The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1879-11-12
FOR THE FAIR SEX.
Fashion Notes.
Chenille is very fashionable.
Waistcoats are not exnloded.

Fashion Notes.
Chenille is very fashionable.
Waistcoats are not exploded.
Scotch plaids never 60 entirely out of
fashion.
Fleece-hned pique is novelty for un-
derwear.
The new mauve shades are tinged with
gray.
Birds or parts ofbirds are favorite bon
net ornaments.
The larger the neck bow the more
fashionable the wearer.
The new silks have very heavy reps
and are very lustrous.
Link buttons are more fashionable for
cuffs than old-style stem buttons.
Striped goods or striped ribbons ap-
pear on almost all fancy street costumes.
French heels to slippers and boots for
full dress wear are as fashionable as ever.
Breton lace fraises are worn by fash
ionable women inside the narrow stand
ing linen collar.
The sleeves of many imported dresses
have vandyked caps inserted in the top
of the sleeve.
Shirred waists with old-fashioned sur
plice fullness from the shoulders to the
waist are revived.
Sailor collars, either Of plain linen or
lace or open cut work, are worn by FASH
| ionable women in Paris.
Large hats, high frills in the neck and
| H. ~Sr,1yo al
the moment in Paris.
White felt bonnets, lined with black
or colored velvet or satin, continue to be
favorite evening chapeaux.
Solitaire earrings continue to be the
most fashionable; but the solitaires need
not always be diamonds.
There is revival of mauve and lilac
shades in millinery goods, kid gloves and
silks for evening wear.
Shoulder capes of silk twist, strung
with cut jet beads and fringed in the
same way, are much worn.
Large fiat coarse straw baskets carried
in the hand while shopping is the fash
ion of the passing moment in New York.
Patterns for bonnet crowns wrought
in cut let, or cashmere and amber varie-
gated beads, appear among millinery
ovelties.
Sashes are worn around the waist,
fastening low in point, either in the
back or front, according to the fancy of
the wearer.
One of the caprices of the season is to
cover the crown of the bonnet with
material and Il color in strong contrast
with that which covers the brim.
The prettiest shoulder cape whereWith
to brighten up passe black silk dfess
is of chenille net, with loops Of cut jet
beads in every mesh, and fringed with
alternate strands of jet beads and che
mile.
Cottage bonnets of black satin pro-
I fusely ornamented with jet beaded laces,
fringes and feathers fastened down with
cut let ornaments take precedence with
many fastidious women who declare they
cannot wear any but black bonnets.
A Noted British Beauty-The Jersey Lily.
When the town came to look at her it
! found she was indeed beautiful. She
possessed wonderful eyes of lmpid,
| transparent blue, which always wore a
winning expression. She was observed
to be extremely modest in her dress, very
quiet and unassuming in her manner,
and discreet in all her actions. Jealousy
was disarmed, admiration increased and
Mrs. Langtry became one of those sic hts
of the town which the "Spring Captain
yearns to see, and for which country
cousins make long pilgrimages by rail-
way. cit seems but yesterday" says
recent number of Vanity Fair, "when
as bride she appeared in the park and
set 10000 tongues a-wagging. Since then
she has played a foremost part in the
battle of life, and this bravely and well.
You are spellbound by her ineffable
sweetness before you have exchanged
hardly dozen words with her. Every
| well-bred woman is of course free from
acne. but this one is gifted with deli
cious manner, simple and sympathetic as
that wherewith mentally we endow
'Mignon.' and she talks at once so pref
tily and so musically that you are insen-
sibly impressed with the idea of her
absolute sincerity. The bright, ringing
treble; the light. springy step; the hap.
py halcyon view of life characteristic OF
girlhood, are still hers. Above all, she
is kindness itself incarnate. At ,Glas-
gov, where-that goes without the say
ing-she was the cynosure, she astonished
the cannY Scotch by her generous i'm
partiality. The plain and unattractiye
partner claimed her hand in the ball
room and he was not refused, though
Adonis stood at her elbow awaiting his
chance. Lily like in every fiber, she has
preserved an exalted reputation tor
womanly virtue, and this although she
has been flattered and followed, caressed
and made much of, more than any living
woman. She has remained, however, the
same, true to the gentle emblem forever
hers, the Jersey Lily"
A Modern Ruth.
A pretty story was told some time ago
in an. exchange: A young lady from
the South was wooed and won by
young Californian physician. About
the time the wedding was to come off,
the young man lost his entire fortune.
He wrote the lady a letter releasing her
from her engagement. And what does
that dear, good girl do? Why, she takes
lump of gold which her lover had sent
her in his prosperity as a keepsake, and,
having it manufactured into a ring, tor
wards it to him with the following. in
scription: "Entreat me not to leave thee,
or to return from following after thee;
for whittier thou goest,. | will go; and
where thou lodgest, I will lodge; thy
people shall be my people, and thy God
nv Coo; where thou diest, will I die,
and there will be buried; the Lord do
so to me, and more also, if aught but
death part thee and me-" We may add
that fortune again smiled on the young
physician, and that he subsequently re-
| turned to the South to wed the sweet
girl he loved, and who Lowell him with
such undying affection. Readers, this is
ali true. Young ladies who read the
Bible as closely as the heroine of this
incident seems to lave done are pretty
sure to make good sweethearts, and bet
ter wives.
Typhoid Fever from Diseased Meat.
An epidemic of typhoid fever, inter-
esting in its etiology lowed a musl-
cal festival at Zurich, in May, 1878.
Out of some seven hundred assistants,
i've hundred were attacked by the dis
| ooro NJ 1pbono onp-hnndrpd died. The