The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-01-04
PATCHWORK.

whenever the tongue begins te
wag with gossip it grows hot and
burns everybody it talks about.
| 1t is not generally known thai
hair is the substitute of whalebone
in the manufacture of cheap corsets
| Fancy rubber articles-chains
necklaces and bracelets-are uni
versally popular. The demand 70,
combs is not decreasing.
Princesse polonaises will be worn
a great deal this season for semi
evening toilets but are not consid
cred suitable for full dress.
The Empress of Germany often
appears in public robed in simple
calico dress. She discourages ex
travagance among the ladies.
No light furs are now used; the
wearing of furs at all are confined
to dark walking costumes with
which they should harmonic.
Cardinal red bonnets, cashmere
lace scarfs and balmorals trimmed
with black velvet, are the most no.
ticeable articles seen in this color.
A hatterer is simply a wasp who
conceals his sting until he has got
all the honey he wants. Refuse
him once and YOU will very soon
find out what kind of an insect he is.
The best inheritance from a ia
ther is poverty and a good name.
If YOU have both of these you are
unusually fortunate and your pros
poets in life are of the brightest
sort.
Get into the habit of looking for
The silver lining of the cloud, and
when you have found it continue TO
look at it rather than at the leaden
gray in the middle. 1t will help
you over many hard places.
The most decidedly fashionable
cloak of the season is made of
heavy MORE silk, with satin (quilt
ed) lining and trimming, consisting
of feather fringe, with heading of
rich moss braid or passementerie.
Velvet hardly enters into the
calculation in regard to cloaks, its
use being mainly restricted to com
bination in costumes and honnets.
Some few fur trimmed cloaks are
seen IN connection with velvet suits.
Worth still drapes his suits very
much, but the other French houses
have reduced the superfluous puffs
and drapery of last season to the
very verge of plainness, and there
fore the trimmings are made of the
very richest description.
The newest and most becoming |
mourning dresses are cut in the
princesses style. and are uniform in
color throughout. They are made
in cashmere crimson, navy blue,
myrtle green and brown. Only
bows down the front are demanded !
for ornament.
A lady claims that she hasn't
used any soap in five years-that is
for washing dishes and other kitch-
en- purposes except washing clothes.
She has her water hot and adds a
little milk to it. This softens the
water, gives the dishes fine glow
and preserves the hands.
Among the fastest novelties is
the ''fioral barometer" which is a
handsome floral card, upon. which
is mounted a small glass tube,
through which is seen slip of pa
per prepared by a che ical process.
This changes color with the chang
rs of the atmosphere. and a register
IS printed by the side of the tube
which foretells when fair or foul
weather is to happen.
For the information of lovers it
nay be stated that kiss is the
quickest exchange of questions and
answers of two lovers. 1t is seal
Of expressing sincere attachment
the pledge of future union "a
present taking the impression of an
worry coral press-crimson balsam
or love wounded hearts-a sweet
ute of lip-an affectionate pinching
If the heart-a delicious dish, eat
N with scarlet spoons sweet
neat which does not satisfy hunger.