The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1881-01-13
IN A NUTSHELL.

1881 is the same forward and back.
Apricot and salmon tints are fash
ionable.
Lace or beaded sleeves are on all
dressy basques.
Chenille trimmings appear on many
of the richest wraps.
Satin de Lyons bids fair to be the
popular plain silk dress fabric.
Interest is the spur of the people,
but glory that of great souls.
An idle reason lessons the weight of
the good ones you gave before.
Sin has great many tools; but lie
is the handle which fits them all.
Ceremonies differ in every country;
but true politeness is ever the same.
Red, gold, old gold, bronze and pur-
pie are the prominent winter colors.
Bows on your dress skirt, if you like,
but they must have six loops and two
ends.
Rev. DR.. Talmage has invited his
congregation to call upon him New
Years.
1t is quite natural that the old year
should grow cold at the last end, being
the dying year.
The effective colors in plush are gar
net, old gold, amethyst, bronze, myrtle,
green and purple.
The firehy only shines when on the
wing. So is it with the mind; when
once we rest we darken.
Rows of machine stitching remain
the favorite finish for cloth, cheviot and
frieze cloth dresses.
Poverty often deprives man of all
spirit and virtue. 1t is hard for AN
empty bag to stand upright.
Pictures drawn in our minds are
laid in fading colors, and unless some
times refreshed, vanish and disappear.
All other love is extinguished by
self-love; beneficence, humanity, JUS
tice, philosophy, sink under it.
1t is with youth as with plants; from
the first fruits they bear we learn what
may be expected in the future.
The glitter of gold and the sparkle
VI CO1o1 CN UC(Oo l1ldhC ulCSStS dtl(l
nets rarely brilliant this season.
Miss Rosecrans, a niece of the Gene
raj, has been elected superintendent of
schools, of Keokuk, Iowa.
Pearl trimming nearly half yard
wide goes well with mauve brocade,
and costs only $40 a yard.
Costumes for the coolest weather are
so heavily trimmed with plush as to
appear almost made of that fabric.
Pale blue plush morning robes, worn
please luxuriously tasteful women.
The handsomest things in fine knit
ted underwear are chemises and draw
ers of wool Grape and silk Grape.
Shirred waists of white or colored
Surrah silk are worn under bright col
ored velvet or brocaded peasant waists.
When men are solely urged and
pressed, they find in themselves a
power which they thought they had
not.
Nature makes us poor when we want
necessities, but custom gives the name
of poverty to the want of superb III
ties.
He who is false to the present duty
breaks thread in the loom, and will
see the effect when the weaving of a
lifetime is unravelled.
Many of the richest velvet brocades
have the flowers edged, ribbed and
veined with gold, jet, pearl, and irrides-
cent beads.
Stylish walking costumes are made
Of tiny shepherds plaid in two shades
of some dark color combined with self
colored goods.
A novel feature of Washington
meeting last Sunday was the preaching
of De La Matyr, the Indiana green
back representative, while the singing
was led by Weaver, the late greenbacE
presidential candidate,
James NJ. Stone, for twenty years
"king of the lobby" of the Massachu.
setts legislature, died at Boston last
week.
When your old furs get too shabby
to wear, you can make q very pretty
rug of them, by simply sewing the
scra ps together.
The English silk vests are now SO
graded in weight and thickness that
many ladies wear them at all seasons
Of the year.
General Stonemau, who lives at Los
Angeles, California, is making money
out of grapes. He has just sold his
crop of the present year for $4,000.
Miss Foote, who was one of Mrs.
Hayes aids during her first two win
ters at the White House, is to marry a
Cincinnatian this month.
Some very original dresses have been
imported in which yellow green-like
bronze is the prevailing color of the
satin brocade.
The centennial anniversary of the
establishment Of the first Universalist
church in this country was celebrated
at Gloucester, Mass, last week.
Mrs. NJ. r. Carle, Of Bloomington,
ILL.,, widow of an army medical officer,
is a candidate for postmaster of the
house of Representatives.
General Butler is to be Governor
Sprague's leading counsel in the
Sprague-C Chase divorce suit, which will
come to trial at Providence in Febru-
ary.
Everyone on the morning of the
29th ult., were able to appreciate Ho-
ratios remark to Hamlet: 1t is an
eager and a nipping air." Mercury 20
degrees below zero.
Hon. George H. Harlow, the Illinois
secretary of state, whose term of Office
is about to expire, has been presented
by the attaches Of his office with a sill
yer service.
During the presidential campaign a
western farmer wrote to Mrs. Garfield,
asking the loan Of 81 900 to pay off a
mortgage. He said that amount would
put him on his feet again.
Adelina Patti is undoubtedly, says
Mrs. Hooper, coming to this country
next autumn to remain two years. All
arrangements are made and the con-
tract signed.
Our friend King Kalakaua, of the
Sandwich Islands, is coming to this
country in Fehr1arv He has nersOnal