Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1883-01-17
Fancy Articles.

Fancy Articles.
Fancy wares, and the new and pretty
things in what may be called secondary
ljewelry that is small articles in silver
and enameled or filigree wares that take
fancy forms. are almost uniformly pro-
duced this season in some shapes of in
sect or animal life. Sporting men and
women find Inkstands, tabie-lamps, can
dle-sticks, pen-racks, paper-weights.
wstch-stands. ble-bells, and many
other things, all manufactured from
hoofs SO finely prepared, and SO beau
tifulIy mounted with colored metals
and silver as to be at once artistic and
highly ornamental. One of the hand
soonest novelties of this description con-
sIsts of hoofs forming tie centre TO a
tripod, the double wax lights of the
lamp burning clear under exquisite
Venetian glass shades. This lamp costs
from S120 to 5000. A new form of pen
rests is a rustic garden seat made III
olive wood, and furnished with penhol-
holders, paper-knife and the like. Soon
ces, or candle brackets, are no longer
backed with mirrors but with brass
plaques, chased, or worked in repousse
Brass ornaments are one of the great
desiderata; a brass clock and small
canGelabra for side-pieces, or portrait
plaques OF Rubens, or Moliere, or Rem
brandt, or Schiller for the hall. TIE
cost of the first is beyond all but the
being worth from $3.50 to $500, but the
plaques are more practicable. Some OF
moderate size may be purchased for
S25, though the average is $50. The
limitations of Benares brass turned out by
machinery, are of course much cheaper,
but We are speaking now of genuine
hand-wrought articles. Brass burners,
chandeliers and candle-stlcks. brass
Tenders and CRATE fixtures, and brass
clocks and plaques revive the FURNISHED
glories of the past, but require al
amount of labor which the poor have
not time to perform, and which the rich
only can afford to pay for; so, naturally,
the use is somewhat limited.
What is not brass is plush now-a-
days, and still fashionable are the push
covered frames which amateurs have
found so convenient for exercising their
brushes upon. But even here the new
craze asserts itself. Instead of apple |
an owl sits in the corner look |
ing wise, or a small cockatoo is perched |
upon rustic branch. The sides OF the |
frames of pictures or small beYeled mir
rors are not equal, but much broader
at the foot and off side than upoa the
other, and 1t Is upon the off side that |
the bird or other decoration is placed.
The plush bag, or pouch, has become
an institution, The bag Is satiD-hned !
and sometimes leather mounted; it is
more aurably finished than the pouch,
and is carried il the hand. The pouch
Is suspended from the SIDE. and forms |
a part of the looping of a dress; it may |
be of leather, but Is often of embroia- |
cred satin or covered with a network OF |
pearls ever silk. Velvet pouches, with |
engraved silver clasps and chatelaine |
to suspend 1t from the side, are sold as
jeweiry, and are sometimes set with
precious stones, though usuIlly the
mounting Is OF wrought silver only.
These cost from S35 to $50. and up
ward.
Jewelry, unless it is very rich, is now
almost wholly confined to a fancy lace
pin and earrings, to serpentine brace
lets, and one or two bangle rings. The
new pms are simple, but odd. The
bar is solid silver pin with enlarged
head. which serves as a perch tor a
snail, beetle, tiny bird or small
row of flies. There is a small sunHower
brooch which Is very pretty, with a
bee upon it; but these designs are easl-
ly coarsened and made common-loUk-
ing by being executed IN an inferior
manner and with very cheap materials.
A new flower series Ii lace pins has
the charm OF especial sentiment at
tached to each one; as woOdbine, friend
ship; fern, sincerity; primrose, youthful
affections, and perlwinkle, remem-
brauce.
The novelties in bracelets are the He
lene, winch is self-holding, ana consists
of a flexible coil which fasteus itself
to the arm; shopping bracelet with
pencil attached, and one of woven wire
which also coils around the arm, and
takes the place of the serpent bracelet.
Small articles Of real ivory, or shell,
make charming presents to persons oi
refinement who cannot afford such pur-
chsses, and fan pever comes amiss to
a lady. The three kinds OF fans most
approved are the rich feather fans
with pearl or tortoise shell, OF amber
sucks; the fans OF clear point lace, with
gold wrought sticks, on ivory, pearl or
amber; and the fans painted ON satin
by real artists and mounted in accold-
ance with Their cost.
Slowly Recovering.
''S;r !" cried q well-dressed man,
whose face was purple with anger, as
he walked up with head erect to another