Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-03-05
FOR AND ABOUT WOMEN.

Many new spring basques are cut double
breasted.
Fashionable young women in New York
thrum banjo while dawncing in the home
billiard-room.
Miss Mary Anderson is one of the few
beautiful women who look better in white
satin than anything else.
The polonaise model will be favored for
early spring wear. This garment is very
becoming for slender ladies.
An angry woman at Newport, R. l., threw
fork at her son. 1t lodged in his heel,
making slight wound, which resulted in
gangrene, from which he died ON Friday
last.
At recent swell-wedding in New York,
the bridal procession was led by seven little
girls dressed in valencienne laces, and who
were all harnessed together by ropes of
smilax.
The seventeen-year-old wife of the Chinese
minister at Washington is described as pic
turesquely pretty. She is studying English,
occupying herself in her strict retirement
with this and with her curious lutte.
Another mantel lambrequin is made on
felt, but to attempt any description of the
numbsrless patterns would be but to enumer-
ate the countless fancies of countless people.
Lambrequins are of felt, monte cloth, velvet,
plush and pile.
Saxony fannels will be in great demand
for early spring suits, both for ladies and
children. The new shades are porcelain
blue, rich bronze green, and deep brown;
those designs formed in ombre stripes and
broken plaids are remarkably effective.
The hair is worn low on the brow, either
in curly fringe or waved. Behind it droops
in the nape of the neck in a coil, in loops or
braids. Flowers are sometimes worn in the
hair in he nj
just one large spray or flower near the left
ear.
Lovers of soft pretty lace who cannot well
afford to purchase the real, yet dislike the
poorer qualities, are delighted with the
beautiful and effective Oriental patterns
which now come in various widths and
generally conceded to be the daintiest and
most attractive of the imitation laces.
A stylish model for spring hat, in the
Queen Nab" shape, is made of amber
colored straw, with cascades of gold lace veil
ing, a wreath Of mignonettes and chenille
moss rose buds, of a deep crimson. Inside,
the hat is faced with crimson shirred satin,
with narrow band at the extreme edge of
amber beads.
Over carriage dresses for spring are to be
worn handsome Spanish nantes of ladies'
cloth of dark absinthe seal brown, bronze
scabiosa, or soft Quaker gray, trimmed with
rich chenille applique bands in darker shades
OF color than that composing the wrap They
are closed at the throat with silk chenille
cord and tassels.
London Truth: "Jeweled epaulets are the
newest feature of evening dress. The decor
alton assists the effect of square shoulders.
to attain which has for some time been prin-
cipal aim Of fashionable women. Epzulets
without sleeves may appear an inconsistency
to many, but fashion goes on her capricious
way without troubling herself as to what is
consistent"
An elegant theater bodice is combination
OF black plush, old gold satin, and hand
Is formed Of plush loops, lined with old gold
satin; the elbow and shoulder puffs are also
of satin, barred across with velvet. The
plastron is of gold embroidery, and the neck
and sleeves are finished with deep frills Of
duchesse lace.
Miss Gertrude Rowe, aged nineteen, was
married at Waukesha on the 23d instant, to
Mr.. George A. Hine, aged seventy-seven
years. The old gentleman had been making
love TO the bashful young maiden for some
little tine, but as he seemed bent on post
poniDg the marriage day, Miss Gertie hur-
ried him up with breach of promise suit,
which brought the old gentleman to time at
double-quick.
A very elegant peignoir of peach-blossom
pink surah has hand painted revres and
cuffs of satin covered with trailing sweet-pea
blossoms and vines and small fern leaves
Pink-tiuted plush ribbons, in Louis frieze
knots, adorn the high ruff and are carried all
the way down the front, to which are added
cascades of Oriental lsce, which fall in soft,
creamy waves over the spaces left between
each knot.
The London World thus describes girls be-
fore and after they are betrsthed: "The
Young Unengaged Bird-She is slight, light
and bright; fond of the society Of the COUSIN
Bird; chatters a good deal at feeding time;
is addicted to meaningless interrogations.
round games, bon-bons, fragments OF the
slang and semi-plucked Undergraduate
Birds, upon which she feeds voraciousIy.
She il frequently found chirruping with
others Of her tribe at the pluming, or come
to-my-room-and-bru -your-hair' hour. The
Engaged Bird-Generally seen fitting mvs-
teriously around the trOtLssedu tree. In the
evening prefers sitting out on a bench and
watching their Flappers; has been known TO
smile on the Best Man Bird and cause rnucb
irritation thereby. As rule, feeds with one
claw concealed, and is invariably lost AT a
picnic, to the amusement of the Matrou
BIRDS and envy Of the FIappers. The flesh
il white and saff -