Plaiting

very narrow pjaiung is a lavorite dress triruniiug. A costume of gray camel's hair is made up in a plain princesa fashion. The waist closes at one side, and the skirt, waist and sleeves are, as one enthusiastic youug woman expressed it, absolutely smothered iu pinked out rafHes of iridescent talïeta. In addition to the plaitiug these ruffles are plaited, then drawn out a Jittle to make ians, which are Jaid so as to forin bands of trimruing from shouiders to waist liue as outlines for yokes and to supply the place of the alraost collapsed sleeves. One dress has au outlined yoke of very narrow pinked aud plaited ruffling. From the seams where the sleeves are sevred in are similar ruffles of varying widths, the lower one being about 14 inches wido and the upper oue uot over 6 inches wide. - New York Ledger. To change one'snationality in Russia is not at the command of every purse. The first coudition is that you should be a landowner for five years at the shortest, and that during the whole of that period you shouJd have resided upon your property in that country. The next conditiou is that you should take the oath of allegiance to the czar. When an Jïnglishruau becomes a natnralized Norwegian, his wife and children also change their nationality.