Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1884-01-18


a and the gIOyes, l1l of which are sconsid ered
particularly ndicatiye In style and quality
Sof the habit Of refinement in The sVearei
Fine tints, shades and atterns; y texture
that is soft and flexible and shapes chat I'M
prove the forms they covsr can only OBJ
taiiaed best Hes and of Sspe6ia manu-
facture and d 81 dya habi tuated to the tone
sof good society recogn izes tleIn as far al she
can see Them al this the girl knows bY in
stinct. Itis Tin the air her air. and she
feels misre presented by what is common 81
inferior. IT is therefore not at all infre-
qnent for girls to receive gifts Of pretty
handkeTehiefs and hosiery. and even shoes Of
q fine and dainty kind from relatives and
and interested friends on the eye Of their
4 !. introduce zion .te society and 1T is Of great
importance that such well meaning presents
should be really OF a kind d young girl can
use and will be pleased to possess. Colored
shoes should not be selected They should be-
either ivory white satin or black tint CoIorss
are only permissible when they match dress
Handkerchiefs should be fin E, dainty with
marrow borders and delicate embroidery;
lace are not suitable for young girls Hosiery
may be colOnGd, but it is much better to Sc
lect black, dark red, or ivory white, as these
are sure to be disable, and tshould be Of silk,
Spun silk hose are warm, can be used with
more freedom, and are therefore usually
preferred to the thinner . and more
costly styles, except for evening
wear, and then the place is often
may be worn beneath fine silk ones Too
much Importance cannot be laid upon the
necessity for girls keeping their feet warmly
and regularly clothed There is absolute
danger. as well as great risk, in changing, as
many girls Go, from warm cashmere hose to
hne open-Work thread, whenever they go to
party perhaps without carriage or the
protection Of fur lined boots Certainly, the
methods adopted with young girls nova
days are bad beyond retrieval; or, rather the
want OF all method, and the ways into which
they are allowed to drift are at total vari-
ance with any hope OF usefulness in the
future. Pale in the morning, with lack
lustre eyes, they come down to waiting
breakfast at 10 or IL of the clock, lounge
about 1istlessly with novel till it is time to
dress for round OF calls or an afternoon re-
one that does not end in a ball or theater
party. Don't ask me" cried girl, in reply
to request that she would attend morn
ing class OF some sort; II do not rise before
noon, and it Is all can do to drag myself
down stairs" She was buttoning herself up
in a sealskin coat and her maid stood
ready to put on her boots and hand her muff
and furred cap. That same evening she was
at ball, in pale yellow tulle and satin,
where she remained till 8 in the morning
And this will be repeated twice a week, at
least during the winter
AFTERNOON RECEPTIONS.
Ladies who do not go out great deal are
often puzzled in regard to the proper toilet
for an occasion to which they autech ,impOr-
lance because it does not often occur, and
noon reception, of which there are so many
during December and january, the friend
says handsome walking dress will do, and
the lady goes and is distressed to lind her
hostess in full dress and perhaps surrounded
by half a dozen friends, who assist her to re-
ce1ve In very low cut satin dresses OF the
ightest shades, with trains two yards long
Looking at her own dark, simple costume,
and remembering the elegant long trained
SILK that lies at home in the recesses of trunk
or close, and so seldom sees the light,
the lady feels like reproaching her
friend for misleading her until
she is consoled by seeing other
costumes as samples of her own Afternoon.
receptions are still so new that the question
OF dress for them is not very we'll understood
Besides, ladies who have afternoon recep-
lions not lnfrequently close up with a din
aer and theater party, or themselves make
one OF a party to assemble at some other
house. This is the excuse for full dress,
which is quite out of place-certainly as
much so as dress coat for gentleman ''be-
often large and somewhat promiscuous
affair, and it is certainly one to which the
winter guests are expected to go in day
dress, for there is often but slight accommo-
daton for removing wraps; and it is very
bad taste indeed for any one to mingle in
such an assenlblage> at an informal hour, in
light satin with long train which lies upon
the ground only to be trampled upon, and
with bodice SO low it leaves neck and
arms exposed from throat to finger
nails except the space covered by an
inch of strap which connects the hack and
front together A dress for a lady 'Teceiy-
il,g' may be as handsome and rich as the
wearer pleases, but during the day it should
be short and the bodice square or heart
shaped, or high to the throat, not low. An
effective reception dress worn the other day
was of pink and silver brocade, with princesse
train and half sleeves OF black silk velvet
The brocade formed the put1ed front of the
robe and high puffs to the sleeves, which
were plain velvet from the puff to below the
elbow, where they were trimmed fat with
embroidered lace, which also formed small
Medici collar. An opaline silk, worn on the
same occasion, was beaded in a fine and deli
cate network pattern, and ornamented with
birds, greenish gray and two together, upon
skirt and shoulder; The large detached pat
terms in brOcades cannot be made becoming.
They are very ugly, and many will be left, a
dead loss upon the hands of the Dealers
Ball dresses are, as stated in my last, of
talle over satin, with low, solid bodice; and
this is worn almost without exception at the
fine private and Delmonico balls Yellow tl1lle,
red tulle, black TITLE and grey tulle are en-
ployed, but white tulle more than any other
Sometimes the tulle is embroidered, and this
embroidery reappears round the neck Of the
bodice. A black tulle embroidered with
small suntowers Il red tulle dotted with pen
dant chenille, yellow t11lle spangled over
yellow satin, a white tulle fringed with
frosted glasses over white satin, q grey tulle
garnitured with tulips were among the
toilets at a recent great private ball. But one
of the most elegant women in New York, the
wife OF an artist, wears always black or
white Her handsome dresses come from
PaIis--a black one this year, a white one the
next When they have done duty as long
dresses always plain trimmed skirts, with
square or heart-shaped bodices), they make
over into short cOstume Orning wrappers
or house dresses for summer wear: Always
simply yet perfectly dressed her clothes cost
her probably not more than one-hfth the
amount expended by many more pretentious
DANES.
SOME OF THE LUxuR1Es OF THE MALE TOILET,
The fact has been several times stated in
these letters that American women do not
take kindly to silk underwear Much was
written and said about it on its first appear
ance some years ago, and one might have
imagined that every other woman had pos
sessed herself immediately of q complete
stock of pink, blue and ecru silk undergar-
ments, tied with ribbons and trimmed with
Valenciennes lace. As q m;ltter of fact the
sales at the general dry goods stores, fire.
quented by the great majority, were so linn
tied that they ceased to Keep silk underwear
in stock, and even in some Of the best houses
it is only supplied to order. The reason for
this apparent lack of appreciation OF lux,
ury in which French women delight is less
the cost -though, of course, this would limit
the sale---than the lack of good laundry
service, and the almost universal prejudice
in favor OF something that will sSwash"--