Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-08-18

Some of the Early Fall Fashions, Ar
tistic Draperies and Gowns.
photographs and Frames-lIary AndersOn's
and Modjeska's Pictures-Indiyidual
Conceits-Cosmeties
ICOpyrighted.l

For the Gazette
The inst scarlet is on the swamp
NAPLES, and the summer toilets show
signs of wear, tokens that the season is
in its last waning quarter. The town
modistes are at work languidly on
dresses for their regular customers who
leave orders SIX months ahead and are
content to have their elegant eonserFa-
tive materials, henrietta cloths at So
ward and grapes at IS, wait eleven
months or so before they see them home.
Life is a routine of ease and provision
for such people, who lay out plans
three and five years ahead, and have
such a contract with fate that things
fall out much as they have ordered.
one lady of family and fortune in New
York who went into society seldom, kept
thirty black dresses of sober, good ma
teriaI hanging in her wardrobe, only
six of which, perhaps, were ever put on
in the year Nevertheless, each season
she had them vigorously altered to suit
the mode and put them by, to be saving
of them. as her ancestresses were when
brocades or stuffs we're bought for
lifetime. What comfort we might have
now if clothes and houselinen were made
ND to last for ten years. There are line
OLD chintZes and india silks up IN the
attic of this house, which were made
when the recamier style was originally IN
vogue, with fun short waists cut on the
bias, and slender gigot sleeves, and there
Is as much wear in the fabric now as IN
half on the counters to-day. Ism t 1t
better to pay dollar yard for print as
women did fifty years ago, and have
some good of it, than to make up six
cheap dresses for the wear OF one? l
know an artistic lady, given to studlous
pursuits, who seriously plans for herself
10 have fine firm unbleached cottons ana
linens dyed art colors, indigo blue, light
and dark, old reds and pinks and log
wood danlia shades, and make them up
in pretty and becoming styles, not to be
altered until the gowns wear out: For
woman no longer young the idea is not
unsuitable, and inspired by thorough
taste. her toilet would always wear q
distinction, only it takes woman OF
figure and breeding to carry out individ-
uality like this.
Speaking of special styles, the artistic
thing now is TO design your own patterns
for draperies or dress and have them
printed as well as embroidered for you.
A very pretty set of curtains for coun-
try house, where something was desired
that would wash and wear, was of the
best unbleached shooting, yard and a
half wide, ct % cents OF less, which
went to an artist furnisher's to be
stamped in various floral pat
terms. wild elematis in greenisE
white blossoms and dull leaves, in old
pink single roses or blue succory stars, OF
that soft lovely hue which now make;
beautiful the waysides now in all New
England. The blocks are cut by hand
ana dyed in fast coIors without finish
and on the mellow ground the qnaln
pleasing designs have an excellent air OF
use and charm. The French houses
choose the finest quality Of cotton sails
cloth for printing in hydrangea and haw-
thorne patterns for 'chateaus IN ere
tonne. - Some artist writer tells of cas-
ties above the Tweed where boudoirs arr
furnished in white .brocade satin and
velvet, renewed each year to suit SONS
grand dame, but equal refinement anC
more is conveyed by the linen coverings
kept fresh by constant washings. The
sofa cushions in linen damask are 81
deliciouslv cool on hot day, soft liner
curtains smelling OF dried roses, have al
elegance
You can I get il with the pounds of pot
pourri you buy, which has cullnar
smell like miEce pie, it is so strong o
spices. No one out of five hundred ha
the gift OF making potpOurri as
should be, with the scent Of flower
rather than the pantry spice box
The new English perfume is white clover
the breath of meads and honey scent
breathed with open windows in n long
cool summer room furnished IL whit
mating and bamboo, with turquOls
linen curtains and cushions it harmon
ICES beniguly Such q room to be Il
keeping requires the fashionable Gu
crystal globes for roses, the clear glas
IiIy vases and tall silver lamps, wit
primrose, saffron or turquoise sIL
shades. The most elegant suits for coun
try houses are white mahogany, clear
zyood-like hickory, with rich cream
tint. made III the simplest lines with
bevel Of high polish, or a bead Of cary
ing in slight relief and the finest effect
There is a reaction from the bold renals
sauce carving, which educated moder
ewes grow very tired Of in few seasons
and the richest suites are n studio
pIaiuuess and perfect finish. l real!
think Boston IS heplace TO buy artist
furniture - reasonable cost. One OF Il!
artistic shops whose name is a guarantt
of fine workmanship and absolute taste
VIII sell Won beautifully finished suites
choice woods, something out of The con
mon in material and design, from 81
$50. which, my dear New York, de;
sometimes in q double sense, 1 regret
say. would not sell fer less than So
Si25. machine-m8de at that. 4 vel
pretty. style for ornamental pieces, NJ
right pianos, for instance, has incised
sunk carving, in duh wood in q 20
lshsd panel, with the effect Of ricn el
craving. Cherry wood in its light na
uraI color highly polished Is quite as az
1nired as mahogany, and il IS our NoTtl
ern mahogany FOR ali intents and pu
poses.
some pretty individual conceits
furnishings are noted. What 10 60 vi
photographs is often q question and t
last way OF disposal IS mountingrthem
the upper panels Of a folding sereei
where they are fitted in silk, plush
creionue Fat borders, with isingia
slipped over the picture in lieu of glas
Below IS a ten-inch space Of polisht
wood with shallow rallied shelf TO no
china. and drawn silk of cret0nne beloV
Ia.