Show FASHION M instruments beautiful irish harps to bo the vogue this season there is a fashion in musical instruments so far as the english young woman is concerned which compels changes as sudden and sweeping as chose which take place in regard to the same young bonnets and hats of courna all of them who have pretensions to being considered what is vaguely termed musical reckon among their accomplishments ments the ability to play the piano and they do not disdain to devote the surplus of their musical ability to instruments of a more portable kind for a time it was the banjo then the mandolin then taking a flight up wiard the violin itself was degraded into the position of a fashionable instrument dividing its claims with the violoncello wo are said to be now on the eve of another change according to music the instrument which is to be in vogue this winter ia the irish harp which many young women belonging to the very smartest society are said to be already industriously practicing it is not the large and rather unwieldy thing we are wont to see in the street orchestras but a beautifully finished and decorated little instrument some 30 inches in height and about the weight of a banjo it is in fact the article which the minstrel boy slung behind him when with his fathers sword girded on he set forth on that bellicose expedition of which the ballads tell us the tone of the irish harp is saidah be particularly sweet though a little thin |