The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-12-21
Christmas Fashions.
Jennie June in Cincinnati Commercial.

with winter comes an inundatior
OF fancy articles supposed to be suitable
as gifts for Christmas and New Years
though why people should al
ways purchase useless and expensive
knicknacks for gifts when there are SC
many things which the majority need
and cannot get, it is difficult to deter.
mine. We must thank the chinamania,
however, and the art mania, and the
Oriental mania for sffording alternatives,
at least, to the leather work, the glass
bottles in gilt stands, and the photo
graph frames, which have been the
Christmas stock in trade for SO many
years.
The great rage this year is for etch-
ing. There are handkerchiefs orna-
mented with charming little designs,
and their are young ladies who are bus
lily engaged in etching mouchoir cases,
or cigar-boxes, for their gentleme n
friends, and who have even perhaps I'M
dertaken to supply a set of handker-
chiefs etched to match the design upon
the case. Others are etching or paint.
ing sets of menu cards for lady friends
who are married, and give choice little
dinners or suppers, and these are never
uniform, but always different, and in
some way significant, or adapted to the
tastes of the recipient. set of cards
used at Thanksgiving dinner repre-
sented every item of the bill of fare and
included little sketch of the "Old
Homestead" At theater party din
ner, given by lady recently, the cards
were painted with different flowers, and
accompanied with a bouquet of the
sa ne for each lady guest and button
hole bouquet for each gentleman.
Persian embroideries are in high de-
mand for ornamental purposes and
Christmas presents. They come in
pieces of variable sizes, and are used
for anti-macassare, mantel draperies and
also for dress trimmings.
The work is sort of herring-bo bone
stitch combined with satin stitch in
different coiored silks upon linen or cot
ton, and where the fabric is we'll covered
looks very rich. The prices at first
were out of all correspondence with the
value of the more reasonable proper
tions. An organized movement in aid
of the Waldensian schools in Naples has
here taken the form of an original and
highly interesting bazaar which adds to
the opportunities of making Christmas
selections-cla>sic bronzes, Roman an
tique, representative pottery of all ma
tions, rare marbles, and rich Eastern
stuffs and vestments.
The idea of the enterprise was that of
a young girl. There are no lotteries,
every article is genuine, and the prices
are moderate. This is great improve
ment on the mixture of rubbish with
some good articles usually exhibited, for
which enormous prices are charged.
Christmas cards this year are medic
val or unconventional in style, and con-
tain Christmas carols and devices,
among which are are the pug figures,
with or without full bordered night
cap. This pug is feature of the season.
1t forms the top to new inkstands of
home manufacture; it is the favorite de-
vice for sleeve-buttons, and is making
its appearance on note-paper. Its ugli-
ness is it's claim to consideration, for
positive ugliness is as interesting and
almost as attractive as positive beauty.
HAIR DRESSING.
The best feature of the present styles
Is the absence or false nalr.
There are different methods of ar
rangement, but all of them are simple
and can be executed without the ad-
dition of rats, switches or frizzes.
Ladies with small, classic heads and
regular features, affect the Grecian knot,
pierced by an arrow or dagger, and the
majority of young girls comb back their
hair in the same simple fashion, making
it little frizzy or little curly in front,
and fastening it in long braids or light
curls, at the nape of the neck, with a
shell pin which forms band, instead
of twisting it round The more elaborate
coiffures are arranged very high instead
of low in quite the style of the old
regime.
The hair is frizzed in front, but drawn
up from the sides and arranged in few
close but irregular puffs on the top of
the head; below these descend few
short curls of unequal length, and high
upon the side is placed the ornament,
if any is worn. The closeness and SIM
plicity of the couture, however, admits
of but little decoration, and this should
not be flowers unless they are natural.
A handsome bow of satin ribbon or vel
vet fastened with pearlor diamond pin
is the most common, but jewels alone
are used, and sometimes beautiful combs
in pearl or wrought silver. A novelty of
t is kind made also in shell consists of
three pins with elegant tops which may
be worn together and thus form comb,
or separate, and be used as ornaments.
ho oil
graphist of the Norristown Herald, has
calmly waited until he has received the
congratulations of the entire press of the
country on supposed legacy from a
Dutch uncle, in order to pen the follow
ing paragraph: 1T affords me much
pleasure to learn from a score or two OF
our exchanges that the writer of these
paragraphs has fallen heir to $4,000 by
the death of Dutch uncle in Holland.
1t was entirely unexpected. But the
announcement contains few mac
curacies, which it may be as well to cor
rect. First-A person in this country
never inherits fortune less than $780,
900 by the death of relative in the old
countay. That is the regulation amount.
Second-Our Dutch uncle in Holland
was not worth $4,000 Third-He is
not dead. Fourth-We never had q
Dutch uncle in Holland. With the ex-
ceptiOn of these trifiDg errors the report