The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1882-02-03
EVANGELICAL. L.
Short skirts are de rigueuey for dancing.
Black remains the choice color for street

Short skirts are de rigueuey for dancing.
Black remains the choice color for street
wear. .t. .
The taste for embroidery for dress deco
ration increases.
The taste for embroidery as dress deco
ration increases.
Rosettes will be worn again on the instep
Of dancing shoes.
Young and slender women prefer low,
round waists with belts for evening wear.
Sleeves slightly gathered into the arm
hole are more stylish than those made with
puffs.
1t Is said there is hardly landlsdy In
Washington who does not speak three Lam
guages.
Side draperies, long and fat, similar to
those worn on dresses twenty years ago, are
revived.
The London Lancet says that pots of
flowers and plants in sleeping rooms are apt
to give sleepers bad dreams.
Floral yokes, as large as an ox-yoke, are
suspended before mirrors or between the
doors at wedding receptions.
An imported fan is ON exhibition In New
York which has twenty magnificent ostrich
feathers, each Of them nearly yard long.
When woman begins to have double
chin she can make herself look dozen years
younger by tying her hat strings under ii.
1t has been discovered by the keen eye OF
Mrs. Grundy that President Arthur keeps his
dead wife's portrait in his room at the White
House wreathed with flowers which are re-
newed every day.
Only nine survivors of the war Of 1912 car
be found in New York City, but pensioned
widows of that war In the United States
26,0OO. Sainted Marial .-
The President, the President of the Senate,
the Secretary Of the Treasury, the new Judge
of the Supreme Court and the Postmaster
General are all wifeless.
The number Of feathers upon lsdy's hat
this winter is only limited by the extent Of
her finances. The size of the hat has moth
ing to do with the question.
1t was the wife Of President Madison who
gave young woman the famous advice:
"Give your appearance careful and serious
thought in your dressing-roon and forget 1t
elsewhere"
An Indiana widow and her watchdog at
tackled and bit barn thief so badly that II
was two weeks before he could leave his
bed. The widow bit three Of his fingers to
the bone as her share Of the work.
A London dress novelty is steel gorget
and pair Of cuffs, or armlets, made exactly
like old chain armor,ring within ring. They
can be worn with any dress, and are made of
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Mrs. Senator Logan and other leading la
dies in Washington society have formed a
secret association called "Guardian Angels"
which intends to exert social influence upon
Congressman in behalf of temperance.
Society bellies are training for dancing.
The indications are that the rapid style OF
waltzing will hold good as most Fashionable,
there being nothing newer in the way ef
steps than the "Ripple," with its aidewise
slides. ~
Mrs. Amelia j. Hathaway, probably by
far the best grounded in philosophy among
American women and an authority on Kant
and Hegel, died at Little Prairie Ronde,
Mich, last Monday. Her paper on Schopen-
haur was one of the most notable read at the
Concord school of philosophy last summer,
and occasioned one remark at the time that
she was the only woman there who thought
level with the men-with such men IS DR..
Harris, even.
There are two very enterprising girl jour-
nalists at Guadalupe, Cal. They write the
editorials and report the locals, prepare the
general news and miscellaneous reading
matter, set the type, make up the forms, lih
them from the stone to the press, do the
press-work on hand-press, and mail and
distribute the papers, performing the same
work that used to require . force OF three
men. And yet they are said not to repre-
sent the muscular type of their sex, but are
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