The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1888-02-22
FASHIONS IN FUNERALS.
The Manner in Which Modern Society Arrays lis
Dead.

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Fashion extends her dominion farther
than kings and emperors; she rules after
| death.
The styles of dress for the dead vary
and change and are dictated by all the
usual considerations of display, custom
and beauty.
Burial robes for youthful women are
usually being made now of soft. white
| woollen cloth, and in some modification
of Greek styles.
One dressmaker, who is much in vogue
for funeral toilets, has for such occa-
sions made six in imitation of the one
Mary Anderson wears first as GaIatea.
A scarf-iike Greek wrap is worn with
it when desired. The dressmaker thinks
it is ''sweet."
Very strictly and conventionally re.
ligious people like better the angel
robe, which is made like the dress of Ra-
phaeFs Sistine Madonna. 1t has been
made the same way a long time, but the
substitution of woollen cloth for cotton
or linen is new, and so also is the choice
OF yellowish over a BLUSH white. All
coffin trimmings should now be yellow
ish. That dreadful blue-white that had
come to be so associated with funerals
that the sight of it anywhere is painful,
is out"
The hair should be let down or done
in Greek knot. Ii down it should be
partially curled. A hair1resser is usually
called in when it is swell house that
is bowed by sorrow, to arrange these lit
tie details. and there is one in this city
who has the run of this kind of business.
mo, for Gods sake, don't put my name
in the paper as doing that business he
says. 1T pays very well in itself, but
then it is uncertain and irregular, and
people get distaste to you if they think
You make it a specially
HFor elderly wemen pilgrim suits are
used. They are made of serge properly.
but when that is felt to be too harsh
cashmere or broadcloth are required. Ii
is made like a friar's gown, with a Cir
die and cape. Sometimes a sort of cap.
or close bonnet of the same material is
worn with it. This should be perfectly
plain, but choice of strings of ribbon
of the cloth is allowed. Brown and
gray are the favorite colors. Burying
i'll black is obsolete.
The winding sheet is being revived.
1t will again be possible to wrap the dra-
psry of their couch about the departed
when they go on their last Journey.
White billiard cloth is the proper mate
rial for these articles, and they COM
pletely enwrap the body in carefully al
ranged folds. Winding sheets are used
only for men, and at present only for
comparatively young men, and at very
private funerals.
Amid all these fashions it is pleasant to
note that the fashion of privacy and
simplicity increasingly prevails in the
best society.
rather dramatic form of privacy is
attained by the vesper burial. Services
are held at the house late in the after
noon, the friends retire Immediately
after, and at twilight the hearse, at
tended by single carriage containing a
clergyman and relatives. carries the
coffin to the vault. This arrangement
is new IN America, although modifica-
tons of it have prevailed for hundreds
of years on parts of the Continent. 1t
gains favor in New York, where the
cemeteries are at such great distances
and the trouble of going to them is more
than families like to ask of their friends.
Moreover, it is accepted because of its