The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-12-26
For the Ladies to Read.

NCly pOPuidi'
Childrens' gloves appear in unusual
variety this year.
Satin is the fashionable fabric fer
wedding dresses.
Cloth is now used for travelling and
walking dresses.
The fashionable glove for the street
is the undressed kid.
Filigree lace and insertion are used
to trim bonnets with.
Paste diamonds are in vogue again
for shoe and waist-buckles.
Large pearl earrings and necklaces
are the newest in jewelry.
New style pins for the hair are
mented with brilliant crystals.
Embroidered garments and trim
mings are more in vogue than ever.
Our stores and shops, are bright and
attractive with holiday goods.
New style kid gloves have the mono
gram embroidered on the wrist.
Many of the latest imported costumes
are trimmed with bands of fur.
Slate-colored blue is what they call
the new shade in gloves and ribbons.
Black kid gloves are shown with
sprays of flowers embroidered on the
back.
Pearls are very fashionable, and have
this winter taken the place of .dia-
monds.
Every body can follow a fashion of
her own nowadays and still be styl-
ishly dressed.
The Parisians have introduced square
umbrellas. We should imagine them
to be hideous.
In Paris when a fashionable lady
makes a choice of one kind of perfume
she never uses any other.
Mixed lace is novelty. 1t comes
with black grounds, and shows silken
figures in shades of gold.
White scarfs are worn around the
neck outside of tie wrap, instead ofthe
black lace scarfs so long in vogue.
A new caid-ease has an interior
spring, by means of which a single card
is pushed,up the moment that the case
is opened.
There is a novelty in sleeve-buttons
of very light tortoise shell, represent
ing horses heads, with the bit, bride
and head gear of gold.
The flaring hats are less popular than
last year. Young ladies prefer the
English walking hats and the small
bonnets, which are so dainty and DIS
TINGUE.
The newest slippers have one broad
strap crossing the instep and buttoning
on tie outer side of the foot with one
button. Other slippers have Duchess
bows or ribbons which entirely cover
the instep.
Gold pins and earrings in japanese
designs have the fans in colored enam-
ell; an open fan, with flying birds
painted OH it, it needs to be examined
with a glass in order to appreciate the
delicate workmanship.
French go!dandsi silver necklaces have
several rows Of small eoin-shaped
pieces, swith highly polished surfaces.
The earrings to match have two strings
of coins which look as if they were
passed through the ear and hung down
i'll long pendants.
The most fashionable winter bonrets
revive very old styles-shapes worn at
least a century ago. They are high
and quaint and ~verysnarrow across the
back, which has no cape, but is finish
ed with a straight band. The brim is
small and worm lose to the head.
The new silver bracelets are wide
bands fastened with padlocks, and to
this paddock are hung bangle charms.
Blue enamel on silver, with steel points,
ruby, garnet, and real souch-sf ellis
carved in Rome, are among the cheai
and novel jewelry now fashionable.
Never was the crescent used as now
for an ornament. 1t is to be found
even in bonnet ornaments. 1t appears
in brooches, earrings, belt-clasps,
hair-clssps, bracelets, and even on shoe
buckles, the shape being one which
beautifully displays the lustre Of the
jewels set in it.
Amber balls are used as earrings, or
several cut amber beads are strung to-
gether to form pendant earrings. Cut
glass beads in amber color are used 10
form a network to trim white evening
bonnets, for ornaments, in the shape of
butterflies or flowers, to be used with
pheasant-breasts on white.bonnets.
Keys and snakes are just now the fav-
orite designs for jewelry. A fan cha
telaine is a snake with coils around the
waist, being pliable; hangs down at
the side in very unpleasant suggestive
twists, while earrings in plain dull
gold represent a lock with the tiny key
of gold. When once locked they are
evidently more ecure than some bank
safes.
The present style addressing the hair
in Paris shows two extremes. One Of
these carries it up to the top of the head,
leaving the back of it fat, as was the
style eve years ago. The othcr style,
adopted by the ELITE for reception at
home, shows the hair laid flat against
the back of the head and neck, in what
are called "Oriental braids'' of many
strands, held down by ornaments, some
plain and others sparkling with jewels.