The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-05-06
ITEMS FOR rEGE LADIES.

| BunCheS of viOlets are worn by ladies in
their belts.
Yokes and belted waists are among the re-
vivals of old-time fashions this spring.
A new fancy in white chip bonncts is to
| have at intervals rows of rainbow tinsel
braid.
Less fruit is worn than last season, though
| there are some misunderstanding berries,
cherries and plums. -l -..,.
Medium-sized specimen stones are now
the most desirable diamonds worn. The
large African gems are comparatively COM
mon.
The handsomest chips and straws have
the inside of the front lined with dark vel
vet or satin, and edged with single row of
gold braid.
A novelty is wreath made of loops of
ribbon grass, in green stripes and i'll maple
red, with many ends of the grass cut in tri-
dent forks. Pc.
Pittsburg has not developed any more fe-
male highwaymen since that batch were
locked up last month. Women are too
| easily discouraged, .'-..
| Many rough straws or else figured satin
straw bonnets are shown; some are all
| black some white, some beige color, and
many have gilt braid introduced.
| That Buffalo girl who hasn't eaten food
for year will do a great favor if she will
send her address. More than dozen land
ladies here want to make her an offer.
1t has been proven beyond doubt that a
female having high instep is quick-tem-
pered and inclined to pull street car
drivers hair if he stops one yardbeyond
the crossing. #H
For little girls hats the novelty is fine
Manila, with a wreath of flowers painted
by hand on the soft brim. Wild flowers,
poppies, bluets and trailing arbutus are
painted on these.
A young lady correspondent desires to
know if we have seen any thingsweeter than
"A Chapet Alone Certainly, we have
seen a chap let a girl kiss him which was
ever SO much sweeter.
a great many beige-colored chip bonnets
are in the late importation. Some of these
aIe trimmed throughout with the same
shade having watered beige ribbon strings.
satin or gros grain loops, ostrich tips, and
darker brown velvet for a bandeau or hllet
in front
Women may perhaps, fancy that they
dress in order 10 be admired by men, but
rhey do not. They dress against each other,
and they dread each others criticisms Men
very seldom care for details, and if woman
looks well, and is not dowdy, she finds fa
vorin their eyes.
An ambitious young man of Monroe
County, Illinois, thought it would evince
his familiarity with the usages of fashona-
bic society if he were to have his engage
ment printed in the village paper under tie
head of "betrothed," but when at the trial
of the action for breach of promise the adj
vertisement marked exhibit A" was put
in by the plaintiff he was very sad indeed.
NJ Trudel, of ST. Raymond, Quebec, has
just married his sixth wife, widow of six
ty. His first wife lived three years and
died, leaving him son, now forty. His
second died ten months after marriage
After living nine years with No g. her frs,
husband, long mourned as dead, returned
and claimed her, and six weeks later the
disconsolate NJ. Trudel married girl of
thirteen. She died two years later. and he
married fifth wife, who died in 1875 after
welded life of twenty years.
A CLOSE FIGHT WITH A PANTHER-Last
week hunter named FarquarSon, while
passing the forest between White Fish Lake
+ and Black Trout Lake, near the headwaters
of the Madawaska River, in Canada, en-
: countered puma, or American panther,
2 lie came across the carcass of deer, which
the remains of a large cariOOo. While look
ing at it he heard a noise at some distance
t off among the tree-tops. Shortly after the
>, sounds were repeated, and on looking up he
saw a large animal lcaping from tree to tree
! toward the spot where he stood. He was
, armed with Ballard rifle and as soon aS
{ the beast came near enough he fired at it,
! when, to his surprise and alarm, the brute
| sprang from the tree directly at him. In the
+ meantime the hunter had rapidly yreloadcd
: and having jumped aside and behind i
large pine before the infuriated anima
/ could recover for second spring he gay,
S it second bullet. Bob shots had takel
+, effect, as was afterward discovered bu
neither in a vital part. After the sccon@
t shot the puma turned and Garted with {
i roar at the hunter. who drew long, keen
y edged hunting knife, and with his bach
against a tree awaited his enemy. The en-
, ragged animal sprang at him and fastened
| its long, curved claws into his shoulder
: when he drove the knife repeatedly to tht
hilt into its breast Both came to the
l ground together but the struggle did no
= last long, for the huge animal, weakened by
the loss of blood from the bullet and knife
, of Farquarson, soon turned overhead. The
animal, which is quite rare in Canada now
+ was one of the largest size, measuring nine
t feet from the nose to the extremity of the
:, tail.
5 How TO SECURE MUSCULAR DEVELOPMENT
y The road is easy He who wants but little
. strength need DO but little work, buthc who
wants great strength must do great work
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