Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 June 1894 — FOR THE FAIR SEX. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FOR THE FAIR SEX.

SEASONABLE HINTS AND MAT. TERS OF MOMENT. Long Watch Chains--Compliments for In tall actual Woman--Dry Hair MadaGlossy--Ona Dollar Par Waak Fashion Notas--Etc., Etc. FASHION NOTES. Veils are remarkably becoming this season. With many black parasols the lining is in a bright color, Veils are made for the most part shaped so that they set well over the small hat. Dutch bonnets are to be worn all the season. Most of them are small and close.' The latest thing in gloves are those that are embroidered with garlands of flowers in their natural colors. The new fichus, bows and neckties are exceedingly pretty, and quantities of ribbon are used, also tiny flowers. The silver buckles with ribbons for collar bands are furnished even to the hooks and eyes for fastening in the back. The use of dental floss has brought out many pretty designs. The same holders may be used for embroidering silks. It is principally black gloves, which were for a long time cast aside for white ones, and which are now coming into, favor again, that are ornamented. Lace lappets form some of the prettiest bows for evening wear, and tiny ones in cream lace start from small colored rosettes, set a few inches apart on a velvet bandeau. Toques are greater favorites with the Parisiennes than ever, but they also are larger and sit down more Closely on the head. The prettiest are entirely covered with flowers. Fancy pencils for the watch chain seem from their frequency to be much sought after. Some of them are very ingenious, the pencil running through pigs, dogs, monkeys and other animals. Jewellers of romantic fancy provide deep petaled flowers which enclose little white ring boxes for the presentation of jewels. These floral emblems are chiefly used over the footlights. Something new is the plain black Hindoo cloth, which takes the place of plain black lawn. Hindoo cloth much resembles black lawn, is of perfectly fast color and has a very soft finish.

Vines, sprays, dots, flowers stripes and geometrical figures are the best selling designs in white and tinted lawns. The natural linen shade, with neat colored designs, are also in great demand. Pretty five o’clock tea cloths are embroidered hnd trimmed with laces. To match these are small doylies of the same pattern; also large scarfs, twenty by fifty inches and twenty by seventy-two inches. Satin ribbon, three inches wide, folded to the width of the ordinary collar and fastened at the side in a saucy butterfly bow, is a change from the shirred velvet collar that has received the approval of Mme. la Mode. There are more ebony parasol handles than fancy handles this season, but odd heads of silver or gold, filigree or solid, porcelain or various kinds of wood are also seen, and among the heads of animals a very malicious grinning monkey. Wide ribbon is having a remarkable sale, as not only is it in demand for the huge bow at the throat, but the sash has come in with a rush and an evident intention to stay. It is made in silk, satin or moire, can be tied in front, at the side, or at the back, and the ends must be long, almost reaching the arm of the gown. A way of using the ribbon is to have an immense butterfly bow in the exact centre of the waist and spreading out like the wings of the American eagle. Sometimes it has ends, and then again it ignores the very existence of such a thing and satisfies itself with appearing as huge as the widest ribbon will allow it to appear. The girl who prides herself upon style seldom wears any but dark or subdued colors in the street. If she has a bit of brightness on her hat it is apt to be tucked away under the brim. But for house wear even the stylish young woman may revel in bright hues and thereby make herself a pleasing object to those about her. For summer wear nothing looks prettier than a neat dimity dress. These dimities come this season mostly in tinted grounds, although white grounds will be extensively worn. Satin baby ribbon, narrow velvet ribbon and ruffles of fine tinted linen lawn, edged with narrow Valenciennes lace, are some of the materials employed as trimmings. A new brocade has a beautiful design of brilliant butterflies flying in all directions. Heliotrope and petunia shades are already giving way to blues of every hue, to delicate greens, and dainty pinky fawns. Blues merging into green, and green into

blue, those doubtful shades which puzzle the uninitiated, will certainly be worn for the summer. The latest whim is to wear a black moire ribbon about an inch wide round the neck, about a yard and a quarter long, to which a watch or jewel is suspended. It is fastened round the throat with a little gold or jeweled slide. It will be much worn with light colored dresses; the jewelers are busy inventing some trinkets to wear in this way in which the favorite perfume can be placed. LONG WATCH CHAINS. The fancy of wearing jewelry is growing apace, and long watch chains are becoming popular again. If the lovely jeweled ones are beyorid the limit of price, then the old-fashioned gold ones which have been in oblivion for years may be brought out for duty. It is not at all necessary that there should be a watch at the end of the chain, for the utility element is a minor consideration. A brooch fastens it at the neck, and it may be festooned lower down and lose itself, in the trimming of the dress, suggesting a dainty little watch tucked away in the folds. —[Detroit Free Press. COMPLIMENTS FOR INTELLECTUAL WOMEN. The intellectual woman of society is better dressed, because more quietly and less extravagantly, than the non-intellectual woman. She appears to more advantage in the drawing room and on the promenade; she is sounder, fuller, more methodical and exact. Her evolution is loftier and more complete. When she is rather plain than pretty, she is often thought very pretty, because her manners are so fine and her understanding is so clear that she neglects no one, and is considerate to all. She is almost always elegant in appearance and bearing, for her mind animates her whole body and embraces the smallest details. She has the latter half of the nineteenth century spirit, which is too broad and sympathetic to permit her to reserve her faculties for her own benefit.— [New York Advertiser. DRY HAIR MADE GLOSSY. The use of oils on the hair has gone out of fashion, but there are many persons to whom something of the sort is almost a necessity. The hair becomes so dry that its beauty is gone, and in addition it is so badly nourished that it loses its strength and luster. In such cases a little fine oil is the proper remedy. Those who have very dry and rough hair, especially if subject to pain and feverishness in the head, will do well to try some softening application, at least as an experiment. One ounce of glycerine to a pint of rose water, with two or three grains of quinine, thoroughly shaken together, makes an excellent hair tonic. The trifle of glycerine gives it softness and moisture and a very pretty gloss. Care must be taken, however, to keep the head away from dust as much as possible, for the glycerine will hold it and soon make the most beautiful braid dull and grimy looking.

ONE DOLLAR PER WEEK. An investigation of ten of the best paying trades in which women are engaged in nine principal cities of the United States shows that the cost of living for working women in their own families is nine per cent higher in New York than in any other city save Brooklyn. The cost of board for working women in New York ranges from $8 per month to $7 per week in private boarding houses. Few, however, seek the latter. The majority live in furnished rooms, cooking their food over gas and oil, and getting their meals haphazard, as time and money permit. Some live in so-called homes, where board is furnished from $2.25 to $6 per week, occupying rooms with four and six others. Many women who live in furnished rooms do not see meat more than once a week; this is particularly true of those past middle life. , Case after case is known of women who, aside from rent, subsist upon $1 per week.—[New York Journal. SOUVENIR COIN SENT TO MADRID. A beautiful silver case, bearing the Spanish coat of arms, rested on Mrs. Potter Palmer’s desk in Masonic Temple the other morning. Within it, on a bed of plush, nestled one of the silver souvenir quarters struck by order of congress at the request of the board of lady managers of the world’s fair. The case and-coin were a gift from Mrs. Palmer to the Queen Regent of Spain. These souvenir quarters were the first coins bearing the vignette of a foreign ruler that were ever struck in an American mint. The Queen was not insensible to the honor and deference shown in stamping the likeness of the gracious Castillian on the souvenirs, and she having expressed a desire to possess one of the coins, Mrs. Palmer had a silver case made and yesterday forwarded it to Madrid. The Isabella coins are already becoming very scarce. Only 40,000 of them were minted, and collectors in all parts of the country have been writing for them. They have lately been in great demand in New York and San Francisco, and at the present rate all will soon be sold. Mrs. Palmer receives a stack of letters everyday making inquiry about the souvenirs. One of her clerks is kept busy sending out coins and replying to letters from persons desiring to get them.—[Chicago Herald. ELECTRICAL HAIR BLEACHING. Noting the novel uses to which electricity has been recently applied, the Electrical Review says: Another enterprising individual, this time a dyer of human hair, has projected the following method; advices, however, do not state that he has been entirely successful. The process is ingenious, and for this reason alone it is worthy of mention. The sub-' ject, who is generally of the weaker, and shall we add vainer, sex, seats herself in the operating chair, which is somewhat similar to a dentist’s

chair, and rests the back of her neck on a metal plate, which is the negative terminal of a rather strong battery, the current from which Ik sufficient to exert a moderate decomposing action on solutions of salt containing a bleaching agent such as chlorine. The waving tresses are allowed to fall back of the chair, and are dampened with a solution of what the inventor terms his secret. A brush composed of metallic bristles, which have been gilded or platinized, and which are electrically connected to the source of current, thus forming the positive pole of the battery, is slowly and steadily drawn through the air. A slight decomposition of the salt held in solution takes place, the bleaching agent is liberated and the coloring matter in the hair is lightened. The discoverer declares that the color given to the darkest hair may be varied at pleasure, and may also be carefully regulated; furthermore, he states that the color does not resemble that of ordinary “bleached” hair, but is more natural and in every way able to deceive the most expert in snch matters. While the idea is one which is attractive from an experimental standpoint, the object attained, if his statements are true, is one which should be pushed into obscurity by a minimum amount of praise.

HOUSE GOWN WITH ETON JACKET.