■w./, 
caught in at the spaces, or put straight along 
without cutting. Both edges of the quillings 
arc hemmed narrowly. For light-colored 
thin goods, as Swiss, this trimming is espe¬ 
cially pretty, the upper row trimming the 
waist and sleeves. 
meet in the great parlors, to attend prayers. 
They sing a hymn, and Young prays fer¬ 
vently. The prophet used to cut at the 
harem with his wives, but he seldom does so 
now. In the morning, on rising, each 
woman puts her room in order, and if she 
has children, dresses them for breakfast. 
After prayers they all go to breakfast, the 
ladies with children sitting at little family 
tables, and those without children at the 
common table. The same food is given to 
all, and the bill of fare is by no means a pool- 
one. Brigham, from time to time, desig- 
iinncrs 
FASHION NOTES, 
A TRIBUTE TO SONG 
BY A. H. I.TNTON, 
BY MINTWOOD. 
O nouBTrxG heart' cllnK still to your bolteving 
There Is no sweeter way, 
No solace that »o surely soothes your grieving, 
No dearer hope, to-day; 
Nothing, when death Is yours, 
That so endures. 
For Gentlemen. 
The swallow-tail coat for full dress. Or¬ 
dinary visiting or church costume,, of dark 
brown (French) Venetian coating, with 
lighter Colored pantaloons of cassimcre. 
Traveling suits are a specialty, of Bannock 
burn, Scotch cloth. It is a mixture ot black 
and white and also suitable for business 
suits. Beady-made suits cost from twenty- 
live to forty dollars. Another dress suit is 
of brown or olive cloth, pearl or lavender- 
colored pantaloons, and white vest. Linen 
and alpaca for hot day suits. 
For Boys. 
Light French flannels are considerably 
used Club suits they are called, with 
Zouave (Knickerbocker) trousers, a close- 
fitting coat with short skirl, navy collar. 
I marvel, lady, much t hat, you 
Who weave such wondrous minstrelsy, 
From alien lips the song can woo. 
Or give tho lyre to mo; 
For sweeter far. with stately notes. 
The pulses of the air you thrill 
Thun when the night-bird's music floats 
Down all the dreamy hill. 
Yet something you would have me write. 
And something 1 would wish to say. 
Although in random rhymes and trite 
My rude verse runs away. 
Dim fables tell of one whose lute 
The brutes, of old. with music drew, 
And he is surely still tt brute 
Who Is not moved by you. 
The magic of whose music draws 
Delight from clntrmrtl and wondering faces, 
And lips that warm to loud applause 
From barren commonplaces. 
And I—Ah ! could I rhyme and sing, 
And write for you my whole life long, 
How should f wrlto you anything 
So sweet as your own song? 
All creeds of men are straws to clutch at, only, 
When cornea the final end, 
And leave us cheated, at, the last, and lonely, 
Without a saving friend; 
Bui full and item belief 
Stops every grief. 
O doubting heart! thoae are not idle phrases, 
Nor pretty tricks of speech ; 
Beyond our present, with its winding mazes. 
The truth In them docs reach ; 
Let us accept U here, 
And prove It dear! 
For prove It must we all. There comes an onding 
Tn every carthliness; 
Time spares not any In Its final sending 
Away from earthly press ; 
How early we must go, 
We cannot know. 
Then doubting heart, give doubting over, over, 
And to your trusting cling! 
For faith is better than Is man's endeavor, 
And sweet reward will bring; 
Gon says give Him your trust, 
Aud GOD Is jnst! 
Dress Trimming of Gollered Flounces. 
Th^c flounce* are cut on the bias; those 
lying down are each two and a-lialf inches 
whin, the standing ones a little narrower. 
The dark uniting Imml is one and a-half 
inches wide. This trimming is pretty in 
both worsted and muslin goods. 
MRS. BARBAULD 
WHAT FASCINATES? 
Of this most excellent woman and worthy 
writer Henry Ckabb IIobinson thus wrote 
in his Diary: 
“Mrs. Barbauld bore the remains of 
great personal beauty. She had a brilliant 
complexion, light hair, blue eyes, a small 
figure, her manners were very agreeable, 
with something of the generation then de¬ 
parting. She received me very kindly, spoke 
very civilly of my aunt, Zachary Ckabb, 
and said she lmd herself once slept at mv 
father’s house. Mrs. Barbauld is so well 
SOILED SOULS, 
Not beauty alone, of a certainty. Many 
of the women most noted for their power 
over men have been possessed of little physi¬ 
cal beauty. Cleopatra’s charm over Mark 
Antony was not that of facial loveliness, 
for, contrary to the impressions of some 
people, the celebrated Egyptian Queen was 
not perfect In feature. She had a slightly 
ptiggish nose and thick lips; and, seen to¬ 
day, would not pass muster among an aver¬ 
age bevy of American girls. Yet she wooed 
to his final ruin one of the ablest of an able 
time, and is immortalized in history as an 
irresistible woman. 
Wc might cite other illustrations. The 
present Princess De Metternich, almost 
without, a rival in foreign courts, is called 
“ the ugly beautiful one,” in joint recogni¬ 
tion of her plainness and hoi fascinating 
powers. There is uo real beauty iu het 
features, critically considered, but in herself 
there is indisputable charm. Some subtle 
grace adorns her, in a way we cannot tell, 
and influences all around her Of what 
nature Is it ? Is It acquired, or inborn ? Is 
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS, 
!V1r*. II. A. H. writes: -"I want to know 
how to tlx over my white nan son h dress. It is 
made l ull slurt, five tanks, eaoli an Inch wide, a 
space of two inches and u group ol four tucks 
halt an Inch wide; thin GuritmhU waist. How 
shall I make over striped foulard, full skirt, 
seven widths; also light alpaca, wide gored 
skirt, wiih train; never worn but once. I want 
to have them look'stylish,’ with as little ex¬ 
pense as possible.” 
Let out all tho tucks and hem of the nanaook 
skirt; gore It, trim with frills of the same, 
make u simple overskirt or tunic, and n short 
sleeveless jacket. Make Rowing sleeves t’or I lie 
waist, or put, deep frills on the coal sleeves just 
above the dhow to simulate loose aleeves. The 
waist needs no alteration, unless in Dimming. 
Gore the skirt of the Striped foulard. Trim tho 
bottom with a twelve-inch bias Bounce, slightly 
gathered. Horn both edges of a six-inch bias 
flounce, gather tin Inch from each edge, to he 
applied as H puffed heading to the flounce. Put 
on another like it, above, ami rising to the waist 
in front, to simulate a. tunic. Trim the front 
breadth to the waist, or partially so. Make a 
jacket sash. Waist round, with pointed throat, 
trimmed with one piitf; coat sleeves with 
trimmed elbows. Cut tho iigtil.alpaeashort,and 
take out the extra Width. Trim the skirl, tunic 
or prphim with bias hands of the same, piped 
with silk, heavy lie rage or cashmere, a shade or 
two darker thap the alpaca. 
II. P. 8.—“Two ladies wish to know, through 
the. litu vi. Nkw-Yokkku, tho most becoming 
and durable stylo for a black silk suit., that 
would b»* pivscntalilo foeforo iHe elite —one ot 
medium size, and the other much above." 
A bias flounce, fourteen inches deep, laid iu 
Russian plaits, for the bottom of the skirl. A 
puffed beading, with a narrow frill on each side, 
an overskirt, upon straight down the front, 
reaching the lop of the flounce at the back, and 
caught upnluile at each Mde. Trim overskirt, 
with the same, with real lace, or fringe- 'Valst 
round, pointed throal, Rowing sleeves, to be 
I worn with a jacket; otherwise cut waist into a 
t abort basque. Trimming for Hie waist Is much 
applied brace fashion. It p;lves width to the 
the perfection of her taste. In the estima¬ 
tion of Wordsworth she was the first of 
our literary women, and he was not, bribed 
to this judgment by any especial congeniali¬ 
ty of feeling, or by concurrence in specula¬ 
tive opinion. 
u I may here relate an anecdote concern¬ 
ing her and Wordsworth, though out of 
its proper time by many years; but it is so 
good that it ought to be preserved from 
oblivion. It was after her death that Lucy 
Atkin published Mrs. Barbauld’ scollected 
works, of which I gave a copy to Miss 
Wordsworth. Among the poems is a 
stanza on Life, written in extreme old age. 
it had delighted my sister, to whom l re¬ 
peated it on her deathbed, ll was long after 
I gave these works to Miss Wordsworth 
that her brother said, 1 Repeat me that stanza 
by Mrs. Barbauld.' I did so. He made 
me repeat it again. And so lie learned it by 
Pcptnin. 
This peplum, or “Jacket sash;’ as they 
are sometimes called, Is one style of out-door 
“ wrap,” its simplicity fitting it for popular 
use. The ftinge around the belt is not ne¬ 
cessary, and It may be made: pointed instead 
of round al Ihc bottom, and ends added to 
the. bow,if desired. This “jacket sash” is 
supposed to lie twenty-one inches long at the 
back, twenty-eight inches wide at the top, 
plaited in box plaits, so as to be six and one- 
lmlf inches less the length of the belt. A 
stiff foundation should be used to line the 
bow. Each quill of the frill should he lacked 
to keep it In place. Made of silk, in black 
or color, it is worn with muslin dresses in the 
house as a sash. 
BESETTING SINS. 
Although mankind are naturally prone 
to evil, they differ in relation to the particu¬ 
lar forms of evil to which they have a pro¬ 
clivity. One individual is more inclined to 
the commission of a certain sin than is an¬ 
other, and the sin which one is most strongly 
inclined to commit is his besetting sin. The 
besetting sins of Christians are those which 
previous to their conversion they were most 
disposed to commit. Sin, therefore, indi¬ 
cates a moral weakness. It is caused by 
such weakness and it causes weakness. Any 
person is more in danger of yielding to a 
temptation by which he has been previously 
overcome; and if he falls he is quite likely 
to fall by that very kind of temptation. Ac¬ 
cordingly, youthful transgressions are repro¬ 
duced in riper age. “ The child is father of 
the man,” hi more senses than one. 
WOMAN’S STATUS 
See what the Edinburgh Review says on | 
this subject: 
A woman is a woman, and not a lesser 
edition of man. The competition, in which 
we are forever laboring to involve them, has 
no existence in nature. They are not rivals 
nor antagonists; they are two halves of a 
complete being. The offices they hold in 
this world are essentially different. There 
is scarcely any natural standing ground, 
which we can realize, on which these two 
creat ures appear as rivals. The very thought 
is preposterous. 
Shall the woman challenge the man to a 
trial of strength? Shall Hie man pit. himself 
against the woman for delicacy of eye and 
taste? Shall she plow the heavy fields with 
him, wading through the new-turned mold, 
or shall he watch the sick with her, patient 
through the weary vigil ? An exchange of 
place aud toil, the man taking the iu-door 
work, and the woman the out-door, in order 
to prove the futility of their mutual discon¬ 
tent, was a favorite subject of the old ballad- 
makers, and the witty minstrel is generally 
very great on the domestic confusion that 
follows, and gives the wife the best of it. 
Blit the fact is that such rivalry can he noth¬ 
ing but a jest. The two are not rivals,—they 
are not alike. They are different creatures, 
—but they are one. 
UNAPPRECIATED OBLIGATIONS 
BRIGHAM YOUNG’S HAREM, 
We live in the midst of blessings till we 
are utterly insensible of their greatness, and 
of the source from whence they flow. 
We speak of our civilization, our arts, our 
freedom, our laws, and forget entirely how 
large a share is due to Christianity. Blot 
Christianity out of man’s history and what 
would his laws have been, what his civiliza¬ 
tion V Christianity is mixed up with our 
very being and our life, there is not a famil¬ 
iar object around which does not wear a 
different aspect, because the light of Chris¬ 
tian love is upon it, not a law which does 
not owe Its truth and gentleness to Christian¬ 
ity, not a custom which cannot he traced in 
all its holy, beautiful parts to the Gospel.— 
Sir A. Parks . 
We have aforetime given gossipy extracts 
from the letters of visitors to Mormondom, 
relative to Brioham Young’s domestic af¬ 
fairs; but the following, from a communica¬ 
tion in the Cincinnati Qazctta contains some 
details we do not remember to have pre¬ 
viously seen: 
The rooms of the women are very much 
alike, and furnished nearly alike. They are 
plain, but comfortable. The women live in 
them precisely as people do at a hotel. 
Eacli lady has her owu key, and when she 
goes out she locks her door. There is little 
visiting hack and forth, and tho ladies be¬ 
have very much as guests do at a first-class 
hotel. Every morning and evening, at the 
ringing of the bell, the inmates of the harem 
ffrvDit Tiiiiiiiiin* oi’ quilling and Flounce. 
This bias flounce is from ten to twelve 
inches in width. The first heading cut on 
the bias is three and a-half inches wide, the 
top one three and a quarter incites. The 
top one is laid in double box plaits, the up¬ 
per and lower edges caught together at each 
plait. A black or other colored velvet rib¬ 
bon, half an inch wide, is cut in lengths and 
TnE biggest shoes for women made in the 
Philadelphia market go to Utah; the small¬ 
est are ordered from Havana. 
