The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-01-05
FANCIES FOR THE FAIR.
kissing the bride in church has gon,

FANCIES For THE FAIR.
KISSING the bride in church has gone
out of fashion.
HELIoTRoPE button hole bouquets are
the favorites among gentlemen.
ERMINE is out of fashion, and can be
had for about half the old price.
WHATEVER woman asserts, you may
as swell admit at once, for she willnever
yield.
IT is the mother who molds the
character and fixes the destiny of the
child.
"ToAD GREEN is fashionable
color-for young ladies who attend hops,
probably.
THE French lace now made is so firm
and fine that it is used on elegant outer
garments in place of thread lace.
GENERAL LESLIE CooMBs's daughter,
Mrs. Mitchell, has just been given, it is
said, a Government clerkship in Wash
ington.
THE small embroidered kerchief of
crepe de chine are choice to protect the
throat, instead of lace scarfs, and silk
handkerchiefs seem so long.
A HAPPY device for the straw catch
baskets which hangs in every lady's
room, is cluster of oak leaves, applique
ingreen velvet and cloth, with natural
acorns.
A YOUNG ladyof DIR. Tiiiany's church,
New York has undertaken to build at
her own expense a seaside home for sick
children, the first expense of which is to
be about $4,000.
THE Judge of county court in New
England declared few days ago, that
there is more perjury committed in his
court by women-ten times over-than
by men, and added, "They don't seem
to care what they do swear
The United States now has to pay DIR.
Mary Walker 5000, because when Judge
Richardson was Secretary of the Treas
ury he gave her clerkship. She never
did days duty, but has worked sixteen
hours day for years to get the pay.
THREE VOICES.
All could but the footstoo be
On which my darling rests her feetl
Although right hard she stamped on me,
would not murmur when they beat.
Ali If might the cushion be
Which she oft sticks her needle in
However she might torture me,
would not mind The pricks pin.
Could the piece of paper be
Which she around ripget wreathesl
Into her ear d whisper free
The love which in me lives and breathcs.
LONDON Letter: 1t is really the fact
that jaunty English girls are now rails
ing the hat by way of acknowledging
bow, the same as the gentlemen do. The
hat used is little round felt Oxford,
which looks well on a top of pretty
young face,
NEW YORK Mail: 1t is the fashion,
and vulgar one, at that, for modisteS to
give private exhibitions of the rons-
seaur they have prepared for prominent
by fifty ladies, who had invitations to
see the show.
A YOUNG Scotchman who drowned
himself for love in San Francisco, left
this note penciled on the wharf: "The
water is very cold, Annie have just
felt it; but a Mcdonald of Glehgarry
was never afraid to dee. God bless you.
Duncan Farland Mcdonald"
How often, o how often, man with
only ono solitary button on his shirt, and
that one brass pin, looks with devour-
ing envy upon his wife's new seven-but-
ton kid gloves, and wishes all the shirts
in his collection were just one glove.
There does seem to be something wrong
in this division of buttons.
Mr.. CROKER is one of the richest of
the rich men of California. His silver
wedding occurred recently, and at its
celebration his wife presented a picture
so striking and singular that it deserves
ment on. Her gown, was mass of sill
yer brocade and gauze; she wore a Cir
die, necklace, comb, earrings and fan
chatelaine of magnificent diamonds;
and browning all this silvery glitter, was
her thick, shining, silver-white hair.
PHILADELPHIA Ledger: Feminine
critics are beginning to observe of Miss
Won Hillern's recent pedestrian feats
that the average woman who ''walks the
floor" of her own apartment night after
night with crying child, and then goes
through her ordinary active housekee.5-
ing the next day, keeping up not only
the physical strain, but the mental anx-
iety attendant upon the cares of her
household and ailing babies, and doing
this for many days and weeks together,
is perhaps quite as much of a heroine as
the pedestrienne, so far as courage,
physical endurance and energy are CON
cerned.
A NEW YORK letter to the Boston
Traveller says: The fern mania is
spreading SO that one woman in reach of
New York has a fern farm, and makes
good income, sending both fresh and
pressed fern by mail. The little baskets
of leaves and grasses, with a dead but
terfy poised on the picture, that the
ladies like to hangi in their private rooms,
require both taste and some knowledge
of natural history to combine the ma
terials, and their sale is one of the ways
by which some, reduced in circumstances
try to earn few shillings. 1t is hard
work making profit, for the fashionable
florist expects to buy them for fifty cents
apiece, or less, even though he sells them
for three dollars in holidays.
IT is related that one evening when
Miss Cushman was playing in Washing
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