Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1884-04-10
WOMAN AND HOME.
Attraction Of Opposites ... Women
Workers -. Leap Year
Houscwork, Cookery and Health
Hints. Decorative Work. Match
Making and Odds md Ends
or Fashion Notes.


The round waist Is conspicuous among
French costumes
The Iangtry knot is still the fashionable
eoiffurs for street wear.
Girls now wear punches OF ribbon on their
corsege when they cannot get flowers
Velvet will be combined with the airy
sauzes OF other transparent tissues worn the
coming season.
The newest handkerchefs have just the
ia;p test suggestion of hem, and are made
Of plain white linen
Slate blue carm.ne and geIanum red and
gray in all t, nes, from the palest dove color
to the densest London smoke arc the reigning
shades.
The high Greek coiffurcs with several
Allets cncrcling the head, take the place with
Parisians Of the small coil In the :apc OF
the mack
Black Ottoman and black velveteen in the
new London dye are to be much III use as
stylish walking costumes for elderly ladies
this seasoA.
The new mutton.lcg sleeves are full at the
top and very close below the elbow: their
beauty is increased by making them long and
gushing the upper part far ABOVE the arm
holes OF the dress,
The old fashioned paste buttons converted
into brooches, fasten bonnet strings close
under ono car; diamond arrows are placed
lower down, and larger and handsoner orna-
ments quita under tho chin.
Muslin ,lelains fabric resembling nuns
yelling will DO very popular material the
coming season. and beautiful patterns ara
already shown, the delicate grounis strewn
with gay flowers and foliage in exquisite tint
ings.
Hats orramentcd with small animals
altifie al, it is true, but beautifully initiated
a tiny fox, misnon bear, delicate seal,
cats. dogs, horses; lace stockings embroidered
in gold, are 8 few Ct the eccentrities in which
fashion in Paris indulges
There is nothing more delicate and moro
becoming to ladies' Of all ages than lace, AMI
the machne-.nala Englisn ant Ften>h nets
and laces are now brough. 10 such perfection
and have come to be 50 extremely low In
price, in really handsome d-si gas AMI quail
tiles, that the question OF expense i'll tho
adoption Of these soft trimmings needs not
TO be considered.
Feather aigrettes in the hair arc more
worn in Paris than flowers this winter; n
flowers are preferred they are mounted en-
aigrette. The fnvorite idea Is a tutt OF three
or four little feather tips, gracefully CURED
with true Pars;an art, and then the slender
hla'nents springing upward from their midst
Some of thes, ponf-aigrettes cost as n.uch an
!s3; but then the feathers are exquisite. as
they should be, for the heal
The Attraction OF Opposite Natures
Atlantic "Contributors Club
e fN ha n lar. h.lI
Law of attraction of oppositas as applying in
the niattor OF love anl f!ien lship--a law
supposed to be based on induction, according
70 the true method Of science But is it not
simply one of those formula which is truo
when it is true, AMI no oftensr' Opposite
natures do attract each 9th .r, there il no
doubt man Of phl"gmatic temper some
times finds an irres Stible fascination in
woman whose gay vivacty chears and slim
ulates him like sunshine and the birds song;
or, again, it is tho snnguine, buoyant-
natursd man who is mated happily with a
wife whose serious and discreet mind il the
balance wheel insurins the safe running Of
the household machine.
Iniisputably, there il an attraction, soma
times difficult to account for, between per
SONS OF cOntrasted natures; nevertheless, a
nice observation will often show, | think,
that dissimilarities between husbands and
wives or between intimate friends, are super
fetal while the strength Of the mutual at
traction resides in an un leriying likeness.
A marriage which is truly such, or ser .ous
friendship, involves a very close intercourse,
which 10 be sustained must rest on certain
deep moral afiuities,-f thore Le also intel
lectual n!finities, tae union or communion
will he stronger still; but such are not neccs-
sary, rs the former are. Circumstances may
play their part, and an important one in tho
formation of our friendships or the selection
OF our mates; but among persons of any
depth Of character, choice as well as chance
has to do with the nattsr, although the choice
be often rather instructive than deliberatS.