Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 September 1881 — For and About Women. [ARTICLE]

For and About Women.

• The fall will be a velvet season. x Earth s noblest thing, a woman per ' oted. • Plump little misses wear the jersey barques. ' A woman’s whim—they were full of whims. There is no accounting for the sex in of love. Women, more than all, are the element and kingdom of illusion. Pretty and cool evening waists are made of mull puds and lace insertings. For holiday and wedding gifts, this autumn, china plates will be the rage. Umbrella covers are something new for. industrious fingers to make for fairs. f Wild clematis and cape jasmine patterns are printed on cream-colored foulards and sateens. But for them, sir, dur entire world is but a frost-bitten sweet potato, worthless to the cote.

The buttons for autumn dresses are in two sizes, and In design and colors are as handsome as Jeweled brooches. All the wool fabrics imported for autumn and winter are soft, flexible, pleasant to the touch and excellent for drapery. Paletots of ruby or blue velvet are popular wraps. They have the page’s collarettes and are embellished with embroideries of gold and silver. The Oil City Derrick thinks (that a dutiful wife will try and make home cheerful, even if she is compelled to employ two or three pretty servant New tablecloths are made of serge in ecru, seal brown and olive green embroidered with a stiff pattern in yellow arctotis, the edge being buttonholed all round. Evening dresses of colored silks are ornamented with confections of bright cameo ribbons, arranged in colossal sashes and relieved with cascades of coffee and oream lace.

Claret, olive gnd black velvet underskirts are popular and very economical) for, with an overdress of nun’s veiling, batiste, foulard, or even dotted whites, a very elegent costume may be produced. “Domestic china,” says the Art Ameteur, “is not fit for diawing-room. decoration. Plates, dishes, and tureens are not fit for walls and possess neither beauty of form nor breadth of color to compete with pictures. Dresses of myrtle, olive, bronze, grey, garnet, blue and crimson flannel are very popular at the seaside. They are trimmed with Point d’Aurilac, Irish point, and Spanish and colored embroideries. Greys are the choice of the (esthetics for dresses or parasols; silver, tin, tteel, smoke, and brooklet upples give evidence of judgment and keen appreciation of tne new school. When trimmings are tolerated, shell pink does duty. The Derby hat will be worn this fall by natty young ladies, but instead of a single black or pearl-colored one there will be a variety in the rich shades of dark admiral blue, hunter’s green, dahlia color, olive and seal brown, to match various street costums. It is just'now considered in good taste not to' mix flowers for corsage wear, but to select a favorite blossom, wearing a huge cluster of the kind chosen. The suipher-colored hollyhock is just at present enjoying a season of popularity equaling that of the- field daisy so lately the rage.