Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 September 1879 — FOR THE LADIES. [ARTICLE]

FOR THE LADIES.

It is feud that short bridal- dresses with court twains are to be the style this winter. Marigolds are making the florists’ windows in New York look like a blaze of light. y: A fashion authority announces that small quilted mantles ait t supersede long coats and large wraps. One of.the new colors tnis season is called “Amaranth.” It is a dark, handsome red with purple shades. A small gold-lamp, which will burn twenty minutes, is the latest charm for a lady’s or gentleman’s watch chain. Wedding cards are scattered here, there and everywhere. The matrirnoneal outlook is remarkably brilliant. Mrs. Lydia Maria Child, the authoress and anti-slavery agitator, is now 77 years old, and lives at her home in Wayland, Mass. Palm leaves are seen in some of the new dress materials, and are so pretty that one wonders that they were ever alio wed to be tabooed. Ribbon bows will be worn on dresses this winter in even greater numbers than during the last season or two; and ribbon belts will continue in fashion. Changeable silks are combined with flowered muslin delaine and with cashmere patterned foulard by French dressmakers, and are made into tunics to be worn with dresses of cambric or muslin.

A coming novelty is the rose-petal underskirt. It is composed of overlapping scallops of pink foulard or flhik flannel bound with silk. These scallops are arranged in rows from the lower edge to the waist. , Velvets are going to be in great demand, not only as trimmings for poplins and silk costumes, but ns If- suits proper, and will be in turn gal lured with plain or brocaded siks, or l <e new figured and embossed which come in new designs and in all the lashionable colors, Langtry, the professional “beautifuleet woman” of England, is not, it appears, a silent beauty. An American who met her at a ball writes of her that she was “greatly interested in this country, very simple and gentle in her manner, with no affectation.” Among her capacities is that of doing her own millinery. The strange, original and becoming hat which Abe wore at the French fete was made by herself. It was constructed, from her grandmother’s finest, softest old Leghorn straw. The brim was flat and brbad and faced with Jark violet satin, with a wreath of flowers across the top: it just touched upon the back of her head. The crown was the original crown cut down to an inch. The principal stroke of originalty was a careless looking dent on one side, where it was Joined to the brim. A tuft of cornflowers was carelessly thrown, as it were, on the other side. It suited her style, and both were picturesque. i _ The poetofflee at Butler was entered b y a burglar a few nights sinoe. An officer saw him and flred through the window, striking him in the abdomen. He made his escape nevertheless.