On the New Paris Fashions

The dress of the actresses, which always outstrips the fashion of the day, shows that a severe simplicity is to be the next style, that is, for figures that can bear it; but few and far between will be those that can. But to slight and well-rounded figures the temptation to wear these new styles will be great, and to see them worn well will make less fortunate women gnash their teeth with envy - and could the wearer ask greater triumph? There is no doubt about it, they are very pretty, and it is a solid comfort to see a dress almost absolutely untrimmed; this reckless cutting and slashing of rich material to produce a jargon of effect is barbarous, and it is well that it has passed away.

But the new dresses will have one bad effect; they will induce tight-lacing, for the slender, pointed waist of old times is to be revived, buttoned up the back, if a woman has a maid to dress her, with skirts cut in some marvellous manner so as to be tight over the hips, and full, flowing and graceful below, absolutely without trimming save one or two knots of ribbon and a pocket fastened on the side.

I didn't mean to write a fashion article, but I seem to be drifting into it, and I must say a word about bustles. They say nobody wears bustles. I should like to see a woman in New York who doesn't wear one, and not little ones either, but bustles of most exaggerated dimensions, reaching from waist to ankle, and to be worn with circumspection, for woe to the woman who sits down unaware with a long bustle on: to quote your accomplished Saratoga correspondent, that woman will find that a 'good square sit down' is relegated still further to the past, and it would be well for her peace of mind that she should have a neat ankle and striped stockings. - New York Letter

A sweet young creature who lives out on Angular street, and is just back from Vassar, appealed with tender pathos to her stern parent the other day. "Paw, dear Paw, can't you give Cable away, and buy me a real brown black-and-tan to match my walking suit?" And because paw roared and cuffed her and said there were no brown black-and-tans in the market, she cried, poor girl. - Burlington Journal Hawkeye.