Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1893-12-21
NEW YORK FASHIONS.

| NEW IOhh FASHION6.
Embroidered Table Linens, Bureau
Covers, Fancy Creams, Candy,
Baskets and Champagne
Bottles.
For Christmas or New Year enter
tainments, embroidered centre pieces
or scraps In white or colors, will bt
used on polished wood tables or plair
white cloths, In much the same style
as those Of last season, growing par
tiality however is evinced for silk en-
broidery in floral designs. The newest
centre pieces are round; and Oh all but
very small tables, scarf at one END
and carving cloth at the other, rem
der the ornamentation more complete
a centre piece and doilies are how.
ever all that is obligatory. Long
narrow leaves, showing sort Of fur
row at the centre where the embroid.
cry meets, are just now .favorite pat.
terms in dainty linens, sizes varying
from one to three or four inches in
length. While pure white Is still con.
sidered most recherche in table linen
still, yellow, blue, pink or heliotrope
are 80 beautiful, either asa single color
on in combination with white, that
they retain a large share Of popular
favor.
GREAT LIBERTY
exists regarding doilies, and If desired
each daily may be of different pat.
tern, except at luncheons, where col
ored cloths are used, and for these oc-
casions, doilies must match the cloth
exactly. InAddition to German hand.
work, Mexican and Fayal embroidery
are shown on tray cloths, centre pieces
or scarfs; this last style Of embroidery
is however very expensive, as the sup
ply never equals the demand. Bureau
covers are an important item in cham.
Der decoration, and very fine white
linen scarfs hemstitched at the edges,
with sprays Of embroidery at the ends
rank with Alencon lace or Russian
point, both of which are used over
colored silk or on polished wood; q
pin-cushion cover or two small mats
completing the set; and while upon
the subject of toilet articles, no more
acceptable Christmas gift can be
found, than bottle of Murray & Ian
mans Florida water, accom-
panied by an atomizer-a welcome ad-
dition to any toilet tray or table.
FANCY CREAMS
and ices are a special feature Of even
ing or dinner parties, and the degree
Of perfection to which they are now
carried 10 astonishing. A new desigr
is a candy basket with flowers at eact
side, and filled with fruit of varioui
kinds, made of cream and colored ir
exact accordance with Nature. The
flowers are made by hand, either O
sugar or noughat and the cream |.
turned out at the last moment by q
person accustomed to such work. A
large cream fish, set in the midst Of
spun sugar trimmings on firm, trans
parent ice foundation, is another new
fancy, and 1t Is needless TO add that il
half hour after serving the cream IL
a ashapeless mass.
AN OVERTURNED BAsHET.
with pears, apples, peaches, grapes
and plums fallen out, makes I
pretty dish, the basket handled being
garnished with roses, and a simila
basket filled with fruit but standing
upright, differs from the other only il
position. A very open basket called
the "Mascotte," has bunch of aspara
gus (cream) in the natural color, th'
handle formed of small cords twisted
at the centre, and trimmed with broat
ribbon. A bottle Of champagne or
ice is a faYorite idea, the bottle anG
cork Of cream on lemon ice, with fame,
sugar trimmings around the ice. Thes
baskets or other receptacles for cream
are Of fine, solid candy colored to sui
individual taste; every shade II
nature being attained except blue, ant
the ribbon or flowers are made b,
those who do nothing else; hence thei
wonderful dexterity. Suco fancy des
serts are usually set on glass stands
which are practically large dishes; al
though individual pieces, as fame
boqet, drums, tubs, flower pots, bask
cts or slippers, are served on lace pa
per and used before they begin to mel
VERONA CLARKE.
Q 1t Applies to Women Too.
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