Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-10-16
THE LADIES.
MATTERS MATERIAL TO NATIONS
AND MAIDENS.
Fashion-Charming Women
and Pretty Girls.

foliage There are other novelties of a
more subdued manufacture known as the
Atwood fabrics These are equally as
fashionable as the dress goods of rainbow
c)loring One striking feature in the fall
modes is general tendency towards man
nishness," which is not wholly new. II is,
however, only the excess, or rather the ex-
IRENE, OF the masculine style OF dress so
conspicuously shown in feminine attire for
LIE fall season that excites comment. There
is somehow a boldness and dash about
these styles that is not becoming to the
majority of society ladies. A lady of rare
loneliness and possessing a perfect form
can wear with grace almost any style of
dress while the more ordinary looking ap-
pear to better advantage attired in garments
Of less conspicuous design. Fashion is,
however, so potent that there is rarely ex-
ercised any discrimination in the choice Of
what to wear. Even although the style is
antagOnistic TO a refined and conservative
taste, it is countenanced, but sometimes
the style is triAe mOdiied.-C2arG De were
IN Commercial Gdzete.
WHO ARE THE CHARMING WOMEN
Beauty is a very important factor in
human life, in the destiny of the race but
TO be commanding, to be continuously in
huential, it must be sustained with some
thing else. Apart from mind, manners,
culture, character, it is a poor possession,
and only proclaims the lack of what, by a
natural law, should be adjuncts. A merely
pretty, handsome or beautiful woman is no
match for one who is plain, even homely
in person, provided she has tact, delicacy
OF instinct, elegance and cleverneSs the
beauty will make an impression at first,
but the impression will be removed and q
reaction will set in unless the pretty woman
can prove, by some other than and higher
means, her right to physical favor. She
will soon be regarded as a counterfeit, hav-
ing nothing internal to answer to the eX-
ternal.
Who are the interesting, the attractive,
the charming women of society in this
country? Are they uniformly beauties
Is this enchantment in their faces and fig
ures Are their bodies more than their
souls Their bellehood springs from their
manners what they feel or think. Are they
whom you delight to talk to-the ones of
pink and white compilations, Grecian
noses, oval faces, cameo cut and perfect,
superb forms? Would you choose for
companion or wife her whose chief charm
rests in luxuriant hair, regular features? l
have heard men say that they prefer "a
fine woman without personal charms TO
the fairest goddess, radiant with insip-
idity' No healthful man can or does de-
spise beauty in any shape, but between
beauty and brains there is only one choice.
Mrs. 4. Z. Heatol, in Courier journal.
GIRLS COOPERATIVE SOCIETY.
A cooperative society of more than or
binary merit and success has been in exist
ence for two years on the Pacific coast 1t
is called the San Francisco Girls Union,
and was organized in June of 1884. The
membership, which at first was small, has
increased rapidly, and it now amounts TO q
little over 400. The membership is of two
classes, sustaining and beneficiary, dues for
both sorts being So q year. The beneficiary
class are entitled to q home while out OF
employment, and q small sum to help them
in fitting themselves for employment. The
society also uses every effort to help them
in finding work. The other class is only
entitled to the privilege of the union classes.
But this is no small thing when it is known
that there is a training school attached to
the union, and no girl is ever sent out with
its aid and recommendation until tits ascer-
tanned that she is thoroughly competent in
her special department. In this school the
girls are instructed in skilled nursing, do
nestle service and sewing. It has in the
last year and a half trained and found
places for $40 girls. Associations of women
for their mutual benefit and assistance are
springing up all over the country, but this
one in San Francisco seems to be the mos
practical and business-like OF any that the
public has heard of.-Nei0 York World.
WHAT $40 DID IN A COTTAGE.
Thirty-one dollars went into the sitting
room and never came out SIS sat dowI
round in the form of rattan rockers, tive
painted in cherry and interviewer in thu
back and arms in pink, with tissue pape
rolled tightly, two in black, with yellow
and two in the original, with blue S. lay
on the floor in golden brown and seal
checked mating 81 looked very CHEEKY il
Accent yellow China pongee hung witt
small brass rings on a bamboo cane, cover
ing q number of shelves, on which wer
the light novels of the day; rs cents droppe,
into the carpenter s hand when the last mai
was driven in tete-a-tete, and 81 go lookel
radiant in its lightaowered, oretonne. Gov
cred cushion 81 in two gilded kitchen
stools. gailv decorated at the top of eaci
leg with different shades of tissue paper
In the dining room So was metamorphose
into eight pine chairs, vanished will
white varnish which, with cushion
each cover with q different shade 0
China pongee silk, and tied TO the leg
with a pretty bow, looked well worth tn
money; So appeared very substantial il
a dining table; 81 so in a leather lam
brequin, around q wide shelf cheapl
does the service Of buffet, aud seemed
proud OF the family silver; 81 60 in q -cen
cheese cloth and lace used as sash draper
les in all the windows, gave clean-cottag
prettiness to the whole house; $40 in al
ivory white-p painted bedroom set lighte'
up the eherry-stained walls and floor OF tn
first bedroom the opposite room appears
cool and sweet, with its walls OF baby blu
and $40 set of the same hue. The colder
brown and seal mating, 3l4 cents per yard
left $50 to skip into the next room, and b
changed into an ash-stained set and cherry
colored mating
When the summer came around the boy
of the family shouted with JOY, Hurral
for the Thousand Islands The girl
danced with gee; and the Prou
father called from the deck of the boat, 8
he waved his hand in farewell to his frien
on the shore, Come up and see US nov
Robert. in our island home" The frien
enyiously muttered under his teeth, but b
never knew that the island home onl
cost $3.50 to build and furnish.-DecoratC
and Ftlrnisker.
CALIFORNIA GIRLS ABANDONING coRsETs.
win confide to you that Us girls hay
pledged ourselves to eScbeW c0rsets. l a.
ways did hate those things and marvel tha
they have been fashionable so long. Doyo
know I believe US women will be wearin
trousers before 1900 Is mode is gettin
nearer and nearer TO that contamination
Look at the figures you can view any do
on Kearny street or Market street Almos
the typical Grecian drspery in scantineSS
Skirts are being laid aside, and great Is tn
consequent gain in ease. Oh, dear HOY
slow the monde is in enlightenment Sur
pose we, the fair sex, should don trouser:
would rnasculines stare st US cuuousl
more than week? Use breeds indiffel
ence YOU know.-0aklaud Echoes.
NEW SILK GooDs.
In silk fabrics for the coming sesso
there are some very elegant novelties
Striped velvet snd striped plush are III
leading features of this branch OF manr