The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1875-08-12
GheGttelIigetrter
MIDSUMMER FASHIONS.
What they Wear at the Watering
Places.

and moreover without starch. INN ughl
duck, with all its interstices filled with
starch, is far warmer than the heavy duck
that can be laundried without starch, dc.
pending for its gloss on that elbow.
grease which housewives know is more
effective than any foreign aid Of gum
arabic or spermaCeti. Four or five but
tons Of white onyx, with bar OF black
or Of lapis blue. through the centre, are
used to button such waistcoats; very
young gentlemen wear buttons Of Naples
coral, and they really look very gay.
With white waistCOats should be worn
trousers made from the same piece Of
duck.
A PARIS FASrY COSTUME. most
violent manifestation Of the mOther-oi-
pearl that is yet on record is dress that
was worn at the Grand Prix. The lady
evidently meant to represent mermaid
or siren, and had clothed herself in
marine.blue silk, with short, tight sleeves
and low-neck, finished with cable Of
unbleaChed silk. Over this was worn u
net Of unblcached silk, filled with tiny
fishes Of pearl and silver; this formed u
double skirt and was then drawn from
the left side Of the waist to the right
shoulder, where it was fastened. Two
smaller nets occupies the place OF lace
0ounces on the sleeves, and another llOated
from the blue straw bonnet and served NJ
aycil.- Boston Globe,
Fashions IN THE COUNTRY.-What IN
dicates the coming homogcncousness Of
our large country ~ much as the grow
ing unity Of religion, is the unity Of fash
ion. There are no baCkwoods bOnncts
and dresses any more. The fashions fall
all over like the light and the rain. The
city belle sets forth with new lIOpsOn
hat on her lofty head, and with her two
shades OF silk drawn tight around her di-
vine form, and in this matches style she
zoe, out To the backwoods Clurch-aad
behold the country girls are all there in
the same turn.up Of hat and with
dresses drawn Just as tightly across the
walking machinery Of the human form.
Thus, caste is destroyed, and we boys and
girls are all one. The vanity Of the city
i matched by the vanity Of the farm
house. Fret String,
New CoRsETs are made with straps or
braces passing over the shoulders, in or
der to have all the weight Of the clothing
suspended from the shoulders instead Of
the hips. An improved corset waist,
which is at once both corset and corset
cover, Is also made for those who cannot
wear Corscts. 1t has low yoke that
passes over the shoulders, and the front j.
made very full over the bosom, while the
back and that part around the smallest
taper Of the waist iii very smoothly and
springs out we'll over the hips, II is with
ont steel fronts, aud has only the lew
whalebones that are absolutely necessary
for keeping it smooth; hence II can he
easily washed. Below the waist i an at
tachmcnt for supporting the skirts, and
this can be easily removed before sending
it to the laundry.-Iir RnsT.
WoMANs DREss JuDGEp ~ o%E VINO
WEARS Ir-Mrs. stanton thinks that II
the women do not accomplish as much Ne
men there is good reason for it, She il
not dressed to work, but To kill. Men
do not appreciate the beauty Of mems at.
tire. She saws: "lakc a man and pin
three or four large table.cloths about him,
fastened back with elastic and lOopcd up
with ribbons; drag all his own hair to
the middle Of his head and tie il tight,
and hair-pin on about live pounds Of other
hair and bow Of ribbon. Keep the
front locks on pins all night and let them
tickle his eyes all day; pinch his waist
into a corset, and give him gloves a size
too small and shoes ditto, and hat that
will not stay on without torturing elias
tic, and frill to tickle his chin, and lit
tie lace veil to blind his eyes whenever he
goes out to walk, and he will know what
woman's dressis."
SILK CORsLETs, FicHus, Erc.-light.
Colored silk "cOrsclets, which are CUR.
ass basques outlining the figure, high or
hali.high and square in the neck, with
short sleeves or else transparent ones Of
lace, no trimming and laced behind-are
worn by young ladies with their white
muslin or taretan ball.drcsses. The
peasant fichu Of white embroidered mus
fin, or else Of lace insertion and muslin to-
gelher, il worn with evening silks OF
plain fight color. This is Tapped in the
breast without the hanging ends Of the
Marie AntOlnctte Gchu. White lisse
kerchiefs, folded like those seen in the
pictures Of Martha Washington, are worn
By young ladies with their blue and Law.
ender dresses and to tighten up black
toilettes. New muslin tabliers are square
below, with bih above, and are called
Vatican aprons. India muslin dresses
worn at the French watering places are
embroidered in COlors; black and red to.
gether are much used for this work.
Hlrpers Bd:dr
THE PARTISAN PASSION FOR WHITE
White, and II not white the nearest np.
proach to white, is everywhere the rage
White wells, white bonnets, white dresses,
white flowers, white ribbons, white fans
all must be white The black that was
30 universally patrOnized, last year and
the year before last, is entirely discarded
now. All sort. cheap cotton materials,
cheap in themselves, but excessively dear
il made up by the fashionable dress.ma-
kers, are enormously worn. There IL n
particular style Of coarse linen known in
Paris as Oxford, which is sold there at five
sous ward, and this ia the stuff which all
Paris il trying il hardest to buy in great
quantities, and make up into most elab.
Grately trimmed seaside dresses. One Of
the most elegant women in Paris appear
ed at garden party, the other day, in u
bewildering costume Of Oxford, and she
was telling every one who gathered about
her TO admire its multitudinous develop
ments Of frill and llounCe that II cost her
seven francs and half only She had
bought the stuff at five SOUS yard, and
her lndy's.maid had made ii instead Of the
dressmaker.
SOME SUMNER DREssEs.-An instance
Of the pretty summer dresses Of ectn
linen Of some foreign texture, associated
with plain marinc.blne linen, and orna.
menled with new trimming known
abroad "a Russian lace. was also seen
with these important suits. This lace re-
semblca guipnre, and comes in ecrll gray
and black, Enlightened by the introdnc.
ton Of the color u the trimmings Of the
garment that seen on the tlrcsl alluded
to being ccrll and marine blue. In
thpap linen IFpalrg are nDiirrnblp tLp