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NEW ENGLAND FARISCER. 



Dec. 



their bread, that their receipts for making it 

 would be very acceptable to many of the 

 readers of the Faumeu. Also, receipts for 

 nice tea biscuit, and particularly a nice "short 

 cake." We anticipate some satisfactory re- 

 plies, and will publish them as soon as re- 

 ceived. Ed. 



BONNETS — LATEST PAHIS FASHIONS. 



It is very difficult to give any idea of the 

 new bonnets by mere description ; they require 

 to be seen for any one to understand what they 

 resemble. Imagine a toque of the time of 

 Marie Antoinette. In one her portraits (1 

 allude to that which Mme. Lebrun painted of 

 her,) the Queen of France wears a cerise vel- 

 vet toque ornamented at the side with a white 

 aigrette. Well, the new bonnets are more 

 like that head-dress than anything I can recall ; 

 they are a trifle lower, and they have narrow 

 strings, either of velvet or thick ribbed silk. 

 They form charming head-dresses ; it is im- 

 possible to imagine anything more coquettish 

 or more graceful, or more in harmony with 

 the actual fashion — a fashion of paniers and 

 other furbelows which prevailed during Louis 

 XVI. 's reign. ]\Ime. Didsbury and about half 

 .1 dozen leading milliners of Paris have decreed 

 that toques are to be worn this winter; so they 

 are making them in all colors, and selling them 

 as fast as they are brought into their show 

 rooms. For dressy occasions they match in 

 color the dress with which they are worn, but 

 for ordinary walking wear they are black. 



At the present moment the "Marly" is the 

 fashionable head-covering of these fair Paris- 

 ians who have returned to their dearly loved 

 city. I will describe it : A toque, composed 

 of black velvet and black lace ; at the back 

 two lace lappets form a hood, and in the cen- 

 tre of the front there are curled feathers, one 

 placed almost upright and straight in a nest of 

 black feathers ; a humming bird with a green 

 throat at the side of the nest. Black velvet 

 strings, cut from the piece and edged with 

 lace. The "Dorine" is likewise worn. It is 

 made of lapislazuli blue velvet, the darkest 

 shade you can find, bouillonne round the 

 edges, and rucJie with lace; an aigrette of 

 bird of paradise feathers at the side. Nar- 

 fow blue velvet strings lined with shot yellow 

 silk. The "Dauphine" is another head cov- 

 ering, for the present moment, and is neither 

 bonnet nor hat. It is made of Celadon green 

 terry, and the velvet is arranged to form a 



double bow at the top of the head. A ruche 

 of white blonde round the edge, and at the side 

 a bow of blonde, from whence escapes a large 

 light green ribbed ribbon. Toques are not 

 worn lowered over the forehead, like hats ; 

 they are placed quite straight, like bonnets. 



TBOUBLESOME CHILDBEN. 



When you get tired of their noise, just 

 think what the change would be should it 

 come to a total silence. Nature makes a pro- 

 vision for strengthening the children's lungs 

 by exercise. Babies cannot laugh so as to 

 get much exercise in this way, but we never 

 heard of one that could not cry. Crying, 

 shouting, screaming are nature's exercise, and 

 if you do not wish for it in the parlor, pray 

 have a place devoted to it, and do not 

 debar the girls from it, with the notion 

 that it is improper for tJiem to laugh, jump, 

 cry, scream and run races in the open air. 

 After a while one gets used to this juvenile 

 music, and can even write and think more 

 consecutively with it than without it, provided 

 it does not run into objuratory forms. We 

 remember a boy that used to go to school 

 past our study window, and he generally made 

 a continuous stream of roar off to the school- 

 house and back again. We supposed at first 

 he had been nearly murdered by some one, 

 and had wasted considerable compassion on 

 the wrongs of infant innocence ; but, on in- 

 quiring into the case, found him in perfectly 

 good condition. The truth was that the poor 

 little fellow had no mirthfulness in his compo- 

 sition, therefore couldn't laugh and shout, 

 and so nature, in her wise compensations, had 

 given him more largely the faculty of roaring. 

 He seemed to thrive upon it, and we believe 

 is still doing well. Laughing and hallooing, 

 however, are to be preferred, unless a child 

 shows a decided incapacity for those exercises. 



Our eye alights, just now, upon the follow- 

 ing touching little scrap, written by an Eng- 

 lish laborer, whose child had been killed by 

 falling of a beam : 



"Sweet laughing child I the cottage door 



Stands free and open now; 

 But, ob I its punshitie gilds no more 



The gladness of thy brow! 

 The merry step hath passed away, 



Thy laughing sport is hushed for aye. 



Thy mother by the fireside sits 



ji nd listens for thy call ; 

 And slowly — slowly as she knits, 



Her quiet ti"ars down fall ; 

 Her lUtle hindering thing is gone, 



And undisturbed she may work on." 



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