Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-05-21
FEMININE FANCIES.


The stained glass craze in fashionable
households is waning, and the opinion
of intelligent people is that wholesale
imitation killed it.
MOURNING papers bordered with real
Grape are already voted common be-
cause most priced by people whose de-
light Is to make an exhibition of their
grief and sorrow.
ECCLESIASTICAL clocks for bedrooms
are the newest. They are made of olive
wood in the form of cathedral, and in
the steeple is the clock, sweet chimes
designating the hours.
SOME chancel cloths worked by sew
eral fashionable young ladies for local
Episcopal church were declined by the
rector and vestry as ''too Inappropriate
for the sacred purposes intended"
By the use of q preparation to darken
her eyelashes, well-knoWn young mar
ried lady has become nearly blind and
now sits all day long in a darkened room
wondering why she was SO foolish.
WHITE grenadines beautifully embroi-
dered in colors are among recently i'm
ported dress materials for summer wear.
Vassar girls, on the eve of graduating,
probably regret their expensiveness.
INDIA shawls of kind imported thirty
or forty years ago are coming into fash
ion again, and because they are scarce,
can never be common. They are wholly
unlike the shawls worn by milady now
adays.
ONE of the new spring colors is mush-
room, and its appropriateness among
people to whom wealth is novelty is
generally acknowledged. There is
nothing like the ''eternal fitness of
things"
For travelling, the sold-fashioned En-
glish turban hat of twenty years ago is
coming back. Mrs. Langtry, Miss Ter
ry and Miss Coghlan already wear it,
and, in the eyes of many women, this
settles it.
SUNsHADE handles suggest that the
designers fancies have run riot. Such
a variety has never been seen, and there
is everythin g from the owl perched on a
bough to the good. sized pug sitting for
a photograph.
LARGE numbers of fashionable ladies
now do their own millinery, owing to
the fact that the small bonnets now in
vogue require SO little trimming. A pin
here and stitch or two there does the
whole business.
HEAVIEST and board-like black silks
are to be the most fashionable, and
although they are expensive by the
yard they are guaranteed to ''last for
ever" In these days that is very in
portant consideration.
GLASS Said bowls, with compartments
underneath for chopped ice, something
after the butter dish style, are among
the new things imported. The idea is
not bad one, and will no doubt be ap-
preciated by epicures.
AMONG the ''smart" things done by
the girl of the period is having her head
shaved, or hair closely cropped, and
wearing a wig. sit is so much less
trouble" they explain, 'sand we can
have it dressed differently every week. %
GOLD trimming is seen on almost
everything appertaining to fashion and
dress, and the mania will no doubt be
oyerdone. The greatest display is made
now by people who have more gold on
their dress than they have to their credit
in bank.
PARIS fashion magazines for May state
that lace bonnets will be ''highly en-
regle" during the summer-white, black
and ecru to be the colors. For the
open carriage or the house reception
there is nothing more elegant than a
lace bonnet.
| SOMETHING like the cap or hat worn
| by the West Points cadets on parade now
comes in straw with pompon in front,
for young ladies. 1t has a small peak
and small buttons On either side. Mod
est demoiselles regard it as a trihe too
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