The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1883-08-09
= Fashion Notes am Hfnts

"AAo tno ,WuAm laSt6 tlef0 Is n0l
] industry for some clever girls an,
women in fashioning the clusters
loops, bows and Rosettes out Of two o
three shades or contrasting colors Of til
very narrow satin ribbons, and arranp
ing them for the ornamentation q
skirts, sleeves, bodices, or as epaulet
upon the shoulders. Upon one sbo,
| dress for girl less than five feet high
over four hundred yards >lnearly. quar-
| ter of mile) of narrow ribbon is sal,
to have been recently expended. I
vast amount of work is also put int,
ruching (frayed out,) made very sof
and thick; into shirring; and above al
into embroidery. All high class mods
tes have now what are known as t.nat
ural embroiders" in their pay, or upo1
their staff of workers, who will exc
cute to order any design, with o.
Without a pattern, and produce some
exquisite effects.
The fashionable parasol for the coun.
try is of cotton, in handsome Saline ant
chintz cretonne. They are not at ali
cheap, but are considered stylish be-
cause they are ugly and have huge
twisted handles in natural wood
Bright red parasols of large size are 81
commonly seen upon the streets tina
this may be considered their last ap
pearance, a sort of farewell season fo1
them. There is an immense reduction o
cream parasols, trimmed with Spanish
lace, and thousands have been thrown
upon the market in consequence of the
threatened retirement Of this species OF
dentelle and the favor bestowed upor
its successor-.tVan Dyke" guipure. Blu
| real hand run Spanish lace is too effect.
i've to be easily displaced, and there are
combinations of Spanish patterns with
| guipure that are beautiful and will re.
main beautif full and desirable always,
;, Rich fancy silks and black and white
checks are high in vogue and they are
| small checked silks with raised velvet
| flowers upon them that are greatly ad.
| mlred. The checks are not used fo1
| bodices but for skirts, the bodice being
| of plain velvet, satin, or wool. With
| shepherds check, black cancels hal,
| looks better for the Jersey bodice than
black silk, has more depth and is better
suited to the useful character of the
material. The velvet checks require q
| velvet bodice, but such dress cannot
he worn with any comfort in very hot
weather, although fashion persists in
! asserting that this is the most ''velvet" OF
seasons, and velvet does really enter
into majority of the more elegant tot
lets either as part of the fabric or
trimming.
At the rooms Of the society of associ-
ated artists at New York, may be seen a
pair of curtains that are certainly re-
narkable. They are tine work Of Mrs.
Wheeler, and the design consists simply
of jars, old blue and bronze, filed with
roses in every imaginable variety and
stage ofgrowth, painted in silk and ere w.
els upon si]ken canvas. But first these
roses we're painted from nature, at St.
Augustine, with the brush; every rose,
every suspended leaf being a portrait
which was afterward embroidered in de-
tail and grouped with the needle. The
result is marvellous mass of color and
form that seem to have the soul as we'll
us the body of beautiful rose garden.
Quite the prettiest and coolest of tray
cling dresses are composed of spotted
foulards-dots IN two sizes-made with
pleated skirt or chemisette of plain foul
ard on the ground color and
with a plain fichu trimmed with lace.
The hat is Of straw, the shade of the
silk, and is trimmed with cross folds or
half handkerchief of the dotted fabric.
Other very good designs are in plain
wool, dark grey, navy blue, or biscuit
brown, made with Jersey bodices, the
jacket form outlined with velvet and
velvet upon the apron front; the bonnet
of black or colored straw trimmed with
velvet and fruit-cherries or wild black
berries.
New features of lingerie consist of
straight, narrow collars and square cuffs
in lace and also in linen lawn ornamen-
ted in drawn work. Small round turn
over collars for morning wear are of
pale blue or pink cambria attached to
yoke and decorated with
minute vine of needlework. The
newest collar consists of a straight band
of velvet with triple pleatiug of lace or
lisse set up on the inner edge and a
jabot of lace in front. A pleated skirt
has taken the place of the vest and this
is often of lace or silk muslin.
Flannel for travelling or for seaside
appears more frequently in navy blue
and grey than in any other color, and is
always made up with close sleeves and
close fitting Jersey bodice. The long
Sweck gloves, the Ruy Bias hat with its
aigrette of feathers, the soft leather
satchel and slender umbrella for sun or
showers, Of twilied silk with natural
wood handle. are features of the toilet.
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Babies In scandinavia
Scandinavian peasants like grand names for
their, little ones such as Adolph, Adricin, Got
fria houa on1 Tnoonhino
Thora, Ingeborg, for girls; and it they have no
names prepared they seek one in the almanac
for the particular day of baby's birth. It is
taken to church the next Sunday and taken to
church by the godmother, who provides the
christening garments, which are often trimmed
with colored bows, while the infant has beads
around its neck and wears cap with
we'll over the font and pours water
over the back of the head three times, then
wipes with towel As the baby is swathed
in six -inch-w wide baudages 60 that it can not
move it's legs, and sometimes not even its
arms, 1t is obliged to lie very passive during
sons for this swathing, the first of which is
that they think it makes the limbs grow
straight; the second, that it turns baby into
compact bundle to carry. When swathed thus
infants have been said to resemble the tail of
a lobster, or even its whole body. In the North
they are often hung from long springy pole
stuck in the wall, to be out of the way; and,
being by nature quiet, they are sup
posed not to mind it Their era
dies, which re very primitive,
are also frequently suspended by spiral
spring from the roof, which must be more
comfortable than the pole. Both in Swedish
aud Norwegian Lapland people take these
s'swaddlines'' to church. But instead of car
rying them into church they make q hole in the
snow outside in the churchyard and bury them
in it, leaving shall aperture for breathing
purposes: The babies are kept splendidly
warm while their friends within the sacred
building have their boards frozen to their fur
coats by the freezing of their own breaths.
AS soon as peasant boy can walk he is put
into trousers, buttoned outside his jacket; and
these. are SO baggy behind that it is often
frequently due to the fact that the
were cut off at the legs and simply drawn
size. Add to this that the feet are shod either
have strange picture. Their stockings either
have leather heels or no heels at ali, so that
the mother is spared the trouble Of mending
them. Neither has she much trouble with
their heads, the hair of which is cropped as
close as convict's. The girls also wear wood
en- shoes, but they have gingham kerchiefs or
caps on their heads, frocks down to their heels,
and quaint pinafores. -
About Breadstuffs.
The annual statement of breadstuffs grown
in this conntrv mat issned nv Chief Nimuo