Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1884-02-28
9aily gress aud 9akptaia,1
FOR THE LADIES.

II ii cOnSlQerea very pad form TO 60
to an evening reception in your own
carriage.
Hot tea and ices are now alternately
passed among the guests at large even
ing parties.
Frozen cherries are now served in the
middle of q dinner in place OF alleged
Roman punch.
The fashionable engagement ring is
simply q circle of small diamonds and
sapphires alternately.
bsnewest thandkerchiefs have Just the
faintest suggestion OF hem, aud are
made of plain white linen.
Lettuce and cheese now 20 together
at fashionable dinner parties at which
Anglomania manifests itself.
Buttons in livery now answers the bell
at several fashionable houses and extends
silver tray for your visiting card.
Slate blue, carmine and geranium red
and gray in all tones from the palest
dove color to the densest London smoke,
are the reigning shades.
The few trained dresses lately brought
from the other side have the princesse
back, under which disappear the high
puffed panier draperies.
Half dozen or more tortoise shell
hairpins set with single Rhine stone are
very beautiful and fashionable ornaments
for the half-high coil now in vogue.
Something new in furniture covering
is called Egyptian cloth, and is so gay
and gaudy that men under the influence
of liquor who see it resolve never to drink
another drop.
The newest fashion in serving raw
oysters is to surround them with what is
called sea.moss. made BY spinage, which
hides the fine chopped ice in which the
oysters are imbeded.
Modistes predict that the hustle will
grow in size very much, and that the
most elegant OF the Easter costumes
will have hustle attachment larger
than any heretofore seen.
Gray is still much worn, but it is ru.
mored that it will shortly be replaced by
(a light shade of beige. For the present,
however, very successful combinations
are made with various shades of gray and
black.
The old fashioned paste buttons, con.
verted into brooches, fasten bonnet
strings close under one ear; diamond ar
rows are placed lower down, and larger
and handsoner ornaments quite under
the chin.
Open.work Hamburg embroidery in all
over-patterns will again be used for
yokes, sleeves, and front breadths of
white dresses. French nainsooks,
wroughtall over with sprigs, daisies. rose.
buds, or lilies, are also shown for the
same purpose. These are in thick designs
like those of needle-work.
White dresses are likely to be more
|popularly worn than at any time within
the past three years. There never was q
season when so many beautiful novelties
were shown in white goods. Embroider-
ed robes in fine white null and nainsook
are masterpieces of artistic workmanship.
The richest are in close embroidery.
Dresses to be worn to church services
during Lent are already shown by fash
ionable modistes. One of the prettiest
is Of gray nuns cloth, with the skirt
killed the whole length from the belt to
the hem. Above this is long, plain
redingote, which fits the form to perfec-
tion. The garment is devoid of drapery
For evening toilettes, paste and dia-
mond buckles fasten velvet round the
throat, loop up q sleeve on one arm,
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Of flowers on bodice, and appear on
one side or in front of the head, with q
strand of hair passed through and ar
ranged high, according to present
fashion.
A new invention has been discovered
by the ladies to kill off the surplus in
their ranks. They chew cotton rags to
improve their compilations, and as the
cotton is bleached with arsenic they
have what is known as the "dead drop"
on the druggists. The girls can now get
their complexlons by the yard.-Detroit
Free Press.
Please sit down at your earliest leis-
sure and endeavor to realize in imagina-
tion how you would feel if you were
sued by woman, and the case was
brought before court composed entire.
ly Of women. the Judge woman; every
m ember of the jury woman; women to
read the oath to you and hold the bible,
and every lawyer woman. Further,
your case to be tried under laws formed
entirely by women, III which neither you
nor any man had ever been allowed q
voice.
Bodices cut pompadour or V shaped in
the neck are becoming tho exceptions,
and those cut low, to display the whole
of the shoulders, are fast gaining favor
with the ultra fashionable. There are,
however, hundreds of women who would
as soon think of entering public assem-.
blage without any dress at all, as to ap-
pear in bodice with its best half miss.
ing, and IN nine cases out of ten these
women have the snowiest shoulders and
the ,plumpest arms to display-if they
would.
There is every evidence that the com.
Of black and white will be ex.
tremely fashionable during the coming
season. Striped black and white in kilt |
ing in founces and for the fronts of
dresses, reappearing in the folds of the
corsage or the fan shape at the back Of
the basque, looks particularly we'll with
q pretty visite and bonnet of satin and |
jetted lace. Black and white checks and |
black and white striped silks are made
up with white lace and soft ribbon loops,
The latter hanging at regular distances
upon or between the killings.
A prompt way to ease asthmatic
Use RaIe's' Honey Of Horehsund
Ind Tar.
Pixies Toothache Drops cure in one
minute.
A remedy for Indigestion. Consump-
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