The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-09-29
Society and Fashion.

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MANY ladies have become really Grip
pied from wearing the French high
heels.
A SOCIETY of women have been or
gained in Norway, who advocate celib-
acy.
The new style Of dresses, in three
colors, are called the patchwork Co.'S
tunes"
A NEW STYLE of goods has appeared
which closely resembles sealskin and is
not near so expensive.
IT is anticipated that the rise in wool
will considerably enhance the price of
the better grades of Competing.
VERY pretty costumes for winter
morning wear are merino over crimson,
and underskirts, with sleeves, and point
ed vest of crimson.
SATIN and velvet striped silks will be
very much worn next season, with plain
silk or cashmere overdresses.
The latest wrinkle in the monogram
mania is to have them engraved on the
curtain cornices and tops of mirrors.
The new style of wedding cards are
marked with one letter only, instead of
a monogram, and are plainly engraved
on thick white paper
SOLID colored silks and rich poplins
will be most fashionable for street COS.
tunes dark green, brown, black, ma.
room and navy blue will be the most
fashionable colors.
Mrs. A. r. STEWART, in answer to a
friend who asked her why she dressed
so plainly, replied II can afford to do
So" One of the advantages of being
rich, you see.
ALL silks, especially black silks, have
advanced in price abroad, but there will
probably be very little increase in the
price in this country, as the most of
next seasons silks were ordered at war
prices.
In furnishing houses, the fashion is to
have the walls, carpets, furniture and
hangngs of each room a different color,
so that they can be designated as the
red room, blue room, etc.
For the benefit of young persons aE-
llCtc't Will lItChItS, Vic view L VI 4fiNtt
would inform them that powdered nitre
moistened with water, applied to the
face night and morning, will soon re-
move all traces of them.
AN effort is being made to revive the
brocades worn by our grandmothers.
Heavy silks and satins are stamped or
brocaded with figures of large opening
rOSpc and Gins prinp birds
A BosToN lady declares she is guilty
Of downright falsehood dozen times a
day, 10y saying to people whom she
meets, :" am glad to see YOU" and
cannot free herself from the habit of so
lying.
A LADY writer blames the men more
than the women for the ridiculous fash
ions now in vogue. She says: If all
men possessing a hundred thousand
dollars andupward should form a league
not 10 marry any woman who mounted
a chignon, how long do you suppose the
ugly monstrosities would continue to be
in vogue?'
HIGH authority in fashionable matters
says: " The embroidering and braiding
mania has probably reached its height,
and may henceforth be expected to de-
cline" The taste for this sort of thing
was a barbarous one from the begin
ming, and has been carried TO an ex-
IRENE that could only crafty the UNI
cultivated eye of a prairie lndianess.
OF the goods for fall and winter wear,
now coming in, velour is heavy rep.
Velour armure the same, with little
design interviewer. "Satine," the plain
sngle-colored goods of that name. which
won popularity last winter. Serge is a
finer rep than velour, with a twill in it.
Mattelaise represents an effect like
quilting; and sable signifies that sand
ed, or called ''frosted appearance
impaired to some handsome plaid pop
Inns.
A TURK has appeared in New York
with wife whose strange, luxuriant
beauty has created deep sensation.
She has the eyes OF huri, almond
shaped, deep and dreamy, and brilliant.
ly white teeth, that laugh as she
laughs. The delicate white lace that
covers her blue dress is held by little
proups of real humming birds, perched
on branches made of the brilliant wing.
sheaths of the green beetle. They are
sojourning at an up town hotel, Ell route
for Canada
A NEW style of arranging the hair is
to be adopted soon. The old French
twist in the back is to be revived, but
rendered more graceful by plat or
cable of hair surrounding it, dropping
low on the nape of the neck. A coro.
net OF hair is to take the place of the
Pompadour roll, and from beneath that
coronet light curls and frizettes are to
fall on the forehead. Four long curls,
two on each side, are to fall on the back
and shoulders from beneath the braid
or cable. The temple hair is to be
brushed high and smooth.
SOME Saratoga women have intro
duccd a new mode Of walking in the
ways of the devil. a local paper says
of it; The hip-hop wiggle-waggle is