An Instinct And Motive Of Dress

It is uttöriy useless to try to make ( ,hing of huuiiin ilk believe that dress is ïot of primary iruportance, tbat beauty inadorned has the slightest chance, bojause it is not truc in faet, however ( 3el)ent in tbeory. Let a pretty woman 1 neglect the amenities of dress, leave all , the accpfsories of hair, lace, or ribbon adornuient uncareil for, and go about liinp, loose, and dowdyish, with only her natural chanrjs to counterbalauce, and seo liow little chance she stands for adtniration. A symmotrically cut, gracefully hanging dress ; a bright knot, artisticaily disposed ; a solt, delicate bit of lace, makes'all the diffurencein the world in the effect a woman produces upon the senses. It is a retuarkable fact that, while men make woraan'a folly in dress the target at vhieh to let fly their sharpest witticisms, it is for man alono that she indulges in these extravagances. Sincethe far-away times of the Aspasias (and before, indeed), of the Livias, Du Barrys, Dompadours, et al., down to the representativos of Jlf.tlier Eve, to-day, women are what the PericlflC, Alcibiades, kinge, iinperors, and poets of their perioda nake them. Men and women uiay exist 'or each othor ; but it is in an inverso raito, women living a great deal moro for uien than the converse. To look one's tiest for some lordly eye is the natural instinct of every lo%"ing heart. To have a fair, healthy appearing complexión; a round, full, yet plian t figure; soft, white, thapely hands; glossy, well cared for and fasbionably arrunged iiair, are all of them necessities to a true woman as the breath she draws, the food she eats - for indeed to be out of the fashion is to be out of the world. - New York Kvening Muil. Bishop Borgoss has eonsonted to have the Cathoüc farm at Monroe sold for small farms, and as far noith us the fair grounds ior city lots. The fair ground is to be reservad tor the ereotion of splendid college buildings at an early day. The Chicago Potl saya : " Mr. Fonieroy, of Kansas -some of our reader have heard of him - bas come to Chicago to speiid a portion of the warm weather. It is so terribly tedious in Kansas, and they do tuakait so uiicjinforlabLy 'hot' forhim thre." The will of the late William Whiting of Boston, givcs $5,000 to Harvard College for a soholarship, $1,000 to the towi of Concord for its public library, $50,000 j to relaiives and friends, and the reniain der to his wife and childron. A Vermonter vvrites to a California pa i per pritesting against theintroduction o ! the yeïlow perch into the Pacific States ! He pronounces thera to be small, bony tasteless, prickly as a porcupine, and pro ', lific as the locusts of Egypt; and declare that they woild soon drive all other fis i from their virinity.