The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-03-16
FANCLES FOR THE FAIR.

| FANCIES FOX THE FAIR.
REVOLVING rubber-heel plates, to
equalize wear and prevent slipping, are
the latest novelty in the shoe trade.
The hair from a lady's curl should
never be worn on the lapel of gentle
mans coat unless the parties are en-
gagged.
CUr-AwAY jackets, with short skirts,
were originally introduced by school
girls, but ladies of larger growth have
also.adopted them, and have made them
popular.
CATERPILLAR fringe is imported for
trimming spring suits. This fringe has
secured its name by having inch-long
cable cords, covered with shaded yellow
or green floss.
THE Lassel (Mass.) Seminary for
young woman instructs its pupils in
dress cutting and fitting. A woman
school teacher in Boston gets $500 a year,
good cutter 81 200
AN Iowa man thinks there must be
something wrong in modern fashions
when his wife wears six-button kids,
while he fastens his suspenders with
tenpenny nail and ties his boots with
skewer.
A New YORK belle wore a bonnet to
the opera which was made of sprays of
fresh lilies of the valley and Jacquimonot
roses laid on lace. 1t kept fresh through
out the evening, and was greatly ad-
mired.
II is not considered the thing for a
lady to move her head when she bows to
any one In the street. She must Just
bend look of recognition, smile (if her
teeth are good) divinely, and pass along.
boston Gazette.
/ HAVE seen men, who, 1.-THE marriage
altar, thought they were annexing some
thing more valuable than Cuba, who
found out afterward that they had got
yonl an album, Godey's Magazine and
a medicine 7dln,dge.
DOMESTIC happiness is the only bliss
of Paradise that survived the fall )" but
it never survives the winter, unless there
is furnace in the cellar, and hired
girl to preside over the destinies of the
cooking stove-Brookuitte Democrat.
PETER COOPER has purchased Lime
stone Springs, South Caroline, for the
school for girls, which he proposes to
found. Major G. III. Bonner, of Atlanta,
Ga, who is teaching a school at Lime
stone, will be retained by Mr.. Cooper.
Brown eyes hoods
Cover moods;
The eve of blue
Is firm and true
Gray eyes are ever dry,
Gray eyes sly;
But the black eye glist'ning, cleaning,
Like Gods way, hath deepest meaning
-BToDnUilIe AdpeTtser.
NEW YORK florists are renting bloom
ing plants this season. An azalia will
remain in blossom six weeks, after which
it can be returned to the greenhouse
and something else taken. For a small
fee, plants can be had, and our homes
made charming.
AN elegantly-dressed lady of Brooklyn
handed a car conductor dime, Sunday,
and on being offered nickel in return,
requested him to give her pennies. She
was ON her way to fashionable church,
and collection was to be taken for pay
ing off the church debt.
A SACRAMENTO woman accused her
husband of attempting to kill her, and he
was sent to prison for two years. Then she
begged to be sentenced for the same term,
because she could not bear to be parted
from him, and the Judge refusing, she
went away and tried to hang herself.
LOVERS of the chaste and emotional
ballad are having season of unex-
ampled refreshment. Each day seems
to offer them some rarely equaled gem,
and the cry is still they come" One
of the sweetest of the later publications
is Call me when the hash is ready"
We can not refrain from quoting verse:
" Daisy DaTlngl Do not wake me
Ere the murphies you do peel,
Ere you've chopped the scraps and leavin's
OF your yestereven's meal;
Wake me not to pangful waitings, lo
Do not serve me 80 again,
But when once the hash Is ready,
Gentle spirit, call me then"
the hardship of being called up before
breakfast was ready will canonize the
author of this melody, and the wife of
that husband will have cannon eyes for
him whenever he sings it.
THE Paris Figaro discusses the ques-
ton as to whether men should offer the
right or the left arm to ladies at balls
and dinner parties 1t decides in favor
of the right, at least when offered by
married men, and considers that the left,
being nearest the heart, should be given
only to their wives.
LOVE.
volume in a word
An ocean in a tear;
An old, a never-ending song,
That angels stoop to hear.
seraph's perfumed kiss
An Etna of unrest; t
word, the royal king Of words,
Writ on Jehoyah's breastl
Boston Transcript.
The other day two young ladies on
the Nebraska frontier jokingly offered
to trade themselves off to couple of
Indians for fifteen ponies each, and the
Indians very willingly took the offer.