Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 April 1887 — WOMAN’S WORLD. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

WOMAN’S WORLD.

Matters Grave and Gay Relating to the Fair Daughters of Eve. SOMETHING ABOUT THE FASHIONS Styles in Spring Hats and Wraps —Costumes for the Little PeopleOther Matters. Children's Costumes. “They” say that to have a child fashionably dressed is to injure its health. That indefinite ‘’they” is responsible for many fallacies, and none more apparent than this. Children’s costumes were never more varied and fantastic than to-day, but never have they bean more comfortable than now, when they are looked after by a practical, tasteful woman.

The little girl’s dress shown is at once comfortable, pretty, and durable, while being at the same time a design any practical sewer may fashion. This garment is made of the new checked blue and brown serge, of a fine woolen quality. It shonld never be made tight-fit-ting, clinging only partially to the little figure. The back is gathered to the waist, while down the front two box pleats extend the entire length. A brown-cord girdle encircles the waist, covering the joining at the back. Small brown-silk buttons fasten the front, while a half dozen larger ones ornament the box pleats on either side. Early in the season, when we feel the increasing heat most readily, this garment is most convenient as a street costume. It is warm enough to wear without an extra wrap. In such case a jaunty pointed hood, whioh is adjustable by the use of hooks and eyes, may be added as shown in our illustration. It is made of the check and lined with brown silk. The hat shown is of fine straw trimmed with a large knot of brown and bine picotedged gros grain ribbon.

The accompanying illustration displays a handsome suit designed for boys from seven to len years of age. It consists of jacket, waistcoat and trousers, of dark-blue cloth, trimmed with gold anohor buttons and buckles. The only peculiarity in its manufacture is that the trousers at the lower edge must be set into a band closed at the side with a button and button-hole which is hidden by a buckle which is purely ornamental. The upper edge of the trousers is buttoned over the waistcoat so that the latter may not appear below the jacket. The lower edge of the jacket is also pleated into a band which fits loosely around the waist , In this costume again we see the attempt

made to introduce laced boots. Whether this innovation will be adopted is a question time alone can solve. It seems now that it will require a long training to make us give np neatly buttoned boots, especially for children, whose lacers would always be broken or untied. Eye*. It is a common question, “What kind of eyes has she?” We have never been able to tell,-with the single exception of the cross-eyed ones. We once witnessed the unhappy gyrations of a luckless young man who imagined he was carrying on a dense flirtation with a cross-eyed young woman sitting opposite him at a party. In reality she was lavishing her sweetness on another fellow in another comer of the room. It was grmt fun to a looker-on, but sad for the youth when his illusion was dispelled. But tnese cross-eyed girls have possessed an interest, for us ever since. Just think what double havoc this peculiar endowment makes them capable of accomplishing. They are more dangerous than would be girls with two mouths to kiss. As above hinted, whether a girl has eyes of Plutonian hue, indigo blue, chestnut brown, or only just common cat eyes, we are never able to tell. This might be taken as evidence that we are not able to look her square in the eyes. This may be just as well as anything else to do, for some authority, when speaking of glances, says: “They kill and wound like Parthians as they fly. ’’ Whether girls of the present day are so loaded, ready to go off, we cannot say, but those with whom this fellow was acr quainted must have been charged full of deadly dynamite. But, alas! it is an historical fact that no one subject since the world began has caused so much ink to flow and wasted so many reams of copy paper as dissertation, poetry and prose, upon the eye and its mission. Shakspeare seems to have had a very bad attack. Just listen to him: Her eyes in heaven. Would through the airy regions stream so bright That birds would sing and think it were not uight. Such a girl would be a great saving in gas bills to any man, but Bailey tells of yet a greater bonanza of a girl. Speaking to her upon the subject he says: There are whole veins of diamonds in thine eyes, Might furnish crowns for all the queens of earth. A man who could win her for his wife wonld certainly get a fortune in the bargain. The only thing discouraging about it would be, he might not be able to dispose of his stock in trade. Queens’ crowns are not much in demand in these days of democratic simplicity. Oliver Wendell Holmeß seems to have struck the right idea. He declares: The bright black eye, the melting blue— I can not choose between the two; But that is dearest-an the while That wears for me the sweetest smile. This is certainly very sensible poetic license. The girl with such eyes is the one worth fighting for or wasting good, healthy rhymes about.