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apartments; her singular dress and manners visibly interested my friend. Nor was I less pleased with the fascinating simplicity of her whole appearance, so superior to the imitations of our dashing belles, who, at times, borrow the rustic garb, but cannot complete the meta­ morphosis by assuming the rustic’s peculiar graces. Her petticoat was of green taffeta ; her pale pink silk corset which being made to her shape, displayed all the symmetry of her fine form 5 while a silken cap, entwined with gold, sat close to her face, just permitting her features to peep forth, and express a countenance which the fancy of no painter could equal.— My friend kindly asked her a very natural ques­ tion •, she cast down her fine blue eyes, and with a sigh answered, she had now no friend j “ He fell,” said she, “ last year in the battle, yet “ I grieve not so much for myself; he died “ for his country,—it was a noble end,—but “ he might have become a firm supporter of “ my aged parents, if distress should ever “ befal them.” We noticed to her, that she had as just a claim as others to benefit by