The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-05-10

confident under such circumstances
should retire under the counter and SAY
my prayers or do something very re
hgious."
A "woRD' ABOUT FOLLOWING FASHIONS
A disgusted fashion writer, tired o
the criticism of male bipeds upol
women's fashionable folly of dress, de
serves ten thousand times ten thousand
thanks from womankind for the first
class "word" in favor OF following the
fashions: "Dear girl and woman read
ers, dress as you please. Heed not the
silly driVelings or illnatured rawlings oi
mean-souled, tasteless, would-be critics
Choose your own colors, shapes and ma
terlals. Spare NO pains to render your
self as fascinating as possible. The AL
mighty made you to be beautiful. II q
| little paint or lily-White enhances your
charms, use it, but beware of the poi.
| sonous kinds. II a little or big bonnet,
| long or short dress, q tight or loose
skirt, high or low heel, plain or fancy
hue, becomes you, wear it. Consult
your own sweet tastes, and the dime n
sions Of your fathers and husbands
pocketbooks. And, my word for it,
whatever you do, whatever you wear,
Will sooner or later be recognized as
right and proper, becoming and be-
Wltching, by the surliest cynic in all
young legions of masculine SUBJECTS"
HOME BEAUTY.
A tasteful woman can make q garret
beautiful and home-like at little cost; (;
for the beauty Of home depends more Oh
educated and refined taste than upon
mere wealth. II there is no artist in the
house, it matters little that there is q
large balance in the bank. There is
usually no better excuse for barren
home than Ignorance or carelessness. A
little mechanical skill can make bracket ts
and shelves for the walls. A thought
ful walk In the woods can gather leaves,
lichens and ferns for adorning the un-
pictured rooms A trifle saved from
daily expenses can now and again put a
new book upon the table or shelf. The
expenditure of few shillings can con-
vert the plain window into oonserva-
tory. In these and fifty other ways can
plain, bare room be converted into a
scene of beauty.
CURIOUS CASE.
Recently an English Court of Justice
had before it a singular case arising out
OF the following circumstances: Some
twenty years ago young lady named
Marris, living with her parents at Gals
tor, In Lincolnshire, made the acquain-
tance OF youth In an inferior position
named Heap, which, when her parents
learned, they forbade. He induced her
to continue TO correspond with him, and
after he had removed to London, by the
threat that he would tell her father of
the relations between them, he persuad-
ed her to sign bond by which she un :.
derto0k to give him one-third OF the prop-
erty she would receive on the death OF
her parents, In consideration OF his hay
ing waited 80 long lor the marriage, and
also an annuity OF 800 in 1875, and to be
doubled each year that elapsed without
the marriage taking place. The lady's
mother died in 1872, and her father In
1915. Under the bond Heap in this suit
claimed 100000, and the lady, seeking
to upset the bond, pleaded the peculiar
manner in which 1t was extorted from
her.
BUNTING FOR DRESS PURPOSES.
"Jennie June" remarks that the appii-
cation of bunting for dress purposes is a
fashion which must have been derived
from the "Japs," for it Is the material
from which they make their loose, un-
gatnly sacques and trOwsers, and has
never, Until this season, been put to
dress purposes In this country. Not
that there is any objection to it. It is
strong, resisting, yet light aud durable,
and looks very well for certain purposes.
But what grown woman will wear it in
the streets, trimmed with red ribbons or
fringed with red loops, according to the
latest models? Yet costumes Of this
Kind are on exhibition by the score, and
are accompanied by large parasols, bor-
dered with loops of red ribbon an inch
in width, set closely together and form
ing fringe. For one dress in twenty TO
be worn at the seaside, up in tue Adiron-
dacks or the White Mountains, where
vivid bits of color are a charming relief |
to the eyes, these will do very well; but
when it is one dress of two, anu is to be |
worn at least half the time, in season
and out of season, the prospect becomes
alarming. 1t is a perpetual Fourth OF
July parade, fringed with 1ire.crackers
which seem in constant danger Of ex-
Dlosion.