West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1878-09-14
FANClES FOR THE FAIR.

FROM hotel register: "S. B. Jones
and lady ona bride tower
THE most popular dress at the Paris
exposition is white batiste.
| FASHION dictates that fans must be
carried and no longer suspended.
/ GENIUS in a woman is the poorest ex-
cuse in the world for bad housekeeping
LINEN handkerchiefs, with Oriental
| dots, are the reigning novelty i'm lingerie.
PUNCHES of violets or MarguI rites
are worn at the side with loops of rib
| bon.
Four hundred women students will
enter the University of Londcl this
fall.
THE soft roillon feathers, tipped with
geld, are only used on hats for youthful
faces.
THE most expensive hosiery have the
monogram worked on them, i'm silk and
beads.
UNIQUE watches of tortoise she'll are
worn suspended from the right side OF
the belt
The London queen says that the de-
mand of the times is for woman who
can teach wemen.
LADY CARINGToN, one of the richest
~ Ai'N VI Nllt iuN, NlNIltu OH nef WtuulnH
tour in simple pink gown.
DRESSES for croquet and lawn tennis
! purposes are made to clear the ground
and are trimmed in bright colors.
BAGS of kangaroo skin, large enough
To carry dress without rumpling, are
the convenient and useful new goods.
SOME preiudiced observer says that
you"g women utter those little screams
not from fear, but To attract attention.
AN Iowa journal tells of a Keokuk
man who subdues his wife by threaten
ing to leave her and go to the Poor
house.
Girls will bc girls, says the Reading
Edgtc. o, no; that's mistake. If the
girls wishes are consulted they'll all be
married women some day.
THE craze of Chicago women over the
jailbirds is not inexpliCable. Women
like birds: and they generally visit the
man who has been n robbin' - ChicdQO
Nens.
CHICAGO possesses n prccocious female
orator IN Miss Rowe, aged thirteen, and
the hardened sinner OF the Burlington
! Ha0kcyc speaks of her as another Sissey-
Rowe.
THE municipality of Prague has for
| '''NNh WV N'hilhk VI hltSHth MlLu
| trains upon the streets, because of the
dust, injurious to the public health
raised by them.
LADY CAROLINE NoRToN left $500 in
her will TO the good cause of woman
suffrage" Mrs. George Oakes, another
Englishwoman, lately contributed So
| 800 to the same cause.
! ARTIFICIAL flowers are now sold i'm
sets " Of four lunches. One little
bunch is for the hair, one for the
belt, another for the throat, and still
another to hang from the chatelaine.
BESIDE the grand old ocean
\ ~ She stood I'm rnp dcvo ion.
! WIN TOOK that seemed TO grasp some yisionary
Then turned about her PAGES
One Of the barefoot graces
/ Ana her larry feet rctreating made pos t-holes In
/ the sand -BosfoH POa.
The man who invented French heeled
shoes did il to avenge an injury once
done him by Il handsome woman. She
! Tilted him, and since that time the fel.
lows hatred Of the fair sex has known
no bounds.
FEMALE artists are invading the
domain Of art i'm France in formable
numbers. In 1874 there we're 286 female
exhibitors at the Salon there were 3I2
in 1879 44G in 1876, 648 in 1877, and
! IOZ IN 1873.
iT's the fashion nowadays when
girl gets married 20 send samples Of the
wedding dress for her friends TO dream
on instead Of chunk Of wedding cake.
IT isn't half rs apt TO attract the mice,
and never grea.es the pillow CASE
Yonkers GazeHc.
A DUBLIN woman WAS arrested for
simply setting a bulldog upon her hus-
band, aged eighty years, while he was
sick in bed, the animal injuring the man
50 badly that he was not expected 10
live. II seems that woman can't have
any fun at all over in that down-trOd-
den country. There is no encourage
ment to keep q cross dog IN Dublin.
WOMAN Is naturally gifted with
quicker wit, better judgment, greater
self-pOssession than man, but there are
very, very few women who can appear
at ease and look pleasant when unex-
pected callers suddenly surprise her with
set Of teeth in each hand and none in
her mouth. And IL il pretty difficult
Tor the callers 10 look uncOncerncd un-
der such circumstances too BvrijnqiOu
Ho'rtcyD
TAKE Ny LOVE 8 KISS
q seaRnll, take u love kfas
Across the desert of the sea:
noe 10 beneath thy silver wing,