The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-06-01
FANCIE,S FOR THE FAIR.

FANS bearing Biblical quotations are
a novelty.
TIE blush of a maiden is natures
signal of warning.
LADIES kid gloves have a heavy
stitching on the outside.
Nor one man in a thousand marries
the girl he most wanted.
"MoTHER HUBBARD" is the name of
one of the latest bonnets.
VELVET pocket-bags have a monogram
in silver upon the outside.
ICELAND floss is much used for
crocheting shawls and sacques.
The cottage-shape bonnet seems to be
the favorite for straw and chip.
A NEW design for pin is a bundle
of wood with Ratchet across it.
GOLD thread is a novelty used for
stitching some of the new short dresses.
MINNESOTA has female brakeman.
and the engineer sings, Break break %
WIDE belts fastened with buckles are
seen among the latest imported costumes.
AN Indiana girl has, during the last
year, made $500 by cultivating broom
corn.
A RICH furniture covering is drap dor.
The material is worsted, with leaves
wrought in gold.
THE quiet fellow in the corner who
lets his rivals do all the talking, gen
orally marries the girl.
Miss Frances G. Janney, daughter of
prominent citizen of that city
LET young men be patient in their
wooing, for maideD's love may be cold
on her lips yet warm in her heart.
IT is said that eating onions will pre-
vent the lips from chapping. 1t will
certainly keep chaps from the girls lips
COSTUMES that Just touch the ground
in walking, bodices with waistcoats, and
laced or Oxford shoes, in the English
style, are now in favor.
JOSIE FOWLER, of New Haven, snuffs
candles and cores applies with a re-
volver. The young men are exceedingly
respectful in their attentions to her.
For the first time in Holland the de-
gree of Doctor of Medicine has been
conferred upon woman, Miss Aletta
Jacobs. She will practice in Amster-
dam.
Two materials of one shade are seen
in most combination costumes, a con-
trast being given with two or three satin
pipings and clusters of loops of oddly
blended colors.
THERE is no truth in men," said
lady in company; they are like must
cal instruments which sound variety
of tones" " In other words, madame"
said wit who CHANGED to be present
you believe that all men are Tyres"
The balmy days are with us once
more, and the loater pastes his romantic
locks down upon his brow, puts the
cleanest side of his shirt-collar to the
front, and steps out upon the street
corner to amuse the gentler sex as they
pass.
The late Nine. Dufaure was noble
friend to the young women of Paris.
by her instrumentality thirty schools
tor the education of girls were founded
In that city, and two thousand young
women were trained under her unceas-
ing encouragement and observation.
Mrs. JOHN W. LIFE was once
saleswoman in a sewing machine estab-
llshment in Chicago. She went to Den
yer some years ago to better her condi-
ton, where her husband recently died,
leaving her the undisputed owner of
10000 and thirty thousand head of
cattle.
NARROW watered ribbons are much
used this season. Rosettes are made of
ends of this narrow ribbon cut into
sharp swallow points, and these rosettes
are mixed in with flowers in wreaths, or
leaves; dark red, with wreaths of ivy
leaves; or white watered rosettes, with
garlands of fern leaves, on white even
ing dresses.
BRIDES wear blue wells; but for spring
the floral decorations are diversified
for youthful bride clematis and orange
blossoms, or lilies of the valley and
clematis, are mixed; for maturer brides
orange flowers and jessamine and syringa
are combiued; the sweet-pea blossom is
also much used, and is made into fringes
tor bridal dresses, as we'll as lilies of
the valley, headed by bands of other
flowers.
I'm AFTER YEARS"
In after years a twilight ghost shall fill
WIN shadow presence all thy waiting room,
From lips OF air thou canst not kiss the bloom
ct at old kisses will Thy pulses thrill
Ana the old longing that thou couldst not kill
Feeling her presence in the gathering gloom
WIN mock tn e with the hopelessness of doom
nile she stands there and smiles serene and STILL
Thou canst OF vex her then with passion pain:
Gall, and the silence will thy cal: repeat
r. But she will smile there with cold lips and sweet
Eorgeuul of cd tortures, and the chain
mat once she wore the tears she wept in vain
AT passing from the threshold to thy feet.
Lou Sc Chandler Moulton.
PLAIN gold wedding rings, which are
at p esent used as visible pledge of
matrimony, seem to have descended to
us in the mere course of traditionary
practice from the times of the Saxons,
without any impulse from written au-
thority of ecclesiastical law At the
marriage of Queen Mary with Philip of
Spain, in 1854, the wedding ring was
laid on the Bible to be hallowed. Some
discussions had previously taken place
in the council about this ring, which
the Queen decided by declaring that she
would not have it adorned with gems.
" for she chose to be welded with plain
hnop Of cod ILL