Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1881-03-10
BRIDIL BEDS AND BED CLOTHES.
The Fashionable styles - Latest
Thing In Night Gowns.

Cincinnati Enquirer
The fashion Of decoration has extended
To bed-clothes. Quilts of white satin,
linen and cotton serve as the ground for
embellishments by brush, needle and
decalcomanie. Some of these coverings of
sleep are beautiful as well as gorgeous.
Floral designs are most common but
have seen on quilt intended for use by
a bridal couple, a fine painting of the
figures Cupid and Psyche. Quilts for
babies cribs are elaborated wonderfully
by mothers patient needles. BY the
way, u growing fashion as to beds separ-
ates husbands and wives at night.
Spaniards, Cubans and South Americans
always sleep singly. The bridal chamber
at the Windsor Hotel is at this very time
furnished with two beds, an extra one
having been put in for Cuban
couple on their honeymoon tour--and the
thermometer nearly every night at zero.
a not inconsiderable number of wealthy
New York families seize eagerly upon
foreign customs, and they have now taken
up the one-in-a- bed idea Probably they
are right, viewed from a sanitary stand
point, and the physicians generally
encourage them. Still, some persons gain
by having bed-fellows younger and with
greater vitality than themselves, the
scientific conclusions being that the
weaker draw health from the stronger
This point is involved in a matrimonial
5quabble, just now the talk of our fash
ionable society. Mr.. A. is TO years old
and somewhat decrepit. His wife is 80
and abounding in rudy health. Sht
wanted To introduce the two-b bed fashion
He objected. She urged it ON the ground
that all their set were doing SO. Il,
quarrelled outright. She refused 10 seeI
| with him. lie consulted with LAWYERS
about II divorce, but they told him hei
action did not amount to refusal o
martial rights. So the ease stands il
| allowance. w.. ~.
Wolnen's caprices regarding their bed,
are numerous and sometimes peculiar
| The habit of looking under the bed for
man is invariable, as everybody knows
even with those women in whom the dis
covery of u man might reasonably be sup
posed to cause no fright. Where is til,
| married man who ever presumes to inter
tere with his wife's exact management 0
every sheet, pillow and quilt, Maiden
| are just AS tinicky as matrons about thei
beds and bed-clothes. All the old store
about their circumspection in going t.
bed are based on fact. Their night
| gowns receive about as much attention a
their dresses for daytime wear. Tn
most popular bed-garnents for womel
| Just now have either yoke or box plai
behind to hold the tullness, while tn
fronts are trimmed long and square, lik
mans shirt. There may b
three or four lengthwise box-plait
behind. A single wide rutfle or els
two rutiles, with the outer one quit
narrow. make good trimming for til
neck OF the gown. Sometimes thes
rutfles are box plated, edged with plai
Nalenciennes lace, and there is length
wise row of feather stitching between tn
hoX-plaits. The square shirt front
then formed of open-work embroider,
showing the red or blue chpmse undel
meath, II the wearer retains such ga
ment at night, or her own surface ii sI
doesn t. The spots Of embroidery altri
nate with squares of lace or else then
are rows of insertion separated Ivy puff;
either straight or IN diagonal clusters o
perhaps. there are as many as eight row
OF beading, through which is run vel
marrow satin ribbon. lvory-white ribbc
is preferred to colors for all divinity
present. Brier stitching on narrow banc
is used between marrow putts on shi
bosums. In some cases the shirt front
formed by rows of neede-work done &
tile gown, separated by clusters of fiji
tucks.
CO9uttry in night-clothrs is as mut
INDUCED in as ever. The coy maiden
often as careful as bride in arrayii
: herself for sleep. Even beads are no
quite extensively used in the embroidel
Of the b0soms, making fine surfac
truly, to ahrade the wearer's flesh, if 81
he given tn lying on her face. The d;
of the night-cap is completely gone. FL
old women and no girls now make thel
selves frightful by covering their hea
with caps. A new practice among girls
to sleep with their hair flowing free, Al
the sight of it spreading out over a pillt
is certainly very winsome but there a
tangles III the morning to pay for it, al
; a more sensible plan is to use net. PHI
and blue ribbons in knots at the shoulder
baby fashion, is one of the new kink
aud tn" extreme of absurdity is reach
when night-gown is discarded altogetl
and the arms, legs and bosom d
left bare all night by me
, | apology for Il chemise. This nonsen.
i however, is not much INDUCED in by
spectacle women. A novel night-ru
shown in the stores is modification
the much ridieuled chemiloon. 1t i
both sleeves and trousers attached to
body. The wearer gets into it through
slit up and down the front and til
buttons herself in. The cut is iaun
= the trimmings elaborate and the id
, seems To successfully combine taste a
' utility. Ii is cut to fit the figure loOs.
and ii the figure be reasonably good, I
effect ought to brquit- enhancing. Mig
gloves are Il Iirw toilet device. They
made of cloth or uudrrssrd kid, and
u worm with view to keep the hands 5
h and white. Some of them are alleged
the dealers to he medicated. While
a this general subject | may as well 5
q that with the increasing use Of poro
V plasters, liver-pads, heart-discs and Ell
:; tric breast plates, the body OF the aver;
9 woman, when she undresses for bed
/ grotesquely spotted.
-, Dead and Sensible of H."