The Pontypridd District Herald and Rhondda Valley, Llantrisant, Caerphilly, and Mountain Ash News. — 1893-10-14 (Pontypridd, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

LADIES' LETTER.  ItlY DEAREST NELIIE,  The present fashions are not showing us any startling ohaoges in the shape and out of our gar. ments, the most notioeable being, perhaps, the basqued bodices, which are obtaining some copolarity. A notable change, however, is the amount of trimming used, and amongst these ribbon promised to be greatly used this season. The designs recently shown me were most elaborate, and our manufacturers appear to have this year excelled themselves in this particular branch. Brocaded and shot ribbons, as well as the better known striped satins and silks, all appear in equal demand, so we may expect to see the ball gowns of coming winter elaborately trimmed with bows and bands of the kind.  I do not believe that the millinery was ever prettier than it is at the present moment; it is not exaggerated, yet it can hardly be voted simple, while its materials are all of the very best, and let me tell you you may meet it under its most favourable oonditions at any establishment. Some hats and bonnets are wonderfully effective. It will be quite a relief to the dull, dark costumes of winter if we continue to bestow our favour on the cream and white felt hats to which we are at present devoting ourselves. A stylish little bonnet is made in bright scarlet velvet edged with jet and a couple of jet wings slanting in butterfly fashion towards the front.  Day by day new developmenta appear in the making of our skirts. The latest idea is to have the opening in front, a little to one side, in place of baying it in the oentre of the back. Sometimes the opening is merely defined with braid, either of a contrasting colour or exactly matching the dress. A stylish finish is to have three rather large buttons placed where the opening comes. The buttons should, of course, harmonies in colour with the gown or its trimmings. Sometimes a corresponding raw of buttons is plaoed at the opposite side to match the opening. This side opening has decided advantages in the way of tidiness and comfort. We have all witnessed the untidy spectacle of a large expanse of white appearing at the placquet hole behind. Nothing of the kind can ever occur at the side opening ; it is so entirely under the control of both our eyes and fingers.  The first and most important rule of keeping the feet warm is never to be tightly shod. Boots or shoes that fit closely prevent the free circulation of the blood by pressure; but when they do not embrace the foot too firmly, the space left between the shoe and the stocking has a good supply of warm air. The second rule is never to sit in damp shoes. It is often supposed that unless shoes are positively wet it is unnecessary to change them while the feet are at rest. This is a great fallacy, for when the least dampness is absorbed into the sole in its evaporation, it absorbs the heat from the foot, and thus perspiration is dangerously checked.  There are several novelties in hair dressiog this season and in one of the prettiest the hair is slightly waved and drawn back, leaving only the fringe, which is kept close and rather flat by the aid of a fringe net. One has a large roll made on a frizette, or one of the larger pin curls may be used, and the own hair for the twists round it. If the natural hair is of medium length, it may be kept in one tress and pinned at the diflerent parts to form the three loops surrounding the roll or curl. The most fashionable kind of cape is threequarter length and very full, and 19 out of 20 have one or two shoulder capes. A useful type of cloak is of black ribbed cloth edged with a scanty gathered frill of black and green shot velvet, headed by a band of black far, above which again are three very narrow strips of velvet. The shoulder capes are double, the under one being of velvet, and the upper one of cloth edged with fur. This mantle would look well in almost any colouring, or could be all black with a trimming of cot! feathers. For every-day wear capes of smooth-faced cloth in black or dark colours, trimmed round the hem, and on pelerine and collar, with close-set rows of narrow braid, are smart•looking as well as serviceable—navy-blue, braided with black and lined with red, being partioularly stylish.  The Russian type of coat has found favour with many, and a very original model, suitable for autumn wear is in the fashionable brown serge, trimmed with a darker braid, or in navy blue, trimmed black. The lining is usually faced to represent the yoke or underpart, and if a contrast is desired, this looks well in tan-coloured cloth or in white serge. It is also possible to make the top in one, and simulate the opening by trimming the front and adding the full shoulder frilL The separate yoke piece is, however, very effective in a lighter colour, or in white, with closely set lines of the dark braid running across—not lengthways; or flannel, with broad coloured stripes, may be used in the same style with blue serge. Yours lovingly, hem&  Great sensation was created at Reddish, a manufacturing village, near Stockport, by the suicide of Thomas Wilding, a man of 32, living at Reddish. Owing, it is said, to some charge of an unpleasant nature being brought against him, he took arsenic about midnight.  ',l . , ,s• I A s. ..., , ~, ....._ -„,_ 'f'',t,i,,l.7-.:-,5..-41-,.------''4‘,4'----''''')' .•.!,., v.. ...' 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