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Show THE LADIES. It is rumored that Mme. Kistort will booq make another protest on il visit to America. Peach will be one of the fashionabl" oolors thia spring, especially for car' riage toilettes. There will bo do shabby, rag bag Dolly Vardens ncit summer, for which heaven be praised. Something new in lockets is a large Roman gold star, with a neat mono- ' gram in tho oentro. In Boston "girls" are aged from sixteen to twenty-two; "young ladies" range from thirty to thirty five. An Iowa widow who owns a coal mine has had an average of three offers of-fers of marriago per week since last fall. A Mrr. Shinn, living in an Illinois town, recently sued the authorities for a broken limb, and recovered two thousand dollars, all in shin-plasters. The Japan Gazette of February 22d mentions the marriage of a noble with tho daughter of a merchant as an evidenco of the growth of liberal ideas. tlifih combs, something after the Spanish stylo, "are all the rage." Those of jet or amber are most popular popu-lar among those who cin afford to buy them, Near Madison, N. C., a few days ago, a Degro woman 107 years old fell iuto the tiro and was burned to doath. It was tho only way she could get rid of herself. "Woman's sphere" is wideniog. Una ot the Chatham street (Jhcap John's in New York, hasjust engaged an Knglish girl us an auctioneer at $20 por week. An English female witness promptly denned courtship to be "Looking at each other, taking hold of each other's hands, and all that kind of things." Exactly so. There is the greatest rage for huge fans. All tho ladies who have lately been in Europo, or had friends there, use double or treble the size of those used in many years. A lady was lamenting at the theatre last week, and on boine questioned as to the cause, said : "It's too bad I I lost my husband last week, and now I havo lost my opera glass." There is no decided change yot in the arrangement of the modern bolle's hair, Bave she parts it on the sido and oovore her forehead with what our grandmammas called "spit curls." When a Chiocso gentleman wants to get married, he sends to tho paternal pater-nal head of some family having daughters, daugh-ters, for specimen of tho size of their feet, with prices attached, and makes his ohoioo accordingly. There is at least one unhappy man in Conncotiout. His wile, who has been dumb for twelve years, has just ! recovered her speech. Imagine the poor man's oondition when we say she is making up for lost time I A lady living at a hotel in Troy, allowed al-lowed her baby to lie around loose, and the result was that it got mixed up with a lot of dirty oiothes, and waB oarried off, unobserved, by the laundry maid of the establishment. When the loss was discovered, a diligent search was instituted, and eventually, after sorting over the contents of the laundry, the baby was discovered. "My dour Cenlln," Laura ci "tVliy not t tbiir.;h tu-uuyf" "Bccunao," tlio nioduat girl rupllos, "ily gurtora wuro too gay 1" "And why, I ask, dctvr Laura, why Iltivo you, too, miaocid tliu puwa (" " nciiusi'," iiijB Limni, in rujily, "1 liud no oporii shots 1" |