Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1884-03-12
FOR THE LADIES.

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Tie fancy for wearing linen cuffs will
be soon revived.
II ID hinted that larger sleeves
will be worn in the spring.
Mrs. Stevens. of Auburn, KY, has .
scrap quilt made Of 1926 pieces.
The new satteens are like real satin in
appearance. aud remarkably beautiful in
design.
Fashion says one needn't stay in
mourning half as long ~ in the old times
unless one wants to.
Dio Lewis says American women need
sunshine and not paint and powder to
improve their complexion.
Broad stripped material worn under.
tunics of PLAIN material will be in high
fashion again this spring.
Mr.. Barnum promises q Chicago girl
that when Jumbo dies she shall have
hls hide for pair of clippers.
Gorgeous brass bedsteads with rich
canopy of silk are the rage among peo.
pie who can afford to invest in them.
Mrs. James, of Brocktou Mass, now
thirty mine, was married when she was
fifteen. and has had twenty, seven
children.
A Buffalo woman will not answer q
telephone call until che has fixed her
hair, washed her hands and brushed her
teeth. She must be employed at the
exchange.
In q certain fashionable London
church ladies bring their dogs to, divine
services. They find them 90 much moro
appreciative we'll behaved listeners than
their husbands.
New Orleans has Just had baby
show. with Binety-nins infants on exhi-
bition. The first prize was won by .
seven.months.old baby that weighed
thirty one pounds.
The latest fashion in envelopes is
something exceptionally fine. They are
made Of vellum Of the pnrest white aud
are bound all round with satin ribbon OF
some delicate color, which is tied into
knot and sealed with wax of the same
shade.
Beware of the woman with premature
gray hair, asys Washington man. It ia
estimated that in that city there are tive
thousand ladies with snowy bangs and
curls, and the whiter.headed woman is
the naughtier and more dangerous she is
in that locality.
The hair dressers are trying to per-
suade the leaders of feminine fashion to
again burden their heads with heavy
puffs and braids of hair. but fashion III
one Of its prolonged attacks OF good
taste, refuses to desert the close, com.
pact, classic coiffure, at least for the
present.
A Swiss glrdle Of velvet pointed above
and below. behind and in front, is worn
with q pointed yoke. and pointed cuffs
to match, on light cashmere and surah
dresses. Young girls wear tnll gather
ed skirt with such dress, and put
bands of the velvet straight around the
skirt.
A Japanese woman dresses her hair
once in every four days. The luxury Of
hearing ones wife. with the ends of her
hair in her teeth, and her mouth full Of
hair pins, talking about the kitchen
boiler in the morning before the mirror,
is never enjoyed by the Japanese hus.
band more than twice week.-Puck.
It is stated that dark haired women
are preferred to blondes by marrying
men. To uphold this theory. Chicago
physician has recently published stats
tics showing that in the area covered by
his researches blondes are generally
admired by poets and painters, but bru.
nettes more frequently capture the wed
ding ring than do their light haired
slsters.
Street suits are made quite short for
this month. but little trimmed Those
who are devout lenten followers usually
plain linen collar and cuffs; al
nd Nhoyn $hn an1rV
meuts; the oapote is plain, with
perhaps a few small pompons; the
black kid gloves. the usual black or dart
wrap. and prayer book seldom laid
aside.
A pretty fashion Is to announce birth
by sending to friends handsome illumin.
ated casds. properly inscribed. In Paris
the color of the card denotes the sex, 9
pale blue card, emblazoned with dark
blue and silver letters, being for q boy.
and pale pink with roRe and silver for 9
girl. In the left corner are the fathers
coat. t.of-arms and monogram, and th-
particular sign Of the zodiac dominant at
the time of the child's birth.
Jewelry appears to run more than ever
in the line Of bangles. The slender port
bonheur Of plain gold. however, is now
replaced by narrow bands set around the
outer halt with gems of some description,
small diamonds being the most popular
Or else one large diamond Is sunk into
tho solid band, or sometimes device III
jewels, such as buttercup, q daley, q
lizard. or leaf. takes the place Of the
single stone. A very pretty set, latel,
presented as birthday gift, consisted OF
q par of bangle bracelets with hoop ear
rings and slender finger ring to match.
all set round with tiny diamonds, rubles
and emeralds, the gems representing the
initials OF the young lady's memo.
It Is strange, for instance, what eyre.
gious asses men and women will make oi
themselves in dancing the figures Of the
German. The youag people who are se.
leoted as leaders appear to cndgel their
brains to invent or discover figures that
are almost idiotic. Here ia something
observed at large and fashionable Ger.
man one night last week. The dancers
we're harnessed together in silken rib
bons, in groups of three abreast; on the
side three la lies driven by man, and on
the other three men driven BY lady. h
this form, to polka music, they danced
from one end of the ballroom to the
other. One can imagine how utterly ab.
surd they looked, and yet the figure was
considered very ton, and We understand