Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-05
FANCIEs FOR THE FAIR.

The latest Partisan bonnet is heart-shaped.
A PLEASANT manner ATTRACTS man; bright
ness of brain holds him.
IT is wonderful what fancy there is at the
moment for black tea gowns.
SKIRTS of ultra-fashionable walking dresses
sweep the ground in the back.
WOMEN frequently choose the wall paper for
their sitting rooms to 60 with their complex
ions.
MIRRORS with quaint old frames are being
sought out in attics and draped with breadth
OF rich cleaning stuff to adorn dressing rooms.
A AsoANDABMoNGER is a person who talks
to our neighbor about us. An entertaining
talker is a person who tells US mean stories
about our neighbors.
MANY of the cloth jackets are of such rich
quality and SO handsomely decorated that
they will be entirely appropriate for dress oc-
casions and for carriage uses.
IT BEGINS to seem that American women
have been so fattered about their attainments
that they are falling into a state OF overwheen-
ing vanity, says writer in an English ex-
change.
THE Empress of China is said to have two
wonderful mirrors recently presented by the
Emperor, standing Is feet high, in carved rose
WOOD frames, and so heavy that it requires 16
men to carry them.
Mrs. MAGILLICUDDY-Do you know the
''Song of the Shirt7" Mrs. shakem-No; but
since my husband has been going to the Home
wood races. I've learned that the song of his
trousers is, There is no Change in Me-"
A PROMINENT New York physician says the
constant chewing of gum has produced weak
minds IN IA cases of young girls now under
treatment, the constant movemeEto of the mouth
causing tco great strain on the head.
THE woman of fashion who burns midnigh
oil does it in most dainty style at present Her
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vase of royal Worcester mounted in silver,
with shade of perforated silver lined with am
Der glass.
THE English newspapers are praising Lady
Lambert for her accuracy of aim. as well as for
her skill in deer stalking. For the second time
this season she has brought down noble stag
while stalking in Abernethy Forest. The last
one weighed about IA stone.
ONE of the daintiest bits of feminine tinery
for winter wear is the feather boa. which
reaches TO the hem of the skirt The fiues of
the feathers are tightly curled, and the boa,
when tied close about The neck. is exceedingly
"becoming," even to the plainesE face.
SATIN will be worn more than usual for even
ing gowns this winter. This material has been
out of fashion for some time. 1t got into bad
odor when the cheap cotton-backed limitations
were brought out. Since then it has been
looked upon as tawdry and commonplace.
MEN are less stingy than women with their
turned-oH clothes. a valet is allowed to dis
pose of his masters discarded finery as he
chooses. But women with fortunes to dress on
save up all their left-otf gowns for the old
clothes dealer. and the highest bidder gets
them.
MISS ABIGAIL DODGE, better known as Gail
Hamilton, conducts Bible talk in Secretary
Blaine's drawing room at Washington on Sun
day afternoons. Her audience is usually COM
posed of members of the so-called American
court Mrs. Harrison not infrequently being
present.
In the new color card for the winter season,
which contains GO shades helitropes have been
given the best places, a proof that these will be
favorite shades during the coming season.
Blues come next in number, while the repre-
sentatives of the green and red families have
taken back seats and will be rather neglected.
. THE Empress of Russia, who has long been
a victim to nervous .prostration, is recovering
her health and her spirits although she is yet
intensely frightened when in railway train.
BY way of amusement she prints the EN-
perors letters for him on typewriter, which
an enterprising American has placed in the
palace.
TEN dollars is small sum, yet what new
world for women it opens if it be invested in
Photographic apparatus2 Women's keenly de-
veloped instinct for the decorative and pictur-
esque; their delight in the mere manipulation
of fragile objects, and their patience, all find
in photography congenial sphere; but what is
better still. its practice does not interfere with
domestic duties and pleasures.