The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-07-27
FOR AND ABOUT WOMEN.

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bons in Persian colors and designs.
Dainty Swiss ties for ladies are fin
ished on the ends with colored guipure
embroidery.
Very full plaitings and ruchings of
Breton lace are used to garnish summer
costumes.
inexpensive fans are made of mum
my-cloth and have all the effect Of the
satin Pompadour fans without the cost.
Many fashionable dresses are made
with the fan waist in favor many years
ago and so becoming to slender figures.
The polonaise reappears this season
under name OF a matinee and is well
coined by the ladies with great salts
faction. 1t is short and bunchy in
shape.
A favorite way of wearing the broad
sash so popular at present is to place, it
around the waist to form a belt, and to
tie it carelessly on the left side in a
large loose knot.
An advertisement in an exchange
wants "a settled colored woman to go
a little ways into the country" This
is mysterious. Why should a settled
colored oma go a little ways into the
country?
Rev. DIR. Storrs, one of the leading
orthodox ministers in this country, has
made a late address on "Woman's
Sphere" In this eloquent Grafton the
reverend doctor takes the most liberal
and enlightened ground, even favoring
woman suffrage.
A Cincinnati fancy store has sub
stituted cash girls for cash boys. The
little girls, hobbling about with their
bright eyes and smiling faces, are a
pleasant sight. The shop manager says
he employs girls because they attend to
business better than boys. The next
question is, does the proprietor pay
them as much as he would be obliged
to pay boys?
Mrs. Mary A. Livermore preached
the sermon at the Parker memorial
service, in Boston, the last Sunday in
June. 1t was an eloquent sermon on
Immortality, the text being from Job:
"If a mar die, shall he live againP"
She closed her discourse with Winters
beautiful lines:
~ dimly guess, from blessings known,
ofgreater out of sight.
know not where His islands lift
Their proudest palms in air;
1 only know l cannot drift
Beyond His love and care;
And SO besides the silent sen
wait the muffied oar;
No harm from Him can come to me
On ocean or on Shore
The Canadian government has re-
Gently established art schools in the
chief cities of the Dominion. These
are already working admirably. The
Spectator contributor calls attention
particularly to the example of the Uui-
ted States, in which industrial drawing
is made an obligatory course in state
and Normal schools. 1T would be in
teresting and instructive, did space per-
nit, to give the testimony of the direct
ors of the American Schools of
Art who have adopted the system in
troduced by Professor Walter Smith,
of Kensington." After abiding to the
necessity for art industrial training
which Is now FORCING itself on the at
t%ention of all great manufacturers, the
writers says of the Canadians: "Our
people are wanting in training or edu-
cation, but in capacity or industry, and
this is the very point which should be
borne in mind mind. AS an instance
of the effect of encouragement and
training on a small scale among our
own countrywomen, L may mention a
case which l observed a few years since
at Riviere du Loup en- haul. There all
the girls were busy and had full purses
as the manufacturers of so-called 'In-
dian work, which find a ready sale in
the shops of Montreal and Quebec. All
these girls were French Canadians,
and a more tasteful and industrious set
of lasses it would be hard to find. Some
art educator possibly a ~native) had set
them the example. That the Canadian
women are industrious is evidenced by
their making all the clothing and stuffs
used by the household. They have the
taste for color and design of their
French ancestors, and during our VIII
ter season the whole population might
initiate the Swiss in home industries y,