Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1883-12-21

i gray doYe'a feathars and q bHEch Of dark blue
! satin and ottoman ribbon. Aaether gray felt,
Il edged with 4 chain of black bugles and draped
i with maroon yelvet--tHo gray and black birds
j with crimson crests set among the folds. Black
felt hats are also in some favor, with or without
q bright dash Of color in the plumage to give
them life. When colored feathers are not
added, . bunch Of ribbon may take their place.
or merely an elegant silver or steel pin IN the
/ shape Of q dagger, or 8 boakin attached to q
long cord coiled several times around the
crown A dull gold bodkin and crimson cord
| look very well on a hat entirely black for tbs
| rest. while for mourning, 3 frosted silver
skeYer brightens up black sufficiently.
| f - Worn Out Rugs. -
New York Letter: No folly in fashion has
exceeded, or ever will exceed, the current craze
| in this city for antique rugs. These articles
! are brought from Asia, where they are woven
I by hand, and whore some are used by Moham-
| medans to pray upon. They are good exhibits
OF industry and taste in the blending of bright
| colors tremendously into intricate patterns.
OF course. the work is not so exact or symmet-
| rical as though done by machinery. The
Irregular, and there are other blemishes insep-
! arabic from labor done with the fingers. But
| the dyes are fast the wool astonishingly soft
and line, and few years Of wear lmpart6 to tue
| SuiAdCo q ptCtlliaI duu peAutli suScu Iuoso
are the plain facts about the Eastern rug.
! Mark the distortion which en- artistic thing
suffers when sub ected to popularity. IF age
| beautifes a rug, then rug can't be too d.
| apldated. That is the reasoning OF the fools,
! or their conclusion, for to concede that they
| reason at all is too much. The stores are
therefore stocked with rugs that are worn
| threadbare, that are ragged at the edges and
| patched in the centers, that are extravagant in
| price on account Of these defects, aud that, if
! their condition has really been caused by the
| feet and knees OF Mussulmans and other foul
| Orientals, ought to be so suggestive Of ire
deemable nastiness as to be lntoerable in a
| Christian parlor
''Whisper.' responded dealer to whom I
! made that criticism; lin month or so I shall
| stomach needn't roll at. They'll be tattered
and torn-bet your life; but it'll be the neat
| and quick work of machinery. I i'm orted q
cargo Of fresh, new rugs, and they're now
| being worn out by machines of my own inven-
ton. lt's simply o carpet beating apparatus
run ten times as fast and % hundred times as
long as it usually is to cleana piece OF carpet;
and when rug gets through is willing to swear,
solemn and conscientious, that it has been knelt
on by greasy Turks for q thousand years.
Influence of 'vyoinan's Society.
| 1t is better for you, says Thackeray, to pass
an evening once or twice in a lady's drawing
! and you know the girls songs by heart, than in
| a club, tavern. or The pit of theater. All
amuserlents of youth to which virtuous women
are not admitted, rely on it, are deleter1oas
| to their nature. All mon who avoid f.
male society have dull perceptions and are
stupid. or have gross tastes, and revolt against
what is pure. You club swaggerers, who are
sucking the butts Of billiard cnes all night, call
| female society insipid. Poetry is insipid to
yokel; beauty has no charms for blind man;
| music does not please poor beast who does
not know one tune from another; and as q true
! epicure is hardly ever tired of water-souchy
! and brown bread and butter. I protest I can
sit for whole night talking to awell-regulated,
| kindly woman about her girl coming ont, OF
| her boy at Elton, and liking the evening"
! entertainment. One Of the great dement's a
man may derive from women's society is that
! he is bound to be respectful to them. 7 he
habit is Of great good to your moral man, de-
| pend upon it. Our education makes us tho
| most emnently selfish men in the world. We
| fight for ourselves, We push for ourselves, we
| we won't go out. We prefer ourselves and our
| ease; and the greatest good that comes to
| man from woman's society is that he has to
| think of somebody besides himself-somebody
to whom he is bound to he constantly attentive
| and respectful
| Odd Jewelry.
| In fancy jewelry everything odd and quaint
! finds favor. One brooch is an elephants head
in oxydized silver, with head trapping of gold,
| chased and fringed, with diamond eyes and
ivory tusks tipped with gold. Others are
spiders with cats eyes for bodies, and dla-
monds or emeralds for heads. There are
| dragon files and beetles; paradise birds
! and humming birds; old Roman coins
| mounted on the fasces in gold, with
| silver bands tying the rods; crabs holding
pearl or cat's-eye in their ugly claws, and
bot tri1,o
! of ribbon or flower in precious stones. The
English ring Of dull gold, either in crucibls
| or beaten gold with sunk stones ls the favorlte
| style for gentlemen. For ladies, the solitaire,
| the cluster and the Marquise remain the first
! choice, with various fancy styles for those who
affect the quaint and odd in jewelry: Scarf pins
| for gentlemen show q decided tendency toward
! the quaint and odd in design. There are
| standard patterns, notably the round pin, the
| dagger hilt ETC., with animals beads and in
for pcmetiaing out of the ordinary style: Bits
single gem imbedded in the rough
gold are new and elegant Mon ; of
| stones in preference to diamonds for
scarf-pins-star rubies, cats eyes, tourma-
! lines in unusual colors, etc; and there is a
| great fancy for lapis lazuli: for the Alexan-,
drite, with its changing green and red hues, for
the jacinth-in short, for everything which is
| ilhelv uOt W Do WOiu Nv tue DldCA
! onyx, with pearls and diamonds, for the only
| jewels, is still the one idea in mourning jew
elry. Ladies in half mourning wear silver
ornam ents, and in these there are many pretty
and artistic fancies
Woman's Devotion
| Washington letter to the Christian Union
says of a woman who has vainly tried to save
! George Fl. Butler from rum: "Who do you
! think is the only person on earth who still
cares for that besotted wretch. George H. But
| Ter! l will tell YOU Accidentally, d few
| months ago, I met u sweet loving lady.
| Her face, figure and manner we're perfect
| Sho looked to be twenty years old;
they told me she was forty She was
sparkling, witty and Handsome a veritable
actress. This is her history: Twenty years