Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 August 1892 — FOR THE LADIES. [ARTICLE]

FOR THE LADIES.

HURBEB OF BLUE BLOOD. Many women of rank in Europe, as Well as many American women of ability and social position, have adopted the profession of nursing. Among the former are the Princess Helen Cusa, who is a nurse in the Children’s Hospital at Jassy; Lady Leveson Gower in a Loudon Hospital, and Miss Godolphiu Osborne, niece of the Duke of Leeds, who is Matron of the Leamington Hospital for Incurables. —[New York Commercial Advertiser. MODISH GIRDLES AND BELTB. Among the adjuncts of the toilet necessitated by the universal popularity of blouse bodices are girdles and belts, some of which arc made of silk with silver trimmings, others of velvet, fine stockinet over rubber cowls, and still others of finest white, gray or black kid with silver or “rolled gold” clasps. The delicate kid belts arc extremely neat and attractive. Belts of coin and metal riugs arc still seen, also those forming a straight unbroken band. Any belt, however, is preferable to these, which suggest a noop on a bucket.—[St. Louis llcpublic. MINNESOTA’S MAUD MULLER. Minnesota rejoices in the possession of an unique character, Sara Pollard, who is one of the most successful farmers in Polk County, where she owns a half section of land which she works herself with no help from men except in the harvest soason. Miss Pollard is a young woman of grace, beauty, and many accomplishments, who has left a pleasant Eastern home for the life of a farmer. She docs her own ploughing, seeding, and harrowing, operates her large farm with no other counsel than her own good judgment, and has added a quarter section of land to her domain with the proceeds of a few years’ industry. Bhe wears when engaged in outdoor work a short skirt which falls just below the kuee, and lias knee breeches to match it. —[Now York Bun.

nOT WEATIIKn COMFORTS. “There are two things I couldn’t live without in hot weather,” exclaimed a woman the other day, “and those are tissue paper and Florida water,” she continued, as she went on to explain that she invariably put a little bottle of one and a small roll of the other into her bag every time she went o shopping. “When I feel the perspiration running down my fuce in torrents, and my veil sticking to my nose, I simply seek a sequestered spot in the toilet ouartcra of any of our Dig stores, and rub ray face with the tissue paper. A little bit will do, and you use it exactly as you would a wash-rag. It removes every particle of dirt and grease; in fact, you.might spoil a dozen handkerchiefs without producing the same result. After ray face is all right I go over my neck and hands in the same way. Next I moisten a handkerchief plentifully with the Florida water and finish off with that. The whole thing takes only n minute, and produces such an upliftraent of the whole physical woman that you have only to try it in order to he convinced.—{New York News. FASHIONABLE GLOVES. To be well-gloved is the constant aim of the woman who understands good dressing. She no longer squeezes her . hand into a glove three sizes too small. ■On the contrary, the fashionable glove usually wrinkles. She avoids all such horrors as green, heliotrope, old-rose, scarlet and bright yellow suede gloves. With gowns of delicate hue, she selects pale grays aud tans which harmonize well with any colors. With her gingham, lawn and chatnbray frocks, she wears white gloves of suede or chamois, os she prefers. For driving or the promenade, she selects dogskin .gloves, heavily stitched and with pearl buttons nearly as large as a dime; and for more dressy wear, white or peari-tinted glace kids, stitched and buttoned with black. Gloves are shown with cuffs of contrasting kid vandyked on at the wrist, but they are too pronounced for the fastidious woman, nor will she even look'at those which have lace insertions in the back. For evening wear, all delicate hues ia suede to match costumes are permissible, though tan, for colored evening gowns, and white for the snowy toilets are considered better form. For tennis, the best glove is a gauntlet of doeskin.— [Onoe A Week.

X FAD FROM OVER THE SEA. The English drawing-room has a new sud, which is as unique as it is interesting. On a tabic in the drawing-room or the reception hall is kept a handsomely bound volume with the word "confessions” running in large gilt tetters over the handsome binding. In it arc Contained all the gossipy or sentimental thoughts of the members of the family and intimate friends, which they transcribe from day to day. Here and there one finds a line quoted from some more or less noted poet to indicate the sentiment that the writer's heart and communicated itself to his pen at the time he made the inscription, or some sad or joyful happening that has caused him to leave behind the imprint of his state of mind by purloining a phrase from a familiar author. The name of the writer is signed to each inscription, and weeks afterwards this quaint volume furnishes food for the amusement of the initiated by its curious contents. It is not only in many cases an index to the character of those who are permitted to write in it, but it reflects their temperament ns well, like a diary in which are entered the events of a space of one’s life. —[New Orleans Picayune.

THE IDEAL UNDER FBTTICOAT. Do you feci as if summer was the time for wash goods, as. if every thing you wore ought to go in the wash tub periodically, as if even a siik petticoat, with its frills, ruffles and pJaittngs, was a little too substantial and suggestive of cool weather, and, notwithstanding all this, do you love the swish and the soft fall of u silk skirt, apd that peculiar air and sense of luxury and permissible extravagance that the finest muslin cannot give ? You say yes to all these questions, of course, *® g® buy some pongee, or, better yet, some of those delightful wash silks, Japanese or China, that are to be found all over town. Get eight yards and make your skirt as elaborate as you please; edge the raffles with Valenciennes or Point de Paris lace as broad as your purse and taste permit, and the pretty skirt can go to the wash as often as you wish and never lose its first freshness all the summer through. A favorite way to make the skirt » to gore the front breadth and also the side ones; then run up two widths plain for ti e back. Have a foot ruffle two inches wide, hemngboned, not hemmed (a hem is apt to be stiff.) Over that gather a full flounce of the lace edged silk two finger* deep. Make a heading and run on the flounce with a cord. Tic back the back breadths closely with aa inch wide surah ribbon. Fit

the skirt in front with three darts, and let all the fullness go to the back. Then will it be a joy ana delight unto you to raise your severely plain tailor serge skirt and snow the pretty garment that is sure never to fray and fade, as the pinked out changeable silk skirts are only too sure to do just wheu you are beginning to love and depend on them. These skirts are infinitely more dainty and refined in appearance than the most elaborate petticoat that does not wash. After all there is something not entirely feminine about underwear that has to be sent to a cleaner and renovated by chemical process instead of being made fresh and sweet by soap, water and a few hours in the open uir, and to be feminine ought to be every woman’s dearest wish, for everything else will be added unto her. —[New York Press.

FASIiION NOTES. In children’s stockings black and plain colors are almost entirely used. Shot-silk blouses are in great favor for wearing with English serge skirts. White stockings are de regie with shoes of white ooze-leather, kid or canvas. Bewitching nightgowns with deep frillings, with or without lace, the most effective having colored frills of soft material, are the latest. Chiffon over China silk or crepe de Chine makes an ideal gown for sultry summer evenings. Black, ecru and white silk mulls are used in making the little toy cap s worn with summer dresses, also fishers’ net and silk grenadine. Some of the shot silk sashes are marveloua color schemes, in which gold changes to palest water green, olive to rose, and blue to silvery white. The belted waist lias become a decided favorite for summer dresses, especially for Parisians who have rung all tne changes possible on coats and have grown tired of them. Russian blouses are now made of shot silk covered with lace, the silk shaped to the figure, the lace full and drawn in with a belt or girdle and the basque full and standing out from the skirt. The prevalence of low shoes has caused a demand for openwork hose, and these are wrought in tine lace effects or in openwork stripes alternating with narrow ones embroidered in tiny polka-ilots. The Recamier corsage made by French dressmakers has a seamless back, a bias front exquisitely draped, and is quite long-waiited, but this effect is changed by a soft wide Hilk sash that is wound twice around the waist, falling in long ends in front. Tcagowns, to bo a la mode, must hang in the softest indescribable folds; they are made in crepe and crepon. Those who have old lace scarfs can turn there to the beNt account, for they are folded on the bodice buck und front, the cuds floating over the skirt. Polka-dotted hosiery is having a grerefc vogue both bore and in Paris; it is stylish and especially adapted for seasido and mountain wear, and is quite the thing with russet or cunvas shoes and with the navy blue or white flannel suits so extremely fashionable. The most expensive hose are of very fine silk with the entire front of duchess, Brussels or chuntilly lace; in most cases, however, there is an insertion which is set between rows of delicate silk embroidery in some contesting color, such as pink rosebuds in black, yellow daisies, zigzag dashes of color, pompadour bouquets or lozenges'.