The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1885-04-30
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Washington is flooded with liter
airy women.
fashioned mirrors over the
mantel are again in style.
The cover all is a new style of
garment for stormy weather.
Among the new colors is "Alder-
neo," which is the deepest sha dc OF
cream color.
Tailor made dresses are trimmed
with many rows of black Hercules
braid.
Small trays of polished brass or
copper are equally fashionable with
silver ones, and much newer.
bridesmaids carry floral fans, or
baskets, swung from the left arm
by broad satin ribbons.
In some of the new styles OF up
holstered furniture the woodwork,
all of which shows, is gilded.
Polished and FURNISHED copper
coal-scuttles are now used by fash
ionable people in place of brass
ones.
A square cushion, stuffed hard
underneath and soft on the top,
represents the fashionable footstoel
of to day.
A ninety-year old Fair Haven,
Conn, woman "shucks oysters with
the ssrest of the girls" and beats
them all.
Some of the prettiest of the new
ribbons have satin grounds nearly
covered with small velvet diamonds
or crescents.
Cocabola wood, which is darker
than mahogany and very rich in
appearance, is employed for fine
furniture and artistic interior fin
ish.
Fish-wife pokes of white felt worn
by little girls have little trimmings
beside the huge bow on top of blue
or scarlet velvet ribbon.
Long coat basques reaching to
the knee are made of brocaded vel
vet or satin, and are worn with
plain velvet walking skirts.
Jackets to match the suits are
heavily trimmed with silver, gilt or
bronze braid around the cuffs, col
lars and down the fronts to form a
vest.
Brides go the altar with one
hand uncovered. TIE glove is car
ried in the right hand with the
bouquet of loOse-stemmed white
roses and foliage.
There are sixteen women on the
rslls of membership of the order Of
the Legion Of Honor in France. La
dy Pigott, who received the decora-
ton from NJ. Theirs in 1872, IN &C
acknowledgement of her war ser
vices, is the only foreigner among
them.
Old-time hand screens, such as
were used many years ago, are re
vived. The screens are made of
delicate gauze and mounted on
bamboo. Some of them are hand
painted; again they are covered
with antique lace and decorated
with knots of ribbon.
Spring garments for little chill
dren are ingenieusly arranged to
do duty both as suit and wrap by
the super-imposed draperies, plat
ing and parements on the princess
form, and a small coachman's col
lar or cape, with plated or futed
epaulette sleeves of the material, to
give the high shouldered effect.
The average cost of a marriage
license in this country is $1.20.
Colorado, Pennsylvania, South Car
olina, Rhode Island and Wisconsin
charge nothing. New Jersey twelve
cents, New York twenty-five, Mas
sachusetts, Maine, Vermont and
Connecticut fifty, and SO on up
to Maryland, the highest of the lot,
$3.50.
New lady's cloths in fine soft
finish come in the new shades of
mastic, which are tinted green, rose,
or heliotrope, or simply putty col
Ored; in reseda, green, fawn, gold
en- brown. tan, and pearl shades,
and when not simply tailor
stitched, the favorite trimmings are
steel, silver and gilt braids put on
sparingly in tasteful and effective
geOmetric patterns and yermicelli
or zigzag lines, or in rows or clus-
tered rows.