The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-05-09
NEW YORK FASHIONS.
Costumes; Millinery; Ont Door Gar
ments; Wigs; Manias; Purchasing
AGENCIES: Costumes.

thing of the past, but in their place Tor
general wear, we find neat wash costumes
made half tight jacket, overskirt and
underskirt, marked as low as six or seven
dollars. The patterns are in great va
rietY-checks, plaids, stripes, polka dots
and small floral figures. Colors are
equally diversified; both grave and gay,
and ground-works dark as we'll as light.
At higher prices costumes are of sabine
monte cloth or coteline, to say nothing
of figured jaconets for indoor wear, while
in white, costumes are in all gradations,
from the lawn morning dress at So, to
elaborate dotted, plain and figured mus
Inns finished with Breton lace and bows
of ribbon. Soft, thin wool costumes
commence at about $14. listers in
thin, mixed wool are excellent for hard
usage, consequent upon summer travel
ing, ETC., and these commence at SO, a
very nice pne costing SO. Mohair ul-
sters begin at $3.50; linen ulsters at So.
Nevertheless there are many ladies who
wish to make their dresses at home or
have them made, so will add a word or
two in regard to new and desirable de-
signs. The Deosia princess dress may
be mentioned among these as quite ele-
CANT, and having the advantage of being
adapted both to silk, wool and wash ma
terial. Trimmed skirts are very fash
iOnable, and here we find the horimel
train especially suited to handsome
fabrics. The nelida basquine or valeria
basqe would give distinguished finish.
The birena is an excellent model for an
overskirt of wash material, while in the
way of half fitting jacket, the serena
can be recommended.
MILLINERY.
Dainty dress bonnets are sometimes
made of white or cOlored canton Grape,
trimmed with fine flowers and Breton
lace, ribbon or satin-satin or satin rib
bon indeed, we see employed perpetual
ly. There is rage for 1t, and in dressy
costumes it is constantly substituted for
silk. Fine black straws are also trimmed
with black or white Breton lace and
flowers, and black lace bonnets similarly
finished are made on frames. Mixed straw
in colors to match the fashionable mixed
goods are greatly in vogue but not to the
exclusion of brown or beige colored
Middle aged ladies, for ordinary wear,
select the English walking hat, or if it is
desired to show the forehead, shaped
fiaring to one side; or prettily curving
around the face and without strings, may
be substituted. Young ladies wear tur-
bans, shapes fancifully caught on the
sides, or round brims coming low over
the forehead and rising at the back,
where rich boquets of flowers fill in the
vacancy.
OUT DOOR GARMENTS.
There is quite rage for beige and the
pale yellow especially the form
er. The fancy crops out everywhere in
millinery costumes and in out door gar
ments, for there is run on beige color
ed cloth sacques and mantelets, CON-
mencing at about SIX dollars and going
up to twenty. They are worn with cos
tunes of any kind. These ideas, howev-
er, do not preclude the sale of black silk
and cashmere garments more or less
richly trimmed with French or black
Breton lace fringe and jet Leading
stores ask enormous prices for these lat
ter styles, but they can be made to order
at comparatively moderate figures.
BEWARE OF WIGS.
Should an innocent minded individual
"a country merchant, for example,) visit
our city, let him not fall u victim to the
charms of some fair lady who apparent
ly) is endowed beyond her sisters, with
an abundant mass of Titan and red hair
1 feel it my duty to state plainly that
that unsophisticated looking creature
wears a wig Others who don't wear
wigs are fresh from the dyers hands, and
the question might be proposed for de-
batting society, which of the two meth
DDS of looking fashionable is to be pre-
ferred. Why red hair (also called gold)
should be fashionable, and which of the
two roads to destruction should be tax
en-, is beyond me to Determines
THE LATEST MANIA's.
Homilies were indited all over the
country on the folly of young lady
who married beneath her, but directly
after we find others, who do just the
same thing and papas with carriages
are everywhere in state of alarm. IT'S
strange how example becomes contagi-
Gus. Since the fact has become known
that three printers woke up one morn
ing to find themselves winners each of
five thousand dollars in the Louisiana
state lottery, have received, 1 would
not like to say, how many letters on the
subject. Each and all advise with the
wisdom of an owl, but what's the use {?
So my good friends if you are determin-
ed to risk your two dollars on ticket,
preachments on my part are not likely
to cause you to desist. II you don't
win that five or fifty thousand dollars,
you'll always think you might have
done so.
Ladies sometimes write, asking me also
to select different articles for them, etc.
I am always happy to be of service, but
not always having time at command, 1
have formed-as is becoming known-a
connection with the purchasing agency
conducted by Mrs. Ellen Lamar, SIT
Broadway. She devotes herself exclu
sively to the wants of out of town resi-
dents, and Is an example of what may be
done by integrity and energy. In per-
son or by agents she often visits five or
six leading houses before selection is
made, and thus having the entire city at
command, she has the largest opportuni-
ty for choice, for oftentimes an establish
ment which is excellent in one depart
ment, is weak in another. Circulars
with prices are forwarded on applica-
ton and letters of inquiry receive care
full answers. Lucy CARTER.
THE S0UTHERNERS WAKING UP.
The Negro Exodus Bringing them to