Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-04-07
ITEMS FOR THE LADIES.


tween cousins
A couple were recently married in
L the bride over 100
years old, and the bridegroom we'll
along III the sixties.
One hundred and fifty thousand
dollars worth of diamonds has ii
bride at the Fifth Avenue Hotel
A Kentucky father keeps his
daughter chained to 4 log in order to
prevent her marrying contrary to his
wishes.
The latest idea is To confer the
boon OF suffrage on the Utah women.
II Is suggested that III this way po-
iygamy can be disposed OF.
at a recent tin wedding in Wis
cpnsin, the following appropriate
lines were presented
After ten Years OF married life
lou take TINS woman still to be Your Wife
10 love, protect, to honor aud obey,
As you have done in time that's passed
away.
Patti, who now sings for thou
sands of dollars u night, to say moth
ing of the rich presents received at
the hands of royalty, commenced
her public musical performance by
singing in an old building in Jersey
CITY, now used rs a carpenters
shop.
At the last State ball at Vienna.
the Empress of Austria appeared in
new dress composed of the green
ana golden wings of South Ameri-
can beetles sown with gold thread on
a tissue of white silk. A splendid
suite of diamonds and emeralts com
pleted this costume.
The new ruleas to marriage promul-
gated to the Catholics are First, 10
Catholic who has q husbend or wife
alive can be married again unless by
application directly To the bishop.
Previous to this priests had the pow
en- Second, Catholic who has
been married outside the church can
be absolved from such violation OF
its rule only upon application to the
bishop and by public avowal of re-
pentance.
An old lady of London, matron OF
a school where young ladies are''fin-
ished, has Experimental until she
has discovered a sure cure for young
ladies of sweet sixteen who ''falI in
love- known rs calflove. Her plan.
when she sees that the tender pas
sion has been developed, is to crush
it in the bud, and the manner in
which she accomplishes that is the
antlthesis OF romance. She treats
the lovely creature as if she were an
invalid (never limiting ut the real
cause of her malady), and doses her
with SIENNA tea. The cure is com
plete.
The New York Home Journal says
that 1.-THE newest idea in Waiting in-
sists that, instead of clasping the la
dy's nand, or ever her finger tips, the
gentleman shall bend his left arm at
about the same angle with which a
fashionable girl carries her parasel,
the lady supporting herself by plac-
ing her hand against his arm, in the
hollow of the elbow. Thus he carries
her around delicately, without any
of that contact which condemns the
round dances. This mode is intro
duced by single set of exclusives,
but its propriety must commend il
To all. ~
The pdnier called "fiy wings - inn
itating the Tapping pinions of a bird,
was illustrated in Mrs. Burlineame's
white poult tunic over the white
robe she wore OH the night she was
presented to the Empress ut the Tu-
ileries. Her flowers were lovely
marguerites, all shades. They form
ed complete garland round the
bottom of the robe, over the satin
bordered plisse t1ounce, and long
grass fringe fell from under the flow
er garland. AT the presentation to
the Princess Clothilde, at the Palais
Royal, she wore a splendid lilac sat
in and 1oanier, trimmed with white
Alencon lace. Her bonnet was Ii
lac plume, with a fall of the lace to
correspond with the toilette. 1t was
half mourning, white poult, with
plenty of plisses and ruches, and the
ornaments were mauve-cOnvolvoIi,
of which a branch fell from her hair.
The Princess Clothilde had followed
exactly the same style, and wore the
same colored flowers.