Something For The Ladies--how Mrs. Bonaparte Puts On Her Clothes

A Paris correspondent of the New York News gosíips a little about the dresses of the Empress Eugenie. Ho aj'8 t is uuiversall) conceded that she is the best dressed lady in Eufope. Bhe sets the fernale fashions lor the Vnorld; and employs not only modistes, bnt artistrs to nvent thein. Her "department of ready made clothing is Bomething immense. To say that she has a nevv dross for every day in the year would not begin to convey an idea uf the extent and varicty of her wardrobe. In the lront centre of the ceiling of her Majesty's private dressing room there is a trap door opening into a spacious hal1 ibove filled with presses," each containing a dress, exhibited on a frame - looking like an effigy of the the Empress herself. In a part of theee "presses" there is a little railway lcadini; to the aforesuid trap door, through which the dress is " decended" into the presenei! of the Empress. If it ''please her Müjesty," the dress u liíted from the frame and placed upon the imperial person ; if not, it is whipped up, and another comes down in its place; and not nnfrequently anothcr, and another, and another; so fas'.idious is the taste which gives the law to the world of fashion. In public the Empresa never looks over dresred. A severe giiTtpliuity always characterizes her toilette, while everything in materinl, rit and color, ia as complete in hur mony as a sonata of Beethoven. This is the great secret of the art of dress. A woman wLo wears discordant ribbons, bre:iks that sense of visual mclody, comrnorily called "good taste without which, not even the Ducheas ol Golconda can dress well. Ceitain colora are iust as incongruous and inhrmonic as ceitain notes in music, and fhe artists uho compose dresses for the EVnpress Eugenio study tfaese natural laws of harmoity as earefully as the painler the hues of his palletto. Just now t hus been discovered that the parasol, the dress, the bonnet, the gloves and the gaitera must all be'of the samo color to produce the most uniquf) and pleasing effect. And thus n complotely dresed lady no longer offends the eye with a confused contradiction of colon of all the shades and without the order of the rainbow, but presents a perfect picture, as meiodiously charming to the eye as the air of "Home, Sweet Home" is to thö ear.