Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-01-13
WHAT THEY WEAR.

WHAT THEY WEAR.
 Military effects are noticeable in the season's millinery.
 Colors are extensively used in the decora- tion of black toilets.
 Glove stretchers of oxidized silver are worn as a pendant to the chatelaine.
 Pretty demi- trained toilets for young ladies are of white wool braided with silver
 Venetian green and terra cotta are com bined in some of the newest tailor gowns.
 Charming evening toilets have lace skirts, with moire bodices with sashes to match.
 White and gold and pale blue and silver arc favorite combinations for evening bon- nets.
 Young ladies trim their black silk gowns very effectively with silver and cut jet gimps.
 Bonnets of dark green velvet are spangled with jet and trimmed with black moire rib bon
 made with a belted corsage of some descrip- tion.
 Pale and deep tan plush skirts ere worn with winter dresses of various colors and fabrics.
 OCtSu gray ana OlQ SlINeT are uetlIsu COL ors which are much admired for cloth tailor made gowns.
 A new gold horseshoe brooch is formed by several smaller horseshoes, set with rubies or other stones.
 Laces, silk and passementeries and jet gal loon are the favorite garnitures for black fallle dresses.
 Cashmere bonnets, with pinkcd edges and caps sewn inside, are in vogue for babies and little girls. Beige, tan, bronze, golden brown and all the tawny yellow shades are very fashionable the present season. New cloth bonnets matching cloth dresses are covered with passementerie like that | used to trim the dress. Theatre bonnets of cashmere, with pinked l edges and full gathered fronts, arc pretty and generally becoming. Bridemaids who follow the newest fashion carry walking sticks of ebony and silver, to which bouquets are attached. A Paris correspondent writes that fur | trims everything in spite of all limitations. The real article is always so expensive ano so different that the fashion grows and thrives. Wadded jackets are worn under the India wraps, which averts the possibility of tho wearer freezing to death on the street, although the camels hair material is of itself celebrated for its warmth. l. Small mantel clocks, with 0 musical box attachment are new and pretty, and had a popular sale during the holidays. They are | of $ Sviss manufacture, and como in several sizes ard variety of tunes.
 Toboggan hats are of many varieties, and mono of them pecially admirable. Disfg- urement in cos ? seems to be essential tc this new kind tdoor sport, which has | now become a acraze. A Paris co. t tells that Q new fashion is peao nes tied in the | coiffure with narr> If prettly ar ranged, says the COT. they are very effective, and new in.
 As many turbans as ~e sen at the theatre now, and mcSL estylish and becoming. In Paris bird feathers, with a gold aigret, are described as the height of fashiI
 Now that the imitation jewele, lamps have reached barrooms n places, the probabilities are that they discarded without u tear by the so call, elusive people who first had them Fashion prophets say crinoline will r in all its "balloonity" within year. the hustle is fast being driven awr way for it. Then good-by to sea 1 to economy in buying dress ps'
 Velvet basques and reding -reas- ing. Apropos of the form .comes over tho cable that the P .ales has a velvet basque trimr Iack, long haired fur down tf 1 around the edge.
 DOGS THAT SOMETHING.
 R. M. Fraz' .gh, N. C., lost fine bird dog. days afterward the animal w an old pit, still alive, | but so d hardly stand. | The 1T between Calico Cal and Bisr dog The mail is fastened at 4. In tho last three years be It -Issed trip nor lost letter
 -.n terrier belonging to George Cas-
 A, of Babbacombe Beach, England, watches for mackerel from high bluff near the hotel, and barks and points when Q school appears.
 A pug and Newfoundland dog belonging to New Jersey gentlemen were seen to halt before brook. The big dog took to the water, but the pug refused to do so. The Newfoundland then persuaded the pug to get upon his back, but he slid off when half way across, when the big dog yanked him out | duu Se1 nlIu ou tnc opposite panA. solnce then the pug has carried out of tho house tc the Newfoundland tho choicest bits of hi: food, and he seems to enjoy seeing the big dog eat them.
 Charles Roby, of Nelson county, Ky, has hound so old that he is almost totally blind In play recently some children placed upon hi: nose a pair of spectacles with O powerful lens. Instantly, according to the story, the dog began to romp in his young days Next day the spectacles were fastened SC curely before his eyes, and when the dog were called for the chase he was in the lead Now when the glasses are removed he whines and he shows the greatest joy when they ar, replaced.
 We Always Lead
 For the Holidays we are
 determined to go far
 in advance of all
 the others