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XEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



Nov. 



ing ; they are made just now mostly with flat 

 crossway tucks, and piped at the top, and are 

 very easily washed and packed. Nearly all 

 the jackets of such costumes are semi-tight- 

 fitting. I have also seen several made with 

 iloiuices to the waist, and over this a loose 

 jacket, the basques cut in scjuare tabs, and a 

 ruching of the hoUand all round, edged both 

 sides with lace. Still the polonaise is the 

 fashion of the year ; and whether for travel- 

 ing dresses or anything else, is most worn. 

 Serges, for Scotland and anywhere where 

 warmth is required, are still much in reijuest, 

 especially black. I have seen several trimmed 

 with bands of the same, piped with red, and 

 worn over a red petticoat ; other black ones 

 are trimmed with very broad black Russian 

 braid and fringe. One of the old shade of 

 naval blue I saw trimmed round the skirt and 

 tunic with four rows of inch-wide braid, with 

 loops of the same close together under the 

 bottom and above the top row ; an inexpen- 

 sive and very effective style. Most of the 

 jackets are made loose, and the bodies under 

 them so arranged that they can be worn with 

 with or without them as they may be required. 

 Poplin costumes for travelling are most fashion- 

 able ; so are the woolen poplins, and nearly 

 all these are trimmed with crossway folds 

 piped at the top. The shades in woolen pop- 

 lins are very pretty, particularly the grays, 

 and slate colors, and buffs. Mohairs are very 

 much improved this season, especially what 

 are called the lustre mohairs, which are very 

 bright, and wear better than anything. Pret- 

 ty costumes of narrow-striped black and 

 white mohairs can be easily made by people 

 having sewing-machines, as most of them are 

 trimmed with black woolen poplin, stitched on 

 in crossway bands. Twilled mohairs and 

 bareges, (a new, thick, useful woolen mate- 

 rial,) in two shades of brown, and black and 

 gray, are stylish and useful. — Queen. 



THE FALSE EDUCATION OP OTJK 

 DAUGHTERS. 



The English nobleman who sends to Paris 

 for his daughter's dresses is reasonably cer- 

 tain that he, and his daughter's husband after 

 him, can continue sending, and that in the 

 training of his child he is fostering no habit 

 which cannot be rightfully indulged in. The 

 American knows, if he knows anything, that 

 the habits of luxury in which his child is 

 reared unfit her for the duties of the life to 

 which she will in all likelihood be called — 

 that he cannot hope tliat his family wealth can 

 long survive him, any more than that his 

 daughter will love a man to whom that wealtli 

 will be unimportant. Experience and obser- 



vation alike tell him that wealth in this coun- 

 try rarely continues in a family three genera- 

 tions, and that at any time he may find him- 

 self a poor man again. Yet he regulates his 

 life and that of his children as if his wealth 

 and theirs were assured forever, and as 

 though the habits of a lifetime were to be 

 broken like wisps of straw. His daughters 

 are not fit to marry any but the rich men they 

 experience so much difficulty in finding, and a 

 man of moderate means is careful to avoid 

 asking them to change their habits of life. 

 There are few sadder pictures than the one 

 we see when some such woman of braver 

 heart than most of her sex chooses the portion 

 of a poor man's love and vainly seeks to adapt 

 herself to a life of which she has hitherto 

 known nothing. The habits of her girlhood 

 bind her like strong fetters, her ignorance of 

 domestic duties weighs her to the earth, the 

 loss of social position or the fevered efforts 

 she makes to support it wear out her life in 

 bitter repinings, until her health gives way 

 and she dies, leaving her faults to vex the 

 world in her children, and her virtues undis- 

 covered save by the husband, who hides from 

 himself all else of her memory. — LippincoWs 

 Magazine for October . 



Irish Poplin. — Beyond doubt there are 

 few materials so thoroughly becoming to a wo- 

 man as Irish poplin. It falls in soft massive 

 folds, and has no disagreeable rustle ; but 

 rather that soft frou-frou about Avhich the 

 French novelist goes into raptures when he de- 

 scribes the gracious movements of his hero- 

 ine. The brilliant colors are varied and nu- 

 merous as the tints on a painter's palette, and 

 afford a choice of hues so extended that 

 every complexion may find its most becoming 

 color. There are tender Spring-like greens 

 for the too florid cheek of the matron, tur- 

 quoise blue for the rose bloom of girlhood, 

 delicious French grays and pearly shades of 

 every degree for the bride of mature years, 

 or the young bride's mother, and a sliding 

 scale of the rubies, amethysts, and maroons 

 which are just now so fashionable ; while for 

 those who desire to exhibit their loyalty or 

 nationality, there are tartans of every clan. 

 Of the economy of the fabric it is almost need- 

 less to speak. It is alike on both sides, has 

 none of that "up and down" about which 

 dressmakers complain when making up figured 

 silks, and will look bri^^ht to the last hour of 

 its wear. For the interests of the manufac- 

 tui-er, Irish Poplins wear too well ; they out- 

 last every other material used for ladies' 

 dresses, and are a real boon to the economic. 

 — Behjravia. 



