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WALK I N G
DRESSES.
The basque o r
jacket and the
trimmed skirt is
still muoh worn and
affords a variation
of the short princess
dress. A novelty
lias been in t r o .
duced in the shape
of a skirt that can
be worn ss a short,
walking Bkirt or as
a train, as it is re
quired. It is called
the Transformation
Skirt. The design
er has patented the
pattern and the
elite are in a flutter
of expectation over
tho advent which is
promised for the
coming m >ntb?
Onr New York
fashion correspon
dent says of this
novel skirt, “that
one of its beautit s
are that it saves tx-
tra dress, showing
the graceful flow
ing that holds this
portion at all times,
does not fall into
the wash-like,shape,
nor does it turn
over and show the
facings as all other
train skirts do.
Then by a very
simple arrange
ment of hooks and
eyes, it is trans
formed into a neat,
rich walking skirt
or street costume,
with some of the or
dinary train dreis
altered into a walk
ing dress.
A skirt like this is
a savirg of one or
two extra costumes,
and as the holding
up of a long skirt
is very uncomforta
ble and unbecom
ing, the value of
this will be appreciated
Fun.
THEANA BASQU E.—(Fbom Demobet foe Febbuaby.
tnis w.n UB The front view of the “Tbana" basque, made in moss-green silk, with
the vest revers collar, and trimmings on the sleeves, and back, made the plush a shade lighter.
Linqerie of Mechlin lace, necktie of rose-colored satin ribon, combined with frappe velvet, dark
oreen and cold. Bow to match in the hair. Another view of this design is illustrated else-
green and gold. _ _ .
where. Prince of pattern, twenty-five ceDts each siz *,
Society Gossip.
Silver embroidery mingled with obenille is
used on some bridal dresses.
Egyptian tissues in red, black and gold
threads are shown for evening dress.
At Deadwood, Black Hills, the wedding feast
consisted of fried liver and ice cream.
Dominoes of white muslin are worn over
handsome evening dresses at masquerades.
Silks with fine stripes strewn with small
flowers are in preparation for Summet'WlfaT.''*"
Pampas grasses placed in Japanese vases are
employed for drawing room dtcoration.
That was a good reply the young fellow made
at a weddig party the other night, as he was
assisting the ladies to remove their wraps, being
asked it he ‘was ready with his ring,* said, ‘Oh,
yes, I‘m peeling the belles now.‘
The Japanese ladies paint their cheeks, but
the artrcle they use for the purpose when fiist
put on is green ; exposure to the air, however,
scon turns it to a sea-shell pink.
A Boston clergyman has a regular contract to
go to Washington once a year, to perform a j
marriage in a certain large family of which one |
of the daughfeis married Senator Conger's son j
the other day. >
Atlanta will have an elegant Valentine party ;
at the Governor's Mansion, given under the j
auep icts cl a scciety composed of a number of
the prettiest and most cultured young ladies ,ol j
the city.
Miss Rosetta Weilman, one of the handsomest j
and best accomplished Jewish ladies of New j
Orleans was married last week at the residence I
of her parents on St. Charles Street. The Bride- f
groom is a member of the Aim of Dashiemer &, •
Co., of New Orleans.
Garzes embroidered in chenille and gold ,
thread are almost as valuable as lace. Gray j
tulle worked with Ecarlet mountain ash berries
and silver leaves, and frosted gauze worked in i
floss, are some of the diaphanous materials U6td i
l>y the drets-makeis. Net underskirts are worn
wiih these gowns, and they are diaped by gai- ;
lands of roses.
A week since, another of Belton's fair daughters, !
was observed, making a silk dress wLich she j
vowed was lor a friend, and when the dre.-«s was j
finished she took it to the residence of the
.ather of ‘her beloved* at which place she called
‘wo days after and was united in holy wedlock.
An Italian princess who is about to be mar- j
ried Las bad ber trousseau made in Paris. In.
order to let htr know how to wear her dresses
and what to wear under them, the dressmaker j
has sent with each toilet a little doll attired
irom head to loot exactly as the lady bet sell
should be dressed, shoes, btockings, skirts,
headdress, gloves, and every detail being re
produced in the costume of the doll.
Since the Christmas holidays, a Dr. of Belli n
Tex., verging “the middle time of life,” called
on a lady, to whom he had paid his attentions
for over twelve months, to take a ride which
terminated in iheir marriage an hour later at bis
brother-in-law‘s-Julius Tobler—French capi
talist of Belton. A. J. P. tfficialing.
One of the most eloquent ministers of N. W. j
Texas, Pastor on this station during tho past
year, left us, Delore Christmas as rumor said, j
to leturn soon with his bride—“but for ways 1
that are curious men excel,“for the next night
alter his return from Mo.,now three weeks ago,in
the presence of a large audience he knelt at the j
hymenial alter “with one who is to divide his
cares and double his joys. “
Dr. A. L. Hamilton President of Andrew Ft- j
male College, and Miss Eudora Moore of Daw
son were married on the Gth hast. ,in the College
Chapel at Cutbbert. The ceremony was wit
nessed by a large concourse of friends. A
pleasant leature of the occasion was the presen
tation of a handsome silver servioe to the wedded
pair on the part of the students and Faculty of
the College- The presentation was made
through Prof. Beardslee and the Doctor re
sponded in his usual happy manner.
Married, In the Baptist Church at Forest
City Arkansas, on January 28th, by Rev. Jas.
Shackelford D. D. Jno. W. Court and Miss
Agnes Izard, both of Forest City.
A life without depth of feeling, like one that
is superficial in thought may be irreproachable
and pleasant.
Evening dri sses are belted by cords ending
in a serpent's head and tail.
Knife pleating etill keeps its place on the
edges of skirts.
Washington ladies are greatly annoyed by
uninvited guests. The custom of the city re
quires all calls to be returned, and no lady dares
to negle t any one who has visited her tor fear
of what may happen in consequence.
About two mouths ago, a beautiful and re
ticent maiden fair, of gentle mein and queenly
grace, with but one day's premonition to the
| town was wedded to one of ov -Western Eiitcra-
| of San AntoDio and left the gallant and caival-
| rone yonDg lords of Belton Texas, to grieve
ever vain hopes.
A young man in Nebraska sent an offer of mar
riage to a girl whom he fancied, and in reply
received thiB telegram: Come on with your
minister. ‘
A matter-of-fact man was told by his doctor to
put a cheok on bis stomach if he wished to live
long and be h^ppy. He went immediately to
bis tailor, who filled the prescription by mak
ing a plaid vest.
Tubning it off.—Sprightly yonDg lady: ‘1
am afraid I have a very large foot.’ Polite shop
man: 'Large, Miss! Oh, dear, no, Miss! We
have lots of gent—that is, customers, with muoh
larger, Miss!’
Everybody thought it was a match, and so did
he, and so did she; but last evening, at a cro
quet party, she hit her pet corn a whack with
the mallet, and he—he laughed. ‘We meet as
strangers,’she wrote on her cuff and showed it
to him. ‘Think of me no more,’ ho whispered
hnskily.
Mrs. Partington Bays the only way to prevent
steamboat explosions is to make engineers ‘bile’
the water on shore. In her opinion all the ‘bus
tin’ is done by ‘cookin' the steam on board.
•Yon oughtn’t to drink,’ says a friend. ‘See
how it makes you stagger when yon try to walk,
‘it aint.’says the wretch, ‘I cssent try to walk
thsz wsz matte;.’
A romantio youDg man says tl at a young
woman’s heart is like the moon—it changes con
tinually, but always has a man in it.
Man wants but little here below, but woman
wants every thing she sees her neighbor have—
excepting her youngest baby.
A girl of sixbFCD in a new sealskin sacqne,
twenty-button kid gloves, a fashionable ‘half-
mast bonnet, and Scrubby Sky e terrier attached
to her sinister band by a yard and a half of blue
lihbon, considers herseit the greatist show on
earth.
I would az soon think of pulling the feather
out ov a peakok's tale az to interfere with thes
innosent vanity cv a man.
Almost enny pbool kan prove that the Bible
ain't true; it takes a wise man to beleave it.
It iz a wize man who proflits bi hiz own expe
rience—but it iz a good deal wizer one who Ibis
the rattlesnake bite the other phellow.
YuDg man, sit down, and keep still; yu will
hav plenty ov chances yet to make a phool of
yurself before yu die.
There is at least one cake that the small boy
will willingly lit pass—the cake of soap.
Take all the p’aools out of this world, and
thare wouldn't be enny phun nor proflit living
in it.
Married life iz a little game in which the wo
man, if she iz called, iz almost sure to have a
strate flush.
With all thy false, I love thee still,’ murm
ured a young man as he calmly handed his girl
the aitiflcial teeth that she had sneezed into his
lap.
We learn from a ootemporary that ‘John Bur
roughs has been writing on the cow, in Scrib
ner s for November.’ There is no law to pre
vent John from writing on a cow, but it does
seem as if he could do better work if he should
dismount and do his writing like the rest of us
on a desk.
Please draw upon the blackboard an interro
gation point,’ said a teacher to one of her pu
pils.
‘Cant n^abe aj good ope,’ replied *the boy.
Draws b-.j teacher; ‘that
will answe.. The - . .je crayon and drew
a bail-pin. Sharp rebuke by the teacher. Other
scholars smile.
RECEPTION
TO I L E T.
Som6of the most
beautiful reception
dresses are enriched
with embroideries
done by hand in
silk sometimes
brightened with
gold and silver
threads. The trains
are not so long as
they were a short
time ago and are
gracefully rounded
and trimmed with
i arrow pleating. A
close, three-siamed
basque with postil
lions finished with
r9vers and with the
double front by a
rquare-t rimmed
section which falls
gracefully over the
crinkled iablier,he\d
in place in the cen
tre by three long
double looped bows
with flowing ends.
The centre back
width is twice the
length of the others
and is caught at the
seams and held in
puffs of graceful
fnlluegs, supple
mented by a fan
shaped demi-train
similarly ornament
ed. Another favor
ite basque is the
Theana. Stylish
and becoming, this
basque is tight fit-
ting, with a vest in
_ front that is fitted
usual nnm-
r _T >. -- --- ' ber °f darts, and
outer fronts also fit-
11/1 ■ _■ ted with two darts
’ n eac ^ side. The
. onter fronts are
'.. -tltsed at the waist
- ~ ^ ^ hue by a short belt
fastened by two
RECEPTION TOILET .— (Fkom Demobest fob Fhbruary.) There areside gores
, ., . . ,, ~~ p ■ under the arms,
and side forms in the back jounded to the armholes. A large falling collir, and long tabs in the
back add greatly to the general stylish effect. This costume as represented in our engraving is
an especially stylish toilet, made in prune-colored silk and frappe velvet of the same color The
“Evadne’ demi-train h.s two broad revers at each side of the velvet, the remainder being made
of the silk, the bottom finished with two very flDe plaitiDgs of silk, the drapery for the back
and the broad sash on the front, edged with garnet fringe made of silk chenille The “Theana’’
basque has the vtst. revers on the front, oollar bands on the sltevts, and the deep bands on the
back made of the frappe velvet. r
‘What,’ said an inquisitive young lady, is the
most popular color for a bride?' We may be a
little particular in snoh matters, bat we should
prefer a white one.
‘Why are you looking at me so intently,Alioe?’
said Theodore. ‘I was gazing at vacancy,’ re
plied Alice, dreamily; and yet there is a twinkle
about her mouth that shows her appraisement
oftheypung rpan^
An observing man has discovered a s S.’T'-ar-
ity between a young ladies’ seminary and a
sugar factory, as both refine what is already
sweet.
‘Somebody’s Coming When the Dewdrops
fall, is said to be a very beautiful song. ‘Some
body's Coming When the Note Falls Dae,’ is
not so enchanting.
Onr words to men go the fartherest and effect
the most when they tremble under the weight
of tears, or are shot out of hsarts in which burn
th© twin fires of profound freliocr.
‘You must never slip the ring on her finger
boys, till you slip around early some morning
and ss* how nature triumphs over art—when
you give nature a fair chanoe, and when her
beat fellow ain t round. You wouldn't recog
nize her without an introduction, and from the
looks of her wardrobe you‘d take her for the
hired girl or a yellow fever sufferer. Bui just
let the bell ring, er a vision of a pair of coat
tails flop around the oorner, and the way she
paces off the distance between the buttery door
and a comb and brush would make a carrier-
pigeon tear his hair with envy“
Answers to Correspondents.
i„¥i Ar v E ‘T h, l wa ® Christopher North, and what
lb the >*octes Ambrosianae?”
“Christopher North was the pen-rame of John
W llson who was the soul of “Blackwood Magazine”
nitj years ago. He was a charming essaye^t* a
spirited versitier, (“The City of the plague” being
^ poem), ami an admirable sketch writer.
Ike Aoctes Ambrosianae are a series of papers
that appeared in Blackwood-purporting to be the
con\ ersations, taken down by a short-hand report—
er in a closet, ot a club composed of the leading
spirits of t hat magazine. The principal interlocu-
bitteiTj
personal and suggestively “broad.
L. R. C. says: Will you tell me the origin of the
recaU & u ,f unlary ? 1 have beard but cannot now
It comes from the Intin word pecus (cattle) and
If*rs tn thf* eiiwt.mi iioro I,,.. i 1
com—copper was the metal currency and a pounds
weight ol it was stamped with the cattle mark, in
Ragland too even as late as Him;, t lie currency was
of two kinds “live’, and “dead,” the live referring to
cattle and slaves, as a medium of exchange and the
dead to other metals.
VISITING TOILETS (Fioxt Demo best fob Febeuabt,
Fig. 1.—SatiB-finished ijros grain of a seal brown color, and pekin of tho Bam* color, velvet and satin stripes, are used in combination to make
this stylish toilet. The designs used aro the short walking skirt, and the “Lucinde” polonaise. The skirt is bordered with plaited flounce,
trimmed with a band of the pekin ; and the polonaise is made of the silk, with the vest, oollar, and tops of the sleeves made of the pekin, and a
band to match finishing the edge. The costume is completed by a lpng sealskin sacque, lined with satin. Bonnet of brown velvet trimmed with
brown satin r bbon striped with gold, the edge finished with a gold and chenille oord,' and the left side ornamented with a fancy breaBt. Skirt
pattern, thirty ceDts each size. Pattern of polonaise, thirty cents each size.
Fig. 2.—Toilet make in black silk, satin and velvet. The “Favorita,” demi-tram has the foundation of velvet, the front' and sides trimmed
by sashes of silk and satin, the drapery on the back of silk with bows of velvet an Ij satin, and edged with a fringe. The “Vincentia” cloak
is made of blaok satin, trimmed with a deep, rich fringe, intermixed with jet. A jhandsome plague of velvet and jetjpassementerie down the back,
and large brandeb ourgs on the front. Bonnet of blaok velvet, trimmed with a profusion of oat jet, andostrioh tips. Skirt patteren, thirty
0 tnta. Fa ttern of dock, thirty cents eaoh size.
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