The Osceola times., 1882-09-02
FASHIONS FREAKS.
Bits Of Gossip Doubly Dear to Feminine
Hearts.


are in high favor.
Raw silk and bongee redingotes are
worn by many fashionable women.
Brick is favorite color this season
and looks well in satin shot with gold.
A scarf arranged as pearline is IA
vorite summer drapery for the shoulders.
Nearly all shoulder cspes have thick
ruche of lace or material around the neck.
White straw pokes, trimmed with
white lace only, are much worn by
young girls,
Cotton parasols for lawn tennis are or.
namented with Russian lace and red
poppies.
Mitts in Chantilly lace are the novelty
of the season in handwear, and are very
rich in effect.
Balbriggan stockings abound in various
tints of red, old gold, amber and blue in
all new shades.
The newspapers of Oregon stand on
the pending suffrage ameni ment, y IN
favor, opposed, and neutral.
A crescent brooch has cross bar pin
in fine pearls and an owls head formed
Ol pearls, ItlleNSu ny eyes VI tihSih uS'
Enameled Jewels seem to be gaining
ground again. The parure Chambord,
with enamel ileur de lis, is very much
approved.
Oscar Wilde pronounces Miss Alsatia
Allen. of Montgomery, Ala, the most
beautiful young lady he had seen in the
United States.
"You are "a full of airs IA music box"
is what a Young man said to girl who
refused to let him see her home. That
may be" but don't go with a crank
New fans are made OF single large
flower "a red poppy, with black heart,
blue morning-glories striped with col0rs,
pansy, dahlia or large SUI flower
the stalk Of the flower serving as a han
die.
Just as beaded trimmings are losing IA
vor aud are about to be relegated to the
Indians who first wore them, it is an
nounced that real gold beads, real tnr-
quoises and pure amber beads are in
vogue in Paris.
A little gold shovel has the handle
tipped with fine pearl. the scoop part
containing, as if scooped into il, three
tiny II pwers in gold and fine pearls, such
~ daisies, pansies and butter flies. This
is uset as lace pin.
For bright brunette, gray and scarlet
is of,,n a very becoming dress. and for
rosy blonde, gray silk, satin or muslin,
toned with black velvet or lace, or white
lace for evening dress, with pink roses
garnture, is certainly in excellent taste.
Some of the most delicate and beautiful
summer evening dresses designed for
fulldress occasions are composed entirely
of the new pointed lace, arragned in
ccqrjlles, kii.e.paitings and cascades,
over pale-tiLted undeaskirts of merveil
leux.
Mrs Eleanor p. Long, OF Philaiel phia,
has left $4,000 to establish home for
orphan girls in that city, especially the
orphan daughters Of Union soldiers and
firemen, in compliance with the wish OF
her mother, from whom most of the
property was re ceived.
Pretty work baskets come in a variety
of novel shapes; they are made of rushes
esparto or Spanish grass, or gilded straw,
and represent game baskets, canoes and
other fancies, and are bordered with an
embroidered valance aud finished of
with two little wooden tasses.
Very young girls now tie the hair
which they diaw awav from the forehead
and temples very high upon the crown
Jf their heads, fastening it there with a
bright satin ribbon. These fl wing locks
are then LEFT to fall with the back hair in
wavy shower over their shoulders.
The favorite shopping and visiting
bags are made of the richest satin OF cit
ron color, deep reds and olives, snd are
exquisitely embroidered in gray silks
The lower part Of the bag j. cut into
quarters or melon-shapc, corded with
gold and flashed with silken tassel
A pretty floral garniture for evening
wear is large bunch of mixed carna-
tions on one side of the skirt, with a
small garland of the same for The top Of
the corsage, ana cluster to match in
the hair. Others consist of narcissus,
Bengal roses, ouricula4 and maiden hair
ferns, arranged in wreaths
A young lady in Newport jumped upon
the waxed floor Of a dancing hall, got
herself tangled up in falling and broke
her arm. She was carried home as if she
were q martyr, and all Newport has been
sending her flowers and notes of condol
ence II she had broken that arm at the
wash-tub sympathy would probably not
have been SO demonstrative.
New costumes for country wear are
made of soft woolens Of very light shades,
such as rose, student blue, crea n or straw
color, and have garnitures contrasting in
color and material, velvet being lar. ely
employed, as collars, cuffs, poke, and
tuniC edgiugs. The effect il excellent
upon white flannel boating dresses. ard
this style is adopted by lawn tennis play
ers. White al paca is trimmed with vel
vet, also albatross Goth and uuu's veil
ing.
noted oculist Of b ,ston has been
obliged to completely change the form Of
the bow, to all the spectacles which he
tries upon the eyes of his patients, on &C
count OF the prevalence Of hair nets and
false frizzes among the feminine portion
of them. Sometimes the hooks on the
end of the bows would fetch away yard
or so Of the convenient water wave" 80
much worn at present, much to the
alarm and disgust of the fair wearers
In Naples kind Of wife market is held
in connection with the founding hospital
every year. All the marriapeable girls
of the institution assemble in room, to
which yo.ng men ofgood character have
access. Offer Of marriage on the part of
any young man is conveyed by allowing
his handkerchief to drop before the OBJ
ject Of his choice as he passes by. 1.-THE
girl takes it up, she thereby signifies her
acceptance. but her refusal if she allows
it TO remain.