The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1880-09-16
Women 8 Ways


decoration Is the chef characteristic 81 the
autumn fashions. The richness Of the cost
hest costumes lies not 20 much To the ground
work natera! as IN the elaborate trimmings
and some OF these are wonderful for beauty
aud originally Of design. Costumes will bc
fairly covered with heads OF many shapes
and colors, equi,ite lace work IN vines ,nd
flowers, and objects Of rare sores. For in
s;anee, books and eyes will come out into
full view but they will be ornaments
things. and not the merely useful bits Of
metal that wives are always wanting their
husbands to hitch together. French women
are setting n example which ough, TO be
followed. They are sporting littlc golden
and Jewaed pigs In their ears, on the ban
giles at their wrists and in brooches. This
fashion has long been held in Germany, the
Germans having adopted il as ! sort OF
fetish, owing 10 the significance given -
the word pig in their familIarconverstlon
a sort OF synonym for good luck. Some
of the new buttons show such designs. IN
enamel or metal, as he fables OF the fox
and the stork, the tortoise and hare race.
the wolf and the sheep, all worked out
quite artistically and in tiny pictures. Va
rious scenes and emblems are wrought, too,
ia fine colors on oxidized surfaces. The but
ton trade, In fact. has come TO the front
luiS Ill II SNiulu1 o1 ooJSStS- II
fashionable woman will be buetoned with
pictures that we'll deserve framing. Tue
pig is also seen in these buttons, sometimes
carefully etched on a FURNISHED surface, anu
AZ in IN proud has relief. The most tx
pensive of these buttons are of pearl. cut in
cameo, the white ground and darker strata
being turned to effective account. Opals,
pearls and emeralds are extensively used for
button settings and so are the precious
metals. Buttons have become Jewelry, AID
our largest jewelers. now deal in them. \
set of twenty-four dress buttons, set with
jewels, are marked 500 in a certain Broad
way show case. When the wearer of these
buttons says, ''I'll bet my buttons, the
offer will not lie SO very picayunish; and
won't she sew them on tight. though
Some of the decorative trimming is of white
satin, the lower edge scolloped with the
finest handwork in guilt thread and colored
beads, the figures representing butterflies
and flowers in high relief, there being an
underlying Of some sort. Some of the ap
plique on white satin consists of beautiful
meuallions Of pearls and metal threads. OF
course those snowy trimmings are for full
dress, though there are IN jd:fed kinds for
street costumes. Jet retains its hold on
fashion, and enters largely into current or
namentation. There is a rage-a transient
one, | hope-for low corsages.
A very select dinner party was given at
Delmonlco's on Tuesday evening.
when | entered the ROOM says q
friend, Il was absolutely mortified, ysu
know. | looked across the table, and there
sat a row of women apparently naked.
Their arms were bare the whole length, and
SO were there bosoms down about to the
ed ge of the table. So all | could see oil
them was flesh, except for narrow straps
over their shoulders and the straps were
narrow. You can't imagine how | blushed,
just for an instant
SARAH
She is a common topic in fashionable cir
cles. She will set the style for our women.
The modern plays In which she will appear
permit her to weara WIDE variety of fine
costumes, from the home wrappers of ''Frou
Frou'' to the ball dress of Camille" all
to be fresh from the Partisan makers. One
Of the Managers stipulations was she should
have an entirely new wardrobe. tie knows
we'll the charm of dress for the feminine
mind. What | set out to say was that a
mOmentous point has arisen in my mind.
What does Sarah do about low corsages!
Her throat and breast must be craggy, so
thin is she; yet the descriptions of her
dresses say that some of them are decouettc.
A lady, who has seen the actress many times
on the stage in Paris says to me:
Il am as sure as can be that Bernhardt
wears a false bosom. She is fully as thin
as correspondents have described her, get
the exposed part of her trunk is just as
smooth and fair as wax. On, you needt
tell me; plums don't grow on brambles, and
smooth bodies don't grow on bony women.
Here's another proof. | never saw her IN a
low dress that her neck wasn't enclrcled by
a ribbon or a tight necklace, to hide the line
on the bogus flesh. Depend on it, she never
shows her real bOsom-nota rldiculously
rounded affair, nothing at all in the way of
s%tuffing, but a thin, close fitting, delicately
colorcd cover for ier own uneven surface.
Oh she couldn't fool me-"
A question for fashionable New York to
settle soon is whether to recognize Bern
hardt socially. There is the powerful pre-
cedent Of the British aristocracy taking her
to their arms On the other hand, her
brazen, bad morals have been extensively
J published here. ] prefer to rest my repu-
tation as a social expert on the prediction
that most doors will be closed against her
ard her bastard sons.
- was a visitor at many a Murray
Hill house; but when she parted from her
husband, and took to unconcealed drunken
ness and debauchery, she was taboOed
ANDRE. the ex-mistress of the King Of Hol-
land. was excluded from the favor shown by
exclusive families to the other singers of
Eaplesoo's Opera Company. OF course,
there may be people Of wealth and suffi-
Gent respcctability to pass muster who will
receive Bernhardt.
SINGULAR SwARMING OF FLIEs.-HaE
far, Sept. 7.-lmmense swarms of flies
passed over Guysboro on Sunday. They
came from the east, and resembled a dark
cloud. People were much alarmed.
On Saturday afternoon last a remarkable
Az storm was encountered on the Hudson
River. A steamer which met it between
New Hamburg aud Newbury describes it as
reching southwark, from shore to shore, as
far as the eye could reach and as high up.
There were millions upon millions of flies,
and they hurried northward as thick as
snowfakes driven by a strong wind. They
were long and black and had white wings,
and the clouds must have been miles in