Towanda daily review. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1879-1921, 1881-03-19
For the Ladies.

a Well known n1OnlSte visited an I'M
porting house in New York this week and
made copiouS notes of the fashionable IA
brics she saw, which were just opened
and which are designed for the coming
season. She reports most Of the new
spring styles have something striking
about them that will at once arrest atten-
tion. The new embroidered batistes are
unique in design, and in combinations Of
form and color show an ambitious at
tempt at decorative art. There is every
variety of pattern, and the shades which
indicate what fashions decree for the
next months is, vary from pale sold lace"
to the delicate light brown. Threads of
gold run through it all. The broad bands
are for the dress, and the narrower ones
for the carsage and sleeves. The latest
open satin fronts-mostly White-for
dresses are adorned with jet and faceted
beads of polished steel, or embroidered
with creamy seed pearls. Some spring
mantles of gros grain silk and Radzmere,
profusely covered with novel bead work,
are exhibited, of Which only a few dupli-
Gates have been or are to be sold in Eu-
rope. The new feature of the morning
dresses shown was the addition of
touch of delicate embroidery. White
cambria is the favorite material. Baya,
deer is the name of a new cloth, which is
used with charming effect with plain
goods such as camel'S hair or cashmere.
1t is of olive-green, brown or other dark
ground. lighted up with threads of gold
or other light colors. The fabric takes
it's name from the .Nautch dancing girls.
by whom it is much worn. The season
brings no radical change in the character
of print goode. The material appears to
be improved in quality and the figures are
delicate, yet clear and artistic.
The Board of Health, of New York, has
issued a circular GLOW to tell Diphth-
eria" 'Give heed" it says, "the moment
that you observe signs in'your child of
unwonted weakness, fatigue or physical
debility, particularly if it is accompanied
with little fever. Make the child fire.
quently open its mouth, so that you can
observe it's throat. 1t is the throat that
the lay observer will first observe any
sigus Of diphtheria. Never mind how
red or infamed the throat may appear.
That does not indicate the disease. But
the instant that you see white spot and
detect a bad odor run for a doctor. The
white spot will grow. Other white spots
will appear, and ey yentually they will run
together in great blotches if the disease
is not checked. The time to summon
medical assistance is before these spots
run together.
The proposed international Cotton EX-
position, to be held at Atlanta, Ga, starts
off with the mo st fattering prospects
The citizens of that city responded with
great promptness and enthusiasm. In
cured the success of the undertaking.
All the solid men work with will and a
vim to carry through the enterprise The
railroad and steamship lines, home and
foreign, are liberal subscribers. The
programme of the exhibition is now be-
ing prepared the list of premiums and
awards. 1t will be the finst exhibition OF
cotton products ever got together.
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The women of Wisconsin though beat
en- are not dismayed. They are re-organ-
lzing for another effort to obtain the right