Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1882-08-13
WoMEN's KINGDOM.
Things About And For Women.
Hints and Gossip Concerning Feminine
Dress and Conduct.

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Tan.colored slippers, Ornamented
with tiny buckles, are made to match
the tan-colored Suede gloves that worn
with light evening dresses.
Mountain dresses of flannel for stag
ing and climbing are made very short
this summer, showing the light ecru
canvas and leather shoes that are laced
I. high up on the ankles.
The newest French sleeve Is wide and
straight, much hooped at the armhole
without being gathered, and Just below
the elbow 1t IS gathered into band
edged with lace ruffie.
An sorts of soft velvety material will
be popular for bonnets during the conn
ing season, heavy velvet, plush and
flowers i'm shaded velvet, being
amongst the article that promise the
greatest popularity.
The new shade of red is called MARI
borough; il is very handsome, bring at
once delicate and vived. The copper
or "chaudron" colors will be much
worn next autumn, in combination
with rich deep shades OF blue.
A wedding occurred in st. Louis re-
Gently which was truly aesthetic. The
bride wore a Directorie costume, the
little boy attendants wore black velvet
Oscar Wilde suits, and the altar was
decked with daisies and "soulful-eyed
lillies."
The French government has just PEN
stoned for life woman who sold to it
for tlifiirg sum vase which terms
out to be one of the sacred vases OF
Siam, probably stolen by some sailor.
and of inestimatable alue, as more
like it are to be had.
At dinner at Mrs. Astor's Newport
villa few nights since bank of pure
white roses was the only ornament or
the tables, and at Commodore Bald
wins dinner of 16, which was given
last week, palm-leaf fan, with
bunch of roses fastened to it by a knot
of light-colored ribbon, was laid at each
lady's plate.
The plated dress of Turkey red calico
grows in favor for children for seaside
and country use. 1t usually has
white muslin embroidered guimpe, and
is composed of lengthwise plants, with
stringe that begin at the waist line on
the sides and confine the back. These
wide strings are of red calico, hemmed,
and tied in large sash bows.
The gayest flannel dresses this season
are made of the terra-cotta and chau-
dron tints, with enough brown in them
to prevent their seeming to be merely
red flannel presses. The cadet blue
dresses that were new last year have
now become very comm on, and blondes
prefer instead blue-black tiannels that
are much darker than the navy blue
dresses that have been so long worn.
These are made of the cloth-finished
flannels that are all pure wool, but are
of light weight because they are seazily
woven, and they should be well spong-
ed before they are used, to prevent
shrinkage.
An engagement book says the Bos-
Gazette, now forms part of the sum-
mer impedimenta. Every girl who
falls upon Saratoga and Newport this
season, takes with her a mysterious little
volume, in which are entered, not her
expenses, but the names of eligible
parties who are not of the marrying
sort, with their reported fortunes in
round figures opposite them. This is
thought to be necessary caution, as
some terrible financial errors have
lately crept into the matrimonial ring
whereby several gushing engagements
are now "off," when they never should
have been Son"
The duchess of Fernan-Nunez caused
considerable sensation the other night
Says recent number of the London
Figaro) at the Spanish ambassadors
reception, by appearing with most real
istic. looking but surrounding the tiara
of diamonds she wore in her hair. Every
eve was turned on this strange and dar-
ing "last new thing" in hair-dressing,
the puzzle evidently being why her
grace had fixed on such creature as a
bat for her purpose. But her selection
was natural enough, seeing that the bat
happens to be heraldic emblem, or crest,
as we should call it, of the Fernan-
Nunez family.
During the first six months of 1882
the deaths announced in the Ledger of
persons who had lived to or beyond 80
years numbered 4S9, of whom 178 were
men and 81 women. During the
correspondent half-year of 1881 the
deaths were similarly recorded of III
men and 27S women, a total of 40.
During the half-hear just closed these
records gave the usual proof that
than men, the female octogenarians out
numbering the males by large percen-
tage. A further analysis also shows, as
before, that the womenwere the longest
lived, as the women who lived
beyond 80 are more numerous than
men, Philadelphia Ledger.
The styles of wearing the hair are
various, and indicate desire on the
part of the hair-dressers to do away
with the geaceful simplicity that has
been in vogue for some time past.
Looped braids falling on the neck re-
place the compact Grecian knot. The
old-fashioned "French twist" of our
mothers days has been revived; also
the large bows formed of hair, which
were fashionable some 20years ago, aud
which preceded the chigon. Finger
pUffs on the top of the head are also
worn; so too are the two long dropping
ringlets, falling on the neck, which the
princess of Wales brought over into
favor at the time OF her marriage
4 I1AtIaNdSaht tOuCtoi otS ~ lny -
the rule in Newport this q nat
ever may be held in reservS 1xAugust
displays. 1t is certain thsS y veky fimple
and quiet style OF dress is now to be
seen in the afternoons on the avenue
and in the mornings at the Casino The
bright and guady coloFs, the snowy com.
bination of lace, ribbon, silk, satin and
velvet, with heavy gold and silvery
jewelry, which are displayed ad naus-
cam at Saratoga, Long Branch, and
Richfield, are not visible at all at New
port. Ladies drive there in dark Co.'S
TUNES, with simply turbands and round 4
hats, and many plain Bingham and
cambria, with no trimming but knot
of ribbon at the throat, may be seen
any day in the gay crowd at the Casino.
-[NeW York Sun.
A very pretty novelty in jewelry,
says Lucy Hooper in her Paris Letter
to the American Queen, has made its
appearance within these last few week.
II consists of a spray ofleaves in dia-
monds, the foliage of some Towering
plant, such as rose, lily Ofthe valley,
q y;olaf and pfa In the center of the