Society Topics

Japanese lattice wood-work, in pattcrns of much ingenuity, is iinporting for use au short window biiuds. It is a curiou.s freak of' f'ashion that ladies wich almndant liair are now wiaring light wigs, ealled scalpctte, over their own hair, smoothly banded aoross the hoad. lt is cluiuied that tho scalpeite usod during the summer, preserves the hair, while udmjtting abunuant light and air. Fayal straw hatH are becouiinn popular, aüd it is surprising thcy have not bccome M) btfore. The straw niade in tho little islaud of' Fayal is charming in texture and tint, and as it is all ujade by the cuniiing hauds of the peasant wouian, it has a fiuish that machine-made strawoannot attain. A yellow Fayal straw, trimnied with yellow Languedoc lace for morning wear io the oouutry or at waturing places, iiuparts an air of distiuction to the wearer. The Albany Argus relates that two Vassar college girls were on their ay hotue over the Albany and Suhquehanna railroad the other day, "Marryland!" yolled the brakeuian, as the train pulled up at a statiou. 'Whatdidhe say?" asked one of the girls." "Marryland,' replied tho other. "Oh, let'a gefcout I ' exclaiiucd the first, with sudden interest. But thcy were too late. The train had starled. One of fushion's fancics now is to hang a vast DUtuber of fauey articles or chaina around the neck. It is said an eccentrie lady in London startled the guests at a reception by recently appcanng with what appeared to be the bkull of an inl'ant, pendant fiom her chatelaine. It turned uut to be that of her pet monkey proporly poüshed ai.d furnished with small crystal eye?. Auother lady of fashion wears a gold box, in which she has a stiiall powder puff and a little rice powder, also a sinall mirror. Oüe of her whims is to use these to arrango her complexion buforo folks. The fashionable ladies of Paris are also overwheluaing a young Italian artist with orders for Êoiuaii heads, which he carves exquisitely and wonderfully upon a cherry stone. This is the whim of the hour, and the seulptor reeeives eiiDrmou pnces for these tiny hcads, aud il is said no emerald is cobtlitr. Alden says that small women are charming, but that they are daogerous for wives, as their parasols are carried at a height which brings the end of the frames on a ievL-1 mui uie nusnanu s eves. Ibis careful observer remarks: "Few people have any idea of the auiount of eyes tliat are annually ruined by the partsofe of small wives. In the year 1879, it is esiimated that in the United Ststes alone two hundred and sixty eyes werc tutally put out, and teren hundred and uine were more or loss injured. No accurate table of the number of divoroes nroduced by the same cause has been niadu, but the fact that us .-.(lulo idea nt' the oxtcnt to which i,parasol, iu the hands of a wife objcclionably small, ruins the poaoe of' faoiiliea." We regret that no provisión was made in the late census for ascertaining definitely tho destruction to masculine opties occaaiuDci by, littlo women.