Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-01

SLAB; it Is sold for quarter Of the price.
The strictly Empire style Is done IN gold
chair, white tapestry, hand.painted seat.
A clever window chair Is shown in this
style; also three-cornered card table, with
unfolding leaves, becomes round when
opened out and much larger. It has beenre-
produced from London novelty and Is very
fetching. An OAK leaf followed out Of the
wood 10 clever novelty for table top. A
she'll is the shape Of an odd and comfortable
seat to revolving piano stool
Letters from New York say soft lolling
lounges have been introduced in New York
upperdom diuing-rooms, and the stif-backed
chair had been banished. While we do not
believe that anything of the kind has ever
been undertaken in this country. says the
Philadelphia Upholsterer, we do think that
in the course of another ten years we will
find the prim dining chair thing of the
profound past. Thus far we have had high
back chairs and low-baek chairs chairs with
arms and chairs without arms; and chairs
that got in the way and were menace to
walters, and spilled soup and otherwise mis-
behaved. The dining-room is day by day
and year by year becoming more place for
entertainment and less a feeding station,
and why there cannot be more comfort in the
furniture is matter that has perplexed the
many.
Jeweled combs. .daggers and sword-hilts are
stuck in the back of the head, and on these
rest the bonnet, the strings coming from the
back, having rather tendency to make the
poise unsteady, SO that the pin becomes
necessity.
Hampton's, in Pail Mall, London, havea q
number of rooms decorated and furnished
in the most sumptuous manner as specimens
of different styles. There are a couple Of
drawing rooms. One is Louis XIV. in style;
the other, Louis XVI. The walls of both
rooms have panels of rich brocade and q
plaster frieze. The ceilings are hand
painted. All the chairs are upholstered in
brocade and framed In ormolu. The cab
inets are ornamented with equisitely painted
panels. In the Louis Seize room the hearth
and mantel shelf are of onyx. French fur
niture is the costliest furniture made. It is
only within the reach of milllonaires.
The back hair is sometimes imprisoned in
a golden network which is fastened behind
the hat, or three jeweled velvet bands fall
over the hair, filling up the unbecoming
space between the head and the hat.
A pretty woman rarely has pretty hand.
American women's hands are always white,
though not always shapely. Nearly all
English women have red or mottled hands.
Nails that have no half-moons are sign of
bad circulation. One lady operator can
easily manicure II pairs of hands day.
One operation usually takes half an hour.
Gentlemen keep their hands and nails in
better condition than ladies, but they don't
admire the pointed style, and they don't
like their nails highly polished. To keep
the nails in nice condition 1t is necessary to
visit manicure once fortnight. People
with lots Of money are manicured every
week.
Many of the coming coats are not pro-
vided with button-holes, and in their place
are loops Of silk or woolen cord which fasten
over bullet-sha2e buttons of the material.
The picturesque three-cornered hat that
Ellen Terry wore as Lucy Ashton in SRA
venswood," is likely to be very popular in
London this season. Modistes have copied
it verv extensively for smart customers.
All the newest hats are in fancy open-work
straw, and ell are trimmed with wealth OF
blossoms. Ths mixtures Of color get more
incongruous for instance, magenta pink and
turquoise blue ON one bonnet. The crowns
of hats groan under the amo int of trimming
they are made to carry.
Great gildea or silvered hook and eyes
are used instead of clasps on some of the
new long cloaks Some of the handsome
ones are jewel studded or are of faceted jet.
Most of the dresses have some kind OF
finish about the foot, either band of velvet
or braiding. or bias band of the material
finished at the top with fine silk cord Of
several overlapping folds
Hungarian cords. frogs and olives fasten
many Of the jackets and Louis XIV. coats.
Both sides pleated, box-pleated and gath
cred ruffles are fashionable, and are either
bias or straight, machine hemmed or turned
up on the right side and blind stitched.