The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-01-04
ITEMS ron TkE LADIES,


loved and petted in Boston.
Filagree silver ornaments are to be
considerably worn this season.
Sparkling the daughter of million
aire is the Supreme Court OF this land.
The favorite round hat for quite young
ladies and misses is called La VdHtefe
Adelina Patti has left Paris for Mos
COW, and will remain in Russia until
February.
Nine. Yirginie Deviessy, who died re-
Gently in Paris, was one hundred and
seven years old.
Mercedes de Montpensier, the future
| Queen of Spain, is now sixteen years
Old, and very plain indeed.
| sat dolls fair in Chester, England,
two thousand seven hundred wax and
china beauties were exhibited.
New linen collars have an inside frin
of Smyrna lace, placed next the neck,
to relieve the unbecoming white Of thick
linen.
Fashionable dressmakers in Paris
send out dolls to their patrons in fac
simile costumes of whatever they have
for sale.
There are female pickpockets in Balti-
more so handsome and lady-like that IL
is q pleasure to have them get away with
your watch.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton keeps saying
that the present political complication
is terrible muss with which no woman
is connected.
Mrs. Jemima Letter, grand niece of
Daniel Boone, died at her residence in
Caldwell County, NC, few days ago,
aged ninety-one.
They talk Of cutting Queen Victoria's
salary down from $4,000 day to only
$4 900, and this in the presence Of an un-
usually hard winter.
| Mrs. Gaines is in Washington this
winter as vivacious and confident that
she will triumph over the lawyers as she
was forty years ago.
Scarlet underwear will be more worn
\ by ladies The present winter than any
previous season. In this they copy their
transatlantic sisters.
| There have been one thousand one
| hundred marriages In Salt Lake within
the last three weeks. The name of the
happy bridegroom isn't mentioned.
Annie Holiday, Of Philadelphia, was
hit on the nose by another colored lady
ON Christmas morn, and consequently
didn't enjoy Annie Holiday at all.
According to French statistics for
| 1875, one hundred and fitty-two men be-
came lunatlcs through love, while the
heads OF only thirty-seven women were
turned by the same cause.
| There is sudden fancy for restoring
the gilt and silver braids of last season
| tor felt hats. The prettiest have wide,
black braid, barred with gold or silver
threads for trimming the crown.
Striped velvet, which is so fashionable
for evening wear, Is now adopted for
day dresses. The most charming have
very fine stripes, almost like threads,
on a ground ofcontrasting color.
An Irish housemaid, boasting of her
industrious habits, said she rose at 4,
made fire, put on the kettle, prepared
Ilhe breakfast, and made all the beds be.
fore any one In the house was up.
Black velvet princess dresses are
made with long back seams and square
trains. Their only trimming is row of
heavy fringe near the bottom of the
front breadths, stopping at the square
train.
Skirts are worn SO closely clinglng to
the figure that invention is put to the
test now to dispense with all under
drapery that bulges out or creates the
smallest suspicion OF fullness Of ma.
terial.
The standing bias band, sloped off in
| front, is the popular collar for dresses.
1t is a trifie over an inch wide when
finished, and is sewed on without cord.
ing at the bottom, or the milliner's told
formerly used.
The New York Telegram tells OF a
woman in Newark, New Jersey, who has
tried to mutilate her tongue. She has
no appreciation of the duIIes popularity
IsuppOsed to be claimed by the sex as
i peculiarly theirs.
i Mrs. William Astor has made Christ.
mas donation OF $15, 900 10 the Children's
/ Aid Society, W hich sum will be sufficient
to clothe and send out West one hundred
boys. There are many ladies in posi-.
tion to follow Mrs. Astor's example.
! Leap-year has passed; and when you
see sad-eyed girl biting her finger.
nails and looking blue and tar away,
you may know that she is one of those
who neglected to attend strictly to busi.
ness while the propitious opportunity
i was at hand.
|
about Mary Clemmer and the peac efhl
IrelatiOns existing between herself and
| her divorced husband, MIR. Ames. A s
1--we understand it, Mary's husband liked
another woman better, and, as soon as
he could, he united from his first love
and mated with the second.
] The new square backs of basqued bod.
ices are in keeping with the square
,lplastrons; they are cut short ON the
hips, round and long in front; at the
back the three center seams commence
at the neck and extend tO'the wais thine
all being whale-boned. 1t is not unusual
Ito see the back Of the basque extend
hall yard below the waist, and some.
times more.
| The New York correspondent OF the
Buffalo Courier writes the following
"rhe science of fashion shows continti-
al progress. The newest bonnet is O
cross between French coafscuttle and
la Japanese vasel 1t seems to be
trimmed with little of every thing,
from spring grasses to gilded ten penny
nails. Solomon and the Queen OF Sheba