
tourist which are not soon forgotten,
The favorite speculation for a Sicil
ian outside of the lotteries ia the
sulphur mine. Fortunes aro made and
lost in sulphur. . Burning lakes of sul
phur give one unused to the Sioiliau
product a fair idea ol tne internal re
gion. The people themselves call i
sulphur mine purgatorio. But the
I thoughtful tourist remembers that it
is this sulphmous atmosphere that has
preserved the antiqmtiea of Unek and
Roman art.
In spite of the assurance we have
from the authorities that brigandage
is no longer profession in Sicily,
A SICILIAN T.FTT10A.
traveler find eternal vigilance noces-
ary in making a pilgrimage among
the mountain in the vicinity of Fa-
ermo or Motireale. The organized
and of robber with their picturesque
entourage and their ransom money
may not exist a they once did, but
robber are plenty, only loss violencs
accompanies their act than formerly.
Messina, with it lava pavement, is
clean and handsome. It villa are
palace overlooking the ea. There
in a tower ol iNormau architecture, a
Capucin monastery, and a good hotel.
Thero are many Kuglish residents. It
said of the Messina people, that
they are very devout, and have al
ways the word "Lietterio for one of
their name, or the feminine "Let-
tenia." The custom in traced to n
traditional letter written to them by
the hand of the Madonna when she
took them under her special protec
tion. How beautiful the coast of Italy
is at thi point may be learned from
the ecstatic language of a traveler
who invoke the magieinn s pen of
joy, where the consonants dance and
the vowels sing to describe it 1
In Catania there i a nubterranean
street kept in good repair aud through
which people can walk in companion.
The destruction of Sicilian towns by
earthquakes aud volcanoes in promi
nently brought to mind by the pres
ence of imposing mills.
And there l alwavs Mount Etna
looming in the distance with a per
petual threat of calamity. It is a
tradition in Sicily that if Etna growl
Vesuvius roar, Stromboli rumbles
and Lipari threatens. These volcanoes
are all in touch when one complains.
The Sicilian themselves are most in
teresting. The men are handsome, anil
the women in their early youth are
very attractive. But they are tram
meled by superstition and idolatry.
They do not trouble their heads about
revolution or the higher education of
woman, but take life a if it wore a
draught of pleasure if rich, aud work
ami pray if poor.
run costume, rich equipage, as
well as the quaint native lettiga and a
great display of wealth are to be seen
in all large Siciliau cities, but to the
tourist they are less interesting than
the Siciliau peasant, whose heroic blood
has never been filtered to a stagnant
quality by contact with luxury. The
throes of revolution are always there,
whether dormant, like the fires of their
own volcanoes, or bursting out in local
riot. Sicily ha been successively
governed by Carthagiuiaus, Romans,
Goth, Greek, Saracen, Normans,
French, Hwabians, Austrian and Span
ish. It came under Neapolitan Gov
ernment in 1730. At several different
periods the people of Sicily have riseu
in revolt during the present century.
Garibaldi was their leader in 18(10, and
afterward when they were annexed to
the new kingdom of Italy under Victor
Emanuel. There are more than 2,000,
000 of population, and every man i a
soldier or a fighter. Love of Sicily is
a Sicilian virtue.
About the Color ol Flame.
Yon have often noticed tho many-
tiuted bars and bauds that rise iu the
shape of "forked tongubS of flame"
from wood burning in tho grate, but,
ten chttuee to one, you uever thought
to figure on tho causo. To bring the
matter quietly to the point, it may be
said that the many colors aro the re
sult of combustiou among the differ
ent elements of the wood. The light
bluo is from the hydrogen and the
white from carbon. The violot is
from manganese, the red from mag
nesia and the yellow from soda.
St. Louis Republic.
Bride's Dress.
This dress is of thick satin in ivory
white. A series of very finely crimped
ruffles of the material finishes the
lower edge of the skirt, which has
medium-length traiu, and is cut with
bell-shaped gores all around. The
close-fitting body is finished with a
scarf-shaped fold of the goods, edged
with crimped ruffles. The elbow
sleeves are extremely full aud also
finished with ruffles ; the high collar is
edged with orange-blossoms, and
sprays of the same finish the surplice
end of the aoarf-shaped waist-trimming
and bold the tails vail in place. New
York Ledger.