The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1876-10-14
From the Dsnbury News

FROM DanpuTy Nt~e.I
CRIMSON is q color ut present in favor.
A REVIVAL of the Byron collar is again
attempted.
New braids for trimming are embroi-
dered with birds, flowers. etc.
SILK embroidery on cashmere. silk or
muslin continues to be fashionable.
The fringes most rsed for trimming
wooden dresses are the Figaro, Moorish
and Castilian.
For full wrap. popular pattern is
one made like a cape in the back. and Il
tchu in front having the ends tied.
A QUEEN of Spain first introduced the
fashion of wearing hoops. With her it
was to conceal the deformity of unequal
hips.
WITH dark blue and brown percale
underdresses are worn overdresses of
checked or figured blue or brown and
white.
4 NEW fancy is to have dress of
striped or plaided beige. trimmed with
black silk ilounces pinked or notched on
the edge.
RED and blue isa stunning" combi-
nation now popular in Paris. Blue
dresses striped with red-the two colors
in the national flag-are imported here
as we'll.
HoUsE-DREss for wear in the autumn
has an underskirt of navy blue cashmere
and white cashmere overdrcss sprigged
with blue. Red ribbons are worn with
the dress.
The polonaise and the basque and over
skirt are both in favor, the former being
considered particularly desirable for
large, stout figures, and the latter for
more slender forms.
PERSONS whose hands become very
be little troubled with this annoyance if
they rub their hands with cologne water
just before putting them on.
SOME novel dresses of French impor-
tation are trimmed with fringe, the color
of which is in violent contrast with the
rest of the dress. These gay combina-
tons are not, however, permissible for
street wear.
Soar, bark and water is most excel
lent preparation for cleansing any black
material. Black silk is very much fresh
ened by its application. The material
must be thoroughly rubbed and left to
dry without the use of an iron.
T., SHORT walking dresses are longed for
by ladies who indulge much in that ex-
ercise, and revival of this comfortable
fashion is looked forward to during the
coming winter. A few sensible and yet
fashionable people made an endeavor to
recall this style of street dress last sea
son, but with little success.
EACH of the prominent modistes has a
different way of fitting the dress waist
and therefore we have several styles
equally popular. Pingat has numerous
as corset. Worth has three seams,
and La Ferrierre has but one. with the
seam under the arm placed further to-
ward the back.
The movements of fan for the car
rying OH of q Irritation have the follow
ing Specifications: When held down
wards it means the person is an unmar-
ried lady. If presented with the little
end first it means Indifference, but if
with three compartments open I love
you is implied. One left open signi-
fies merely friendship. When the fan
touches the breast and taps it lightly an
invitation to tiirt is the meaning.
The WARM BATH.-Many erroneous
notions prevail respecting the use and
properties of the warm bath. To many
persons, the idea of submersion in warm
water, on Summers day, would he
preposterous. But if it be nationally
considered, it will be found that the
warm bath may be taken with equal,
or perhaps greater benefit in the Sum
mer than in the Winter. During hot
weather the secretions in the skin are
much increased in quantity and conse-
quently greater necessity exists that it
should be kept perfectly free from OBJ
structions. Another prevailing error
respecting the warm bath is, that it
tends to relax and enervate the body
for experience has sufficiently proved
the fallacy of the opinion. and many
physicians have prescribed the use to
patients laboring under debility from
disease, none of whom experience such
effect, but have all felt invigorated, and
mostly restored to health and strength
Many persons are deferred from using
the bath, especially in Winter, from the
fear Of catching q cold; but this fear is
groundless, for it has been found that
the warm bath, by increasing the circu-
lation on the surface of the body, rem
ders it more capable of withstanding
the effects of cold than it otherwise
would have been.