St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-12-17
CHRISTMAS ON THE way.
Gifts That Will Bless the Giver and
Please the Receiver.
FASHION IN AFFECTION.
Mourning Umbrellas and Ribbon Chate-
laines---Pastel Portraits for Best
Young Men.

Mourning Umbrellas and Ribbon Chate-
laines---Pastel Portraits for Best
Young Men.
| Christmas Is coming, and Christmas
| novelties are to the fore. One of the
! newest of the new things is the mourn.
ing umbrella. These are the days when
one matcheS-matches from top to toe.
Would the tall Pompadour crook in
silver, bright silver, set with pearls,
very probably-would such an um-
brella comport with Grape, think you?
The mourning umbrella is just as tall
it touches your shoulder, reaching the
| full height of the style. 1t is just as
| as Louis Quinze, for if there are any
women who are particular about their
dress appurtenances they are women
who are in mourning. 1t is just as
| bright as the silver, but it's brightness
| is dusky CLEAN. The stick of the
mourning umbrella is studded its full
| length with the cOaly Specks of dull and
| shining jet beads.
After Christmas the young girl will
wear new sort of chatelaine. 1t is
| chatelaine of ribbons-grandmoth
| used to wear it; and of snowy after
noon in winter when caller comes TO
the fireside it will give the young girl
| charming domestic air. 1t is meant for
a house gown accessory, bit of pietur
esqueneSs for decorative effect only,
| though it may be put to its Old-time
| uses il any young girl should be so
prosaically minded as to think on plain
sewing. 1t should match the house
| gown in color and be fastened to the
belt. 1t has five long pendants of inch
| wide ribbon, painted with birds or but
| tertileS, feather-Stitched with floss or
| left plain. Scissors weight one Streamer,
| needle-book hangs from one, pin-ball
| from third. An English walnut makes
! a nest for the thimble at the end of the
| fourth ribbon, and dress artists differ as
| to what should go upon the fifth.
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| Silver has had its innings. Silver and
| ivory is enjoying its turn. The silver
| backed combs and brushes and hand
| mirrors which suggested last winter
| the deSirability of attending to its toilet
to every touchdown and unkempt
| Christmas tree are no longer the favor
ties as against the field. Long odds
| may be laid OH ivory-white ivory or,
| better yet, yellow ivory veined with
brown carved as only the Chinese
| know how to cut it, and enclosed in an
| open-work frame of wrought silver or
| silver filagree. An ivory comb with
such a silver casing has the oldest
| effect imaginable, and the oddity is
what takes. Handmirrors are some
| times gotten up very deliberately, with
| handle of ivory carved with pattern of
| daisies and a handful of daisies in
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| tips of the petals, crossing the ivory
| back.
| When one gives ones picture to ones
best young man one gives him, not a
| photograph, bat a pastel The cOlorless
| presentments of the sun pictures, so
unfaithfui since the progress of ''re-
touching" are banished in the days or
months of romance, making place for
delicate, poetic faces rising out of soft
| gray mists with tender, shining eyes.
If the young man appreciates the por-
trait he is supposed to set it in frame
of ivory cut into the semblance of a
wreath of flowers before he exposes it
to view upon his desk. Ivory picked
out with gold is prettier, ivory and sill
yer go very welt. A jeweled frame of
enameled flowers-lilies of the valley,
rosebudS. Parma violetS-cOrreSpOnd-
ing to the floral image under which he
| pictures his inamorata, is the finest and
the costliest of all
If it is the best young man who has
| given his portrait to the pretty girl. she
does not frame it to stand upon her
desk at all. That is no longer the way.
She circles it with an oval rim of gold
and hangs it about her neck by ribbon.
not in sight, mind you, in the good old
love-making way.
Providence is kind to the woman who
| persists in carrying her pOcket-bOOk in
| her hand. The immense wallets of
leather foot long have disappeared.
New wallets for winter promenading
should be nearly square nd quite small.
! 1t still does to present one with a tiny
watch in the corner, but the latest
wrinkle iSa very small vigaigrette, fiat
| in shape and inserted in silver medal
| lion at the top, for use in malodOrOus
horse-car, or, possibly, to cover
! ones grief or surprise at the cost of
goods. A pocket-bOok for the queen of
ones heart is heart-shaped, covered
with chamOis skin and painted with
| flight of swallows, the birds of good
omen. 1t might be taken to typify,
| however, the modern connection be-
latest cashkeeperS are disguised as
small, daintily bound books to put the
cash snatcher off his guard. They say
that Ella Wheeler Wilcox carried the
first of these greenback volumes, laugh
ingly calling herself woman of litera-
ture. Hers was bound in gilt and en-
broidered with roses. and all of them,
so far, have been bedight most fanci-
fully.
In holiday bric-a-brac one should re-
member that bisque, which is always
with us, changes its co!ors each year.
All OF this seasons designs are in very
light tones, mostly in white and gold.
The dark-colored pieces are left over
from last winter. Bisque just now
adapts itself to Louis Quinze furnish
ings. Arcadian shepherds and shep-
herdeSSes, court ladies and gallants
masquerade before us joyously. Bisque
frankly and unblushingly records our
complete reputation of the. medieval
styles SO long in favor, and the open
apostacy of our return to the frills and
furbelows, the charming, rumpled, pic
turesque coquetry of the PompadOur,
ders the hair of its danes and puts
cooked hats on its gentlemen.
By that same token white marble has
returned to us again. We have ban
ished it to art galfaries for years, but
this Christmas we shall invite it home.
We have not liked its smooth, positive
wilderness in the half tints of our
esthetically- rooms, but it is
the very thing to stand out boldly
against pink. blue and gilt that smile
from wall and ceiling now. Marble
busts, marble heads of maidens, marble
groups for pedestals, marble center
pieces, and even such small articles as