The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-05-30
FOR AND ABOUT THE LADIES.

There's new lace, made in silk, but it
comes high.
If artificial flowers are worn they are
slightly scented.
A crushed rose looks too lovely on a
shirred lawn hat.
Five thousand tons of candy are made
in Boston annually.
Smyrna lace is used to trim black fan
mel breakfast sacques.
That ugly shining alpaca is asserting
itself in English gowns.
CamePs hair lace bunting will make a
nice seaside dress for evening.
Turban-shaped English hats are close
Iy bound with gay soft scarfs.
Umbrellas for ladies in mourning are
of black silk with black onyx handles,
Bancroft, the historian, has taken up
his residence in Newport for the summer.
Short walking skirts of black satin,
without single ruhie or founce, are in
favor.
The new round hats have fat square
crowns mounted by an Alsatian bow Of
ribbon.
Foulard wrappers are made princess
shape, pied with contrasting color, and
trimmed with Breton.
The New York bellies are buying
cheese cloth for morning dresses to skip
NOR raun1 in at the seaside
A tailor who was asked if the close OF
the year made him melancholy, said yes
until they were settled for.
The prettiest and most becoming lace
trimming for young lady is interwovel
of amiability and refinement.
Learning to read, under professors o
elocution, is said to be more pOpula
with Paris young ladies than learning II
play on the piano.
A daughter of Harriet Beecher Stow
is the wife of an Epscopalian clergyman
and her only son is minister in tn
same denomination.
Standing collars of shirring are now t
be worn, according to the Bazaar. Th
shirring is to pass around the collar, il
stead of up and down.
Brown, green, black and blue water
proof cloth with an a paca finish is &C
vertised in London. 1t is said to be yer
light and comfortable.
An old lady living in London Count.
Va, is the mother OF fourteen children
all living, whose ages range from fort.
two to seventy years.
Mrs. Gr9odale, mother of the winsom
little poets of "Sky Farm" has poel
herself in the current number of til
Christian Union entitled "AlPs Done
| Old-fashioned sashes, arranged so th'
two broad flat loops and two long sas
ends hang from beneath the belt, are no
made, and very ugly they are, the Bostc
Transcript thinks.
White flannel suits for seaside wear a
made with kilt skirts and an overski
with short apron and long draped bac
Crosswise bands of plaid trim the &C
tune and make the sash and throat bo
The wealthiest single woman in t
United States is Miss c. l.. Wolfe, of NJ
) York, who has just arrived at Newpol
She is worth over 100000 and b
2 returned from a two-years' trip
, Europe.
e Private letters announce that M
: Lee, daughter of the late Gen. Robert
{ Lee, who has been in Europe two
three years, is soon TO be married to
. prominent English merchant of BirmiI
ham.
Madame Breton was lady of ninet
> five, who has just died in Paris She "
e devoted seryltor of the Bourbons, v
1 one OF the twelve ladies present at
e baptism of the Due de Bordeaux, a
passed through all the sanguinary strl
;. giles of the Reign of Terror.
y Some of the new polonaises have
n back forms cut off in point and
o fullness of the skirt gathered on the
:, The dressmakers seem to be doing th
u y best to make the polonaise so ugly. tt
u when it really dies everybody will
" ready 70 dance over its grave.
10 Pimples on the face and roughness of
skin is easily cured by the use of Caswe