The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1876-09-22
NEWSPAPER DECISIONS.
EHANGELICAL CORNER.

EVANGELICAL CORNER.
Boots are square-toed.
Fans grow smaller and smaller.
Long cloaks will be worn again.
Ball dresses are made sleeveless.
Red stockings are again fashionable.
The red parasol has not reached New
York.
Everything is Pompadour-caps neckties,
bows and rosettes.
Myrtle green feathers will be all the rage
for ladies' hats this Fall.
The last novelty arrived from Paris is the
red fan with black sticks,
st. Louis pays her female school teachers
| as much as she does her male ones.
The newest style of watch for gentlemen
has very thick glass case not at all en-
closed.
Mrs. Hiram Powers returned to the Uni
ted States, after an absence of nearly forty
years.
Queen Victoria has been tried in the bal
anee and found not wanting. Her weight is
180 pounds.
a small amount of soda used in the dish
pan is wonderful aid in making the dishes
look clean and bright.
There is woman in the New York
Almshouse, 103 years old, who has heavy
gray beard and is often shaved.
Ladies at Sara, 1ga are now wearing a
bow of bright colored ribbon tied about the
left arm. It is understood to be new
fashion of mysterious origin.
Shoes for indoors wear, noted for their
oddity rather than beauty, are of ticking
strapped across with leather, and tied on
the instep with colored ribbon.
When Canada girl finds she is loving
in vain, she writes letter saying: sHear
is lox Of my hare" and then leaps into
pond and comes out dead.
Sr. LOUIS, Sept. 5.-Gen. JEFF. Thomp-
son, OF New Orleans, died this afternoon in
his old home in st. Joseph, where he has
been visiting for his health for some time
past.
"Donald," said Scotch dame, looking
up from the catechism, to her son, sfwkat's
a SANDER ?'' ga SANDER, guide mither,"
quoth young Donald, 'sa-weei, I hardly
ken, unless it be mayhaps an over true tale
which one guide woman tells of anither."
Olive Logan warns the fashionable women
of New York thet they must be more tenn
perate in their drinking, and points to
beautiful and captivating woman who
is now forced to pass her life in seques-
tered "retreat " because of her disposition
to get or what is vulgarly termed "a
bender"
A darning machine is late invention.
What an amount of labor and hasty words
the affair will save! For it will finish
hole as large as 25 cent piece in two min
utes and a half, something which would
take careful needle-woman ten times as
long to do Garments may also be patched
with this machine.
1uo WuO1G SbOAJ OA AAi0 AAc UOOn Oo~AA-
pressed into this dainty little poem by Jean
Ingelow.:
Sweet is childhood -childhood's over,
Kiss and part.
Sweet is Yoush; but youths rover
Sos my heart.
Sweet is rest but all my showing
Toll is nigh.
We must go. Alas the going
Say" Goodbye
Abiding to the customs of Siam writer
says that when girl falls in love she goes
to the mans house, and will not leave, and
if he declines to marry her, the old women
of the neighborhood turn out and pelt him
with inferior eggs until he changes his mind1
AS long as this custom prevails, we should
not think the girls of Siam would care much
if the almanac makers were to leave out
leap year altogether.
A neat way to clean black lace is to wash
| it in SKINNED milk, not rubbing but SIM
ply squeezing it. When it seems clean,
take it out and put it into little clean
milk, and put it out directly on sheets OF
stout paper Touch it here and there with
the fingers to draw out the scollops and
edges, lay other sheets of paper over the lace.
and heavy weight over all till dry. If
laid on anything soft, the moisture is abb
sorbed, and the lace will not be SO new
looking.