Telegram-herald., 1890-01-07
LAST FAD Or THE DAY.
Nov We Arc Interested - Any
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iax % dssp2r 0sss ths guaHt 2ad mel
sucholy isannsss of her 20 ketbook
deslsted arst by holiday sps ndings and
second by tas purchase OF an Egyptian
tea g0ND.
-'0h bat lt's a beauty. she replied.
halt eHlit2At an1 half ashau.e3. On
ths sx4et moiei Of an abAya Wait,
yol sazll see me pas it on.
Ay friend j. plamp, brown Great re
vita liquid black eyes AMI when ten
minutes late she emerged from her
dressing room might easily have mis-
ta2ea her Tor the occupant of wealthy
hArem. her soft brown silk robe wlth
It's long aud fOaIng sleeves ana yoke
embroidered in silver lending Itself
readily 70 tals illusion. There " as a
pettlcoat of striped syrian silk In rose
color ana siyev and vide SASH IA the
same haes- The outer gown Was
siasaed az the sides 10 show brilliant
lining Of Egyptian red. and over the
shoulders hung a veil OF brown gauze
also embroidered with silver On her
feet she had rose pink velvet slippers
en- broltered Wit silver and seed rearls
and worn over Gesh-c0lored SILK sIoc X
lngs, the next thing % mono My
friend, | had not previously not ced,
had cu' her thick hair straight. across
her forehead and while she chattea
SIZE bound IL with brow-pendant in
gold repOussee. whieh might have been
worn 5.o0l years ago by Pharoab ;
daughter, ana c-asped about her throat
a necklace OF carnellan and silver seem
ingly OF antique pattern.
1 don't show this" She said. touch
ing the brow pendant, outside my own
cAamter, but oy the time give nay 4
o'clocks in February ] expect to be able
20 appear in it in the drawing room,
perhaps even with my hair down ia any
number OF little tails as Cleopatra wore
hers, every plait fastened with little
tag OF silver
''Of course you know that 10 be Egyp-
tian is the latest fashion.
This procession OF the nations across
the social stage is very interesting
comedy. IL may end when NC have
gone the rounds OF other peoples in our
cOstuming ourselves as Fiji Islanders.
Two years ago, IN the heyday of the
Mikado, 20 be Japanese was the height
of our ambition. Last winter, with
the advent Of Nerestchagin and mis- pic
lures. we furnished with bearskins and
struggled with the samovar This
winter when il reached our ears that
the wife OF the Chinese minister was a
noble lady We began 20 use at once in
our boudoirs the musical Chinese gongs,
but on second thoughts, finding that
servants could not hear them. we re-
stored the electric buttons, fell at the
feet Of Miss Edwards-or is il only a
piece OF Napoleon worship, passing
from alteration of the Empir, gown TO
remembrance of the feats Of the En-
press's husband II and pulled out Of
bureau drawers all the scarabs brought
home by travellers who have wintered
on the Nile
OpenwOrk Hindu cloths and beautiful
soft tints OF mulberry sienna brown,
peach and sea-green. with combinations
OF white and ber gray and blue. gray
and red are seen in tho stuiIs which
luxurious women are beginning 70 covet
from the Cairo bazaars There is one
woman who receives her intimates over
cup of coffee in her bedroom of a
morning clad in an abaya o: maize
color over creamy white With brown
stripes nearly "a foot wide. the garment
being, so madame assures her callers. a
genuine importation in which an Egyp-
tian lady might we'll have sat astride
her donkey. its ample folds filing with
the wind while her servant, sabre in
hand marched behind.
In "A Scrap of Paper," when Mr.,
Kendall as &" Col. BLAKE" exhibits tho
curious she'll girile which he declares
20 be not the necklace OF a Timbuctoc
belle but her gown the ladies are prop
eriy horrifed, but very tall young wo-
man, whose figure is Of the kathryn
Kidder or Bernhardt order, wore at .
recent at home" a hip girdle of simi-
lar design made OF deep fringe OF a
dark soft leather. ornamented with
beads and purchased by her brother
from \ blue-black Nubian woman below
the First Cataract, not with any notion
81 is adorning a modern Yankee girls
person. though IL tulfls that Office not
iueGectIvely
But Egyptian whims in dress arc the
least important step - the nev do
pa-ture It is in icwelry and decora-
sion shat the fever WORKS strongly.
more especially since tne craze jeinr
in IFS infancy and confined as yet 20 thc
elect ene bronze and porcelain gots.
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