Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-07-02
FEMININE FANCIES.

MATING makes handsome dado for
dining or sitting room,
PLUSH lampmats with brass corners
are among the novelties of the season.
They are especially pretty for brass
lamps.
CARPETS with the name of the per-
son who is to use them woven in the
center have been made for country
house on the Hudson. as
FASHIONABLE bedrooms now have
the floors either covered with mating
or stained. Cheese cloth and plain
SWISS trimmed with lace are much used
for bedroom windows.
The old-fashioned gypsy bonnet,
with lace plaitings inside the brim, and
laden outside with wreaths and sprays
OF rare French flowers is the head COW
erlng par excellence for pretty young
girls.
The Carmen hat, with stiff brim and
square crown moderately high, is worn
by young ladies. It is of light mush-
room brown straw, trimmed with fine
feather tips and an aigrette of darker
shade. Fine folds of velvet encircle
the crown.
A NEW kind of embroidery, destined
to become immensely fashionable, con-
sists of raised flowers, the petals formed
OF lustrous satin or satin ribbon in all
the colors and shades demanded by the
artist and the leaves and calyxes of
Kensington-stitch in silk floss.
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are remarkable for the extreme short
ness and narrowness of their strings
and when tied, as they are, di-
rectly under the chin, the short loops
are taken up on either side and pinned
with careful exactness and prim precis-
ion.
SOME of the most delicately beautiful
OF the summer bonnets of white lace.
null or Grape are shirred in clusters on
their white frames, made graceful with
scarfs of lace and white clover blooms,
Lilies of the valley or snowballs. Ex-
quisite softly tinted gray tulle or lace
is made up similarly. and trimmed with
hawthorn blossoms, r-get-me-nots
or apple blossoms.
A YOUNG lady from New York, who
was visiting friends in Palmyra, saw
yoke of oxen going by the house, and
said ooh, how / would like good fresh
drink of milk from those coWsp' She
is mortally afraid of COWS, and coming
on one suddenly one day she was too
frightened to run; SO poking her par
asol at the beast, she suffered out,
''Lie down, sir lie DOWN.
A YOUNG lady from the lower
country, who bad been visiting in AL
turas, said just before she left there
recently that the people of Modoc
County were the most generous she had
ever met. During her short stay there
she had been offered half interest in
a saw-mill, a barber shop, printing
Office, gentleman horse and livery
stable, respectively, to say nothing of
the offers of two or three saloons,
ranches and bands of cattle if she
would remain there permanently Al
ia California. a e Hn
In this country men dc not hold
their wives by means of the bang, and
the nature OF the American female face
is such that the more of it uncovered
the better it looks, whereas nine women
out of ten who are provided with bangs
have happy resemblance to rabbits
peeping out of brush heap. The only
unfortunate feature about the disap-
pearance of the bang is the dread of what
is to come after it. It is to go, that
much is settled but whether the women
are to shave their heads or to wear wigs
like those which surrounded the head
of Louis XIV. is question that must
fill the world with awe, and the fashion
papers with matter for some time to
come Globe Democrat.