The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-12-27

nuisances of themselves in a crowded
thoroughfare
New things in jewelry have come TO
hight of late. The happy wishbone pin is
something which not every one has seen.
1t IS broken wlshbone, and il is made of
gold. Two diamonds are set alongside of
the bone. and there is clasp 10 fasten it
with. 1t is called the Merry Thought
brooch and makes an excellent souvenir
The chicken brooch is another eccentri-
city In jewelry. 1t is purchased prnci-
pally as gift for young ladies, who are
fond OF gay Clothes and who admire fancy
bits OF Jewelry rather than the regulation
heavy set styles. 4 pretty chicken brooch
consists OF gold chicken inlaid with tiny
diamonds. The eyes are sapphire. The
chicken stands upon the lower bar of a
gold safety pin.
The parrot pin is another novelty. A
greenish gold parrot set with stones
with its feet, while its beak
reaches toward gold ball. Among
mems pins there is very pretty hunt
ing pm, which consists of a horn, a
horseshoe and whip. The whole is
mounted upon long pin, so that it can
be worn IN the cravat. 1t is however,
rather large for mans scarfpin, and is
prettIer worn as woman's brooch. An
other arrangement OF the sporting pin is TO
have it fastened upon band, SO that il is
used as clasp for necktie rather than a
pin.
A gold monkey mounted upon long
pin is another of the New Year favorites.
The Dolly Warden gown is certainly COM
ing in again, there can be no doubt about
it. The old, full Dolly Warden skirt, with
the round waist with the rather low-cut
neck, and the sash tied rather high under
the arms, is again seen.
The material for these dresses is figured
and the figures, which are preferably vines,
run all over the skirt and the waist. For
house dresses the Dolly Vardens are ever
so pretty. The best dress materials for
them is China silk. In China silk there is
China silk and there IS China SILK. The
kind TO get is not the thin papery sort that
breaks and pulls and tears and comes to
pieces at slight provocation, but the real,
true, silky kind that is soft as satin and
shiny in appearance. 1t does not pull and
il does not fray at the seams, and IL wears
beautifully, never showing crease or
fold.
Perhaps in your house you have some
drapery for the mantel or the windows of
this real silk, and if you have you know
how beautifully it has worn. II bears
constant association with dust, and Is
treated with occasional doses of water and
other substances which happen 10 come IN
contact with it. 1t is looped and re-looped,
draped and re-draped, and yet, after fresh
shaking and re-looping, it looks as good as
new. lfthere is dry goods shop upon
which you can pin your faith, go to your
favorite clerk and tell him that you want
some silk of this description, ana then.
when he gives it 20 you, buy it in all con-
fidence and give it a trial.
At this season of the year dress patterns
of the lighter grade can be bought at very
low price. One frequently sees them in
stores, cut off in lengths and tied together,
4. a
$40 one gets very good dress pattern of
light silk or thin goods, which in two or
three months will cost two or three times
that sum.
The economic buyer is the one who takes
time by the forelock. She purchases her
summer clothes when winter stock is on
the counters, and her winter buying is
done when shopkeepers are trying to get
the left over stock of winter goods out of
the Way.