Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 January 1895 — THE FAIR SEX. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE FAIR SEX.

DECORATIVE KNICKKNACKS. The Queen. Lace and Veil Sachet. Scented ivory satin, painted or embroidered, and edged with chenile cord. Lining

in pale blue silk. Bows in ombre ribbon. Fan-shaped drapery and rosette in ecru oriental lace. No. 2. Hanging Plaque.—Painted medallion, adorned with trail

of flowers, fly bows, and suspenders in ribbon in the two prevailing shades of the landscape. ' No. 3. Opera Bag.—Heliotrope plush, lined with pinkish mauve, and partly veiled with applique work in cream satin, painted or embroid-

pr.ed, and outlined with silver cord. Full frill of margot lace. Holders of mixed cord. Given as a Christmas present, filled with sweetmeats. The royal baron of beef for the! Queen’s Christmas dinner party was cut from a fine West Highland bullock bred and fed in Windsor Park. The baron was roasted at the great kitchen fire in Windsor Castle, and when cold it was sent to Osborne, where, with the boar’s head and the game pie, it adorns the royal sideboard. A baron of beef is the double or undivided sirloin. In the culinary peerage, so to speak, it takes precedence of the sirloin, which is, only a plain knight, fanciful etymology "relating that an English king, pleased with the excellence of his beef, struck it with his sword and said: “Sir Loin thou art.”

A prude in Provincetown, Cape Cod, has a flock of eleven chickens. For one of the roosters she made a pair of trouserettes, with frilled bottoms. The bird appears to think he is in disgrace, because he stands by the hour with his head bent forward dejectedly at his covered legs. He has not been heard to crow since he Was clothed. Mrs. Humphrey Ward, we are told, will soon visit this country. She is boming with her husband, who proposes to lecture hare on art and irtistii.

1. LACE AND VEIL SACHER.

2. HANGING PLAQUE, OR TAMBOURINE.

3. OPERA BAG.

THE CZARRINA IN HER BRIDAL ROBES.