The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-04-05
FEMININE FANCIB.


its EGhool Committee.
Maabaut feathers are most used in
millinery this spring.
Handsome articles in cryHtols, designed
for ornamenting hats, arc shown at Dan
iels.
Canton crepe will be one of the mnteri-
ts most used for elaborate bonncts this
summer.
A Connecticut lady has been very sue
cess.ul in doors with the night blooming
cercus.
Two women attorneys have been ad-
miltcd to the United States Courts AT
Toledo.
4 lady in Virginia is said to have a
pet pigeon which dances to the music OF
her harp.
It is worth noting that the women in
Afridees in Afghanistan, although Mo-
hamncdana do Not cover their faces
Very large flowers are used in mil
linery this spring, q single rose in many
c,tses forming the crown OF bonnet.
A Fort Wayne girl mistook her SOM
nambulistic brother for a burglar, and
fractured his skull with a baseball
club.
A Connecticut woman has made bread
twice week for thirty years without u
failure AZ to lightness, whitcncss or sweet
ness.
Efforts are being made TO install one
lady physician in each OF the state
Insane Asylums, to have charge OF the
female departments.
An actress famous for her eternal youth
is said to preserve her complexion by
taking arsenic and retiring at night with
a pad OF chopped veal on each cheek.
There is lady in one of the hotels of
San Francisco who never appears in the
dininp-room irLLh less than from $25,O00
to $4,000 worth of diamonds on her
person.
The ladies' belonging to the Chicago
charitable societies are husily preparing
for their Carnival OF Authors. Miss Al
cott has been invited TO take charge OF
Mrs. Jarley's wax works.
( A young Lowell woman, formerly a
school-tnacher, and Of highly resrecta,
bic family, forged her fathers name to a
check in order to get money to crafty
her inordinatc love of dress.
The panier basque is tho foundation OF
the many rumor- about large panlers be
!, ing again worn. 1t consists OF long side
. form, plated and caught in the bach
drapcry, To form the small panier Oh the
hips
Home should be to children the pleas
ATTEST of all places, and would be II
parents realized that it Is as mGch theil
duty to provide home amuSements fol
: their children as II is to give them fooc
and clothing.
At Girard College one day Of each weel
is given 10 the children for holiday, ant
is called "Mothcrs' Day" On this da.
mothers arc permitted to visit their chill
! dren, and they look forward to the reun
a ion with much pleasure.
: A committee of the COnnerticut Leg
4 islature on woman suffrage has reporte'
q against bill giving women the right t
:. vote in school district meetings; also ol
i the liquor question, and in elections il
l. case they arc tax payers.
Il The Frankfurtur Haitung mentions tn
G "Iron Wedding" or 10th anniversary, o
h the marriage Of an cX-rabbi at Nietz, nea
}. Berlin namcd Slbcrstein, who is i'll hi
niuety.third wear. He has 145 descend
ants, 60 Of whom attended the celebra
ton.
e Bright little girl-The robbers can
rs steal my mammals diamond eaf-ring
r cause papa's hid them. Nisitor--Whcr
l. has he hid them? Little girl-Why,
e. heard him tell mamma he had put thcl
1t up the spout, and he guessed they woul
rs n, stay there.
If Two sisters in Edinburgh have live
" for many years in one room wlthor
speaking TO each other. Neither Is dei
or dumb, and no one knows the reason {
ne their silence. They have chalk-linc 0
~ the floor, and do not encroach on eac
I'd others domains.
Id A Nevada surgeon is in troub
N through trying to improve woman
III nose. She had broken it when chill
IA and the mishap had left it in a slight
Ii | crooked COltNltlDu. lllV oil SSDh ''ah'
ed to straighten it, and attempted to
& 50 bv breaking it anew The operate
mt left the nose in worse shape than it "
Oh before. The wOnian sizes Tor $lO,U
~ damages.
Miss Blanche Bowles, about twel
years Of age, daughter Of J. II. Bow!'
'- Of Lisbon, n. H., while playing with
little cousin drove a needle through t
ed breast-bene, about thrce-fourths of
rs. inch. 1t broke of close to the bone, b
m penetrated the lung so she could feel it
Wy every breath. Ether was administers
nv nv but nearly IN hour elapsed before
he surgeon succeeded in extracting it.
ore While the Queen of the Belgians W
leaving st. Georges Chapel after t
wedding services Of the Duke OF &c
Ia naueht anl his Princess, magnitice
SIS bracelet studded with diamonds slipp
ro from her arm. Without noticing !
he loss the Queen passed out Of the bui
ing, but an ancient servltor, with his el
:. about him, suw the dazzling jewels fl
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