The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-10-21
STYLISH svArIOSER
The New Modes OF Getting mp Dinner
ana Wedding Cards

The new designs for stationary Of every
description for the coming season are unusu.
ally beautiful and display more ingenious
ness than has ever before cen seen. They
are in some Instances of a peculiarly unique
character, and will not fail to delight the
aesthetic tastes of the fair ones who are con
noisseurs in this description of merchandise.
The latest styles in note paper, wedding
and visiting cards, monogram and initial
stationary, ETC., have arrived from New
York, and are alrerdy on the market. Ac-
cording to a designer of this class of work
this city is far behind the metropolis in the
fancy stationary business. A brance of the
trade, and one which has of late been made
a specially by large New York stationary
firm, is Russia leather handkerchief, glove,
odor and jewel boxes and writing desks.
The stationary business east and in fact all
portions of the country, is at present and
will, from the prospects ahead, continue to
be for the winter, the largest done in his
country since before the panic This, of
course refers to tho high priced or fancy
branch of the trade. Wedding and visiting
cards will be of the most severe plainess, and
iniatils on the stationary will be designed in
the most elaborat and elegant manner Note
paper and envelopes will be much smaller
than last year and the use of tinted paper
will not be considered exactly the "thing."
Monograms crests and ooats.of.arms will b
all the fashion, especially in Illuminated de.
signs, In relation to heraldc devices and
crests and coats of-arms the designers ere
continually kept busy in hunting UP appro-
pirate emblems for those who have more
wealth than brains and no right whatever to
emblazon their carriages with them Cards
Of correspondence or regret cards are also
gotten up with illuminated designs.
In fact II would seem that the illuminated
style prevails throughout. In design cards
the principal devices will be illuminated
sphinxes, obelisks and insects. The East
lake style of illumination has altogether
gone out of fashion. Perhaps the most
elegant thing in stationery this year will be
the menu and dinner cards. AT the top
they will be decorated with real birds with
natural feathers. They are glued fiat to T.
paste board, and give tho cards most neat
and at the same time rich appearance. This
idea was the result of the ingenuity of
New York man. These birds which are
thus fattened out are ell brought from
South America, and their pumsge is of the
most gorgeous character. The menu cards will
10 WlNtuu VI pIiutcu' IL buo iucuu ls euUTl
one they will be written, but otherwise they
will be printed. There are also very beau
tiiul hand-painted and stamped horslly
designed meuu cards. There is nothing es-
pecially new in ball programmes. These
vary but little in style from year TO year,
but, with the exception of the bird design
already described, they will run about the
same rs usual. The Christmas and New
Years cards are this year more than ordi-
nauly handsome of chromatc designs, prn-
cipally of the bird pasted order and floral
styles. The handsomest New Years call
ing cards are gilt, bevel.edged, with illumi
mated devices. In note paper boxes there
are several new and beautiful styles One
of these is brocaded satin covered box in
various colors, but the newest thing is
satin covered box with engraved designs on
the top eff the box, and another the most ex-
pensive, with hand painted designs on the
top. All the large houses in this city are
daily receiving new stock from New York
city and testify to the fact that the styles
this year are of mo delicate and attract
i've character than they have ever before
handled.