Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-12-17
FASHIONABLE AND OTHERWISE.

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BEAVER is the ruling fur for young
girls.
SATIN remains in favor for full-dress
toilets.
VELVET grows more and more in favor
as the winter advances.
BRONZE slippers and royal cardinal
silk hose are popular for afternoon wear
at home.
Sort China crepe is extensively used
for trains. It is draped in deep puffs
over surah silk, and when made up for
ball dresses is very graceful.
FEATHER fur, as the feather bands of
this season are called, trims many dressy
wraps and costumes, and is worn as
stoles and collars around the neck.
Fur il broad bands will again be
worn for trimming winter suits. Otter,
red fox, beaver, Alaska sable and other
soft furs, will be extremely popular.
HEAVY wooden basket cloth fabrics,
combined with silk velveteens,
are in great vogue for stylish walking
costumes. The muff and French cap
bonnet invariably correspond.
CHOICE sprays of shaded velvet flow
ers appear upon some of the most ele-
CANT little opera bonnets from Paris.
Exquisitely tinted roses with thorns,
stems and foliage are favorite blooms.
Hat and bonnet trimmings are clus-
tered in front in a singularly defiant
aggressive style, which, with the terrier
like bangs worn by most women, gives a
ferocious expression to even the mildest
face.
AMONG the new fashionable colors for
evening wear is yellow in various orange
shaIes-the red orange like the tint of
the blood-orange being used in velvets
and brocade for trains, while the palest
, yellow of the unripe fruit is selected for
satin and tulle fronts and dresses.
The low, square rattan chairs so much
used in halls may be frightened, and be
rendered more comfortable also, by
having cushions in them. AlmoE any
covering, and for shoulder cushion the
crazy patchwork is strikingly pretty.
| AN elegant fabric just imported for
o dinner and reception dress is an amber
{ satin, heavy and lustrous, brocaded with
ruby velvet chrysanthemums. Another
q is delicate pink satin, embroi dered
with snow balls, in heavy raised pat
tern of chenille beads. The latter ia brio
, costs $40 yard.
o 1T is curious to note how the the taste
for embossed materials continues, but
+ the spots, flowers, rings, lozenges, ETC.,
a of chenille or velvet which brocade the
Il surface of so many textiles are now, as
i a rule, of the same color as the fabric
itsef-a reversion which is certainly on
!, the side of good taste.
:. The little pelerines of seal or silk
:: plush are the rage at present. These
= look exceedingly jaunty and chic upon
:. tall, slender women, but when the wealth
y er grows severe lady had far better
= !, don her longer, less graceful wrap than
! to hazard neuralgia or rheumatism for
life perhaps for the feeting satisfa cfion
Of few hours promenade in an unsea-
u sonable wrap.
. A NEW style of cushion is made like a
. . banner, with fringe and plush band
. on the bottom, with design of peoples
= or other set patterns done just above,
= : with silk, in outline work, filed in with
: wool in long stitches, upon back
ground darned with gold colored silk.
, Inc upper part of the cushion is made
of perpendicular stripes of velvet, or
plush, and silk alternating.
MARIA" said Mr.. Jones to his wife
y one evening last week, 81 suppose
|, you'll make fuss about it, but there is
o rat" ooh h-hh-h, mercy Good
g nessl" yelled Mrs. Jones, jumping on
b chair, where is it ?" "Down at the city
: hall, where ratification meetings always
e are" snarled Jones, IF you would wait
4 till get through speaking without in
/ terupting me you'd know more."9 De-
4 troit Free Press.
Nor long since New Hampshire
9 committee-m was examining an in
9 FAINT school class. "Can any little girl
or boy give me the definition of the
word 'average'?" he asked. For some
time no one replied, but finally little
girl hesitatingly replied: at is thing
hen lays an. egg on, sir" @No, that's
not right" Eyes, sir, my book says So"
and she trotted up to her questioner
l and pointed to this sentence in her
, reading book: "a hen lays an egg
every day on an average Every
Other Saturday.
IT is said that Burns famous song,
Comm Through the Rye" did not
have reference to rye field, but to the
small river Rye, in Ayrshire, which
. could be forded. In wading over, how.
ever, the lassies had to hold up their
petticoats, and it was favorite pastime
for Robbie Burns and mischievous com
panions to lie in wait for the lassies
comm through the Rye" When they
got to mid stream the @laddies" would
wade out and snatch a kiss from the
"lassies," who were unable to resist
without dropping their clothes in the
water Boston Journal.