Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1884-08-27

tened by small diamond collar button.
One OF the sights of Atlanta, Ca, was
twenty-five women working in the chain
gang.
Red is becoming SO fashionable that
even riding habits are made of red ladies'
cloth
Fan scabbards are novelties. They
are made of brocade and suspended by
ribbon.
Buttons of Brazilian pebbles mounted
In silver are popular on dark velvet
dresses.
Bodices of velvet or silk of any dark
color are very much worn with light
dresses.
Very high peaked bonnets, devoid of
strings and advancing far over the face,
are worn.
A female custom house official is very
expert at detecting smugglers along the
Detroit river
The woman market is down now in
Tunis, Africa. Wives only bring $40 to
ago head.
Narrow satin ribbons are worn tied
closely around the neck and in bow on
ne left side.
The newest earrings are copies of the
swamp cowslip, made of bright, Etrus-
can yellow gold.
Shoulder knots of white satin ribbon,
fastened by rose, are worn with Mother
Hubbard dresses.
The handsomest dog collars are of
black velvet studded with rubies, emer-
lids or sapphires.
Mrs. Joseph r. Hawley, wife of the
Connecticut Senator, was an effective
hospital nurse during the war.
English brides wear white satin shoes
With pointed toes, embroidered in che
lille and pearls, with bows to match.
Belts of white Ottoman silk are worn
with white flannel frocks, and to fasten
these silver buckle is an absolute neces-
Bity.
-bordered handkerchiefs are so
arranged up the front of high bod
Ee as to form simulated waist
BOAT.
Porcelain finger rings in different
eolors are worn by New York ladies,
who declare them to be the latest Paris
fashion.
A few years ago the women of India
we're not allowed to learn to read. Now
Mere are 1876, 348 girls attending schools
Established for them.
Black lace dresses are admissible in
fight mourning. They are made of net
lace over surah, with many rows of lace
sdging in Chantilly or Spanish, hand
sun.
Small pink and white or blue and
white ginghams, with white yoke and
sleeves, blouse waist, ruffied skirt and
sash are worn by young ladies of all
Nges.
Since the publication of the fact that
Queen Victoria has fondness for fried
hominy, the London hotels have begun
to print on their bills of fare: Cried
hominy, her majesty's STYLE
Wooden velvet stuffs, with uncut vel
vet flowers and figures on prunella
twilled grounds, are to be worn as skirts
Of suits that will have polonaises or red
tngotes or jackets of plain, twilled, or
Jersey web cloth.
Ladies who use the tricycle. in England
wear a dress made of dark blue serge,
the skirt killed or tucked, with Jersey
waist and pantaloons as for riding hab-
its. This dress obviates the necessity of
many under-garments and will not catch
the dust. Compactness is the aim of
these dresses.
The sashes worn with autumn dresses
by young girls are very broad. made of
silk or surah, not ribbon and arranged
In pleats which pass around the waist,
tying on one side, with the ends falling
the full width almost to the bottom of
the skirt. Red surah is the favorite
stuff of these sashes.
1t is no longer fashionable to wear
iewelry in the street or in calling; moth
ing but the simplest of round headed
silver or gold pins are used at the throat,
and If earrings they must be of the most
modest description. The collar stud
should be of hammered gold or silver,
with or without Rhine stone.
/" Women" says Miss Howe in her
new novel, "are neither angels who
stand UNNECESSARILY above men, nor in
ferior beings whose place is at their feet !:
but human like themselves. full Of good
aud faulty instincts, and, with all their
imperfections, the God given helpmates
Of man. Thus justly should they be
Judged, and If 9 little mercy &c claimed
for them, generosity should not deny It,
20 few are their chances in life compared
With those of their brothers. A woman
has but one possibility of happiness in
his world. The stakes are high on
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