Morning journal and courier., 1881-03-07
The Latest Fashion-'sTissue-Pap
 Parfies.''

Real society," has nothing to do but to
 amuse itself. What could be more delightful
 or more easy! To possess means and leisure
 and have nothing to do but enjoy one's self
 that is the ideal of happy life with mil
 lions of people who are outside of the
 charmed circle of ''society." But, in fact
 these persons would be greatly astonished if
 they knew how very difficult society finds it
 to be constantly amused. The young lady
 of fashion suffers from an ennui which her
 waiting maid never knows. The young
 swell of the jeunesse doree often finds his
 time hang heavy upon his hands. Above
 all the lady who aspires to lead in fashion.
 to entertain, to give the tone-this queen of
 society is often were the truth known, en-
 tirely at her wits end to devise some new
 method of entertaining and amusing the
 novelty loving young ladies and the blase
 young gentlemen whom she assemblies in her
 elegant parlors.
 To the fashionable world, therefore, any thing new, any entertainment which prom ises to be at once novel and amusing, is
 eagerly welcomed, and it's fortunate inventor is hailed as a benefactor. Some of the de- vices for stirring the languid interest of these trifers have no merit beyond their novelty, but the latest one of which we have heard is distinguished as being not only new, but
 graceful and pretty as well. and as afording opportunity for the exercise of ingenuity, skill and taste without limit.
 Some fashionable lady in le n1o11de 0u r0'a s'Gmuse not long since planned and carried out ''tissue-paper party" The public in general has, perhaps, not discovered it, but she had found that tissue papers are inn ported of late of most marvellous variety and beauty of color. With happy stroke of inventive fancy, she determined to give party at which tissue paper dresses should be detqeur. The idea was at once recognized as a happy one, and the result was 8 success so complete as to surprise the origina- tor of the idea. In truth, the dresses COIL jured up out of this gauzy material are ex- tremely beautiful. In the first place, the variety of colors, shades and tints is practi- cally inexhaustible so that every combination and every kind of effect are possible. Then the paper can be made to initiate almost any thing in the way of costume and trimmings ruffs, pleating, hounces, fringes and all the but highly important furbelows which no man in the world, but MT Worth can ever hope to understand-are all given exactly; and another consideration, impor- tant even in the gilded circles of which we speak, is the fact that the paper is unlike the costly fabrics which it initiates in one respect it is not costly. Probably only woman can know the delight of making dress-look- ing at it with ecstacy-doubting about it. concluding that it is ''horrid"-and then be-, ing able to calmly throw it way, without a thought of the expense, and make another as unlike it as possible. The process of mak- ing the costume is very simple. as described to the writer by young lady, herself ar rayed in a most distracting Vatican costume, charming in color and miraculous in cut, who said You just baste the skirt on over a skirt, and then you cut the waist out of least, this is what it seemed to be, For ourselves, however, we should say that the making, the triming, the basting and cutting, might safely be left to the taste and skillful fingers of the ladies, while the s'correct thing'' in the material itself, which is understood to be imported by a Boston concern, upon whose wares fashion has set her seal. The richness, the variety the wonderful delicacy of shade and tint land, and that this really charming form of evening entertainment is becoming more and more fashionable and general speaks well at once for the taste, the esthetic perception, and the good sense of society"