The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-05-03
Pmrssian and Persian Parnsois-f">"
tomabIe Floral Fans.
NEW YORK, April %, 1880.

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.campior your fuw,
Fold cashmere shawls,
1 Take out your iaus
| And parasois,
sings a practical pet In response 10 re'
ooest for spring song. ana tninh'nS .nas,
perbaps, Ia looking at such articles 0, ac.ua
need and daily service we may unu son'
Lie, for ewes almost blinded with pris'
mat,c bues and brilliant coIorings, we turn
~ examinc the novelties displayed for IN
snecIion. but, alas the same tints, artistic
Oriental effects. and marvellous concerts
meet one everywhere, and in everything
that women wear, carry, or with winch
they adorn their homes, true, black, whlte,
and neutral tints are used, but they are ex'
ceptions, and not rules.
The novelties in parasols are wonderful
specimens OF human ingenuity, IN the per-
feet arching aud finish OF the ribs ana tue
artistic handles, which are sometimes claoo'
rately carved in ivory, pearl, gold, silver
let. bronze, ebony, oak, cherry, and other
hard woods. which are self-coored and not
vanished, but highly polished. The de-
signs are after NEUROLOGICAL subjects, Medu.
So heads. and other horrid objects, heads OF
animals. or are carved in flowers or odd
figures. The covers are very beautiful, and
when not made of the material composing
the costume should be TO match or contrast
with il, for the parasol is a part OF the fash
jonable toilet, and must not offend the cul'
tiyated tsstes OF the Elite by its want OF tact,
or perhaps we should say adaptation.
The most artistic shades are ILLUMINATED
in rays, circllng around their tops as II they
had been touched with coup de Sotiet OIL
suostroke, The reddish golden CLEAN ap-
0f i.
through any and every color Ia the brOcade
or the embossed Satin de Lyon, OF which
the covering is composed. Plain satins and
silks, in most delicate tin's, are decorated
with pictures, vines, and flowers, in hand
printing, and many OF those illustrating
| floral designs have the same flowers repro
duced in the silken fringes which border
the silken parasols.
When embossed fabrics or brocades, IN
the Persian designs and csmers-hair effects,
are not used, there are rich materials, ex.
ouisitelv embroidered in most artistic and
original designs, and parasols OF silver blue,
golden pink, and rose beliotrope, and other
deljcateIy-tinged fabrics, are bOrdered with
rare round point laces, point DucbeSse and
the less expensive Iaces, such as Languedoc
and Bret0nne.
me Innings, 100. ait WINS VI u" ~
cloud white, moonlight blue. cream, and
other shades, with stars OF silver or gold
over The sclf-colored surface, or in Persian
patterns. placed sometimes over and some
times under the bronze, gold, or silver ribs
that support the royal canopy.
A singularly quaint parasol had handle oil
unpublished, rough oak stick, with natural
knot for the hand-piece. The silken cover
was in oak-brown, with good-sized oak-tree
embroidered upon each one OF the panel
pieces in brown and green, with leaves and
acorDs perfect in shape and hue. A peculiar
effect was given to the parasol by moss, such
as you find in southern forests, being Sc
cured to the embroidered limbs OF the trees,
which hung gracefully down only when the
wind blew the light drab-colOred moss owe
the surface OF the parasol. NJ. h. L..