The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1876-04-28
ETANGELTCAL CORNER.

EPANOELgC-AL COhNEISs
| A new material for wells is "dream
lace.p
The newest fringes have very deep head
ings.
Tape hats, initiating CHIP, are cheap and
tasty.
Cream is the fashionable color for ladies'
evening gloves.
New white straw hats have black brims,
and vice versa.
The old-fashioned parasol with pointed
pagoda top is again in vogue.
A new cashmere lace which glistens in
the light is called Z" frost lace"
Black grenadines for evening wear are
barred with gold or silver threads.
The backs of new waists are cut in eight
pieces, and the seams run to the shoulders.
Spanish blonde lace will be one of the
most popular trimmings this season for
thin black goods.
Lace mittens are to be worn again this
summer. They are imported in two or
three sober colors and are called Centennial
gloves.
A Japanese maiden, now being educated
in this country, says that all her people
want is Christianity, scissors and wedding
breakfasts.
The editors of certain fashion periodicals
issue pamphlets entitled "what to buy"
and what to wear,' but the vexing ques-
tion with most of Us is-What to buy with.
The inventor of oxydized buttons and
clasps SO fashionable of late years in ladies'
dresses was Frehch officer under Maxi
milan in Mexico, who shared his masters
unhappy fate.
A manner of dressing the hair suited to
a piquant face and figure is to erimp it in
large waves on the forehead and draw it
back low in the neck in five curls, fastened
with silver or jet ornament.
A '1girl of the period' comments thus ON
Mormonism elbow absurd-four or five
wives for one man when the fact is each
woman in these tunes ought to have four
OR five husbands. It would take about that
number to support her decently.
Two young ladies were discussing pref
erence expressed by one of them for clean
shayen men, when the other was heard to
remark: ri don't object to man with
reasonable quantity of hair on his face, but
I would mt like to marry buffalo robe.''
An exquisite dress for very little girl
is made of Valenciennes insertion and mar
row pufings of white Swiss muslin. These
are sewn together in lengthwise strips, and
cut in Gabrielle" pattern not fitted close
to the figure. ..ss I;;s sleeves aye put together
bottom of the skirt with wide edging.
The dress is worn over a pink or a blue
slip.
"This is my last CALL" remarked flip
pant young gentleman to young lady who
was soon to be married, Oh a recent occa-
sion. 81 never call on married women or
unmarried ladies after they have reached
twenty-five" You do well, sir,' gravely
remarked an elderly lady present. cat
that age, and after marriage, they begin to
know the value of time, and do not like to
waste i"
Mrs. Hough, a lady who died a few days
ago in Alexandria, Pa, at the age of nine
ty-seven years, was one of the few women
of the country who have cast a vote for a
President. She grew up to womanhood in
the State of New Jersey, where she was
born, and when of age she cast a vote for
Thomas Jefferson for President, as prop
erty qualification in that State then entitled
a woman to vote.
The whole story of life has been COM
pressed into this dainty little poem by Jean
Ingelow:
Sweet is Observation-Disclosures over,
Kiss and part.
Sweet is youth but youths a rover
Sos my heart.
Sweet is rest; but all by showing
Toll is nigh.
We must go. Alas the going,
Say, "Good-bye.'