The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1882-04-28
EVE-ANGELICAL.
The reign of satin fabrics Is drawing TO a

The reign of satin fabrics Is drawing TO
close.
"Tea and toast" is the fashionable 4 o'clock
repast in New York.
Jet still retains its popularity, and will be
as much used as ever during the coming sea-
son.
Ladies will soon be graceful walkers-if
they adopt the low English heel, now coming
into vogue again.
The YoRkers Statesman discusses sWomen
as Wives" The idea seems feasible.-Nor-
ristoacn Herald.
A New York teacher of the art of SWIM
ming, says that women learn quicker than
men. They are natural kickers.
There Is fancy this season for fine shep-
herds check and checks of dark green. dark
claret and navy blue, or chestnut brown COM
| bined with white.
Fashionable yourg women of New York
thrum the banjo while dancing in the home
billiard room, and many of them also have
masters to teach them to play billiards.
The Atlanta Constitution says that there
| are probably 5000 women in that city who
| earn their living in part, or wholly, by their
own labor, against perhaps 500 ten years ago,
There was no attempt to deceive the guests
| as to the ages of the bride and bridegroom of
| wedding at Elgin, Ill. The cards of invi-
| tation said: "Smith Jamison, S4, to Sarah
Seward, 49,"
Labouchere, of the London Truth, says he
"does not believe that there Is one plain wo-
man in the world, who would not surrender
every gift with which she has been endowed
in order to be the most beautiful of hersex."
cultivated singer of European experience
| says that black silk has q peculiar magnetic
property, which pre- 1ents the wearer from
having her energies drawn upon or absorbed
by others. For this reason most public
speakers and singers prefer 10 appear before
all audience in this somber dress.
At ball recently given in New York, u
lady appeared in white silk dress, painted
by hand in vines and rosebuds. This dress
is said to have history, (artfully given out
beforehand,) that the Paris painter who
painted 1t had committed suicide.-All these
things are so nice to talk about.
At the Queens late drawing-room cere-
monials, the Princess of Wales abjured silks,
satins or laces, and appeared in costume of
wool cloth. '' Under the feathers, lappels,
and diamonds lay the dead, dull, lifeless
brown WOOL" says correspondent, and here
after the English ladies will dress in wool.
The majority of New York women are
very stout, which correspondent ascribes to
the fact that most city women walk but little
and eat great deal, especially sweets, which
are sure to create fat One habitue of socie~
ty lays six pounds Of flesh, (added to 25o,)
as the consequence of eating Christmas can
dies.
Let every soul be dead;
Baby sleeps.
The emperor softly tread!
Baby sleeps.
Let Mozart's music stop
Let Phidias' chisel DROP
Baby sleeps.
Demosthenes be dumb
Our tryant's hour has come.
@- Baby sleeps.
A French widow, who died lately, left A
will in which she reqnests that her body, with
the exception of her heart, should be buried
in the tomb of her first husband, while that
entrail should be placed In the grave of her
second and last partner. This apportion-
ment may do very well from a mortuafy
standpoint, but how the widow will explain
the division of her anatomy when she meets
both fond and faithful shades on the other
shore, is question.