Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 November 1881 — For and About Women. [ARTICLE]

For and About Women.

The turban and the Derby will rival each other in popularity. Diadem wreaths for the hair will certainly be worn with ball toilets. Red and green are again used in combination in fashionable toilets. Moire brocade in rippled stripes- is the high novelty of this season. Mitts will remain in favor until the weather is decidedly cooler. The Mosquetaire or Bernhardt glove takes precedence o's all others. It is now allowable for women to part their hair in the middle. Mob caps, made of black sural i and gold lace, are much worn by elderly ladies. Newly imported silk stockings show contrasting colors, such as yellow on biack, Indian red on pale green, and scarlet on either light or indigo blue. Millinery note: As usual some bold and daring newspaper man rises to remark that, “The prettiest thing in autumn bonnets are the faces.” Give us the faces and anybody can have the bonnets | who wants to pay for them. Consolatioq: Mme. Z. (Paris, course) lost her husband and would not be comforted. For days and days after the funeral she wept floods of teaps. Suddenly a thought struck her. “I have one little consolation,” she said, “I will know where he is at night.”

“Blaze, ma’am, wudye oblige a poor bye wid a light? Bhure, ye’ve only to give one glance of yer purty eye at me pipe, and it’ll shine like the shtars.” He got the light and a good dinner besides. Moral: Always speak the truth in the presence of the fair sex. Mr. Gerorge I Beney of Brooklyn, has given $5,000 toward the erection of a chapel to the Lucy Cobb Institute, Athens, Ga., on the condition that the t residents of that city will raise $4,000 more. He was prompted to the act by an appealing letter from Miss Nellie Stovall, a graduate of the Institute, who lives in Athens. I A number of bverprudish young ladies in New "York recently complained that the Jpollecemen squeezed their arms when assisting them to cross the crowded streets. 80, now, that it is against the law for an afficer to touch them in any way, they have to scurry through carriages and wagons the best way they can, while the officer simply walk by her side. A gentleman with his wife and lady friend are at a social gathering, discussing the appearance of the several guests. Wife: “Who’s that funnylooking man with sandy hair and long ears?” Lady friend: “That’s Mr. H ; he’s a perfect-donkey.” Wife (turning to her hfisband): “Why, Alfred, why havn’t you Introduced me? He must be my brother-in-law.” Mrs. Julia Ward Howe was quite disconcerted while lecturing lately at Marblehead. She had adduced the tarring and feathering of Floyd Ireson, by the women of that town, as narrated by Whittier, as a noble act. There was hissing, and a man said he was de- s scended from Ireson, and that the story of his deserting the starving crew had been proved a lie, and the women had repented their deed.