Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-03-13

travs Of nickel with incrustations of a
delicate design in gold. A pink lotos bios
som of Jumari ware rises gracefully from
its stem and leafy base as a candlestick
Some delicate little panels of oak. maple,
ash, and other woods are exquisitely hand
painted. Pretty cigarette-cases of leather
paper, with gold decorations, are tied up
with brilliant-hued ribbon: for the rest
there are feathered swans. ducks, geese
storks, dainty little tooth-pick cases, made
in open lattice-work of whalebone, the
toothpicks of bamboo of various colors
Pretty bamboo mats are tied up with rib
bons. Little boxes are powdered with
sparkling dots of gold in several different
shades; other boxes have several compart-
ments for holding perfume or sweets to-
bacco-pouches are attached to belt with
ribbons. The sweet, subtle perfume of
sandal, violet-wood, and rose emanating
from these pretty toys serves to make the
japanese favors more acceptable than any
others.
FASHIONABLE SPRING coLoRs.
In fashionable spring colors. all shades
OF brown and many of green and yellow
are certainly predominant. In pinks are
some lovely new tints for evening wear I'M
der lace or transparent muslin Prim-
roses, amber and corn yellow are also to be
much used as foundation slips under dia-
phsnous dresses. There are also some ex-
quisite shades of Persian mauve to be used
IN combination with black or white lace
In grays are imported some rare and beau
uiul pearl, dove. silver and creamy tints in
surah, satin sublime. Ottoman, Irish poplin;
and IN cashmere vigogne and serge in
WOODEN goods, which are most attractive
while the pastel shades in both grays
and browns come in colors capable of
producing the most artistic effects in
elegant carriage and visiting costumes
Hedge-rose pink and deep rich shade of
Venetian green will compose fashionable
combination in evening toilets of silk, satin
and velvet Whatever colors, however, are
chosen to appear in the combination of a
toilet. one rule must be borne in mind,
namely, that the darker color must invari-
ably frame the lighter For instance, in
the style so thoroughly atthe hight of fash
ION Tor ceremOnlous toilets, that is, the
skirt or merely the tablier of one material
and color under train or oyerdress of an
other, the front portion must always be the
lighter shade framed by draperies of the
darker.
THE COMING BoNNETS
Among the new shapes in bonnets is
that with the cap-crown and the close cot
tage brim of plain English split-straw
braid. With the cap-crown there are
shapes having the plain coronet brim, the
coronet brim cleft in a notch at the top,
and the brim extending out in an acute
point toward the right side, and curled
0ack and varying the brims of plain
braid there are shapes with the cap-crown
of plain braid, and the brim, more or less
capricious, of fancy braid.
A shape that promises to DE popular,
which barely escapes the little princesse
size, has melon-shaped crown rising to q
point in the center, and the head-piece
fitted to this crown with narrow, project
ing edge and narrow, slightly fitting
br.In. A shape, with effect of an ice-cream
mold, is that of small bonnet, which rises
in the crown to an acute point, with three
everything pieces placed on each side follow
ing the pointed crown in form. Pretty
models of this shape are in fancy braid of
color and pale ccru. We see notifications
of the shape with the crescent brim hav-
ing the brim turned back all around, and
little capotes formed of broad piece of
straw, followed down on the top, with the
crown folded into shapes straight down the
center, and slightly faring in the brim
We might enumerate shapes in bonnets to
many dozens.