The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-11-02

AGE STAMPS ON.
winter, while others recklessly turn them
over to their parents to be worn underneath
other clothing during cold weather.
The old blue army overcoat will still be
worn by small wood brokers and vendors OF
straw during the winter months, also for
street wear among the working classes.
The buffalo overcoat with no hair onto 1t
will also be de rtgOr in the extreme months.
For fall fishing, the usual olskin will be
worn plain. The fisherman will also use
the customary bated breath. He will bait
It with the same bait used on previous sea-
sons.
With single ladies, the tight coat sleeve
is entirely played out Some married ladies
will still continue to wear them and expect
their husbands to extricate them from same
at eventide, but how q young lady with
plump arms, travelling alone through life,
ever succeeded in emancipating herself in
side sleeping-car berth, is and has been to
many thinking minds dark and pleasing
mystery.
The great progress in the female dress in
the matter Of sense and beauty noticeable
in the past half century is good sign OF
better days in the future. Fifty years ago,
bodices, for instance, were cut horizontally
instead of on the bias, and so, at evening
parties, it was no uncommon thing to see Q
growing girl trying by means of passwords,
grips and signals to work her way back
into her costume. Skirt and bodice, we are
told, were made of one piece, and art could
only assert itself by putting large number
of founces on the dress, whereas nowadays
skirts are draled accordion plated, and
made to look first-rate even If the material
be plain.
A favorite waist has short, square
Jacket front, opening over full waistcoat
and folded belt with half open, short, angel
sleeves over leg of mutton or bishop sleeves
with deep cuffs to the elbow. Be careful to
have the angel sleeves over the bishop
sleeves or you will be criticised.
Asparagus may be mulched about SIX
inches deep with debris from the barn and
thus it will be ready with its coat OH, in
early spring, to grow at rapid rate.
Girls should not marry before they are
from twenty four to twenty-six years old,
unless requested to do so by some one In
whom they have confidence.
A correspondent writes to know what Is
the limit of proprety in the use of the finger
bowl, and this affords me an opportunity to
give purely personal opinion regarding It,
l do not say that 1t is a sound one or abso-
lutely correct, but it is mine own, as one
might say. 1t seems to me little bit de-
pressing, after dinner, to see opposite me
very hairy man not only rinse off the ends
of his fingers but actually take off his cuffs
and battle his wrists. Then II he should
also shampoo his whiskers and fill his
mouth from the little perfumed goblet Of
water connected with some fnger-bowl
layouts, and after rinsing of his tonsils and
gargling his massive lungs, squirt the re-
suits into the fnger-bowl with noise like
the best efforts of Excelsior Hose Company
No. l, l feel sorry and wish Icould 60 home
When such things become proper and fash
ionable- and they may be, presume, in
case some titled ass should decide to do it
once or twice. shall have to follow the
custom, presume, for ] am the abject