Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1886-11-06

Sweet Cousin Madge Writes Amy on
Some Glorious and Stunning Novel
ties.
lFrom the London TRUTH
| At another wedd ng [ saw a very good
gown. 1t was composed principally of rich,
soft, black silk. Bright ruby velvet was let
into the center of the bodice, back and frc Mt
the silk being it were folded away from il
across the shoulders. Ornaments of jet sub
dued the brigh tness of the velvet and the
latter peered beyond a high jet collar. A
plated panel of ruby velvet formed almost
the whole of the Left side of the skirt, orna-
ments of jet being laid over it, Bows and
ends of the velvet were mingled with the
silk drapery at the back. It would have
been quite perfect dress only that it was
unduly sscushioned'' and improved" This
fearful protuberance is almost laughable
when seen below a slender waist; and now
that the dress improver is reduced in good
society to the most attenuated dimensions,
why on earth do middle class people spoil
their frocks and their figures by clinging to a
traditionary inelegance?
saw some lovely bonnets at Louise's the
other day. They made me long to be buying
a trousseau. The shapes are small and close
rs a rule and the tr innings are by no means
so extravagantly high as they have been.
The insertion bonnets are quite new. The
shape is covered with alternate rows of vel
vet and bead insertion matching the tint of
the velvet. The one saw was in hello
trope, the shaded beads harmonizing beauti-
fully with the soft pansy color of the velvet
The trimming was quite ideal, consisting of
some loops of ivory velvet ribbon and a
white, soft wing with some sprays upstand-
ing. A tortoise shell pin, with gold
crescent for heading, pretended to hold the
e. t,,cA
little becoming frill of ruched-out heliotrope
silk surrounded the face. The strings were
in ivory velvet ribbon. Can you see that
bonnet? 1t is absolutely sweet.
And here is love of bonnet for cold
weather. The crown is made of white lambs
wool cloth, the brim being covered with
gathered velvet of golden shade of brown.
A knob of the velvet in the very center
makes this front very becoming. The
trimming is composed of white velvet
ribbon, white feathers and white ospreys,
the whole being skewered with a tortoise
shell pin. The strings are brown velvet.
dear little muH to match is of lambs wool
cloth edged with gathered brown velvet A
pearl edged white ribbon lining some folds
of the cloth probably denotes a tiny kerchief
pocket; sort of chapel of Q Sc to the larger,
less accessible and more responsible ''parish"
pocket as it were.
The "Nicobar'' is also new. This name
belongs to bird whose acquaintance 1 have
never made. The plumage recalls Tennyson's
delicious line about Enid's wedding gown, on
which ''the lovely, shoaling blue played into
green" The bonnet is brown cloth, with
folds of velvet in similar color laid up the
middle of the crown. From beneath the
top of these come the ribbon strings. At
either side is wing of the nicobar In the
center is a deftly tied bow of brown satin
ribbon with diagonally folded velvet on either
side. Nicobar toques are also made in the
same style.
The hats are as tempting as the bonnets.
The Danube" has wide, upright brim COW
cred with beaver. The crown is covered
with folds of lynx brown velvet with
white osprey. The Boston" is very
picturesque tabac felt one with high crown
and narrow brim, straightly horizontal on
the right side, but curving gently upward
toward the left till it assumes perpendicular
direction showing the plush lining A wide
pearl edged silk ribbon in the lovely soft
shade known as ''old pink" surrounds the
| crown, being laid on quite fiat. A band of
shaded brown bead passennenterie covers the
center of it, producing beautiful effect OF
color. A very large plume of tabac ostrich
feathers is SO arranged that the tips droop
over the crown. Loops of the pink ribbon
and of brown satin complete the trimming.
At the back, where the brim is turned up
fiat against the crown, small knob of brown
satin ribbon seems to tie it in position.
Louise's Spanish hat'' is great novelty.
It is a modern edition of the old fashioned
gypsy bonnet. The brin rises in a curve
above the brow and then bends downward at
either side and inward so that it rests quite
| fatty against the head. This produces a
charming frame for pretty forehead. To
| be fully appreciated it needs to be seen.
| There is high trimming in front composed
of ribbon and feathers in the color of the
velvet with which the shape is covered. At
the back the hat fits closely to the head like
| a bonnet.
| Their Wedding Came From Broken
| Oar.
| LFrom the Madison (Wis.) Journall
| One beautiful day two summers ago Miss
| Mary Tuner acnnmnaniad hY her sister. Miss