The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-12-23
FASHION AND GOSSIP.
Some Agreeable Remarks
About Women.
And others That are Decidedly
Mean.
Potpeurri Of Facts and Faneies.

There is seslskin craze this winter.
All shades OF pink are much used for
evening wear.
Mrs. Theodore Tilton is teaching mu-
sic in Brooklyn.
Velvet leggins are worn by both la
dies and children.
Ladies' cloth is used extensively for
tailor made costumes.
Grand Lodge, Mich, hss barber chop
conducted by women.
@Astrakhan is more fashionable than
sealskin for mourning wear.
Chryssnthemums are the feshio able
flower for corssge bouquets.
Fur is ornsments!ion of all kinds of
apparel, even to ball dresses.
The ruling passion is generally very
strong in the schoolma'am.
The funny man of the Louisville
Courier. Journal ia q woman.
A fancy lady skater will ba an attrsc-
| ton at the pavilion in January.
Plaid skirts and plain flannel over
dresses are fashionable for home wear.
Dark greens and rich browns are the
| favorite colors ior tailor-made dresses.
White satin and point lace is the most
elegant combination for 9 wedding dress.
The most popular shapes for seslakin
garments are the Newmarket and pale
tot
Riding habits are made long. The
basque is boarded about the collars and
| cuff.
| Rattlesnake belts. with the head OF the
snake as clasp, are among the newest
| fashions.
| Rhoda Howard, of Owingaville, KY,
lie years Of age, has smoked tobacco for
| l0e years.
Overskirts are worn very long. reach
| ing to the bottom Of the dress both at
the back and front.
When the hair is coiled on the top of
the head tortoise shell dagger is the
proper ornament for it.
| Round velvet caps, the color Of the
dress, and bordered with fur. are much
WORE by young ladies.
| Christine Nilsson was forty years old
on the 26tn Of last August. This is rella-
be; she gays so herself.
| Shoulder-cspes continue popular ia
voi ties and are made of beaver. lynx,
seal. otter or chinchills.
Opera cloaks OF brocaded white satin
are made to fit the figure cloaely and are
trimmed with swsDsdown.
Among the preitiest wraps worn are
those of brocaded velvet trim med with
blue fox, silver fox, black fox, or black
lynx.
It is stated on good authority that
there is woman in the Fourteenth ward
who understands the house numbering
system.
Mrs. General Tom Thumb is now q
rich little widow, and says she will never
marry again-no, never. But, then, they
ali say that.
Cuffs are coming in style again. They
are fastened with tiny studs like those
worn in the high collars so much worn
at present.
DR.. Mary Wslk er has beeu forbidden
to enter the,Interior Department, having
previously been refused sdmittsnce in
the treasury building.
Although the English can dye seal
bette tran Americans, it ia an acknow!-
edged fact that America is far ahead IN
VI piCPniihs OssOA'
Miss Beebe, with the Chicago Church
Choir, has caused futter in the hearts
of our YOUNG men that has not been felt
since Ada Rehsn was here last summer.
A young lady named Dolores de Mar
auiondo Lammont was married at Phlla'
delphia Last week. Is is intimsted that
she feels better after getting rid OF thai
name.
Woquethock ia town in Connecticut
and correctly so is peopled almost en-
Itirely by women. All the men were car.
ried off by lockjaw endeavoring to pro-
|nounce it.
The movements of United States flag
ehips are said to be largely governed by
women. Ifthis is true, it is easy to see
why our navy. small as 1t is, is still ter.
ror to ell foreigners
The fayorite shapes for lsdie seal hats
Isre the Mary Anderson nd Esmeralda,
very isunty little bonnets; the band tur.
bans, the Paris turbals and the plain
lturbans and the plain polo caps.
"When I marry" said budding
schoolgirl, "Iil want tall. fne-looking
mar" "There's where you're wrong
g." said here more practical mother;
| '-yCQ'u nave leSe bEOeoio WotCuibS Al
ugly man and enjoy more OF his com
pany."
| Victoria Woodruff. the renowned
jrVicky" of former years, has been mar
ried for four years to Mr.. John Bidulph
Marlin, wealthy English banker, and
the report ia that she will never again
lgraee the American platform; a consun,:
NATION which is fervently to be hoped
for.
"Allow me to congratulate you, for
hear you have an excellent and accom-.
plished wife,"
II have, indeed" was the reply; "ahe
lis so accomplished Why, sir, che ii
perfectly st home in literature; al hom
lin music; at hume in art; at home IN
science-in short, at home everywhere
Except"
Except what?"
| Except at home"
A curraLt paragraph is calculated to
fcreste the impression that Nine. Mod
iieska is sn invetersle cigarette SIN oker,
but this is By 10 means the case invet-
crate cigarette smokers are invariably
foffen sive-ss much so as the Inveierate
tobacco cbewer. Modjeska never touches
| a cigarette. uuless IL be after her dinner,