The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1874-07-04

and another heart was painted on the
chin, the rest of the face as white as a
luminous cosmetic could make it. The
eyebrows were painted intensely black
they met, and were stretched to the tenn
Piles. Her fingers were dyed deep
crimson, and her long black hair was
braided full of little jingling coins.
Her little feet were shod in velvet slip
pers embroidered with pearls, and she
wore great diamond ear-ri gs. After
drinking coffee, which the WI Ter would
fain immortalize it was so very precious,
and gulpiDg down some rare Turkish
bon-bons mixed with paste and pare
goric, they inspected the trousseau of
the bride. The chief priest who per-
formed the ceremony was b9Ring with
jewels, and wore a costly inter. He
kept the poor little bride waiting three
whole hours while he was attending
another wedding, but the people seemed
to bear the delay with patience. The
bride was rather under the ordinary
hight, and the bridegroom very tall
man, and they were obliged to stand
with their foreheads touching each
other during the entire ceremony, which
took a whole hour. After the ceremony
the bride was placed on a high chair,
and the bridegroom came forward with q
richly trimmed cushion bearing the
bridal presents-a watch and chain, @.
diamond brooch, earrings, necklace,
and bracelets, and large knitted purse
filled with gold. The bridegroom
parted the great veil which hung over
the new wife, and adorned her with the
| Jewels. Then she was lifted by men and
seated astride small barrel of wine,
and the feast commenced. She was
| obliged to sit there till the wine was
| drsnk out of the barrel, which was
nearly two hours. She looked tired
enough. for they gave her nothing to
eat, and it was daylight before the feast
was ended, and the bride borne away.
THE LATEST UGLTNEss IN DRESSES.
- is proposed to introduce, this sum-
mer, n novelty into American fashion in
the form of the "scabbard " or "sheath"
dresses, an exaggeration of the cling
ing styles which are now In vogue.
These scabbard dresses are, in fact, the
same as those worn under the French
Directoire, and in which to look at a
| woman it would seem utterly impossi-
BILE that she should run, and tour de
| force that she should even walk. For
| these dresses are not merely narrow,
they are quite too narrow for grace of
motion to be possible, clinging not only
/ to the upper portion of the hip, but
round the knees. If they are ever worn
| in their present styles by our bellies, it
! will be with such notifications Gf that
much-abused term may be used and
! alterations as will make them less start
| ling to behold. And though econOml-
cal it would seem from the scantiness of
the pattern, our modistes, who many of
| them hail from London and Paris, will
l.. i e
the trimming. 4 dress that from neck
to hem is straight and c1inging, with
only room to move the feet afforded by
cores set in between the breadth at the
| bottom, and at but a quarter of yard
| from the hem slightly wideQ6g the
bottom, certainly would seem< require
some disgusting of its original dimen-
/ sions to obtain favor with us. But in
/ true sheath dress no overskirt or drap-
ing is admissible. By draping i mean
added draping in an independe& form,
as it is needless to state after e above
description that the original sheath"
| garments could not be draped and with
| an overskirt it would no longer be a
"scabbard" dress. But scarfs of I'M
| embroidered India cashmere Will be
/ permitted to soften the crude ensemble,
/ if ensemble it may be called, also very
| large Jet or coin necklaces row below
row, as on the shah's neck. With the
"scabbard" dress will reappear long
vanished fashion; those worn abroad
display the mode allude tO-embroid-
cry above the hem. In some of these
dresses this embroidery, reappearing IN
narrow design around the neck en-
collier, reaches as to the skirt up to the
| knees, and is of great richness and
beauty, and of slightly contrasting
shades - Jennie lime