The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-02-11
Pour Les DANES.

Flounces are becoming more and more
fashionable.
Rosettes are worn again on the instep of
dancing shoes.
The taste for embroidery as dress decora-
ton increases.
Reseda is the favorte color for the newest
cheviot costumes.
Frog buttons and parallel rows of Titan
braid trim cloth dresses very elegantly.
Mauve and heliotrope shades have returned
to popular favor for evening dress.
Young and slender women prefer low,
round waists with belts for evening wear.
Some of the large hats have the crowns
completely surrounded with pomyons.
Side draperies, long and fiat, similar to
those worn on dresses twenty-five years ago,
are revived.
Brown net striped with gold and worn over
brown satin, makes much admired ball cos
tune.
A handsome street dress is the result of
wearing black polonaise over fine black
velveteen underskrt.
An exhibition is announced at Paris for
February, exclusively composed of the art
work Of women painters.
Black lace evening dresses are veay fash
ionable this winter, especially when bright
ened with gold braid embroideries.
The artistic dress revival has reached Paris,
but the Partisan productions in this line show
tendency toward more ornate style than
that of the London aesthetics.
Women in Scotland have this year, for the
first time, the right to vote on municipal ques-
of the franchise came into effect on New
Years day.
Lavina Labricus, teacher in the govern
ment high school at Rome, is the author Of
valuable school books on Italian history,
which would be very useful to the young STU
dent of modern Italian.
Wide collars of all kinds are the rage,
fchus, white and black, draped with a flower.
Cravats are less worn; high fur collars render
them useless out of DOORS and at home they
are the appanage of the maid rather than the
mistress.
Miss Minnie Cameron, aged IS, has been
awarded the silver medallion of the royal hui
name society, for saving her sister, Kate
Cameron, who was in danger of drowning
while bathing in the river Ottawa, at Thurso,
Quebec.
Bridesmaids wear wells of Oriental lace
This is net on which figures are worked in
chain stitch. The border is heavily embroid
cred, the center of the lace spugged or worked
in large or small polka dots. This lace is
made in France.
Extremely long-tailed jackets are worn.
They are cut away very much like gentle
mans dress coat, reaching to the back Of the
knees usually. These jackets are made of
brocade and worn ever velvet skirts or of dark
green overskirts of plush to match.
The owners of Russian sable are taking
heart of grace since their sets are again in FASH
ion. Even the Hudson Bay sable is worn
again more than it has been for years, and
mink is in the way of being restored to its for
mer favor. All brown furs are now fashion,
able.
Lace bags are very pretty and add much to
the finish of fashionable opera or theatre tot
LET. They are held by silver or gold charm
suspended from the belt or waist band on the
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BOWS and clusters of flowers are also fashiona-
bic with these toilets.
Miss Mary Hinckley, at the last meeting of
he Natural History society of Milton, Mass,
,ead very interesting paper on "Some of
he Differences of our Native Tadpoles." Miss
Hinckley is the first lady who has read |
before this society. 1t was |
received with hearty applause and high COM