The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1880-12-08
FASHION, FRLPPERY AND FOLLY.

EASHlUU, EhlPPERY AND FOLLY,
Comets are wearing as long trains this sea-
son as usual.
Blondes, it seems, have gone out of fash
'on, and many ladies will have to switch off.
The Boston Commercial Bulletin saws
that shem was not theinventor OF the chem
isette.
It is a relief to a man to unbosom himself;
but The law froWns on a woman if she even
atttmpts such a thing.
The cultured way to speak of a burIesque
actresses dress is to say that the skirts are
very decollete at the bottom.
There is no place like home," repeated
Mr. Henpeck, looking at q motto, and he
heartily ADDED: I'm glad there isn't
The Macfarlane cloak has q full plated
back, a large round cape, a hood lined with
plaid Suraht and a collar of brown plush.
The flies anu other creeping creatures used
in millinery are 10 set on the extreme edge
of a bonnet, as if thinking Of jumping off.
Cheviot is the favorite material for travel
ing dresses, and they are generally made in
the style of the monks pilgrimage costumes.
The New Orleans PSc0yune observes that
man is surpassed by woman, in that he has
no feasable way of fastening his hair on his
head.
He bet she wore striped stockings, but there
was no way of proving the question until he
GO w how arocosrr sbo ,o, -, fl. -.,l -z--f
be lost.
"A Blighted Life" is the title Of the latest
England society novel, but the name of the
lady who failed to get the sealskin sacque is
not given.
The woman who trims her own bonnet can
always be picked out Of a crowd by other
women; now if men only had this peculiar
gift of selection.
The Syracuse paper says Soldene brought
her wardrobe over in her pocket-book. There
must have been a good deal of waste space.
Why didn't she use a thimble?
A North Carolinian who kissed q woman
against her consent was sentenced to a
months imprisonment, and all the women in
tHC OldtC WauL tuG Id blaG puulSuEu uIlAI IT.
pealed.
A mammoth bow of very wide satin ribbon
is now worn on the left side, just below the
waist line. This gives a pretty finish to many
simple toilets, especially when worn with a
null fchu.
A new stuff for evening dresses, according
to q Paris correspondent of the BasG4, is
about halfway between Grape and illusion,
being lighter than the one and less transpar-
ent than the other.
A girl who feels as if she must wear a ker-
chief about her neck can make it tolerable by
shaping it IN a sailor collar and knot, a pro-
cess which requires very little work and pro-
duces q fairly becoming article Of dress.
Mary Jane wants q recipe for preserving
hair. Certainly. Use white sugar, pound
for pound, add enough water to make a
heavy syrup, add the hair and four ounces
oleomargarine, boil, strain and put up in a
glass or stone jar.
The meanest woman on record is the one
who ran up to a lady friend on the street and
said, 'Of course you've heard of the scandal
in the church! Awful, isn't lt?" Oh, here's
my car" and then jumped into 9 horse-car
and was gone without explaining the scandal
to the friend who didn't know about it.
Stockings are now Of greater consequence,
perhaps, in a lady's toilet than they have
been since they were invented. -M0d1 This
speaks well for the progress Of New York.
In this part of the country stockings have
always been considered an important article
of dress. In fact, no lady could be consid-
cred as well dressed if she did not have On q
pair of stockings.-Psoayune.