The Indiana State sentinel., 1874-02-17

many flowers as good taste permits. For
yonng unmarried ladies, silk is altogether
unnecessary whers such fair-like fabrics
await them in snow. drifts of damask gauze,
tarlstan, tulle, satan-striped gauze, or
wash blonde. Over these pretty dresses can
be worn sleeveless tunics of silk. New
styles of evening silks are exhibited in
white, with inch-wide satin stripes. On the
plain silk are large crimson moss-r0se buds
and green foliage. These make up beau.i
fully, cut in the Gabrielle dress with over
dress of some diaphanous material and long
garlands OF roses. Other styles are OF white,
pearl-white, creamy-tinted, rich salmon,a aud
rose-whito grounds, upon which are EN-
broidered polka spots, in green, lavender,
black, white satin, and bright rose. There
are lovely figured or fowered silks for
Young beauties in ocean mist, pistache, tea
rose coral and apricot pink, ashes of roses,
and wheat, with all the popular shades OF
blue.
HEAD DRESSES.
Petite women should particularly avoi0
anything approaching to exuberance in their
head dress. Flowers being now the most
fashionable, as we'll as the most graceful,
ornaments tor the hair. extreme care must
be observed that the complexion as well as
the hair is suited. a badly arranged
wreath is stiff and unbecoming; it must al
ways gracefully incline slightly back on
one side. Beautiful hair is itself an orna-
ment, needs nothing more than few flow
ers or single rose; nor can long thin faces
bear the hair strained from the face and
pressed high, whatever fashion may dictate.
If becoming il is a pretty conceit to wear
the hair parted upon one side, particularly
where there are beautiful temples and a low
brow. 1fa fashion disfgures one in the
arrangement of the hair it can fear
lessly he set at defiance. Too high a
forehead may safely indulge, for sDftening
the expression, in the fluffy lock now reap
pearing-rather an improvement upon the
friZZles of year ago. Finger puns all over
the head may De made of false or natural
hair, unless the head happen to be too large.
The best advice TO give is To be firm regard
ing ones defects or beauties, regardless OF
hair-dressers, friends or fashions.
REVIVAL IN JEwELRY. -e
With a renaissance in dress coming to US,
the classical myths have been revived in
iewelry and antique cuttings. Epicurean
tastes demand the reproduction Of antiqui-
| ties in silver, crystals, and enamels, and
| furore exists for quaint Japanese and
Chinese decorations. Every Imaginable CO.
! lor is displayed in sets OF China, in Oriental
! arabesQue, gorgeous Persian tints, queer
4 Chinese landscapes and blue-green views,
| The fashionable colors of our toilettes are
introduced in the bordering of China
There are antique water,Jugs which might
/ have been filed with water from the Nile by
Egyptian maidens, and little syrup pitchers
made after old Roman vases; and birds and
fish unknown to us are everywhere traced,
| chased, engraved, and painted by Japanese
| upon silver ware, msiOlica, china, and pOrce-
| lain in tea and desert sets. There are Sevres
/ dishes whose pink hues are as delicate as a
Mediterranean shell, and tapering Bohemian
4 and old Venetian glasses sent here from the
! exposition. Goblets are going to be left on
the shelf, and tumblers revived after long
| oblivion. The fashion of oxidiZed silver
| has run into table silver. Handsome sily er
salvers, oval, round, and Octagonal, are
oruamented with dark oxidized silver
band, offering fine relief to the gold lining;
this style is followed in fish and pie knives,
salad forks, oyster and punch bowls of mas
sive silver, in the graceful shape of a
nautilus, the rudder, chains, anchor,
and ropes being of oxidized silver; ice bowls
like frosted boats floating among lily pods
New table and tea spoons are perfectly plain,
gold lined. Preserve, salad, and sugar
spoon, gold lined, have little birds, storks,
beetles, lizards and cupids for handles, oxid-
lied with gold engraving in relief.
CAMEos
are very fashionable set in various ways for
pendants, rings, and sets ofiewelry. Some
exquisite specimens are shown, lately ar
rived from the exposition, unique in style as
in setting. Down in John street, one can
linger for hours over rare historic canoes
Among them is Thorwaldsen's might and
Morning" tor sleeve studs. n large cameo
for a pendant, after GuidO's famous paint
ing of aurora Driving the Chariot o.
Dawn" is exquisitely carved. The setting
is tho rising sun, studded with small
diamonds, while above shoot long
golden rays, each tipped with a large
diamond, and beneath hang in
Vulnerable brilliants. The price was $50
sens "Market of Love" A superb square
cameo represents the ''Three Kings Going tC
Christ, :" following the Star of the Orient. The
rays of the white star seem perfectly trans
|, lucent above the wise men. y dark antique
onyx was in the shape of prison window
the bars being formed of the upper layer il
dark brown, entirely detached by wonderful
skill from the window, while behind CupiC
is a prisoner, chained to block. The quaint
setting above is a true-lover's knot in golC
and brilliants; chains hang below with
heart impaled by an arrow, a paddock, and
KEY. This marvellous piece of work is sole
to a connoisseur in art, to add to his collec
! ton. An oval black onyx had in creamy
white the graceful head Of Isabel o
i Bavaria the vail falling back was won
derfully like the transparency of gauze
: This had an antique setting of large dia
! monds. In the charming flesh color ant
, pink of the chalcedony was beautiful bus
, of Mime. de Pompadour, in superb setting o
brilliants. In NEUROLOGICAL designs you SCI
2 Achilles and Minerva, oval pendant, whit
3 on black ground; an antique head of Jupi
ter IN finest imaginable carving, set il
iridiscent pearls; the farewell of Hector an,
= Andromache; a beautiful oval of blacl
onyx, relief in while, of Proserpine. with
broad band of same stone in brown. On tn
pink of chalcedony and sardonyx, there ar
) ry-winged figures. the lovely Iris, and tn
floating figure of Fortune just poised tip-to
!. on her globe, ready for flight. A charming
bust of Sappho, set in pearls, has the hal
9 rolled in a loose, wavy knot at the back, an
: two simple fillets banding the temples; tn
I poise of the head is perfect. There was o.
4 a black ground a chocolate "Drunke
\ Faun," sitting in jolly tipsiness on an empt
: liquor-skin. swapping his tiny fingers i
: the air. The figure of a Mei
. curry in Kepose" shows even in so narrow