The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-12-25
STATIONERY FOR ARISTOCRATS
PURvEYoR TO AMERICAN NO
BILITY TELLS OF NOVELTIES.
Fashionable Women Use Vel1um Ex-
clusively, and Old English Letter
ing and Roman Numerals.

The stationer brought out all hot Tor
the holiday trade some very effective
novelties To the women whose taste
is severely classical he has catered with
ivory white vellum note size and invi-
tation sheets, and as Mrs. Vanderbilt
has laid down the law in favor of a re-
yival of old English lettering, that
style of engraving appears on all the
smart stationery. WomenS visiting
cards are now small square pieces or
rather heavy vellum, and the name
runs in heavy black Gothic characters.
In the right and left lower corners the
day at home and the address are print
ed in small, neat Roman type. Young
ladies, who are under the chaDeronage
OF a mother or aunt. use cards one size
smaller than those for matrOns, ana
they don't have any day engraved on
the parchment squares.
The large card, announcing a recep-
ton tea, mas been called in. A sheet
of vellum paper is used exactly ike
that on which parents announce or in
vite to a wedding, and the usage Of the
hour is of Roman numerals. Some
hyper-fashionable women give the
number Of their street and houses in
Roman numerals on their cards; it is
now the universal custom on every in
Vitation that is engraved, and also IN
giving the house and street number at
the top of note paper. This has an odd
but very decorative look, and the only
argument against it is that the Drac-
tice will soon become VUlgarized.
With a laudable desire to CONQUER
| that feminine weakness for writing a
note any way but the way the sheets
naturally turn, quires of single-Ieaf pa
per have been introduced and, strange
to say, the women like it. You can buy
a box of small single-note leaves or
| large single-letter leaves of the thin
nest bank note paper, since that is par
! ticularly good taste for letters, and you
/ are expected to write only on one side
! of the sheet. At the top of every leaf,
| on the side on which you write, is your
! address in tiny black Roman numerals.
and good taste now eXacts that you
number your sheets at the top as you
! go along.
ENGAGEMENT CARDS.
Having cast out the big reception tea
| cards, those women who are deep in all
! the smart clubs and charities, have or
| dered parchment engagement CARDS.
They are longer than broad. and are so
engraved that by only filling in dates.
a busy society bee can let a protegee
or a. fellow worker in club or on a
committee know eXpeditiously Wnen
she can see them and for exactly now
many minutes. Cards like these come
/ in block pads, and have their own en-
velopes.
This winter" said a stationer who
is engrayer by special selection to the
| smart set weddings are announced as
much by two small cards as the double
sheet of parchment or a single card
from the brides parents. The two
| card arrangement consists OF one that
has Mr. and Mrs. George Blissful- Har-
mony at home on it with their day and
house number. Tied to it, by q Bit OF
white lutte string ribbon, is tiny card
bearing merely tho brides maiden
name. These cards are used a. great
/ deal for sending around after the couple
| have come home and are ready to re-
| ceiVe friends.
The hopelessIy frivolous women, who
perfume their note paper, and dote on
colors, are enjoying a new stationery
| in clOud-gray. 1t comes in tones OF
gray graduated across each page from
white to something near smoked pearl,
and most Of this folds into narrow en-
velopes that open at the end. From
Japan has been borrowed the custom OF
writing on one single, very long ana
quite narrow sheet. Sometimes strip
a yard long is used, when an epistle is
lengthy, and then the envelope for TINS
is a bristol board cylinder about which
the sheet is wound and fasteneA with
green or red wax seals, having ribbons
under them to ensure easy removal
The Partisan who surrounds family
bereavement with all sorJS OF pomp
and ostentatious details. has sent us
white paper with it's edges deeply
blackened and creped, though among
the aristocracy a more delicate express
sion of grief is given by dead fin
ished white paper, having q. White
creued edge, used in event of the loss
of a young unmarried relative. or a
near, dear and welded relation black
maltese cross. with a Latin quotation
signifying resignation beneath. is
stamped on sheets of dull, white paper
"One of our most popular contriv-
ances this year." reported the purveyo1
to our American nobility, lis the spec
tally designed Christmas and New
Year card There are many among the
| very rich who follow the English fash
ion of sending across the sea, to friends
with whom they exchange no gifts anC
to absent relatives, cards of seasons
greetings. They prefer every one tC
have an individual card with a space
left in the center in which to put auto
graph good wishes. The rich woman
orders her Christmas card design from
some famous artist, such as Gibson
Pamela Smith. Mrs. Leslie Cotton, ETC..
and pays generously. It is then copied
in colors. or black and white. on card:
of suitable size and to any number
required. The original drawing OF
, water color the lady usually keeps t
hang in her own house.
FANNY ENDERS.
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