The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-07-05
FASHIONS AND FANCLES
Which Interest Our Lady Readers.

weird cats eye stones.
Fashionable feminine hats now are
made rights and lefts.
Now the fair Parisienne with satin
dress gets baptiste jacket.
The latest fancy in bracelets is to have
a lead-pencil dangling thereto.
The most fashionable caps for young
widows are of white tarleton, in Fanchon
shape.
Navy blue linen is extensively WON
for country toilets in France, this sea
son.
Comfort often gets the better of taste,
as in the wearing of lace mitts, for in
stance.
Field flowers are again popular for
trimming hats intended for country and
excursion wear.
The young girl who graduates in four
languages and sixteen hounees is now
being heard from.
Mrs. Jones says her husband will never
be struck by lightning, because he al
ways gets insulate.
They were false prophets who said
dresses were TO be plainly made and
trimmed this year.
China silk for ladies' under garments
comes in ecru, pale pink and blue and
other delicate colOrs.
The latest styles of linen are straight
at the back, but still show the points
turned over at the front.
Japanese-shaped parasols, to match the
color Of the costumes with which they
are worn, are growing in favor.
Extravagant taste now encourages vest
buttons OF silver, gold, and the semi.
precious stones, worn with rings.
The little girl looks forward to the
time when she can edo up" her hair like
a lady, as period of true hair-pinness.
1t is only those ladies who can not
afford second gown who wear the
street dresses so long as to perform the
duty Of scavengers.
A good many people are arranging to
make their first visit of the season az
Nantasket beach as soon as the new ho-
tel is opened there.
The Vassar girls will celebrate the
Fourth of July by reading their declara,
ton of independence-from people op-
posed to gum-chewing.
Mistress: Bridget didn't you hear
me CALI" Bridget: "Yis, mum; but ye
towld me the other day niver to answer
ye back-and | didn't"
: New designs in sleeve buttons and
scarf pins are square, in dead gold, with
,, stork and grasses in the different colored
gold so fashionable at present.
) The days of the tied-back are num-
bered, and ladies now wonder why they
were ever preferred to the graceful flow
ing robes that have succeeded them.
The opal is now regarded as such an
unlucky stone that many possessors of it
will no longer wear it, and it is no longer
regarded as a suitable present Of friend
ship
Ladies have had the opportunity to
choose between large bonnets and small
bonnets, as fashion permits both, and the
preference for the diminutive styles is
apparent.
A pretty girl graduate of Philadelphia,
: who read a thrilling essay, Glow to get
; along in life,' when she graduated last
summer, is getting along nobly. She is
now the mother of triplets.
How women can live down SANDER and
, opposition has been shown by those EN-,
ployed in the departments at Washing,
ton, who are now conc ded to be as .
, class most intelligent and worthy.
A good many boys and girls have been
enabled during the past week TO see how
their names look iii the newspapers, and
it is probable that not few of the num-
Der will never have another opportunity
of that sort.
A Kansas farmer purchased revolver
for his wife, and insisted on target prac
, tice, 50 that she could defend the house
in case of his absence. After the bullet
had been dug out of his leg and the COW
: buried, he said he guessed chat she'd bet.
ter shoot with an ak.
1t has been proven that the strength,
care and thought expended by the aver
: age housewife in coaXing a weak-chested
hotlow-backed, consumptive geranium
| up two inches would lift ton weight
threc-quarters of mile and raise Il 81 600
mortgage out Of sight.
The first care of those who are taking
children into the country should be to
provide for them strong and broad-soled
shoes for running or climbing, and they
should fit well, as nothing can be worse
for them than to have their feet incaseu
in shoes too tight or too large.
The women who are taking stems to
secure the right of voting for school
. officials are, almost without exception,
the intelligent and refined, and it is
$ apparent that pretty soon it will be
regarded as much duty to vote
regularly as it now is to dress fashionably.
The Princess Louise dresses very simply
, and seems to be trying to set the Canada
ladies good example in that direction,
and evidently remembers that in reply
to an address from the Ladies' Educa-
/, tional Society of Montreal, she laid down
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