The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1886-06-25
TISSUE FLOWER PARTIES.
The Beautiful Art Which Is Taking the
Place of the Crazy Quilts.

Tho beautiful Art which Is Taking the
Place of the Crazy Quilts.
Tissue paper flowers are the feminine
craze now. The show-windows are re-
splendent with tulips, roses, daisies,
and violets made out of tissue
paper, and young ladies of society are
devoting hours to acquiring the art of
their manufacture. 1t is a pastime par
ticularly interesting, and it is remarka-
BILE what beautiful floral effects are pro-
duced with colored paper, little wire,
little glue and pair of scissors. An
enterprising manufacturing company
has taken advantage of the craze, and
has put up in boxes an assortment of
different colored tissue paper, with a
small coil of fine wire and a few pieces
of very fine son rubber pipe, to be used
for stems. These boxes. together with
q pamphlet of instructions, are sold at a
trifiing sum by the thousands. Young
ladies, with no knowledge of the manu-
facture of artificial flowers, it is said,
can, with the contents of one of these
boxes, and by the aid of the book of in-
structions, produce the most natural do
mestic flowers with little practice.
''Tissue-paper parties have already
| become popular. The fashionable world
| always eagerly welcomes any new en-
| tertainment which promises to be both
novel and amusing, and it has taken
| hold of the tissue-paper mania. At
these quiet little assemblages not only
striking effects in flowers are pro-
duoed, but dresses are manufactured.
Paper used at these affairs is imported,
and comes in most marvellous variety
and beauty of color. Some of the gar
ments of this flimsy material are very
beautiful. As can be easily imagined, the
variety of colors, shades and tints is al
most inexhaustible, and every kind of
combination and effect is possible. In
the matter of trimming there Is scope
for all sorts of limitations flowers,
fringes, ruffs. and hundred and one
furbelows which women only under
stand the name OF the object of. There
must be a great deal of satisfaction in
lady making such a dress and then
viewing it with rapturous feminine de-
light, but this satisfaction can not, OF
course, be compared to that of the
master of the house, who finds his re.
lief in the fact that it costs but few
cents.
But it is the manufacture of flowers
from this imported paper which has
turned the young feminine mind upside
down. In The wonderful craze for fancy
work these paper flowers are much uset
for ornamentation. Roses and poppies
made much larger than nature, are uset
for decorating lace curtains, pillow
cases, backs of plush sofas and chairs
and easels. A very popular feature d
the parlor is a basket of these flowers
The basket itself is made of dark-coloret
laid on paper suaSrngs, ''r,re.-.,---1-. =
and keep the basket in shape. Inc nan I
ale of wire, is covered with paper, wit
sweet peas or other climbing mower
twined around it. Such a basket
aowers can scarcely be dlstinguishe
from wax. A skillful hand, howeve
is needed in their manufacture.
sThe prettiest thing have seen MAJ
of tissue paper is mat representing
j. water lily," said young lady the otn
day, while in conversation 1n WIN ,e, |.
writer upon the subject. "Ihe peri'
form of the beautiful flower was repi
duced. 1t was made upon founaatl
K. of a very large leaf, and upon I
leaves in graduated sizes are placed
lower ones being of dark green, the g
re ter of very pale yellow, while the mi
mediate N, leaves were in graduated tn
You have no idea what happy Oh
P" was produced. IN. T. S"m'