St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-04-11
Cora's many-colored poodles.
A LACK OF CARNIVAL GAYETY

The carnival season has not been spe-
cially gay in Paris, though the masked balls
at the Grand opera have been well attended
and passed off with more animation than
usual. L have heard of two noteworthy
costumes which were worn by female
habitues of these entertainments. One was
grasShopper, the dress being composed of
silken tights, a satin corsage, brief trunks
of satin and vast gauZe wings, all i'm the
same shade of delicate. bright green.
The other toilet consisted of very decoIlete
sleeveless cuirass corsage of black vel
vet, with very abbreviated trunks of the
same material, black silk tights and an i'm
mensely long. narrow train in black velvet,
lined with black satin. this last adjunct to
the dress being over three yards long. Long
black kid gloves and fan of black ostrich
plumes completed the very queer costume.
There have as yet been no grand fancy dress
balls given in private houses, as is usually
the case at this season of the year. But a
very magnificent entertainment of this nat
ure was lately given in Brussels by Count de
Montebello, and quite a number of the
leaders of Partisan fashionable society
went to Brussels to be present at il. L
saw one of the costumes at Worth's; it was
one that he had created for the lovely
Countess de Villeneuve, who is one of the
famed beauties of Paris, and who. repre-
scented on that occasion Claude de Lorraine,
the Queen of Henri I'LL. The dress was in
pale-blue satin, embroidered all over with
large floral pattern in two shades of
darker blue velvet in applique work. the
flowers being bordered and enriched
with gold thread. The skirt opened
in front over an underskirt of white
satin, covered with similar embroidery in
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pulled sleeves in white and gold gauze. the
puff being separated with bands of pale
blue satin worked with pearls. These
sleeves were finished at the wrist with cuffs
or guipure lace in while and gold, and a
high standing collar of the same lace rose
from the back of the open corsage. The
most splendid adjunct of this truly
regal dress was the mantle. which
was clasped on the shoulder with a large
brooch in gold and many-cOlOred stones.
1t was in rOyal-blue velvet. lined through
out with the same material. and bordered
wide band of gold embroidery intermixed
with fiat limitation sapphires, ItOpazes
emeralds and rubies. The diadem to be
worn with this gorgeous dress is composed
I of real gems, and has been copied by Fro
ment Meurice very accurately from a por-
trait of the beautiful wife Of Henri I'LL,
Which, Is pleSeINeu III the Louvre.
SOME NEAT WEDDING GIFTS.
The daughter of the Duke and Duchess
Decazes. the young lady who was one OF
the bridesmaids of Miss Eva Mackay when
she married Prince COlonna. has Just be-
come the wife of Count Deville de Sarde-
lys. The wedding was one of exceptional
brilliancy. The Duke dAumale was one
of the witnesses TO the contract and pre-
sented the bride. with bracelet clasped
with a single great emerald. The bride
groom's offering was an Incompatible set
of rubies and diamonds. includ-
ing a diadem and a stomacher. the
latter having in the center a ruby as
large as pigeons egg. He also gave her a
brooch representing a star, the center of
which is an immense round sapphire. the
rays being in diamonds. A writing set. i'm
solid silver. presented by the Baron and
Baroness st. Martin, is decorated with
Renaissance enamels and, and is far more
precious by its workmanship than by the
metal of which il is composed. A bracelet
set with sapphires and diamonds was the
gift of Princess Amelia Of Orleans, and the
Duchess de Charities sent dragon-fiy, with
body of sapphires and diamond wings.
Lucy ii. HOOPER.