_Learned (but otherwise highly objectionable) Child (loq.)_ Oh, Mamma, dear! What do you think! I asked Mr. ---- and Miss ---- to name some of the Remarkable Events from The Year 700 to the Year 600 B. C., and they couldn’t. But _I_ can--and--The Second Messenian War commenced; and--the Poet Tyrtæus flourished; Byzantium was founded by the inhabitants of Megara; Draco gave Laws to Athens; Terpander of Lesbos, the Musician and Poet; Thales of Miletus, the Philosopher; Alcæus and Sappho, the Poets, flourished; and Nebuchadnez----(_Sensation from right and left, during which the voice of Child is happily drowned._) [Illustration: =THE RULING PASSION.= “Now, tell me, dear, is there any thing new in the Fashions?”] * * * * * [Illustration: =FASHION PLATE.=] CARRIAGE COSTUME. Dress of _chinée_ silk, with three broad flounces. The body half high opens in the front _èn cœur_; the sleeves are of the pagoda form. _Mantille à la Reine_ of white lace lined with blue: the lace with which it is trimmed is very broad, and is set on in small festoons, headed by a plaiting of narrow satin ribbon, above which is a narrow lace: the hood, _à revers_, is trimmed to correspond; the neck is finished like the edge of the hood. Bonnet of _paille de riz_, with a transparent edge, which is covered with a broad _blonde_; this _blonde_ is continued round the curtain. CHILD’S COSTUME. Embroidered muslin frock, with two flounces, the worked petticoat appearing below it: colored embroideries are now much admired for children. The body is plain, and is trimmed with work _èn stomacher_: broad pink sash, tied in front, the ends finished by a broad fringe. PROMENADE COSTUME. Dress of blue _moire antique_; the skirt long and full, is trimmed up the centre of the front breadth by six rows of narrow velvet. _Watteau_ body, and rather short pagoda sleeves, with deep _engageantes_ of lace. Sutherland _pardessus_ of white muslin, lined with pink silk; the body opens in front nearly to the waist; the skirt has two openings at each side; the _pardessus_ is trimmed entirely round with two rows of white silk fringe. The sleeves are large; they are of the pagoda form, and are open about half way to the elbow; they are trimmed to correspond. Bonnet of white lace, the form round and open; it has a full, light feather drooping at the left side; the interior is ornamented with pink flowers. * * * * * =Transcriber’s Notes:= Archaic spellings and hyphenation have been retained. Punctuation has been corrected without note. Other errors have been corrected as noted below. For illustrations, some caption text may be missing or incomplete due to condition of the originals used for preparation of the ebook.