As I said before, it was represented at the very moment that the French republicans, being satisfied with the bees in their respective bonnets, were obliterating the imperial bees from the doors of the Tuileries, and being anxious to take arms against a sea of Prussians, were taking down the imperial arms wherever they could find them.

| | | | Millinery, Bonnets, & Hats | | Eligantly Trimmed, from Virot's and other | | Modletes of the highest Parisian standing.

"But stay a moment," said I; "let me fetch our garden bonnets, that we may enjoy it in the very scene of the romance.

Our city saints walk abroad in threadbare suits, and under quiet bonnets shine the eyes that make sunshine in the shady places.

He admitted their significance, in connection with bonnets and furbelows, and we both went to bed with a sound of marriage-bells in our ears.

All kinds of sinister- looking alleys, narrow yards, dirty courts, and smoky back streets surround it; much drinking is done in each; and a chorus of noise from lounging men in their shirt sleeves, draggle-tailed women without bonnets, and weird little youngsters, given up entirely to dirt, treacle, and rags, is constantly kept up in them.

The elderly women have a peculiar fondness for large bonnets, decorated in front with huge borders running all round the face like frilled night-caps.

From the shade of lovely bonnets steal forth those glances gay, For the stockmen of Australia, the ladies’ pets are they.

It isn't much of a place for folks with silk bonnets on.

* * LARGE BONNETS.

The immense large bonnets which decorate the ladies of the present day are truly "over the borders," and seem to keep pace with the "march of intellect."

Perhaps in a few years small bonnets will usurp the day, for "Extremes produce extremes, extremes avoid, Extremes without extremes are not enjoyed.

" Some years ago, when straw bonnets were all the rage, the following pithy lines were composed by M. P. Andrewes, Esq.: "Some ladies' heads appear like stubble fields; Who now of threaten'd famine dare complain, When every female forehead teems with grain?

She changed her lodgings, her furniture, her clothes, retrimmed her bonnets continually, always finding them worse than before.

One beautiful Sabbath morning in July, their mother dressed them tidily in their best frocks, and tying on their snow-white sun-bonnets, she sent them to church nearly an hour before she started with their father, that they might walk leisurely, and have opportunity to get rested before the commencement of services.

The bulk of the real negroes on the other hand, with an occasional mulatto among them, went their own way, the women frankly indulging a native predilection for gaudy colors, carrying their burdens on their heads, arms akimbo, and laying as great store in their kerchief turbans as their paler cousins did in their beflowered bonnets.

The females wear white muslin and light silk gowns, with caps, bonnets, ribbons and feathers; some carry reticules on the arm and many are seen with parasols, while nearly all of them carry a white pocket-handkerchief before them in the most fashionable style.

To flaunt the fact that we have had all the last books from Germany is simply vulgar; like flaunting the fact that we have had all the last bonnets from Paris.

To the right you see a picture of two shop-girls with bonnets in their hands.

She pawed over old valentines, bonnets of a by-gone day, lace mitts, and all the useless relics that are usually found in mother's trunk that had been her mother's.

Nothing was now seen in the town but negroes dressed, some in jackets and pantaloons, some in large grey great coats; others had shirts, waistcoats, police-bonnets, &c. every thing, in short, presented the image of disorder and confusion.

Meantime, why not make bonnets?

" "Only we needn't put our bonnets on, and sit at the windows," Barbara once replied.

"Any more than it's proper to wear all your bonnets, and gowns and ribbons, at once, that folks may know you've got 'em," added Jo; and the lecture ended in a laugh.

The zealous brother stated the case and declared that if Mr. Wesley's rule in regard to "high heads and enormous bonnets" meant anything, this was "the time to put it to the test and prove its efficacy."