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Ta: Wsnmso Dmsna or rm: Ducnzss or Minnow.— “Or Sven 15 an: Kmcnox or llmvzrt.”—One of our sub Our fair readers, generally, are aware that Pelissior, the : scrlbers writes to us, in the following vein, respecting the French general who captured Sebastopol, and who, on that mezzotint, "The Lily,” published in our last number:— lutount, was created Duke of Malakoil‘, has lately been get “Your beautiful frontispiece, in the December number, is ting married. The French and English newspapers are full my apology for addressing you at this time. You say it is of descriptions of the magnificent dresses prepared for the beautiful; it is more than beautiful, it is holy! As I gm bride. No event of a similar character, has, for a long time, on it, my soul is stirred with a deeper feeling than the more excited so vest in degree of interest in the fashionable circles love of the beautiful, for memory points backward through of Paris. The trousseau was a present from the Empress to the vista of departed years, and this lovely emblem of in the bride, and all the principal articles contained in it were nocence, beauty, and truth, bounds into life before me. I selected and made under her Majesty's superintendence. The almost hear the echo of a fairy footfall: the large, grey dreamy eyes, which bear in their silent depths, so little of fiallowing is a description of a few of the bridal dresses:— A robe of white tnfl'ety with bands of corulean-blue tafl'cty earth, so much of Heaven, are looking straight into my own, laid on so as to form broad stripes. The blue bands were as the pinafore of wild blossoms, gathered for ‘Mamma,’ is out out in scallops, and edged with blue velvet, at the ex emptied on my lap, while one tiny hand still clasps the pure treme margin of which there was a row of white blonde. white lily which brother gave. But our Lily drooped and The cnrmge and sleeves were ornamented in the same style; failed. The death angel slowly furled his white wing, and the sleeves being in the pagoda form, with the bands of blue gathered the spirit of our loved one to its warm embrace. silk running transversely. Another dress consisted of three Sadly we crossed the baby hands on the throblcss bosom, skirts; the first being of emerald-green velvet, the second of with the faded memento of a brother’s love tightly clasped green satin of a hue paler than that of the velvet, and the there; and we made her bed under the cherry tree she had third of tail'ety of a still lighter shade. The two upper skirts loved so well, where in summer the robin carols always his were cut out in deep vandykos, and edged with a narrow sunset song; and on the flowers which blossom there, are black lace set on in slight fullness. The corsago was low, bright drops which are not dew. And yet we mourn not, and had a borthe formed of the three materials composing for we know that our Lily blooms in the crystal waters of the skirts—viz: velvet, satin, and silk, disposed in folds. the great golden river of life. Vcrily of such is the kingdom Another dress was of jonquillo colored silk. The skirt had of heaven!" no less than eighteen narrow flounces cut out at the edges. There are thousands of mothers, all over this beautiful The corsage was high and plain, and fastened up the front land, who ccho this lament and rejoice in these hopes. Oh! by a row of topaz buttons. The sleeves were formed of four how terrible would death he to the parent, if there was no frills cut out at the edges. A shawl of black lace lined with eternity, no life beyond the grave. The blessed expectation white silk was intended to be worn with this dress. An of meeting our lost little ones, in a brighter and better land, other dress was a robe 0f mauve-colored volours epingle, is all that sustains the sorrowing mother, when the coffin-lid Wed all round the edge of the skirt with quilles of black closes over her child, and the dear face is hid away forever velvet, terminating in points, and rising to the height of the on this, earth. Thank God for the words !—“ Of such is the kingdom of heaven.” knees. These qnillea were finished with an edging of nar J'.dlsfbJ'l/JI‘ J/I IfWl/'I{f/NJI'l/fiIN fJI-/MJIN WIl/J uW
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ornamented with the same trimming. A bow of black vel vet, edged with black lace, was fixed on the left side of the waist, the ends descending nearly to the feet. Two of the Duchess’s robes do chambro were remarkable br novelty of style. One was of rich figured plush. having an elegant running design figured in violet and black on a white ground. The corsage had a small pelerine, trimmed with violet and black chenille fringe. This robe was lined throughout with white satin, and edged all round with a broad band of plain violet plush. The other robe do cham
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was in the style of Louis XVI., and composed of very rich white silk. The fullness .was gathered in at the back in very large
plnits, and the robe was open in front, with
broad fever; or pansy-colored velvet. The corsago was trim med with two broad bands of velvet, and the sleeves were loose at the ends, with broad revers. One of the ball dresses was of white tulle, with three string, each trimmed with an exceedingly broad ruche of tulle edged with black lace.
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Armor r0 Coxsrxmvn Moran—Dr. Hall, of the Journal of Health, says to his consumptive friends :—“ You want air, not physio; you want pure air, not medicated air; you want nutrition, such as plenty of meat and bread will give, and they alone; physic has no nutriment; gaspings for air can not cure you; monkey capers in a gymnasium cannot cnro you, and stimulants cannot cure you. If you want to get well, go in for beef and out-door air, and do not be deluded into the grave by advertisement certificates."
This new style of niche is
called the Herisson. The three skirts were gathered up by bouquet, of 1-0599, A bow, with long ends of white sarcenet
ribbon. edged with red velvet, fixed the lowest bouquet to the dress. Among the Duchess’s jewels there was a magnificent parure, consisting of plaques of diamonds, attached one to another by small links of pearls. Suspended from each cluster of diamonds was a long pear pearl. Another ex quisite par-um consisted of diamonds, topazes, pearls, and emeralds, mounted in the form of daisies. This parurs con sister} of a wreath for the hair and a bouquet do corsago.
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Baoxzs Wear run run CAPITOL—Messrs. Archer, Warner & Miskey, of this city, have just finished a bronze balus trade, for the Capitol extension at Washington, which, we may safely assert, ranks foremost in the world among works of art of a. similar kind. Instead of stifl~ hamsters to support the rail, a gmceful pattern is employed, in which animals and birds are introduced in a screll~work of fruits and flowers. All these are American and modeled from Nature. It is impossible to convey, in words, any idea of the fidelity of this exquisite affair. An eagle, with extended wings, is, perhaps, the most striking figure; and next to this a stag crushing a rattlesnake. Architects, who have carefully studied the best screens, gates, and other master-pieces in bronze, in Europe, say that this balustrade equals any simi lar thing abroad.
A Cosnr Bursa—The Empress Eugenie has just pur chased the dress in point d’Alencon given by the city of Rouou to the aunt of Louis XVI., on her visit there with Louis XV. The Empress has paid the sum of ten thousand dollars for the dress, which has a train of two yards and a quarter in length, and is covered with birds, and trees, and emhlematical figures of all kinds. We have seen lace dresses, at weddings in this city, worth five or six thousand dollars; but ten thousand, as yet, is a figure above republicans.
