The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-01-08
FACTS AND FANCIES FOR THE FAIR.

PLUSH is used to excess on Paris
dresses.
SQUARE breakfast caps are again in
vogue.
PRovERB in Paris Worth makes
woman.
WOODEN oatmeal clothes are manu-.
featured in England for dress goods.
The ladies o. Muscatine, Iowa, have
already formed their leap year club.
DAGGERs, with handles Of silver fila.
gree, and others of shell and jet, are
worn in the hair.
MRS. GEORGE W. CHILDs has given
$500 to the fund for the education Of
of the orphaned children of Gen. Hood.
ANOTHER old lady has " come to the
front" with a famous bedquilt composed
of 1923, 456, $50 pieces Of calico.
GLOSSY materials are preferred to
velvets for jet embroidered bonnets, and
hollow jet beads are used on the rim.
NINE. EDMOND ADAM, who has just
started magazine in Paris, receives
lady visitors only once year.
BLACK velvet belts and bags are some
times worked in a pGln leaf pattern,
initiating precious stones,
IT has been ascertained, after patient
investigation, that courtship averages
three tons of cold each.
A COSTLY, but stylish trimming, is in
two colors; one of watered silk and the
alternating one of satin.
PLAID silk, laid in folds 20 as to look
like a neckerchief and trimmed with
white Breton lace. is imported to wear
with black dresses
BUTTERFLIES, huge flies, locusts and
lizards are made Of metal and fasten on
the large bows of ribbon used for trim
ming dresses.
The matter of making straw hats was
started by little girl in DedEam, Mass,
and from this has grown a widely ex-
tended business.
RED cashmere undershirts of bright
scarlet, cardinal red, garnet and wine
colors, are warm looking, and heavy
enough for comfort.
In the coming race for the matrimo-
NAL prize, the family flower that makes
the best bread can sit down a winner on
any lap she chooses.
MRS. ROBERTS, now living in Henry
County, Tennessee, claims to be the first
white woman who ever crossed the
Tennessee River.
GRAPE flowers are considered very
beautiful, and are extensively used on
bridal dresses where orange blossoms are
no longer prime necessity.
MRS. ELLEN COLLINS, of New York;
has died of grief, because her son has
gone on the Bennett polar expedition.
She knew that many went, but few ever
returned.
A WOMAN of brains suggests that
girls, no matter how wealthy their fam.
| lies, should be brought up to some oc.
cupation whereby they can earn an
honest living in the hour of need.
VELVET embroidered in sets com.
prising vest, cuffs, collar and pocket
laps is shown for handsome costumes.
Satin embroidered in the same manner
Is shown also.
A NOTED Partisan hair-dresser says.
"The dragging back of the hair at the
temple has always been mistake. Even
the oval faces lose by it. The couture
should widen slightly above the ears"
CARDS ornamented with original de.
vices and painted by the hand of the
ostess or friend, are to be one of the
sentiments which will attach to dinner,
tea or lunch giving this season.
TEA gowns and house jackets are worn
for afternoon. The back of the jacket
fits the figure; the front is like blouse.
These are made of thick silk and EN-.
broidered.
A BRIDAL dress, composed entirely of
lace, is a novelty not likely to grow
com mon. The train Of Spanish lace,
with Breton plaitings, and the apron is
of point lace, the waist of shirred lace,
and the sash of point.