West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1878-09-28
FANCIEs FOR TIRE FAIR.

her face.
FELT bonnets are to be embroidered
with gold.
Mrs. SHERMAN dresses the most COR
geously of any of the cabinet ladies'
The handsomest compliment YOU can
pay TO a woman of sense, is TO address
her as such.
USING perfumes, powder, false hair,
etc, with matrimonial designs, was
once prohibited by Parliament.
II there is anything in this world of
more uncertain tenure than minis
ter's salary, it is a woman's thimble.
A YOUNG man from a neighboring
town broke of an engagement because
the girl named her pet calf after him.
A WOMAN in Baltimore committed
suicide the other day, leaving a letter to
her husband asking him TO let her be
buried in her blue suit.
WOMEN will not hold Offices i'm the
Episcopal Church hereafter, as they
must be twenty-five years old before
they are allowed TO do 20.
WHEN man returns home al night
and kisses his wife with more than
ordinary tenderness, she NAV be pretty
certain that he has been into mischief
AN enterprising Iowa man has named
his daughters Time and Tide, so they
will wait for no man, and have got n
hrst mortgage on .matrimoDy TO begin
with.-heo6pk Contribution.
SOME crusty, rusty, musty fusty,
dusty. gusty curmudgeon of man gave
the following toast at celebration
Our fire engines-may they be like our
old maids ever ready, but never
wanted%
How many make crowd? ?" asks
the inquisitive man of the Edenburg
Heratd. Well, we reckon, on a Sunday
evening, that the presence of the father
and mother will make the largest parlor
awtully crowded to the young couple. -
Gomd"da Enterprise.
In communication to New York
paper, an eminent lady writes: otWo-
men outnumber men three to one in
heaven, and in the same proportion men
outnumber women in the other place. !"
She shouldn't thus expose the secrets of
the other world. She will have all the
women striving TO 20 where there are
the most men,
\ NAN may sheer al 4 woman all he
Will because she can't sharpen a lead
pencil, but she has the smile on him
when he stands holding an unoccupied
suspender button in his hand, and won
dering whether il will hurt less to pull
the needle out Of his thumb the same
way Invent in, or push il on through
Huntington Hawkeyc. ...
BLACK straws for autumn bonnetS are
trimmed with large full rosettes, called
"choux." y contrast in colors is fash
lonable. Rosettes of sky blue, sultana
red, rose color, ecru and black satin are
put ON together. Strings are of the sui
tana red. Natural flowers are some
times used as face trimmings "a small
bunch IL coqucttishly set under tire
brim of the Olivia shape.
TELL us not in mournful NUMBER,
that this life is but dream, when a
girl that weighs one hundred gets out
side quart OF cream, and then wants
ELDa,rG Gazette. Life is real. life
is earnest, and the girls know what they
need, but on cream they are the durnest
to show their grit and greed. No en-
core !-Ne,O York NetCs. Let us, then.
be up and doing, with q heart for any
fate; but never let us go a wooing girls
that want second plate How's that
! AeWsboy
AMONG fall novelties, Nine Ray.
mond of Harper's Bazar has remarked a
kind of goods, with coarse, uneven
thread of ecru silk, which resembles
linen crash. OF such material are made
costumes, trimmed with the same
, material, embroidered in colored silk in
design composed of rather large
( flowers. The corsage of such large
dress is Regency casaque made of the
embroidered material, and opening on
a waistcoat of velvet in the same color
which predOminates in the embroidery
The Regency casaque is also made cl
MORE, and is worn over a skirt of fallie
/ OF the same shade az the nlOife
/ IN his two volumes, " Fashion Now
! and Then" Lord William Pitt Lennox
in passing deserved criticism on the use
! of slang in fashionable English society
is authority for saying that such word.
as g pals, " mufis," regular bricks.
" daddies,' and slow coaches" are
! actually in use, and relates an anecdotf
/ of young lady who was asked to dance
/ by an officer, whose name she did not
hear. In making the entry on her card
she designated him rs the three B's.'
When the young man came up to dance
with her, he noticed the entry and asked
what it signiied. Never mind" re
| sponded the girl, i'm sad need Of parental
correction, 81 didn't catch your name
so / booked you ~ the three B's--beer
brandy and baccy." This, it appears
was an allusion to the color Of tn,
officers face and the perfume Of hi.
! clothes.
THE oldest organ-grinder i'm New
\ ork, and probably the oldest in the
United states, is a Belgian, named
DevauX, seventy eight years old. lie
t6ok an active part I'm the rebellion OF
1880, which resulted in the independence
of Belgium. He resided for n time al