The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-02-19
FOR AND ABOUT THE LADIES.

next year. 'N
."Cabriolet" is the name of a new hat
for ladies.
"Coteline" is one of the new spring fab
RIGS. 1t is almost transparent.
Handsome sashes are painted on the ends
instead of embroidered as formerly.
The Psyche coiffure is in great favor at
present, as it shows the contour OF the
head.
Reception dresses of cashmere are
trimmed with silk and imported embroi-
deries.
Henry H. Faxon, of Quincy, ILL.,, has
given $i00 to the Woman's State Christian
Association ''
Breakfast caps are made Of cambric, with
embroidered edges, and are finished Oft with
satin bows.
1t appears to be fashionable at morning
lectures for ladies to work at crochet and
embroidery.
Spring bonnets will be much larger than
those worn this winter, and will tie closely
under the chin.
Connecticut women are petitioning Con
anti-polyganly laws.
A lovely shade of green is known as
"roseau," and is the pale gray tint seen in
sea grasses and reeds.
A novelty in stockings hasa medallion of
lace upon the instep, in which the owners
monogram is worked.
The wife of Remenyi, the famous violin
ist, is not only Countess, but is the recent
mother of pretty twins.
Kid gloves are worn to the elbow to meet
the Martha Washington sleeve, which is
generally made of lace or tulle
Princess Matilda, niece of the King of
Saxony, is spoken of as the future Crown
Princess and Empress of Austria.
Queen Victoria has revised an article on
the late Princess Alice, which is soon to ap-
pear in one of the London periodicals.
An urgent effort is being made in the
Dakota Legislature to get that territory to
make the experiment of woman suffrage.
! A material closely initiating the mummy
cloth used for tides is shown for summer
dresses, and also is called mummy cloth.
The Boudoir fan is something new, and
concealS among is sintricacies powder puff
and powder, as we'll as tiny iyorv comb.
A good woman who marries the man she
loves, and is fifty mated, grows doubly
good, however excellent she may have
been.
The coming young Queen of Holland has,
up to the present time, been allowed only
500 francs year with which to dress her
self.
Mrs. Sophie X. Hatton, of Williamson
County, Tenn, has been elected Librarian
of that State, defeating the present incum-
bent, Mrs. Haskell. There were twelve
ladies in nomination.
At the annual dinner of the Boston
alumni of Bowdoin College, it was an
nounced that Mrs. Daniel S. Stone, of NAL
den, Mass, had given $40, 600 additional to
be used for completing Memorial Hall.
Miss Bertha Won Hillern is quietly udy-
ing in Boston, and is encouraged and aided
materially by two admirers-one lady of
means in Baltimore; and the other the wife
of merchant in the former city--who
have undertaken TO make their protege a
credit to her sex.
Miss Catherine A. Delattre, the youngest
daughter of M. Delattre, the eminent en-
graver has lately died in her ninety-fifth
year. She well remembered sitting in the
ian of Angelica Kaufman and being petted
by the fair and clever Miss Angel" 1t
was Miss Delattre's eldest sister who first
nut a pencil III the hand of Edwin Land
seer
Girls are advised by Chicago physician
to always sleep on. their backs if they wish
to keep crows feet away from the corners
of their ewes. "These blemishes,' he SAYS
"are the result of sleeping on the sides
The pressure upon the temples and cheeks
leaves wrinkles at the corners and under
meath the eyes which disappear in a few
hours, but finally become so fixed that
neither hours nor abluions will abate
them" -
Mrs. Coles, daughter of Senator Thurman
and wife of naval officer now in Japan,
} has Just been en-, ertainedi at the palace OF
the Governor, and afterward accepted an
invitation to dinner-a thing never before
heard of in that country. The why and
wherefore" of this is said to be that when
Minister Yashida went home from WASH
ington he said the lady's father was "to be
the next Emperor of the United States"
Victor Hugos pet granddaughter, Jennie,
the little girl, eight years old, immortal
lied in his AIMEE Terrible and "L'Art
d'etre Grandpere," narrowly escaped, re-
Gently, burning to death. Getting on some
, steps to wind up a clock. on the mantel-
piece, her pinafore caught fire. She remem-
bered story told years ago of alady on
fire, who, instead, of running, rolled on a
carpet. She did the same and saved her
. life.
The notable Mrs Sallie Ward Lawrence
Hu it Armstrong, of Louisville, who mar
ried Bigelow Lawrence in Boston forty-two
e years ago, who married Dr.. Hunt, OF Ken
6 lucky eight years afterward, who married
: the late Mr.. Armstrong of Louisville three
. years ago, is now said 10 be engaged to q
E Mr.. Dopnez, French Kentuckian, who
! can place at her feet that which she has
ever sought after in wedlock-the stamps,
: sallie is now a trifie past. fifty-but she
0 doesn't look it. .r. ,I-., g..
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