Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1894 — THE FAIR SEX. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE FAIR SEX.

Uncle Sam has 165 women ministers. There are 56,800 women farmers Mid planters in the United States. The Princess of Wales has sent a birthday gift in the form of a shil 1ing for every past birthday to Mrs, Sarah Thompson, aged 106 years, the eldest lady in Wales. During the reign of Louis XI the adies of the nobility prevailed on the King to issue an edict forbidding corsets to women of lower rank.

Young girls are frequently employed as porters in Switzerland, and imble nimbly as they carry travelers’ baggage up and down steep mountain paths. Al though Queen Victoria rules over an empire that embraces possessions in every part of the,world, she has never traveled outside of Europe, and even there her, trips have been short ones to France, Tlollaiid, Germany and Italy only.

between eace and sun. inter Ocean. Leghorn hats are perky affairs with their oddly bent and twisted brims, but their only new feature is an added edge of cut out lace about the brim on the under side. For trimming there is sometimes, beside a great bow of ribbon, a couple of upright feathers matching the ribbon which bend over the low crown. The ends of the feathers droop in the long-established Prince of Wales fashion. No woman need feel that she is out of fashion unless she adopts some form of east and west > trimmings, which are not at all becoming to many. The round shade hat shown is of black English straw and is trimmed with a big bow and upright loop of ribbon, together with two nodding ostrich plumes. The crown is very low, and is encircled by a prettily arranged ribbon while a finely plaited frill of black mousseline de soie entirely hangs over it in front and at the sides.

Not a bit less dainty than hats is that other means of shading the face -the parasol. Coaching parasols are made up in all the pretty wash goods and they cannot be told from silk. » and many of them cost more than did the last years’s silk one. It is not necessary that the parasol should' match the gown the rule being only that with a light gown alight parasol shall be carried. Parasols are no longer lined, but the material used is either double-face or is put on double. The ribs, which the lining "was used to cover, are now part of the prettiness of the article, being enameled to harmonize with cover. A charming effect, for instance, is shown in a dainty parasol of bluestriped swivel silk, the ribs and handle of the parasol being blue tc match.

CAPES. * New York Sun. Although there is nothing absolutely new in capes, fashions show no sign of growing weary of these convenient little garments, and,even though the feminine desire for something different cannot be gratified to. any extent, the models given show a little variation in style, which may s prove a useful hint to those w T ho build their own garments. Capes are not quite so full as they were, earlier in the season, and have gradually shortened as the weather has*

grown warmer. One of velvet is cut out in vandyke points, under which is a plaiting of jetted net. S»tin bows in The shoulders give it 8 very jaunty air. Another one, maeft of soft, thin silk, is pointed back anc front. The square yoke and collai are of moire, and onto the yoke is fulled tho silk, which in turn has i frill of embroidered chiffon. Wide jet,insertion edges the yoke. The coachman's cape, which in the winter was trimmed with fur, comes ir blue and green doth with bands o: white doth in place of the fur. A new corded black silk is used foi capes instead of moire.