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Show Vy;. ( MAIDS OF AMERICA. Ad English View of Femali Character In This Country. The best and most intelligent American women have a great admiration for the English. They are envious to desperation of their full, mellow voices, their bodily vigor, fine complexions and repose of manner. man-ner. The American woman has no repose hence the rocking chair in which she works ofl the nervous enerjry which exhilarating climate stimulates to so intense a degree. She is never sleepy or dull, but longs for the reet-taking faculty which would give her a chance of building up her frail body and strengthening her nerves. The American woman is hospitable, generous, gen-erous, intelligent, vivacious and brave, but the lines which appear under the eyes and round the mouth ere she reaches 30 tell their own sad tale. What she needs to perfect per-fect and maintain her charms is the cold morning tub, less violet powder, more fresh air and out-of-door exercise, and the utter extermination of the horrid furnace, which placed in every cellar sends forth sirocco. ue masts oi air lnio every cnamoer in we house, and so converts tho modern American home, in point of temperature, into a conservatory con-servatory for forcing plants. London Queen. Notes by the Way. A handsome cloak for reception falls in a broad Watteau plait is made of black satin richly brocaded with metals in a flower de- i FADS AND FANCIES. The most recherche costumes for autumn wear are in "Gendarme" blue cloth, braided with black. A largo sunflower developed in yellow felt, brown vctvet and brcwi! ribbon, forms an attractive holder. The petal are cut of various sizes and plaited at one end to give the natural full effjet, ar.d they are sewed to a large circular foundation of cardboard. The ceuter is of the velvet decorated with stitches of various lengths. A strip of rib. ton fastened across the back to bold the brown, and at each side the suspension ribbon rib-bon is tacked, being prettily bowed where it Is tacked. The flower is oftentimes made of paper, but it ia more desirable made of cloth or felt. sign and Is finished with a flaring collar of black Mongolian fur. At the Palais de l'lndustrie the Old Salon has made way for an exhibition of art objects produced by women. There are canvases by old masters and groups of wax figures, as well as oil paintings and water colors by the women artists of Paris. Of the 11,000.000 women in Italy nearly 2,000,000 are employed in Industrial labor, and over 3,000,000 in agriculture. They are la the majority in the cotton, linen and Jute industries, and in the silk trade there are 117,000 women employed and but 17,700 rue a. Accordion-plaited 6kirts are seen on imported im-ported dresses of ladies' cloth and also such thin fabrics as crepe de Chine, gauze and silk muslins. A mephisto red cloth dress with a round accordion skirt has also an accordion-plaited waist, with a softly folded belt of velvet of the same shade. The jacket corsage prevails among the newly imported French dresses. They do not, as they did iu the summer, have a separate sepa-rate blouse, but the fitted lining is trimmed down the front to represent a vest and the waist proper, which represents a jacket, is placed permanently upon it. The summer blouse is to be superseded by waists of plaid silks which may be bad in gay Scotch tartans and also in more subdued French coloring. It is a popular mode to have the upper part of a guimpe and large bias sleeves of plaid, silk to till out a corselet corse-let of serge or some other material worn with a skirt of the same goods. A new and beautiful shade of violet called Aubepine is a deep reddish tint. It appears among the handsomest dress and coat velvets, vel-vets, in brocades, corded silks, silk and wool, fancy goods, carmelitcs and Henriettas. Another popula autumn tint is bois de rose, a shade between a light terra cotta and crushed strawbeny. At a recent formal breakfast the butter was served in a new and attractive way. On each individual silver butter plate rested a mall square block of ice. In the center of each block was chiseled out a round bole, and dropped in it was a golden ball of butter. but-ter. By bringing on two or three little rakes of ice through tho breakfast the butter but-ter was kept firm and cold. Long capes, below which the dress skirt hows only about a quarter of its depth, appear ap-pear to the best advantage on tall figures, but they will be assumed quite as often by women of short stature. A novel music receptacle maybe fashioned From au ordinary camp stool, which must be enameled and gilded and robbed of its canvas tat. This is replaced by two-thirds of a yard of Brussels carpet, with the wrong side up, nd lined with some delicate China silk, the overhanging enda of which are finished with brass ring's. Brass chains, fastened with gilt tacks, hold the rack In position, and big ribbon rib-bon bowls garnish the legs of this unique little stand. Some novel doilies have a foundation of fine white linen ; this is shaped as a voppy, for example, aud outlined, veined and shaded shad-ed with silk. Any flower can be represented, represent-ed, and the color chosen to suit the table decoration. A pretty novelty is the magnolia pin cushion. cush-ion. The petals are of tinsel; half of the number are turned upward and surround the center of the flower. This is of silk, with bow and corde for stamens, and this forms the pin cushion; the rest of the petals turn down and act as supports. The fleur-de-lis fancy has attacked vases. A beautiful jardiniere, standing two feet high, was a massive fleur-de-lis in the plain yellow glaze that is so much used for pots and flower holders. |