The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-10-08
ITEMS FOR THE LADIES.

OF dark fusb colOrs ...
| Velvet honnets to match the dress will
be fashionable this winter.
| Gabrielle, trimmed in Breton style, is
a pretty dress for little girl.
In demi.season bonnets the newes t
are small caPotes, and they are very
pretty.
| A Sunday-school teacher in Albion,
| New York, asked her GLASS the question 1:
| 'sWhat did Simon say 2" "Ilumbs upP
said a little girl.
An Eastern paper advertises: ga pair
| of blue eyes tor ten cents" In Chicago
you can get q pair of biack-and-blue eyes
lor less money than That.
! Among the new nick-nacks which lie
on poudoir tables are beautiful pnoCo-
graph stands of velvet, With porcelain
Wreaths round the portrait.
Feathers are cheaper than they have
been, and will be much used for bands.
They are more durable than formerly,
aud do not soon get ouC OF curl.
| Antique lace is now all the rage. Ifit
looks IKE an old sheet run Though IL
threshing machine and then dipped in a
mud hole, it is all the "autiquer."
A plim school-ma'am OF Saginaw
never allows herself TO speak OF cer-
tain noble Indian except as "Fre ckled
Finale, the Aboriginal Chieftaln."
Empty is the life of an old maid
Never has she ielt The maternal rupture
OF lucklng away Two curly-headed
cheruDs, and hear one say: "Hands off,
jim, or Pu butt you"
Aprons have come into fashion again,
and are made principally of silk the
color known as pigeons throat, and
trimmed with rucNes OF either valenCi-
ennes or mecuilu lace.
At Landau, n. H., is the grave of a
Mrs. Bronson, who lived i'll three CEN
| LurieS, she having Been born IN 1899, and
died IN 1891. 1t is said that there are
DuL three such cases on record.
| Aud now the gay walters are imper-
tInenL enough TO retort upon NJ s. Gener-
al sherman that the reason sue IS down
upon round dances Is because she is
"uoJ at all suitable TO the 1igures."
"Nadam," said a certaip nameless
one 10 Mrs. Brown, the other day, ''y GU
are talking simple RUBBISH" Yes,
sir," replied tue eYer-crusnlng lady, ''De.
cause L wish you TO comprehend me-"
A family who took the servant -girI
abroad with them, recently, were de
, lighted cn reaching PARIS 10 see hel
name figuring after thelrs on the passeA
ger list AS "MaQemoiselle Bridget Nc
FInniSan."
A model wife: She naver wasted a sol.
. itary thing. Let d cat die around GU
house, and the irst thing you knew
| Aary Jane'd nave u muh and a set 0
> urs, and ia begin to lind mince pie OF
, tue ulnner-table.
n Rural simplicity--''Bee to school, lit
tie IasseW AYE, sir." GOOD glrl-
Lnere's penny tor you" "Inank you
: sir. Phi hae to be steppm'-Dut avn
A gaun TO skeull i The moruing-Wull ye b
lnis way + the afternooAp
Il The chief attraction at the Iced
= (Englanu) Musical Festival will be Dl
I MacfarreA's new oratorio, Joseph,
/ which contains among other sonKs on
lor Mile. Albani, who Is expected i
England from Spa Immediately.
OVerskirts are now quite overshad
owed by dfaperles. W hen used they ar
mostly of the diagonal shapes Az tn
front, with extremely simple arrange
b ments OF back breadths, showing squaf
It and irregular outlines above the Train.
,fl Ladies who wear black Grape will b
i. glad TO learn OF u new discovery b
10 " hich it is preserved from spoLLing i
e tue ram, anu moreover not lose its colo
Ii when wei. 1t is called new finished
# and is a vast improvement on The OF
material.
A buttonhole seamstress goes frol
house 10 house in New York solicltin
q work in this veXatlVuB department
1t plain sewing. Many Of the most a.
Il complIshed housewives cau neither dar
stockings handsomely nor make button
II n0les neatly.
e A woman asked the Adjutant Genera
g. OF Maine Tor pension, lew days ag
,s ON the ground tnat her daughter wante
- TO buy new dress to wear to cam
- meeting, and wnen he declined To az
cede she departed, muttering that
was regular hog."
10 Theirs mother was a first cousin
~ Andre Ghenler, the poet and Gironais
is who suffered death during the Frent
10 Revolution. A statue oil Ihlers WI
70 proDaUly be erected in front Of his hous
in Lhe Place 81. Georges. A suDscrll
le ton is about to be opened Tor The pu
is pose.
ofI A Professor in an Iowa female colleg
,r caught two OF the students Out ridiI
Win their beauX, a proceeding prom
'e tied by the rules OF The college.
stopped the carriage and attempted
w pun VIC Blllo Oup1 "hSh thS hiC
=, knocked him into the mud and tie CIR
W tinished their ride.
~ The polonaise OF the present is not
H. ing more than curtailed princess,
Dr. modified in the arrangement sol the dr.
m perry and the trimming as 10 be sultab
;n lur street wear. Very little depenuen
~ or effect is had on urapery, while p!
ing appears in the seams and as n
sh Tor the parts needing it.
VI For the trimming of balldresses the
lc are in preparation " great number
Si bands of white or coloreQ tufte, ,eeovert
H. with embroidery in silk in sever
shades, gled with colore
ne beads. This is less costly than embro
d, dsry executed directly ON The dress In
nd terial, and is very handsome. r.-.
\. Some OF the petticoals l0r fall wes
w which are suitable 10 be worn win a v
n, riety of dresses are made Of brocade,
~ brooatelle, of danask anu Of emDosse
N velyat. They are bordered with ma