The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-07-30
FOR THE LADIES.

The Duchess of Edinburgh grows SO
fat that unkind persons compare her to
the Princess Mary, of Cambridge.
The dark-colored pin-striped silks are
being much used this summer for travel
ing dresses. They are inexpensive.
There are said to be $50 different pat
terms of corsets, all patented, and all
claiming to have superior advantages.
1t is proposed to establish in London
an art students home, where ladies
may reside when studying art in that
city.
An S-year-old girl of Lower Terre-
bone, La, has a ''full beard of exquisite
ineness," and "a voice coarse and
frm.n
The new dotted net is made into ties
trimmed with English or Alencon
These are even lighter than those of
India muslin.
Linen cambria handkerchiefs, hav-
ing a cross through the center formed
of Breton lace, and Breton lace bord-
ers, are handsome.
The favorite ulster this season is the
Newport, and is made of mohair. Lin
en- is giving place to this latter goods
for travelling wraps.
Sleeves are now made to fit the arm
tightly, the latest styles showing the
arm above the elbow fitted as tightly as
the waist or shoulders.
Large yellow b~uttercups and white
chrysanthemums and very large dark
red peoples are the prevailing favorites
among artificial flowers.
The English bathing costume, worn
at all the fashionable watering places,
is all in N piece, has no sleeves, and
barely reaches below the knee.
Entire suits of white organdie are
pretty calling dresses for the country.
The bonnet and ichu should be of the
same material, and all trimmed with
Breton lace.
A Ray City, Mich, girl won the
first prize, a splendid gold medal, and
two class prizes, for the greatest pro-
ficiency, in the academy of fine arts at
Philadelphia this year.
A bonnet forming a point at the top
like the roof of a Swiss cottage, and
worn on the front of the head, is the
last, and, it is to be hoped, the uglyist
invention of the French milliners.
Plated skirts are very much by little
children and by older girls. The style
suits almost any material, and is adopt
ed for ginghams, woolens, and soma
times for checked silks.
Mrs. Guinness recently gave a ball
in London at cost of $4,000. Mantel-
pieces of stephanotis, banks of gardenia
and blocks of ice into which flowers
were frozen were among the decora-
tions.
The most attractive materials in the
market at the present time are the
American foulard silks. The fayorite
patterns are the spigged, in a dark col
or on a light ground, the polka dotted
and the Pekin.
Mile. Gabrielle Duret, the grand
daughter of Cherubini, has just been
married in Paris, and the organ music
which accompanied the ceremony was
taken from the works of her celebrated
grandfather.
The New York Court of common
Pleas on Tuesday last granted a divorce
to Kate Girard Rowe from her husband,
George Fawcett Rowe, the actor and
playwright. Cause, adultery.
Mime. Essipoff has left London. As
soon al she had vacated her rooms in
Regent street, they were occupied by
DR.. Won Bulow. The DOCTORS hatred to
"petticoat pianistso is well known, and
it may justly be said, without disres-
pect, that he preferred her room to her
company.
Mile. Carlotta Patti is coming to this
country, to give some fifty concerts dur
ing the Autumn. She will give six or
seven concerts in Steinway Hall, in
New York city, the first of them taking
place about September "a. Mr.. Henry
Ketten, the well-known pianist, will be
in the troupe, as will also Ernst de
Munck, ~'cellist; Mr.. Phelps, an Ameri-
can tenor; Ciampi-C ellaji, a baritone,
and Fortuna, accompanist. The com
pany is under engagement to Mr.. Chiz.
Zola.
1t is reported that Carl Rosa has en-.
gagged Kellogg, Minnie Hauk and Pap
penheim for his next season of English
opera. So far as Pappenhim, at least,
is concerned, this is unlikely, for unless
that diva has improved marvelously in
her command of the English language
since she left this country, she is in no
wise fit for the position. But the report
is highly improbable as regards all three
of them, for Rosa has been accustomed
in the past to put his trust in a perfect
ensemble rather than in ''stars," and
he would hardly engage three such ex.
pensive songstresses as these are.
1t is said that NJ. Vaucorbel, the new
director of the Paris Opera, has dis
covered a tenor with a marvellous voice
who is, in fact, the tenor of the future
Who he is is:not yet announced, but il
is a simple railway employe, possibly a
brakeman or q baggage-smasher. Boil
INilsson and Faure have refused engage
ments at. the Opera, but Vaucorbei
has already engaged four excellent bar
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