The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-05-12
FOR THE LADIES.
Items Of Interest Which Most Concern
AVA the Fair Sex.

NCioSoHC WALL AOutON0 SIalun lioul
furniture. -..
The new gold-wrought gauze is called
Cendrilion. l.s.
Spiked tassels are much newer than
silken ones
To clean a house of vermiu use little
green paint in powder.
Spanish skirts measure two and half
yards around the bottom. ..
Jet aprons are a dainty and light (?)
decoration for grenadines.
Fashionable buttons are round, with a
fiat surface or else cup shaped.
Long buttons have rapidly faded into
the things that were, but are not.
Coarse Swiss scoop bonnets of large
size will be used for country wear.
Satin was originally imported from
China. 1t is woven bottom side up.
A cup of cold water put in the oven
will prevent bread or cake from burning.
Beads are so universally used for dec
Grafton that other garnltures are few and
far between.
The gilt laces that initiate Sordion and
Mechlin patterns are very fine threads,
and exclusively used for bonnets.
Parisiennes wear turbans farther back
than we do, but they reverse this order
in bonnets, and wear them over the face.
The heliotrope colors that promise to
be chosen by refined tastes are now
brought out in India muslins for bon net
trimmings.
Many young ladies cling to pleated
blouse waists with a tenacity that bids
fair to bring that fashion back into life
and animation.
Conde Crusts is only fancy name for
fried bread, which must be cut into
squares the size of dice, and delicately
fried in butter.
In some of the new dresses plating
six inches deep, and of the same material
as the dress, lies around the neck like a
collar.
That long-legged yet short-legged freak
Of nature, the kangaroo, is the latest
tile ornament, 1t will soon hop out of
fashion, probably.
The gayest Roman ribbons and most
pronounced silks are used for the low
1ecked round waists chosen for young
adies' evening dresses.
Calico dresses are made after the Wat
eau design, and trimmed elaborately
With lace. Psrasols and fans are made
% match, also trimmed with much lace.
Laces in Turkey red colors are new;
,hey offer suggestion to ladies possess
ng yellow cashmere laces, for they can
,e dyed very prettily for cotton or foul
ard dresses.
Cotton dresses are considered iust as
nice as the foulard, and will be worn by
many who will hate to most awfully, but
hey are fashionable, and where fashion
S. pride is not.
Many ladies will, for reasons we re-
irain from speaking Of, rejoice that some
one who knows says that they all are
wearing black velvet ribbons around the
throat as fifteen years ago.
Tissue paper mats is the latest bit of
fancy work. A round piece Of tissue
paper is bordered by tissue paper sweet
peas without stems. They may be made
very easily over knitting needle.
A good method of rejuvenating a
black straw hat is to mix tablespoonful
Of French shoe polish in cup with two
spoonfuls of good vinegar. Sponge the
hat carefully and evenly. When it is
dry it will be black, glossy and stiff.
1t is funny to see the young ladies
who q short period past were slim and
delicate and quite positive they never
could wear full dress skirt. now rejOic-
ing in one three yards round, and not
gored at all that. All! little giriies, one
never knows what one can do till one
tries. Do theys
The dowry Of Mrs. Chas. H. Norris,
daughter of Hon. Daniel Wells, of Mil
Wisconsin, who was married
last week, is probably the largest ever
given in the West, and consisted Of a
check for 100000, $240,00 in United
States bonds and $4,000 in stocks in
iron companies and mines in the PENN
sula of Michigan, making grand total
of $500, 1000.
A little five-year-old friend, who was
always allowed to choose the prettiest
kitten for his pet and his playmate, be-
fore the other nurslings were drowned,
was taken to his mothers sick room the
other morning to see the two tiny new
twin babes. He looked rehectively from
one to the other for a minute or two,
then poking mis- chubby finger into the
cheek of the plumpest baby, he said de-
cidedly: 'Save this one."
Many persons are often troubled as to
whether s'humble" is @umble" or 'fhum-
ble." Charles Dickens fixes this in the
mind of many by the words put in the
mouth of Uriah Heep, Il nm we'll aware
that am the umblest person going.
NV mother is likewise very umble per-
son. We live in a humble abode"
ANY one reading this and rejecting, will
surely aspirate the h In humble.
A notably fashionable firm Of New