ABOUT WOMEN.

Evening Star, Issue 8718, 9 January 1892, Page 2 (Supplement)

ABOUT WOMEN.

Tiger-skin oloth is the greatest novelty. A princess dress, made by a London dressmaker, in a fine material of this pattern was cut closely to the figure. It was doublebreasted, and had deep pleats down the back of the bodice, fastening at the side, the wide revers trimmed with fur, and it had a yellow silk vest in front. Corselets and Swiss belts in every shape aad form greet the eye, some in gold tinsel, striped with narrow velvet or embroidered in amber (the newest jewel), coral, or turquoise looking especially lovely, while a black satin belt studded with tuiquoise or amber stones would be very effeotive. Black rice straws are veiled with black or tjjru lace, and trimmed with bunches of feathers or aigrettes a la Louis XVI. All kinds of lace are fashionable ; therefore Irish aud Venetian point and guipure laces, Valenciennes, Mechlin, Brussels, and a number of handsome imitation laces are employed for plastrons, chemisettes, jaoket fronts, full collarettes, eto. Waistcoats for wearing with woollen or cloth oostumes of one color are made of silk or satin, embroidered by hand, or broobe satin with a small flower pattern, the ground beiug always light and the flowers in the natural colors.

Satin rosettes are very fashiouable for hat trimmings, and we sometimes see as many as five rosettes of different shades on one hat.

Cord will bo much used by the dressI makers this autumn. A new combination of color ia grey and red coffee brown. Skirts <ire now made with and without foundations, and bio.cade is employed for the waistcoat. A smart style'is fpr the actual bodioe to end at the waist, and the brocaded waistcoat to fall some eight Inches below. Bodices with deep baiques are most generally worn, while those whioh are out short have a gathered frill of lace or material, or mor« often than not are finished with a deep passementerie drop-trimming, which really lends a baeque effect, Bonnets are still very small and 11 tt t some are a mere stiffened square of velvet, edged wjth passementerie or jpt; one corner rests on tiia Ivad ia front, and another is turned up at the back, viicro tfr° trimming of ribbon and feathers in aigrette form js placed. These bonnets are made in plain and shot velvet, and are stylish and uncommon ; but for ordinary wear thoro ia nothing better : than the blaok velvet oapote with trimming of jet and a knot or rosette of bright orangecolobed velvet. Q'ne of fcbd latest autumn novelties is a very distinguished ioojiing cashmere dress, intended for half • mburn}ri'if wear. _ The gloves and skirt qrp alike made of stripes of silver, grey faille, a«d transparent black gauze. The jacket bodice oi gr«,y faille is handsomely trimmed with applique black ' law ;n imitation of peasant corsage. The deeply outo*t nac]j js trimmed to match. Cornelia Sorabji, a tall, oIH'P ■ skinned Hindoo girl, lo a notable figure among the students at Oxford University. She is a remarkable scholar, and at the age of eighteen became the professor of literature at Bombay ; but she longed for an advanced i education, Her examination papers attracted considerable attention on account of their brilliancy. Her papers on Roman law, wrii'teri after' six months' study, were declared by ths examiners to bo the ablest ever written' at' trip university by any student of either seje. The yfcung lady wears a native dress, usually of pale blue orape, with gold embroidery, and an embroidered mantle over her shapely head.

Rudyard Kipling makes the statement that Lady Dufferin's work in India has done more, and promises more, in the solution of the troublesome lantern Empire problem than all masculine efforts %ud suggestions.

UNHAV'tV woijAN f

])c Arabella Kenealy contributes an article to the * Westminster Review' on the matri monial chancea of hsr sex, and the depressing effects produced on the manuero of the rising male generation by the superiority of choice possessed by marriageable men, because of tl;a fewness of the supply as compared with the largea.eag of the demand. Men desirous of marrying, and ablo financially to face its difficulties, are,' it appears, comparatively few, the lady aspirants to this blissful state are lamentably numerous. Superfluity of ohojee gives males an unjust advantage, and rnakog th#m disdainful. "The very bad manners which phajraoteriae the modern youth—hia easy familiarity, nonchalance, and ejangy style—spring mainly from a sense of masculine superiority, which is not all a result of personal excellence, but altogether an outcome of numerical value," Or Kenealy instances as proof the soene which often takes plaoe in a ball room where the b,o»to;jB has not nicely calculated her numbera,' and fjsd,9 herself with far more Jsdlfis than gentlemen on npp bongs. " The men, with few exceptions, deyiats &iore or less from fee pjth of manly courtesy. They lounge in the doorw«y3 ; chatting and assuming indifferent or superior airs, expressing in various ways their consciousness of the advantage at whjgb they find themselves. If unable to obtain a particular dance with one of the belles of the room, then, indeed, will they not dance at all, and they lounge about nonchalantly in the presence of nice girls, whoap young feet are eager to be going. All the possibilities of masculine ungraciousness are stimulated by tfeesp pjrcjjmstances, The girls, for their part, vie wltji another to be charming. All their prettiest airs are put out their flyeHesJ : l.Qpka assumed." Alas! instead of being appreciated, they are ungallantly received &s a debt due. This is a sad prospect. Unfortunately, the writer of the article offero little consolation, except patience and that charity which endureth all things.