The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1880-12-23
FIN. FACT, AND FASHION
FOR OUR FAIR FRIENDS,
And Petticoa-ed People in Par
ticuler.


{ At the ball. Grace (whispering}-
What lovely boots your partners cot
: Mary, Mary ditto Yes. u~nfortu
tunnte!y hs shines al the wrong end.
, At Chattanooga a wedding dres
: was made for il bridesmaid in five hours
; She had lost her trunk in a railroad &C
cident, AID there was DO time To spare
t Can there be hppiness where there
is no love? solemn!y queries an author
IN a book on marriage. Not much hap
piness, perhaps. but If the girl j. heal
thy and a~wfully Ti.h. there can be lots
of fun.
Mrs. Senator Logan superintends her
husbands correspondence. debating t.
4 stenographeT for hours at a time. She
!, also reports and addresses. But then
he is a ianatical idiot.
They were at a dinner party, and he
remarked that he supposed she was
fond Of %ethnology. She said she was.
but She was not very well, and the doe
tor had told hel not to eat anything for
dessert but oranges.
Snooks went home the other night
: afflicted with double vision. He sat
forsome tine with his sleepy gaze riv-
etcd on Mrs. Snooks, an1 then com
~placently remarked: "Well. | declare
+ you two gals don't look 'nough alike
20 be twins"
Mr.. Beaman, of Chester, y. Y. is
building rs a memorial to his wife.
daughter and granddaughter a magniti-
cont trrantra arl ,,,rl.l. l. ii.
Cuttingsville, Vt, which is to cost over
1000. everything being of tho best
workm lnship and most enduring ma
teria!S, the bronze door alone costing
$4,000.
The Princes of Wales had a narrow
escape from death recently. Itappears
that while following the hounds in
Norfolk her spirited hunter SHE'D and
threw the Princess. Fortunately Sir
Dighton Probyn. who was closely fol
lowing with great presence of mind
rode rapidly up, caught the Princess
Just at she was falling and saved her
from injury.
Large amber and tortoise shell hair
pins are careiessly stuck through the
Grccian plaits of blonde and brunette
alike. Occasionally you see a gold one
but they are rather loud-looking and
consequently not il good taste. Long
handled fans about the size of a silver
dollar, and sold as japanese hair pins
are worn by fair maidens who consider
themselves dilettante in japanese art.
Adelina Patti had an ovation on her
temperance in Madrid on Saturday
night, after seventeen years absence.
Every part Of the theatre was densely
packed. SO were asked for stalls and
81 for single seats in the pper gallery.
The applause was immense, and the
stage was covered with floral tributes.
Maud Granger told a st. Louis re-
porter. apropos OF her & G ses, the COS,
Of which has created 50 ..uch talk. II
an actress has good taste she can, by
making new combinations of colors and
style, make Il few good dresses TO 90
a long way. Last season | wore in The
Galley Slave u dIess much admired,
which was mainly composed of a gar
ment which | wore in a long forgotten
play written by Mrs. Sheridan Shook
for my debut in New York some years
AGO. No one would imagine The VAN
ping and revamping ON that dress
A wedding party was assembled at
Cleveland and everything was ready
for the ceremony, except that the
bridegroom had not arrived. Af,er
waiting az hour beyond the appointed
time the bride tainted and the guests
were about to disperse. Then Il police
man came in and said that he had drIv.
en- from the door a drunken man. who
wanted to enter. A search in the
n~eighborhood resulting in finding this
man. who was the missing bridegroom.
lie was not intoxicated, but had gone
insane.
Virginia Dumaire, who recently muir
dered her lover in Paris, bluntly told
the Jury that were the circumstances to
| be repeated she should act as one of
the previous OCCASION. The jury rctIr
ed for a quarter of an hour, and re
turned with a verdict of guilty of muir
der without generalization, and gran
ted extenuating circumstances. The
court condemned the defendant to ten
Years imprisonment. Nirginie Dn-
, marie. on hearing the sentence, remark
ed to her sister. DO no trouble about
me; am so tired of my life that the
| prison has no terror Tor me.
A woman, so years old, has starved
TO death in Boston. She was weak
from old age, and could not have lived
much longer in any event; but lack OF
GOD was what killed her. Her daugh-
ter was a washer woman, but could get
very little work, and was SO sensitive
on the subject of her poverty that she
would not beg. She and her mother
had nothing to eat for a week but some
meal and a small piece of meat, and for
two days were wholly without food.
The old woman lay helpless in bed,
moaning. Il am starving yet the
daughter would not go TO the authori-
ties for relief.
Shirring is still considered a very
fashionable method of trimming. The
Princess costume is wor quite as much
particularly for evening tollets-as
the basque and skirt. 1t is specially
becoming to stout figures, and SO will
not be readily allowed to 60 Nout of
style. Draperies on some suits are short
on others long. One must be governed
entirely by the general style OF the cos
tune. Plain skirts in velvet are much
worn. but a narrow box plating is fire.
J~uentIy arranged around the bottom.
Velvet is not as popular for trimming as
it was.
The small flower pockets, which were
so fashionable last year, have been re-
vived. Some of them are heart -sha-
ped, and are made of one kind OF flow
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