, 1884-02-08
WOMAN AND HOME.
Hints Agreeable, DIsagreenble and
IndInerent---What Women Are
DoIng--Fashion Notes, Items
and Paragraphs

Pink is a favorito shade for bonnets for
evening wear.
Drapery for tailor-made gowns is still
made very long.
Finger cosy" is the latest name invonted
for ladies' muhs.
Ladies in Paris are wearing q modification
OF the old-fashioned girdlo.
Few Of tho gray dresses, now 30 fashionn-
BILE, are trimmed with colors.
Short dresses are popular for evening wear,
sven when the wearers do not dance.
The newest gossamers at the figure closely,
like an ulster, and hAye coatsleeves.
Children's dresses are all made loose about
the waist in tho late revived English styles
The new gloves AVE fewer wrinkles on tho
wrist; tan and cream white are the favorite
oolors.
Partisan modlstos, with their love OF BIZ
rarre effects, are combining fur and lace as
n dress garniture.
Caps of plated lace, puds Of tulle, and
gauze, and beaded net, arc added to the
sleeves OF half-high corsages, to give the
h~igh.shouldered~ epaulette effect
The most fashionable FUR capes are those
made OF monkey skin and black fox. Some
Of the former have little chenille ball Dor
ders. These capes make al effective addition
TO toilets Of black silk, satin and velvet
Among the pretty fans carried this season
are those of a large oval shape made of white
or tinted satin, and covered with row after
row of painted lace. In the contre is placed
a cluster OF pond lilies, mingled with fern
fronds or smilax.
Pflow-shams, in accordance with the new
fashion Of having colors in bed furniture, are
made with a square Of blue, red, or pink satin.
edged with a wide lace insertion, a narrow
strip Of satin, and an outer border Of lace
four or Ave inches wide. The satin centre
may be either painted or embroidored.
A useful and even tasteful cover for the
marble slab OF the sideboard Is made of n
strip of canton flannel just the width OF tho
slab. 1t should be long enough TO hang over
at the ends four or five inches. Trim the edge
with white or colored ball fringe, and, If you
wish, a row OF Kate Greenaway figures may
DO outlined at each end. Limo tho flannel
with firm white cotton cloth or with turkey
red calico.
Handsome cushions add to the beauty of
the willow or rattan chairs so generally used
now. These should be of the exact shape OF
the GhAi5fsst aG&E 10 Ksep}t TIN shape. II
these bright cushions are used the ribbons in
tho back are not needed. and as they soil and
become wrinkied SO soon, it is q good idea
not to put them in.
Modern c~oiffures arc In striking contrast
with those OF earlier dates, when men as well
women seemed to vie with each other as to
the quantity I'VE will not mention the quail.
ityl OF hair they could pile on their heads.
Lalies' hair-dresSing has become ono OF the
tine arts. The coiffeur OF the present day
studies tho outlines OF the head with a view
to general effect and contour OF arrangement,
sing only the best French hair, for it is nee,
essary, with the late styles, to have a few
short curls at the back. The front, also,
should be made Of natural curly hair, so it
can be arranged becomingly to the face, DO.
sides being always convenient.
Wide stripes appear to be taking high rank
in the fashions.of the day, the leading i'm.
porting houses showing a remarkable choice
OF them. They are fashionable in silk and
satin as in other materials, tho difference OBJ
served being that the silks arc principally in
Light evening tints, the woolens Of darker
shades Tn stripes are often three inches
wide in ~satins, with an alternate stripe
equally wide dotted at intervals with tiny
clusters Of embossed flowers in natural hues
These striped fabrics arc still very frequently
killed, even for full dress wear, the plain
stripe showing but little, being laid beneath
the iowsr-brocadOd one, which Ia fully dis
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