The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-03-24
THE DAILY TIMES SUNDAY. MARCH "a. 1883


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! my daughter. never had one before
e and can't remember TO keep II wound.
: Listen 20 the talk of money, money
S money; smile politely when one socia
2 struegler informs you that she has takcr
I suite AT the Murray Hill Hotel wher
= you happen 10 know that she IL living In
: something not far removed from tene
ment house In a side street, and puts bel
, whole income on her back for chance ap
J pearanco Mt other peoples receptions
smile again AT the man who opens con
versation pleasantly with bah Jove
you women think You're spending cash
! when you pay servant 500 month
but pay my valet $50. and he's deuced
well worth 1t, too" Breathe the atmOs
phere OF this sort, and the genuine sim
plcity and unworldllness OF wealthy
woman who says frankly that she la:
} never folt like mourning the expense Of q
sealskin cloak comes like breath OF
fresh air In hot house
The funniest development of the mind
cure is is extension to the intellectual
realm. The woman who proposes 10 de
vote herself TO good works during Lent
engages mind curer To treat her for
devotion" The metaphysical healer
instead OF doctoring for physical ills
must hive spiritual assistance. She looks
with unabasbed vision into the realm OF
ideas. and simply assures herpatient that
she Is living In sphere OF moral beauty
and harmOnizes her so as 10 be receptive
10 II. IL Is wonderful, they say, what q
forinighi's treatment OF this sort will do
toward reconciling one To the sewing OF
unbieached cotton shirts for the
foreign or native heather. The woman
who has a tea to give and who Is worn
out by social dissipation is treated for
society" and her boredom disappears
the beauty Of making life pleasant for
ones friends is borne in upon her, ana
she receives people who ring her door
bell unlimited with face wreathed la
smiles The woman who scribbles has
the mania In ils worst form. She Is
treated for q newspaper or magazine
article" or even "for novel" Il takes
clever minded curers to do this sort OF
thing and impressiOnable women.
Tie newest occupation for e woman Is
that OF travellers guide. The young girl
who first engaged in it distributed little
circulars 10 the crowd Of people In the
ladies' waiting room at q big railway sta
ton. The woman who had come TO
Town to shop, and found the child she
could not leave at home ali ineongen-
fence, put the little one into the hands of
the travellers guide TO be amused, taken
10 the park, kept goOd-natured Tor two
or three hours. The country girl who
wanted a spring gown, but did not know
+ the store, engaged her to act IS cOnduc-
+ tor to the sights Of the town. The w0-
man who was taken suddenly i'll had
some one to battle her forehead, call a
carriage and 90 with her to hotel There
wasn't fortune IN 1t, but there was 8
modest income and many people found
her useful
This will be a spring OF buttons
+ Washington settled that little matter one
/ hundred years ago when he led out Mrs.
Peter Van Brook Livingston 10 walk a
minuet with her at the Inauguration ball.
lie had no thought IN April. 1850, Of set
ting the fashions for April, 1889. but the
Father OF His Country did not fOresee
lhe centennial quadrllle We hunt foI
ancestors and We find buttons. VOLTA
Behold 1t IN a nutshell
For six months we have paid oui
devoirs to the older styles. With the
glorihcaiion OF Washington and La
fayette IN prospect, the reign of colonial
and eighteenth century French fashions
takes even stronger hold. Redingote.
revived buttons, the search for relics of
centennial heroes and heroines i.
bringing out artistic and Orna-
mented buttons, such as our great
grandparents, if we boast them
wore on the cuffs the pockets and bro
csded fronts Of their coats and
gowns. Historic sets Of silver and silver
gilt buttons, painted by Waltcau and
Boucher, as big az hity cent piece Oh
silver dollar, are what the early brigade
Of pleasure-seekers, already of for Eu
rope. are searching for. The modiste.
and designers of city houses who have
Oeen arriving by every steamer for ter
DAYS past, loaded down with ideas foi
the spring campaign, picked up in Vi
emma and Paris have brought with them
modern French limitations Of these treas
ures. pure silver and silver and copper
as well az baser metal buttons, very
handsome, very elaborate. for the Apri
walking and carriage and evening gowns
A gown which is going to the muci
talked of centennial ball illustrate thC
new button craze. Its material Is pale
rose satin--one OF the most popular
spring colors-with a peculiar silyerS
sheen The three-Quarters low direc
tOire corsage is laid back from the throat
in wide revers embroidered with silver
thread and fastened with large, fiat silver
buttons, on which appears the
device of dancing bachutte. Silver
tissue makes the misty, shimmering stuff
oven the bosom, and the skirts open
upon pctticOat OF satin hung with more
delicate silver tissue loOped in front with
gaflsnds of pink roses without foliage
Inside the edge Of the petticoat is set
instead of the usual pink silk rutfe
many deep plaitingS of rose and silver
tulle, one inside and another like the
skirts Of ballet dancer.
On walking gowns and tea gowns the
buttons viii be in their glory.
One Of the spring colOrs is 4 new blue
which looks more like blending OF
pink and blue. This, in a fine soft cash.
mere. is draped over skirt of pale blue
liberty silk, with wide gilt foot trim
ming The short, almost Greenaway
waist il turned back from the throat
we have said long goodbye to the doc
collar-and q belt effect is produced 10y
shirring the oyerskirt about five inche:
and fastening that on the short waist
The sleeves come only TO the elbows, and
under them appears sheer diaphanou.
white undersleeve-another revival oil
an old fashion-gsthered in two pulls
and ending In daintily embroidered
cuff.
One of the spring hats Is Dat Wat
teau saw il yesterday in rich, gel
low straw, the brim rolled up al one side
and tied with greenish-yellow ribbons.
There was no other trimming, az aesthetics
nowadays copy simplicity OF Marie An
toineite when she played at being q
milkmaid in the gardens al little Tria
non.
Another hat Of willow-grown straw
has It's wide brim rolled up behind, anC
the roll filed in with a mass OF WILD
roses, with trailing grasses and wander.
ing rose sprays escaping from contne
ment and dropping over the back hair.
\ June hat is OF silver null shirred
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