Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1888-03-24

fulness, but not to be attempted by
anybody of age.
Boldly and safely juvenile is She
style affected by the girl in the second
picture, not only as to the hair hanging
in seemingly arlless but really artful
confusion, but in the fashion of what
may be called an deliberately simple
house dress. If the young feminine
reader desires to reproduce the pretty
gown, let her preferably do it with
light wooden material, and produce the
ornamentation of the bodice and sleeves
by means of braidng and velvet. If
she desires to alphabetically impress
n casual caller, she may keep pot of
flowers hand, and then get to fooling
with it Immediately on hearing the
outer door-bell ring. They do say that
girls arc nowadays taking very much
to acting in private life. Ingenious
false pretenses of aesthetic occupations
and tastes are declared to be common
among unmarried bellies who are seek
ing rich husbands. In extreme cases
of positive wicked deceit, girls are
known to procure from profess
sional artists half-finished paint
ings, which they display as their
own work, and which they dabbe
at occasionally in order to keep
up appearances. The writer knows of
fair pretcnder to poetic talent, who
got newspaper man to write for her q
poem of about twenty verses. Then
she copied the first two or three on q
sheet of paper and left it lying on o
table in her boudoir. When a female
rh III in
call, and the rhymes were seen, the
hostess would seem confused, and final
ly confess that she was trying her hand
little at composition. This device
was repeated for half dozen of her
friends. Then the succeeding verses
were copied, one after another, day by
day, until the poem was, in the course
of week, completed. The observers
imagined that they witnessed its evolu-
ton, and they spread the report that
their friend was indeed II pOctess.
One of the kissing pair wears q good
specimen of the negligee house robe
in its latest form of development. 1t
is not garment of perfect utility, as
might he supposed, for it is trailing
drapery hanging from the shoulders
and picturesquely dragging on the
floor This appendage is nuisance,
of course to the lady herself and every
body around her, for she and they are
liable to trip over it, aud altogether it
is as much of a terror in the household
as a court-train is in the ball room.
The peculiarly of this dress is its
combination of dressing gown and
stately draperies. For cold weather it
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besides making it comfortable, con
duces TO good artistic effect. The
caller is fashionably clad in dress oil
fine cloth. Broad killings are used fol
the underskirt, er which the dra.
perry falls transvcrscly from the right
hip into q point on the left side, anC
is drawn from thence to meet the long
folds of the back drapery, which are
slightly Topped at the top. There are
some prettiIy braided pIeats of sman
dimensions introduced in the skirt.
The bodice, which is of a pointed
form, is arranged with a braided vest
matching the pcats on the skits. I he
kiss that is being exchanged may moi
be as ordinary as it looks. Has the
reader disc overcd n curiols electrical
element in the recent very cold atmos
phere? The air has seemed to be sur
charged with electricity. The fact has
already been noted in the newspapers,
and people generally have seen that
threads, thin paper, and other Light
objects had tendency to cling to the
fingers remarkably. But the strangesi
phenomenon was that the touch of the
fingers to metal or to the skin of an
pther person often produced an audi