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Show FEMININEFANCIES. Padding the hips 1 carried to ridiculous extremes. Instead of enhancing the beauty of the "female form divine" It makes women look deformed. That absurd fashion of wearing small watches on a bar fastened to the breast has about had ita day among unostentatious women. Rhinestones appear in the new bonnets, and garnets, too. This will carry out the idea that women have jewelry on the brain. Novelties in fashion promise to be as j numerous tbrouch the winter as quills on the person of an infuriated porcupine. If what the furriers are saying is reliable the probabilities are that sealskin will soon be worth ita weight in bank notes. It is noted that the number of young women of the chic variety who carry canes is increasing. The crown of the new bonnet is not large or heavy enough to make the head that wears it uneasy. Present fashions appeal to women's vanity more than ever, and cause many a one to "lace herself to death." When the weather is cool and bracin? the young men and women of the period abandon aban-don tennis. Gold bracelets are coming into vogue again after an absence of a number of years . Long cloth coats, cut like men's frocks, and lined with fur, are to be one of the styles. |
