Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 July 1887 — THE LADIES. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE LADIES.

Budget of Breezy Gossip Renting Exclusively to the Fair Sex. Accompanied by Some Jiotes on llie Ever Changing Styles in Feminine Attire. Fancy Fad. 4. SHOPPING baos. As the useful and serviceable leather bag is now decidedly “out,” our lady readers will be glad of an opportunity to use the shabby ones which are too good to throw away, and look too badly to carry. Our illustration sliows how one may utilize -discarded bag tops—in fact, fasten the new bag on the outside of the old one. The

material is of black velvet or satin, the two .pieces measuring abont ten inches by jeight. The upper corners are slightly toonded and the lower ones sloped until the lower edge measures only live inches across. The velvet is then embroidered iwith silk and fine chenille—the leaves and sterns with green and brown silks, in satin :Overcast and feather stitch; the flowers with loops of bright-colored chenille. The ibag is then lined, the parts sewed together, jand the upper part plaited or shirred, and .fastened into the steel clasp on the outside jof the old bag. MUSIC PORTFOLIO. A handsome present to a Indy of musical [tendencies is made as follows: Cut four pieces of cardboard fifteen by eleven inches square. Cover two of them with silesia for the inside. The outside covering is of dark red f&atin, cloth or velvet, embroidered in chain and feather-stitch, the pattern representing the flower known as the bachelor's button or ragged sailor. Colors used for working ..should be shaded blue and pink for the iflowers, and the olive shade for the vine and leaves. When the embroidery is finished, stretch over the cardboard, nud then overhand au inside and outside piece together. Finish the edge all round with a cord, and make handles of the same. The hinges are made of ribbon sewed across and tied in bows afterward; or cord and tassels can take the place of ribbon and be far more effective. Humbuggery. Human nature loves humbug. People are voluntarily duped constantly. They even willfully humbug themselves. They shut their eyes and prefer the fictitious to the genuine. They assume the unreal for the real in regard even to their own personality. They kiss themselves with a Judas kiss. They rummage around in their imaginings until they decide they exist with such and such characteristics, while none such give indications of their presence. The meekest, couldn’t-kill-a-flv man will conclude he is a desperado of the deepest dye, a carbon-chewer from away back. You perhaps have been puzzled to determine just what was peculiar in a rolypoly man, who couldn’t keep the good-hu-mor out of his walk to save himself, yet whose light brows were wrinkled over his mild blue eyes as he cast them at you oat of their narrowest corner, while his gener-ous-lipped mouth was pursed up into a protruding pout. Next time recognize him as one of the above deluded dupes. You surely have had a confiding young girl acquaintance, who is always in a sea of despair because she is fearful her heartlessness is going to be the occasion of some desperate act on the part of a rejected admirer. When vou ask her what cause she has for her perturbation of mind, “Did he tell you he would kill himself?” she says. “Oh, I did not reject him in so many words, but when he looked at me pleadingly, I turned away, and when I turned round he was looking another way, and did not notice me again. 1 have had the same thing happen to me before, and it always turned out awful. I can’t help being such a wicked flirt.”

Her look and manner at this moment indicated all the pain and sorrow she felt at being so fascinating, so irresistible, while all the time it was perfectly patent to the most casual observer that -she was nothing of the kind; that the young cub in whom she is interested has never given her a second thought, if he ever gave her that first glance- However, she will go on believing herself a moving holocaust and destroyer of men’s peace of mind. We know an old man, one of the most learned of citizens, whom you would expect to be level-headed on all subjects. His physician ordered the exercise of horseback riding to save him from the grave by way of an apoplectic fit, he had grown so old and phlegmatic. The prescription has proved so exhilarating that this fat old porpoise goes out with the rakish accompaniments of white leather upholstering for his horse, while his patent leather boots and velvet breeches only fade into insignificance under the radiance of his buccaneer coat and shining hat. Every lunge of his bulky body tells you he is paying his irrepressibie juvenile tribute to this degenerate but athletic age. The great sadness of it all is, he humbugs no one but himself. History and onr common life is full of these instances, which tend to show that our poor humanity is prone to accept persistently what it wishes to be true for the time. It more often loves the strange and re-

fuses to accept plain reason and, too often, good common sense. * * * * * * This is a pretty good world to live in, at any rate you can have a round, jolly good time in it if you make up your determination to try to do so. However, a counoisseur can detect flaws in apparently perfect stones, and if your digestion is slightly out of order, or the spring weather gets in ahead of your spring clothes, you can find some things you would like to have ch-nged, a few yon might like forbidden by law. One thing fashion says is growing in favor, and that we should like to see nipped in the bud by an iron bound edict from the.country’B solons, is the lav.sh and indiscriminate use of perfumes. If thero is anything to which it would seem we~ have a right in this world, it is to have pure air to breathe. You can not ride in a street car, yon can not go to the theater, or chnrch—indeed, you can not walk along the streets—without being suffocated by overpowering whiffs of cheap perfumes. Weak women turn pale from them, strong men grow morose, and they remind us of a summer spent in a farm house where we had the misfortune to meet an indigenous swain wi.omadens very weary and who oiled his -flowing locks with bear s grease. Ugh! There is another nuisance which will require the law’s strong arm to check: the right of ugly people to have their pictures taken. This also reminds us of that country beau. He had his picture taken. The remembrance of that picture dwells—and dwells only there—in our memory. The radiance of his smile in it was only equaled by the redolence of his hair out of it. However, ic would probably be impossible to regulate this evil, in these days when the standard of taste varies so prodigiously, and when amateur photography makes a myth of ugly people breaking cameras. But is there no escape from accepting unsolicited presents of these photos? They are always of a size too large to be hidden away among one hundred others in an album, and the donor expects them to adorn some conspicuous place iu your domestic economy. The photo fiend is only excelled by the distributer of free chromo cards. His is a very insidious iniquity. It fosters the desire of women for plunder. They do so love to get something for nothing! They squander such a lot of time in their frantic frolics accumulating the rubbish! Any variegated slip of paper or embellished scrap becomes their sole ebject in life to possess, if there is a rumor it will be given away. The introduction of the interstate law in regard to free passes is the move in the right direction. Tea-stores and givers of elaborate dinners and germans will soon be forced into line—let us hope. The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals should see that their edicts reach to overdressed children. The child who during the hot summer months cannot have loose-fitting, cool clothing iu which to romp and be merry and take part in other cbildrtu’s games, but must be loaded with finery she dare not rumple, and in which she cannot feel natural and lovable, is as worthy of commiseration as a draught-horse belabored with a whip and made to work under a galling collar. Money should not be wanting to legislate a bill through Congress for the suppression of this evil. The attention of philanthropists is hereby directed to the desirability of establishing a home—a quiet retreat, something after the plan of the Home for Incurables—for people who are abused. Life is too short for the general run of people who have something to do to make a living, to listen to the plaints of these well-meaning but most harrowing individuals. They are full of grievances, and, of course, much sinned against, for they say so, and the world generally lakes a man pretty much at his own valuation. They are generally well-meaning souls, but in the cause of common morality they should be protected, taken within shelter. Their function is to be trodden upon. When at large they go through life constantly making others offend. They entice the meekest individual to maltreat theca. Such an insidious evil should be snpEressed; such a constant cause for his rother’s offending should be taken in out of the cold. Women in the World. Lily Curry loaves this month for an extended trip abroad. Miss Braddon, the novelist, started in life as an actress in the English provinces. Mme. Patti has as household companions three dogs and six talking parrots, besides Nicolini. Minnie Hauk’s papa was a shoemaker, but Minnie had a sole for song, and she valued her talent above awl.

Mrs. Kellogg, mother of Clara the divine, put herself to many straits to give her daughter a good musical education. Miss Ella Russell, the American singer, has made a very successful debut in London at Covent Garden in “Rigoletto.” Miss Tillif. May Forney, daughter of the late J. W. Forney, founder of the Philadelphia Press , is announced as assistant editor of the Philadelphia Leisure Hours. Mbs. Gladstone never fails to accompany her husband to the House of Commons. He is so absent-minded and careless that he does not know how to take care of himself. Miss Anita Lucille Cody, daughter of “Buffalo Bill,” is a beautiful brunette of twenty-two summers; is tall, has a pretty figure, is vivacious, well educated; and looks like her father. Prince William, eldest son of the Crown Prince Of Prussia, shuns the society of his wife, who has an absolute dread of her husband. He does not maltreat her beyond studied neglect. Here is how Senator Hearst describes his son’s ed torial methods: “My son has none but Harvard fellows on the paper. You see, he graduated at Harvard. But he’s mighty independent about it. If they don’t suit he fires them right out, and sends for more Harvard men.” The Popular Science News offers as an incident of heredity the fact that a gentleman who was born left-handed, And by practice acquired dexterity with both hands, has two sons who are ambidextrous.