West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1878-07-13
FANCIES FOR THE FAIR.


1T is the style to wear a large bouquet
in the belt
MOST OF the imported lace and fringes
are fully beaded
BoRDERED Madras gingaams are
largely imported.
The most serviceable seaside suit il
made of seersucker.
TRAINS are still worn quite long for
the house and carriage
RICHLY embroidered stockings can be
bought for $500 pair.
The fishwives' dress is the fayorite
for croquet and archery.
ICELAND floss is much used for
crocheting shawls and sacques
GLOVE firtations are now added Ia
those OF the ian and handkerchief.
KID gloves for evening wear have the
wrists finished with platings of lace or
ribbon.
FRENCH laces and grass fringes are
the most popular trimmings for all thin
materials.
A MERE thread of gold supporting a
solitaire diamond is the favorite engage
ment ring.
TIE "Mandralin" is the name given
to graceful head dress of lace lust
introduced.
LINEN collars and cuffs are tastefully
finished with handmade edging made
of serpentine braid.
THE materials most fashionable for
the wedding gown of the present are
SILK or satin brOcade.
Thick fringes of buds falling from
under the straw curtains of bonnets is a
new caprice of fashion
Miss ELLEN ii. SWALLOW made the
first analysis of the new mineral, Samer
skite, found in Colorado.
ROUGH straw hats and bonnets look
well nicely braided, with pipings of
velvet between the braids.
HALF-FLowING sleeves, with old
fashioned lace undersleeves, are seen on
some of the new costumes.
MISS ALMENDINGER contributes papers
on botanical discoveries to the Ann
Arbor Scientific Association.
len PER CENT. of the husbands in
come Is what is legally decided in Eng
land he shall pay for his wife's dresses
The cheap grade of black glace silks
are now being used for travelling suits,
instead of the gray bege suitings. These
In taste. A plain linen collar with cuffs
completes the costume.
HE low Newport tie will be the
favored house shoe again this summer
Tor the ladies, and for the gentlemen the
oxford tie will again be popular. These
are mostly made of calfskin, which
makes them soft and durable
A YOUNG lady of a neighboring town
awoke from terrible dream one night
last week. She had dreamed that n
young man with soft beard was press
ing his face against hers When she
awoke she found it was only a cat. Then
wasn't she mad?
DIR. FRANCIS MINoT, in the annual adj
dress before the Massachusetts Medical
Society, gave it as his opinion that ga
few gifted women will be able to main
tain high position in medicine i'm
competition with the intellectual vigor
OF the male SEX"
BEAUTY is to a woman what ciyilitv
is to man. IL creates an instantaneous
impression in her behalf, while the on
Poslte quality eXcites as quick an i'm
preston against her. 1t is a real orna-
ment, the most beautiful dress a woman
can wear, and worth more as a means of
winning favor than all the Jewels ever
worn.
NO man is "A hero to his valet" The
idea which gives point to this saying was
thus unwlttlngly expressed: A lecturer
on optics, in explaining the mechanism
OF the organ of vision, remarked, LET
any man gaze closely into his wife's eve
and he will see himself looking so ex-
ceedingly small that Here the lee
turer's voice was drowned by the shouts
of laughter and applause which greeted
his scientific remark.
LOVE DISEASE.
Samuel Daniel, without a spark of consideration
LOT an lhValld world, insists that love is a sickness
ms WORDS, moreover, would seem TO be remarkably
Love is sickness full Of woes,
All remedies refusing;
plant that with M st cutting grows,
Most barren with best using.
Why so
Mere we eDj II, more II dies
IL not epJoyedi l. sigh ng cries,
Love lisa torment of the mind
tempest eveIlasii &;
Ana JOye hath made IL OF q kind
Not well, nor full, fasting.
Why so7
More we or JOY II, more II dies,
If not enjoyed, itsighing cries
Hoigh-hOi
IN Paris society was much exercised
in its mind as to the etiquette which
would decide the choice of partner for
the Prince of Wales in the cotillion at
Lord Lyons ball-whether the lady of
the highest rank (of course it could be
no other) would be selected from Eng
lish or French claimants to that dignity.
His Royal Highness, however, settled
the question by leading out an American
young lady, Miss Yznaga, and society