Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 October 1892 — THE LADIES. A PRINCESS COWN [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE LADIES.

A PRINCESS COWN

Thereis nothing that looks much oooler than gray when the temperature is up among the nineties. Nor even white seems to hare such a desirable look. If the gray material happens to be a Chins silk, which skimmers slightly where it is gathered and folded, the effect is all the more pleasing.

A gown of this sort is illustrated here. The skirt is plain in front and has a demi train laid in box plaits at the waist. The bodice has no darts, but the fullness is drawn in folds to the waist, where there is a deep corselet of gray velvet. The collar is cut in one piece with the bodice and flares away from the neck slightly. In the middle of the front fastening is a little cluster of gathers, formed by putting the silk at the arms loosely over the lining. The sleeves are very high and full. From the waist almost to the foot of the skirt are two long, narrow bands of gray velvet, embroidered with silver. The sleeves are trimmed with a straight band of this and the corselet is embroidered in silver.

Another cool looking gown was made of reseda green cloth combined with brown. It was cut in princess shape and the front and sides were of the green. A narrow Vof brown silk with a ruche for a collar was inserted at the top of the bodice. The fastening was from the shoulder diagonally to the waist. From the waist to the foot of the skirt a jabot of ecru lace fell. In the back a plaiting of brown was inserted in the skirt. A thick ruche of the brown trimmed the foot of the skirt and the plain, green sleeves had a full over drapery of brown.

ANOTHER OOOI.ER LOOKING OOWN. Another gown which in color might have been designed for a dryad taking up the practices and garments of civilization, was of gray the color of mose lichens and moss green. The plain gray skirt was slightly trained and trimmed with a band of moss green silk. A pointed yoke of the gray, laid in fine plaits, was outlinod with a wide, flaring collar of the silk. The full sleeves were gathered into the a deep duff of the silk. The bodice was pointed both in the back and front and had deep basques on the sides, consisting of three rows of very slightly gathered gray.

♦wo Austrian ladies of high rank, the Princess Pauline Metternich ana the Countess of Kilmansegg recently had a quarrel of such seriousness over the arrangements of a coming exhibition that they settled the dispute by a duel. The contest was fought with rapiers. At the third round the Priaoess was slightly wounded on the nose and theCountea on the arm, when, acting upon the advice of their woman seconds, the two oombattants kissed and made up. The. Baroness Lubinska, a Polish woman who had studied medicine attended to their wounds. y; ‘ V,': ••} ", £ ’■ '■ j* ■ mh- Wjf The antipodean young man seems . l _ a _ a ; ; • . now triumphing in the possession of

—~ r - so many less ladies than men that the former are in -great demand and able to enjoy the feminine privilege of discrimination to their heart’s Content It is also quietly understood that thej eyes of the distinguished hostess are on the dancers, and that the young man remi» in his duties will be very apt to be missed at the next gathering. A still more summary proceeding has been instituted in Berlin by the Emperor, who has made it m a sense mandatory for the officers that crowd the court balls not only to dance but to dance well, by advising their superiors to have dancing lessons made a part of an officer’s military training. Having no such powerful allies among social leaders in this country, it might be well for our maidens to organize their forces after the fashion of the trades unions, and. sacrificing the pleasure of the few for the good of the many, heroically determine to stay at home until their value is raised to a less remote distance from par in the social market, and until the young men of the day learn what a privilege it is to take a turn with a pretty girl over a perfectly polished floor to the music of the best of orchestras.

A glimpse into the features of the London Alexandra Club of women would astonish ladies belonging to club life in America, and the dining room 6 and 8 o’clock p. nr., would shock some and surprise most of the prohibitionist supporters of the clubs here. To our women the club idea is a serious tbing. Our women organize their dubs for the purpose of mutually bearing the burdens and lessening the ills of for pure social enjoyment. According to Mrs. Livermore the club of the present is calculated to inspire a diviner ideal of national life than is presented by our splendid material civilization. At the club of the future “will question poverty, crime, disease, education, economics, religion, and all that pertains to society, with the aim of lessening the dreariness of life, enlarging its scope, and lifting its horizon.” A rather formidable undertaking to any one except the typical enthusiastic American woman. •

In an interesting list 01-cKsfes compiled by an English paper one reads of a man who was fined $7 and costs for stealing an old shirt, and 20 shillings for the third case of aggravated assault upon his wife ; of a man who was fined 20 shillings and costs for violent assault on a laborer’s wife, and of another who was fined $25 for stealing a pint and a Half of milk; of two men convicted of assault on a young girl flned $25 each, and of a> lad for throwing a cruet, which hit a porter at the workhouse on the nose, imprisoned for two months. All of which goes to show the admirable workings of legal machinery in Great Britain, and the comparative sanctity in the eyes of the law of a girl’s honor and a workhouse porter’s nose.

OSome of the married women of Berlin have formed themselves into a league for watching the morals of their husbands. A husband who may be discovered by one of the secret detectives in any marital delinquency is forthwith summoned before a feminine court. Should he fail to appear he is condemned with - out a hearing and sentence is pronounced. The penalties are of various kinds, pecuniary and otherwise, but the methods of their enforcement have not been made public. However, it would seem that the judges must suffer quite as much as their victims, for most good wives know that their peace of mind depends upon how much they can leave unknown of the best of husbands' failings, and that so undignified a system of espionage must involve more pain than satisfaction on both sides.

Philadelphia women physicians receive large incomes for their services, some averaging slo,oQQaye»r and others receiving $20,000 annually. Just at present there seems to be friction among them, and one of the most eminent women in the profession admitted that she would never think of calling in a woman doctor to aid her in a difficult case, for they would never agree in anything. Queen Victoria at Balmoral spends all the fresher hours of the morning on State business. A private telegraph wire connects Balmoral with Buckingham Palace, the work of whose operators is no sinecure. Every morning the 10 o’clock train conveys northward from Euston Square a Queen’s messenger with the accumulated correspondence of the morning post, who reaches the place of his destination lato at night. Early the next morning the Queen gets to work upon the papers, and at 2 o’clock the despatch box is repacked and the return messenger arrives at Euston sauare in time for' the next morning's delivery. Of course all princesses are beautiful, as all prinees are brave and handsome, by courtesy, but Princess Marie of Edinburg, the betrothed of Prince Ferdinand, is really a beautiful and clever girl, quite capable of holding her own, even in the troublesome little kingdom of Roumania, and already very much admired and beloved by the Queen of Roumanin, who so warmly espoused the cause of the English Princess's deposed rival. The Prince is tall and fair, and amiable in disposition, and very romantio. The delicate, Intellectual beauty of the talented Carmen Sylva has completely fascinated the young girl, and the wiseacres who predicted trouble between the impetuous Queen and her probable successor are disappointed. A t>ea water bath In our own homes has long been a common plaoe privilege, but now we are approaching a day when the Ingenuity of man will make possible that trinity of luxuries—the salt water, (he sea air, and the glorious sunburn after It, all within one’s own bathroom, for the new electric light bath browns the complexion of the bather while it invigorates bis system almost like

GRAT SILK AND SILVER.