The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-03-14
THELATEs ; KINK.
Tissue Paper Parties, and How They arc
Gotten Up.

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Boston Hsr1Ids go ip.E.s
Real "society" has nothing to do but
amuUe itself. What could be more delight.
full or more easy7 To possess means and
leisure, and to have nothing to do but en-
Joy ones selt-this Is the ideal Of q happy
life, with millions Of people who are out
eide the charmed circle Of society" But
in fact these people would DO greatly aston
ished II they knew how very difficult 3d.
ciety finds 1t to be constantly amused,
The young lady Of fashion suffers nnui
which her waiting maid never knows.
The young swell Of the jeineSSe dOrse Of.
len finds his time hang heavy upon hia
hands. Above all, the lady who aspires
10 lead IN fashion, Ia entertain, 10 give the
tone-this queen Of society 10 often, were
the truth known, entirely at her wits end
10 devise sons new method Of entertain.
ing and amusing the novelty.loying young
ladies and the bldSe young gentlemen
whom she assemblies In her elegant par.
lorB. ....... ....
TO the fashionable world, therefore,
any thing new, any entertainment which
promises TO be at once novel and amusing,
"a eagerly welcomed, aud its fortunate III.
ventor is hailed as a benefactor. Some oil
the devices for stirring the languld inter.
ests Of those trihets have no merit beyond
their novelty, but the latest one Of which
We have heard ls distinguished as being
not only new, but graceful and pretty al
we'll, and Hs affording opportunity for the
exercise Of ingenuity, skill and taste with.
oht limit. % ....l
Some fashionable lady in Ia monde on ron
SdmtLse not long since planned and carried
odt d ''lissue. paper party" The public In
general has, perhaps, not discovered It;
bot she lad found that tissue papers are
imported OF late OF most marvellous vari.
ETY. and beauty oil color. With a happy
stoke Of inventiye fancy, she determined
to give party at which tissue.paper
dresses should be de rigtAr. The idea was
at once recognized as happy one,
and the result was success 80
complete az 10 surprise even the
originator Of the idea In truth, the
dresses Conjufed up out Of this gauSy ma
terial are extremely beautiful. In the first
place the variety Of Colora, shades and
tints is practically inexhaustible, 90 that
every combination and every kind OF
effect are possible, Then the paper can
he made to initiate almost any thing
In the way Of costume and Trimming
fuaS, plaitings, founceS, fringes aud oil
the indescrlbable but highly important
fufbelows which no man In the world but
Mr.. Worth can ever hope TO understand
are oil given exactly, important even IN
The gided circles oil which we speak, IL the
fact that the paper ID Unlike the costly
fabrics which Il initiates III one respect.
II Il not costly. Probably only a woman
can know the full delight Of making a
dfees--lookihg at II with ecstacy-doubt.
ing about II, concluding that II ID hhoffidr
and then being able 10 calmly throw il
away, without q thought Of the expense,
and make another as unlike II as possible
The process Of making the costume Ia very
simple, "a described TO the writer by a
young lady, herself atrayed In a most
dlsttactlng Vatican costume, charm.
ing ID color and miraculous In cut, who
said: "You Just haste the skirt on over
the skirt, and then ron cut the waist ont
Of pique"-at least this Is what II seemed
to be. For ourselves, however, we should
cay that the making, the thinning, the
bastlng and cutting might safely be left TO
the taste and skllliul fingers Of the ladies,
while the important thing would seem TO
be 10 get the correct thing In the mate.
rial itself, which is understood 10 be i'm.
ported by a Boston concern, upon whose
wares fashion has Get her seal, Toe rich