Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-07-27
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Vandyke red is in high fashion this
summer.
Pansy null in Quaker kerchiefs are new
in neckwear.
Two silk pocket handkerchiefs make a
pretty tennis apron.
Detachable bows of ribbon are now used
for trimming night.dresses.
Dressing uniformly with bridesmaids is
getting to be out of fashion.
The new shade of blue called blue de
mer is rival to cadet blue for street cos.
tunes.
Some of the new satins are such marvels
of delicate fower-printing as almost to
merit framing.
A bunch of artificial radishes appears
upon new French bonnet of dark green
straw, faced with rose pink.
The city government of Portland is con-
sidering the advisability of appointing q
woman City Physician. There are three
women doctors in that city.
A new and pretty material for summer
dresses is crinkly, silky Grape, called dia.
montine, which for evening wear is made
up over surah and trimmed with Spanish
lace.
Monastic costumes, really beautiful in
style, are still worn by many ladies of
elegant tastes. These dresses are lust at
present made of black or gray nuns cloth
or vigogne.
Tinted satin skirts, with pointed front
breadths and lace tunics, drawn open to
show the tablier and held back by sprays
of French flowers, are very elegantly worn
for balls and dinners.
Mrs. Rebecca Taylor, mother of the late
Bayard Taylor, has presented to a dry
goods house in Philadelphia handsome
skein of silk, reeled and spun with her
own hands, in the SD year of her age.
An attractive advertisement runs thus !:
An intelligent, neat. orderly American
woman, who has partially lost her voice,
and speaks in whisper, desires situation
to take care of china, dust furniture, and
do the lighter work of family"
In Paris, recently at Nine. de Mont.
hozon's bal blanc, every young girl wore
powdered hair, and costume of the period
of Louis Ky. Nothing could be prettier
than the coiffures poudrees and the bloom.
ing, youthful faces of the wearers.
Among the cotton textures for summer
wear satin has decidedly the preference for
elegant costumes, while for washing
dresses, Indian cloth, and the beautiful,
soft Alsatian textures, to say nothing of
ginghams and linen cambrics, are highly
priced.
For tall and slender young ladies is the
new French mantelet cut in exceedingly
graceful curves, and trimmed around with
a feathery ruche bordering of fringed silk.
These wraps are made of black brocaded
gauze, the figures being of raised flowers Of
velvet or chenille.
Maria Mitchell, Professor of Astronomy
in Vassar College has just received the de-
gree of LII. ID. from Hanover College, at
Madison, Ind. This is, we believe, the first
instance in which the degree OF Ii. D. has
been conferred upon woman, and Hanover
College has theScredit of it.
Amber, gold, Persian mauve, mauve
Ophelia, eglantiDe aud laurel pink, rose the,
ivory, cream, pearl, and Turquoise blue, are
the most fashionable light celors for even
ing dress, but in rich materials dark shades
are still much worn, Bordeaux, Corinthe,
Violet de Lorraine, and Louis green
being favorites.
Ribbon velvet, which has long been dis.
carded, is again coming in as trimming for
dresses. 1t ia used in contrasts of light
and dark shades, either very narrow, like
the braid for braidwork, or in different
widths in this case it is go arranged that
the widest comes at the bottom of the
founces and is then graduated off to the
narrowest.
A woman has been appointed Registrar
of Births and Deaths in an English town,
and great has been the disu,ay Of some at
this entry of the thin end of what may
prove very thick wedge. 1t came out,
however, that the woman had been for
somel time Registrar de facto, and the APP
pointment was only a saction Of her tenure
de jure.
He WOULDN'T TuMBLE.-He held her
dimpled hand in his, while his thoughts
wandered afar. He was thinking Of the
prices of beef, butter, coal and like vulgar
necessities of earthly existence. He was
thinking how he could feed that dainty
mouth on something more substantial than
kisses. Visions of bread, and cabbage, and
potatoes haunted him. Suddenly her lips
parted. Henry" che said, her cheeks
and corralled happiness, 81 see that the
tax is to be abolished on Matches" At
another time Henry would have tumbled
to the hint; but now! He dropped the
hand like a thing accursed. That word
matches set him on fire. "Talk not to me
of rlatches!" he shrieked. "There ia an.
other rise in beef, and l shall go mad, mad,
mad !" Another moment his 1.-THE form
was parting the shadows adown the lane,
and FIVE minutes later he was eating his
evening meal with zest born OF the
happy knowledge that tomorrow he should
be far, far away, with the board-bill for.
ever unpaid. II Boston Transcript,