The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1874-10-24
NEWSPAPER DECISIONS.
EvE-ANGELIcAL CORNER.

More ladies write for ScrtbRcr's than for
any other periodical.
The language of ffowers-When the roses
sweetly breathe dew.
Mrs. Senator Sprague sails for Europe
soon, to be gone several years.
The Pittsburg Leader prophesies that
Miss Proctor won't get a cent.
In Paraguay, girls are not allowed to
chew tobacco till they are thirteen.
The handsomest bonnets are of black
velvet relieved by one bright color in ribbon,
flower or feather.
They have found at Herculaneum the
bust of woman in solid silver. 1t weighs
fifty-eight pounds.
Waist belts are worn very wide. They
are embroidered or studded with fine let
beads in profusion.
There's something in a woman's heart,
i think, delicate, SO soft force,
That 1t will cling like STEEL nor feel bruise;
Yet loose one fibre, it may bleed to death.
Young women should beware of marrying
an accountant. If they do so they take an
adder to their bosoms.
Powdered hair is entirely and completely
out of fashion. Less false hair is worn now
than for many years past.
all the young farmers of Colorado require
of wife in the way of music.
Mrs. Morrissey, it is said, wears $4,000
on one of her fingers. John was always
noted for holding rich hand.
This is the latest form Of wedding invita-
tions: "Come around and see me capture
a mother-in-law at s o'clock, sharp"
A wicked Chicago paper quotes Tilton's
remark that he "feels old age creeping over
him. " and wants to know if it is Susan B.
Anthony.
A singular differenee-Call girl young
witch and she is pleased; call an elderly
woman an old witch and her indignation
knows no bounds.
Curls are coming into fashion again for
ladies. Good ones cost all the way from
ten dollars upwards, not counting five cents
box for hairpins.
They strive to make the girls at Vassar
college lady-like by feeding them on weak
tea and baked apples, and having them
sleep without pillows.
The Cuilass suits fit as if moulded to the
figure and are very elegant All the fashion
authorities predict that they will be gener-
ally worn this season.
Something new in dress material is called
velvet cloth. It is very handsome, and
enough like velvet to be taken for it after
the gas has been turned low.
"What is heavens last, best gift to man?n
asked a young lady the other night, smiling
sweetly on a pleasant-looking young man.
A horse!" replied the young man, with
great prudence.
It is said that Mrs. Woodruff is preparing
a statement showing up Col. John W. For
ney. What in the name of common sense
is she fooling away her time for in fixing
up a scandal about politician while there
are so many preachers she could ruin with
less than half the trouble?
Here is a specimen extract from the pro-
ceedings of the Dress Reformers - who
met in convention last week at Painesville,
Ohio: Mrs. DR.. Chase said-s:I used to
wear a corset. took it off and felt as if I
would fall to pieces. Then got short
dress and some trousers. Oh, how delicious
to climb fence! You could put one foot
upon the fence and then put your leg over
the top rail, and then jump. That was
emancipation. [ say that pantaloons are
the badge of independence, they are the
salvation. These skirts are tho badge of
dependence, dragging us down to ruin and
misery"
A correspondent of the Springfield Repub-
lScan has this to say about Kiowa belle,
the daughter Of Kicking Bird 4: "She is q
lively, piquant little thing, with arch, soul
full eyes. Her name is 'Topin,' meaning
woman. She is but twelve years old. Shall
describe her wardrobe? First, and most
rare, her buckskin cloak, fringed and spotted
all over with elk's teeth, said to be only
found now and then III the elk-this kind
of teeth-and the elks gone, too, they are
very rare and costly. Two of them are
valued at a mule. There were 500 on her
cloak. Think of wearing $50 mules on
ones back! Paris and New York are out
done here. Askirt, sometimes of buckslSin,
sometimes it is plain shawl, bought from
the traders, completes her toilet Topin is
not all friYolity. Some horses had been
stolen from the Texans, and were traced to
Kicking Bird IS band. The agent demanded
their return; the horses were gone the
affair was likely to cause trouble, when
Topin, of her own accord, came forward
first ard offered ten horses out of her own
herd to help repair the damage"