Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1883-12-14

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Some mantal and table draperies Of dark
wine color and other warm hues Of plusl. are
worked in Bouez embroidery in floral designs
in applique as large lilies, feur de lis or other
flowers. and are outlined with gold thread
There are also dadoes Of the same description
curtains or other drapery where tasselled cat
kins, the branching feathers Of fern and golden
rod contrast with other styles that glow with
arabesques and orientsl designs of palms,
acanthus, the lotus, peacock's tails and fern
acacia. -5~ ''#@
-, Harmonized Furnishing.
The keynote Of room should be harmony.
and any special straining after effect is sure to
be- repaid by a sense Of utter unitness and in.
copgruity. Nowhere about the house is the re-
yi7al OF old fashions more apparent than in the
bedroom decorations Of persons Of luxurious
tnste. AS the fire place is the point of decorative
de- arturo for the drawing room decoration, so
the bed is the principal feature Of q sleeping
room. It should be, according to the latest
edicts, placed upon dais and SO command the
room. In addition to it's own richness of cary
ing and inlay Of precious woods it is hung and
covered with the richest stuffs. Beautlful
hangings lately prepared for ouch a bed are Of
pink satin, with canopy and old-fashloned
valance, in addition to the eight long curtains.
These are bordered by gray plush, aud
inside and on the satin is a vine like orna-
ment, made of two gold cords arranged in
diamond-shaped figure. At the points of i'll
tersection are branching leaves in gold thread.
Between those are flowers on alternat to Sides
embroidered in colored silks with gold centers.
The curtains are lined with thin yellow pink
Japanese silk. Some Of the new bed-spraads
are very handsome. The satin sheetngs In
pale tints are used, decorated with open scroll
patterns worked in flaselle. This Is made TO
lie quito fiat, aud though done in chan-stitch
has the effect of stem~stitch. On pale blue,
wine-colored tiaselle is used with good effect,
and the border is Of wine, colored plush. The
French bolster colors are also Of the satin
sheeting, and there is one of the round rolls at
the head aud foot alike, the gathered heads
terminating III a handsome wine -colored orna-
ment with pendants.
Decadence Of the Hired Girl.
A wealthy man from the old German coun-
tryof Pennsylvania said to Gath recently: 'sYou
would not think that in our region it is hard to
get domestic servants, where we have so many
strong, farm-raised native girls to whom work
is the chief education. Yet it is true. and at
tribute it to the radical change money has
effected to the real injury Of the well-to DIDO
people; for of what use is OUR money if we
cannot get reliable cooks, nurses and maids?
Not many years ago we raised the best house
plenty Of them at easy wages Then we were
not so pulled up with money and our
girls had pleasant relation with the family
and when their work was done would come
upstairs and hear what was being talked about.
Now, since some Of US have become rich, they
are no longer invited upstairs and must sit in
the kitchen, and as they are social animals they
will have their company. They say, ethey
don't care anything about us. We owe them
nothing And" said my friend, sit is rapidly
coming down to a sort OF eight or ten hour law
among servants. They will got your breakfast
and then they are going up in the village to
have recreation. The fact isl said my &C.
quaintance that they are Americans like
ourselves, and if we want to draw the line on
them they mean to draw it on us. There are
disadvantages about dividing our republican
people into two classes"
Nantes.
New winter mantles are Of moderate proper
tions-rather long than short, however. The
two shapes which prevail in nantes are the
redingote aud the pelisse. The former is the
less dressy Of the two; it is generally made of
fur-lned cloth, but without any trimming. A
very short cape completes the redingots, and
all the outlines are edged with several rows of
stitching. variety Of the same mantle is the
blouse redingote, which has already been worn
a great deal this autumn, and has been de-
scribed 1t is the full blouse, gagged upon the
fronts and in the middle Of the back and fast
ened around tho, waist with belt pro
cseding from the side seams. The
sleeves are finished at the wrists by
a band and deep frilling lined with silk.
The dressy mantle is the pellisse or long and
ample Visite with wide sleeves, which is some
times made of cloth or cashmere, but oftener
of silk material, either plain or figured, or of
velvet; the trimming ID fur. Dark furs are
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Real sabIe. left in the shade for some time past
by the insane fondness for new fancy f;1rs
INDUCED in by our elegantes, is Coming into
fashion again with greater favor than ever.
This beautiful fur not being, however, within
reach of all purses others of less value are also
ranked high in fashion-lark Russian furs,
such as black fox, otter and skpnks, while
sealskln, which did not become really fashion
able in Paris until last year, is likely to become
very much more 80 this winter.
Feather Fans.
There being just now a great fancy fol-
piumage, feather. fans are in high fashion
Very pretty ones are made Of the gray doves
plunage, mounted IN gray work, and of the
blue jay's feathers mounted in Burgos mother
Of pearl The peacock, and scarlet, and gold
colored marabout far are decidedly striking.
A fan IN ibis feathers, with mount Of white
ivory, is exquisite. and a fan OF owls feathers,
framework, is unique. Women with literary
proclivities buy plain wooden fans, prepared
on purpose, and get all the lions of their ac-
quaintance to give them antographs-a slight
pen and ink sketch from all artist, verse or a
madrigal from poet-which serve to suggest
small talk when this commodity is Ekel y to fall
short Amateur o. we'll as professional ARTISTS
paint heraldic devices, monOgrams, crests and
notices on parchment leaves, and have them
mounted in ebony by way of contrast Notices
are also wrought in colored beads on the cord
to which the taesel is suspended. Muslin may
be used as we'll as parchment to paint upon, If
properly prepared with warm solution OF
isinglass applied on the wrong side; and being
an inexpensive material docs very well for be-
ginners to try their hands.
Winter Walking Dresses
The new winter walking costumes are mostly
composed Of a plain skirt, trimmed with very
deep plated honnco around the foot, or else a
skirt plated all the way down and all around,
and Of a tunic draped over this skirt in hori-
zontsl plaits. The bodice is jacket, with a
basque open in front and fastened by two or
down the front with very small buttons and
finished into point. Another style of walking
costume, also likely to become very fashion
able this winter, is as follows: Four scarfs,
forming panels, compose the skirt, which is
short and narrow. One Of the scarfs forms the
ITOut u tlo Sh1iG, wv JULIUS tuo ld3tlt ,
the back one is draped into puff under the
basque of the bodice These scarfs are cut
out of some sort of printed or figured WOODEN
material The spaces left between them are
filled up by pleated flounce of plain cash
mere, over which the scarfs seern to be laid,
Just as they appear to rest over q pleated
founce, which trims the foot of the skirt 4
short tunic of the same plain cashmere
stretched plain in tho upper part, disappears
under the back panel Five stitched seams,
made with silk to match one of the prevailing
colors in the scarf, 60 round the. edge Of the
tunic. The iacket-bodics is made OF the same
material as that Of the scarf; it opens in front
over vest Of plain cashmere, with buttons
covered with the same. This costume is very
elegant, and can be made more or less dressy,