The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-10-14

ytded he Is the brother of some other GIRL
Norristown Herald.
The long outside cloak as an independent
garment will i,e seen. but with the prevail
ing style of narrow skirts and close fitting
drspery they do not look as well as when
expanded skirts were in style, and Will De
used mostly for carriage or travelling wear.
Miss Peabody, the pioneer of the kinder
garten system In this country, proposes to go
to Philadelphia this fall and organize kim
dergarten class of little orphans for exhibit
ton In the Centennial exhibition. The OBJ
ject is to show the methods and benefits of
the system.
An astonishing thing has happened to
Thomas Fielding, of Cambridge, Mass. He
went home, and, as has been his custom,
began to whip his wife. Instead OF quietly
submitting to abuse, as she had previously
done. she pounded him with stove-cover,
injuring him so that he will die OF the
wounds.
ASt. Paul mother recently took her Is
year-old daughter to a party as special
favor-not that she intended the child
should "come outn for some time yet. That
parent was rather astonished to find that
| the ''little girl" knew nearly every society
man about town, understood the figures OF
the German" and could talk like magpie.
Felt hats, trimmed with velvet and lopho-
phore feathers are favorites among the fall
STYLES. In the felt hats there is a reduction
rather than an increase OF style. The crowns
are lower and more oval, and the brims are
straight rather than rolling. Felt Is now as
fine, and nearly as soft as velvet, and
bleached to all the fashionable shades.
A custom which the French women will
not adopt, but which the Russian ladies
affect, is that of communicating in white
dresses. Working women in the empire of
the Car attend the communion service in
black dresses and white wells, but for the
richer classes, the most magnificent white
toilets are prepared for these religious cere-
monies.
The third Woman's Congress will be held
this year at Syracuse the second week in
October. Maria Mitchell, the well-known
astronomer and professor of Vssssr College,
will preside, and arrangements are making
| to render its sessions interesting and profit
| able. The last congress was held in Chi
cago, and Jennie June'' Mrs. ID. G.. Croly)
writes in the Graphic that it traded very
much on the reputation of the one before.
Another English institution, worthy of all
commentator, is the Village School
Kitchen, at Watford. Girls of eleven, ten at
time, are taught how to cook, without in
terfering with their school duties. Twice a
week a dinner for eight is prepared by
three cooks and two assistants. The teacher,
the cooks and four other children, whose
homes are distant from the school, enjoy
the dinners. Each girl has a turn in the
kitchen once a week, and, by the time they
are ready to leave school, they are sensibly
educated.
A ladies' dresspaking, millinery and en-
broidery association has been formed in
London, to enable ladies to become bread
winners by other means than by teaching
or being governesses. Dressmaking and
millinery are essentially woman's work,
and when ladies of refinement adopt it then,
perhaps, the difficulty of getting a dress
made well without expanding quite as much
upon 1t as the material costs In the first in
stance, will be somewhat mitigated. High
class decorative embroidery, needlework,
millinery and dressmaking will be the dis
tinctive features of the institution.