The new North-west., 1881-10-07
EvE-ANaELIcAL CORNER.

Beaded gloves are becoming fashionable.
Necklaces are only worn with full dresses.
There are but two hundred styles of silk
stockings.
New wall papers initiate gobelin tapestries
admirably.
The rage for Spanish lace has not in the
least abated.
Black fringe on colored gowns is one of
the winters freaks.
The new salmon-pink is called crevette, or
in our venacular, shrimp.
Large collars are worn by children, grown
girls, matrons and elderly women.
Heather in sunshine and heather in shade
are two light and dark tints of new cheviot
mixtures.
Some of the chenille ffipges are a foot
deep, and the jet beads used with them are
as big as plums.
With the exception of steel beads all kinds
of beads will be used in trimming during
the fall and winter.
A new lace for trimming bonnets is col
ored guipure, in which q deal OF chenille
thread is introduced.
Combs of every description when not of
ivory, are now of thin tortoise shells, and
the shell Is more worn.
The far-famed gobelin tapestry Is begin
ming to be used as in olden times; for wall
decoration, as in panels, mats, etc.
An Indiana man has named bus after
Emma Abbott, but it can never become as
popular as Emma's stage buses are.
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furnished unless a pretty Japanese lantern
or two are hung in its hooks and corners.
Plush and velvet are the materials most
used for autumn pokes. Feathers are used
on them all, and this is the only feature they
have in common.
A novelty for neck scarfs for the street is
dotted net, with the dots as large as silver
quarter dollar, and the spots may be fat or
of raised chenille or else beaded.
We have seen ladies who were insuffera-
bly, shocked at the sight of man in his
shirt-sleeves and their own arms were bare
almost to the shoulders Women are strange
| creatures.
Red is likely to be in high favor for several
months to come, but red in many shades,
such as copper, mahogony, sultane and other
brick-dust colors, besides claret, ruby, car
dinal and garnet hues.
Ladies' slippers are now done in the old
| tapestry stitch, with their dainty portraits
of children, and their romantic sceneries,
| such as a Spanish grandee playing the
| guitar under the balcony Of his lady love.
| The accordeon crown for hats Is four
| coruered piece, resting upon folds like those
Of an accordeon. The effect would be very
pretty, especially in black velvet, IL 1t did not
suggect constantly the asthmatic voice of the
instrument after which it is named.
Mrs. Jones went to picnic the other day,
one of those quiet picnics with no fuss,
where you get up at o'clock in the morn-
ing, pack off four children and ten lunch
baskets, and CAD around In the heat all day
and it made Mrs. Jones so tired she had
to do two days washing to rest herself.
The custom of shaking hands when intro
| duced Is going out, aud instead, ladies are
practicing the art of making delicate,
graceful courtesy, such as their great grand
mothers dropped when they were young and
| charming. The courtesy Is not a particu-
larly cordial expression, but it is quaint and
pretty in quaint and pretty women.
They sat together, broodfui, quiet,
She, nyum-nyuni,
| He, lah-de dab,
In auvunrD's fading light.
"Oh, give" quoth he, full soft and low,
| " A little KISS,
| A lease of bliss,
Once more before | go.''
al cannot, George" she blushing said,
"'ris very wrong, l fear,
But if you promise
Not to tell
Pll let you chaw my ear"
THE STORY OF ABsALoM THOMPSON.
Twas SUNDAY eve and the small boy stood
With his eye to the keyhole pressed,
| And he saw his sister BesSy's head
On Absalom Thompsons vest.
Then he ran TO his parent stern and told,
| And the parent stern replied:
4" There amt no harm in the vest, know"
But the lad refused to slide.
" There amt no harm in the vest, slide out"
| And his eyes flashed bright that minute,
| " But amt il dangerous, daI," he asked,
| when Absalom Thompsons IN it 2"