The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1874-06-13
SUGGESTIONS FOR THE LADIES.

are used IN combination with the same
good effect rs in jewelry. Some belts
appear which are composed entirely of
metal, and viii look we'll with every
toilet, lighting up a dark dress, and
corresponding with a lighter garment.
The single clasps for belts are no smaller
than those worn last year, and all the old
jokes about doorplates viii continue in
force but some of these square and
oval plates are wrought in designs well
worth studying. both for elaboration
and beauty, and it will be probably
some time before they disappear entire
". The duDloRieres are neither larger
nor smaller than formerly, and can be
bought IN velvet or leather and with
mountains of nickel. silver or gold:
some OF them have two compartments,
and, therefore, afford more chance for
the fair wearers to lose their small trifies
and fall into pretty bewilderment con-
corning the whereabouts of penknife
and glove-buttoner and tablets
DISAPPEARANCE OF THE BONNET
The name of the bonnet, we believe.
still survives for curiousIy-exarger-
ated ornament Of the hair and it is
possible that In the female mind. the
subtle waves of which are unsearchable
some kind Of historical unity with re-
spect 70 the article has been kept up. so
that women may still imagine that they
wear bonnets. But, as men understand
things, bonnets have ceased to be. 1t
is the most complete innovation of
dress made for many years. We are
not at all setting up the past against
the present. The existing female fash
ion Is always, in our Judgment, the
most charming 1t Is so for the reason
that 1t is the only one embellished by
actual wear. Not one of the old ones
has a single pair of bright eyes or rosy
cheeks 10 commend It. Besides, the
celestials surely need not ask those TO
whom they show themselves how they
appear. If male beholders are justified
in any snpplication of critical kind it
Is when they ask that women should
reveal, not hide, their faces and in
leaving off the bonnet. the sex has gone
to the full limit IN that point of their
attire. No woman in England now con-
ceals a single feature. Forehead,
cheeks, dimpled or undimpled chins,
ear-tips, all are visible
WrrCHERY OF HAIR.-Women know
now that there never has been anything
found to soften harsh outlines, to lend
a suspicion of beauty where beauty is
not, to make a brow white by contrast,
to lend charm of youth to every face,
of innocence TO every expression, and to
exalt the type of all the loneliness there
Is, equally with the half-veiling, half
revealing cOquetTy of these blowing
and wandering little locks that frame a
face like picture. There are. indeed.
very few faces. within the years to which
any fanciful way of wearing the hair
is at all suitable, that are not set off to
advantage by this method OF dressing
1t. The too high forehead is reduced,
the too low forehead Is disguised, the
eyes are Swallowed, and made darker or
softer, the thin face Is shortened, the
plump face is idealized. and the whole
countenances loses that materialitv
which 1t invariably has when the lines
OF the hair about Il are deep and thick.
and is lifted into the nights of the pic
turesque. And when to this light and
airy garniture which nature gives the
face Is added the effect of the exquisite
tlnts OF those cOlOrs that have come into
vogue with the last few years, denomi-
mated by all sorts of poetical names. as
glacier blue, shadow of the rose, frozen
moonlight, mountain brook, descriptive
of palid and ethereal half-tones of
color, each OF which imparts something
of its own loneliness to the wearer.
cooling too vivid blush h-re. ADDING Il
ulster there, we see that fashion has. Nv
slow approaches, reached a really fit
and capable means Of making almost
every woman beautiful.
NOVELTIES N FANs.-This year. the
fan. although by no means small. is not
quite so large as those used last year.
and which formed such a fruitful topic
for newspaper Eumorists. The sticks
may be either of delicately-carved ivory
or ebony, and the fan iself either OF
black silk, with an deliberately painted
wreath, beginning on the left side. and
extending half across to the right, or of
white satin similarly adorned. In these
paintings smaller number of colors is
used than last year, and the effect is less
gaudy and much more elegant. One of
the black fans, for instance, has a wreath
of very delicate Nile green and gold.
Another has cluster of orchids sprinc-
ing from branch upon which IL perched
bird who seems TO be looking at a
butterfly just beyond his reach. Moss
roses and mignonette blossoms are the
combination used upon one white satin
ian, and Wild roses and viole.s upon the
another. The liking for Japanese fans
still endures, and their quaint designs,
almost as good as the Chinese puzzle IL
the amount of amazement that they
furnish, can be found in great variety.
Those which have a design in silver on
scarlet ground are very cheerful and
pretty IN effect, although not quite so
astounding as those in which beings
clothed III every color walk about in a
landscape composed of trees and flowers
OF equal great variety of tint, and leave
very black footmarks behind them upon
very white ground. The Yiepua fans
OF Russia leather and silk of the same
tint will be carried this year, their con-
yeyance, durability and beauty combin-
ing to make them popular.
To PRESERVE THE CoArPLExIoN.-Th
best way to preserve the beauty of COM
plexion IS to avoid as much as possible
all occasions which sooner or later trou-
bic the mind to accustom one's-self
early to resist demonstrative emotions.
either of great JOY or SORROW. Genel-
ally speaking, cold air is a mortal en-
envy of the complexion nevertheless
there are exceptions with perst rs of
high color, who support it easily while
those OF pale tint find themselves bet
ter IN warm AIR. The manner of living
great influence on the complexion, be-
cause there is an intimate relation be
tween the state of the stomach and the
TINT OF the complexion. Persons of
high color spoil their complexion bv
using irritating ailments Others fall
into the excess of eating insufficient,
hoping to preserve freshness of COM
Plexion they only iniure their stomach,
and give themselves pale, bIuish tint.
Even tight clothes have an important
influence on the complexion. From
what have said, it will be clearly IN
derstoOd that in the observance of hy-
gIenic rules will be found the best means
OF preserving the delicacy and purity of
the complexion. 1t is we'll not to give
the stomach all it Graves. Persons sub
ject to rush of blood to the head
should eat plain food and avoid all
stimulating drinks, such as pure wines,
liquors, etc. For those of a pale com
plexion Il is quite the contrary. Many
are IN the habit of taking something
strengthening in the morning, and sleep
afterward. This is wrong. A glass of
cold water taken on rising, and fast an
hour after is very good Aa ~ the