The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-10-02
FEMININE FOIBLES.
Items of Interest for and About the
Ladies.

winter.
New silks are worn with heavy reps,
and are very lustrous.
New extension tables have meander-
ing outspreading legs !
Handsome India shawls are this sea-
son cheaper than ever before.
A new parasol handle has tiny watch,
which keeps accurate time.
Byzantine point, new cotton for cur
tains, looks like antique lace.
Japanese blue and garnet are the favor
ite celors of flannel for wrappers.
RecenIy-improved dressing-tables are
made of ebosy, with a foot-rest of ash.
In circles where good taste prevails the
wearer of banged hair is now regarded as
slattern.
VERY soft handkerchiefs for service are
made Of silk and linen spun together;
Tie T..s, ore are creamy white, with a hem.I
stitched hem.
For hats and bonnets deep warm
colors are in received style, but blended
with so much art that the effect is taste
full and distinguished.
Coral iewelry is rather out of style, as
it requires nearly always to be worn with
some garment of certain color instead OF
in general way.
A single rose of immense size, with
petals of satin, silk or velvet, is the new
corsage flower, and is worn very high on
the left side, almost on the shoulder.
One bird with its head peeping out
out from a covering composed OF the
wings of ten other birds, is part of the
trimming of recently manufactured bon
nets.
New materials for all costumes have
the colorings and effects of India cash
mere shawis Some of these are in
stripes with small palm leaves forming
the stripes.
, In the new carpets of the finer grades
move effects of figuring and coloring are
introduced, designed to harmonic with
the new styles of furniture covering now
) in vogue.
A costume stylishly made of any mate
rial and after the fashion of any period
: is fashionable and in good taste at the
2 present moment. Ladies never had so
! wide range in dressing as they have
now.
A Prince or Princess Of Edinburgh is
expected early in December. The Ouch
ess of Cumberland princess Thyra of
Denmark) has been joined in Austria
by her mother. 1t is hoped it will be a
boy.
! A Paris novelty, shown by a New
York milliner, is turban of myrtle
a green antique plush, the large crown
!, covered with breast plumage in green
+ bronze and silver, arranged to suggest
i the foliage of bNgonias with borderet
+ leaves.
If The tartan bonnets to accompany th'
IL French costumes trimmed with plaid ar
, exceedingly tasteful and becoming, tn,
e broad close shapes being covered witt
n fiat folds and turnings of the plaid serg'
d scarfs one-fourth of yard wide, which
n form the strings
o To wear in the street there are scarf
n of white India muslin with pin dots tha
1t are scarcely more than white specs wovel
e. in them. The edges are trimmed wit
point d'esprit lace. They are worn clos
q, around the neck, tied in front in a man
y moth bow.
CO A dust-colored wideawake, very sol
o. . and very furry, is one of the hats show
~ for the autumn. 1t is pinched in at tn
y sides and turned up over the forehead
= and large knot of red plush makes tt
To- face trimming. 1t is said to be becon
hi hi ing, and to have an autocratic aspect.
al A pocket handkerchief for nice use
ife of fine linen lawn with hem-stitching
Dr. match that of the linen cravat or nee
en- tie. Sometimes there is an inch-wit
$" border of the drawn work above the he
nd all around the square, while others ha'
,r- triangular bits of this intricate work
each corner.
At a recent home wedding in Nc
York the bride wore gown of white {
ch candle muslin, en- panier, trimmed wi
&C. fine Swiss embroidery, Valenciennes la
On and loops Of white satin ribbon; the v
are was fastened with sprays of white lii
co. and snowballs, bouquet of the sal
as flowers being shown at the belt.
ing Miss Fidelia Bridges, the painter
ne bird life and field flowers, is living in
ad- cottage at Sutton, Dorsetshire, EDglar
hat in a daily struggle with the elemen
er- 81 dress" she writes, "as in winter
are home, and when | can endure it no Il
the ger, come in and light big fire in ]
rm crate, and ponder on the discoura
her ments of out-of-door work in far-aw
un- English village"
|, a Victoria, Crown Princess of German
the who suffers severely from neuralgia,
staying at some mineral springs in Styl
her She is know during her stay in Romert
me- as the "Countess Victoria Won Linge
lets and she leadsa very quiet and sim
, of life. She spends most of her time
ges. walking and reading with her atte
her ants. She is great favorite with
ges, country people.
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