Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 December 1881 — For and About Women. [ARTICLE]

For and About Women.

Kid shoes are appropriate for children’s wear. A new style of embroidery is called “cub work.” Shopping bags are square instead of oblong or round. Doylies are embroidered in'‘corn silk and gold thread. A beautiful party dress will be of coral pink silk, with white lace on. An economical wife is one who saves, most of what her husband can’t spend. South Kensington stitch is still the favorite outline stitch for embroidery. Umritza cashmere, a new fabric,is so softly draping as to be called aesthetic. Brown blanketing is embroidered with sunflowers for billiard table coverings. Some of the ladies hats just “opened” are big enongh for a minstrel burlesque. Figures are embroidered on black backgrounds, but pale pink or blue is used for child subjects. f The Princess of Wales has not yet put on hoops, and the English lady of fhshlon rejoices thereat. Beautiful curtains and valances are qf dark red plush, with the design in outline work in old gold. Beads are used largely in embroidery. Gold and silver prevail, but all colors are in use, especially amber and Crimson.

A design for a piano front is Appolo leaning from Pan, for the back of which a large design of reeds looks Very Appropriate. A prominent feature of this season’s fancy-work is the outlining of all the forms with tinsel thread, which comes for the purpose. “Mary Jane, have you given the gold fish fresh water?’ “No, ma’am; what’s the use? They haven’t drank up what’s in there yet. With simple toilets are worn plain linen [collars, shaped like a clerical band, and fastened by a handsome collar button, of gold. Among novelties are flat nails or spikes of gilt* silver or jet, with large beads,that are used to fasten .the fronts of sacques and are also thrust into the cuffs.

Evening boots are laced instead of buttoned, and made of satin and kid, garnished with lace frills and bows. Some are beaded and embroidered on the toe. Striped plush is used for Directoire collars, and is trimmed with English laces that are darned in long stitches to outline dropping flowers,convolvuli, lilies, etc. A Theater hat of olive chenille and plush has a bunch of shaded chenille flowers, slightly mixed with gold threads. The strings ai e of reversible plush and satin ribbon. Fancy jewelry is still the rage in Paris. Owl’s beads with diamond or ruby eyes are very much worn, and also, what are much more graceful, tiny birds swinging in a golden hoop. One of the most simple styles of bonnets is composed of gilt buckle with two ends or ribbon three inches long. It is often seen in the street, but never in the theatyt. O woman, you are a puzzle! F A pale green satir. is very pretty for a screen, with peach, almond, pear or apple blossoms, witn their brown stems and budding green leaves, or the most graceful of all, white cherry blossom lendant on its long, slender stem, and ts unfolding bronzed leaves.

A pretty way to decorate wood work is by applying liquid gold through card-board stencil plates. Crescents, trefoils, lozenges and a variety of odd geometrical shapes may thus be powdered over the surface,' not close enough to eajh other to give a crowded -effect. A young man calls himself an as* tronomer’s assistant, and says he makes his observations “on her father’s front gate.” One of these days he will get the declination, and her father will come out and give him the right ascension in no minutes and three seconds. Scent sachets have a bow of satin and a bird on one side; a green paroquet, (f a good size, is a fashionable ornament for the same. The bird is just placed toward the center of loops of ribbon, where the ends meet, with -the wings stretched or not, according to fancy. For dinner cards the most fashionable have beveled edges gilded, the crest or monogram of the owner in gold or gold and silver near the top: the name of the guest written by the hostess underneath. Days of the ween in gold, silver, or illuminated letters are sometimes inscribed upon these cards. Among the new fall “confections, as they are technically called, are Carraick shoulder capes made of heavy black satin, which come quite to the waist or perhaps a trifle below it. They are shirred “Mother Hubbard” fashion around the neck to the depth of several inches, and each cape is trimmed with a wide band of jetted gimp.