The Newtown bee., 1879-04-22
FOR THE FAIR SEX.
Fashio,, Notes.

Vests and borders of black and white striped satin are used on black silk dresses Wine color and gendarme blue are the most fashionable shades for sun umbrellas.
 Rows of stitching are thought to be a sufficient finish for the under skirts of cloth costumes.
 The sleeves of thin waists will be gather ed in three places this year instead of bel left plain.
 Several rows of shaded rose-colored silk are used as a trimming for the bottom f spring skirts.
 It costs twenty-six dollars year to be- long to the Russell the London club for ladies and gentlemen.
 The new bead-embroidered gimps are wrought with gold thread and cost from five to twelve dollars yard.
 Peplum points, descendin low on the skirt, are used by some dressmakers who wish to avoid the panier.
 White and colored Canton crape bonnets, trimmed with flowers, feathers and lace ap- pear among other millinery novelties. Satteens and mummy cloth novelties show dainty little flower and leaf bouquet and vine patterns in jardiniere colors on pure white grounds.
 Broad-brimmed hats are more suitable for our bright warm American summers than English round hats, and are much more becoming.
 Gypsy bonnets have large flowing brims raised in front, tied down at the sides and falling on the neck, after being partially raised in the back.
 Fringe is not used on wooden suits. Elm broidered or brocaded stuffs or embroidery, are preferred. Colors are used on grays and lawn colors, but black on black gowns.
 The favorite flowers for tacking on bon- net crowns are asters, marguerites, pansies and eglantine blooms, with the yellow an- thers showing plainly on the delicate pink ground of the petals.
 Pompadour gauges with alternate lace and satin stripes, with flower and vine pat terms over the same, made up in eombina- tion with plain silk and satin, make very stylish summer evening dresses
 Light summer silks, which will be much employed for street suits, have chinchilla stripes, or narrow elouded chine stripes set close together on brown, cardinal, garnet, blue and other colored grounds.
 Smoothly banded hair, with very little frizzing on the forehead, and cAignons worn low, is the fashion which has all of sud- den been adopted in Paris, according to Emeline Raymond in Ha,per's Bazar.
 Dressy parasols for the country or sea- shore are of ecru pongees, with spots, rings, or diamond patterns of brown, red, or blue, or they are of plain ecru pongees, with ban dana or Scotch plaid Things, or gay-colored Things with white polka dots.
 The newest and most elegant umbrellas for all occasions are in very dark wine colors, or gendarme blue or brown, or navy blue, black or invisible green, and of the rich, soft, servlceable, twilled umbrella silk that is both sun and shower proof.
 The costliest pendants are made with one large iewel-a solitaire diamond, sap phire, opal, emerald, amethyst, topaz or cats eye-for the center, embellished with gold traceries or small diamonds all around, and fine gold jeweled fringe or tassels.
 The quaintest mixtures of color appear in mummy cloths, as stripes of yellow-green, pink and white, all mingled together, and patterns resembling Satsuma ware, with creamy grounds and small flower designs in shades of brown, Sevres blue and scarlet.
 How to Make Cologne Water Easily.
 The only perfume which never seems to offend any, and which leaves no unpleasant twang behind it, is that of cologne water, which stimulates while it soothes the senses and suggests pleasant wholesomeness, in stead of any sickish sweetness, as the best ot the extracts and essences and bouquets are apt to do. We do Lot mean, of course, the cheap and common cologne water of the druggists, which is usually very much worse than none at all, and wont to leave, after drying, the smell of burned sugar where it has been used often, as it is made ot the poorest spirit, and necessarily without sub sequent distillation, without regard to the fact that it requires the strongest proof of rectifed spirit to dissolve the combined oils properly where the process of distillatlon ls not used. Indeed, with no trouble at all, any one can make in her own store-room a better article of cologne than that which is usually bought by thoroughly dissolvine a fluid drachm of the oil of bergamot, orange and rosemary each with half drachm oi nereli and a pint of rectifed spirit. As good as can be made out of cologne itself however, is also quite as comfortably pre- pared at home as at the chemist's-at st much less than the chemists prices that on' feels warranted in using it freely, simply by mixing with one pint of rectified spirit two fluid drachms each of the oils of bergamo and lemon, one of the oil of orange, an' half as much of that of rosemary, togethe with three-quarters of drachm of nereli an' fodr drops each of the essences of ambergri and musk If this is subsequently, distllle' it makes what may be called perfec cologne, but it becomes exceedingly fine b
 being kept tightly stoppered Tor two
 three months, to ripen and mellow beior
 use--New York Chemist.
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