Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1875-04-05

FEMININE FILINGS

GEhANANE FlAANNRS.
Chatelaines made Of flowers are the
latest kickshaw.
Groomsmen. at matrimonial halter
ings. have gone out Of fashion.
Kalakaua's wife. Queen KapiOlani, is
said to be pretty and interesting.
Crimping of little girls hair Is going
out of fashion. Too much injury.
Lovers do the cooling before marriage,
and tradesmen do the billing after it.
In Paris GIL women get their living
by serving as models for painters and
sculptOrs.
Trains of evening dresses are length
ening. 1t will soon require 4O-mule-
power locomotive to propel them.
Tom Owens of Iowa, is man Of the
strictest impartiality. He has had three
wives and he drowned them all in the
same well.
The bead mania still RACES. A fash
ionably got up girl looks like glass
ware factory that has just been run thrO'
a sausage mill or bOne-dust pulverizer.
A woman, who applied for a situation
as car driver, being asked if she could
manage mules, scOrnfully replied: "of
course l can. I've had two husbands"
Necklace pendants all the go. The
cross is the favOrite form. It's always
more pleasant to wear it dangling by a
jeweled chain, than to bear it on one s
shoulders or endure it in ones eyes.
A lady, giving her experience of shop
ping in Paris, says: 1.-The purse of For
tunatus, the wisdom of Solomon, the pa
thence of Job, and the cunning of a fox
such are the qualities needed by those
who go shopping in Paris"
A man in Michigan procured divorce
from his wife. intending to marry anoth-
or woman. The latter, however, got tir-
ed waiting, and married another man on
the day the divorce was granted. Then
the fellow hesitated whether or not to
try and make it up with his wife again,
and while he was hesitating, his wife
married another fellow.
Washington gossip: Miss Leila is 4
pretty girl. with fine. fair skin, family
blush-tingcd, soft, curling. golden hair.
and great velvety brown eyes. Her man.
ners are charmingly naive, and her lin
guistic and vocal accomplishments fine.
Her outfit for the season is extravaganza
ly prOfuse, numbering more exquisite
dresses than she can possibly wear dur.
ing the winter. even should she attend
every party and wear a different toilet
at each one One of the rarest dresses
from the hands of the modiste is peach.
blow silk with little humming- birds Of
1ridescent hues perching TREMENDOUSLY up.
on the long reeds and grasses, which are
covered with sparkling dew-drops My
The Boston Transcript furnishes thi:
photographic sketch of shoddyitic glory
"A lady blazed all over with diamond,
at Fifth Avenue party last week. Or
each shoulder she had four stars. tn,
size of dollar, made of diamonds he
hair was set thickly with diamonds
there was diamond bandeau upon he
brow; she had diamond earrings and
diamond necklace upon the sides of he
chest were two circles of diamonds, from
which depended lines and curves of dia
mOnds reaching to her waist, aroun,
which she wore a diamond girdle o.
her skirts in front were large peacock
wrought in lines of diamonds; Their
were rosettes of diamonds, large an
small, all over dress and person, wher
ever they could be placed The lady
grandfather was a cartman, her father
pawnbrOker, and her husband-well, h
relies upon the father. But it doesn'
: matter. The old gentleman is worth hi
millions. and still follows his bushes
: and adds to his store. He is never pre-:
ent at these parties though.