Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1889-05-23

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The Connemara cloak was first adopted
in London by Lady Dutferin.
Nothing looks more old-fashioned than
dress with large hustle.
The hustle has diminished so in size
that it is not worth talking about.
Ladies' walking boots are made with
tops of cloth to match the costume.
Some ultra-fashionable ladies have
monograms worked on their sun UNI
brellas.
The Geological Society of London has
rejected a motion to receive ladies as
members.
Miss Nellie Cushman is said to be a
fine mining expert. She is known through
out Arizona.
Mrs. Ella Dietz Clymer is the fairest
and youngest presiding officer that Sorosis
has ever had.
Spring sky is the fanciful name of a
popular color. 1t is dull leaden color
rejecting silver lights.
Mrs. Robert Goelet, of New York, has
fortune of $3,000,00O, which her hus-
band made in hardware.
Little girls wear turned down frilIs of
embroidered muslin in the neck and
sleeves of their best dresses.
Notwithstanding the encroachments of
polonaises and redingotes, round and
belted waists remain in favor.
The bottom of redingotes is never bor-
dered and the trimming is always per-
pendicular and on the fronts.
Few entirely black costumes are now
seen. AS in former years, they are left
to those who are in mourning,
A Belfast (Me) woman has entered a
machine-shop to learn the trade, and
proves remarkably apt apprentice.
Young Mr. Phelps, of New Jersey, has
just set out with his new wife and q
steam yacht for two years bridal tour.
It is not surprising that the Princess OF
Wales is losing little of the bloom OF
youth, considering that she is nearly forty
five.
The "woman with the iron jaw" of
circus fame, is resident of Ridgeway,
Penn. She has travelled nearly all over
the world.
Effective combinations of seasonable
colors are chestnut brown with ecru, NOR
dore with biege, garnet with old rose,
green with white.
The Empire hat, with its broad brim
in front and cut closely across at the
back, bids fair to be the favorite shape
the coming summer.
There are many new cotton stuffs for
summer. They come in all shades of red,
in blue of different tints, in pink, in
gray andin lavender.
Miss Maxse, girl of sixteen, the
daughter of Admiral Maxse, of the Eng
lish navy, was the first lady to ascend the
Eiffel tower in Paris.
Very full frills of plated lace or rib
bon, like the Medici ruffs, will be fa-
vorite neck finish for dressy corsages as
the season advances.
1t is said that it will soon be fashionable
for women to wear wigs instead of curls,
crimps, blaids, waves and curls, "all my
Swn hair, you know"
Black in combination with colors is
still favored, but the two-tone effects now
80 popular have already modified the
former craze somewhat.
Worth, the great Paris milliner, de-
clares that American women know how
to wear their clothes better than any
nationality that comes under his hands.
One of the prettiest of new brooches
represents section Of fence in bright
gold, with bars half down, and at the
base bunch of daisies in white enamel.
The women of. Louisville, Ky, have
organized an equal rights association, the
object of which is to advance the educa-
tional, industrial and legal rights of
women.
The most popular colors for gloves are
the golden browns, orange and grays, Of
the latter there is a great variety-silver
antique, spring sky, Russian gray, acier
and nuns gray.
This appears in the Lewiston (Me.)
Journal: 1.-TWO Lisbon women used to
look SO much alike that they fooled their
own children. The babies often cried
for the wrong mother"
New York is to have new club of
women called the Dorothy" It's object
is to provide comfortable and con-
venient home for the exclusive accommo-
dation Of ladies coming into the city
unattended.
The young ladies of the Wisconsin
University are studying carpentry, and
they are gaining proficiency in the
mechanical department as rapidly as in
the more intellectual studies in which
they are engaged.