'allies’ Sort-Jlolio. 
A8LEEP. 
BY MBS. M. P. A. CKOZLER. 
Sleeping in the little church-yard, 
Spirit gone to Him who gave— 
Sleeping ’neath the mourning willow, 
Violets blooming on her grave. 
Waiting for the call of Heaven, 
Besting from the toll of earth— 
Waiting for the life Immortal- 
Waiting for the glad new birth. 
O ’twas beautiful, her living. 
Found she noble work to do 1 
O ’twas beautiful, her trusting. 
Clung she unto JKStrs so! 
O ’tis beautiful, her Bleeping, 
Sleeping in the quiet tomb 1 
O how beautiful, her rising. 
When the Lokh shall call her home! 
-♦♦♦-- 
THE NUN OF KENT, 
postor, but pronouncing most strongly against 
those who, knowing her to be but a poor, ig¬ 
norant person, had yet believed in and aided 
her on. 
LUXURY OF EASY DRESSES. 
l0tres mxb jtuimwrs. 
WEDDING STATIONERY. 
TnE romantic story of Joan of Akc is 
familiar to all. There was another woman, 
a little later, whose history was hardly lt*9s 
romantic, but of whom modern essayists 
have had few words to offer. She played a 
conspicuous part in the political and reli¬ 
gions drama which England saw early in 
the Sixteenth Century; and though her end 
was ignominious, she saw the highest 
Church, almost the highest State, dignitaries 
at her feet during her life, and at one time 
seemed a successful aspirant to greater 
honors even than those she had already ob¬ 
tained. 
Elizabeth Barton was, in 1525, a ser¬ 
vant in the employ of one Thomas Cobb, a 
bailiff in the parish of Aldington, Kent. She 
was a simple-minded country girl, and pos¬ 
sessed nothing unusual in her temperament 
up to this time. Becoming then, however, 
subject to epileptic fits, she was reduced to a 
clairvoyant state, and saw visions. Of what 
she saw she told marvelous things, and her 
fame spread quickly abroad. The bailiff 
and the parish priest observed her carefully. 
They heard her in her trances speak “ words 
of marvelous holiness in rebuke of sin and 
vice they knew she bad been brought up 
religiously, and was heretofore well dis¬ 
posed ; and to their mind it was plain that 
she was inspired of God, —that she held a 
divine commission, and that her clairvoy¬ 
ance was a miraculous attestation thereof. 
The Archbishop of Canterbury was in¬ 
formed concerning her, and declared belief 
in her divine mission. Cobb could not keep 
a prophetess in Ids kitchen, of course, and 
ns soon us she partially recovered from her 
illness lie hail her sit at table with his family, 
nir fits no longer occurred naturally, but 
seeiug herself made much of on tlieir account 
she counterfeited them, and improvised her 
oracles with considerable ingenuity and much 
success. 
The Church now formally took up her 
case, doubtless well aware how much power 
anything of the sort would have over the 
ignorant and superstitious, and initiated her 
into the mysteries of Catholic doctrines, of 
which, in her moments of “ possession,” she 
revealed somewhat. Wishing to strengthen 
her claim to a divine messengership, she 
planned a supernatural healing of her ail¬ 
ment,— a tiling easy enough, as she was, ns 
subsequently confessed, already healed. A 
chapel of the Virgin was in the parish, and 
she announced, in one of her trances, that 
she “ would never take health of her body 
till such time as she had visited the image 
of our Lady” there. A day was appointed 
for the visit; the people came in crowds; 
the “ miracle” was duly accomplished; Eliz¬ 
abeth Barton went away whole. 
Aldington could no longer be the home of 
an acknowledged saint; the Virgin revealed 
that the prophetess was hence to bo her 
especial servant, and known as Sister Eliz a 
RETn. She took the veil; and thencefor¬ 
ward for seven years the Nun of Kent seemed 
the chosen instrument of the Church to work 
its ends throughout England. Regularly 
once a fortnight she had visions, in which 
she revealed what the Church authorities 
desired promulgated. She was known every¬ 
where as” the wise woman” and the noblest 
in rank inquired of her what was the will of 
God. 
She constituted herself the adviser of the 
King. Henry the Eighth was then plan¬ 
ning a divorce from Queen Catherine, that 
he might marry Anne Boleyn, and the Nun 
declared that she was commissioned by God 
to tell him if lie did this he would lose his 
power and authority. Nevertheless, he did 
divorce the Queen, he did marry Anne Bo¬ 
leyn, and the Nun’s words did not come 
true. Her course toward the King grew into 
nothing less than treason, in which various 
monks Avert; alike engaged; she had become 
a power too great to be disregarded; and a 
conspiracy that might have wrought dire 
consequences, with the Pope and Church at 
largo to back it, was defeated by her arrest, 
with five of her coadjutors. Trial, convic- 
^ tion and confession soon followed. Exccu- 
y tion was for a time delayed; but on the 21st 
of April, 1584, the Nun of Kent met her 
death at Tyburn, accusing herself as an im- 
The following, clipped from “ Laws of 
Life," is especially commended to the care¬ 
ful perusal of ladies who indulge in tight 
lacing; 
Very few ladies know how to appreciate 
an easy, healthful dress. They think their 
dresses are loose, Avhcn a man or boy put 
into one as tight would gasp for breath, and 
feel incapable of putting forth any effort ex¬ 
cept to break the bands. Ladies are so ac¬ 
customed to the tight fits of dressmakers that 
they “ fall all to pieces” when relieved of 
them. They associate the loose dress with 
the bed or lounge. To be up, they must, be 
stayed up, and to recommend a comfortable 
dress to them is not to meet a conscious 
want of theirs. 
It is a great pity none the less. If they 
could once know what a luxury it is to 
breathe deep and full at each respiration, to 
feci the refreshment Avhich the system takes 
in liy having the blood enlivened and sent 
bounding through the arteries and veins, to 
have the aids to digestion which such pro¬ 
cess gives, to have tlieir own strong, elastic 
muscles keep every organ In place and them¬ 
selves erect; if they could for a good while 
know this blessed luxury, and then he sent, 
back into the old, stiff straight-jackets, they 
would fume and fret and rave in very despe¬ 
ration if they could not get rid of them. 
As it is, they prefer to languish and suffer 
dreadfully, and die young, and leave all of 
their friends and their husbands, and their 
little children, and I do not sec any other 
Avay but to let them be sick and di • till they 
are satisfied. If only the sinner was the suf¬ 
ferer it would not he so Avortli while to make, 
a great ado about It, but the blighting of 
future innocent lives which must folloAV ren¬ 
ders the falio habits of our women in the 
highest degree criminal 
Invitations, Announcements, Cards, Etc.» 
with a Preamble. 
BY AUNT WOOD. 
GOOD RESOLUTIONS. 
The young ladies of Tipton, Ind., recent¬ 
ly met in council and passed the following 
resolutions:—■“ Whereas, Aye mean business; 
therefore, be it resolved, that, we will not ac¬ 
company any young man to church or other 
place of amusement avIio usee tobacco in any 
manner; and resolved, that avo discard all 
young men Avho play billiards, euchre or 
poker; and revived, that young men who 
indulge in profane language need not apply; 
and resolved, that we will not, by ‘ hook, 
look or crook,’ notice any young man who 
indulges in lager beer or whisky; and re¬ 
solved, that we will not harbor young men 
known to keep late hours.” 
PLEASANT PARAGRAPHS. 
A Yankee editor says that the girls com¬ 
plain that the times are so hard the young 
men can’t pay their addresses. 
“ My dear doctor,” said a lady, “ I suffer 
a great deal Avitli my eyes.” “ Be patient, 
madam,” he replied, “you would probably 
suffer a great deal more without them.” 
The triumph of woman lies not in the 
admiration of her lover, but in the respect 
of her husband ; and that can only be gain¬ 
ed by a constant cultivation of those quali¬ 
ties Avhich she knoAvs he most values. 
Of all the declarations of love, the mo-t 
admirable one avus that which a young gen¬ 
tleman made to a young lady, who asked 
him to show her the picture of the one he 
loved, when he immediately presented her 
Avith a mirror. 
A petulant old lady having refused a 
suitor to her niece, he expostulated with 
her, and requested her plainly to divulge 
her reasons. “ I see the villain in your 
face,” said she. “ That’s a personal reflec¬ 
tion, madam,” he answered. 
The ear is queer. Sometimes it hears the 
faintest murmur of the zephyr; again it is 
oblivious to thunder-like noises. A young 
lady hears an invitation to go to the opera 
even if given only in whispers; but she 
doesn’t heed the stentorian call of her mother 
to sAveep the sitting-room. 
An obese French lady, complaining of her 
frightful tendency to embonpoint , says :—“ I 
am so fat that I pray for a disappointment 
to make me thin. No sooner does the dis¬ 
appointment come than the mere expecta¬ 
tion of growing thinner gives me such joy 
that 1 become fatter than ever.” 
During the delivery of Mias Olive Lo¬ 
gan’s lecture on “ Girls,” the other evening, 
the fair lecturer, in her confidential talk with 
“ pretty girls,” said, " Shall I tell you how I 
feel? Well, I will tell you ; I never saAV a 
pretty girl In my life—one upon whose 
cheeks the roses were blooming, but that I 
wanted to fold her in my arms and kiss her.” 
A person of the male persuasion, who had 
not seen more than twenty-five summers, 
forgetful of the dignity of the occasion, gave 
evidence of a felloiv feeling by, in quite a 
loud voice, exclaiming:—“ I feel just so too.” 
“ It Avill be a good match for her,” 1 beard 
one elderly lady remark to her companion, 
as 1 was sauntering down Madison Avenue 
this morning, and I fell to wondering what 
she considered a “ good match.” 
What do you ? 
“ Yesterday 1 went to hear Rev. O. B. 
Frotiiinoiiam. As ho assisted in the late 
“ Ah lor House marriage,” lie Avon an ex¬ 
tensive and questionable advertisement. A 
poet lately, in speaking of him, said,—“To¬ 
day he represents Protestantism as opposed 
to Romanism more fully than any other man 
in America. You will believe it, too, at the 
end of twenty years.” 
I know he avos progressive, high and 
liberauminded, always abreast of what be 
believed to be Truth, cultivated, analytical, 
cstketical, never abashed from a deed by 
custom or public opinion, and not afraid to 
strike a blow for Freedom and Right in the 
very face of antagonism, and afterward hav¬ 
ing the pluck to stand by it. 
1 like that, sort of “pluck” in a man, 
and I consider it one of the necessary ele¬ 
ments of a “ good match." He read his text, 
" For in the resurrection they neither marry, 
nor are given In marriage, but are as the 
angels of God in heaven.” He then pro¬ 
ceeded to paint pictures of what, the majority 
of marriages are, and what they might, and 
ought to be,—of the demoralization and mis¬ 
ery and AVickedncsa that arise from the one, 
and the development, and happiness, and 
beauty that characterize the other. Passion, 
personal magnetism, fancy, an Imagined ac¬ 
cord of the external surroundings And the 
lower and more sensuous feelings and likes 
of the two form the basis of nine-tenths of 
the marriages, and are called “ good matches” 
l>y most people, He believed in “elective 
affinities,” and believing, claimed something 
higher, better, less transitory, more sacred, 
binding and ennobUug in marriage,—har¬ 
mony of head as well as of heart, sympathy 
in intellectual tastes, a likeness of culture, an 
appreciation of Avhat is divine in each other, 
and an assimilation of what is imperishable 
in the two, outliving theromance of the pres¬ 
ent, and Viitig a completeness , id co;f cy:- 
mentness that, will reach into and even glori 
fy the eternal life, where there is no giving 
in marriage, because there will be no need of 
marriage voavs. 
Betas I listened to bis beautiful diction, 
bis chaste rhetoric, his pure and noble senti¬ 
ments, I felt that,but few in the large audience 
appreciated or understood him, or the doc¬ 
trine he preached, and would go away and 
stigmatize his theory as a vulgar ism, and 
one and the same thing as marketable Ioa e, 
or love unsanciioned by civil enactments. An 
individual in advance of the day is forever a 
target for people Avho know how to throw 
stones better than fill any other more serious 
profession, and, because they cannot them- 
Byron translated his Greek for the benefit 
of his lady readers, hut need one presume 
upon the ignorance of French among our 
readers by saying that “ Mmner ” means 
“ breakfast ?”• 
Aside from invitations issued for attend¬ 
ance at the marriage service there are also 
announcements to be scut, to those whom the 
parties wish to apprise of the nuptials. 
These 
Auuouucemeuts, 
made by monogram, may be worded as 
follows: 
Slurried, 
At Grace Church, 
Buffalo, ; 
Jan. 5th 1809, : 
• Lieut. Harvey Hazleton, U. 8. A., 
to • 
MYRTLE, : 
• Daughter of Major Hazard. : 
abbutb fltabing 
WINTER. 
BY GRACE OLE NX. 
An! my soul, the Summer fiideth, 
And the Autumn winds are high. 
And the fairest flowers wither. 
And perfumes the richest die. 
Fur away to lauds of blooming 
Fly the birds of sweetest song,— 
For the winter days are cloudy, 
And the winter nights are long. 
There are wallings in the shadow, 
Fur the glory that is gone; 
Yet, my soul, tlie Spring-time cometh, 
Wait in patience and be strong. 
The reception invitations are as follows 
(Monogram at the head): 
Reception 
Tuesday Evening, Feb. 15th, 
from half past seven until ten o’clock, 
ENLIGHTENING THE CONSCIENCE. 
Conscience is the judge within us. As 
the arbiter of our daily doing it is constantly 
on duty. Tt abides with every man. It is 
inseparable from his being. It cannot be 
wholly stultified; and its judgments cannot 
20 , v . i . n ?.?. t . r . e ?. t ;.: I he entirely set aside. 
But conscience may err, 
With this invitation are enclosed tlie cards 
of the parties. 
Visiting Cards. 
Ladies’ visiting cards are large, unglazed, 
and the name in German text, witli the capi¬ 
tals falling below the line instead of above. 
Gentlemen’s are smaller, and the name in 
plain script. 
Letter Paper 
for ladies, is of French manufacture, with 
colored or illuminated monogram or initial. 
Paper and envelopes are ornamented with 
pictures of flowers, birds, butterflies, bugs, 
ole. Gentlemen use the plain, heavy Eng¬ 
lish paper, with embossed monogram But 
after all, sensible people do write on the 
sort of paper they please, and 1 never yet 
enjoyed a letter a whit belter for its being 
penned on monogramed, perfumed, illumi¬ 
nated, or any paper “ all in the fashion.” 
Violet ink is much used, and as it flows 
freely and “sympathetically” has that much 
to recommend it. 
Tf an individual wishes to give a dinner 
or party in honor of a friend, tlie following 
is a guide to follow in the Avording of the 
invitations: 
: Mr. 8. It. Chase 
; Requests tlio pleasure of your company • 
On Monday evening, Feb. I5Ui, 
At 8 o’clock, to meet 
Hon. David Hakdcastle. 
• 12 Rue st. * 
selves reach the standard bearer’s clearer 
and loftier height, seek revenge by trying to 
bring him down to their own filtliv footing. 
lloni soil qui mat y pense, so ir o apropos 
to matrimony, and now foi some of the 
preliminary fixtures, which are often ot 
more consequence in the eyes of the in¬ 
terested parties, than the “ dread hereafter,” 
Avhich I have so often heard brides say they 
n-e-v-e-r once thought of, “ because it was 
so dreadfully strong minded to look a bit 
further ahead than the length of your nose,” 
Tim French Hiyle 
of Wedding invitations is sensible, tells the 
Avhole story ami is very much in vogue 
When anything good comes out, of France, 
it should he applauded. It may be Avell to 
explain that the upper half of the Invitation 
sheet is devoted to the monogram or initial 
of the inviting party, so that the crease of 
the fold comes below the monogram; also 
that most, fashionable invitations for all oc¬ 
casions are printed in plain script. The 
folloAving is the French style: 
Mr. umi Mj’». J. B. Landkr 
desire tho favor of your company at the mar¬ 
t-lake of their thuiKhter, 
MISS MARY £2. LANDER, 
To 
Mr. Walter g. carbon, 
At the 
Church of tho 8a\ tour, 
Chicago, 
January twenty-fourth, at 12 o’clock. 
Cards of admission to the church, and 
which must be presented to the wardens, or 
others at tlie doors, bear simply tlie Avord 
“ Ceremony.” 
Another reads alter the usual monogram 
Mr. and Mrs. DUNCAN 
Request the pleasure Of your company on 
AVedmwday, the 13th Inst., at 11 o’clock, to 
witness tho woddinj* of their dnushter, 
Miss Julia Bancroft, 
To 
Mr. Henry Selding. 
Elwood Place. “ Dejeuner." 
Jews try. 
The latest importation of jewelry is of 
flowers, or antique designs in enamel, on 
porcelain or copper, set in frames of Roman 
and Etruscan gold. A. handsome set, pin 
and ear jewels, costs from sixty to eighty 
dollars. A very expensive set of ear jewels 
in cameo were shown at Ball, Black & 
Co.’s, Avhich Avere attached to the lobe of 
the car and held in place by means of a 
spring. They Avere of Parisian manufac¬ 
ture, and the manner in which they are de¬ 
pended from the ear is at once painless and 
secure. Tlie growing distaste among women 
for having tlieir ears lacerated will tend to 
bring this French fashion into vogue. A 
pretty trimming for 
Overskirt* or Tunica 
is of notched strips of tarletan made into a 
ruche. It is at once light, leathery, tasty 
and cheap. A tunic of straw-colored silk, 
open before, and the bottom cut in six deep 
scallops, the trimming running from each 
scallop to the waist, to simulate so many 
tabs, was trimmed with a ruche of white 
tarletan, and was particularly pretty. Tunics 
Avith bretelles are especially becoming to 
narrow shoulders, and pointed girdles to 
slender waists. For dinner and evening 
dresses, the only trimming or accompani¬ 
ment for the skirt of the dress is frequently 
a small round apron of the same color and 
material of the dress trimmings, or even 
more elegant — for example, a fawn-colored 
poplin trimmed with lucifer satin, or velvet, 
has an apron of lucifer satin or velvet, 
trimmed around witli a niching of lucifer 
satin ribbon, with belt and sash to match. 
Three-quarters of a yard of satin is enough 
for an apron for anybody. 
Something New In Linen Sets, 
consisting of collar, necktie, chemisette, un- 
dersleeves, ami handkerchief. They are of 
the finest brown grass linen and embroidered 
in color. First an inch wide hem, both 
edges embroidered in small points of button¬ 
hole stitch, in white. On the hem are 
wrought simple designs in colored working 
cotton, yellow, blue and red being the pre¬ 
vailing colors used. The chemisette is of 
white linen, laid in plaids. The cuffs are 
straight, sewed on to a sleeve, and loose 
enough at the wrist to slip the hand through. 
For morning Avcar, and traveling “next 
Slimmer,” they are quite suitable. They 
cost ten dollars a set, but one can make 
them for much less, if her “time” is of no 
account. 
-- 
Be temperate in diet. Our first parents 
ate themselves out of house and home. 
It, may he edu¬ 
cated in tho veriest falsities, until it come to 
regard them veriest truths. Men have been 
taught that it avus a sin not to steal, and 
their conscience has reproved them for living, 
temporarily, an honest life. .Men have made 
martyrs of themselves, under a powerful 
sense of duty, in causes altogether wrong, 
and conscience haa sustained them in I heir 
folly. 
It is of the greatest moment, then, that 
conscience be enlightened. Whether wo 
break a law knowingly or unknowingly, 
avc are punished. This holds true no less in 
the moral than the legal world. The only 
safety, therefore, is in enlightenment. And 
the want of the world is an enlightened 
conscience. We see the fact exemplified 
continually. Wrong stalks abroad in all 
guises, and the falsely educated conscience 
is its ready servitor. Unbelief is av recking 
humanity everywhere, and the linen lighted 
judge wit Lin offers no expostulation. 
What are to be the results? Direful 
enough, unless educating the conscience 
more correctly shall obtain in a yet wider 
range. There attaches an individual re¬ 
sponsibility, undeniable, in this matter. 
Every man owes it to himself and to God to 
edify conscience in all possible ways. Fal¬ 
lacies about the absolute status of conscience 
are abundant, and they need correction. To 
believe that this inner judge of necessity 
judges aright always, whatever the circum¬ 
stances attending, is to believe a dangerous 
untruth. To consider that it instinctively 
pronounces against error and sin, is to pay 
no heed whatever to unbounded proof to ihe 
contrary. 
And it is not alone the Mohammedan con¬ 
science that, needs enlightenment,—not alone 
the conscience of any people accepting 
widely acknowledged error as truth. The 
personal conscience of the entire race should 
be transfused Avith new light. Until it is, 
vice will stare virtue out of countenance; 
crime will flaunt itself in the face of Chris¬ 
tianity; humanity, lazily indifferent, will 
sleep quietly in the arms that only caress it 
to its death. 
THE PATH OF THE JUST. 
His glory, says Stockton, is from within. 
It is a radiation. Put him where you Avill, 
he shines, and cannot but shine. God made 
him to shine. For instance: — Imprison 
Joseph, and he will shine out on all Egypt, 
cloudless :m the sky where the rain never 
falls. Imprison Daniel, and the dazzled 
lions retire to tlieir lairs, and tho king comes 
forth to Avorship at his rising, and all Baby¬ 
lon bless the beauty of the brighter and bet¬ 
ter day. Imprison Peter, and, with an angel 
for a harbinger star, be Avill swell his aurora 
from the fountains of Jordan to the Avails of 
Beersheba, and break like the morning over 
mountain and sea. Imprison Paul, and t here 
Avill be high noon over all the Roman Empire. 
Imprison John, and the Isles ol the ^Egean, 
and all the coasts around, av ill kindle with 
sunset visions too gorgeous to be described, 
but never to be forgotten—a boundless pano¬ 
rama of prophecy gliding from sky to Rky 
and enchanting the nations with openings of 
heaven, transits of saints and angels, and the 
ultimate glory of the city and kingdom of 
God. 
Not only so; for modern times have simi¬ 
lar examples—examples in the Church, and 
examples in the State. For instance, bury 
Luther ill the depths of the Black Forest, and 
the “ angel that dwelt in the bush” will honor 
him there; the trees around him will bum 
like shafts of ruby, and his glowing orbs loom 
up again, round and clear as the light of all 
Europe. Thrust Bunyan into tlie gloom of 
Bedford jail—and us lie leans his head on bis 
hand, the murky horizon of Britain will flame 
Avith fiery symbols— 14 delectable mountains” 
and celestial mansions, with holy pilgrims 
grouped on the golden hills, and the bands 
of bliss, from the gates of pearl, hastening to 
welcome him home. 
