The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-07-09

and another heart was painted on the |
cl,fn. the rest Of the face as white as q /
luminous cosmetic could make it. The /
evebrows we're painted intensely black
thew met, and were stretched 10 the TEN
Piles. Her fingers were dyed deep
crimson, and hez long black hair Wa
braided fall Of little iingling coins.
Her little feet were shod IL velvet slip
pers embroidered with pearls, and she
wore great diamond earnings. Alter
drinking coffee, which the writer would
fain immortalize it was so very precious,
and gulping 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 blazing with
jewels, and wore q costly inter. he
kept the poor little bride waiting three
whole hours while he was attending
smother wedding, but the people seemed
TO bear the delay with patience. The
bride was rather under the ordinary
hight, and the bridegroom a 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 high chair,
and the bridegroom came forward with
richly trimmed cushion bearing the
bridal presents-a watch and chain, q
diamond brooch, ear. rings, necklace,
and bracelets, and large knitted purse
filed 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 q wine,
and the feast commenced. She was
obliged to sit there till the wine was
drank ont 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
vas ended, and the bride borne away.
TIE LATEST UoLIsSEss IN DREssEs.-
It 10 proposed to introduce. this sum-
mer, q novelty into American fashion in
/ the form of the s'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
DireetOire, and In which to look ct i
/ woman it would seem utterly impossi
bic that she should run, and a tour dc
force that she should even walk. Fol
these dresses are not merely narrow,
they are quite too narrow for grace o.
motion to be possible, clinging not only
to the upper portion of the hip, but
round the knees. IL they are ever worE
in their present styles by our bellies, j
will be with such notifications (if thR
much-abused term may be used) and
alterations as will make them less start
ling to behold. And though eeonomi
cal it would seem from the scantiness o
the pattern, our modistes, who many o
them hail from London and Paris, vii
..F ssrert
the trimming. A dress that from necl
to hem is straight and clinging, wit
only room to move the feet afforded b.
cores set in between the breadth at th
: bottom, and at but a quarter of a var
from the hem slightly widening th
bottom, certainly would seem 20 requir
some nisguising of its original dinner
, sions TO obtain favor with as. But in
true sheath dress no oYerskirt or draE
, ing is admissible. BY draping / mea
!, added draping in an independent form
as it is needless to state after the abov
! description that the original " sheath
!. garments could not be draped, and wit
. an overskirt it would no longer be
"scabbard" dress. But scarfs of al
= embroidered India cashmere will b
permitted to soften the crude ensemble
If ensemble It may be called, also yer
1 large jet or coin necklaces row belo'
! row, as on the shnh'a neck. With th
! "scabbard" dress will reappear Ion
vanished fashion; those worn abroa
! display the mode alluds to-embroiC
! cry above the hem In some of thes
dresses this embroidery, reappearing
a narrow design around the neck e
, collier, reaches as TO the skivt up to th
I knees, and is of great richness an
: beauty, and of slightly eontrastin
l shades.-JennSe June.