Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1891-01-07
FOR AND ABOUT WOMEN.

HoNoRs are about evenly divided be-
tween feathers and fur as a garniture.
Some of the most elegant robes de
chambre are trimmed with bands Of fur
and fur boa Others have the feather
boas with feather bands.
FANNY DAvENPoRT's first stage appear
ance was in February, 1857, at the
American Tneater on Chambers Street,
New York, of which her father and
Harry Watkins were the managers.
THE widow of the noted temperance
lecturer, John B. Cough, will probably
leave the old Cough estate, near Wor-
cester, Mass, in consequence of i'll
health, which demands freedom from
all care and anxiety.
The Empress Eugenie's wedding pres
ent to Miss Baby" Beckwith was a
handsomely embossed silver bowl. The
fair American bride was great fayorlte
OF the French Empress during the clos
ing days of the empire, when she was
one of the bellies of Paris.
Mrs. REV. JOHN F. LAMoN, Of Seattle,
was stopped by a highwayman one re-
cent dark evening as she was going
home from visit to sick person. The
robber held a pistol to her head and de-
manded her money, but she held onto
of yells of such intense power that her
assailant became frightened and ran
away.
A BEAUTIFUL and stylish novelty i'm
ported by leading Chicago house is
cape of black ostrich feathers with a
high Medicis collar of the feathers,
which can be worn upright around the
neck or as full, flat collar. With this is
a scoop-shaped hat of black velvet with
Van Dyke points of black passementerie
or the brim and with the ip-tailed black
trimmed with black ostrich tips. The
brim of this hat is faced with coral vel
vet and little note of the same color
appears in he front of the cape.
AMONG the great variety Of ready
made corsage trimmings put forth by the
manufacturers this season are yokes of
every imaginable form of all sorts OF
passementerie. There are those point
ed front and square or round IN the
back, and many of them are furnished
with narrow, fluffy feather borders, and
also with the popular Medlci
collar, which, by the way, can be pur-
chased separately if desired. There are
also whole sleeves of passementerie fin
ished complete with feather band at
the wrist and also half-sleeeves de-
signed to be mounted on sleeves of the
dress material.
For some wears an entire black even
ing costume has been allowable for IN
married women. This innovation has
always been frowned upon by the con-
servatives. And by their quiet opposi-
ton black is again considered bad form
for young girls To certain compilations
it is wonderfully becoming, but these
fair maidens will have to confine them
selves to light shades for their evening
gowns if they desire to be considered
fashionable And who is the woman
who does not prefer to be stylshly
dressed to being becomingly dressed :?
THE newest black capotes affected by
girls with fair and golden hair are orna-
mented on the front 10y two velvet
horns stuffed with cotton wool to keep
them in position, the whole idea being
copied from pictures Of Bacchus accom-
panied by a group of dryads, and the
effect, when one RECEIVERS from the
breathlessness of the surprise, is piquant
and pleasing Another odd little tad is
the employment OF group ofexcesslve-
iv light feathers, with no mid rib to
them, of the exact color of the wearer's
hair. The little bunch is placed under
the extreme front of the capote and
above it in such a manner that it waves
about, or would, if atmospheric infiu-
ence did not destroy it's curl.
VERY pretty little tables for drawing
room use are made now in Louis XIV.
designs, which age furnishes this sea-
sons novelties, with slender spindle
legs, very much curved and heavily
gilded The top of the table is a plate
glass top, set in gilt frame, with a mir
ror in the bottom. The case locks
strongly with a peculiar key, and con-
tains valuable bits of bric-a-brac, old
fans, jewel sets, and little treasures valu-
able for intrinsic worth, antiquity or as
ISOLATION. And the raison d'etre OF
these locked receptacles when precious
ornaments may add their beauty to the
rooms equipment and still be safe from
dishonest fingers is not SO much the
fear Of servants, who would scarcely APP
preciate the value of such trifes, but
the forgetfulness of acquaintances and
friends, even in upper swelldom, of the
importance and Specification of the two
articles of the Mount Sinai code con-
corning covetousness and the appro-
priation of that which does not belong
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