The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1873-09-25
OIorHEs AND THINGS.

CLOTHES AND THINGS.
RAIMENT has an extraordinary effect
on the whole machinery of life. Most
people think too lightly of it. some
body says if oIecpatfas nose had been
q quarter Of an ineh 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-RAPHAELITE CrorHEs.-I Eng
land there is a little band of pre-rapha-
elites, composed of painters and poets
aud art critics, and men with genius
for appreciation, and their wives. Nor
ris and his wife belong to this band, and
Rosetti and his sisters, and Holman
Hunt. The ladies OF this set have
adopted costume of their own. If
you meet in society a woman who looks
as II she had stepped out of ons,of Fra
Angelico's or Perugino's picture, with
long skirts, that sweep but do not rus
re, 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
say to some one else; "That is one of
the pre-Raphaelite ladies. d"
Dry GOODS BY MAm.-Packaoes en-
tirely closed, not as formerly omen at
one end, now go for one cent an ounce
which favors mailing laces and light ar
ticles. 1 sent a linen dress made mn
for a child of three years old. the other
day, for six cents. The silk for 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
ruffied and tucked white polonaises
nicely made that are selling for s8 and
"a 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 an
plying to them. Shirley Dare.
The DRESS OF THE SANDWICH Is1ANDs
WosmN.-Their loose dress gives grace
as well ms 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-
verified tastes, look like calico or biacl,
stuff night-gowns but the dress crows
ON you as You become accustomed TO IL.
1t lends itself readily to bright ornamen-
tation 1t is eminently fit for the eli
mate and stately Hawaiian dame
marching through the street in black
holaku, ae the dress is called, with a
long necklace, or le, of bright scarlet
or brillinnt yellow flowers, bare and nm
trammeled feet and flowing hair. COM
pares very favorably with hiRh-heeIed
wasp-waisted, absurdly-bonnetted. FASH
ionable white lady.-C Charles NordhoJe
TIrE TRUE GOSPEL OF DRESS is that of
fitness and taste. Pictures are painted.
and music is writer, and flowers are
fostered, that life may be made beauti-
full. Let women delight our ewes like
pictures, be harmonious as music and
iragrantashowers, that they also may full
III their mission of grace and of beauty.
Let them think less about the rin0lets
and rufies, in order 20 give themselves
to the contemplation of whatever is no.
BILE, and lovely, and of good report. BY
companionship with beautiful thoughts
shall their tastes be soformed, that their
toilettewill never be out of harmony with
their means or their position. To buy
and to wear the right thing will come to
be as natrual as to breathe. They will
be clothed almost as uneonsciouslv as
the lilies Of the field but there will be
no more of uniformity in their attire
than in their faces.-Neso York hide
pendent
CHRIST AND CoRsETs. "A young lady
who had charge of a young ladies' Bible
class, speaking of defective home train.
ing, said that her best pupil, Is year.
of age, had caused her the most acute
anxiety. Rain or shine she was Away,
at her post. The girls whole sou
seemed absorbed in the STRENGTHENING
out of intricate theological problems
sand yet, said the teacher, "the cir
was so pale and wan that I was afraiG
every sabbath would be her last il
class. One day she tainted, and in try
ing TO restore her I loosened her dress
and what do you think found? Cor
sets so tightly drawn that a full respira
tion was impossible. l removed then
and found that the girls ribs actual,
Tapped took her TO her mother.
very prominent and useful church mem
Der, and stated the case without reserve
Well, you see, said the parent. Fam,
never had any figure. I shouldn't b
surprised if the lAcing were drawn
little too tight. Her waste is naturall
so large that it is almost impossible {
make anything fit genteely on hei
How isyour class pr0spering, Miss
/ hope you are drawing many souls t
Christ ?"
AN ELABORATE PANS TOILETTE. ius
coming from an American lady, is con
posed of pearl gray grenadine and vic
ANN AAAAAANs LAAN NAsAAAA VI AAlC AnuNLHhAl
is made with five paintings of tn
faille, alternating with broad bouillor
mes Of the gray grenadine, these rur
ming from the waist downward. Tn
front of the skirt is in plain grenadin'
over a sous jupe Of gray tafretas "a
we're, by the by, the bouillonnes,) orn'
mented with large bows up the middl
of the breadth of violet faille. TIL
tunio of gray grenadine, over taffetas {
the same shade. is made with a shol
point in front, and a cut very deep /
theback. Across the front are broad bia
bands Of violet faille, placed in point
and finished at the end with bows {
the same. The sides OF the tunic fa
en- iabot, trimmed with a broad bias q
taille, which extends round the enti1
tunic in the back, edged with a ric
chenille fringe in violet. This owe
dress is raised in immense puffs at Il