Fashion

It is amusing to see what frights women will niake of themselves for the sake of folio wing the fashion. This fact was brought strongly to my mind one Sabbath last Sunimer. whiie occupying the front seat in the side gallery of a crowded church. I looked up and down the rows of female faces in that large congregation, and counted just five hats, excepting those on ehildren. Every woman wore a bonuet, each bonnet was txiramed with wide ribbon made into a huge bow of loops and one end, and placed under, or just behind the left ear, a bunch of flower3 was placed in the middle or the bow. Nearly every bonnet was trimmed with red oryellow - a good shareof tnem with both - (now I suppose I should have said cardinal and old gold.) The hair was combed straight back Japanese style, and done lovv in tfcfr neck; and 99 per cent. of those woioen looked exactly as though somethinghad hit them a crusliing blow in theregión of the brain, and "smashed," as the ehildren say, that portion of theirheads down into their jaws and necks.. During the past season I have seen perhaps three women to whom thes& bonnet s were becoming, and they only served to make the rest look worse. When the average woman goes shopping, she asks for the "latest style," and this she buys, without a thought as to whether it will prove becoming or not, this being especially true of millinery. Equally so in hair-dressing; how few, particularly the young, find a style which is becoming and keep it. Instead, all dress their hairalike; when the style is lovv braids without crimps,. the moon-faced maiden dresses hera in. that way, and looks idiotie. When fashion says: "Dress the hair high," the hatchet-faced damsel piles hers oni top herhead.and looks like ananimatedi broom stick. A little thooght, wisely directed, would add vastly to the personal appearance of most of us. lleaben Chadbourne of North Berwick, Me., is the owner of a pair of steers, grade Durhams, oue two years old March 10, the otkor on the 23d of last March; color deep chestuut, both of the same shade; girth.one se ven f eet five inches and the other seven feet six inches, weight 3500 pounds. ïhere is a difference of but twenty pounds be-. tween the two steers. The lumber cut at Alpena amounted: to 135,000,000 feet.