The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1878-05-08

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formerly.
Plain iron grenadines are cheap
this season.
All the new grenadinesare damask-
ed or brocaded.
Gentlemen are wearing bontonieres
Of artificial violets.
Less fruit is worn as bonnet trim
ming than last season.
Bronze beads are new, and will be
much used in trimming.
Worsted galloons are much worn
on colored dresses.
The embroidery upon imported
linens is very handsome.
The great question of life with wo-
man is, What shall she wear?
Street garments are made smaller
and shorter than last year.
Sleeves are cut shorter than former
ly, and still shaped to the arm.
The stockings worn this season are
beautiful and remarkably elegant.
1t is fashionable now for the ladies
to embroider their own hosiery.
A great many beige colored chip
bonnets are in the late importations.
The double.faced satin ribbons are
the newest novelties of the season.
Watered ribbons with centers Of
lace effects appear for bonnet trim
mings,
The new mastic or putty color is
very Fashionable in soft chip for bon
nets.
The clair de lune thinning has had
its season of favor and now looks old
fashioned.
1t is the style now to wear small
bouquet of flowers high upon the left
shoulder.
A new fancy in white chip bonnets
is to have at intervals rows of rain
bow tinsel braid.
Didunybody ever see woman who
was averse to wearing what is pretty
and becoming?
Low shoes and Oxford ties have
largely taken the place of high-but-
toned boots, even for street wear.
From present indications walking
dresses will be worn without wrig-
glers during the coming summer.
A silk belt ribbon is worn with
wooden wrappers when it is desired
to make them snug fitting.
Pleatings of silk, arranged at in
tervals with bourcttc.plcating, form
an attractive and modest garniture.
Many of the new pearl ornaments
used for the trimming Of bonnets are
taken off and worn in the evening as
jewels.
Calicos are so cheap that Bridget
snecrs at the gift Of a "cotton dress"
and is only pacified by gown of
wool or silk.
The pocket handkcrchicfs now-a-
days are very small and finished
with many colors and much gay en-
broidcry around the edges.
French thread gloves, made very
long and that reach high up the
ann, without buttons, and finished
with open work, are new and pretty.
A Philadelphia lawyer with all his
acuteness would not be able in this
age of endless variety in the toilets
of ladies to tell just exactly what is
the fashion.
The new fringcs most used for
mantlcts are called double fringes.-
They have II second row of fringes at
the back, which falls over the head
ing and entirely conceals it,
In Paris black goods are fast being
discarded for mourning wear. White
fabrics will be the "ton" style of cx-
pressing (by outward show how
death has laccrated the heart.
Puffs and small braids are to be
dispensed with, and it is now fash
ionablc and "the style" to arrange
the Lair in little curls or ringlets
close to the head, and bind it with
classic fillet or Greek band,
The people of Union, Arbuckle,
Cologne and adjacent country, will
find at Mr.. c. w. Maupin'S, Arbuckle
the finest, largest, and best stock of
general merchandise ever opened
and exposed to sale in Mason county.
His stock comprises everything to
T.. c.,,,,J l., n E.sI oIneo pINra and oil