Devotees Of. Dress

The average young woman expenda cnough inventivo power, enough financial shrowdness, enough close foresight enough perturbation o f spiri t, enough presence of mind, enough pationce of hopo and anguish of regret upon one's season outfit - I luid almost said upon one singlo street suit - to mako an excellent bank cashier, or a couifortable gradúate of a theological seminury. I ouco saw a. young lady ride all the way frora Portland to Boston in the cars without once leaning back against the cushioned seat, so that she should not tuin ble her black silk sash. A barber told me that he " curled a young lady " onco for a hall, " and she nad two hundreil and forty-sovon curls when I had fiuishod ray work upon her. And I bogan at about ton o'clock in tho morning, and I diil not got through with aer till nino o'clock that night ! " Dr. Dio Lewis tells of a being who put four hundred and twenty-five (I think) yards of trimming upon one singlo dress. Four hundred and twenty-five yards! Coneeive of the Hon. Charles Sumner or Professor Longfollow in four hundroS and iwenty-five yards of triinraing ! Imagine Ao speech on San Domingo, or of the ' Psalm of Life," with a black silk sash ;iod to tho uuthor's coat-tails, he pausing at every classic stanza to soO if hc had iumblod himsolf behind. Fancy BrownSoquard at a consultation in two hundred and forty-sovon curls. Picturo him ïming the pulso of a dying man with ono land and tiirhteuing his hair-pius witli