People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1896 — Bride’s Vell and Coiffure. [ARTICLE]

Bride’s Vell and Coiffure.

The veil and the coiffure are after all the most important part of the bride’s attire, for all white gowns are pretty mnoh alike except to the bride, who always has and always will nurse the illusion that hers is absolutely unique. There is one stereotyped way of arranging wedding tresses in France. Tbe hairdresser crimps every lock of the bride’s hair with hot irons, then it is rolled away from the forehead over a high puff and arranged high on the head in rolls and coils that are wonderful to behold. But wearing one’s hair in one’s favorite, old, everyday way is considered by many in better taste. Dressed for her bridal, with her page and maid of honor and her lovely robes falling aronnd her, the bride is a fairy princess. The fashionable hairdressing is still back from the face, and this gives abundant opportunity for the high rearing of the veil and its loops and puffs. The social status of a bride is often determined directly by this veil, held aa it is in front by a jewel, for upon this gem hangs the tale of fortune. If one immense stone, mounted showily, it means comfort; if a meek little olnster, it means not quite as much, and if a tiara it tells the story of a great heiress. There is a firm making lace veils, each one separate in pattern. None is ever repeated, and so the ‘ ‘rich, old, family lace” can be purchased with no trouble at all without fear of seeing it duplicated. The “veil of Eugenie” is passing away, or it has been sold onoe too often, bnt there are lace designs that are so sheer that a spider’s web is coarse compared to them. Suoh a veil is used for a drapery upon a bodice front at the after receptions, then is put away for the after generation.—New York Commercial. Women as Ad. Writer*. Two of the most successful American writers of newspaper advertisements are Miss Mamie Hungerford and Miss Nellie Riordan of Washington. Both started as typewriters, bnt by close application and studying the methods of advertisers and reading all the various advertising journals they rapidly developed into ad. writers and manage their own lists of houses. Both are college girls, and eaoh has a supreme confidence in the ability of tbe modern woman to make her way to almost any field. In speaking o t her own profession. Miss Hungerford said: “There is no reason why women

should not be as successful in the advertising field as in any other. I be/ieve it peculiarly adapted to women. Woman is the power behind the throne, and it is acknowledged that nearly all advertising, direotly or indireotly, appeals to women. Who knows better than a woman what kind of an ad. would most interest her sex? Women know the different kinds and qualities of dry goods, notions, etc., and are also familiar with men’s goods. It has been a source of wonder to me that more women have not embarked in the advertising field, as I predict a brilliant future in the next few years for the woman ad. writer. Naturally she must adjust herself to the conditions surrounding the business, ever ready to ‘give and take, ’ and asking but a fair field and no favors. ” New York World. Et Vi. A few days since, as I sat at the tea table, my son came in with a good sized pamphlet in his hand, saying, as he laid it down, “Mother, the sale of your house is in The Record. 1 ’ After the meal was over I took up the pamphlet, which was the New York Real Estate Record, to read for myself of the sale of my pretty new cottage. It had been building for a large part of the past year, and I had watohed it with much interest, understanding, as I never had before, the evolution of a house. In fact, I had kept a diary of its progress from day to day. It was finished about Christmas, and it was now August. Taking up the paper, I found the place; but, 10l instead of my name, Mrs. , there was my husband’s name in full, and just after it the words “et ux.,” of course referring to me. I acknowledge to a feeling of surprise and disappointment. I made no remark, but I thought a good deal. So I, who by myself had laid plans to build a house, engaged an architect, arranged the finances and paid the bills when it was finished, put it in brokers’ hands, and eventually sold it through our one woman broker, was, when the deed was passed and my hopse belonged to another woman, only an et nx. I had forgotten for the moment the famous dictum of Blackstone that a man and his wife were one, and that one was the husband.—C. in Boston Woman’s Journal. Narrower and Trimmed Skirts. Dross skirt 3 are cut narrower on the fronts and sides and certainly many of the winter skirts are to be trimmed. This is unwelcome news, but the information is official. Trimmings necessitate considerable extra expenditure. They burdon the skirt and get out of condition as a rule before the dress they decorate shows other signs of Wear, and renewal means a fresh outlay and a oertain amount of trouble in repairing. The plain, elegant dress skirt will surely be regretted when the disadvantages of the trimmed ones become once again disagreeably apparent. Fur bands, silk passementeries, en applique velvet bands, pipings, points and blocks, rows of gimp, braid and velvet ribbon constitute some of the new skirt decorations. Milliners’ folds of velvet or satin are greatly sanctioned by fashion, and silk braiding wrought on velvet is a novel decoration. A variety that is not materially injured by rain is used for shoulder capes, jaokets and redingotes. No material can quite compare with velvet in effeot and becomingness, and it la a wonderful foil and set off to for or grebe. For and velvet are in great vogue, bnt these two elegant materials should always be used in volume and never ont up into snippets and “gingerbread work” that add little in the way of warmth and really bemean these textiles.—New York Post.