The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-03-12
FEMININE FANCIBS.
Items Of Interest fer and About the
Ladies'.

cream white.
Very little jewelry will be worn on the
street this spring.
The Boston Latin School for Girls has
now ninety pupils.
Twilled satin foulsrds are among the
new suit materials.
The new satin and lace stripes in even
ing silks look rich.
One large bow and strings constitute
an Alsatlan bonnet.
Princess pine and tree myrtle are the
choicest evergrecns.
Old gold gauze and satin is brilliant
stutf Tor summer toilets.
Slippers of satin embroidered with seed
pearls are worn by brides.
New evening dresses are made with
Marie Antoinette panniers.
Chinese blues and Chinese greens are
found among the new colors.
Seaside grenadine comes with greatly
improved texture this spring.
In spring woolens are seen the Chud-
hah stripes, or herring homes.
A new camePs fabric, as thin as bunt-
ing, Will be worn this summer.
Bretelles are again worn, and are pro-
nounced unusually becoming.
A shirring of India muslin will bind
the edge of new chip bonnets.
Some of the fancy feathers made from
humming-birds plumage cost $40.
Outside jackets for suits are still made
cutaway, with velvet or silk vests.
The fashionable color for children's
dresses and wraps is robin's-egg blue.
Dark navy blue and brown are the
most fashionable colors for cambrics.
Colors from humming-birds breasts
are woven into spring bonnet feathers.
There are about forty female physi-
clans in full practice in Philadelphia.
An odd bit of jewelry represents two
monkeys squabbling over pearl nut.
Woolen goods for spring dresses mostly
have flannel finish" without luster.
Half-itting jackets will be worn with
dresses of washing material this summer.
Ribbons for strings are wider than
formerly measuring from three to four
inches.
The Psyche coiffure is in the highest
favor at present as showing the shape of
the head.
Dotted Swiss muslns are made over
colored silica and garniturcd with lace
and ribbons.
Linens for shirtings and waists for
children have small horse-shoes and zig
zags on white ground.
Embroidery or cIocking, or both, all
around the leg of the stocking is new
feature III spring hosiery.
Rings and wide bracelets of black en-
amel are worn by ladies to make their
hands and arms look fair.
A Finnish woman recently argued in
favor Of female suffrage before the
Rhode Island Legislature.
Some new designs in jewelry areof gol-
den shells, plates or salvers, lpon which
il'o q iit'ie gym iOuSh
The tichus of embroidered cashmeres,
so fashionable last year, are shown again
i'll new designs for spring wraps.
The Voltaire stocking is of the darkest
shade of dragon blue, with a pyramidal
side gore of tartan in Roman colors.
Among the novelties are found side
satchels of Duchesse and Brussels point,
lined with colored silk, satin OF velvet,
A satin-fnished straw bonnet of cot
tage shape is tan-colored, and has q
wreath of Prince of Wales shaded roses.
Lace gloves with fingers, also with long
wrists, will be worn this spring, as well as
lace mitts and half-iingered lace gloves.
A pretty set of painted buttons for a
dress of black spotted with white, is a
series Of snow scenes painted on black
satin.
A double cape of heavy chenille. ~,
tensel thread twisted in the sar t. WIKI thn
latest novelty for the neck IN nIacn e Of rs .
scarf. r'''0 VI
There is a great variety in the golt
hair-pins which arc 40 Fashionable fo,
the ladies t., wear across the front o.
their hair. "N'' - '''' " -' v
MfS Elizabeth Winthrop Johnson, {
me &c of Theodore Winthrop, the novel
lst, has written handbook on 'Tht
Studio Art"
Long gloves, extending halfway t.
the elbow, are Of creamy-whte un
dressed kid, either plain or with lace in
sertions and frills.
Women can practice law as much a
they please in Ohio, but owing to
strange anomaly Of the law they can no
be notaries public.
Eliza Spring and Mary Summer ar
the genial names Of two Philadelphia la
dies who married two West Chester Pa.
brothers last week
Neither women nor wind instrument
will be permitted after June 1st in tn,
, choirs of the churches in the Catholi
Diocese Of Montreal.
Mrs. Mary Mesch is st. Louis wo
man who has become suddenly famou
from having presented her husband will
four children at birth.
1t has recently been ascertained tha
f the famous Rachel was born in the Swis
village of Mumpf, on the Rhine, and no
in Paris, as has always been supposed.
Mile. Grevy, the daughter of tn
} French President, used to accompan,
her father on his shooting excursions il