Simple Taste In Dress

A great authority on ladies' dress, speaking o? his ideal dresser, says: "You aee her turn a cold eye to the assuranco of shopmen and the recommendation of milliner3. She wears many a cheap dress, but it is always pretty ; many an old one, but it is always good. She deals in no gaudy confusión of colors, nor does she effect a studied sobriety. Not a scrap of tinsel or trumpery appears upon her." What natural good taste, indeed, may accomplish in dress without extravagance, appears f rom the anecdote told of Mrs. Carlyle's mother, who, as a surgeon's wife, not having much money to spend on her attire, got her daughter to sew on to it some moss ani ivy leaves, which excited universal admiration, and were taken to be a Frencb. trimming of the latest fashion. The celebrated Duchess of Gordon is said to have made the conquest which secured her ducal po3iti0D, by wearing some wooden shaving around her bonnet, in lieu of expensive ribbon she was unable to purchase. The true principie of dress, we repeat, is to shun vanity, ostentation and extravagance, and substituto for these good taste and modesty. ________