The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-11-17


Belts are more stylish than ever.
Felt poke bonnets are imported for
autumn.
Dark gloves may be worn with
light dresses.
Plush makes a pretty frame for
hand mirrors.
Tortoise shell glass is the novelty in
fine glassware.
New fall goods have touches of yell
low through them.
Parisians will have nothing to do
with the gathering sleeve.
Push is imported for trimming
hats, boRpets, dresses and wraps.
Postal-cards are now sumptuously
lodged in cases of peacOck-blue plush.
The newest birthday cards have hop
vines and blossoms on back ground
Orange color is used in the decora-
| tions of libraries and reception rooms.
Myrtle green will be the fashiona-
bic color Jor ladies' dresses this win
| ter.
Worth has set down on striped ma
| terials, and declared them to be COM
mon.
For a hall table it is the thing to
have a card-tray carried by bronze
negress.
The latest aesthetic notion is that
| the nasturtium is not "sincere" like
the sunflOwer.
English ladies, who utterly abhOr
electric lights in bathrooms, are tax
ing kindly to lime lights.
Women who want to look stunning
will appear at the opera in clOaks of
Genoa velvet with bright-colored
| flowers.
An English association for the inn
! provement of dress calls itself with
great modesty, S. Z. G., which letters
stand for simplicity, elegance and
grace"
Pretty curtains are made of gray
| dOuble-faced Canton flannel and trim
med at the top and bottom with blue.
Rods and rings should be used in
hanging them, as they fall in straight
fold.
Solid colored stockings efvery dark
garnet, brown, or blue, as well as
| black, are used instead of stripped
hosiery for both boys and girls. The
ribbed merinO hose are commended
for winter.
Mrs. Mary Clemmer dined at Elm
wood, the home of Minister Lowell,
last week, the home of Mrs. Ole Bull,
who still resides there with her little
Norwegian daughter, who bares her
fathers name.
Persian net is recommended as a
substitute for Brussels lace for wells
and mourning collars and cuffs. The
recommendations of the Persian are
that it is very durable and cannot bo
made to crumple.
Lobsters, Lizards and frogs adorn
some new dinner-cards, which are
thereby made uncommonly ugly. Tho
lobster and the frog are not SO bad, but
what business lizard has on dinner.
card is not so easily seen.
Artists are now employed to ar
range the front windows of milady's
drawing room in that lavish, extrava
giant and eccentric style which makes
people passing stop and enquire
'FWhoever in the world lives there 2"
Wide-brimmed felt hats. with furry
edge OH the straight brim, are the
choice for small girls who wear their
hats banged on the forehead, and
with loose flowing locks behind. Soft
gray and made cOlors are stylish for
these hats, and dark red, blue or green,
to match suits, are preferred TO white
hats.
Begonias are a host in themselves;
the form and color of the leaves arc
so beautiful and so various that, with
a number of these eBsily cultivated
and handsome plants, we could
scarcely be said TO miss blossoms sum-
mer or winter; in flower or out of
flower, the plants are always pretty
and highly ornamental.
Mrs. Jennie June" Croly, the Pres
ident of the New York Sorosis, gavo
an address at the last meeting of that
society of the somewhat personal sub
ject of "The WomanhOod of Ge-
neYieVe Ward" Mrs Elizabeth Boyn-
ton Herbert, of the InterSOcedR, who
is now visiting in New York, attend
ed this meeting, and spoke highly Of
the address and general character of
the occasion.