The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-12-05
NOTES FOR ThE LADIES.


81. ComforP is the name of Pennsyl-
vania wite-whipper.
Crimped braid fringe is an allowable
trimming for mourning costumes.
Every housekeeper knows that a
smoking stoye-pipe is not pipe OF
peace.
A fine quality OF velveteen is said to
be coming in fashion for ladies' under
dresses.
Very nearly all wraps, unless made
to match the dress, are Of some black
material.
Fancy aprons are made with but one
pocket, and that placed little toWar
the right or lett side.
Sacques and clOaks for school girls
are finished on the edge with several
rows ofmachine stitching.
Kid collars and cuffs to match belts are
the latest novelty. The fragrant Russia
leather is sometimes used for these dain-
ty articles.
and a little girl, describing it at home,
said: "She was so tainted they couldn't
come her to-"
If your teeth are pretty, show them
Smile continually, for some one may be
looking at you when you do not know t.
Il IN. o. Republican.
Says some surly old fellow: The
dressmaking modes of to-day closely re-
semDle the fashions that prevailed in
, Egypt when the pyramids We're built.
The other day tly-wheel undressed q
Michigan woman i'll a second, but no
machine that was ever invented can
dress one in less than two hours and a
| half.
"Dear, dear, dear, dear, dear, dear,
dear, little Daisy" said Albert Holbert,
OF Brooklyn, in his last letter TO that
young lady. And now his wife has had
him put in jail just for that.
Letting Well Alone-"Oh, Mary, the
Wells got broke, and we can't get no
water; and oh, bain't it primel Fe!ther
says as p'raps we shan't ave 10 wash
for fortnight"
Quilted slippers OF colored satins, with
brlIIiant buckles of steel and gilt ar
ranged in the bows on the instep, have
| taken the place Of the kid sandals worn
by ladies during the summer.
There is nothing dispels the dreams c
youth and skaters the ambitious hopes
OF the noble boy like having a young
lady remark i'll his hearing that he
would make, with study, good hat
rack.
Mr.. Cirkle was married In Chicago the
Other day. The bride (adds the New
1ork Commercial Advertiser) seemed
particularly happy in the consciousness
OF having a husband who would be apt
always to stay round.
Into every married mans mind (says
the Brooklyn Argus) there sooner or
later enters the conviction that he can
not dress his wife in plain clothes and
keep the currentof her affection tor him
flowing at a spring-freshet gait.
When young wife is suffering from
chronic inability to keep from shying
articles OF household furniture, it aim ost
extinguishes every spark of Christian
feeling in her husbands breast to hear
the neighbors characterize her out.
bursts as 'toibles." ."-[ Andrews Bazaar.
Bayard Taylor (remarks the Brooklyn
Argus now regrets his rash champion
ship OF mothers-in-law. He writes de-
spairingly: Il am overrun with them,
and the spectacle of wall-eyed woman
armed with an umbrella and pair of
spectacles has become a perfect horror
to me-"
A funny little ornament for a bureau
is square piece Of silver card board,
about six inches each way, embroidered d
on the edge with some fancifuI design in
worsted, and having in the center the
words scratch my back" 1t is hung
on the gas fixtures by cord. You turn
it around and discover the back to be a
piece of sandpaper to scratch matches
on.
Wristlet parties are the latest. The
ladies furnish the wristlets, and each
pair is numbered. One of each pair with
he number is put in box and is sold to
the gentlemen by committee, and cor
responding wristles with the numbers
are worn by the ladies. The fun com
mences when each gentleman buys a
wristlet and finds the owner Of the mate
to it TO whom he is to pay attention
during the evening.
Now that one energetic New York
manager has made the theater ticket
spectators hide their diminished heads,
the Chicago Inter-Ocean wants some
one to enforce the San Francisco rule
that ladies' six-story bonnets be re-
moved during the play, SO that the au-
dience may obtain something more than
occasional glimpses of the stage and the
heads of the actors.
"W.-, do YOU know why you are
like a donkeyp "Like a donkeyv'
echoed W, opening his eyes wide.
"No, l don't" "Do you give it up?" 81
do" "Because your better half is
stubbornness herself" "That's not bad.
Ha! ha! ri give that to my wife when l
get home" "Mrs. W." he asked, i,
as he sat down to supper. ''do you know
why l am like donkey?' He waited
a moment, expecting his wife to give
it up. But she didn't. She looked at
hum somewhat comniseratingly as she
answered, 81 suppose because you
were born So"
A new prison chaplain was recently
appointed in certain town. He was a
man who greatly magnified his office,
and enleri..g & one Of The cells on his Hrst
round OF inspection he with much POM
poslty thus addressed the prisoner who
occupied it: "Well, sir, do you know