THE COURIER.
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FAITH.
What is life, and what death?'
Dost thou, questioning, seek?
Dost thau, faltering, draw thy treath?
Doth the palsy cf fear spread
its white on thy cheek
As thou ponderest life and death?
One thins "gt know, just one:
God k Master of both;
Maugre the ill done under the sun,
He, Maker, rules all He
hath made, and, in sooth,
The man must trust to His truth.
Know this, nor longer need'st walk
In the doubt, whkh is
shadow of death;
Thy hand in Hk hand,
thoucan'st talk
Thy thoughts to Hk ear He
bears all the creature saith:
So light is thine eye-thk k Faith.
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My Diarest Adelaide: This is the
time of year when we lire, we go to the
theatre, we go to moraing concerts, we
go to evening musicales, we dine, we
dar.ee and we are gowned in all that is
latest, with no thought of fashions that
a- V come. It is enough that we are
de rigueur cow.
It is the dancing dres3 that is having
it) swing through thess the gayest times
et the year, my dear, it does "swing' in
the noat graceful manner if you under
stand the art of managing a train. The
train is two or three inches in length at
tho lack, with the aides and front of the
ate rt escaping the floor. This sweep,
with the clos3 fit of the skirt around the
hips, with all fullness bunched at the
hack, makes the handling of it very
if, as I slid before, you understand
the M9dua operandi. The "art" is in
the swaying and swinging of the body,
whkh adjusts and brings to place the
train without help of the bands
Nothing is more vulgar or phbeian
than to lift the skirt when on carpets or
:oliSBed floors. If one cannot have full
hsaefit of the graceful tra'n indoors
where can one? Yet women have be-
Bote S3 in the habit of grabbing up the
shirt at the back it seems impossible for
them to learn the actual grace end fit
SMof the train. The hibit ia not due
ts the long skirts, but to the short onesa
that have "been in vogue bo long. The
skirt that "eautpes ' is the filthiest, of all
-skirts. That is a strong word to usa
best oar pretty clothe?, but it is the
ealy word that expresses the truth. It
'is iltby because itdoe3 not escape. Un-
Jsss a skirt is made short and "bobby" it
:is impossible to walk the pavements
without its gathering dust and the dirt
of the street. The hitch or "lifting' haB
been coiiotantly necessary to preserve a
skirt from the worst that comes in one's
way, until women have formed the habit
to buc'u an extent that even the short
bicycle skirt many times comes in for
the attention.
I for one, my dear, am glad the train
will become general again. It is much
neater in eveiy way. It will be carried
gracefully in one hand all the time when
on the street, and it is hoped women will'
soon learn to give it length, when under
roofs. I know a woman who lives at
one of New York's most aristocratic
hotels who dresses well, and who ought
to know better, but who invariably walks
out of the dining room with her skirt
lifted so that it 'will not come in contact
with the magnificent velvet rugs! It
may be she is not conscious of the vul.
garity; it may be she does know that it
is vulgar, and it may bo she does not
want to soil the rug. The suave man
ager of the hostelry has at one time re
quested her not to ogle Ihe guests
through her geld mounted lorgnettes,
and 1 hear that he is contemplating
arbitration with her about his velvet
rugs and her skirts.
To return to dancing dresses. The
sleeves to ball dresses, if we follow
French suggestions, and certainly we do,
are very diminutive; juat a strap over
the shoulder, with .lace or frills coming
across the arm from the bodice, or else
small puffs or frills over and from the
top of the shoulder. Sometimes there
will be a strap on one shoulder and the
lace and frills on the other. It is quite
the fancy of the hour to have thn shoul
ders arranged differently. Bla:k velvet,
colored velvet and fur figure extensively
in the accessories to ball toilettes. The
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straps, belt?, rosettes and bows aro mado
of velvet, and fur is used in heading and
edging ruffles and panels and reveres.
Sleeves on ball dresses are mere sug
gestions, while sleeves for dinner dressss
are long. One of the prettiest dinnor
dresses, or dresses for informal affairs,
that I have scan this season was of black
taffeta. The skirt was made with tbrf e
flounces, the top one coming from the
waist? Each of the flonnces bad an
edgicg of silver sequins a band of tat
sequins about three inches wide. The
CDrsago was made with very low lining
of the taffeta, with the black net com
ing to the throat in fioo gathers and
finished with green satin stock. The
sleaves were shirred and reached well
over the hands, b;ing finished with
ruffles of the net. Around th9 waist was
a wide pointed girdle of s:quins in irri
descent colors arranged in a pattern of
Egyptian design. The wearer was a
pronounced brunette, and with her hair
brushed back in the popular pompadour
roll, sparking eyes and red cheeks, made
a picture to be remembered.
At this same dinner was a "brown
blonde'' hair very light brown, amber
Iasnes and eyebrows same shade in
black velvet dress. The skirt was plain,
with pale blue lining, which seemed to
show without effort on the part of the
wearer. The waist had the inevitable
blouse cut in squares around the'nsck,"
and open to the belt in front. It was
filled in with tucked blue silk, which
also formed the guinrne. The belt was
termed of-black 6atin with buckles, back
and front, of turquoise.
Another dress this dinner was very
informal and decollette was not neces
sary was of pale gray cloth. The
blouse waist opened over a white satin
vest embroidered in peals; crossing the
vest and holding the edges of the opened
blouse were straps of red velvet. There
was a stock of the white satin and pearls
with a Medici collar of cloth attached to
the blouse, which was lined with the
red velvet. The belt was wrinkled
around the waist and made of the cloth,
with a bit of the red velvet near the top
of it, which suggested a lining, and was
fastened with pearl buckles, seed-pearl,
set in dull!go!d.
Taffeta silk is surely having its day
again. Dresse3 are mado solely of it
and it is used for all linings to all the
thin stuffs so much used for evening
dres-e?. By the way, Adelaide, I must
not forget to add that blouses are grow
ing less pronounced; it is still the blouse
on everything, but not so "baggy."'
J.KSSA.
Piler.m (In Kansas) You were un
usually free from cyclones during the
past year, I understand.
Native Yes, sir, but it 'ou!d been je'
the same if Bryan had ben elected.
You needn't come 'round dtawin' any of
o r polil'cal morals.
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