The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-09-19
CLOTHES AND THINGS.


people think too lightly of it. Some
body says if Cleopatra's nose had been
a quarter of an inch shorter the history
of the world would have been utterly
changed ; but Anthony might equally
have been proof against robe with
high neck and tight sleeves.
PRE-RAPHAELITR CToTHEs.-In Eng
land there is a little band of pre-rapha-
elites, composed of painters and poets
and art critics, and men with a genius
for appreciation, and their wives. Nor
rs and his wife belong to this band, and
Rosetti and his sisters, and Holman
Hunt. The ladies of this set have
adopted a costume of their own. If
You meet in society a woman who looks
as If she had stepped out of one of Fra
Angelico's or Perugino's picture, with
long skirts, that sweep but do not rus
tie, fashioned of material costly as their
purse can buy, but severely simple
with jewels in quaint, antique setting
with laces fine as frost-work and yellow
as amber, you are sure to hear some one
the pre-Raphaelite ladies. "
DRY GOODS BY MAm.-Package en-
tirely closed, not as formerly open at
one end, now go for one cent an ounce,
which favors mailing laces and light ar
ticles. I sent a linen dress, made up
for child of three years old, the other
day, for six cents. The silk for a dress
skirt may be sent to any part of the
country for something like fifty cents.
A half-dozen of stockings, or one of the
ruf1led and tucked white polonaises,
nicely made that are selling for So and
81 apiece in New York stores, can be
sent as easily as not to Winconsin or
Colorado, sooner and far cheaper than
express companies can take them, and
fashion writer's very seldom object to
make selections for any of their read
ers who compliment their taste by APP
plying TO them.-Shirley Dare.
The DRESS OF THE SANDWICH ISLANDS
WOMEN.-Their loose dress gives grace
as well as dignity to their movements ::
and whoever invented it for them de-
serves more credit than he has received
1t is little startling at first to see wo-
men walking about in what, to our per
verted tastes, look like calico or black
stuff night-gowns but the dress grows
on You as you become accustomed to it;
1t lends itself readily to bright ornamen-
tation it is eminentIy fit for the eli
mate and a stately Hawaiian dame,
marching through the street in black
holaku, as the dress is called, with a
long necklace, or le, of bright scarlet
or brilliant yellow flowers, bare and IN
trammeled feet and flowing hair, com
Pares very favorably with high-heeled.
wasp-waisted, absurdly-bonnetted fash
iOnable white LADY, Charles NOrdhof.
The TRUE GOSPEL OF DRESS is that of
fitness and taste. Pictures are painted.
and music is written, and flowers are
fostered, that life may be made beauti.
full. Let women delight our eyes like
pictures, be harmonious as music, and
fragrant as flowers, that they also may full
fiji their mission of grace and of beauty.
Let them think less about the ringlets
and rutfies, IN order TO give themselves
to the contemplation of whatever is no
bic, and lovely, and of good report. BY
companionship with beautiful thoughts
shall their tastes be so formed, that theil
toilette will never be out of harmony with
their means or their position. To buy
and to wear the right thing will come tc
be as natrual as to breathe. They vii
be clothed almost as unconsciously Al
the lilies of the field but there will b,
no more of uniformity in their attir
than in their faces.-Ne1O York Elde
pendent.
CHRIST AND CoRsETs. young lad
who had charge of young ladies' BibI
class, speaking of defective home trai1
ing, said that her best pupil, 10 year
of age, had caused her the most acut
anxiety. Rain or shine she was Away
at her post. The girls whole sou
seemed absorbed in the Strengthening
out of intricate theological problems
and yet, said the teacher, "the gil
was so pale and wan that was afrai
class. One day she tainted, and in tr,
ing to restore her loosened her dres
and what do you think / found? Go
sets so tightly drawn that full respir
ton was impossible. I removed the
and found that the girls ribs actual
Tapped / took her to her mother,
very prominent and useful church rner
Der, and stated the case without reserv
Well, you see, said the parent, Fam
never had any figure I shouldn't
surprised if the lacing were drawn
little too tight. Her waste is natural
so large that it is almost impossible
make anything fit genteely on he
How is your class prsspering, Miss
I hope you are drawing many souls
Christ"
AN ELABORATE PARIS TOILETTE, ju
coming from an American lady, is CO..
posed of pearl gray grenadine and Vi
let faille. The train of the undersk
is made with five paintings of t
faille, alternating with broad bouillo
mes of the gray grenadine, these ru
ming from the waist downward T
front of the skirt is in plain grenad il
over sous iupe of gray taffetas
were, by the by, the bouillonnes,) or
mented with large bows up the midC
of the breadth of violet faille. 7
tunic of gray grenadine, over taffetas
the same shade, is made with a sh
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