The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1882-10-11
LETTER FROM PHILADELPHIA,
Clothes. clock. and Comets.

-PaILApELPHIA, Oct. 9, 1882.
feminine raiment more attractive than in
this early Fall. The tastefully contrasted
dark colors with light onos, the dark of
course predominating, enrich and diversity
the panorama Of beautiful costume which
now enlivens our streets. Such vol
chosen groupings OF oolors were not seen
twenty years ago. Cali it aesthetic, +" or
what we please, there is growth in the
artistic, the beautiful, and in the intro
duction of refined and tasteful ideas into
every day apparel.
For oyerdrcsses, the new tapestry
woollens are very fashionable, woven in
various Turkish and Egyptian designs,
with arabesques, obelisks, lotus leaves
and arrow heads Cloth redngotes have
by themselves stiff and severe appear
ance, but it is now the fashion to wear
Carrick capes with them, made of plush
with q turned down collar and fastened
by silver brooch Some ladies prefe,
them made of the same cloth as the redin.
cote, with the border braided. For Au-
tumn toilets the favorite colors are copper
shades with electric blue, strawberry red
with rifle green. and russell brown with
green. If these and other peculiar shades
have taxed the ingenuity of the dyers, II
is not in vain, for tho effect of some OF
the contrasts they afford is truly be-
witching. 1t is pleasing to know that
Japanese stork and fan designs are going
out of favor. We have seen too MANY of
these. The stork is not sufficiently
elegant bird to be accorded the important
place he occupied in ornament.
A MATTER OF HOME DECORATION.
Among the new ideas coming into favor,
none are more worthy of mention than
the increasing taste for beauty in clocks.
A good clock is not only useful part of
the furnishing of every room, but it may
be as graceful an ornament us anything
that can be introduced. There was a
time when bronze clocks of real beauty
were too costly, except for the wealthy,
and when the only relief from them was
in the stiff and uncouth alabaster and
marble atrocities which numbered many a
mantel in the days of our grandparents.
Now the alabaster clocks have gone, for
alabaster is a soft and unsatisfactory ma
teral. In their place we see clocks In
many varieties, comprising every shade,
and embellished with many styles of or
namentation. Even the very plain mar
BILE clocks are beautiful, for those whose
taste is 10 that direction. Then we have
clocks in porcelain Of many forms of deco
ration, and with no end of varying fancy
as to dials and hands. The gilt and crys-
tai clock is an attractive variety. the
works being open to view, and protected
by heavy beveled plate glass. The
"stem winder' clock is a novelty of
permanent value. There are no key holes,
nor any entrances for dust, nor is there
any possibility of losing a key, for tue
winding apparatus is part of the clock. |
and snugly concealed within it. Bailey.
Banks s. Biddle have this season brought |
over from France very large importation
of these clocks, comprising at least three |
hundred different styles.
THE COMET.
Have you seen the comet2 Rise early
in the morning and look eastward. 1t
will pay you for your trouble unless you
think your morning nap is the most pre-
rious thing In the world. RALpH