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troubles enough, but God thought otherwise. A very downy moustaches. Alexander was twenty letter came to say Mr. Edmund was dangerously ill years of age, fair-haired, and blue-eyed, with a deli

in the south of France, and begged his parents to go to him, as he said he could not die happy without seeing them, and expressing his now heart-felt repentance for the misery he had caused.

They set off immediately, taking with them from London an eminent physician, they arrived just in time to see their last hope close his eyes, and to lay him in a foreign grave.

"The hall was closed, sir, when they left, and they have never returned; they wrote, that they could not come back to their now childless and desolate home. Mr. Barton still dispenses their bounty to the poor cottagers, and no one is allowed to want. All know from whom it comes, but no one knows where the poor broken-hearted parents are.”

A fresh gust of tears obliged the old man to stop a few minutes, when he said, "I have tried to make my story short, sir, I fear I have wearied you; but I have not told you half the goodness of those that are gone, or what a sad blank their absence has caused. We all thought that our little village was to be The Happy Village;' we looked forward to see these young Christian children growing up among us. But, sir, Man proposes and God disposes.' No doubt all is right, but the tears will come, sir, whenever I look on that deserted mansion with its closed doors and windows."

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I thanked the old man for his mournful tale, and wishing him good evening, returned to the iun, where I learnt from the landlady that all I had heard was correct. The melancholy recital deeply interested me, and I wrote it down in my journal in the old man's simple style and words.

Contributed to the Illustrated N Y. Journal.

HOOKING A WIFE.

CHAPTER I.

"VERY
"ERY kind of the old boy," said Alexander
not Alexander the Great, but Alexander
Crosby, son of old Judge Crosby, of the Supreme

Court. "Very well meant, no doubt, to send a
fishing-rod to a man who hates fishing as he does
physic. Now, if he had sent me a gun, it would
have been of some use, for I was always fond of
gunning, when I got the chance. But as for fish-

ing, I never could see the fun of it. Besides, there's something sneaking and treacherous about baiting a hook with a confounded imposition of an artificial fly, to take in a poor little unfortunate devil of a fish. Well, it's a handsome rod, and there it may lie till I find somebody to give it to, who can appreciate it. Meanwhile, here goes for a letter to Uncle Tom-Uncle Tom-what a niggerified sound it has to thank him for his pre

sent!"

Alexander opened his desk, and sat down to write. By the time, however, that he came as far as "My dear Uncle," he laid down his pen, and fell into the following reflection :

"Next to fishing, there is nothing I find such a bore as writing letters. I believe I'll write that note to-morrow morning." So Alexander threw down his pen, and, going up to the glass, began to brush his hair, and complacently regard a pair of

CHAPTER II.

But Alexander was too sensitive and romantic a

OR a whole week these two charming young cate nervous temperament, a graceful figure above FOR the medium height, and hands and feet small enough nature, looking at and admiring one another with people had been, in obedience to the laws of for a girl. He was not a bit of a fop, but a fair all their might. specimen of Young America, as recently developed by the increasing wealth and luxury of the age. He had been carefully educated, and had not long left Harvard University, to commence the study of the law, for which he was destined nominally, though in reality as heir to the wealth both of his father the judge, and of his uncle the banker, he might, with little danger, feel indifferent to the chances of his profession.

Alexander was a great reader. He learned all Harper's brown-covered novels, and bought all the new poems. He himself was busy writing a poem, to be called, "The Falling Star." Those who had seen parts of it, declared it was "very fine;" a statement which friends are very often in the habit of making under similar circumstances—whether, because it is much easier to praise than to criticise, or because friends naturally take a partial view of one another's productions. For my part, I have always said, "Save me from my friends, and leave me to take care of my enemies."

To

Presently, Alexander went to the window, threw back the Venetian blinds, and gazed out into the night. It was fine, but dark. The moon had not yet filled her horns, or even began to fill them. However, Alexander did not want moonshine. a brilliantly lighted window opposite all his attention was devoted. In that room sat a beautiful girl of perhaps seventeen years, with dark lustrous hair, large gentle eyes, and a skin of ivory. She sat in such a manner that the light from a jet of gas burning between the windows of the room fell full upon her. For some minutes Alexander Crosby feasted his eyes upon this exquisite tableau vivant. Then placing his own camphene lamp—for gas he had none-on the marble dressing-table, between

youth to put in practice any of the ordinary means of communication available in such cases. Love in the very young is too delicate a plant for contact with the coarseness of the world. Thus, though by giving a dollar to a servant-girl, Alexander might, no doubt, have conveyed a letter to his innamorata, and ascertained her name and every particular, it for one instant, entered his dreamy and ardent imagination to adopt so very simple and gross an expedient.

never,

On the other hand, he was delighted at the invention of a means of communication which required no confidence in strangers. This means of com

munication was his uncle's despised present--the fishing-rod.

At that moment, Alexander would not have given the fishing-rod for all the guns in the world.

Now the street in which Alexander lived was a

highly respectable street, but rather narrow. I

shall not more minutely describe it, because I do not

wish to shock its highly respectable inhabitants by describing the sort of goings-on to which their street is subject. Many profoundly matter-of-fact persons engaged in the importing of hardware, and that street, and who knows what effect the idea of other profoundly matter-of-fact businesses, reside in have on the minds of these worthy traders ! romantic proceedings in their neighborhood might

Alexander having conceived his plan, lost no time in putting it into execution. The letter was written, attached to the line by the hook, and dangling from the rod out of the window in a few seconds. By

the aid of a chair-back, the rod was fixed at an angle, and one swing of the line by Alexander's dexterous

hand, landed hook and letter in the apartment of the

unknown beauty.

his own windows, he also took up a position in which his face was visible to the young lady. Both then gazed at one another, with a charming appear- hooked the letter, closed her blinds and disappeared

ance of innocence and unconsciousness, till a sud

den thought occurred to Alexander, of such extraordinary brilliance, that to defer its application was not to be thought of.

As a preliminary measure, Alexander clasped his hands, bowed, touched his heart, and by divers other gestures attracted the attention of the young lady in the opposite room, who made an affectation of not seeing what she saw perfectly well. Then the young man sat down and wrote-he felt no repugnance to letter-writing now—"BEAUTIFUL AND ADORABLE YOUNG LADY— "Since I have seen you from my window, I can think of nothing else. My soul is quite absorbed by Imusing on your loveliness. I have left off smoking, I scarcely eat, and as for studying law, I might as well attempt to fly on the back of a camel !

"I love you more than anything upon earth. I am sure you are as amiable as you are pretty, so sweet is the expression of your dear eyes. Where can I see you? where can we meet? I shall die. I have a Colt's revolver in my desk---if I am so unfortunate as to offend you. Yours, eternally and adoringly,

"ALEXANDER."

The result was that the young girl hastily un

from Alexander's view for that night, leaving him a prey to cruel doubts and perplexities which rendered sleep impossible.

However, on the following night, he perceived that the blinds were only partially closed, and by the aid of the invaluable fishing-rod, sent a second letter, full of young passionate protestations, winding up

with these words :

"For pity's sake, if you would save my life, send me a line in reply!

"P. S.-I will thow the line across again, with something attached to it to steady it."

This something was a small daguerreotype of himself, which he happened to have by him.

After a short interval, the following note, in a trembling hand, was returned to Alexander:

"SIR :-I fear that it is very wrong of me to answer you. I know not what to say. My head is quite confused. How can you love me from only seeing me at a window? Surely you are deceiving me or yourself!

"Yours, truly,

"EMILY."

It is unnecessary to give all the correspondence. Enough, that, at the end of another week, Emily agreed to meet Alexander in Madison Park, and hear him personally plead his suit, which he did so successfully, that the only objection she made to his kissing her, was that "people might notice it." which, as Madison Park is destitute of any properly constituted shrubbery, was a very just remark. "Now," said Alexander, "suppose we get married at once?"

brought up the largest number of children on eight dyspeptic, crooked, puny, and "ill thriven" men and
shillings a week, without coming upon the parish,- women.
an agricultural miracle indeed! But what the ba-
bies or children so brought up were we know noth-
ing about. Yes! The babies have certainly been
overlooked in the distribution of prizes.

Announce a prize for the best baby and what mother is there that would not immediately put in her baby for the prize, in the confident expectation that the dear baby would win it? Is not each and "Get married at once! Oh dear, No! That is every baby the sweetest, best, and most delightful not to be thought of."

"

Why not?"

"What will our friends say?"

"What does it matter? They are not to be married. We are the only persons interested. Come, my dear, darling Emily, I shall go mad if you refuse! I cannot live another day without you! I am dying for you !”

little darling that ever did or ever will exist?

The adjudgers of the prizes at such an exhibition would have a difficult office of it. How could they refuse to listen to the commendations of the exhibitors? "Isn't it a princey-mincey ?" "Look at this little lovey—such a jewel of a baby, with its cherry lips and its legs of Britain! Bless its darling father's nose and eyebrows, and its cherub-cheeks, like a little angel as it is,-oh-wow-a-wah!" The They were married that afternoon It was rather exhibitor forthwith almost smothering the exhibited sudden, but very pleasant. baby with a kind of convulsive avalanche of kisses. "Ah!" said Alexander, as he pressed his young Even defects in babies would be apt to be underbride to his heart; "I had great difficulty in catch-stated or palliated by the exhibitors. The baby that ing you with a hook and line; I will take a net the screams," Is it not high-spirited and clever ?" The next time."

Emily relented.

baby that crows,-" Is it not cheerful and sweetThe next day, there were some fine scenes, I can tempered?" Is not the fat baby healthy, and the tell you. Emily's parents were as wild as cata- thin baby genteel? Then the little baby is elegant, mounts, till they found out how it was, when as the and the big baby is robust. There is never a fault match was a good one, old Mrs. Johnson forgave her amongst them, if you will but take the loving estison-in-law, and declared that he was a very charm-mate of their mothers. Well, indeed, that it is ing young man.

The Judge had seen so much of life, and tried so many divorce cases, that he had concluded at last that human nature was no such fool after all, and as his son evidently loved his wife, Old Crosby kissed Emily, and offered them apartments in his house till they could get one of their own.

As for the rich old banker-uncle, when he heard that the bride had been hooked by means of his fishing-rod, he took her under his especial protection, and made the same joke regularly once a day for the rest of his life to the effect that "St. Peter was a fisher of men and a saint, but that his nephew followed a holier calling in becoming a fisher of women." This joke was considered very great, and very much laughed at by men who wanted to get their bills discounted easily.

PRIZE BABIES.

BY ELIZA COOK

AN exhibition of babies has recently been held, according to the papers, in Western Canada, at which prizes have been given to the best and the most approved babies.

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But who are to be the judges in such a case? Are they to be bachelors or married men-maidens or matrons-nurses or mothers?

We have heard of a bachelor who declared in company that of all children he most liked those who cried the loudest. And why? Oh! "because he was sure they would immediately be taken out of the room!" The barbarian! So, at least, thought all the mothers present. No; bachelors will not do for judges at the Prize Baby Exhibition. They might be perfectly disinterested, because they are supremely indifferent. But they are not the men to see the fine points of babies; and therefore are no more to be thought of as judges in this case than a jury of admirals would be for an exhibition of short horns or Leicesters.

Nurses are too foolishly fond and glowingly éulogistic to act in a judicial capacity as to the merits of babies; maidens are too coyly indifferent-though perhaps only quasi-indifferent; and therefore we dismiss them both. We must look mainly to "heads

of families" for the judges in our proposed Prize Baby Exhibition, the solid and sensible mothers, and impartial and rigid fathers of large baby expe

rience.

And why not prize babies? Is there anything And what should be the main "points" in a prize about turnips so interesting as there is about babies? baby? Every judge will have his or her own noAnd yet we give prizes to those who grow the big-tions on that subject; but we will venture here to gest turnips, but none to those who rear the finest advance our own. babies.

The first point in a baby is good health. This of course forms the basis of all future soundness in constitution as well as character. A baby should be wholesome, and in order to this must be simply and regularly fed, washed, and clothed. We believe the majority of mothers know very little about the There are even prize ploughmen-those who have rationale of baby culture, else we should have fewer

Prize pigs, prize heifers, prize long horns and short horns, prize ploughs and scarifiers, prize South Downs and Leicesters, prize cabbages and cauliflowers there is no end of prizes given at our public exhibitions.

:

Mothers greatly want educating as to the physiological condition of those whom they rear They should know more of the qualities and uses of pure water and pure air: and the necessity of simple and regular diet. They cram too much. Instinct, not judgment guides them. Instinct in wild animals may do well enough, but with civilized human beings reason and judgment are requisite for their proper physical training.

We educate gardeners to train plants and flowers; we educate agriculturists to grow wheat and turnips in perfection; we educate sheep-farmers and graziers to rear prize-stock; but we do not educate either man or woman to train physically sound and healthy human beings. Here, we conceive, is a great oversight; for it is in the sound physical man that the sound moral man lies concealed.

Another "point" in a prize baby is moral training; such as good conduct, good manners, politeness, self-control, obedience, discipline. The baby that cries for everything it sees placed upon the table is not worthy of a prize. The baby that screams because at the proper hour it is required to go to bed,-that cannot be left five minutes to itself without "getting into a mess," that slaps its mother or nurse in the face when its little desires are thwarted

that thrusts its tuumb into its mouth when brought into a room,-that won't go to sleep without being rocked or pushed,—such a baby, according to our notions, would not be entitled to a prize, because all these indicate bad discipline and management on the part of the mother.

The baby entitled to the prize would be, not the softest and sweetest-tempered baby,-for there may be little merit in constitutional softness-but the baby that exhibited the most careful training-that obeyed its parents the most promptly-that controlled its little passions and desires the most cheerfully-that submitted to the discipline of home in matters of food and dress and manner with the greatest alacrity and goodwill. And the prize given to such a baby would be the highest certificate of merit and honor that could be awarded to the mother, for all the credit of that child's training would belong to her.

In conclusion, we would not have it supposed that this article is a mere piece of pleasantry. The thoughtful reader will see that there is a meaning in it.

IS LIFE ALL VANITY?

LIFE answers me, if ended here be life,

Seize what the sense can give-it is thine all, Disarm thee, Virtue-barren is thy strife; Knowledge, thy torch let fall.

Seek thy lost Psyche, yearning Love, no more!
Love is but lost, if soul be only breath,
Who would put forth one billow from the shore,
If the great sea be-Death?

But if the Soul, that great artificer,
For ends its instinct rears from life, hath striven,
Feeling beneath its patient web-work stir,
Wings only freed in heaven-
Then, and but then, to toil is to be wise
Solved is the riddle of the grand desire,
Which ever, ever for the distant sighs,

And must perforce aspire.-Bulwer.

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THE WAR IN THE EAST.

In this battle the hopes of Christendom were its right, or eastern, and Tirnova, the ancient capiblighted. It seems that Ladislaus, King of Poland, tal of Bulgaria, at its other extremity. The circum

VARNA-the port at which the British auxiliary after a successful war with the infidels, had consent ference of the town is nearly three miles, and before

army of the East disembarked, for the purpose ed to a truce for ten years. Intelligence, howof being actively employed against the Russians-ever, reaching him of the distracted condition of the lies in a bay in the middle of a gulf of the same Sultan's dominions, and urged by the representaname, on the western side of the Black Sea. The town, which has a population of about 25,000, is at the extremity of the Dobrudscha-a territory in Bulgaria, which stretches from the Balkan Mountains to the mouths of the Danube. It is strongly fortified, and capable of sustaining a vigorous and protracted defence.

The general opinion is that it is the ancient Odesta. It is the see of a Greek bishop, and is almost the only town in the Turkish empire where the Greeks enjoy the indulgence of hearing the sound of a church clock; for the Turks, as is well known, have a peculiar aversion to the sound of bells; and as they begin the day at sunrise-the length of their days varies with the seasons of the year-clocks are therefore of less utility to them than to us. Dr. Neale thus describes the appearance of the town in 1830:

"The high ruins of some quadrangular towers announced at some distance the importance of the ancient city of Odestus-celebrated in history as the earliest seaport of the Milesians on the Euxine, and in modern times for the defeat and death of Ladislaus, King of Hungary, whose army was totally destroyed by Amurath I, in the adjoining valley."

tions of the Cardinal Julian, Ladislaus consented to
violate the obligations of national faith accord-
ingly he marched an army, which was met by the
Sultan Amurath near Varna, and which received the
most complete chastisement ever awarded to an
enemy. Both Ladislaus and Julian-the master and
disciple-perished: the former in the heat of the
conflict-the latter in the confusion of the flight;
and the valor of John Hunniades alone saved the
Christian army from total annihilation. It is said
that the Sultan, in the midst of the battle, finding
that the enemy gained ground, while his own troops
wavered, tore from his bosom the scroll on which the
treaty was written, and with great indignation call-
ing upon the God of the Christians to avenge his
polluted name and the rights of his desecrated wor-
ship, renewed the combat, and broke asunder,
by a furious charge, the phalanx of the invading
army.

In a military point of view, Varna is a place of
great importance. Colonel Chesney says, in the
comparative level portion of country which inter-
venes between the Danube and the Balkan, at almost
sixty miles from and nearly parallel to the Danube,
is the second line of defence. Of this Schumla may
be considered the centre, with Pravadi and Varna at

the removal of the guns from the sea-face for the defence of Silistria, there were 162 pieces of mounted ordnance of various calibres. Fully, however, one hundred of these remained in 1828-and with the exception of one gun on each flank, they were chiefly mounted on the fascines of the bastions; the terre pleine of the curtains being too narrow for the use of artillery. Inside the works the ground rises to some height, both at the western and eastern quar ters of the town. The hills thus form a slope towards the sea-near which stands a Bysantine castle, defended by high square turrets. This work serves as a magazine, as well as a kind of keep or citadel.

Colonel Chesney describes its condition as follows:

"The town occupies a spreading valley at the head of Lake Deuna, and has the shape of a truncated pyramid, the base of which is towards the interior, with its apex on the Euxine. The third side faces the north, and the fourth is washed partly by the anchorage and partly by the river Deuna. Although better fortified than most Turkish towns, it cannot, in a scientific point of view, be considered strong. Towards the sea, as well as towards the river Deuna, are high loop-holed walls, imperfectly flanked; ten flat bastions, connected by long curtains and surrounded by a ditch with a cunette, form the rest of the enceinte. The scarp and the counterscarpare

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[RECEPTION ROOM IN THE PALACIO REAL, MADRID ]

large plates of looking-glass in rich frames, from the the warehouse, observed how colors put side by side
celebrated glass manufactory of St. Ildefonso. A mutually affected one another; and, from that
collection of pictures, by the greatest masters of point, carried on his researches in various ways to
ancient and modern art, adorn the walls of this and maturity. We state some of the results, chiefly
the inner appartments.
having in mind the uses to which ladies may put
them.

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From Household Words.

COLORIN G.

10 ladies who make cunning use of color-not by painting their faces, but by a deep and subtle study of costume; to artists, house-furnishers, ornamental gardeners, and others, there have been officially delivered at Paris and Lyons, during the last quarter of a century, sundry lectures by M. Chevreul, upon the practical effect of certain laws connected with the contrast of colors; and these lectures, which were formed by him into a book fifteen years ago, have been lately translated into English. Having read the translation, we write what follows.

IN our last number, we engraved an Exterior view
of the Palacio Real, Madrid, and we now illus-
trate one of the grandest of its reception rooms. In
this salle Queen Isabella was obliged to receive a
deputation from the armed citizens of Madrid, dur-
ing the late popular movement. As far as size and
ornament are concerned this hall is considered one of
the finest rooms in Europe. The ceiling represents
the triumph of Spain-a poor triumph it must ap- Monsieur Chevreul, learned in the law of colors,
pear to the people, daubed all over as it is with was appointed long ago to superintend the dyeing
slime of the basest political tyranny. Round the department of the manufactory of the Gobeling
cornice, the artist has placed allegorical figures of tapestries. One of the first questions asked of him
the different provinces distinguished by their pro- was, Why are the black tints bad that are employed
ductions, and attended by their inhabitants, in the as shadows in blue draperies? He answered that
provincial costume. These form a curious and in-
structive ensemble. The walls are incrusted with
beautiful marble, and all around are hung with

the black was of course spoiled by contrast. M.
Chevreul followed up his hint by arranging to-
gether various masses of colored wool taken from

First must be set down two very plain rules. One concerns the setting side by side of two different shades of the same color. Put side by side squares tinted with Indian ink, each square having one uniform tint, but no two squares of the same intensity. Arrange them in a row, according to a regular scale, beginning with the lightest and ending with the darkest. Then every square will be seen to be modified by those on either side of it; the border next a darker square will be lightened in effect,-the border next a light square will be darkened in effect. The whole row of tinted squares, seen from a little distance, will be made in this way to appear not flat but fluted. Such is the effect of tints upon each other.

The effect of hues, or contrasting colors, may be expressed in the second main rule--Contrasting or complementary colors are such as when blended together give rise to the perception of whiteness. The most perfect of these relations is that existing between blue, yellow, and red; for, mix those three colors, and they produce white; consequently a color complementary to each of these is made by blending the other two. Because blue with yellow creates green, green is the complement of red; be

cause red and yellow create orange, orange is the complement of blue; because red and blue create violet, violet is the complement of yellow. The eye itself can perform these changes; look upon a blue and a yellow, and in a little while both will appear to be green.

Again, take a square colored red, and observe it. Take also a square colored blue, and observe it. Place them side by side. The red square where it is near the blue will have a yellower tinge than the rest; and into the blue on the other border some little shade of green will enter. That is because every color tends to suggest its opposite (or complement) around its borders, and, as we have explained, the opposite of red is green-the opposite of blue, orange.

It is also to be remembered that the eye, fatigued with looking at one color, is disposed to receive the impression of its complement. Let us suppose, for example, that a lady in a draper's shop is looking at red stuffs; and, after having seen five or six pieces, begins to complain of the bad color of those subsequently shown to her. The color is not bad; but her eye, weary of red, no longer receives the impression of it vividly, or as a source of pleasure. Let the prudent tradesman not allow ten or eleven red stuffs to be looked at in succession; but, after about the fifth, contrive to submit for inspection something green. A very good green it is sure to seem if it be only of a tolerable color; and, after dwelling on it for a little time, the customer may go on looking at the reds, and will be sure to see them

to the best advantage.

yellow neutralised and the red left; so that the fresh-But let him buy in the winter a new pair of black
ness of complexion is increased in black-haired trowsers, and put them on; the old coat causes
beauties.
them to seem fearfully black and glossy, and is
made by them in return to look really much older
and whiter than it is.

As the complement of violet is. yellow, which no
lady desires to see added to the color of her skin, it
follows that violet is only suitable for dress when it
The same ideas M. Chevreul carries into the busi-
is very deep in tone, and worn by those who wish to ness of house-furnishing. Dark paper-hangings he
have the complexion whitened by contrast.
proscribes, as absorbing too much light, red and
Blue imparts orange, which enriches white com-violet as damaging the color of the skin, orange as
plexions and light flesh tints; it also of course im-tiresome by reason of intensity. He recommends
proves the yellow hair of blondes. Bluc, therefore, only yellow and light tones of green and blue.
is the standard color for a blonde, as yellow is for a
Yellow combines well with mahogany furniture,
brunette. But the brunette who has already too but spoils the look of gilding. Light green suits
much orange in her face, must avoid setting it in well both with mahogany and gilding. Light blue
blue.
suits with mahogany fairly, and with gilding admi-
rably: it also combines better than blue with yel-
low and orange woods-is therefore good for draw-
ing-rooms. A grey pattern on a white ground-
pattern and ground being balanced pretty evenly—
is, however, very strongly recommended.
As a
general rule, says M. Chevreul, the color of the
covering of the chairs should be complementary to
the prevailing color of the paper-hanging. The
window-curtains should be of the color of the chairs,
having fringes of the color of the paper-hanging. The
carpet should be chosen by the same rule, to give
distinctness to the effect of the furniture; green
and black being better dominant colors under ma-
hogany than red, scarlet, or orange. To mahogany

Orange suits nobody. It whitens a brunette, but that is scarcely a desirable effect, and it is ugly. Red, unless when it is of a dark hue, to increase the effect of whiteness by contrast of tone, is rarely suitable in any close neighborhood to a lady's skin. Rose-red destroys the freshness of a good complexion; it suggests green. For this reason it ought not to be chosen for the lining and hangings of the boxes of a theatre, if ladies who frequent it are to look well in their evening toilettes. Rose-red wine-red, and light crimson boxes give a green tint to the ladies in them; if they would rather have the best made of all natural rose in their faces, the hangings they should wish for ought to be light green. But they would suit best pale or fair complexions, just as the amber hangings at the opera in the Haymarket used to be best suited, and, in fact,

chairs
green covers are good when uniformity is not
desired. In small rooms a harmony should be
sought by carrying throughout an analogy of color

-the contrast should be of tones and hues of the only suited, for brunettes. The dark crimson of the draperies adopted at the rival houses were more same color: it is only in large rooms that the impartial, since they tended by contrast to the contrast of color can be thoroughly well carried whitening of all faces to which they served as background.

out.

It is not worth while to multiply examples of this and at least one section of our readers. Whoever theory. We have desired only to amuse ourselves

means to be a student in these matters must read M. Chevreul's book, or look for wiser counsellors.

Accustomed to a little application of these principles, and knowing pretty well how colors stand related to each other, any person may avoid gross errors of taste in house-furnishing, in dressing, in the arrangement of a nosegay, and in all such matEnough has been said now to display some printers. The main relations of color to be borne in ciples that may be carried into application in a mind are these: Green is the opposite, and comple- thousand ways. The painter upon canvas knows ment, to red; green, therefore, reddens adjacent that if he places certain colors side by side, though We are, for our own parts, not sufficiently under hues, and red adds a green tinge to them; but green they be as pure as tube can hold, yet they may look the influence of the color-sergeant, to care much and red set off each other to the best advantage when dirty because they spoil each other by the comple-whether we sit upon a black: chair or a green one— placed side by side-the green looking greener, the ments that they suggest. He knows that in paint-whether it is a white hat or a black one that best red redder,—and this is, of course, most thoroughly ing from the model, wherever there is much con- suits the color of our hair. the effect when the two colors are alike in depth of tone. What green is to red, yellow is to violet, and imitate each color that he copies with a stroke of trast of color in small compass, he must not directly blue to orange. In the same way it may be said the same color from his brush; he is compelled to that the yellow tints of green suggest their compleuse false tints to get the true ones. Upon the same ments and opposites, the violet-reds; the yelloworanges contrast with violet-blues, and the orange-a nosegay or the trimming of a bonnet, keeping plan must a lady go to work in the compounding of reds with the blue-greens.

Thus the pink of the complexion is brought out by a green setting in dress or bonnet; and any lady who has a fair complexion, that admits of having its rose tint a little heightened, may make effective use of the green color, but it should be a delicate green, since it is of importance to preserve harmony of tone. When there is in the face a tint of orange mixed with brown, a brick-red hue will result from the use of green; if any green at all be used in such a case

it should be dark.

But for the orange complexion of a brunette there is no color superior to yellow. This imparts violet to a fair skin, and injures its effect. A skin more yellow than orange has its yellow neutralised by the suggestion of the complement, and a dull white effect imparted. The orange skin, however, has the

apart those colors that cannot come together with-
out quarrelling. Thus she would do well to trim a
yellow bonnet with violet or blue, and a green bon-
net with rose, red, or white flowers, and to follow
the same general idea in grouping the colors of a
dress.

Contrast of rich color is familiar to us in the
dress of soldiers, and it has an economic use.
The
soldier in his bright uniform of green and yellow,
blue and scarlet, or whatever else it be, will seem to
be well clothed when all the seams of his coat, per-
haps, are white, and he is really threadbare; for if the
colors be but well contrasted they will set each other
off and remain to the last intensified. Just in the same
way a civilian may wear in the summer a black coat
that is not new, and over white trousers it will be
made to look by contrast excellent as to its color.

THE RIVER.

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BY S. G. GOODRICH.

TELL me, pretty river,

Whence do thy waters flow?
And whither art thou roaming,
So pensive and so slow!

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My birthplace was the mountain,
My nurse, the April showers;
My cradle was a fountain,
O'ercurtain'd by wild flowers.
"One morn I ran away,

A madcap, hoyden rill-
And many a prank that day
I play'd adown the hill!
"And then, 'mid meadowy banks,
I flirted with the flowers,
That stoop'd with glowing lips,
To woo me to their bowers.
"But these bright scenes are o'er,
And darkly flows my wave-
I hear the ocean's roar,
And there must be my grave !"

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