Fashion's Freaks

Notwithstanding the prevalence oi' triinmed skirts in tho present styles, soma of the richest and most elegant costumes worn on Fifth avenue have plain skirts without a single tlounce. These skirts are plain and round in shape, consiating of live breadths, vi.., a gored front bread th, a sidft gore on eaeli side, and two straight back breadths of single-width goods. ïhey : re usually lined throughout, and have suffer crinoline facing at the bottom than trimmed skirts have, as they ueedtobe kept firjnly in place; the ttdges of the skirt are tumed up two inclies on tile facing instead of being bound with braid. Pleated skirts are the popular and iniversiil fasliion, while plain skirts ! are as yet only worn by leaders of i Utah on. Tbese are the regular kilts, i tósfinning at ih i'eit oi eisn Mc,iud tö a yoke, and the prererence is lor loose-looking-pleats suspended írom the yoke, without being inounted on i plain round skirt; tapes at intervals pasa aromad the skin and hold it in its place, and many thin woolen kilts, such as mousseline de laine and buntinsj, arelined throughout with papermuslin. Large loose-looking kilt pleats are more stylish than small close-ones. Skirts with three wide-pleated flounces in tlie back are very fashionablo, especially f or black costumes ; the overdress is then almost confined to the front of the skirt. This is sometimes reversed, and the flounces are in front only, with a long redingote back to the overskirt. Short basques are again revived, on account of the panier drapery of the overskirt, which must be very near the belt. Basques are also much worn with belts that may pass all around, or be confined ïnerely to the front. The bouffant scarf-like panier draping is usually set on the upper part of the lower skirt, but may be attachetl to the basque, beginning at the end of the se.cond dart, and forming three or four folds on the hips, or else the basque may be cut longer ana draped in folds. Separate vests are now not so much used as thosesewed inwiththe basque, and seen only at top and bottom. Sashes are suddenly revived in rich brocaded ribbon, satin, and watered ribbon. Wortli drapes a brocaded sash peinianently almost straight around ilie hips, and fastens it with a very large gilt buckle on the left side. A brown brocaded sash is very handsome on the tan and cream colored wool costumes. Suits of buntingtrimmed with polkadotted satin of contrasting color are greatly in favor with young ladies and misses. ïhey are made witli basque and overskirt usually and pleated kilt. The overskirt has pleatings down the Hout ;. qü slUes ir the skirt is not a WK, and is trimmed with a box-pleated flounce that shows the satin between eaeh pleat. Blue or brown satin with l.olkit dot,-} is most used on tan, white, and cream-colored buntings; the navy blue buntinc has lost favor. Au ïmprovement In corsets is that of adding shoulder pieoes that suspend all the weight of clothing from the shoulders, yet do not cut or draw over the arms, because they are iitted precisely as a dress waist is fltted. Whalebones are also put in slanting instead of straight, to keep them from breaking on the hips. A skirt-supporter is attached to the back at the waist line, and for stout ladies an abdominal band is added, which is said to give comfort and improve the appearance ot the figure. Pretty littlfi sailor dresses for girls of four to ten years are made of blue, black, or gray flannel, and are called Pinafore suita. They have the sailor blouse waist, witli rubber in the belt, and a plata gored skirt, or else a kilt of gray flannel, trimmed with two rows of wide blue braid down the front. Pinafore jackets of navy-blue cloth, trimmed with two rows of narrow gilt bvaid and gilt buttons, are cut with English backs and double-breasted fronts. Some have deep sailor collars. These are lovely for little girls, with their white dresses showing below them, and are also worn by larger girls and misses of sixteen years. Smallboys and girls aredressed alike -in white or colored slips with yokes, pleated fronts, and Spanish flounees- until they are about two and a Halt years old; tben boys are put in kilt suits, sailor suits, or box-pleated princess coats, and they continue to wear such garments until they are six years old, when they put on trousers. The kilt suit is the favorito íor nice wear. It is worn at present in corduroys of light weight, ladies' clotli, Middlesex and domestic llannels, and light cassinieres. Long dark-colored stockings are worn by small boys. Their hats are rough straws of mixed colors in sailor shapes, or else small Derby hats with high square crowns. ïheir boots, buttoned on the side, haverioheels,or else very low ones. When an overcoat is needed, it is a long sacque of drab or blue clotk of light quality. costing f rom $3.50 and upwards - fliwyer Bazar. During the last iifty years all the newly created thrones in Europe, or those to which the male liereditary succession had from any cause lapsed, have been iieled by princes of Germán dynasties. A prince of the House of Saxe-Coburg was elected ruler of the newly fornied kingdom of Helgium, shortly after he had refused the title of King of the Hellenes, which had been oftered him. Princes of the same house married tlie Queon of Portugal, Maria II. da Gloria, in the year 1830, and Victoria, Queenof England, in the vear 1S40; and their sons liave become the heirs to the tliroiies of those States. All attempts to fill the thronea of Spain and lloumania with miera not wroceeding f rom (lerman dynastie iiave proved a failuve. Both King Ainadeus I. of Savoy and Prince Couza a born ltoumanian, were, after a brief rule compelled to leave the countnes of which they had become the sovereigns Tlie throne of Greece was first occupied by a Prince of the Bavarian dynasty, Otho L; and after his dethronement by George L, a prince of the Sleswick - Ilolstein - Sonderburg - Glucksburg line. The present ruler of lloumania is a Prince of the House of llohenzollern-Sigmaringen, and the new Prince of Bulgaria is also of German origin. Fif ty years ago the privilege of ülling vacant or newly-created thrones belonged almost exclusively to France and Austria; several thrones in Italy were held by Bourbons and Hapsburgs only twenty years ago. Emerson and nis New Lkctuiik. - One evening when Iialph Waldo Emerson wasengaged ín preparing lila new lecture on "Meniory," Mrs. Emerson, who liad at that moment flattened her linger while trying to drive a nail with a smoothing iron thrust her head into liis study and said : "See here, sir! I want you to drop that everlasting pen of yours, for a minute or two at least, and go down to the grocery and get a mackerel for breakfast." "My dear," replied Mr. Emerson, looking up f rom liis work ; "my dear, cau't you go? You see 1 am billed in a dozen places to deliver this lecture on "Memory," and it isn't half ñnished yet." "And that's what you cali your infernal lecture, is it?" said Mrs. Emerson, sharply. "A nice party, you are, to deliver a lecture on 'Memory!'" "And why, my love," said Mr. EnierMiii, meckl;. "You never go out of the house that you üon't forget to put on your hat or your boots, and you never take a letter of mine to mail that you don't carry it in your pocket for six months or a year unless I happen to flnd it sooner. During the past thirty days you have oarried out of this house and forgot to bring back no leas than seventy-ñve or eiglity umbrellas ; and you know youvself the last time you went to church you took out your falae teeth because, as you said, they hurt your corns, and came away and left them in the seat. I say you are a nice man to - talk to a cultured audience on 'Memory,' and i f you don't trot right off to the grocery, 111 exposé you before you're twentyfour hours older. Mr. Emerson started on a jump for the grocery, and when he got there he eould'nt for the life of hitn recollect what he had come for. - --