If it should prove to be a fine autumn and winter, I hear it prophesied on all sides that red will be more worn than even during last winter: indeed, that all bright hues will be in favour.
My last few lines must be devoted to the question of “hats in church,” which seems just now a burning question in America. I read an account lately, in an American journal, of the movement in a part of the Methodist body to do away with the wearing of large hats in church, where their use is even more objectionable than elsewhere in any place where people gather together in numbers. It is said by the advocates of the change that it is not contrary to Scripture, for at the time when St. Paul wrote, the women were in a state of servitude and more or less seclusion, and they are not so now. It seems probable that the movement will spread throughout America. You will find that at many public meetings there, and even here during the Congress, many women took their hats off while the meetings were going on.
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.
The register of a bedroom fireplace should never be closed, but left open for free ventilation from above.
Fire-irons and fenders not in use in the summer should not be neglected, but kept constantly rubbed up and not allowed to rust.
Parsley is injurious to fowls, and should not be given to them.
THREE GIRL-CHUMS, AND THEIR LIFE IN LONDON ROOMS.
By FLORENCE SOPHIE DAVSON.
CHAPTER VIII.
THE WATER-PARTY.