Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1894 — A BLACK AND WHITE GOWN. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

A BLACK AND WHITE GOWN.

Ts it were not So fashionable, black and white would be a appropriate combination for a gown for Memoiial Day. ’At any rate, it is pretty, and just such a gown will be worn in any case. This one is black and white striped silk, with a yoke of jet. A sash is knotted- at the side and hangs in long ends to the bottom of 4he skirt. The trimming at the bottom is folds of silk knotted at intervals of six or eight inchps. The hat is a wide white leghorn with black feathers.

At a recent meeting in England of the Liberal Federation of Women such startling things were told by women who had been investigating the need of municipal reform that their speeches were constantly interrupted by cries of shame upon those responsible for such a eondir Uori of "tliingsT Eady , Henry Somerset. in the course of a speech demanding the appointment of police matrons, said that, she had asked permission topass a night in a police station, but had been refused on the ground that the sights and sounds there were unfit for her to see and hear. Miss Belgarnie said that she knew of a woman being brought into a station in a state of absolute nudity, and that the inspector in charge was the first one to think of wrapping her in his coat. Equal need of women as factory inspectors was demonstrated. Lotta Crabtree will shortly proceed to her summer home at Mount Arlington. N. J. She calls the place \ttol TrySt, the first part of which is her own name,spelled backward. Jean Ingelow lives with her brother at Kensington. England. In the summer she spends much of her time in a beautiful conservatory. She only writes when the spirit moves her.

IN CREPE DE CHINE.