The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-03-11
FOR THE FAIR SEX.
A Chinese Beauty I'm Parts.

a Chinese Beauty I'm Paris
The wife of the Chinese ambassador
appeared al ball in Paris for the first
time unveiled in any European assembly.
Describing her appearance correspon-
dent says: A little, quaint woman, with
her hair plastered down to the sides of
whitewashed face, was seen blinking
in the gaslight as bats are said to blink
in the sun. She tottered through the
rooms on her small, mutilated feet, won
dering even more than she was won
uered at. Never before in Chinese his
tory had the wife of high official been
seen even by her own countrymen, much
less by the foreigner. An American
may take credit for the conversion of his
eXcellency to common sense, MIR. Hit.
of the American legation, having pre-
vailed upon the ambassador to visit his
house to see the great .fete of the repub-
lie.
The sight OF this Chinese beauty was
q little disappointing She was very
handsome or the reverse according to
your way Of looking at it,. have heard
the most contradictory verdicts from
different people. Her oily skin was COW
cred with powder laid on as thickly as
IT it were s. clowns face at pantomime
time. She toddled about the. rooms for
a short time on her poor mutilated feet
and then went home, no doubt to dream
OF what the sun and moon and morning
stars would say next day on this awful
innovation Of all the Confucian proprie-
ties. The great anxiety OF the minister
here is to do rs the rest do, to follow the
lmmemorial customs. Sitting at dinner
the other day, he was observed to do
precisely what was done by the gentle.
W hn CAt -
the same dishes in precisely the same
proportions, and when the other asked
the servant for another piece of bread he
made sign to h We bread, too. The
European-something of an amateur in
porcelaln-at length turned up one of
the dessert plates, just to see the mark
OF the fabric. The Chinese minister i'm
mediately did the same.
From Jennie Junes New York Fashion
Letter.
Ihe hasques, jackets and the like fol-
low the outlines of the "Jersey.n an
artistic bodice of silk which is woven
TO mt the form, has no seam, and adapts
llself to any skirt or underwaist. In
I'm gland this bodice has become a rage.
ana II Is used to complete costumes by
attaching it to a short killed skirt and
uraplng " scarf about it. The jersey is
simply woven bodice of what is called
spun" silk, and looks like silk under
vest IN color. 1t is finished with deep
nne elastic rlbbing at the throat and
Wrists and requires trimming such as
a circular collar of finely plated silk or
lace at the neck and wrists to cover
and supplement- the ribbing unless the
Wearer prefers, as some !adies do. the
pure outlines. The price is twelve dol
iars, which Il hot greatly in advance of
the cost in London, duly added. This
settles the question of hoops and bustles
ano bunehy drapery. The STYLES will be
varied, OF course, but the natural ont
lines will still lie preserved, and drapery
Will he low, caught to one side and ir-
regularly rathor than festooned on both
sides like window curtains.
Light tlnts In contrast with dark rich
stuns are in demand, and the lighter,
the nearer tile white, the more elegant
tney are. Ivory came's hair cloth Is
mace into skirt with mountings of
brocaded stuff, strined in red cold and ID
blue, upon an olive ground. This bro
c9de forms The Jacket, which fits close
to the figure, has collar, pocket and cuffs
OF the same, and no contrast in color or
materials sa7c buttons, which are of
lrrldescent pgarl.
VI course, popular costumes will be
mace OF dark materials-gray, brown,
Snades OF mastic and stone, or gen nsdarme
blue; but the combinations are always
Indian or Persian mixtures, and they
are used very much as last season, as
6ands, pockets, vests, scarfs, diagonal
folds, hall cuffs, half pockets, collars
and the like.
There is this difference between wool
ana cotton costume materials; that
whereas, the body of the wooden cos
TUNE IS plain, and the material for trim
ming inquired, the new dress cottons are
an inquired and represent expensive
brocaded fabrics in pattern as well NO
blended coloring.
Among the novelties are cotton cranes:
cronk!ed, almost transparent cotton
iabrlc; inquired in colors upon light and
DARK grounds, but principally dark.
Inere Is, also, new cotton faille," a
silky sort of corded cotton, printed in
delicate colors upon light tinted ground.
ana exactly adapted for making up
INTO dainty summer costumes, with
white lace aud ribbons for garden
parties and such. 1t is comparatively
expensive, tiIough-seventy-fi cents
per yard and its appearance after pass
ing through the hands of the ordinary
laui uIesS Is proDlematlcal, Tor If colors
would stand such test, texture might
not.
Brown sateenS and "momie " cloths
reappear in very much the same designs
and coloring of last year, but the Madiar
ginghams are in charming blue and
white checks very suitable for the wear
of children and young ladies, and there
is novelty in Chambery striped cotton
which is strikinp and conS;dara1 Lu
some very stylish, though the brown
stripes on the unbleached white is more
suggestive of bath towels than any-
thing else. II is, however, to be used
in conjunction with sheeting, as well as
by itself, and when cut on the bias and
employed as a trimming for fish
wife }" tunic, it may seem to be quite a
part OF the natural order of things.
Summer fans have made their appear
ance, and brown stems and fibers
thrown half way across the outer edge,