The Russellville Democrat., 1880-02-19
wOMAN's WAYS.
Masculine and Feminine Morality FemiD
 fnities--Fashion Notes.
MASCULINE AND FEMININE MORALITY.

| fnities-Fashion Notes. MASCULINE AND FEMININE MORALITY. l could never understand the opposite | system of weights and measures which have been established for gauging moral | fly among men and women. The strict est allow that young man should SOW his wild oats; but who ever admitted the same necessity in the case of girls? Who said that man should have his amuse- ments-his clubs, cigars, horse-races, 1 fiirtations, and liquorings; but supposing our woman and girls come to us reeking of tobacco2 Supposing they addicted themselves openly to taking nips of grog and absinthe when their spirits were low3 Supposing they sat down to quiet rubber of whist or ecarte, gambling away their household money just to while of dull hours7 We demand so much excellence of our women that the worst of them are still better than the average man. 1 have known some wo- men who were social outcasts, and who, in point of heart, conduct and general moral rectitude, might have furnished stuff for the making of very upright gentlemen indeed. They have fallen once 1t is true. but what fearful penalty they have been made to pay for that one tiAaO ulAie1 " Schi pdA loOiiy tliS hiiihICi penalties of men are so slight. If a young man gets mixed up Tn some dis graceful entanglement, breaks heart and throws young girl upon the streets after having ruined her life, people say of him compassionately, by and by: "He was so young when he did it, and now he has turned over new leaf," but if an inexperienced girl, mere child of sixteen or seventeen, comes to harm through moments weakness, born of too much love and over confidence Tn her betrayer, who ever thinks of plead ing her youth as an excuse? Who ever urges seriously thata girl has turned over a new leaf? .
 FEMININITIEs.
 LEAP year dosen't amount to much the men are so coy.
 THE waves of women's handkerchief have wrecked many a men.
 BEAUTY is not necessity, but fits just too pretty for anything" as the girls say.
 THE Buffalo Courier asks: How would fashionable ladies like to be angels and wear old-fashioned things? ...asn
 POET says: "Oh, she was fair, but sorrow left traces there." What became of the rest of the harness he don't state.
 How does courtship look? She look and he looks; that is how it looks. What is it like? She sighs and he sighs-that is about the sighs of 1t.
 A WESTERN editor says one hug is worth dozen love letters, and they can not be introduced as evidence in q breach-of.promise suit either.
 4 YOUNG man in Bridgeport, Na., thus answered an invitation from q lady to attend a leap year party: Deer Miss, yours reserved-I tumble"
 IT is leap year, of course, but after all it doesn't look very we'll for a young lady to go home alone at o'clock in the morning after sparkling her beau till that time.
 FASHION NOTES.
 CURLs dropping from the back of coif- fuces are revived. t.. ........t MEDIUM shades of wood color and gray are revived for kid gloves. CREAMY white bonnets are more worn than any other for full dress. TuIIE is the fashionable diaphanous fabric this winter for ball dresses. 
 FuRs are not 80 much worn in New York this winter as they usually are. LooPs of braids at the back of the head are giving place to loose fluffy curls.
 YoUNG ladies who dance wear short dresses escaping the floor all the way round.
 TIE new spring goods will be bro- caded in armure and small moyen age patterns.
 CASHMERE colors appear in the trim mings of many of the handsome white bonnets.
 HUGHES, ruffles and fraises in the neck are becoming more fashionable than lin- en collars.
 louNG ladies wear their corsage bou- auets on one sine of tho neck, near the shoulder.
 WHITE jet and white Spanish lace ap- pear to be favorite decorations of white dress bonnets.
 GoLD thread traceries around the de- signs of white Spanish lace appear on late importations.
 WHITE silk and white gauge form the com position of many elegant evening dresses this season, CENDRILLoN is new gauge material heavily wrought with gold or silver 1 thread, for ball dresses. ------------