The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-01-13
ITEMS FOR ThE LADIES.

Brick times ahead-The ladies of Grand
Rapids, Mich, are all taking lessons in
physical culture.
Mr.. Sartoris Is as graceful dancer as
the Prince of Wales, and may be cIassE-
ned as train WrecKer.
At a dolls fair in Chester England,
twenty-Seven hundred wax and china
beauties were exhibited.
Miss Braddon says of her last heroine.
"Aer eyes chained him to the Spot's
Must have been llnks-eyed.
Ladies' who can't afford to wear costly
furs now wear thin lace scarf abonE
their necks, evidently ON tue ground
that 1t is chiE-chiller.
The old-fashioned nets are again worn
by ladies. They are very effective
against the coils of shining hair, and are
also mandy to boil a pudding in.
"Peter Brand took Miss MagdaIen
Lausman for Christmas gift yestez-
day." is the touching way iu which t1s
Louisville Couricr-Jou notes a re-
cent wedding.
'JaneP screamed Mrs. Yeneering to
her COOK, 'leps have some Patty's four
grasses Tor dinner, and some of them
Lrufh IS and mushrooms stewed IN
cracker dust with them nice French
peas and wine sauce"
The Courier-Journal says that "Mrs,
SWisshe IN Is Ignorance with q shaxp
pen III her hand, staObiHg everything
she meets" Some OF these reckless jour-
nalists would rush to cross the crater Of
VesuYlus i'll two jumps.
A New York letter writer saws that
for ladies striped stockings are on tAe
wane, those OF so,to color only beiBg
considered In good taste. Scarlet stock
for wear WITH black dresses.
He zigzagged up the steps and iumb-
ling about Tor the keyhOle found the
door suddenly open. "O-n, o-h-what a
SNOW" Yes! L SHOWS IL. You caPL
fool me. You've been to the club agaiHsO
and she took him ny the hair and dragged
him in.
An old bachelor in Philadelphia says
he sleeps DeGLer now o nights that leap
year is gone. He must have suffered
unfold horrors from the fair ones VINO
Deset his pathway during the CenteR-
nial year. He should have been mpre
patriotic.
Leas year has brought but little oOs-
ISOLATION to the Kentucky editor who
says: "Our desperate eXertIonS TO win a
vile by attending other persons wei
dings may be The death of Us YET, as we
have had three buggles to turn oyer
with us on THESE occasions"
A new absurdity in hosiery is black
silk stocking embroidered ia gold, Be-
sides being very expensive (lhey cost
from SIG 10 $40 pair they, OF course,
Will not wash, and, as IAe gold threads
tarnish with wear, they are not tjey
ioreyer," though very beautiful.
A fashionable young man lately pre-
sented his sweetheart with a string ot
pearls. As she hung them joyvusiy
around her neck, cloud came over n4r
brow, and she cried, Beloved, do NOT
pearls betoken tearsP' "Nary tenr.o1
was the response, "thenrs imItatiou.'
"A womau," remarked Preston OFF.
cial, (accoralDg to the NorWich But.
letn), "hrst loves fast man, then a
good man, and finally any man" TAen
he went back into the cellar, anu began
to split up kinulings in an abject niar-
ner.
An East Bridgeport (Conn. woman
noliceHher husband blowing his breath
Justify against the windows, ana
account tor it till she took up
paper he had laid down, and there read
that "incrustations OF frost upon Wla.
dow-glass Can be prevented BY the appE-
cation OF alcohol"
A female Justice of the Peace of W..
Oming Territory was married last week,
ana previously notified her friends 10 b.
present. by printed form, as folio VS.:
Il am about To marry Nj. = D.
Of this county, and he will b. qlrllInea
aud sworn i'll at my Office ON Wednesday
next at 10 O'Clock. You are an
vited to attend" Another fined her
husband tor drunkenness.
The Melbourne Daily Telegraph states
that at the Melbourne University muI,ir.
llation examination for Ju,y to- M. 1876.
there were 55 candidates entered. ~
whom 13 were ladies. The results shoy
that 10 Candidates passed The Matrienls-
lion examination, OF Whom no fewer than
were ladies; While 10 candilutss
passed the examination for the Civu
service, Of whom were ladies'. Thus
t will be seen that about halt the LADY,
passed, while ouly one-sixtn
The number OF male competitors YeEe
SUCCESSFUL.
The Boston correspondent of the
W orcester Spy, describing Christmas
says; "A saw German
girl, who had been sick ior months in a
lospital, mlde radiantly happy By a
title Christmas tree, not yarl high,
lung with silver tibsel, pf6tiy cards:
and simple presents, and with little
bank OF oranges at its foot. Her Ielr-
ives had arranged Il for her, aud oar
led it good many miles,t set 1t on Cue
little table by her bed. She asked the
loctor to carry it for all lhe other px.
tents to see. SO he t0ok is On his
ounds through the wards, and IL oalns
o her with dozen pleasant messages
i sy sympathy. l. was not great maIter,
,ut it WAS lovely piece OF genuine
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