The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1891-07-05
FASHION AND THE Home
A Partisan Dressmakers
Latest Triumph in the
Line Of Tea Gowns.
ROUND TABLES In VOGUE.
Should Women Smoker The Rage
for Embroidery-0rign-
atty in Sleeves.


and joy, not quite forever. bat as leng
as it lasts; with which platitude 1 will
commence the description of one I saw
the other day made by Partisan dress
maker and called "the Roman tea gown.
II was so effective aud yet so quite possi-
bic to make at home that think must
give you sketch Of it. The foundation
is of simple pink silk, and over this is an
exceedingly thin, fine cream crepe de
Chine. brocaded with very small sprays
of palesu pink flowers and equally pale
green leaves The bodice is an ordinary
full one. the crepe being gathered 60 the
neck under a beautiful collar of gold
passementerie sprinkled with pearls and
drawn to the waist by gold belt of the
same.
The beauty and originality of the dress
lies in the make OF the sleeves; these are
fulled into the shoulder, and drape into
the back of the skirt with which they
form one piece of material They fall
straight from the shoulder In front, and
are sufficiently closed under the arm to
make sleeve for it. It might be repro
duced In silk gauze or grenadine with
much OF the same effect. Another equally
lovely is made OF eau de Nil blue
silk brocaded with cream. 1t also is
beautifully draped with cream crepe
with pattern of little white leaves
in the same cream color. Instead of being
outside, this forms the underdress, which
is kept in at the waist and neck by rich
ornaments OF passementsrie In the form
of two wings with fringes OF golden drops.
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over this was made with short Direc5oire
jacket fronts adorned with very beauti-
ful painted porcelain buttons set round
with cut steel. The sleeves were entirely
composed Of Crepe de Chine edged with
white blonde, and fichu trimmed in the
same way finished of at the back of the
neck, falling IN folds that reminded one
of those OF 9 pointed hood.
The rage for embroidery has shown it.
self even in the dresses of little girls,
which VIII be charming this summer. I
am old fashioned enough 70 prefer white
OF all things for girls wear In hot
weather, whether young or grown up
and next TO white, pretty printed French
cambrics. Ii, however, YOU want them
to look little smarter. you cannot
choose more effective nor more useful
dresses than those made of fouIard In
plain colors, and combined with the
many varieties eff washing guipures or
embroideries, now becoming so very
reasonable in price.
ROUND TABLES.
King Arthur's round table is to be the
new shape Of our diniug boards After
all, it Is but returning TO the ways and
fashions OF our ancestors, with whom
round tables were ordinary affairs They
certainly have the advantage of allowing
the guests to see each other without
craning their necks, as happens at the
long straight ones. Another good thing
is that very often such Is the shape of the
room that a round table will go
where long square one will not
find place. Owing to this change
we shall see great alteration in the
style of flower decorations at this seasons
dinner parties. Those who possess fine
pieces Of old family plate have now
good opportunity for utilizing them, as
handsome centre-pieces will be the
foundation of ali floral edifice. Flat they
certainly must not be, as they will make
the table look like an exaggerated flower
bed. High palms; small tree ferns and
all kinds of tall Towering plants will be
the most suitable for these centres. A
very pretty fashion is to have palm, or
some tall plant placed IN the mid
die of the table, and radlating from
it ..garlands of flowers and greenery to
smaller stands placed before each guest
round the table. Glass centre-pieces are
extremely light and elegant. / saw ore
the other day that had little fountain Of
scent playing all the time during dinner
whilst the upper part held lamp or
branch for wax candles, surrounded by
flowers. Sweet blossoms also adorned
the edges Of the glass basin, into which
the spray of the little perfumed fountain
fell. Some of these lovely glass pieces
have stands all around from which are
glass baskets of flowers, with
crystals hanging like fringes from them.
SHOULD LADIES SMOKER
Should ladies smoke Is much-vexed
question. Whether there is actually any
thing wrong In it exists only in whether
it does a person any real physical harm or
not. Morally there can be no more harm
for a woman to smoke than for a man.
aud if it has the same beneficial effect on
their temper as on that of the male anil
mai, by all mean let those who indulge In
bad ones get relief that will come from
tobacco. Many people say it is unladyiike
to smoke. Qaery-what Is the definition of
being ladyiike? Many women think that
to sit and shipper sand read novels all day
and do nothing useful Is the essence of
and that the use of tobacco
must be dirty habit This does not
in the least follow. People may be as
clean about smoking as about eating or
drinking. My idea is that it is the abuse,
not The use of the things. that is to be
have the strength of her opinions to be
q law unto herself in the matter. If it is
done for the soothing it brings,
well and good; but ii for effect, then 1t is
vulgar. as anything would be done with