The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-01-21

Special Correspondence of the Democrat:
New YORK, Jan'y, 16, 1886.
The cold wave which has shaker the centre
of things westward reached the classic shore
of our section with excellent effect.
Winter traffic of all classes has taken a new
impetus. Boucle, Blarney cloth and goods o
the tasselled and turfted order, trimmed will
lace-like bands of tartan and other plaids, ar,
again to the front, in the most striking d6an'
don of colors and effects.
An exquisite skating costume is of narrow
doree Cord de la Riene. The new species O
gold IN its leaf brown ~lustres, are among the
special:ies prepared at Lord & Taylor's, with
a view to Central Park Festivities.
The fur dealers are just beginning to "rule
the roost' with the rarest lot of CONNECTIONS
ever offered. l was in at his Prince Street
Place a day or two since and it was wonder
full to see the special articles in process OF
preparation. Among, the novelties, are muffs
in the crescent shape, finished with the head OF
the animal.
A late number of Rerue de la Node details
the uses to which furs are subjected by the
latest DEGREES of current style.
| A freak in fur very convenient for shopping
or travelling, is a muff satchel of seal, with
side pockets closing over the open centre. They
are closed with a double spring clasp which
renders them a safe repository for cash and
other valuables.
liz mOSG luXuFlOuS Oi Ill G DuIeCtlOnS OI LnlS
class, are the hoods for riding or sleighing
finished above the brow with a cluster of fluffy
pompous, and descending to protect the back
couture of fashion.
The craze for high dressed hair in all the
first Empire styles increases. The front is
ed in a cluster of puffs amid the short curls,
montague ring or fluffy frizzles as the case
may be.
was permitted to examine an array of
checks for hair cutting at Shaw's Partisan
saloon, "a west 18th street, which amazed me.
The figures were among the thousands. The
price for cutting, arranging and frizzing, is
fifty cents a head. Several hands at work
constantly, and it is really interesting to
watch this process of universal shearing, af-
fected by the devotees of style.
A rather singular fact occurs in connection.
The hair of the sterner sex is so barberous,
plastered to the head as to almost ruin the
contour of many a manly physiognomy, though
l am forced to admit that excellent judgement
is brought to bear On the dressing of mascu-
line beard. The small side whiskers closely
cropped, are very becoming to slender faces;
while the small tufts just below the lower lip,
imparts a pronounced and piquant expression
to a full round face.
The shoe with broad low heels and pointed
toes, are still de riguer for the devotees of the
masculine style, and the crown of dress hat,
like those of ladies chapeau, grow taller and
taller.
Some very elegant men are wearing COM
plete suits bordered with a very narrow black
velvet ribbon. Everything, even to the vest
and pocket flaps, is bordered in this manner
and the trousers have a velvet band down the
sides.
Late advice from Paris reveal the fact that
though very natty suits of all classes shown
at the metropolitan stronghold of Haokett,
.Carhart & Co., have mohair braid substituted
for velvet. These merchant manufactures
have best shown what new departures in
figures and fashions were incident to the pro-
'gress of the age.
A late wonder in wares over which house.
hold decorators are wild, are the caIsbut jewel
pieces displayed in upper Broadway. All
manner of articles in glass are embellished in
lustra painting, with the design burned in or
baked as in china painting. These CONNECTIONS
constitute a fitting accompaniment to the re-
poussee and kensington embroideries on plush
or satin with which household draperies are
ornamented.
Now here in connection, 1 am pleased to give
my readers of the DEMOCRAT piece of gratui-
tons information which cannot fail to be use
full. TIL embroidery silks and 1osses of
Brainerd, Armstrong & Co., of Philadelphia,
are of the purest Asiatic dyes, and do not lose
color by wear, or warp with washing; qualities
to be commended, certainly, for when one has
executed even a modest triumph in needle
painting they like to think of the carefully
wrought result as a pleasure of permanence;
one that will endure, long after the dexterous-
ly executed tapestries of royalty shall have
gone glimmering through the dream of things
that were. SIDNEY EARL.