The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-11-13
ITEMS FOR THE LADIES.

Boston bellies don't wear borders on their
sealskin sacques.
Boston ladies while promenading on the
streets carry bouquets.
Secretary Stanton's widow has taken
rooms for the v inter in Washington,
grand celebration in memory of Joan
of Arc was recently held at Neutchateau, In
France
An equestrian statue of Anna of Mont !
morency will be erected by order OF the
Duke of Aumale in the forest of Chantilly, |
near Paris.
Masses were recently celebrated in Paris
for the repose of the soul of Queen Marie
Antoinette, who perished eighty-tive years
ago on the scatlold.
A woman at Burlington, VT, recently
tied the hands of her little son behind his
back and chained him to the hitching post
before the house for an hour or more be-
cause of some petty fault.
One of our female teachers threatened to
keep an unruly boy fifteen minutes after
school. Il wish you would make it half an
hour" said the appreciative youth, "for
you are the prettiest teacher in town"
A descendant of Corneille-Mme. Elise
| leItFdDu, uG0 llGSlUuI-lldo Juob ulCNi III
Batignolles. There is now only one repre-
sentative of this family, Mile. Restout,
who was once an actress at the Theatre
Francais
There are some scenes almost too pure
and sacred to be viewed by the though less
world One of them is a two hundred
pound woman with a mole on her chin
talking baby" to an ounce-and-a-half can
ary bird in brass cage.
Photographs OF the Empress of India are
being circulated in that country by the
CARLOAD. They represent the Empress as
an angelic creature of sweet sixteen, with
long, wavy hair, and wearing silk S ockings
with instep strap and buckle
The German papers record another death
upon the stage. Frau Nowtzky, of the
Neustadt Hof Theater, at Dresden who was
the choir leader of the chorus of nuns which
.appears in the third act of the "Trovatore,'
had Just completed her part, when she gave
Il slight scream and suddenly fell dead.
The way to reach mans heart is to cater
TO his appetite. A girl who can claw a
piano and agitate the atmosphere is good
parlOr ornament but one that can grease a
grddle and turn two pancakes at a time is
the kind Of female to tie to this time Of
the year, Elmira Gazette.
This is the season when the girl whose
stern father has kicked her lover out doors,
packs up few things, writes an eight-page
letter to her mother, drops clothes line
from her chamber window, and at mid
night, when silence reigns, raises the sash,
sees how dark it is, and-jumps into bed as
| fast as she can.
The thieving exploits of Baldomera
Lara, Spanish adventures, who robbed
the crednlous PariSianS of hundreds or
thousands of francs, have been outdone by
Adele Spritzer, a German woman of the
same stamp, who used to borrow money at
ten per cent. interest month. She was
finally arrested.
The prevailing hats and bonnets in Paris
are quite study for entomologists. Swarms
of bees and other insects are setting OF
some of the hats. Arrows and lizards are
giving away to small ornaments of holly
leaves with pearls for berries, owls heads o
various sizes, some very large, and gildeC
caterpillars, are largely used to coniint
bows on has and bonnets.
An Italian princess who is about to bt
married has had her trousseau made il
Paris. In order to let her know how tt
wear her dresses and what to wear unde
them, the dresSmaker has sent with eacl
toilet a little doll attired from head to foo
exectly as the lady herself should b'
dressed-shoes, stockings, skirts, headdress
gloves and every detail being reproduced
in the costume of the doll.