Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1889-11-28
NYE'S FASHION HINTS.
WILLIAM DIscOURsEs ON DRKss AND
ETIQUETTE.

Styles In Winter Mantles, Coat Sleeves.
and Bodices-The Dear Old Blue Army
coat-The Limit of PrOpriety In the Use
OF the Finger-Bowl.
The old blue army overcoat will still be
worn by small wood brokers and yenders
OF straw during the winter months. also
for street wear among the working classes.
writes Bill Nye In the Chicago Herald. The
buffalo overcoAt, with no hair onto IL, will
also be de rigor in the extreme month.
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 a young lady
with plump arms. travelling alone through
life. ever succeeded in emanoipating her.
sell inside a sleeplng-car berth is and has
been to many thinking minds a dark and
pleasing mystery.
The great progress in the female dress in
the matter OF sense and beauty, noticeabls
In the past half century. is a good sign of
better days in the future. Fifty years ago
bodices, Tor instance. were cut horizon
tally instead OF on the bias, and so. at
evening parties. it was no uncommon thing
to see 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
whereas nowadays skirts are draped. &C.
Gordon plated, and made to look frst-rate
even If the material be plain.
A fayorite waist has a 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 of in
early spring to grow at rapid rate.
Girls should not marry before they are
from twenty-four to twenty-si 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 propriety in the use of the
finger bowl, and this affords ME an oppor-
tunity to give purely personal opinion
regarding it. do not say that it is sound
one or absolutely correct, but it is mine
own, as one might say. 1t seems to me a
little bit depressing. after dinner, to see
opposite me a very hairy man not only rinse
off the ends Of his fingers. but actually
take off his cuffs and bathe his wrists.
Then if he should also shampoo his whis-
kers and fill his mouth from the little per-
fumed goblet of water connected with some
finger bowl layouts. and after rinsing off
squirts the results into the finger bowl with
noise like the best efforts Of Excelsior
Hose Company No. /. feel sorry and wish
could go home. When such things be-
come proper and fashionable--and they
may, I presume, in case some titled ass
should decide to do it once or twice-I
shall have to follow the custom, presume,
for Il am the abject slave OF fashion: but
shall go farther than that. and, at the close
of the meal, roll into the dining-room q
portable bathing pavilion for each guest.
Two Thousand years ago people bathed
each others feet after dinner, but they did
not remove their artificial teeth and play on
them with the garden hose. or shampoo a
large head OF whiskers or manicure their
chilblains, We should draw the line some-
where l think, and I draw it at the sitz
bath. Cleanliness is reputed to be next to
godliness, but there are some styles of
cleanliness which destroy my faith in al
| most everything 1t is great cross for me
| to speak thus plainly in u fashion and
| household letter, but I do not see how it
| can be avoided.
| All waists this winter will have surplices,
| bretrelled, plastrons. waistcoats and revers.
| state this SO as to show young men Of this
age what possibilities are almost within
| thair grasp.
| Fine laces may be cleaned by immersing
] in acids for week. rinsing out in benzine,
| ing by pressing in a copy Of DIR. Gums
| Family Physician. between pages 408 and
400. The dirt will then be found to have
been removed; also the lace.
| Among the long mantles sent from Paris
| this winter is abeautiful one Of royal purple
| velvet with pulled sleeves and Queen Anne
collar bordered with black ostrich feathers,
| trimming and braid ornaments. 1t is first
rate and does not cost more than couple
| of good milch COWS.
| Bots in horses cannot be removed by the
use of insect powder. Bots like insect pow
| der. So do all other insects. l had q con-
gress of cockroaches at nv country seat
them. Gout was all the harm it caused
| them, Children are the only mammals or
| insects know of who do not thrive on in
| sect powder and rou gh on rats.
| The sslt cellar ON the table is again trying
to assert itself. but it cannot endure very
| long. II people would avoid mussing in the
| gravy with their salt spoon nil would be
well, but the thoughtless are prone to make
this mistake, Just the same as they are also
| apt to stir their coffee with the sugar spoon
awhile before returning it. A little salt box
with salt in it. for each guest. and holes in
the top which will allow the salt to escape.
| will always be en- rapport
The old infantry overcoat of ga may be
| dyed with decoction of hazel bark, log
| opera overcoat for this winter. Cavalry
trousers will be worn this season by great
| many of the eligible young women OF Stand
| ing Rock Agency, who have organized q
Delsarte movement and anti corset club.
| Since the custom among gentlemen of
| pressing the pantaloons at night between
| the mattresses. of the bed has obtained, fat
men whose trousers were formerly the
| quickest to lose their shape are now In a
| good deal the best form.
The custom OF allowing pet dogs to sleep
| in the same room with the children at
night is found to be so unheathful that it
| will not be long continued. 1t soon breaks
down the strongest dog to breathe the
| vitiated air required by child.
| A good winter mantel is made by cutting
| 1t square in front with brass fender, iron
revers and ashes of hickory facings.
| The covers and tablecloths are no longer
cut en- train. Guests got to surreptitiously
| wiping their patent leather shoes on
| them while distracJing the attention oil
| the hostess by telling mirth- h-provoking
anecdotes from English joke books. and Sc
| now the tableeloths are cut smaller. The
| big ones will not be discarded, however.
They will be used for napkins.
| Vaseline is good thing to use In bright
| ening up blase patent leather shoes. It
| will also give luster to passe silk hat un-
less the hat has been sat upon by grown
| person.
| Rub the back OF postage stamps on your
hair when you buy them and they will new
| er stick together. should have printed
this recipe before the hot weather. but for
| got It because 1t did not interest me. ]
| could not go and hunt up a friend and bor-
| row his hair every time bought dollars
worth of stamps.
Burned corn has been found to stop the
| spread of hog cholera. The experiment was
made at Peoria. ILL.,. after the burning OF a