NOV. 45 
THE RURal NEW-YORKER. 
744 
.for Mantra. 
CONDUCTED BY MISS FAITH RIPLEY. 
THE HOMELY BABE. 
A Railway Incident. 
BY PARMENAK MIX. 
Good nature reigned throughout the car, the day was 
cool and bright; 
The time was passed in merry song and conversation 
light. 
Though here and there a veteran of railroad travel 
dozed 
Or read some lately published work—with book and 
eyes half closed. 
My Journey had been long, and yet my destination lay 
Beyond the distant mountains, near a thousand miles 
away, 
And being wearied with my ride, I neither talked nor 
sung, 
But kept my teeth well-closed and made a captive of 
my tongue. 
A well dressed mother looked with pride upon her 
laughiDg child, 
A handsome babe with dimpled cheeks and blue eyes 
large and mild— 
So handsome that at last it drew all strangers’ eyes 
that way, 
And many rose and gathered round where the charm 
ing infant lay. 
No honest pride can equal hers who heard her baby’s 
praiso 
From the lips of those whose thoughts were shown in 
their admiring gaze. 
And I doubt if great Napoleon e’er felt one-half as 
proud 
As did that happy mother ’mid that kind, admiring 
crowd. 
There was still another infant and a mother just as 
dear— 
She sat alone, unheeded, in a seat far in the rear, 
And her scanty garb and thin, pale face on which 
care’s shadow lay. 
Said plainly that the light of hope shone dimly on her 
way. 
Her child was far from beautiful, and poorly, sparely 
dressed. 
And she seemed to say as to her heart its form she 
closely pressed; 
" Poor, slighted child, no kind caress but mine brings 
solace hero— 
My kiss alone falls on your cheek—my praise is all 
you hear.” 
Then for the first time I perceived two brown eyes 
quite intent 
In watching this poor, lowly pair—the gaze was kindly 
meant, 
For the eyes were full of sympathy and I could read 
therein 
That their owner could enact the role of “ Good Sa¬ 
maritan." 
Producing four fine oranges, tho young man crossed 
the aisle. 
And speaking to tho woman with a kind, assuring 
smile, 
He placed the fruit upon her lap and said in accents 
mild, 
“ l'°ur child is very quiet—I so love a quiet child." 
Her face shone with pure gratitude, her sad eyes grew 
more bright:— 
She felt so proud of what he’d said, and truly well she 
might. 
For had not her babe received the praise of the no¬ 
blest heart by far— 
The truest, tend’rest, bruvest heart that beat within 
that car 1 Detroit Dree Press. 
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SOME POMPS AND VANITIES. 
The painter rather than the scribbler 3hould as¬ 
sume the task of describing the fashions for the 
coming winter. A few strokes of the brush and 
the marvellous designs would shine from the can¬ 
vas, but the written description, even suppostoglt 
to be the best, conveys but a confused Idea of the 
fabrics under discussion. 
The unfortunate fashion-writer realizes to her 
utter despair the abject poverty of language when 
she sits surrounded by costumes and fabrics, regal 
In their beauty, which defy the power of descrip¬ 
tion, and bankrupt her of adjectives In the first 
sentence. 
Nothing less brilliant than the pen of an K. de 
Amlcla—who Is par excellence, the “ word painter 
of the day "—can do justice to the •» fall fashions ’’ 
In material and style. 
Orientalism reigns supreme. The costume and 
bonnet of the day are no longer quiet and elegant; 
they fairly blaze with magnificence or design and 
material. Magnificence albeit that Is somewhat 
subdued. No glaring contrasts are allowed, but 
the brilliant colors are so Ingeniously combined as 
to present only' a rich effect, 
MILLINERY. 
The flaring and very much Indented bonnets are 
no longer to be seen. The "Cottage” shape and 
variations of It are mast popular. Black velvet 
has, In a great measure, been superseded by black 
satin for hat material and when trimmed elaborate¬ 
ly with Jet, makes a most elegant head covering. 
Flowers are not at all used, but birds, in greater 
or less quantities, appear on even/ hat. Some¬ 
times It 13 the head and breast of a large bird, 
sometimes a head and wing; again, there are 
clusters of from three to six small humming birds. 
Whatever else is lacking there must be at least 
one bird, or a fraction thereof, to give the bon¬ 
net style. 
Turbans are often made to match the costume, 
and trimmed with plumes and the inevitable dele¬ 
gate from tho natural history department. One 
turban composed wholly of variegated wings and 
trimmed on one side with a large English starling, 
was odd and by no means unpretty. Another, 
with the crown of Persian cashmere, had a rtm of 
Old gold satin, with bird and feather to correspond. 
A most exquisite hat had a crown composed 
wholly of lmplan feathers,—sometimes twenty 
birds are used In making one of these crowns, only 
the most beautifully tinted feathers being used. 
Satin scarf of old gold and bronze with plumes 
to correspond, satin Turk strings and rainbow Jet 
completed one or the most distingue hats Imagina¬ 
ble. 
A capote shape In gray felt, with rlm of em¬ 
bossed velvet and a soft crown was trimmed with 
shaded ribbon and a “cashmere" breast. It had 
a facing of shirred velvet. A novelty was a “jet" 
hat. The crown was embroidered In Jet and a 
fringe of the same fell over and below the crown 
forming a sort of cape. The garniture was black 
plumes, and satin Turk strings and three jet and 
gold bars. A pretty little dark green felt with a 
brl/n rolled back, was faced with green velvet, and 
a single gold thread was sewn on the extreme 
edge of the brim all around. Satin ribbon and 
plumes of green and the Inevitable bird finished 
the bonnet. A nqmber of sapphire bonnets wtre 
shown in Terry velvet and satin de Lyon. Most of 
them were composed almost wholly of the one color. 
Some, however, were enlivened with brocaded rib¬ 
bon, or jet or fancy ornaments m gold and jet. One 
sapphire Terry velvet was made gorgeous by a 
face trimming of rainbow jet. Very few gray 
bonnets were to be seen. One In felt was finished 
with a garnet satin scarf and a gray bird, and 
another In Terry velvet had a sc^rf of the same 
material and a bird, but they looked almost 
austere In contrast with tho brilliancy and sparkle 
of their companions. A plain brown Terry velvet 
was made to appear very Jaunty by means of two 
beautifully shaded—pink and brown—plumes 
placed high on one side. A little “Fanchon” 
shaped Jet hat was decorated with feathers, two 
clusters of humming birds, and two large gilt pins. 
Chenille and lace were used for the strings. 
For evening wear, flower hats are extensively 
worn, one composed of llUes-of-the-valley and 
Duchess lace, had a cluster of humming birds In 
a rosette of lace just above the face. The most 
showy “dress" bonnet, however, Is the Continental, 
in shape It bears somewhat of a resemblance to 
the Revolutionary Continental. Several long os¬ 
trich plumes are required to finish this style of 
Hat. White is the color usually selected and what 
with the stylish shape and the graceful mass of 
ostrich plumes it would be hard to conceive of a 
more elegant chapeau. An effort Is being made 
to Introduce large flaring beaver hats. They are 
exceedingly becoming to round youthful faces, 
but they are rather trying to most people. The 
general taste seems however to have set In the 
direction of quiet shapes. 
Remember that you must have a bird or at 
least a section of one, if you would escape having 
your new bonnet pronounced “ unstylish.” 
CLOAKS. 
The dolman and variations of it are the most 
popular styles for outside wraps. Their elegance 
consists principally in tholr decorations and linings, 
the latter in the most fashionable garmeuts being 
quilted satin of cardinal or old-gold shade, a 
sumptuous one of mateiassn made very long, was 
trimmed with a niching of narrow satin ribbon, 
chenille fringe and masses of Jet, a deep collar of 
Jet finished the neck. The fining was quilted car¬ 
dinal satin. Another of Sieilienns had throe rows 
of plaited French lace around the bottom, and a 
jabot or the same down the front. Under the 
sleeve-portions were rows of chenille fringe six 
Inches deep, while the sleeves .were one of 
passementerie with jet pendants. This wrap was 
moderately short. 
The more expensive outside garments are made 
of silk, satin de Lyon, Sieilienne, matelasse rep- 
beaver and Artnure cloth. Great quantities of pas¬ 
sementerie embroidered with jet, chenille crimped 
fringe, jet fringe and fur are used. A brown 
Sieilienne Paletot was finished with bands of seal¬ 
skin, the effect was rich and elegant, and one 
could hardly realize that this “plain" garment 
was as costly as the bsjetted ones until the price 
ticket was glanced at. It revealed * 1,500 as the 
cost of this not very pretentious garment. 
A rep-beaver dolman with a broad band of passe¬ 
menterie across the back, between the sleeves was 
elaborately trimmed with crimped chenille fringe. 
Trimming a garment of this class across the back 
is an excellent mode of relieving the extreme plain 
look of many of the long dolmans. Beside circu¬ 
lars and dolmans, there are the cloaks of Jacket 
form, coat basques, half-fitting, double-breasted 
deml-long cloaks and the Ulster. Seal-skin sacks 
are shorter than they were last season, and the 
circulars so much in vogue last winter are still 
worn. It Is almost impossible to put enough trim¬ 
ming on a “ dress" wrap. Fringe m the most ele¬ 
gant designs, passementerie loaded with jet, are 
used in profusion. For every day wear, on the 
other hand, the extreme of simplicity is reached. 
Fancy cloth cloaks designed for every day wear 
are frequently finished merely with machine 
stitching. 
Sometimes the collar and lapels, cuffs and pock¬ 
ets, are faced with seal or some other fur, and 
while this Is far from expensive, the effect Is lux¬ 
uriously elegant. 
Those who own camei’s-halr shawls will be glad 
to learn that rashloa has decreed that they may 
again be worn. They are a fitting finish for cos¬ 
tumes trimmed with fabrics in the new Persian 
and Oriental designs. One of these shawls was 
shown, which had been made Into a rather short 
dolman-shaped garment. The edge was trimmed 
with black feather rucking, sparkling with jet and 
rainbow pendants. It was more youthful and 
richer-looklng than when arranged shawl-fashion. 
I cannot leave this subject without describing a 
certain opera wrap, wutch was—to be artistic—a 
symphony In wlilto. A modification of the dolman 
was the shape, the material white Sieilienne. 
Around tho lower part of the back portion was a 
deep row of crimped chenille fringe, the sleeves 
and lower rronts were finished with crystal fringe 
and tne neck and breast profusely trimmed with 
crystal and chenille passementerie. The lining 
was of quilted white satin. The effect of the whole 
was indescribably lovely. 
Thanks are due Messrs. Lord & Taylor, of Broad¬ 
way and Twentieth street, tor their courtesy in 
3 furnishing information as to fashions, In fabrics 
t and In styles. 
The Rural of November 22 will contain a full 
description of dress materials, trimmings, hosiery 
and lingerie. 
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\ RESULTS OF ARCHERY. 
The returns from the Female Archery Clubs of 
\ America for the season of 1S79 are now all in. We 
; gather from them the following Interesting statis¬ 
tics which Indicate that this branch of Industry Is 
In a flourishing condition : The target was hit dur¬ 
ing the season three times out of a possible score 
or si,ooo,ooo. The rumor that these three times 
were accidents Is without foundation; 2.874 of the 
archers have become hopelessly engaged to the 
young gentlemen who were so kind as to teach 
them how to aim; S,940 other girls are sure they 
would have become engaged had it not beeu for 
these 2,874. The 8,940 do not hesitate to assert 
that the 2.874 took unfair advantages and were un¬ 
becomingly forward. The matter la to be brought 
to the notice of the next National convention of 
the Archers. During the year 134 , 94.3 born doors 
were well lilt. Of this number, 92,474 appertained 
to barns less than a mile to the right of the target; 
92,474 to barns situated less than that distance to 
the left, of the target. Tho casualties of the year 
are Immaterial and considerable less In number 
and severity than those of the Season of 1878. It 
appears from the returns that only 230 cows, 18 
horses, seven goats, five pigs, 82 small boys, and 
23,720 peddlers of a new map of Palestine were 
either killed or wounded during the season, and 
that in every Instance the hlarae was with the 
animal hit. The archers to a girl have filed affi¬ 
davits from which it appears that each one of those 
cows, horses, goats, pigs, and boys were recklessly 
exposing their fives by standing within 5,2S0 feet 
of the respective targets at tho time the accident 
occurred.— Albany Journal. 
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A LADY’S RESPONSE TO THE TOAST OF 
“ THE MEN,” 
Mrs. Doniway, of the New Northwest, at a 
literary reunion at Salem, Oregon, “ toasted” the 
gentlemen as follows: 
“ God bless ’em 1 They halve our joys, they 
double our sorrows, they treble our expenses, they 
quadruple our cares, they excite our magnanimity, 
they awaken our enthusiasm, they arouse our af¬ 
fections, they control our property, and out-ina- 
neuver us in everything. This would be a very 
dreary world without ’em. In fact I may say 
without prospect of successful contradiction, that 
without ’em it would not he much of a world any¬ 
how. We love ’em, and the dear beings can’t help 
It: we control ’em, and the precious fellows don’t 
know it. 
As husbands they are always convenient, though 
not always on hand. They are most agreeable 
visitors ; they are handy at State Fairs, and indis¬ 
pensable at oyater saloons. As our fathers they 
are Inexpressibly grand. A man may be a failure 
in business, a wreck in constitution, not enough 
to boast of as a beauty, nothing as a wit, less than 
nothing as a legislator for woman’s rights, and 
even not very brilliant as a member of the press; 
but If he Is our own father we overlook his ahoru 
comings and plccadllloes with the divine mantle 
of charity. Then, as our husbands, how we love 
to parade them as paragons 1" 
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COLLECTING AND PRESSING SEA-WEED. 
_ 
first wash the sea-weed In fresh water, then 
take a plate or dish (the larger the better), cut your 
paper to the size required, place It In the dish with 
fresh water and spread out the plant with a good- 
sized camel’s-hair pencil In a natural form; then 
gently raise the paper with the specimens out of 
the water, placing it in a slanting position for a 
few moments, so as to allow the superabundant 
water to run off, after which place it in the press 
(not The Free Press). The press Is made with 
either three pieces of board or paste-board. Lay on 
the first board two sheets of blotting paper; on 
that lay your specimens; place straight and smooth 
over them a piece of old muslin or fine cambric, 
then some more blotting paper and place another 
board on the top of that and continue In the same 
way. 
The blotting paper and the muslin should be 
carefully removed and dried every day and then 
replaced; at the same time those specimens that 
are sufficiently dried may be taken away. Nothing 
now remains but to write on each the name, date 
and locality. You can either gum them In a scrap¬ 
book, or fix them In, as drawings are often fast¬ 
ened, by making four silts In the page and Insert¬ 
ing each corner. This Is by far the best plan, as 
ltadmlto of their removal without Injury to the 
page at any future period, If it be required to Insert 
better specimens or Intermediate species. 
Some of the larger specimens, or “algae," will 
not adhere to the paper, and consequently require 
gumming. The following method of preserving 
them [ have tried, and with perfect success: After 
well cleaning and dressing, brush the coarser king 1 
of algie over with spirits of turpentine In which 1 
two or three small lumps of gum mastic have been 
dissolved by shaking in a warm place; two-thirds I 
of a small phial Is the proper preparation, and 1 
whole be read In the order in which it Is written. 
Second, read the fines downward on the left of 
each comma to every fine. Third. In the same 
manner on the right of each comma. In the first 
reading the Revolutionary cause Is condemned 
and by the others It Is encouraged and landed 
Hark ! hark 1 the triunpet sounds, the din of war’s 
alarms. 
O’er seas and solid grounds, doth call us all to arms; 
Who for Iviug George doth stand, their honors soon 
shall shine: 
Their ruin is at hand, who with the Congress join. 
The acts of Parliament, in them T much delight. 
I hate their cursed intent, who for the Congress fight. 
The Tories of the day, they are my daily toast. 
They soon will 6neak away, who Independence boast; 
Who non-resistance hold, they have my hand and 
heart. 
May they for slaves bo sold, who act a Whiggish part; 
On Mansfield, North, and Bute, may daily blessings 
pour, 
Confusion- and dispute, on Congress evermore; 
To North the British lord, may honors still be done. 
I wish a block or cord, to General Washington. 
WHICH IS IT? 
I will take the liberty to send another poetical 
curiosity. Read as written and It gives one view 
of a certain matter. Read alternate lines, that is, 
first and third, and second and fourth, and thus to 
the end; this gives another view: 
The man must lead a happy life 
Who is directed by his wife; 
Who’s free from matrimonial chains, 
Is sure to suffer for his pains. 
Adam (we read) could find no peace, 
Until he saw a woman’s face; 
When Eve was g-.ven for a mate, 
Adam was in a happy state. 
In all the female hearts appear 
Truth, darling of a heart sincere 
Hypocrisy, deceit and pride, 
Ne’er known in woman to reside. 
What tongue is able to unfold 
The worth in woman we behold ? 
The falsehood that in women dwell 
Is almost imperceptible. 
Fooled be the foolish man, I say. 
Who wifi not yield to woman's sway; 
Who changes from his singleness. 
Is sure of perfect blessedness. 
fitraarji f$tiscfl[anjr. 
WITHOUT AND WITHIN. 
My coachman in the moonlight there, 
Looks through the sidelight of the door; 
I hear him with bis brethren swear. 
As I could do—but only more. 
Flattening bis nose against the pane. 
He envies me my brilliant lot. 
Breathes on his aching fists in vain. 
And dooms me to a place more hot. 
He sees me in to supper go, 
A silken wonder by my side, 
Bare arms, bare shoulders and a row 
Of flounces for the door too wide. 
He thinkB how happy is my arm, 
’Neath its whiter-loved and Jeweled load. 
And wishes me some dreadful harm. 
Hearing the merry corks explode. 
Meanwhile I only curse the bore, 
Of hunting still the same old coon, 
And envy him outside the door. 
In golden quiets of the moon. 
The winter wind is not so cold, 
As the bright smile he sees me win. 
Nor the host’s oldest wine so old 
As our poor gabble, sour and thin. 
I envy him the ungyved prance. 
By which his freezing feet he warms, 
And drag my lady’s chains and danoe 
The galley slave of dreary forms. 
O could he have my share of din. 
And I his quiet—past a doubt, 
’Twould still be one man loved within 
And just another bored without. 
[J. R. LoweU. 
IN FOLLY’S NET 
CHAPTER YVTI. 
PARTING. 
Lord Sholto excused himself that morning 
again from accompanying his guests on their 
shooting expedition, and Captain Murray was en¬ 
joined to take his place and see that all went well 
The young officer accepted the duty a little reluc¬ 
tantly, for Ida had told him the night belore, with 
her pretty eyelids red with the tears she had shed, 
of Lord l\ or's trouble, and he would have preferred 
remaining at home. 
“Can’t X bo or some use at home ?’’ he whispered, 
as he lett- the table and went to the sideboard! 
where Lord Sholto stood asking his sister some 
questions about Jean. “ 1 hate leaving you in this 
trouble." 
“Thanks, old fellow," said Lord Sholto, while 
Ida Crawford shot a soft, grateful glance at him 
from out her pretty blue eyes. » But if you’ll get 
these fellows off as quickly as you can It will be 
the greatest kindness you can do us." 
“All right." said Captain Murray, resignedly 
performing his commands so well and with such 
diligence that before half an hour had elapsed 
this will make the specimens retain a fresh ap- 1110 shooting party were on their way to the moors 
pearanc e.—Detroit Dree Press. and Sholto Hall was left to comparat ive peace. 
CORRESPONDENTS’ CORNER. 
In response to “ Reader’s” request which ap¬ 
peared In the Rural of Get. ll, we have received 
several.coples of the desired poem. Those who have 
been at the trouble of writing and sending us the 
verses will please accept our thanks tor their 
courtesy. 
a singular old song. 
This double entendre was originally published 
to a Philadelphia newspaper a hundred years ago. 
it may be read three different ways. First, letthe 
Breakfast over, and the gentlemen gone, the 
ladles ot the party scattered; some assembled 
in the drawing-room and talked gossip and dress 
others >vent to their rooms to write letters and 
hold consultations with their maids, and Lady 
Sholto and Ida were Tree to go to Jean and tell 
her that Lord Ivor was waiting for her to Lord 
Sholto’s study. 
“The carnage Is ordered to hair an hour,” said 
Lady sholto, “so they will not have much time. 1 
hope .Jeanle will bear up well. 1 am so anxious 
about Archibald, he la looking so dreadfully ill and 
haggard. You know he has decided on going away 
almost immediately, Ida.” 
