The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-02-07
ITEMS FOR TIE LADIES'.

ITEMS EOR TESE LADIES'.
The catogau Is going out of vogue.
Debeges are shown in small figures.
Plain debeges will not be fashionable.
Gray is to be the fashionable spriDg
color.
Nets are worn only with morning Golf
fures.
Fashionable coiffures are broader ana
wider. ... d. ...
The pendant is now the principal part
of the brooch.
Diagonals will no longer be worn In
spring fabrics.
Braid and fringe were never SO much
In favor as at the present
Princess bail dresses, with peacock
trains, are the style this season.
The most stylish ball dresses are fast
ened with lacjngs instead of buttons.
Narrow fur borders are still seen, but
they are not SO fashionable as broad
ones.
Buckles Of lophophore feathers arc
among the bonnet trimmings Of this
month.
Chenille cords and bands of plush are
very stylish new trimmings for hats and
bonnets.
The most elegant dresses seen at baIls
are of stamped velvet and velvet ana
brocade.
Lead-colored plush jackets fitfIng
close to the form are taking the place I'd
seal in Paris. .-. ,
Pinhead checks OF myrtle green ana
white and navy blue and white appear in
the spring goods.
The only thing a woman can never for
give her husband for is for giving her
nothing to reprOach him with.
The latest style Of evening gloves aro
laced, instead OF being buttoned, and are
finished with small silk tassels.
L can laugh at the man who follows
women, but when he comes TO following
his own wife it is no laughing matter.
Ball dresses are made low-necked
U-necked, or V-necked, or heart-shaped.
or square in the neck, according 10
| fancy.
A Wisconsin lumberman offers $50 In
| cash for "a rafting good wile-One who
| is not too high-nosed to grow lat On bean
soup"
| Hearing that the matrimonial fever
man remarked that he knew 1t, it WAS
| the tic-:uss again.
Profound reflection BY a man who
| made a mistake in marrying: ssAhi ifY
| had only married as wanted to and as
my hrst love didn't want top
An Engllshman, lately imprisoned for
beating his wife said, as he WAS locked
up, 'PVe one comfort, anyhow; and that
ls, That am not sent to jail for doing "A
meah thing"
"By the way, Nine. r. is a styIish-
| looking woman, if she Isn't so young az
she might be. What age is sue, auE.
now F "She ls OF that age when women
avow they just thirty"
A lecturer on optics, In explaining
the mecnanism of the organ OF visioa, re-
marked: "Let any mao gaze closely
| into his Wite's eye, and be will see him
sell looking exceedingly small"
Two artt s (female Napr3pos Of a thizdss
"WelI, that is good-rllmyre pretenL-
ing that she Is only twenty-two--didy Won
eVerW ~, you know now stubborn she Ia
when she once gets an age in her heauIS
| Married ladies wear rich laces az
garnitures for ball dress. Young ladies
wear tuile, crepe, tarlatan, and orgal-
| dy, trimmed with garlanus, bouuuets.
knots, and iringes OF a,wers. at peas.
ure.
The new percales show variety pf
coiors-mixtures Of ink-blue and car.
dinal red; brown and myrtle green, gaii
and white, and cretonne designs ia
small figures on grounds of the dark
coiors.
| Norwich Bulletin: A West Side yo-
mau had her r-tongue paralyzed last week
from playing the barmonica, and whoa
it was generally known, every other
married man in town bought harmOn-
lea and took it home TO his wife, ana
| then went. outside the house and stood
on his head in the snow.
| When Brooklyn husband 10 missing
his wife does not send for the police nR-
less the servant girl is also missing.
Then she does not want the police; she
goes herself, closely followed by halt
dozen interviewers. AS soon as she gets
home the doctor is called in, and the
barber comes to know what color the
wig shall be.