Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 December 1881 — For and About Wowen. [ARTICLE]

For and About Wowen.

Beauty is God’s handwriting, a wayside sacrament —Milton. The widows might—say yes if some fellow asked them to marry. . Mrs. Christiancy’s grievances includes the mending of her husband’s clothes. Row me oh! said Juliet, as she,went' boating with her lover. Lowell Courier. A bonnet of dark red silk has brown leaves and dark red and salmon color Michaelmas daisies. Which is best, to “marry in haste and repent leisure,” or to marry at leisure and need no repentance? When a writer assumed that women are the salt of the earth, lie didn’t include those who are too fresh. “Stockings I can do without, but earrings I must have,” a San Francisco belle was heard to murmur in the gloaming. A beautiful narrow table-cover of dark green plush is embroidered with water lilies and foliage, the lihe3 occupying alternate corners. * A pretty newspaper rack has sides of plush, embroidered with tulips in shades of cane color,the effect of which is very quaint and pretty. Courting is a natural blessing. It teaches young people to speak mildly, especially 4f the old folks are in the next room, with the door open. It is very ungallant in the old bachelor who was told that a certain lady had “one foot in the grave,” to ask if there wasn’t robm for theother. Black is a good ground for ccflors.but for landscape it looks like a black sky; therefore blue, blue-gray,or pale saffron for evening effect are preferable. Lace covers for sofa cushions and chair backs are outlined with silk floss in is also done on plain Russian crash and on momie linen.

“The Marriage Festival” is a pretty and appropriate design for a piano front e.ther for outline work, colored crewel or silk embroidery, or for painting on satin. . The round Gypsy tables now in vogue can be covered with black satin painted with a wreath and edged with deep fringe or with a corresponding border. f£One of the highest tributes (although paid unconsciously) ever paid to the Irish race was the recent declaration by a Mormon Bishop, that there are no Irish women among the Mormons. For flower screens, cream or ivory satin looks well but not terra-cotta red, with cream-colored, sch as Glorie de Dijon roses: while terra-cotta jolo is a substantial grouud-Vvork for black or white. The newest wall ornament is a nest of wood moss with a chick or two peeping from it and looking yroperly astonished at his position. A wooden plate serves as a background, and the whole is fastened in place by a cord. “I can’t fifid a place in ibis city to suit 'ine,” despairingly remarked a house-hunting la'fy to her husband. “Why, because—because, well, if yon must know, I can’t find a mautdl long enough for the crewel lamberquin I made last winter. Said an auctioneer: “Come, now ladies and gentlemen, these goods are now for sale. Will somebody give me a bid? Anything, ladies and gentlemen. All I want is an offer.” “Alas!” murmured an elderly lady in -the crowd, “that’s what I have been ..sighing for all my life.” Hanover College, Indiana, recently admitted ladies to her balls, and the result has been severs! weddings among tthe students. Oue occurred last week, and the young groom aud his best man were suspended lor their innocent diversion and* the bride ran off home to escape the same fate. Coeducation is a success at Hanover.