Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 November 1888 — THE WORLD OF WOMEN. [ARTICLE]

THE WORLD OF WOMEN.

.Leading English gunmakera report that they have this season had a large numblr of orders f >r fine guns from ladies. Shooting during the season is said to be now one of the diversions of the Englishwoman of quality, although some pfeter fishing. A morning league lias been founded by some of the more sensible of the ladies of Paris. They are of the opinion and very rightly so, that the custom of society, as regards the hours of social gatherings, are opposed to she laws of health. The members of the league suggest that all balls shall commence at ■ 9 and end at midnight. Dinner parties are to be discouraged, and luncheons given instead. Gen. Boulanger’s daughter wore at her wedding last week a Nile green gown, with & hat of black velvet, relieved by old rose color about her throat and a gray for a boa. She looked very handsome with her golden hair and rich complection. She has her father’s dignity of expression. Capt. Driant wore his full uniform of dark blue and red. He is a young man of ab ut 28, with dark hair, apd of military bearing. The happy couple spoke the fatal “yes” in firm tones and were duly prouounced man and wife. The corset might be made less obstructive, writes a correspondent. It used to be the proper thing to wear an under bodice of shape and thickness to hide or disguise the outline of the contrivance of whalebones and steels. Nowadays nothing of tlie sort seems to be thought necessary. The corset is as prominent as if paraded outside the gown. The fashion plate marks its top and its bottom distinctly, and as for the woman herself, look at the next one you see oh a horse car and you can sketch her corset very accurately on the margin of your newspaper. —— Since the bustle has been discarded, sashes have taken its place. The draperies aredrayvnup onthe sides, but behind the hips rather than upon them, -and there are but few loops in the back, the requisite fullness being given by a sash of soft quality, and tied in very long floating loops and ends. When the figure ißßlim.-thissash-is tied iosmaothialds... around the waist of a basque that has fullness on the shoulders and is shirred into the waist, but with those who are too stout to look well in shirred waists the basque is smooth and the sash is tied and set on behind. A smoking jacket is the latest fad of the fashionable woman, introduced in London, it is asserted, by the Duchess of Marlborough (Mrs. Hammersley), who is fond of a cigarrette. They are cut in much the same shape as a man’s smoking coat, but are fitted rather more to -the figure at the back. They are very

becoming,being turned back at the neck to show the quilted silk or satin lining, which may be of any color that goes well with the complexion. Some of them are lined with fur. Very dainty little wraps they make. ,The fur shows at the neck, of course, and also on the rolled collar. Under the reverse the fronts meet, edged with silk cord. Some are frogged. One was in dark blue cloth lined with gray squirrel, and edged with blue-silk cord. Another was in brown cloth lined with quilted gold silk. “Of course all women are interesting, but it has got pretty well noised about the world that American women are,on the whole, more interesting than any others. This statement is not made boastfully,” continued Charles Dudley Warner in Harper’s Magazine, “but simply as a market quotation, as one might say. They are sought for; they rule high 0 . They have a ‘ waythey know how to be fascinating, to be agreeable; they unite freedom of manner with modesty of behavior; they are apt to have beauty, and if they hgve not they know how to make others think they have. Probably the Groek girls,in their highest development under Phidias tjrwre never so attractive as the American girls, of this period, and if we had a Phidias who could put their charms in marble, all the antique galleries would close up and go out of business.