The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-08-07
FEMININE FANClES.

FEMININE FANClES.
THE Philadelphia Mirror thinks that
the bathing dress of 1880 is a good THING
for some other fellows sister to wear
A LANGTRY hood looks easy enouoh
to make, but woe betide the woman who
tries to fashion it by folding an oblonp
piece of stuff together and hollowinp f
out in the neck! Every body Will
laugh at her, and her dreams of being
followed by murmur of elbow styi.
ish!" as she walks along will not be full
filed.
VERY little sunshades are prcphesied
in Paris. They are better as a protee-
ton for the face than the large umbrel-
las, for they have handles so short that
they are necessarily held quite close to
the countenance. When they come in
fashion here the sensible woman will
buy dozen sun umbrellas for nothing.
and be cool and happy for years.
THESE are few of the ways in which
English women use natural flowers !:
They make aprons of pink and white
peonies and wear them with white
gowns; drape pink satin with gera-
NUNS arranged in trellises; fringe blue
satin with red and white double fuch-
sias, and place pockets of double mar
cissus on jersey tunics. The countess
of Beehive seems most ingenious in de-
vising these decorations.
WHAT refreshing young women are
those who wear the gowns that appear
in English advertisements! In one 10
wide-eyed damsel, slender, low browea,
with neck like column of ivory,
stands in the opening between two cur
tains with deep embroidered border,
half raises one with her graceful arm,
and turns to show her star-dotted gown
falling stright to her feet, and LOOKING
wofully like her night gear, in spite of
It's slanting girdle and the big Porta fan
that lies against it, dropping idly from
the maiden's hand. In another pic
ture is a long robe of black velvet with
sleeves flecked with white, and Inside of
it is girl who kneels in deep window
and looks out from the easement with a
simply overpowering background of
curtain for encouragement.
Mrs. LYNN LINTON draws This little
picture by way of illustrating the phrase
bad STYLE" "That bad style, more
over, was thing so subtle that it could
scarcely be explained. The girl was
dressed as it would seem by the descrip-
ton unexceptionably; and yet the sum
total was failure. Her gray merino was
made with the profusion Of flounces and
trimmings dear to second-rate fashion,
and trimmed largely with mock lace of
a common kind and pattern. Round her
neck she wore blue tie-Bernard' s
locket slung on to a long streamer of
blue ribbon of a lighter shade than her
tie-and row of white satin-stone beads
with a cross depending. Her golden
hair was dressed in mdltitudinous puffs
and braids-a wonderful structure,
through which were visible unsightly
tracts of greenish-colored frizettes,
rather destructive of the effect sought to
be produced; her hat was an audacious
but very picturesque Rubens, with a
long white feather, red rose, moth
er-of-pearl buckle, and skeletonized
kind of aigrette as the artistic orna-
ments among the black lace and velvet
with which it was trimmed; and her
gloves were dark green, single-but-
toned.n
ONE of the summer fashions, as de-
scribed by Clara Belle in the Cincinnati
Enquirer, is a new laugh, which goeA
like this: "Te-he, te-he! ha, ha, ha!
Oh-h-h-h-ha, ha, hal" The directions
are as follows: " A low and sly begin
ming is made with the te-he,' as though
mirth was struggling inside to break out
through maidenly reserve, and the
mouth is kept tight closed, vile the eyes
are opened wide, thus giving an ex-
preston of mingled occurrences and
mischievousness. Then follows the 'Ha-
ha-ha, higher and louder, with part
ing of the lips to show the teeth, if they
be white and regular. The sOh-h-h
comes next in tone of surprise, re-
proof, or artless gayety, according to
the nature of the thing laughed at, and
the voice rises into pretty little scream.
The ensuing pause covers a sudden
sense of the improperly of making so
much noise, the eyes are cast down, and
a blush can in most instances be pro-
duced by holding the breath, with the
lungs very fully inflated. The final
Ha-ha-ha is given as a crescendo,
spiritedly, and without any show of re-
straint, like the outbursting hilarity of
an unconventional milkmaid. This nov
city in laughs is heard everywhere in
the metropolis, and is sure to become
popular at the summer resorts. With
a little alteration it can be made to fit
any mouth"
A Quaint French Town.