The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-02-25
ITEMS FOR THE LADIES,

The newest silver tea-sets are square
shaped"
Knitted petticoats increase in favor, espe-
cially for children.
New bracelets are serpents of gold or sill
Yer, with bright jewels for eyes.
Irish tapestry is the new ecru, and brown
linen, used for furniture covers and lambre
quins
A woman of Dunfermline, Scotland has
Just died of drinking strong tea and another
is dying.
Transparent sleeves are so fashionable
that grenadine sleeves will be made this
summer without lining.
La Creole is the most stylish breakfast cap
worn. This is made of gay striped silk
handkerchief and trimmed with lace.
Rich India colors are seen in all the new
spring goods in percales and cambrics as
we'll as in the more expensive materials.
If girl has hankering to plunge into
matrimony, let her get a situation in u
dressmaking establishment, remarks an old
bach.
The moss green shades and dark myrtle
green are abundantly used again, and in
deed find their way into almost every mix
ture of Golors
The FRA Diavolo'' is the newest round
hat for spring. This stylish shape is
trimmed little on one side and is becom-
ing to most faces.
Box-plaited hounces Of medium depth,
ornamented with rows of Tom Thumb
fringe, appear on the front breadths of the
latest improved dresses.
A colored woman down in Arkansas said
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iestici chills, and she feared that it was
going into ''melodious" fever
The Louis Quinze' princesse dress in
troduces the vest into this style of dress,
which is very effective when the dress is
composed of two or more colors.
Cut-away jackets, with short skirts, were
originally introduced for school girls, but
ladies of larger growth have also adopted
them, and have made them popular.
Caterpillar fringe is imported for trim
ming spring suits. This fringe has secured
its name by having inch-long cable cords
covered with shaded yellow or green floss.
A new style of note paper is in the shape
of card, in the left corner of which is an
open fan, each stick having letter on,
which together spell the day OF the week.
The silk and wool mixture for over
dresses are what merchants consider
genuine bourettes, though the name has be-
come common to any material with rough
| threads.
There is no sort of company so agreeable
as that of women who have good sense
without affeCtation, and can converse with
men without any design of imposing chains
and fetterS
Some very elaborate designs in orange
blossom fringe for trimming bridal robes
consist of the blossoms intermiXed with
white fringe and perfumed with the odor OF
the real flower.
The earliest importations of spring goods
have been received, and the rough-thfeaded
effects popularly known during the winter
are repeated in materials for spring and
summer dresses.
Among the novelties are fringed stripes
of silk floss so firmly woven in that it is i'm
possible to pull them out, alternating with
narrow stripes of wool of the same color or
in marked contrast.
Russian women it is related, go out of
doors with their children, but seldaDa with
4 their husbands, and a man is not expected
to take notice of anothers mans wife by
bowing to her if she passes him in the
streets.
Wooden stuffs of light weight for early
spring wear are very soft and flexible,
though they have rough threads raised
above the surface in long horizontal dasises,
or as if tied in knots or else boucle in small
round rings, curls, or frizzed ends.
Among the new spring goods just re-
ceived are many materials with a rough
surface much like those worn this winter,
but much lighter. An odd combination of
colors seen in these goods is pale blue and
olive green--the groundwork of pale blue
and the rough threads Of the other color.