The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-10-15

FOR THE LADIES.
Items Of Special Interest to the
Fair Sex.

An individual who called his first
daughter Kate when his wife had another
girl christened her Duplicate.
Latest fashionable mania in England
Dear lilly, come over this evening and
have quiet pipe. Yours Ella.
New fiat square-cornered bags and a
wide belt in black or blue velvet and in
black glove kid, are recent importa-
tOns.
New fans are of Persian silk in cash
mere figures and colors with white ivory
sticks painted by hand in colors to
match.
Large green beetles with golden legs
are among the favorite novelties for bon
net trimmings, as well as other brilliant
insects or tropical hues.
Distracted mother-"If you children
make such noise shall go out of my
mind" "Go on, mother; I'll mind the
young 'uns while you're gone"
Very dressy cloth suits of wine color
or Of Japanese blue are trimmed with
gay India embroidery, and are supplied
with small muff similarly trimmed.
Lady tourist-"Are the sheets we'll
airedY' Irish chambermaid: "Troth,
and they are ma'am, for the sayson is
three months begun, and they've been
we'll used since!"
A beautiful new scarf-pin is an Arabian
steed wrought in gold, with a rider who
Is booted and spurred, and whose floating
plume is studded with small diamonds
The horse has ruby eyes.
Jet trimmings, with hollow beads
forming fringe, and wide lace-like head
ing, for trimming black satin de Lyon
dresses, are sold at the moderate price of
twenty-five dollars yard.
Angeline (scentifc): "Do you smell
the iodine from the sea, Edward? Isn't
It refreshing?" Old salt (overhearing): =:
"What you smell amt the sea, Miss it's
the town drains as flow out just here"
New Derby hats for ladies have a silk
cord wound five or six times around the
crown. A rosette made of humming-
birds heads, with their bills in the cen
ter, is pretty trimming for one side of
such hat.
Black satin reticules painted by hand,
or embroidered with colors or with Jet,
or else merely lined with old gold or car
dinal satin, and finished by tassel at the
lower end, are sold to wear with any
black dress
A new style of opera cloak is of white
Ottoman satin, in the Dolman fashion,
trimmed with wide chenille fringe, and
garnished with cashmere-headed passe-
menterie, in special ornaments for the
center of the back, the fronts and the
lleeves.
Among the novelties of the season is
he opera coat of white cloth, with the
gay Indian tambour needle-work form
Ing Directorie collar, rivers, cuffs, lap
pets for the back and pockets on the hips.
This is to be worn with any dark costume
at the opera or theatre.
Autotypes, made by new process of
photo-engraving, are fine pictures, hav-
ing the accuracy, the infinite detail,
the perfect definition, the brilliant effects
Of the best photographs, with the added
advantage of being permanent--as en-
during as paper and ink can be.
A Bridgeport photographer recently
took ignoble revenge on TWO girls who
sat for pictures, and then would not take
them, by displaying the rejected photo
graphs in front of his gallery labeled
These pictures look too much like the
originals. They would not take them"
A new bracelet is made of a narrow
hand of gold, clasped with a small
golden owl which has emerald ewes. The
engraving of the owls plumage is very
fine and the design quite novel. A ring
b made of serpent coiled around four
times and with turquoise set in his up
lifted head.
At church wedding in Philadelphia
recently the bride wore a gown of white
satin with fan train, under a COM
plete covering of old point aigu lace.
Her head was covered by fine lace veil
three yards in length, once the property
Of the unfortunate Marie Antoinette.
The bridemaids wore pure white.
Mile. A., of the Folies-Legrees, re-
ceived letter from a gentleman the
other day which invited her out to sup
per. The young lady instantly took her
pen and wrote the following reply
"Monsieur-I return your letter without
reading it. Furthermore, | want you tc
understand that I never 60 out to sup
perp'
At recent openings evening dresses were
sithout the decollete waist. This, it il
said, is not only a tendency of the mode
nut fashion thai has grown out Of TIN
steady refusal of American ladies to ap
pear with bare shoulders and arms. Thu
Paris has been compelled to succumb t.
the demands of fashions votaries on thi
vide of the Atlantic.
A French mother was talking befor
baby of the old prison for debt, in til
Rue de CIichy. Mamma" said the lii
tie one, "what is debtY' "a debt is t
buy doll when you have no money t
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