Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 November 1879 — FOR THE LADIES [ARTICLE]

FOR THE LADIES

Tigerskin muffs are a recent novelty. The new greenish-blue is known m Juponals. Walking dresses are short enough to show the shoes. Fichus will be more worn this winter than ever before. Hie hair is generally worn low, whether it is becoming or not. Fancy feathers are the leading feature in bonnet trimmings. Mrs. Harriet E. Stanton promises to excel her mother in oratory. Bits of tinsel, jet and many jet beads are added to feather ornaments. The latest contrast Jn suits imported from Paris is that of brown and green. New muffs to match costumes are in reticule shape, trimmed with laoe or fringe. The new amaranth red has a purplish tinge which makes it beooming to blondes. Bridesmaids at English weddings carry baskets of flowers instead of bouquets. More than twenty uew books by women'are announced lor immediate publication. T The broad belts now in favor Indicate a return to the short Waists oi twenty years ago. Miss Aoue Whitney’s model tor a statute of Samuel Adams has been accepted by the ciiy of Boston. She will receive SI,BOO for it. Miss Ada Cavendish, the actress, Is said to have originated the female fashion Of wearing a bunch of field daisies in the waistband. A lady dentist in Berlin has charge of the teeth of the children of the Crown Prince and a nuinner of lady physicians rank high in European circles. r," *

Overskirts grow in popularity, and they incline perceptibly toward the panier effects. The disposal of the trimming is a matter of individual taste. Flush jackets of various shapes are to be worn with street suits during the winter. The trimming on the hat or bonnet will be of the same material and color. Neck ruchings cf lace have four rows, sewed to a narrow j&nd or a row of narrow lace insertion. Two Diallings stand around the neck, and two fall outside the dress. New house sacks are made of pale blue, cream or white cloth of smooth surface, and are trimmed with a row of wide galloon in the richest Oriental colors and designs. « •: Bourette goods, which were so fashionable last season, are old style now. The demand is for goods with smooth surfaces, no matter how veriegated the coioriugs may be. New jet buttons for- coats of satin or velvet are of smooth, polished jet the size of a silver half dollar, and are sewed on through two gold-rimmed eyes that ornament the center. The Queen of the Belgians will present to the future Queen of Spain a wedding veil of Flemish lace of the choicest workmanship, which is being inade at the Girl’s Orphanage at Ghent. Invisible plaids and half-inch even checks in dark colors and black are popular materials for school dresses. Black and whita shepherd’s plaid merino goods are also used for the same purpose. The Genoa velvets, the designs o which are like the finest will be the most costly of the materials designed for the winter. This velvet comes in changeable tints as well as in solid colors. - Some of the imported French wraps are long, loqse with a dolman cape superimposed and trimmed with richest fringes, passementeries, cloak ornaments, and buttons and cords, beaded with cut jet. , Panier effects are still admired upon basques, and these are either included with the design itself being formed by extending the side bodies, or else they are supplementary pieces whiqh are placed under the pointed front, and carried over thwhips in plaits or folds.

Black cashmere costumes for common wear will be trimmed with colored cashmere this winter, or else with* black embroidery in open work designs. The trimming appears on the polonaise, and the underskirt is composed of cashmere only. Frosted flowers are eoming tnto fashion for evening dresses. An easy way of frosting those which have lost their treshness is to touch them lightly with white of egg, and then scatter frosting powder, which is merely powdered glass, over them. An English School Board has expelled an eight-year-old pupil who came to school with ornamental beads in her ears, and a Philadelphia private school teacher has refused to readmit a girl who has been playing in the juvenile Pifore Company during the summer. The principal trouble with the majority of goods and patterns lies in the fact that they are easily imitated In cheaper and more salable materials. As soon as a cloth becomes common it > looses its style, for it is no longer novel, and then women who call themselves fashionable ignore it.