The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-12-01
FANCIE,S FOR TIE FAIR.

dACi r Oh IJfE AIN.
GLOVES are about to be enlarged IL
make room for buttons on them.
LOVE, toothache, and tight boots are
things which can not be kept secret.
AN exclamation that does not apply
to the girl of the period" A lass toe
truei
Two or three women physicians in
Philadelphia have an income of $50, 900
year each.
WHEN girl can make matches
and dust the piano, she thinks it is
about time TO look for n beau.
A woMAN's heart is just like ltho-
grapher's stone-what is once written
on it can not be rubbed out.
CONE girl kissing another" says the
Ddnb"y Ne,cs, {" is good deal like eat
ing maple syrup on ice cream"
EVERY day Brigham Young's widows
go and sit down on his grave Seen at
a distance, it looks like beehive.
THE more the costume of the girl of
the period resembles mans coat and
vest, the happier the wearer thereof
WOMAN always was siren. Even
the five foolish virgins of Scripture,
whose lamps went out, did their best
to beg lie.
ENGLISH young ladies are wearing
"deer stalker hats" and to hear the
dears talking about them is perfectly
delightful.
Puck says that when four women arc
walking abreast on the pavement they
will break ranks for nothing except
man--with paint pot.
WORCESTER Press Almost every news
paper can be made interesting to femi-
nine readers by cutting out three-line
item and destroying it.
How doth the little Busy Il
tBy Il, mean Belize
Improve each shining hair, TO see
II she can catch swell
How skilliully she plats each tress,
How neatly folds her pads,
Aud let's n curl flow down her back,
To tempt us, artless lads
Mrs. BELLE LYNCH, n woman editor
of Ukiah, California, has been twice
whipped in public by a man for printing
gossip about her neighbors in her news
paper.
JcBersonidn What next? Before the
Ntl tHt ldSiilOIaDiC Siylt III ldtlltS
dresses reminded us of an umbrella
hoisted. Now they remind us of an
umbrella let down and buttoned.
TIE Mobile Register says that the
Southern women were not nervous dur
ing the war; that at Vicksburg and
Petersburg, when the shells went through
the houses, they would go down into
the cellars and get dinner ready as usual.
WOMAN" said an ancient writer,
"can never become an orator." But he
had probably never seen u housewife
looking out of the second-story window
mt six n. M, arguing with the milkman
about that quart of milk he ovcrcharged
her for in last months bill.
BURLINGTON Haaok-Eye; Lucy Stone
says she despises the custom of men
lifting their hats to women, and she
wants no man to salute her in that way
What Lucy likes is an easy, natural,
hearty greeting, something like, Hello,
Stoney, old girl, how docs she run?'
PRINCES are now made to initiate
flowers and fruits, and for evening
dresses the effect is charming. There
are fringes of wild roses of jessamine,
daisies, etc. Among fruit fringes are
cherries, Strawberries, and currants.
For day wear chestnut fringes are the
most popular Sometimes they are made
of wool, and at other times they are
mixture of silk and wool
A TABLESPOONFUL of ammonia in one
gallon of warm water viii! often restore
the color of carpets, even if injured by
acids or alka1i. If ceiling has been
l.. 4 IL,
a few drops should fall, this will remove
it, Or, after the carpet is well beaten
and brushed, scour with ox-gall, which
will not only extract grease, but freshen
the colors. One pint of gall in three
gallons of warm water will do for
large carpet.
THE wedding dress of Maria dc las
Mercedes, future Queen of Spain, has
already been ordered, and the feminine
portion of the world will doubtless call
it beautiful. 1t is to be of white satin,
entirely covered with Alencon point
lace, on which will be worked the arms
of all the realms into which Spain was
formerly divided This recalls the dress
of Queen Adelaide, of England, which
was pretty piece of imagination--it
tials of which formed her name.
On Hallow Fen, according to the st.
Louis Republican, half dozen bellies of
that city tried the old-fashioned expert
ment of walking around one square in
perfect silence, with their mouths full
of water, in order to hear the names of
their future husbands pronounced. They
tried it several times, but, with one sim
gle exception, couldn't keep from talk
ing that long. This young lady heroic
ally held her tongue all the way around
the square, and just as she touched the
home corner she heard somebody ex-
claim: "By George!" She is looking
now for young man whose name is
George.
A MAINE man went out the other
morning and cut down his apple-trees,
and the Lewiston journal asserts that
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