The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-01-17
Pretty Toilet Conceits.

Pretty Toilet COnceits.
Negligc caps are pointed in front.
One is made of gold lace and trimmed
with pink velvet ribbon; another of sill
Yer lace has bows of pale blue ribbon.
The combinations '.muffs-bOas'' arc
made of seal-brown velvet. lined with
buttercup-yellOw satin, and trimmed
with natural beaver.
Diamonds are now mounted to repre-
sent various flowers, which can be worn
either as bouquets on the bodice and in
the hair, or can be detached as single
blooms when required. A necklace of
pansies in diamonds is very handsome.
One of the new brocades has ground
Of pale buff satin, covered with an ir-
regular lace-like pattern of lavender
pink, with bouquets of flowers in petu-
MIA and light blue tints and foliage of
faded green.
A new style mud is composed of rows
of falling chenille, either in black,
brown or any dark color, with loops of
gold or silver braid sewn on at dis
lance beneath the falling fringe, but
showing between.
Black satin aprons sometimes have a
large sUnhower embroidered upon them
in gold thread or Jet; others have braces
to bibs, like one Of black satin, finished
with small plated lOunces, each edged
with gold braid To this was attached
pointed side-piece, meeting at the
back and tied round the skirt with g
bow of ribbon.
Young ladies now wear one, two on
three strings of pearls, fastened in FROM
by dainty little cOlored velvet bow
also a band of velvet or cream-coIOred
lace, with a pOmpon as fastening, worn
towards the LETT car. Some velvet
bands are edged on each side with a
string of small pearls, and others have
tiny pearls dotted all over them.
A Newport sash in the new red has
the ends finished with a self-cOloreC
mulberry fringe; it is worn with a dress
OF gray merinO, and the ends are merely
crossed behind and passed under a GROUP
of tiny gathers, placed Just behind the
waist at the back of the skirt.
Ladies silk stockings are very hand
some in texture and beautifully finished
this season. Some have mitred clocks
OF delicate lace in exquisite designs. and
others have the fronts adorned with per
pendicUlar rows of lace insertings The
new lace-ribbed hose come in all the
novel cOlOrs and odd shades.
Small handkerchicfs have borders OF
small squares of cOlOred cambria and
Vaicnciennes, and others show gath.
cred fittings of Vatican embroidery,
small festOons of pink and blue flowers
edged with scollops of alternating col
OrS.
1t seems quite like the fairy tale o.
the fabric for a lady's dress being con
Cealed in a nutshell, when one reads of
delightfully."- warm wraps for house OF
evening wear, made of the finest camcPs
hair, woven and knitted in the Pyrenees
so light and soft and elastic that they
can easily be passed through an ordi-
nary finger ring. -Philadeiphia Times
A Good Time to Paint.
There is no better time to paint build
ings than during the pleasant DAYS in
winter. Paint spread in cold weather
makes a better covering for the wood
than if laid on when the wood is hot,
and excessively dry, so that the oil is
Immediately absorbed, leaving the lead
or other material used as a chalkv sub
stance on the surface ready in a few
months to rub off or be washed by
rains. 1t will require little more
paint at single coat in cold than
in warm weather, as the oil viii be
thickened a little by the cold, but then
1t will stay where it is put, and a sec
ond coat will be less needed
One advantage in pa nting now is
the absence of flies and other small in
sects which, in warm weather, often
make freshly-laid paint look anything
but attractive. If there is snow on the
ground to cover the earth, and prevent
dust and leaves from being blown into
the paint. all the better. In the very
coolest weather it may be well to keep
the materials in warm room, as the
paint will spread more easily than if
cold enough to freeze water. 1t is n
good plan, too, as far "a may be, to
keep on the sunny side of buildings,
painting the east SIDES in the morning,
and the west in the afternoon. The
north sides may be painted in the mid
die of pleasant days, and the south side
when it would be too cold to work any,
where else.
All the plain, outside painting of a
farmer 5 buildings may Just a well be
done by himself and his ordinary farm
help, as by a professional painter,
though ii might be well to employ one
such to do the more difficult portions,
and to give advice and oversee the
work. Excellent paints now come
mixed all ready to spread so that but
little practice VII lie required for a
green hand of ordinary ability to be
come equal to any ordinary farm paint
ing. If owners OF buildings would
paint them a little oftener, one coat
would always be enough to put on at
a time. 1t Is the long neglected work
that takes up oil at fearful rate, the
wood being full of little checks which
absorb like a sponge. A thin coat on
the surface of solid wood is equal to
heavier coat half absorbed by air checks.
a building painted with one good coat
every third year viii always look well,
while the wood viii be thoroughly pro-
tected. A painted house is warmer than
an implanted one, the paint filling many
joints that would les cold winds