Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-07-01

| She stood beside the counter
| The day he'll me- r forget
| She thought the muslin dearer
| Than any She d seen yet;
He watched her playful fingers
| The silks and SatiDs toss;
/ The shOpman looked uneasy,
/ And he felt a little cross.
/ ''Show me some velvet ribbon,
| Barge and satin turc,'
| She said; 81 want to purchase
7 Then gave the goods a jerk.
| The shopman, all obedience
| Brought satins, silks and Grape;
| At length, with hesitation
| She bought a yard of tapel
| BROCADED MORE antique is again
fashionable fabric for elegant toilets.
In white these superb materials are
much used for bridal toilets.
RED silk crepe is favorite material
for trimming dark blue alpaca, and is
introduced in tiers of fans placed over
tapping each other down the left side.
MORNING dresses and elegant house
toilets are made dressy with profuse
use of ribbons in bows, knots, cas-
cades, panels, and floating loops and
ends.
MATINEEs are still trimmed down
the front with full jabot of lace, or
open over a brocaded plastron, and
are edged on either side with full frills
of lace.
ALMA TADEMA says that g. woman
with a beautiful face seldom has q
| beautiful form, and that a. woman
with a beautiful form is almost ALWAYS
| homely
GILDED and silvered wire founda-
lions are again used for tulle bonnets,
and are first covered with net the col
or OF the tulle, and on this the tulle is
arranged.
MANTLEs for warm weather have
the back and front of velvet and the
sleeves of beaded grenadine They
are trimmed with lace frills and jet
| ornaments.
SAsHEs of surah silk, deeply hemmed
on the sides with invisible stitches, and
fringed at the ends, are considered
more stylish that ribbon sashes of the
same width.
SWISS girdles, pointed above and be-
low the waist, both in front and behind,
are made entirely of jet beads, or of
those in colors or in white, illuminated
beads being most effective.
THE ecru embroideries and lace that
trim dresses form the brim of bonnets
that have plain gauze or tulle crowns,
or else this is reversed and the embroid-
cry forms smooth crown.
KLDA homespuns are not dyed, but
come in light sand tone; specimen
of this dainty cloth is so beautifully
made that it feels almost like unstiff-
ened silk. 1t is animported fabric.
| DRESSES made of crepe de chine must
be very bouffant to look well. But
tons for these dainty dresses can be
small crochet ones, or plated silk but
tons. Many of the dresses are laced
in the back.
BLACK Is always much worn in Paris,
in summer as well as winter Black
lace toilets are extremely fashionable.
The bodice and foundation skirt are
OF tulle, and all the trimmings formed
Of lace founces.
Do not throw away the tops of
mousquetaire gloves, but use them for
decorative purposes, painting them
with any fanciful design. They will
be serviceable for covering sachets,
boxes and other articles.
A CHARMING new throatlet is formed
of circular folds of the gold tissue
called tricotine, covered with perpen-
dicular sets of narrow ribbon loops in
different colors, and intermingled with
a beaded trellis work and drops.
THERE is q fashion of wearing moon
stones for bridal jewels. The moon
stone is a lucky stone. Fine
moonstones are somewhat rare
and expensive. Those of fine quail
ty have a luminous beauty which is
exquisitely soft.
t BLACK jerseys, so called, of sewing
silk, thickly beaded and crocheted in
guipure patterns, form a. most ele-
CANT bodice for a costume trimmed
with beaded tulle. The foundation
skirt and under-waist may be either of
black Or colored satin.
| WASH dresses for young girls have a.
yoke bodice belted, and the skirt is
plain and round, with tucks above
the hem. The sash bow worn at the
back is made of the dress material and
Is tucked across the ends, which are
edged with embroidery.
The skirt destined to summer pop
ularity is destitute of drapery or
f1ounces, is gathered full in the back,
| plated at the sides and plain in front,
simply hemmed or has a hem and
three, two Or several overlapping
tucks or folds above the lem.
AN Indiana lady has been decorat-
ing a set of dinner plates in novel
manner. On each (of eighteen) she
has painted bird of different species,
and on the border Of the plate averse
in old English text of poetry, written
by enc of the best authors about that
particular kind of bird
A WRITER in the San Francisco Argo-
naut, writing of Mrs. Horace Relyon,
the new English beauty, who is now at
Washington, says gentleman once
described her as ga nice, cherry faced,
shiny-skinned girl, with no features to
speak of but lots to say for herself
Americans learned after looking at
Mrs. Langtry that their ideas of beau
ty in a woman differed widely from
those of their English cousins.
ga GOOD wife is heavens greatest
gift to man, and the rarest GEM the