The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-09-04
FOR THE FAIR SEX.
NEWS and Notes for women.

News and Notes for women.
Nearly all the pawnbrokers of France
are women. al Fe''p
The London skating rinls are to be
turned into lawn-tennis grounds amas
Chicago is manufacturing straw goods
in great quantities for the milliners.
Eight. nine and even ten bridesmaids
are seen at fashionable English we'd
dings. '~1'I b'et" hA NN.N Oh.
Thread lace of many different colors
has beenimported for the use of themil-
liners. - f.r. rrr.,. 4i .nferrrrrt
The Modern Argo believes that one
girl in the kitchen is worth two at the
front gate.
The richest unmarried woman in
Pennsylvania is daughter of the late
Asa Packer. la18a ~ 700 ius. -.rt
Steel birds heads with jet bealls and
eyes are among the ornaments imported
for fall hats. Is
Basques are to be short and even all
around, or else curved upward at the
sides this winter. it is said. lo,.v s.u
Mr.. Holloway is actively proceeding
about the erection of the proposed col
lege for women in England. The whole
cost, it is said, will be more than SO, 5OO,-
600. -.u joss .r '|.
Plumes for all bonnets, birds for these
worn on dress occasions, and flowers for
everyday wear, is said to be the winter
programme of the milliners, so far as it
is arranged.
Dresses made in the style of forty
years ago with square necks, little
puff on the sleeve, a gathered skirt and
short train, appear now and then at
English parties.
The new silks for autumn wear have
brocaded stripes of two or three colors,
or else small shot figures. Those stripes
are about an inch wide, and alternate
with pencil lines of twilled satin. These
silks will be used for sashes, side panels
or vests.
Shirring is to be used in all kinds of
fantastic ways this winter. and knife and
box plating will appear on all skirts.
Very few gowns will have the whole
skirt plated kilt fashion, possibly be-
cause that style is tolerably comfortable
in winter. ..... ........
Three or four stuffs ore required to
make black costumes now. First is tie
heavy silk of which the dress is osten-
sibly composed; then the velvet brocade
| for the draped sash, then the satin for
pipings, and last of all the cheap silk of
the underskirt.
Silver brooches, gold bracelets, fans
of maitbout feathers, crystal lockets,
marquise rings or pearl and turquoise,
and pins headed with a viscount's cor
onet in pearls and diamonds, are among
the gifts recently bestowed on brides
maids by English bridegrooms.
Some of the bonnets prepared for the
autumn by the French milliners have
TIE crown covered with plumage of a
bird, and the brim hidden by gathered
velvet or silk, and others have all the
trimming placed on the brim, and the
crown composed of silk or satin.
Something very like an absolutely in
destructible article of millinery has
been devised by English women who
have the serge hats matching their
travelling dresses made up without any
wire OF any net lining, the shape being
given by running an elastic around the
crown, and thick piping cords in the
slirrings of the brim. A hat made in
this fashion can neither be bent MOI
crushed. and cannot be made to look any
! worse, by any fury of wind OF weather
| then it does when new.