The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-26
NUGGETS OF IMPORTATION.


| New York Mail and Express.
| Tennis bangles have the balls and racquats de-
pending the refrom. and are very chic, as our
| French fellow-citizens would say. They come in
both gold and silver.
| Newest Swiss paperweights are clock, calen-
| dar and thermometer all in one. These are no
doubt, the kind Of ornaments out of which peo-
| pie get their moneys worth
White waistcoats. crescent cut three buttons,
will be the fashion among gentlemen for full
dress next winter. At least, the leading tailors
say so, and they add that nothing is more ele-
CANT or 'dressy.'
The Puritan is the name of scarf for gentle
men, already displayed in the shop windows,
and probably last years stock. History does
not state that the Puritan ran on scarfs OF snowy
material to any alarming extent
Bonnets, both autumn and winter, are il any
thing, smaller than ever, and fit the face closely.
individual taste is to be shown in the trimming,
and this means that flowers fruits and any
thing else will run riot on maids and nnatrons
heads
Coiored glass fnger-bowls are at last declared
bad form" and now the most correct ones for
milady's festive board are of white engraved
glass, very pretty and equally fragile The
smashing of half q dozen represents half the
hired girls wages.
Mrs. Langtry now wea-s four tiny curls on her
forehead instead of the time-honored bang.
There was little girl who had little curl
which hung right over her forehead. When she
was good she was very good, indeed, but when
she was baG she was horrid"
Many fashionable ladies wear the hair in
succession of large rings cart wheels" over
the forehead, q style said by hair-dressers to
nave originated with Patti last season. 1t is
Just as likely to have originated with Lydia
Pinkham, another famous beauty.
There was a snowy girl at one of the Saratoga
hotels last summer who had white silk ball
dress, on the panels of which were hand painted
scenes from our country seat in California
Whether this certainly unique fashion will be
| extensively followed remains to be seen.
Ye advanced American swell now has the
name of his club on his visiting card as ad
dress, and, emitting the prefix Mr.. it reads u.
Dusenberrie Heavyswell, Windowpane Club,
New York. All of which may convey an idea
OF social distinction to the unsophisticated
Among the novelties in feminine headgear
promised for the coming winter will be bonnets
OF Astrakan. They were in fashion iii Paris last
winter, and the wonder is that they did not get
across the ocean. Embroidered cloth bonnets
TO match suits are also to be fashionable, say
the milliners
One of the household decoration papers afirms
that no country house of the gentry is COM
plete without spinr ing-w at the top of the
first landing of the front hall stairway And the
paper adds, the picturesque effect is enhanced
by bows of bright ribbon tied on the wheel All
OF which is respectfully submitted.
Ecclesiastical candlesticksn seventeenth CEN
| fury pattern, are TO be used to decorate dinner
| tables on occasions of ceremonious feasts and
| the long, robust candles to fit are manufac-
| tured and sold in this city. Candesticks NAV
be ecclesiastical, but fashionable dinner parties
| of the present day are not.
| wedding cake ordered for one of the October
| bridal receptions will be surmounted by tower
of candy, in which will be live birds. The bride
| is to break the artificial cage with tiny ham
mer and liberate the birds. Whereupon all the
| assembled company will be expected to say:
| How lovelyw What pretty ideal" "Wel I
| declare; what will they do nextp
Among Judics stage dresses is one of white
velvet on which birds of paradise are embroi-
| dered in the most exquisite manner. Another
| is of steel jets" worn orange satin, and
third is wholly made of peacock feathers and
plumags No wonder her manager expects she
will draw crowded houses in New York. and, for
| that matter, everywhere else she goes.