Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1874-09-10
THE FAIR sen.

hito uuSiin eIu uDIOluereQ SaSne!
are new.
" Wooden necklaces (Swiss goods) ars
fashionable.
In California all educational offices
are open to women.
The autumn dresses are to be a little
+ shorter in front.
y u Miss Kate Fields has made volume
y of ''Ten days in SPAIN"
0 A ladies Temperance organization
n proposes to bring Milwaukee's fine beer
s to a finale.
!. Leghorn hats trimmed with maratol
feathers are very elegant, and worn by
the Newport ladies.
\ The fichu holds its own admirably.
S and will doubtless be improved upon
D for the coming season.
There will be no post-ofice clerks in
, heaven unless lhe girls stop directing
their letters "catti-cornered."
Mr.. and Mrs. H. w. Hale have con-
: Jointly taken degrees of divinity at the
r Newton Theological Seminary.
A little girl named Charlotte Wyeth.
was kidnapped at Newport last week,
and has not been heard of since.
"She has a magnificent voice for a
i. fog WHISTLE" is portion of Western
description of a local prima donna.
I The cheapest and rou..hest of straw
hats are worn by ladies at the seaside,
trimmed with white tulle in many
ways.
l Miss Nilsson has been decorated by
the Grand Dixie of Saxe-Coburg Gotha
> with the Order of Merit for Art of Sci
ence.
Nevada is proud ola woman resident
who, when the stealthy savage ap-
preached her, just pulled off her hair
and gave it to him.
Mrs. Johnston, of Glastonbury, Conn.
killed a rattlesnake on Friday, which
measured fourteen feet i'm length, and
had twelve rattles.
: Miss Haines, a graduate of the Cam
ton Theological School, has assumed
the pastOrate of the Universalist church
at Hallowell, Maine.
A New Orleans colored lady remarks
| that her husband holds the ''extin-
guished position of supplementary on
the metropolitan police"
DIR. Mary Walker assumed female
haDiliments for a,few moments so that
she might write: 81 consider Mrs Til
ton disgrace to my SEX"
Mrs. Celia Burleigh, a well-known
advocate of woman's rights, is reported
to be dying of consumption in the city
hospital at Rochester.
Six, eight and ten buttoned kid
gloves will be the rule for promenade
this fall and nearly twice as many for
all evening or full dress Ocsasions.
Black silk walking dresses, with
stripes of beads down the front width
instead of velvet, as was the rage last
winter, with be in favor in the autumn.
A Brooklyn girl, who has been read
ing somebody's Statement" went in
to a dry goods store the other day and
asked for yard of "impure lace"
Mrs. Spicer, of Upton, No., seventy
eight years of age, recently employed
a mason to repair her chimney, and
herself carried all the mortar and brick
up ladder.
A Western paper thinks that prudent
ladies will hardly be encouraged by re-
cent occurrences to often try the ex-
pertinent of learning how much temp
tation they can resist.
Miss Nilsson has offered to give two
onserts at Norwich, England, on the
10th and 18th proximo, in aid of the
infirmary for children, founded in that
town by Jenny Lind in 1880.
The Jet waist belts are getting larger
in size and very elaborate. Those of
real Jet are, of course. the handsomest
and most expensive; with black silk
dress they are very effective.
There is a Cuban lady at Saratoga
who wears a necklace of American
twenty dollar gold pieces valued at
800. And the impecuniOus young
oloods there would doubtless like to
spend her.
A Macoupin, ILL.,, girl shells dry corn
or her fathers horses with her teeth,
md can shell bushel in this way
quicker than a man can accomplish it
With the old fashioned shelling blade.
A female Masonic lodge exists in
Pa, under the title of
Lilies of the valley" so called, per-
laps, because the members have found
omething else to do than to toll and
pin.
TIE hair is now arrayed on the top
f the head in a series of graduated
ufis coming from over the forehead
lmOst to the name of the neck The
uffs are made from what ladies call
he ''cOmb savings.
Now that there are to be good schools
,r the cooks some of the young lady
tired of thin bread and butter
nd attenuated hash, express the hope
nat there will be better cooks for the
,hools.
The Old-fashioned bodices somewhat
approved upon are to be trotted out
,ain next winter. This means that
nall waists and tight lacing is to be-
,me the rule again among fashionable