Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-08-26
FASHION IN STATIONERY.
The Proper Forms for the Variou
Social Functions.

FASHION IN STATIONERY.
The Proper Forms for the Various
Social Functions.
From the New York Herald.
Cream white heavy linen paper, fitted in
square envelopes, octave size. is "de rigeur'
for all formal correspondence; however.
many tints of paper are also chosen. Rob-
ms egg blue and silver gray are very popu-
lar, while lavender, cafe au lait and pink
have their votaries. A smaller size than
the octave, In similar color and quality,
serves for note paper
All formal invitations for weddings and
receptions, dinners and menu cards should
be engraved upon fine white paper Of ex-
qusite satiny texture. The ornamentation
marking the decoration of the stationery
serves several very distinct set forms. The
address, simply engraved across the top of
the sheet. the monogram in the center, at
the top, OF the crest OF coat of arms above,
or in combination with the address, being
set above 1t. with the fac-simile used occa-
sionally, describes the prevailing modes
used in marking paper.
The variety, style and coloring Of these
different dies form lucrative branch Of the
stationer's art, and at once atteSts the skill
and refinement which he should put into
his work.
Silver and gold, light green, dark olive
and bronze carry the day in m arkings, how
ever. Magenta, blue, pink and buff, besides
gaudy combinations of gilt and color find
SALE
Mourning Stationery.
Mourning stationery is of gray paper, Dor
dered with black, the width Of this edging
decreasing as time elapses; this. Of course,
Is marked in black. Handsome white pa
per is also bordered and marked in black.
ho nf hall Dfpor
fashionable woman uses violet paper, bor
dered and marked in purple, while another
selects silver gray paper, edged and mark
ed in slate bronze. The plain embossed"
marking Is used by the exclusive, modestly
elegant both in and out of mourning. 1t Is
truly refined and lovely in effect If the die
has been cut handsomely by a skilled arti
san.
The coat of arms, crest, monogram or
fac sinlile are very rarely used upon the
flap of the envelope, as society likes to hide
Its personality from the vulgar eye
In stationery the paper comes cheap
enough even in the best qualities, but its
make up, style. decoration and entire finish
swells the account at the stationer'S of
fashionable woman well up into the hun
dreds. These figures, however, should cover
Invitations cards and dies well. The adj
dress of the town house or the name of the
country seat engraved In old English or
script, the monogram and fac-simile, all
cost from $ to $40 die Crests range
from $40 to SIS, while coats of arms cost all
the way from s25 to $50, according to the
amount Of work upon the crest, shield and
SCROLL Special dies, made for clubs. yacht
ing stationery and occasions cost in rela-
tive proportion.
Exclusive society women usually have
two dies; one they leave with the stationer
along with their card plates and the other
they have set In silver top or handle, to
use as seal.
Seals have by no means been discarded,
and the dainty escretoire Is not complete in
boz
in wee silver candle stand, accompanied
with small silver snuffers to smother the
little light after the perfumed wax has
been used.
The etiquette and provision of stationery
is generally turned over for attention to
the ladies of the household. while the mas
culine mind is absorbed in matters of
graver import.
Yachting Stationery and Menus.
Yachting stationery bears the name of
the yacht, its flag. and also the nag Of
every yachting club to which the owner
may belong, Besides, upon it's surface. The
New York Yacht Club, the Corinthian and
Larchmont clubs have all gay flags which
fly upon private yachting paper with the
private flag, like the decorations upon
soldiers breast. Yachting dinner cards
and menus also fly the flags The menus
often have besides painted upon them lob
sters, sea weed, shells, mermaids, ships,
anchors and other appropriate devices.
Dinner cards and menus seem to have at
tanned the height Of artistic perfection. For
ladies Of fowery taste there are cupids,
bits of pink and white dimpled loneliness
poised above the card amid fruits and flow
ers. The name Is written below in silver
or gilt; then there are butterflies, asparkle
In gold and hecked in gorgeous color. These
bid fair to futter into the festivities of the
winter. for all the modish importa lions in
gowns, millinery CONNECTIONS and bric-a-
brac reveal the gayly developed moth.
A humorous conceit presents a donkeys
head peering over the edge of the card, as
If to announce the name in a bray"
Placed upon the hoard laden with festal
and floral decorations we are reminded of
midsummer nights dream'-but never
mind. most of us garland donkeys.
For the sage and wise man there are
cards presenting droll little figures i'm
mersed in massive volumes that all but
conceal them A glimpse of knckerbockers
and silk hose and buckles would make us
far behind or quite ahead Of us. evidently
belonging to the bloomer period, whenever
1t is to be.
Bachelor Dinner Cards.
There are cards for bachelor dinners as
gay in color as the pink they ought to call
to the cheek of shamefaced youth, spicy
and dashy and Frenchy. A half masked
face mascot headdress. q corsage Of
broken bits IF glowing color, surrounded
in a foam of lace. Another presents La
Danseuse," whose nimble feet might fetch
down the very skies, clad in Mephistopheles
scarlet. Then among these one finds sweet
primrose maids, pictured for their modest
grace, perhaps, set amid such company to
prove the ideal playing part versus the
real in the whirl Of metropolitan bachelor
life.
There are Turkish menus made of to-
bacco leaf decorated with Turcomans and
harem women aglow in oriental color
Shakespearean and brownie menus are pop
ular, and old fashioned garden posies al
ways have favor. Organizations. clubs and
associa tons appropriate large sums for
theii special stationery oftentimes, and it
Is made with much care and forethought
A public dinner is usually given to some
person of merited distinction, and especial
honor Is often accorded this guest upon the
menu.
The Driving and Riding Club gave not
long since "a hunt ball" The paper deco
ratinn for this occasion was exnuIsitA-a