Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 January 1894 — THE FAIR SEX. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE FAIR SEX.

CHINA DECORATIONS. An attractive design is carried out in greens, with pale yellow for the flowers, and the scalloped border in ' duck green, to which a little mixing yellow may be added to make the color warmer. Use the same at the base of the cup and around the center of the saucer.

On the broad, curving leaves use moss green, becoming paler at the tips. Line off the markings on the leaves with duck green. For the dotted work on the cup and saucer use moss green, leaving the white of the china for background. Use moss green for the same color and a tittle duck green added to deepen it. For the flowers use jonquil yellow, putting one on a pale wash. Line the markings with the outline color used on the stems. Use duck green for the border lines and handle of the cup. To secure a deep color put the green on in two washes. Allow the first to thoroughly dry before adding the seconds --These directions and designs were given recently by the Art Interchange. At Worth’s famous dress-making establishment the weekly average of work turned out is 200 gowns and 150 cloaks. Usually a week is required to make a dress, but it can be accomplished in a day if necessary. The numerous fitting rooms are designated each by the color or tint of its furnishings. The hereditary throat trouble that is fast reducing the Princess of Wales to the stone-deaf condition of her mother, the Queen of Denmark, has also made its appearance in the third generation. The Princess Maud of Wales has a tendency to weakness of the throat, which, it is feared, will impair her hearing also. Queen Victoria has a unique collection of political papers which is preserved in the private library at Buckingham Palace. THE BANG CALLED IN. One of the most noticeable changes in fashion this season is that which affects the dressing of the hair. The “fringe” has been gradually giving place to softly waved bandeaux, and the bandeaux are creeping graaj ually lower down, until the return seems imminent to the puffed and waved bandeaux to be seen in the portraits of Jenny Lind taken along in the 'sos. To voung and delicate faces the style has an agreeable piquancy and quaintness, but to

women past their first youth or with strong coarse features the bang has a softeing effect much to be desired. Another style now gaining favor, and one becoming to round faces with low foreheads, is that of turning the hair back from the forehead loosely in a twist that is lost in the light coils and puffs arranged in the middle of the forehead. In this style of coiffure the front hair is parted off on either side and twisted in the old fashioned way into two rolls. • —— • In 1789 a London journal announced the marriage of Sir Thomas Leigh to Miss Wade, and added: “She is the.daughter of Mr. Wade, the medical man, who cured Sir Thomas'of a mortification in his toes. A New York woman in her bill for divorce alleges that her husband won $4,000 playing poker one night, and gave her only $lO of it. \ Princess Beatrice is said to be an amateur actress of exceptional ability. The most noted shot among English women is Lady Eva Quin, wife <>f Capt- Wyndham, heir presumptive ti the Earl of Dunraven. She has killed six full-grown tigers from the frail shelter of a howdah. The Duchess of Cleveland is so enthusiastic a botanist that she has gone to South Africa to add new specimens to her already fine collection of trees and plants.