Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-09-13

affected by the almond-eyed Orientals adds
to the effect and receipts, and may be read
lily stocked on commission from any jap
anese store.
The latest addition to the curriculum of the
young ladies' school is that included in the
list of things taught in one of the New
York seminaries, viz: marketing. Once
week the boarding pupils are to choose and
purchase a dinner under proper tutelage,
which shall comprise in variety that needed
in any well regulated establishment. Incl
dental to the round among the butchers,
grocers' and fish stalls will be furnished
practical information and object lessons in
the art or science of house marketing. And
perhaps the graduate of this Institution will
not order 'roast veal" sent home, nor go to
the bakers for "sweet Breads" as young
housekeepers have been known TO do. 1t is
good beginning
For hair ornaments steel, gilt and silver
are especially suited to dark hair. The
woman with fair hair should wear amber
and clear tortoise shell; she may for even
ing use jeweled ornaments and some of the
fancy Partisan novelties on occasion.
A cluster of green sweet water grapes,
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fluffy hair but would show most Distress
ingly against dark or black locks. French
women regard their hair ornaments with
great attention, taking as much care to suit
ably complete the coitfure toilet as that OF
the corsage. Except against a beautiful
neck there is no part of woman's costume
where gems may be so well displayed as in
the hair.
The question of flowers at funerals has
for some time been properly settled. Family
friends provide them with occasionally
an offering from some intimate, closely as
sociated with the beloved dead. Set pieces
are not now regarded with favor and are
rarely used except in the case of united
testimonial, as from q club or society A
box of loose flowers is considered in the
best taste to send to the house of mourning
and custom no longer DEGREES that the bios
SONS shall be only white ones. A wreath Of
brilliant scarlet flowers was laid upon the
casket of a young society girl, whose sad
death recently, by drowning, threw a wide
circle into mourning, and roses of every
hue are frequent accompaniments to the
funeral pail. For elderly persons a classic
wreath of glossy laurel, or two or three Of
the long sago palm leaves tied together
with wide purple, is correct funeral offer.
ing.
Wedding ceremonies as well as the "sin-
lister pageant of death" have taken on much
of color. Bridal white applies only to the
bride herself, the decorations of the rooms
or church and the goWning of the brides at
tendants showing riot of color. At
recent society wedding in Saratoga the
maid-of-honor and the bridesmaids all wore
frocks of white chiffon trimmed with rib
bons of red velvet, and Gainsborough white
hats with long red feathers. Dainty red
shoes went peeping in and Out, not like
white, but red mice, and bunohes of white
roses with a single red one ID each were
carried. Miss Forbes-Leilte's much talked
of London wedding was yellow one with,
however, a white wedding bell that was
novelty and delight to the English guests
who had never seen one.
English women have returned to square
shoes, but the Piccadilly pointed toe is still
preferred by fashionable women this side
the water.
White stockings, Balbriggan and silk, have
been worn this season with white shoes and
white and light muslin or cambria gowns.
Does this mean return to white stockings
with black shoes? 1t is to be hoped it does
not.
Broad strings, and it is said, very long
ones, reaching perhaps to the very hem Of
the skirt, are feature of imported autumn
bonnets.
French women use tan undressed kid
gloves in deep mourning for travelling and
shopping wear.
MARGARET H. WEIGH.