Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 August 1892 — THE LADIES. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE LADIES.

One particularly pretty as welLas peculiarly characteristic fancy of the summer mode is “the fichu bodice, which appears in its various phases in all sorts of dress conditions, from the simple morning frock of cotton ■ for country wear to the more elaborate creations for dinners and balls. A*pretty illustration of the fichu for day wear is copied from a gown of pale blue moire, striped with dull, dark green lines. ~The belt and cuffs to the sleeves, made in the new French fashion, with only a frill be- ! low -the elbow, are of deep apple -'green velvet, and the fichu, which is the chief feature of the dress, is of pale blue tissue so fine and thin that the whole width of the material folds softly about the neek in a narrow band, crosses in front, passes under the arms, and pins at the back. It is frilled all the way round with fine lace to match that used in the ruffles >n the sleeves. For evening wear

the fichu forms a cape-like fullness, falling back from the low neck slightly fulled on the shoulders, and tied in in front, where the long ends hang down to the bottom of the dress. Such a fichu of blue gauze, embroidered by band with pink roses and gold leaves, was worn the other day by a stately maid in a trailing white gown with no other decoration than this, - Women suffragists have more ardent supporters of their cause among men in Englabd than do the women of America. Great indignation prevails' ovefa circular recently published advising the exclusion of lady speakers during the comingeleetioD, “lest advantage is taken of such opportunities to advocate female suffrage.” One man writing of this says: “If the antagonism td woman suffrage which is a characteristic of Mr. Gladstone is to be made one of the tenets of his followers also, I, as a man free from party bias and purpose, trust that every woman will use what tittle influence her unrepresented f-?«ition leaves her to prevent the accession to power of a party which denies her any political voice, while carefully giving to an illiterate Irishman, who can only make his cross at the instruction of a priest, a vote in making the very laws which are to govern a woman with perhaps as- much intellect and education as the voter and the priest put together.”

A band of robbers composed of women has been discovered ot one of the interior towns of Spain. They have the regulation romantic cave wherein their booty is stored, and plan tbeir depredations the orthodox bandit’s code. They dress like men, wearing beards and sombreros to hide their faces.

The bonnet shown in the picture is a lace capote for a mature woman. Uis comppse&pttwo pieces of ecru idc*>Bfc r »'ed upon a circle <of tulle. Between the lacd you put sprigs of small flowers, using ode for an aigrette, and at the side and at the back

you place bows of double-faced satin ribbon. The first premonition of what fall modes may be is suggested in a socalled Parisian “town toilette,” recently imported, of spotted wollen,. dull blue with a black figure and made up in a flat skirt, bias at the back and trimmed only with a bias fold of the material gathered in the centre and full on across the back onl,y. The distinguishing novelty of the costume lies in long, close redin-gote-'coat, which, opening up the middle seam of the plain back to al-

low the fulness of the slcirt to esifttpe thrns back in front with gracefully pointed revers over a full chemisette of spotted silk, black with a blue figure. A waist band of black satin and gloves of pearl stitched with self color complete the dress. V

Of all the royal women “Carmen Sylva,” the sweet songstress of Bodmania, is the best beloved by women for whem the dazzle of the 'queen’s coronet has less attraction, Uian the rare, sweet womanliness of she who wears it. &fter the death of her little daughter, Carmen Sylva took up her pen for pastime, not devoting it to life record of her daily life, after thl fashion of Sovereigns, or to the writing of memoirs to be read after her death, but rather to rescuing oblivion the songs and traditions of her people, and to the hopor of true womanhood. She has partially recovered from her serious iljhess, but is still a patient sufferer from nervous and spinal' weakness.

If the lady intends to sit at the stfern of the boSt in the becoming shadow as a gay parasol, holding the rudder ropes and looking unutterable things into-the eyes of the young man she is fortunate enough to have row tor her, her river costume, though it is of the prosatC and practical serge, is idealized into the trig tailor made Smartness of the illustration, which emanated Jropi the fertile fancy of the one and only Worth - . The skirt of the dress has a threeinch band of crimson cloth set op with a fine gqldlCord, ail'd: is as carefully fittewla if intended for the afternoon drive. The seamless bodice slightly full in front and crossing surplice fashion to one side, has a

collar of crimson with a gold cord at the edge and gold anchors embroidered in bullion in the corners, and opens over a plastron of crimson, crossed with gold bars. A soft sash belt of tho gay color fastens beneath an anchor buckle on one side, and the cuffs have anchors in relief for decoration. The sailor hat of crimson straw has a braid of blue straw, with an edge of gold, tied In a stiff little bow on one side.

Among the most prominent women in the political party which has grown out of the Farmers’ Alliance are Miss Mary E. Lease of Wichita, Kan., a platform orator of muc.-h eloquence and power, who wili be constantly engaged in speaking for the People's party through the campaign ; Sarah Emery, one of the editors of the New Forum, a party paper just started in St. Louis; Fanny Randolph Vickery and Mrs. Gay, of Texas, and Eva McDonaldValish, whose two years’ career on the platform has been one of great credit to herself and of brilliant and efficient help to her party. She has been a self-supporting newspaper writer for several years.

The election cf a woman AttorneyGeneral is among the possibilities' for the State of Montana, where Ella L. Knowles, the only woman lawyer in the State, has been nominated by the People’s party. It was through the influence of Miss Knowles that the bill was passed to admit women to practice law in the State, and she was herself the first candidate for admission under the new law. Her practice Is large and lucrative.

A LACK CAPOTE.

FOR CANOEING 1 .