The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-09-04
FOR THE LADIES.
Flights Of Feminine Fancy Which In
terest and Entertain.

The new cake baskets are very high on
slender standards.
The purest white table linen should be
used for the tinted and painted china.
Bonnets are to be worn further forward
bon the head and very close on the sides,
When white china is in use a bright
table covering gives warm and pleasing
effect.
The windows of the millinery stores
never looked so gay in colors as at the
present time.
The American women, says an ex-
change, are conceded to be the finest type
of feminine beauty now extant.
The newest glasses for single flowers
are of the Etruscan shape, with double
handles and are richly engraved.
China broth bowls, with an individual
salter and dainty pepper-box attached,
and decorated in squares, are among the
seasons novelties.
The style of wearing bonnets without
face trimming will require handsome
dressing for the front hair in smooth
waves, scallops, or curved locks.
A good many door-plates have been
duly polished within the last forty-eight
hours, and parlor blinds that have been
carefully closed all summer are open
again.
An odd cream pitcher has cat han
dle-that is cat in solid color is ap-
parently hanging over the edge and
clinging to the side as if trying to get
over and lap the milk.
The Home Journal holds that the ex-
tensive patronage of the summer re-
sorts this year is due largely to the in
huence of the newspapers that have re-
ported the doings at those places.
Changeable silks are combined with
fowered muslin delaine and with cash
mere-patterned foulard by French dress
makers. and are made into tunics to be
worn with dresses of eambric or muslin.
Muffs to match suits will be carried
this winter. Wien the trimming of a
costume is cashmere, the muff will either
have cashmere b,lder, or else will be
made of that material with fur trim
ming.
The new French caprice for combining
two materials in suit is that of making
the basque or jacket Of the gay cash
mere, and the skirt of plain sombre
goods with merely some border Of the
cashmere.
Foliage plants in bright colors for table
ornamentation are in greater favor than
blossoms, both because they retain theil
beauty longer and because they are sell
dom so fragrant as to be disagreeable tc
sensitive persons
The latest dessert plates are fiat, gent
ly turning up at the very edge. A pret
ty one is of Berlin china, decorated with
birds, BUTTERFLIES and grasses delicately
, laid upon the pure white ground, and is
nearly the shape of the plaques upon the
walls.
The coming season will bring ou
brooches of riveted jet and steel or gold
and many long jet daggers will be worn
Steel and gilt are together in ornaments
of antique design, showing birds heads
| claws, battle axes, also daggers, clasp
and brooches.
An Ottoman velvet bonnet of greer
bronze shades has rose-colored lining il
the brim, and bronze-headed GALLON fol
binding it; bronze bird trims the crown
rose-colored ostrich feather is laie
against the brim, and the satin string
are shot to show bronze and rose.
Satin antique, the new material fo
e trimming for dresses and bonnets, is ;
: kind of satin plush, with a longer pill,
: than velvet, and it comes in all the artis
: tic shades of japanese blue, pigeon
I breast, Rembrandt green, amaranth, ant
t in the new dauphin gray that has colder
a and creamy hues.
/ Among the new importations of bon
a nets are pokes with projecting brims, tn
Marie Antoinette with wide Sides point
ed in front, and still larger hats will
u u flowing brims most capriciously ipdented
{ and for those who prefer small bonnet
!, in the new turban styles, and close Mari
\ \ Stuarts with soft crowns.
). The English young lady wears a heav
. cloth dress, thicksoled shoes, a stron
IS Derby hat, and carries strong umbrella
4 1t is desirable that American young Ia
i dies should discard feathers, ribbons an
s artificial flowers out doors, and appea
q like an English girl in a costume tina
. g can stand thunder shower and not b
! harmed.
g Harper's Bazar says the new woole
= goods for fall are largely made up of tw
S. styles, viz: those with glace effects, or
groundwork of one color with a contras
ing color; and secondly, the gay color
and designs Of Oriental cashmeres, espt
N cially those made familiar to us in Indi
g camePs-hair shawls. The shot or change
II able stuffs come in repped goods, in sa
se ines, in twilled serges, and in cloth. Som
se are all wool, soft and flexible, whi
II others have mixture of silk, which
L shown in tiny specks, or stitches, o
n oftener still, in raised figures of Easter
10 designs.
n Wide bonnet strings are to be the sty
~ next winter. Harper's Bazaar says whe
made of ribbons, they are from three
five ;ncbas vida and whan n,ada of n