FES ID
OUR PARIS LETTER.
The city is seemingly deserted, for
every one who can afford it has gone
either to the country or the sea-shore
to enjoy the pleasures of out-door life.
For some this 18 a life of quiet, calm |
repose; for others, on the contrary, it
* a repetition of rounds of galety,
excursions, baths, fetes, concerts and
dances, In order to make a good 1m-
pression, this class must have a very
large wardrobe, a thing not difficult to
obtain in the present day when ma-
terials are so cheap and the styles of
making cowns go simple.
L'oilettes ured for daily wear have
the skirts quite straight, shghtly tonch-
ing the ground in the back, with plain
bems and stitching, With this is worn
a long jacket to match, open on a
chemisette or guimpe of some sort.
The entire coquettishness of this dress
consists in the choice and composition
of these centre fronts,
Some are in surah or batiste, a sort
of small blouse quite short and con-
fined at the waist, by a leather belt;
others have a plastron of bright surah
with a long band of guipure. A satin
ribbon holds this band at the waist, and
a deep flounce of the same guipure de-
scends from the waist half way the
length of the skirt.
For young girls, we advise
plastron in or
surah, pleated and mounted on a large |
empiccement Irish guipure lined |
Some wear thisopen-work |
empiccement without a lining, but it |
shows v¢ ry bad taste. This lastron |
loses itself in the band of the skirt and |
is fi ( pretty belt, The |
belt may be ““Theodora” all
metal, or of velvet or ribbo
naments forming a sort of ial
the front, but the prettiest of is a
band of gold braid studded with little
colored stones. With a blue plastron |
these s'ones should be turquoises; with |
a pink one they should be rose, violet |
or amber color, |
Lf one prefers plain waistcoats, a long |
Jacket of gray beige would be desirable |
as it could we worn with different’
skirts. This jacket should be worn
half open (buttoned only at the top)
over a waist coat to match, A girdle of
leather embroidered with fine steel or
silver points holds the back of the
jacket at the waist line, passes through
i8 Oni
a sort of |
sky-blue
¥¢
rose color
Ol
with surah.
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a5 ii
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front and back of jet-ambroidered silk.
The cape straight flounce
fifty-three inel ng, gathered at the
upper edge, which should be ronnded,
and sewed to the plastron. The point-
ed front and back connected by a
belt, and *p this a flounce two yards
and threeduarters wide is joined for a
basque.
GAVE 18 B
are
axD Rue Tor-
Pougee trimmed with
is used this
{ model. The ost plain
with only a light fulness on the #
| ders; collar with pl jabot,
{trimmed with es to the bot
{ tom of the skirt in the back, while th
{ pointed nf extend only to
| the waist li: gar-
{ ment 18 nfined by a bel and #1
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Dusr Croix
BrTE.— No. 1124.
! ofa colored
EVFTION
Ince for
1 \
CICRK IS
lace, re at
o
ot
ie, 1¢ bac O he
| neck is f ‘ lar
| trimmed with
in the under arm seams
the waist coat in fro §,
ing the j cket fronts to hang loose.
fennis flannel 18 in and,
plain or ) wools,
ally gray, beige, marine-blne, white |
| rose. For daily street wear wools
mo tn fas foulards for home |
and batiste for
The wool gown |
ings made
and clasps
Ie i
open
re
ver 14]
great den
SO tly striped 0s- BACK VIEW
ie reception gown is of
cordurette, with appli
gue trimming of white eloth embroider-
with Sunede-colored silk and gold
beads. It is made in polongise form, with
a separate ders)
two yards and a half wide, three inches
longer at the back than at the front,
and 1s finished with a silk balave use;
a the dress material
inches deep 18 aronn
outer skirt is
with a band of
Wir,
Ray line
ed
fF OC2asiOons
2 tp 3 ne jacket to
round bodice,
bon in veivet
the mousseline
with insertions,
ciennes or mmitation
y are round and orna-
ribbons. Guilled
front a i
or these dressse; | cloth which
rm for a skirt is | and sides,
‘en pont” as sailors
pain space of about twelve
i ig left in the centre of the tront
the top of the skirt, and on each
is made a slash, A small strap
sse8 this top and is fastened at each
le with buttons; with this system
» is no need of an opening in the
back, the entrance being given by this
little ‘“‘pont” which is open. The
above toilettes are quite simple, de-
pending for their effect npon the col-
ored skirts worn with them, which
may be made with more or less elogance
as the wearer desires. :
As for little g their dresses are
decreasing in length, and their entire
tolleties show a greater increase of
taste in their general make np. The
waist still remsine under the arm
covered by a belt fastened under a
knot of ribbon or velvet; the trim-
cons st of Irish guipure as
flonnces or as yokes,
Lattle boys dontinte to be dressed in
the same stylo—the sailor-—and wdar
hats with broad rolling brims, A
novelty is to place the child's name on
the front of the hat, also on the silk
facing. A very sensible idea, for as
the hat is worn so far back on the head
with its brim rolled, the name can be
soen more plainly on the faced brim
than on the ribbon surrounding the
crown, Ferioe Lest,
Now 1123. Lace Wrap, This wrap
4# made of black lace flouncing twenty
inches deep, with a pointed plastron in
flounce of
trimmed
the white
extends
The
at the bottom
embroidered
across the front
simulated, pointed
|
aicle
iris
ris
{
FOR
FANCY WORK.
Never was there so great a demand
of all kinds
reat as is the suppl
be equal to
] eé who is connected
or arts, and indeed
things As at the
t day
r, and g
never
i YETY G1
¥
BHI. 4
presen
tha
1
is
ii + BT
novelties. iy clever
Copy 6 table-searf,
ete., but a fortune awaits the one who
the market supplied with
ine novelties which are vot copies
that have already been ex-
We do not propose to show
women all
fancy
1
merely to describe a few pretty
which may be new to many
thus perhaps stimulate them to
oD the suggestions given.
Costes for slipping over a dish of hot
and
inrger
cover.
and
up
in
the
Aare
with
shape, and a trifle
dish they are to
hickly wadded
Lhey 3
soft silk drawn
le flaps and is
the embroidery, the
revers being faced with the dress ma-
terial, : 3 end of the re vera lo
the skirt border the fronts are fastened
sll-shaj ed v y pear
tons; the buttons are sewed on the
side, and on the right edge is set a re
of imp, the loops of which serve
as button-loops; the gimp extends ap
right rever. Straight collar of the
embroidery and sleeves trimmed with
the same.
No, 1126. C«
1
A piastro
ww
gold g
sroMe cr Wirre Woon.
A deep border of bias blue and white
stripes surround bottom of the
skirt. The short, open jacket-bodice
has a vest of bine and white striped
wool, the long basqueof which extends
around the and back of the
odice, The revers and collar are!
lightly embroidered; the jrcket fronts
and sleeves are studded with pear] |
nds the
sides
as a handle. Hound the
stretched a band of em-
plash or velvet, which
tal as one may desire to
EOTVOR
i 8
broids red Can
be as « rusmen
make it.
Fau-bags are made of white
inc hes
througl
simple
COIOTE,
colo
gros grain ribbon three wi
which
centre
prefly
embroide ry is done, the bon shoul
be doubled and seamed together, an
finished the bow
Dack
be pinned to
18 embroidered
with some denne
contrasting
at top with a
the bag by which it may
L" :1t 18 a
very soft and pliable,
to use the year round
I'o make these, turn over the top ot
depth of five inches and trim it
h a fringe about eight inches deep,
just above this a pretty head
The fringe must be of linen
n threads, Across the foot shoan
8 band of embroidery
s inches broad, worked in
in colors which will harmonize
the cloth.
Few experiments have as yet been
made with crepe-like fabrics that are so
much used this season for dresses: but
there is no doubt that they would serve
admirably as a back ground for delicate
om broidery.
The erinkled nature the material
would no doubt prevent close and
thick needle-work from setting well
upon it, but trailing patterns followed
with outlining and fine gold thread,
and thickened here and there with
satin-stitch, or French knots, could not
fail to | @ successful. This fabric is so
soft that it would lend itself well to
draperies for easels or screens,
fabrie,
suitable
1
id
iv
of
CUSHION POR YERANDA OHAIR. &
Cosnion ror Veraxpa Crain,
loose threads on its surface, into which
a pattern is darned in long stitches
The work is easy and very effective
thread and darned, the flower in red
A band shown in the design b. is
No. 11127
No, 1127. Monxixa Jacxer. Our
pretty model is of blue-figured white
ecambrie, edged with a frill of blue and |
white embroidery. The collar is cov-
ered with embroidery and the full |
sleeves are finished with a frill of the
same. A pointed hall belt is fastened
at the under arm roams and buttoned
in the centre of the front,
Sofa Versus Broom Drill
Bello—« Can't yon go to the broom
drill this week, Carrie?”
Carrie—«No, I'm very much pressed
for time this week.”
Belle (maliciously)~Yes, and |
know what time it Is, too.”
Carrio—+ What do you mean?”
Belle = “The time that vou an
sin
n Free Press.
blne-gray cotton and gold cord.
I'he diagonal stripes, illustrated by
Figure a, are darned in olive and gold,
and blae and gold, with the small eross-
i
CHAIR,
Le
rnors
bought at ary
only of the
gether, so that it
off for the wash,
18s worked
cotton,
CAD
eh
' f
the cover
in red
and
are
strings of
fustened on
A Monument of the Past.
£ na
ii HEeness
19
neient Britains
MEER or sacred
d
urrounde
the
glones, The
a ditch fifty feet
vile
perpendicular, tw
and nearly four
tops of these were rt
ularly united ;
ond circle of forty IOS,
void of imposts
tions of two oval
ing. Within the
cell or adytun
& huge’
% & tructur i 3 ; » : if hua
tempie 18 » 5
ir-
thirty
height
On
outer «
stones,
feet
consisted of IXiy
in
the
y imposts, reg-
Wis & BEC
smaller and
wi this
here are
Wik k
many
fallen thea
ired and
sa———— ——
The American Beauty,
Beauty,
§ the most
rose in all the
little history of
| iw ihe
mt America
t hie { France and
nearly all
America but
uriously enon
ot the
Mace, it
new val of rr ti
given
the
this
gh,
resunit of
waiting to have
t¢ advent tl orid encoursged
: of hybridiza-
exponer of
found one
and color,
a scrubby
of a Wash-
inusual beauty
attention of
classification
was found
men, How it
been sscer
cross between
Itivati
MYALION.
tion, this it
Amneri
mornin
fil
all ©}
Hs was
form
on
¢ garden
Its 1
immediate
EXQUIsILEe IN SragTranoe,
i tle bush in ¢
ington gentieman
attracted
flower lovers,
Was attempie
ude the
was produ
tained. Se happy
the
but when
Varieiy
to in
Tv
:
never
two especiall adapted varieties, and
that cross the result of chance, prob-
ably originated this marvelous and per-
fect variety of the Loyal to on
American genius, it is emphatically
velf-made.
ya,
I cs mA ——
How Young Abe Lincoln Danced.
on of Quincy, Ii.,
was one of the bright voung
of Springfield, Abraham Li
WAR A
tells td
story, ch lieve has neve
been printed The bevy
bright to which Miss
Todd belonged ore her marriage to
Mr. Lincoln used to have a good deal
of sport at this young man's expense,
little party Mr. Lin-
coln approached Miss Todd and said
in his peculiar idiom:
“Miss Todd. I should like to dance
with you the worst way.”
The young lady accepted the inevit-
able and hobbled around room
with him. When Miss Todd had
turned to her one of
chievous companions said:
“Well, Mary, did he dance with vou
the worst way?”
“You,” she answered:
worst.”
Gen, Singlet
laws
when
vonuth there,
be
green
whi we
before.
vonng ladies
bef
(One evening at a
the
re-
Hilfe
sent. her
tithe very
nnn
A Millionaire's First Earnings
“] war six vears sid 1a
Stanford, “but 1 can
well, Two of my brothers and
self gathered a load of horse radish in
the garden, washed it clean-l thin
they made me do most of the sori
bing, for 1 was the voungesi-took it
to Schenectady and sold it. We ree
ceived six York shillings for the lot,
and of that I received two shillings.
1 felt very proud of that money you
may be sure.”
dese al —
It is compuied, in recently made s'a
tistics, that the giass-bottle product io -
of the world amonuts to a dui'y output
old.” land
remember 11
NY -
|
|
Kissing His Hobby.
A lively incident has occurred In the
hall specially set apart for: persong
who call ou the Deputies at the Paials
jourbon, save a Paris letter, While 8
party of ladies were waiting in the
hope of procuring from of the
linnt me tickeis of admission
ted attention
and staring
Suddenly
up to 8 good
1 catching
numbes
some
§ Hrs
by lounging ug
Hem
this individual
EE
out of
looking you
ney in nis
if Kisses 181 r face, “he ens
if from his
in his affec
the ushers,
the spot by
custody,
to the neerest poe
was living
I had
$e
fils
a“
deavored
grasp, but he
who had been
her screams,
£)
into
On being conic
lice station }
at Nogent-sur-Marne, and that
Paris in the lope
3: BRC he
4
that
afterwards as
i CON
asylum,
to the
ation.
peep
the Chamber,
certained ths
fined
hind been
for a vear in a lunatic
iirmary at the 3
‘re seems, ve
unlearned,
trious than
Ho means en
are few, th
ilans.are by
Their needs
ge lhe most
tive, their carts, cooking
ir ploughs, their ox yokes,
contrivances for spinning and
| weaving, their water jars—every thing
{ about them is as in the time of Christ.
| The native civilization here is like Pal-
00 years ago.— Credit Fone
{| prim ir
| utersils, the
tha
their
{ estine’s 2.C
gier,
li
Wants No Nonsense.
i Sherman is an « i
{ said to a friend of ours
was talking }
{ delay in 1
Hs
other day
Gen.
i who
iting uj
ment:
“That won't
own monument and paid
| thousand dollars for it. The minute
bu i ianped on ovef
the matter. i
with
rugged
won't be
rd.
! TY
ught m ent
m ed it wiil be
| me and
{ won't have
{ my monument,”
and fancy there
{ any either.—Tracde Mark
VATK
3
ena
any damn
I
concluded
rey
$ r 511
tint Will
h Jonsense
the
Hero, we
‘e Rec
a
He Grew Weary,
ung writer—«Have you read my
tl irrent number of the
leview, Misr
Yo
{ article in ie
onthly
| Penelope 77
{ Mis Penelope— No;
| 1s still in store for me.
| say, though, that he had
i Young Writer—«Did
{ that I treated my subject
{ haustive manner ?
| Miss Penelope— Yes, I believe he
did say something about being tired.
Exchange.
| ————————
! Paste Diamonds That Defy Tests,
{| The diamond trade is mnch interested
in the remsrkable artificial diamonds
{ which came into notice during the
Paris Exposition. So perfect are
| some of the imitations that they puze
zle dealers and experts, By the same
chemical analysis as applied to precious
stones, they are found to melt at only
a very high degree of heat, and, of
course, were exceedingly hard—in
fact, v0 hard thst they would scratch
and almost cut mirror glass.
that pleasure
I heard pape
reed it.”
he not think
in & very exe
— pts
Electric Lightning.
It is not yet ten years since the first
{ electric light put into daily nee in
{ New York city. Bat the figures which
was
represent the progress of cleetric lights
belief.
1,000 are
J incans
aliriact eta
Simos] stag
to
than 3.
& in ten years oer
n
said be
There are ip
lights and more
escent lamps now in use in the United
States, Electricians estimate the cost
f these, in dynamos, wires, franchises
with
indescent
and other « wnses connected
ine
light, mak-
in
tn)
‘ .
x1
at 820 per each
! their use, ]
lamp and 8200 for each an
investment of capital
his industry of at least 8 160.000
This refers «
which might
nly to electri ghis, to
appropristely be added
many millions more a8 represented in
various plants where electricity is used
for power to drive machinery or run
railway cars,
the United States
%
Electric lights in
3
led by four large
ompanies — the Thompson<Hounston
representing a system of are lgbis aad
incandescent lamps wi “alternating
the Brash Light
The
nis and interests which they
sarrents vmpany
and the Edison, +. with pat
control,
an ins
lustry which is only in iz infancy and
in-
vested capital of something like 8200,-
00,000, when buildings, dynamos and
all kinds of manufacturing wachinery
are taken into scoount,
an agaregale
—
New York has a Sccond-hand Clothe
i