The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-07-29
FOR THE FAIR SEX,
An Economical Fashion.

An ECOnOmiCbl
For the correspondents who ask what
to wear with black silk skirts, there is
nothing prettier, more dressy and less |
costly than a coat basque of light fou-
lard silk of some quaint color and pat
tern on q cream ground. Other colors
are used for the ground of such basques,
but the effect is not nearly as good as
those of creamy white when worn with
any black silk demi-train or else long
trained skirt left over from former
season. When worn with long skirts
these basques are of course meant Tor
the house only, and are then sometimes
cut square in the neck, and this square Is
filled in with India muslin, OF else null
fichu is folded there, leaving an open
point instead of the square neck. Ii 1t
serve for the street with short walking
skirt of black silk, it is cut quite high in
the neck, with a Directoire collar and
revers, and its only ornament. is facing
of colored Surah and large, handsome
buttons. The skirted basques and those
with habit backs are the patterns used
Sometimes the panel coat basque is
made to serve this purpose. This has
the sides extending in panels that reach
to the foot of the dress skirt, while the
front and back of the skirt are quite
SlOrt.--BdzdT.
Old Maids and Confirmed Bac hslors.
There are men and women who, like
some flowers, bloom in exquisit beauty
in desert wild; they are like trees
which you often see growing IN luXuri-
ant strength out of a crevice OF rock
where there seems not earth enough to
support q shrub. The words Old
maid" "old bachelor" have in them
other sounds than that of half repronch
or scorn; they call up to many. OF your
minds forms and faces than which none
are dearer in all this world: know
them to day. The bloom of youth has
possibly faded from their cheeks,
but there fingers round the form
and face something dearer than
that. She is unmarried, but the
past has, for her, it may be, some chast-
ened memories of an early love when
keeps its vestal vigil sleeplsssiy over the
grave where its hope went out; ana IL
is too true to the long departed to per-
NIT another to take his place. Perhaps
the wears of maiden life were spent In
self-denying toll, which was too engross--
ing to listen even to the call of love, and
she grew old too soon in the care OF
mother or sister and brother, Now in
these later years she looks back calmly
upon some half-cherished hopes, once
attractive, of husband and child, but
which long, long ago, she Wl!llng!y
gave up for present duty. So to-day, IN
her loneliness, who shall say that she Is
not beautiful and dear.
So is she to the wide circle which she
blesses. To some she has been all that
mother could have been; and though
no nearer name than Aunt" or sis
ter" has been hers. she has to-day a
mothers claim and n mothers love.
Disappointment has not soured but only
chastened; the midday or the afternoon
of her life is all full of kindly sympathles
and gentle deeds. Though unwedded
hers has been no fruitless life.
1t is an almost daily wonder to me
why some women are married, and mol
LEGS marvel why many that see are
not. But this know, that many house.
holds would be desolate indeed, ano
many q family circle would lose Its
brig ntest ornament and its best power
weie maiden sister or maiden aunt re
moved; and it may bless the Providence
which has kept them from making gla'
, some husbands home. :,
Yonder isolated man, whom the worlc
, wonders at for never having found
, wife. Who shall tell you all the secre
history of the bygone time! OF hopes an(
love that once were buoyant and fond
which death, or more bitter disappoint
ment dashed to the ground; OF sorrow
which the world has never known; Q
fate accepted in utter despair, thougl
with outward calm! Such there are
The expectation of wife, or home, ha
been given up as one of the dreams Q
youth, but with groans and tears; nov
he walks among men somewhat alone
with some eccentricities, but with
warm heart and kindly eye. If he ha
no children of his own, there are cnoug
of Others chiloren who climb his kne
or seize his hand as he walks. Ii he ha
no home, there is many a home mad
clad by his presence; if there is no on
heart TO which he may cling, there al
many loving hearts that look lovlngl
toward him, and many voices Shove
bensdictions on his head.-"Ltte
Home"
Fashion Notes.
v Wide canvas belts are again worn.
Fans grow more and more fantasti
japanese parasols grow more al
more popular.
Kid gloves are worn only on cool da
DO in summer.
OF The handsomest dust cloaks are
20 pongee or fine mohair.
~ ~ Gold lace, gold braid and gold co
r ro are worn ad nauseam.
ne A touch of the antique prevails in
es fashionable coiffures.
re The dressiestround hats are of creai
y white Tuscan straw.
es The feature of the season is t
80 plated or shirred waist.
- Linen costumes and linen dust cloa