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THE YOUNG SCIENTIST. 
will tell them that the bride is but 
eighteen years of age, of medium height, 
slight and graceful form, a winning, 
pleasant face, transparent complexion, 
"a. daisy " of a mouth, brilliant hazel 
«yes, and a wealth of brownish hair. She 
wore at first a dress of white satin with a 
very long train ; this terminated in three 
points, the centre one being trimmed 
with orange blossoms. Her veil was of 
point a Vagaille lace. Among the splendid 
dresses she wore the most noticeable was 
a cream-colored velours epingle, with a 
very long train, the front of draped crepe, 
with the same color around the train, 
which had a wide border of variegated 
vine leaves, the tints raijging from dark 
green to russet red. The leaves were of 
velvet. On the left side of the jupe was a 
la.rge cluster of velvet leaves. The cor- 
sage was pointed and decollete, trimmed 
with a garland of vine leaves. The wed- 
ding presents, in their multitude, beauty, 
usefulness and value, the local scribes 
say, defied description. One painful, 
heartrending fact, however, is dwelt 
upon, which is that among them was a 
€aveaux from the baron father to the 
bride daughter of three hundred thou- 
sand dollars to furnish house with, and 
five thousand dollars per month with 
which to keep it. It is said that during 
the ten days preceding the wedding the 
bride received over 1,100 letters from 
destitute young ladies asking alms; not 
one unanswered or fruitlessly written. 
Was not that good and pretty of la belle 
Rothschild ? 
— A newspaper writer thus describes 
the ideal girl : — I saw a girl come into a 
street-car the other day, though, who 
had, I w^as ready to bet, made her own 
dress, and how nice she did look. She 
was one of those clean, trim girls you see 
now and rhen. She was about 18 years 
old, and, to begin with, looked well-fed, 
healthy, and strong. She looked as 
though she had a sensible mother at 
home. Her face, and neck, and ears, 
and her hair were clean — absolutely 
€lean. How seldom you see that. There 
was no powder, no paint on tlie smooth, 
rounded cheek, or firm, dimpled chin ; 
none on the moist red lips ; none on the 
shell- tinted but not too small ears; none 
on the handsomely set neck — rather broad 
behind, perhaps, but running mighty 
prettily up into the tightly corded hair. 
And the hair ! It was of a light chestnut- 
brown and glistened like specks of gold 
as the sun shone on it, and there was not 
a smear of oil or pomatum or cosmetic on 
it ; there was not a spear astray about it, 
and not a pin to be seen in it. As the girl 
came in and took her seat she cast an 
easy, unembarrassed glance around the 
car from a well-opened gray eye, bright 
with the inimitable light of "good condi- 
tion," such as you see in some handsome 
young athletes who are "in training." 
There were no tags and ends, fringes, and 
furbelows, or fluttering ribbons about lier 
closely-fitting but easy suit of tweed, and 
as she drew off one glove to look in her 
purse for a small coin for fare, I noticed 
that the gloves were not new, but neither 
were they old; they were simply well- 
kept, like the owner and their owmer's 
hand, which was a solid hand, with 
plenty of muscle between the tendons, 
and with strong but supple fingers. It 
would have looked equally pretty fash- 
ioning a pie in a nome kitchen, or fold- 
ing a bandage in an hospital. It was a 
hand that suggested at the same time 
womanliness and work, and I was sorry 
when it found a five-cent piece and had 
I been re-gloved. One foot was thrust out 
a little upon the slats of the car floor — a 
foot in a good walking-boot that might 
have plashed through a rain-storm with- 
out fear of damp stockings— and an emi- 
nently sensible boot on a two and one- 
half foot, with a high instep, a small 
round lieel, and a fairly broad tread. The 
girl was a picture^ from head to foot, as 
she sat erect, disdaining the supi)ort of 
the back of the seat, but devoid of all ap- 
pearance of stiffness. Perhaps the whole 
outfit to be seen, from hat to boots, did 
not cost $40 ; but I have seen plenty of 
outfits costing more than ten times or 
even twenty times that which did not 
look one-tenth or even one-twentieth as 
well. If our girls only knew the beauty 
of mere simplicity, cleanliness, and 
health, and their fascination ! 
