The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-01-06
PARIS FASHIONS.
Salons and Boudoirs Decorated with
Natural Flowers.
REVIVAL OF MEDIEVAL STYLES.
POliSSOnS and Centuries to Perform
Their Old Functions.
ENVY OF THE BOURGEOlSIE.
ENVY OF THE BouRGEolsIE.
Poets and Philosophers on Fee
male Beauty.
PARIS, Dec. 81. 1877.
Sou vent femme varie.
Dien FOL qci sly fe.

about tho decoration ofthcr boudoirs we'll as about
the place OF their waists Every vestige OF exotic
ioliage Is being turned out OF salons. The beautiful
vases OF old and the painted boxes which hold
broad' Ieaved caoutchoucs. dracen@ prcKly pear bat
tedores and aoes clumps thrust away in halls and
erooms parisans say they ase tired ofeather broom
aud dustcoth culture, but even If 1t Is so that Is
reason why the highly decorative plantes grasses
should now be called ptantes betes They not
betes at all last winter The truth is that
now splendldly initiated in glazed Inen, aud thus
placed within the reach OF the bourgeoisie that has
Killed them and the genuine cactus Is despised BIO.
cause plain Nine. Somebody buys hers on WIRE
JEALOUS OF THE EoIsIE
The great icea now is TO have what the bouyyeoise
cannot get-whole strawberries sent up from ones
own park in the provinces. But singular set of
people ire the French bouygeoisie snail soon
the strawberries coming somehow to them. Mean.
While bathrooms are graced with underground OF
laurel, arbuius evergreens and laurustinus. Trel-
Uses are OF ina few arlstocratic homes,
but more generally chrysanthcmums and SO much
attention has boen paid to this, our last autumnal
lower, that in little time shall find different
species-the saffron, yellow and scraggy mauves. for
Instance living on all through the winter, even
until early spring. relieves Thorn of their long service.
Nothing can be prettier for the crysanthemum stray
giles wildly or she sits up like queen, and in dark
Drowa hues is as rich the dahlia O.
laurust.l when slightly heated by gasllght sheds
peculiarly delicate fragrance, and do the bays,
while their sombre masses form enoctive back
ground Tor many brilliant hues We are more
than like butterflies in scarfs marked with Vene
tian sunsets and embossed floss lowers on tule
But the charm of all charms is Queen Nab s
opera cap II is two puTs OF gauze with
an aigrette on one side and powdered feather
the top.
PoLIssoNs REVIVED.
l said above that we are like butterflies, but since
chenille has been SO much used ip combination with
soft downy textures and beaten down foss since VIC
who are not strait laced have laced our figures
nevertheless we do as weli--remnd mon of wasps.
Settlement, as say the Bclgians there is going an
end to excessive senderncss. II Is difficult explain
what is going tobe put on and where but that absurd
little roypoy which foreiathers called poisson
Is TO be made with protuberance behind, which pro-
tubcrance is to form seat 1t is intended at present
tor ladies who have been created without tho faculty
OF sitting, rather that part anatomy to which IL
seems chair acceptable. 1t Is pity these
are not IN French as there are terms this polite
language which express exactly that the poisson and
roundabout is not a tounure, but supplement.
MEDIEVAL BELTS.
In like manner commenced In that mednval period
we are SO mad about those awful looking sausages
round the waistS and peaks OF the Medici and
Stuarts They at length became 30 bulky that
their wcarers rounded out their arms in order to
exhibit them and this prevented the approach OF
courtiers, who called the hideous appendage gordes
vertus, or virtue preservers 1t was very cutting:
but courters IN those days had such long, spikey
mustaches and rapiersl They could not
hep hurting Talking Of virtue leads me to ludIe s.
belts. We all know dress is the symbol
OF perfect modesty Why, then, women IN society
cmDroiderlng IN yellow bullion the Old proverb
Lee yenonsee vant m,eur que ceintrs dorfe ~ tfa,r
fame is worth more tnan "a gifted belD. The story
Is or IN my eo oDn0n oSx $4,000 ,po and
In those days nobewomen belts OF gold irct.ed
work richly set with stones; widows wore naxen
cord avn uy thick with knots, and at the end of the
very last pair OF crossed bones, or by way of d.
versty. SKULL 1t was small skull, truly. but even
though Of IVORY still even little bit Of skull IS
very uncanny ornament Other women, neither
queens, nobics nor widows wore of pearls
Blken cord OF various coiors aud pretty
but the class OF females we should call des
yommcuses IN our degraded vernacuar were by
means allowed TO belts. They we're
not supposed 10 want them, presume. but they dd
md out OF spite demi mondane put on lovely ono
tor particular sunday and forthwith went to mass
she was very beautiful, says the Old manuscript,
md by the favor OF her splendid belt got To
the side OF Queen Blanche everybody beiev.
Ing her to be at least court dame. We can
fancy the queen iii her high co,6e, not once
looking up IRON her mssa amt much like an
old picture SELF while unwse virgin stood bv
In all the pride OF ruby cabocnons her waist At
ono part OF the service was customary for oic
aiing priests to KISS all round and when they had
done among themselves tho priest nearest TO the
Queen Kissed her. and she kissed her lett hand uciqn
Dor nd her left hand ne,g kissed the nex
TO her. ana so ~ went on all over the in
sign OF peace. When, therefore, Queen Blanche had
toreturn the kiss she had had her right IRON
IL
tury by her side she quite indignant
a !,. having TO embrace her, and cried,
doree There IL tremendous flourish On the stained
veum which records tins chronicle kind OF juUilant
cry iron tho pen which wrote ", as If II did not
for capochons.
There is not much significance centuries now, but
there might oe, aud women OF taste know that bou-
quet In the belt is moro lovely far than precious
stones cluster of blossoms that go up taperng TO
the BOSOM ana encircle the throat like ciIngng cs
samine are all care 10 know OF ball dress ornament
over vaporous white. My such syiph as tDg grace
many Christmas boardl
SHINY GLOSS OF BEAUTY.
Writers have always found II difficult 10 give n
short and clear ucfuItiou OF beauty, consequently
whole ioios have been blackeucd on the subject |
but all this lovely palaver in verse and prose
proves lees than Shakcspcarc's stpcmcnL Beauty"
says this great genius IN tnree short words, Is
"a shiny gloss. " This Is exactly the
with the new evening dress called "Dona SOL" which
shines all over. IL Is black scIIienne leaf cut work,
being edged with Ucads and tnis trcliscd foundation
Is worn over velvet undordress Tho back Of a
bona sol Is pair OF braces hllcd UP IN the middle |
space with coscade OF black loops shuddcr
at every motion, and SO glossy IS this rcmolo that
" outsliines Moving water down the spine Tbeo.
phrastus, who was rather cynic has also defined
bcauyin three words, out the TAR sex be ex-
pccted to indorse his acdualed opinions OF II, Tor he
called their peculiar charm, silent deceit IhIs
holds good FOR hchus menteurs, charming |
piece Of hypocrisy made Tor DENT toilets of
plain Brussels net, But OF enb. ordered gduzcs
Tor low oodiccs The hclu nieBtcur hIs lntcnued
las high waists, but more attentive study 81 re-
Nuisance taught the art OF enriching uarc white
shoulders Much talent IS now shown 10 executing !
with pins and needles what Is far more easily done
with brush ond pant Ia oraer To avoid bunchy as
pcct ichus fnentcurs nave to laly as their |
nature Will permit and yet TO simulate proportions
which nature has not gwen
All the iashon VIII III lew weeks be Spanish: wc |
IhalI nave lniautg everything; already .andaIu-
uan como ana pclcrro arc worn ~ inc opera say,
tdvsedly, pecrnc because "A spanish mantilia rs not
always accompanied with carrick, as present |
MadrcDo lrs OF bord fail round tie capc-and |
.hoOu. and the blond itscli rs worked with |
many colored beads besides being raised side
wtn lnrgc phos phorcsccnt hstic. these luminous
flowers not Ia good TASTE out ACCESSORIES have
10 SHINE, gIitcr and lash We have glow.Sorpis IN |
chenille ard moss glaring lies IN velvet bows, and
even peacocks aiIs are rendered moro rculgent by
having tinsci under each separate feather.
ORNAMENTS FOR BoxxErs AND HATS.
The avgrtc ornament Tor Donncts aud vcivct bats
is tho Italian nursc pun with trcnicndous head.
These spts are made OF gilt ana silver. or even PLAIN