ROBIN TRIMMINGS.
[TO THE EDITOR OE THE " SPEOTATOE.1 Sin,—Clearly David was wrong when he said, " Thou fashionest our hearts alike," for while the "fashioning" of my heart made it so tender for every bird that flies and sings, that my cat, to his extreme disgust, has to go about with a collar and bells, that he may give my favourites warning of his approach, 1 have just read in to-day's paper of a " lovely wedding," at which the dresses of the bridesmaids—and there were eleven of them—were trimmed with "swansdown, mixed with holly-berries, mistletoe, and robins!" If I have a favourite, where I'm so fond of all, it is the robin, and I've been mournfully wondering, while watching two or three taking their crumbs from the window-sill, how many of them were required to " ornament " those eleven dresses.
Then I read the account of the wedding (the " costume " part of it) carefully over again, trying hard to make the word " robins " something else. In " bobbins " there would only have been the mis- print of one letter, but I scarcely fancy that a bobbin is a material that would " mix " well with holly and mistletoe ; while to some eyes robins, artistically arranged, would look, not only effective, but seasonable. Again, it is possible it may be the name of some new trimming of which I am ignorant, and I. should be quite thankful to be told that it was so. Any explanation seems to me easier to believe than that it was really my red-breasted favourites that were used to ornament those bridal dresses. We hear almost too much in these days of the " higher education of girls," but will no one teach them to have a higher feeling for, and a better appreciation of, some of the most beautiful of God's creations, than to think only of the effect of them upon white dresses, taste- fully mixed with holly-berries and mistletoe ?—I am, Sir, &o., S.
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