Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 October 1894 — FOR THE FAIR SEX. [ARTICLE]

FOR THE FAIR SEX.

SEASONABLE HINTS AND MATTERS OF MOMENT. A Sick Woman’s Laborof Leva--Cost of College--Shopping in Japan--Who Setts the Styles?--An Artist Author--Etc., Etc. A SICK woman’s LABOR OF LOVE. A Wisconsin woman, Mrs. J. Magie, beguiled the tedium of a protracted convalescence from a severe illness last winter in compiling a cook book. Tested receipts to the number of 1,650 compose the book, and when it was done the industrious author put it upon the market, the proceeds of its sale dedicated to the Wisconsin Training School for Nurses. —[New York Times. COST OF COLLEGE. At most of the Eastern colleges self-denying and practical girls find it quite practicable to go through college on the modest sum of SSOO a year, and often less. Tuition costs, as a general thing, from SIOO to $l5O a year, and board in the college houses, if such are connected with the institution, is usually about S2OO. If board is arranged for in a family living near the college grounds, it sometimes need not cost over $l5O a year.—[New York Journal. SHOPPING IN JAPAN. A Japanese girl says that when ladies go to buy $ dress in her country they tell the shopkeeper their age, and if they are married or not, because there are special designs for the single and double relations of life, as well as for all ages. The consequence of this painful custom is you can tell the age of every lady you meet, and know whether she is married, precisely as though she were labelled, or you were a censustaker. But then, of course, as the ladies in Japan don’t care who knows it, there is no fun in finding out.— [New York Dispatch. WHO SETS THE STYLES? “It is all a fallacy to suppose that we set the fashions,” said a well known leader of society. “If you will observe closely you will see that any decided innovation is always taken up first by the mass of shoppers, who have the courage of their convictions and never hesitate a moment about adopting any new styles. Take the Psyche knot, for instance. It Was worn for a year in the shops before it was finally adopted by nous autres, and the Sunday excursionists took up the bicycle long before we ventured to defy prejudice in that direction. And you almost always see the very latest French freak is reproduced in cheap mate•ials first.”—[New York Advertiser.

AN ARTIST AUTHOR.

Mrs. Mary Hallock Foote, the artist author, is by birth a New Yorker, although since her marriage she has residedin Boise City, Idaho,the city of nearly all of her recent stories. Her art education was chiefly acquired at Cooper Institute, the Mecca of so many aspiring geniuses. For years after her success was assured Mrs. Foote refused to let a curious public know anything of her personality. Even now but little is known of the woman, however general is the appreciation of her work. Her likeness has never appeared in print but once, and that was only after long and urgent persuasion on the part of the magazine to which all her work, both literary and artistic, is, by contract, pledged, and which was then publishing an illustrated article upon its contributors. Since that time Mrs. Foote has been obdurate to all appeals for her portrait, although she is besieged from every quarter. While never permitting her home duties to interfere with the natural expression of her genius, yet, after all, it is as one of the many happy wives and mothers of America that she prefers to be known. She has three charming daughters, the eldest of whom, although yet very young, already displays a marked artistic talent. Mrs. Foote’s work has confined itself almost wholly to illustration in black and white, and one of the greatest compliments ever paid her was that “she produced better color effects with a pencil than most artists did with a brush.”—-[Phila-delphia Times.

FASHION NOTES. It pays to buy good stockings. Fine dress stockings are French made. An extravagant novelty is to trim a light silk petticoat with frills of chiffon of different colors. Black aigrettes in generous bunches of six to twenty-four stems will appear on black and colored hats. Black trimmings, especially in aigrette and feathers, will be much worn on colored hats and bonnets. The new galloons are very beautiful, all beads and spangles; most effective upon dark cloth or velvet. Jet pins having large heads are stylishly correct upon small toques, which they apparently hold in place. Openwork embroidered ecru batiste, lined with white or colored silk, is used for full vests in black silk gowns. Small bonnet crowns of .jebor gold beads, spangles, etc., are again shown and charming iridescent effects for evening wear, A brownish pink, called clover color, flax-flower blue, dull greens and cyclamen are among the most fashionable colors.

Brown and goldun tan having a bronze cast ara good for fall combinations and alone, as they agree with the new dress goods. Bonnet strings seem to be a thing of the past, as none of the new models just opened show them on large or small shapes. Yachting dresses are made of cream white or blue serge, with red sailor collar, cuffs and panel trimmed with gilt braid and buttons. Capes are to supersede jackets for fall wear. They are a necessity so long as the large sleeves last. Those of hip length are to. be most worn,

though for late summer wear the waist capes are in incessant evidence. The newest thing in underclothing lis white silk trimmed with black : lace. They are very pretty, but the I black lace will probably not wash well. Thin silks are to be seen everywhere and in an endless variety. The thin silk not only adapts itself to quiet and economical living, but it can be made suitable for the most dressy occasions. A good expensive piece of satin is always elegant, and one could not possibly have anything more handsome or serviceable than a plain, black satin skirt, to be worn with the many varieties of fancy waists. Scent bottles are a new fad. They are in all sorts of elegant designs, one of the new ones being in shape of a ripe strawberry in enamel. There are green enamel leaves, ■ and the seeds are of diamonds in one design and pearls in another. The Eton jacket is still foreshadowed for Autumn styles. It is not the short, trying mid-bodice affair that has just taken its ugly self away, but a much more reasonable sort of jacket, but it is longer and fitting close to the figure in the back. A hat of black Neapolitan is wired, and the wire is covered by a narrow fold of black velvet. The hat is pinched up at the side, and the trimming consists of handsome black plumes and a bunch of black-silk thistles.

Muslin dresses can be made very pretty and picturesque, trimmed with rows of insertion, the square at the neck outlined with colored satin ribbon, tied at bne side into rosettes, with long ends, with the under bodice of white muslin. The folded belt and collar, which have been popular this season, are called in England “rucked.” Sleeves are rucked as well to imitate the mousquetaire gloves. They are cut to fit the lower arm and wrist, and then about eight inches of length is added, when they “ruck” themselves. IFounces are still of value to remodel gowns. They are either gathered and edged with lace overlapping each other or are put on far apart, with a gathered heading and French hems. Sometimes three scanty flounces reach to the waist; occasionally they are put on at intervals in sets of three. Two fullgathered flounces of narrow lace or one of deep lace are fashionably worn. While the caprice of blouses and “fronts” still lasts it is worth noting that the high-class tailors are making the very latest of pique. These are for waists made with plaited fronts, with turnover collars to roll back over the jackets with which they are worn. Pique detachable collars and revers are also shown, like the collars and plastrons which are worn with small boy’s suits. These are made up in white and colored pique.