Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1866-12-16
TIE FASHIONS.

I Paris g@,l pohdeuce n 4 Herald. Dee lltH.
Fashion has been very erudite this week
she has been studying astronomy and
learning some very hard names in all the
| European newspapers. On the day the En-
press left 81. Cloud for Compiegne great
signs were seen in the heavens nothing
lessthah highto Of erolites, which staFtling
! phenomenon gave rise TO what l am sure
must be some very fine writing, and even
the authors themselves united IN calling
aggregation Of atoms an inexphcAble
N.Y. terry.
Meteors and court ladies are closely con-
nected by a long sweep Of trains whick |
! will follow to the Imperial Theatre at
Compiesne where Scribe's PeTTe gEaU
was this week PLAYED. On these OCCASIONS
etiquette is somewhat strictly observed, and
the following area few Of the regulations.
! All guests and honorary members of the
! household assemble in boxes of the tasteful
theatre at the Chateau some time before
/ the Emperor, Empress and suite make
| their appearance. Conversation As carried
on in low voice from stall TO stall and the
house looks much like a drawing room in,
which the eliteOf France and the elite of bare
shoulders literally glitter under the cite Of,
| Jewels and diamonds There is slight
hush when the Princes of the family and
other distinguished mobiles appear in the
Emperors box.
They wear blue coats, gilt buttons, short
leggings, silk stockings and buokeledshoes.
When they are seated great silence en-
sues which is not broken until an official
announces 7 fEmperenrl ayI- u esd
The Emperor then appears in blue coat
and gilt buttons, he alone wears the order
of the Legion a Honneur en- sautoir under
his Waistcoat. He gives his arm 10 the
Empress who smiles as if she meant to en-
10y every ones pleasure and her own in the
bargain. When they are seated the Cur
tain is drawn up and the performance be-
gins.
must not forget to say that two very
grand lords Of the land have to stand be-
hind the Emperor and the Empress from
the beginning of the entertainment 10 the
end. when, dare say, they wish il were
in the power Of great lords to change legs.
The audience never applauds before the
Emperor has given the signal. Between
the acts the Empress retires to a small
drawing room, while, ices, sherberts and
refreshments are carried round in allthe
boxes, etc.
At the end Of the play a chamberlain is
usually sent by the Emperor to congratulate
the actors and thank them for the pleasure
afforded On especial occasions they are
invited up to the imperial box, which hap
pened on the night of the VerTe q Eau.
Madeline Brohan was particularly distin-
guished and highly complimented.
On this evening the Empress wore white
Lyons silk, with brocade flowers. A black
velvet ribbon studded with diamonds encir-
cled her neck, and her hair was dressed
aREmPire --.s 'tfA
Another dress must describe 1t was a
maize silk under train, covered with double
tulle skirts, at the bottom of which plisse
hounee Of the same tulle.. On the right
side fell shower Of shaded pink roses in
perfect struggling branches, and over. the
whole a white tulle tunic, dotted over with
gold rain. The effect Of this toilet was daz-
cling. 1t looked as if it had been caught
from the clouds while passing spirit, who
had hastily cut the flowers from bush,
flung them at random among the airy
folds. afl# a-st4-. suT
The head-dresses were principally COM
Bosed of diadem Of satin leaves, with gold
ibres gold fligree leaves were also mixed
with autumnal tinted foliage. The oak and
the vine are the favorite shaped leaves
White pearls are beautifully strung, and
are worn with a small white ostrich feather
on the left side. These pearl strings are in
all colors some are bronzed, Others look
like steel, are wound from the ehignon
round the neck in double rows, and form
other graceful loops all over the head be-
sides. Leaves are also mixed in these long
chaplets.
The very newest shades for court robes
are the pistachio green and the deep China
pink These colors are lovely of an eyen-
ing the former in silk reps looks like one
sheet Of glittering ocean when the sun
shines upon it, rejecting the foam or sea-
green.
Not one of cur court ladies has yet worn
one OF these robes, for the shades have but
Just come out; several have been ordered
both for next weeks Festivities at Com
piegne and foreign courts. If we turn our
gaze from these marvellous evening novel
ties and look at the demi-t6ilette depart
ment, we find silk skirts and corslet
bodies over low white ehemisettes. After
noon dresses are velveteens and poplins,
I both bordered with silk cord, whether round
vandykes, points or festoons. One point
there is which must insist on, and that is,
that the best dress-makers are beginning to
Introduce gathers on skirts behind the waist
bands Of their robes, while the front and
sides remain perfectly plain. This is done
with a view to leave room for tOurRure,
which / prognosticated in my last. This
must not be blindly followed, as there are
many who Insist on wide fat plaits behind,
and as many again who abolish them en-
tirely, but vote for the gathers, having
compared the effect Of the three styles at
the last Compitgue (sis, and / humbly de-
clare that train robe does not look well
without the additional toUrRatre = the
Princess cut exeepied, of course.
Il would be mos, unjust to dispatch
fashion courier TO New York without men
tioning juvenile ball Igiven by Mrs. Col.
Norton, inabonOr of her little dsughter's
birthday. The preitiest sight win ever be
that OF q large eOncourse Of beautiful chil-
dren assembled fer DO other purpose than
that of enjoying themselves, and doing so
to their hearts Gil, either forming graceful
groups under the good old elm in summer,
or dancing in winter to the strains of ex-
eellent music, as they did this week at the
Grand Hotel The hall was brilliantly IL
luminated for the very creme Of American
children. .s
The least of this growing generation, but
still the first on this occasion, was the little
hostess, aged three years She wore a
fairy-Iike costume, all blue silk, under
little, very little cloud % white tulle,
caught up with diminutive elder berries,
relieved by miniature roses. She received
her guests with perfect knowledge of her
new dignities but sometimes forgot the inn
portanGe of her station by suddenly taking
of her garland or by running to help mp
Young dancer who had slipped on the high
ly polished floor.
Among the happy host / noticed Miss
ANY Raymond, Miss Daisy Derby, Miss
Christmas and Miss Bancroft, (who wore
the handsomest dress.
There we're many noble foreigners
present, but to name them or describe the
demitoilettes of the presiding mammas
would be throwing the children in the
shade, and for them alone did the Ameri-
can Tag feat from the first hoOr Windows of
the Grand Hotel.
a NEW NODE OF TREATING cHoI-
ERA COLLAPSE.
The Paris correspondent Of the New
Times in his last letter says
Just at the close Of the cholera epidemic
ia Paris an interesting experiment was
tried by DE-. Lorain, one Of the phyaieisas
of the Hospital St. Antoine, in the Fsn-
bourg ST. AHtoine As is well known 20
the profession, thehlnod IN cholera becomes
tlscf- "a. a. s,,sair f,,nrs carrectly loses its