The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-02-12
FACTS AND FAsCIEs FOR THE FAIR.

FACTS AND FANCIES FOR THE FAIR.
ARTILLERY fatigue caps have re-
placed crush-hats among young New
Workers.
KLePToMANIA is getting to be a very
common disease amo lg the upper classes,
so likewise is umbrellatomania.
DEEP violet and deep red, the colors
of lovely variety of the fuchsia, ap-
pear in gown just sent out by French
dressmaker.
The men of to-day are high strung,
says Chicago paper. They can't stand
provocation, and so if woman be MUIR
dered it is all her own fault.
ONE of the latest novels is entitled
ga Woman After ALL" That seems to
be reversing things. 1t has generally
been all after woman.
TIGHT-LACING should be encouraged
in every possible way. 1t kills off foolish
girls and leaves the sensible ones. No
healthy girl ever laces.-Detroa Free
Press.
AN exchange tells of a young lady
who, writing to confidential friend,
stated that she was not engaged, but that
she saw cloud above the horizon about
as large as mans hand.
IT sounds pretty to wonder at the lack
of patriotism that prevents the Irish
woman from wearing the poplins of their
native country; but how long did it take
to introduce American silks?
A FASHION item says: ''French milli-
ners are once again trying the plan of
setting wings on each side of hat,
making it look like petasus." Ladies
might as we'll be out of the world as out
of petasuses.
SAN FRANCISCO ladies have deter
mined that if Adam is monumented, the
mother of the race shall not be snubbed.
Eve shall have a statue of marble. The
figured quality is respectfully recon-
mended.
SOME singularly tasteless wall pockets
are in the shape of open reticules and
travelling bags. The texture of the
leather and of the silk lining are repro
duced so faithfully that all the real
beauty of the china is lost.
MARIE ANToINETTE's work table has
been reproduce for a modern belle. 1t
is padded with garnet satin, and has a
cover of golden-brown plush, with tas-
ses of olive, pink, blue, sea green, gar
net and primrose.
THE Household recommends the Garth
metic cure" and says that crying may
be stopped by going rapidly through
problems like this: "Four-fifths of if
teen is six-tenths of how many thirds of
twenty-one."
1T is said that $40 stockings are shown
in Chicago, and this leads us to remark
that is, we're forced to believe that
the average Chicago anatomy has won
derful area, or else-but perhaps it's the
quality of those things that makes them
cost.
THESE be aesthetic gowns in England (:
Underdresses Of gray velveteen, with
elaborate draperies of lemofryellow and
pale green, and hats of gray felt. These
were worn by two sisters at a recent re-
ception, and third woman was clad in
tawny-red plush with not even a collar
or cuff to mitigate its glare.
DID you ever notice, brethren, the
bigger the woman tie smaller the hat
It's only your delicate little fairy whose
lightly falling tread scarce bends the
daisy that it falls upon, that wears a
hat as broad as coal-barge, with cius-
ter of plumes nodding over it that would
shut out the fire from palm-leaf fan.
FANCY dresses grow more and more
gorgeous. One worn by a lady who in
tended to represent une gronde dame la
r. naissance had black jersey bodice,
low in front, halt-high at the back, and
embroidered in gold with fantastic
heraldic animals. The black satin skirt
was similarly adorned, and so was the
black velvet scarf sash. The train was
of gold-colored damask.
PHUDDLEDUMPs, after reading in the
paper that an Oriental bride must weigh
two hundred 10 be considered beauty,
soliloqu;zed: singular about that. Some
of those Turks manage two or three
wives, each weighing two hundred
pounds or over, and my old Betsey
weighs only ninety and yet never man.
aged her much, did L? No sir, YOU can
gamble money that never did"
| MANTILLAs are not articles that
American women can wear with grace, nc
matter how intense may be their desire
to make Spaniards of themselves, but the
Mail tells of some pretty pink satin
founces recently imported by New
York dealer which are Spanish enough
and pretty enough for an Infanta. The
design represents tulips, cactus and moss
of crimson with foliage shading from
moss-green to bronze.
"MA," said little girl, "I thinl
Aunt Rose is getting to be an old maid.
"Why?" asked the mother. Becaus,
she is all the time finding fault with he
looking glass, and begins to drink he
tea without sugar, and won't tell he
age, and" But the mother pretended
she had to look after affairs in tn,
kitchen, and didn't stay to hear the res
of the symptoms"
J IT is not very polite to give argument
, or authorities TO men, and SO any woman
will be foolish who reads this ex
tract from the wife of the late LORI
Lytton to her husband: He witt
doth not smoke hath either know
no great griefs or refuseth him
self the softest consolation, next t
, that which comes from heaven. What
} softer than women?' whispers the youn
reader. Young reader, woman teases a
/ well as consoles. Woman makes hal
5 the SORROWS which she boasts the priv
lege to soothe. Woman consoles US,
| is true, while we are yeung and hand
some; when we are old and ugly, woma
l snubs and scolds US. On the whole, ther
woman in this scale, the weed in thai
t Jupiter, hang out thy balance, an
a weigh them both; and if thou give th
}, preference to woman, all 1 csn say il
: the next time Juno ruffles thee-O Jup
e ter! try the weed"
Customs Differ.
One could see tina. he had a grie'