Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-04-09
Partisan Novelties.

one novelty In stationery is the use Of pearl
gray note paper. On the corner Of envelopes is
engraved card, pinned on, and 1t bears word
or more, that is supposed to inform the person
to whom the note Is addressed of It's contents
before he or she opens 1t. discretion" Is one
of the forewarnings: "a votre service" is prob
ably compliance with some request; "Atten-
tom" quite arrests one; "Bonne Nouvelle"
sioDs. The most sensible OF all the Inscriptions
Is "R S.VP.," as IL Is business. Among other
notices on knicknackS Is Nous revenons"
Which ornaments blotter and album covers.
These words are printed across between flying
swallows painted In oils or water-colorS. Nous
rev1endrons' Is intended for presents from
ladies who leave Continental city and carry
regret with them.
The newest boxes for handkercE1efs are made
Oh tw1lled silk beautifully draped over card
board 10 look like small bundle; other boxes
for trinketS have lids dotted over with all sorts
OF painted insects.
Dessert wines are slipped into satin cache
bouteilleS, the corks OF which are heads with
hair dressed in the fashion Of the country
whence the wine is produced Alicante Is in a
pink satin bottle, and the cork or stopper Is a
Spanish girl with high comb. Port wine is in
for its stopper, and she holds fan IN her
hand. Pajarete Wine Is In Sulphur-colored
bottle OF satin, with bull-tighter cork, etc.
1t was supposed that artificial flowers could
not be made with greater perfection, nor Is the
new system at all perfect; but lie must be men
TONED for It's novelty. Roses are now being
mace OF Algerian SILK, as we use II on WfnderS.
1t Is punched and twisted In the shape of pc
tails, and roses thus made are mounted with
Chenille foliage.
Among novelties for the schoolroom are Mme
Chassevent's boxes Of movable notes, that
French children are now taught to move about
on printed music sheet placed before them
They learn their notes and harmony, at the
same time placing the quaver5. semi quaver5,
rests, &C., On the lines or between the spaces,
While music is dictated to them, each child Dip
ping In box OF all the different notes sorted.
seyent's system Is announced, and II children
really do quickly learn to Compose and discern
SOUNDS In this amusing manner great deal of
hard work Is spared and difficulties made easy.
The system is approved by all the great music
composers OF the day, who have written latter
Ing congratulations to the ingenious inventor
That children Of five should be able to write
out song by placing black tin notes In their
proper places, and, With the help OF the ear by
grouping them as We see on piece of music
attending occasionally to recurring flats and
SharpS, Is result which rather mortifles their
elders, many OF whom to this day look on har-
mony In the same light as mathematics, and
could no more write down an amorouS ditty
than a tripping song, even ii 1t were sung to
them times and times over.
The new menu cards are not tasteful; they
are honey pots of large size, out OF which
sing, with mouths wide open, the best artists
Of tue opera and operette singers. Dintng-ro0m
panels OF enamelled lava are very varied. EaS.
tern vegetation and flashing birds are tue sub
jects preferred; but there are Russian green
WOODS, and QheaSant5, cocks aud Pc lcock5 on
terraces. Russian stitch 1n'red cotton On white
linen IS the needieWork OF the hour; the linen
out when the work Is done, and renders IL easy
without thread counting.