Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-12-05
CHRLSTMAS COMES.

Some of the Bright and Pretty
Things That Have Been Decreed as
Fashionable.
'Look ss that millinery, - said 6 publisher
to New York Sun reporter, pointing at
the display in his own window; ''satjn aud
silk and ribbons enough to START q French
mILilRer IL business. The rage for hand
painted and beribboned satin pads and pill
lows is so great that manufacturers with
machinery initiate satin and hand-painting.
Along in the seventies booksellers began
selhag picture cards. They had previously
refused to do so fer three seasons because
they thought they would be coming down
from their dignity, but they found they had
10 do it to keep their customers. Now we
have TO sell this millinery stuff for the same
reason. 1t began by importing French
cards two or three years ago. They were
decorated and Americans soon improved on
tbs original
A manufacturer OF satin hand-painted
Christmas gifts said:
satin panels are In much greater do
naand than ever before, and they are good
deal cheaper. Formerly professional ARTISTS
were employed to paint the satin: then
amateurs learned that there was money in
it, and they cut under the professionals, and
now we get painters for S2o week who can
paint ten panels day from a copy. The
original painting costs, perhaps, 500. These
crude pictures are genuine hand paintings,
and they enable woman TO proudly point
cut to her friends on Christmas morning that
she had Ii hand-painted present. Such paint
iRgs are sold to the retailers for 81 each and
the retailers sell them for So each. They ara
made in the shape of diamonds, squares,
hearts, eases, placques. and fans. The
edges are trimmed with either lace or fringe.
To suggest the season, white fur is run
around many satin deaigns this year.
"a grade lower than these, continued
the manufacturer, sis tSe satin cushion or
panel, on which picture is pasted. Cush-
ions are sold to retailers for from Is cents to
90 cents each, ana the purchaser hes TO pay
twice as much. There is little trick in
this trade of satin cushions Eot yet learned
By the public. You observe thar the words
which indicate tins occasion OF the gift are
en- Bit of ribbon tied daiasily on sone
corner OF the ornament. Here is one with
Christmas: Greeting and another VILE
Joyous Christmas,' in gilt letters on white
silk ribhon- II the panel is not sold on
Christmas you Will see it before January !
with New Years Greeting OF Joyous New
Year, asd again, Il the purchaser has net
GENE along, at the latter part of Lent the
same trumpery viii turn up with Easter
Greeting or Joyous Easter on it, and SO
finally 1T is shu flied OF.
1.-THE lowest grade of satin wares is tina
lLni6aticn. a saih cardboard is covered with
the cheapest grade of white satin, sized to
make 1t adhere TO the board, ana then
stamped TO initiate raised satin Pad fringed
with lace. On THIS is pasted chrome The
ordinary Christmas card is in much better
taste, but these limitations go of like hot
cakes. They arc sent TO small towns ana to
people in big towns who can't afford to buy
ANYTHING better. They gaudy things.
''The other extreme is reached this year
in hand-painted ornaments, or articles OF
use, and worth from $25 to SIS. In New
DIRK city and other large towns, in giving
Christmas souvenirs, we are tending toward
the Old World custom Of giving expensive
presents, and we viii bs more sensible when
ha hnfSf
card. Ia my opinion o pretty card as
souvenir, accompanied by a present of an
article for use or ornament, is in better taste
than the combining OF toe souvenir and tha
present IN the same article"
Picture cards will struggle to maintain
their sminence on the bargain counterS''
in dry goods and book stores this winter
The best can be had plain this year for 70
cents, and trimmed with silk fringe or
chenille, and provided with protectors
and envelopes to insure tksir sale trans
mission through the mails, for 81 20,
The catalogues issued by card publish
ers look like the illustrated catalogues of
ths W atsr Color Society at = summer sx-
hibition in the Aoademy CT Design. In one
catalogue appear the names Of Walter Sat
terlee, Fidella Bridges, Mrs. Whitney, Jsn-
ME Branscombs, w. Il. Beard, ii, GlScom-
ELI, VI. Hamilton Gibson, Thomas Moran
and many other artists who have exhibited
at the Academy. Flowers and nude cher
.
displays in the windows. Probably the art
lists who paint them think the great, chilly
public staring IN at the windows likes to
think in December of the flowers that bloom
in Shs spring, and OF the babies whe ara in
bloom the year around. Ia the catalogue
ons of the artists is labeled Humorous. -
This is sample of his humoT: A Santa
Claus rides in q scooPsd-out pumpkin be-
hind two harnesSed geese. This motto is
under the picture:
May Santa Claus bring joy and pleasure
To thee and thine in fullest Measure.
Another card, which is SAID 30 be humor-
Gus, represents a company of sleepy owls in
9 aeEli-ciTcls with one EVIL en- a branch lock-
ing down, In ths foreground Ia a teRasr
young owl with elessd eyes, receiving tie
attentions of stalwart young rabbit on
Bonded knees. The lsgeRd underneath says:
Look on this tender. loving pSir,
And see the lesson wTi ten there.
When fond affection sheds its ray
How pleasant ID our Christmas Day.
Winter landscapes and figures are hsmmed
in with flowers by way OF a setting One
artist has pictured . sceas fron Snow
bound.'i
Tons and tons OF pieturss which will soon
scatter like snow flakes ever the country are
new bcSed up in manufacturers wars-
houses, Dealers catalogues give opposite
each card d number, aud after the number
o word To be used by the country dealer in
ordering his supply, ami tue telegraph ope-
rator has now another cipher to oudgaI ais