STREET DRESSES,

Observer, Volume 2, Issue 45, 23 July 1881, Page 502

STREET DRESSES,

— Miss Kirby : dress of navy blue velveteen, made jersey costume, trimmed witli navy blue silk ; close-fitting hat to match. t— Miss Burt : dress of black cashmere trimmed with, black satin, made with basque bodice ; black silk hat, with old gold bow. — Mrs Angerstein : dove coloured cashmere, braided with dove coloured silk braid; very handsome sealskin jacket ; hat to match, with pale pink bow. — The Misses March : dresses of brown serge trimmed with brown velvet ; brown plush hats. One was made jersey costume, and the other with a polonaise. — Mrs McCosh Clark was in Queen-street, the other day, in a brown dress trimmed with figured brown satin ; brown sealskin jacket; brown hat and feathers.

He is a " most respected citizen" now ; but Avhen a bachelor lie owned a house of his own, and, being what the Scotch would call "unco carefu' o' the bawbees," was in the habit of doing his own washing, borroAving the soap and other little necessities of the wash tub from his neighbours' servants. This got about, and when Mr "Scotchy " took unto liimself a Avife, one of his wedding presents — an anonymous one — was a little bundle tied up with white ribbon and sealed. The mysterious package Avas opened before the nuptial guests, and, to their astonishment, proved to contain microscopic quantities of starch, soda, blue, etc. Of course our friend gammoned he couldn't see the point of the joke, but Ms very first order to the grocer, after the honeymoon, was for an abundant supply of the very articles comprised iv the mysterious wedding gift.