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OUR ARM- CHAIR.

HEALTH DEPARTMENT.

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"WASHINGTON PARTING FROM HIS GENERALS," a superb mezzotint for framing. Price, $2.00. "Bunyan's Wife Interceding for Him," another superb mezzotint. Price, $2.00. " Bunyan's Child in Jail with Him," a companion to the above, $2.00. Either two of these fine mezzotints, $3.00. Or the whole three $4.50. Address, C. J. PETERSON, No. 306 Chestnut street, Philadelphia. THE DUPLEX OR DOUBLE-SPRING SKIRT, manufactured by J. F. Bradley, is largely regarded as the most fashionable worn.

HEALTH DEPARTMENT. FASHION IN DRESS, like most other subjects, admits of being regarded from several points of view. It has its sanitary as well as its aesthetic side. It is true that the former aspect is less frequently noted than the latter; but it by no means follows that it is of less importance. To those who look beyond the present hour, the sanitary influence of the passing fashion on the welfare of its votaries is a point of much greater moment than its influence on their æsthetic perceptions. The latteris more or less tranAMERICAN TRIUMPH AT THE PARIS EXPOSITION.- Frank sient; the former endures for years, often even for life whose duration it not unfrequently shortens. Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper says :-" The first Euro- itself, Ifwe take into consideration the influence of the present pean exhibition of the Cabinet Organ has added a European reputation to that already achieved at home, and fashions prevailing amongst women, and test them by the another First Premium to the fifty-six awarded Messrs. ordinary laws of health, we shall find that some of them Mason & Hamlin at the Industrial Exhibitions of all the are most injurious to the well-being of the individual. For States of the United States. This is the well merited re- example: the prevailing style of boots, with high military heels and close constriction of the ankle, is opposed to ward of an industry which has always aimed in all its productions, not at cheapness, not at making something which every principle of physiology. The general form of the could be sold at a good profit, but at that which should be foot-covering worn at the present time, even by persons excellent in every respect- so thoroughly and conscien- who are not regarded as followers of fashion, is most intiously made as to defy competition. The pride of Messrs.jurious. The natural form of the foot is to have the great Mason & IIamlin has never been to produce an instrument toe in a straight line with its inner side. Fashion has dicfor the smallest sum of money, but one that was as good tated that our boots and shoes should be more or less as skill, and science, and perseverance could make it. Their pointed, and the result is that the toes are wedged together, the great toe being thrust outward toward the motto has always been-' The best are the cheapest.' " others. By long-continued usage of shoes of this shape, feet become more or less misshapen, and it is imposthe " THE GREAT AMERICAN TEA COMPANY, 31 and 33 Vesey sible to discover one person in a thousand whose feet are street, New York," writes a correspondent, " sells all kinds not deformed. of Teas, the finest included, cheaper at retail than most of This evil, great as if is, is vastly increased by the present the country grocers can buy at wholesale, for the reason that they buy by the cargo at a large discount from job- style of high heel, which causes the weight of the body to thrown forward on the toes, and wedges them still more bing prices. Parties clubbing together, each one subscrib- be ing for the number of pounds and kinds he wants, as he tightly into the front of the shoe. Nature has made the would for a newspaper or a magazine, save from thirty heel broad, so as to afford a firm basis of support ; but the to forty cents on a pound. Each parcel is marked with present style demands a small heel, which gives but an the subscriber's name, and all sent in one package to the insecure foundation, and throws a great strain on the person who sends the order. and a complimentary package ankle-joint when the foot is placed on an irregular surface ; whilst the free play of the joint is prevented by the boot to him for his trouble, when the money sent is over thirty being tightly-laced around it. The effect of this constric dollars. " tion in causing the wasting of the muscles of the leg may THE BEST CATALOGUE of cheap, yet good books for read- be seen in those countrymen who wear tightly-laced boots ing, is that of T. B. Peterson & Brothers. If you wish to of this character. Let us trace the permanent result of this fashion . It buy an entertaining novel, especially, send for their catalogue, in which you will find the titles of some five hun- may be seen in corns, bunions, deformed feet, followed by dred excellent fictions, by popular authors. Their address an inability, more or less marked, to take pedestrian exeris T. B. Peterson & Brothers, No. 306 Chestnut street, cise. This want of exercise, in its turn, reacts on the conPhiladelphia, Pa. stitution, and permanent ill-health is the frequent result. Passing from the feet to the head, what can be said in WEBSTER'S UNABRIDGED DICTIONARY is said to be a neces- favor of the present style of bonnet? If a head-dress is sity to the library of every intelligent family, student, required at all, it must be because it answers some useful teacher, and professional man. Hon. George P. Marsh de- purpose, and serves to shelter the wearer, in some degree, clares it unquestionably the best English Dictionary ex- against the variations of the weather-because it should tant. " Superior, in most respects, to any other English shield the eyes from the glare of the sun, the head from Dictionary known to him." the extremes of heat or cold, or the undue influence of the wind. It is needless to say that the present bonnet does THE PEOPLE'S EDITION OF DICKENS, published by T. B. none of these things, and, except as an expensive and not Peterson & Brothers, combines elegance and cheapness in very graceful ornament, is without any utility whatever. But the evil does not rest here; the undue exposure of the a higher degree than any edition in the field.