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 EDITOR’S EDITORIAL CIIIT-CIIAT. OU't' is run Consult—To live within sight ofa ﬁeld, with its carpet of emerald, is a luxury. How much more to view broad acres of infinite variety, to rovo with satisﬁed gaze from the comely swell of the hill to the beautiful level of

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humble homes; their fruits fall into the dimpled hands of

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TABLE. Dasssss AT Qnzstv VICTORIA'S Comm—The following were

the more remarkable and elegant of i among worn at Queen Victoria’s last drawing-room.

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MR8. DsLus.—Train of Napoleon blue Terry velvet, lined with glace, and trimmed with blonde; skirt and tunic of the meadow. touched here and there by the lightly spring white glace, trimmed with blonde. and satin ribbon. Head ingr birds. while the sweet smelling haycocks, the IOosened dress, feathers and blonde Iappets; ornaments, diamonds. tresses of the earth, changing from yellow to brown, throw Ducnzss or Msnwonouou.-A dress of white gluce, beau > ) tifully trimmed with large bouillons of white tulle, and off odors as if precious oils had been poured over them. ,1 In addition to these are the trees, singly and in families, i quadrilles of turquoise blue, fastened with tasst-ls of silver, F those dumb but animate things, whispering in language 'i terminated with silver grelots; shaded tunique of blue and

known only to tho winds—stretching 00' for miles toward white, veiled by a long skirt of silver-spotted tulle. looped the sea and toward the farther country. Their leaves sparkle g with large noeuds of tulle de Lyon, ornamented with silver in the sunshine—their branches overshadow the roofs of lace, also partly veiled by the skirt; the corsage with berths

children; their beauty causes hearts to be unconsciously glad; God made them graceful, and in all their motions they speak of an unchangeable love. Then there are the sparkling blue streams, lying in green

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basins and margined with low, dreamy elders; and still

farther beyond, the salt sea, like a purple-blue mist, with

its ships that the distance purples also, heaving its glittering waves against shore and keel. bearing great freights and glad tidings upon its mighty bosom. Ohl these glorious views in the free, unlimited country— how they enlvrge the soul! One grows kindred with the bounteous earth till a resting-place beneath its generous

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surface seems not so dreary. In spite of the narrowing in fluences and despot circumstances—in spite of the ills of

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of silver quadrille, Spanish trimming, and grelots to corres

pond; bouquet of shaded ostrich feathers, tied with silver cord, the train agraﬂ'e on the shoulders of the richest white crystalize, lined blue, with border of blue. covered with the same Spanish trimming. [lead-dress. magniﬁcent tiara of diamonds and pearl drops, shaded feathers, flowers, and long veil of silver-spotted tulle; necklace, chain of diamonds, and diamond and pearl ornaments. Corsrzss or Errmonnr.—Train of a very rich Pompadour moire antique, lined with pale green glace, and trimmed round with Brussels lace; petticoat composed of green tulle, with two Brussels ﬂOllnCt‘S over a slip of pale green glues,

Head-dress, plumes, ﬂowers, lappets, &c.; ornaments, dia monds, and emeralds.

Lsnv TEXPLEMOREw—DI‘OSB of black glace, with bouillonne

flesh, the troubles of poverty, the carking cares of life—the t skirts of black sparkling tulle; tuuique of handsome black contemplation of these innumerable works of God infuses lace looped with bunches of black grass; corsage to corresp buoyancy, hope, and the love of the Everlasting Father in pond? train of superb black moire antique. with bouillons h the heart, till oven the frame seems ethsrialiZed, and heaven of sparkling tulle, parseme with grass. Head-dress, black R feathers and long tulle veil; ornaments, jet. begun on earth.

The very stones glistening upon the hill-side speak of peace. LAD! “immense—Train of the richest Gothic moire of a The cattle. deep in the grass. seem mutely to acknowledge novel design, vert d'Azotf. lined with silk. and very elegantly h that God has placed them upon a thouand hills, and they h trimmed with Brussels point lace, tulle. and ribbon; corsage are fed by His bounty. 'l‘hat exquisite trill, that gives such to correspond, with lace and bouquet of violet and silver ﬁnish to the warble of the forest bird, speaks the mechanism daisies; skirts of vert d'Azoﬂ' tulle over taffetas d‘Italie, of the same creative hand. The corn not yet enriched with covered with Bounces of Brussels point lace and trimmings g its tassels of gold, but shining nevertheless with an un of tulle. CoitTure of ostrich feathers, and wreaths of violets rivaled lustre; the butterﬂy ﬂashing its many colored wings 'i and silver daisies, Brussels lace lappets, parure of diamonds.

in the midst of the leaves; the tinted ﬂowers of carnation, S Hos. Mas. Lovn LlND8AT.——Tﬂtln of white and silver moire, of royal purple, of princely yellow; the early apples, just h trimmed with Brussels lace; skirt of satin. with magniﬁcent turning from russet to red; the currants like the jewels of Brussels lace flounces. Head-dress, feathers and Brussels

ﬂame and drops of amber—all these ﬁll the soul to the brim lace lappcts; ornaments, diamonds and pearls. Hon. Mas. Dorms—Train of rich white poult dc soie, with love and admiration. S If this depth and purity of atmosphere, if these riches of attached over the shoulders, trimmed with bottfhints of tulle, ‘ color and harmonics of shape, these sweets of fruits and ruches, and water lilies with foliage; skirt of white satin transparencies of pebbly streams—these clear breathiugs K covered with a double skirt of tulle bouillons trimmed with ' of the winds and lofty breadths of sky and sea, could from ) blonde, and a chatelaine and bouquet of water lilies to cor

some alembic be poured into our human hearts, what har respond. Head-dress, water lilies and foliage, ostrich feather, monies would play along our lives! Then as the shadows ‘ and a blonde lappet; ornaments, diamonds. that fall upon the hill-sides, only added a varied loveliness, Hon. Mas. lineman—Train of white poult do soie, lined so it would be with us as the shadows of time touched us g with glace, and trimmed with black lace and ruches of tulle with their shifting hues always—gliding away, never sta and ribbon; skirts of white glace. trimmed with ruches of b tionary—always making new shapes of beauty—always re- tails and ribbon. with ﬁounces of black lace, festooncd with ﬂections from that which is in the heavens above, and not bouquets of coral. Head-dress, feathers and lappets, with of the earth beneath. coral and diamond ornaments.

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This is what we predicted.

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