Year: 1878

Fashion Notes.


Pocket handkerchiefs are very small


Black. satin is becoming fashionable
again.


Gold trimmings never lock well by
daylight.


Back draperies grow beautifully less
and less.


No overskirts are seen on fashionable
costumes.


Belts are worn with pleated or Grecian
corsages.


Pleated waists with and without yekes
are coming in vogue.


Cutaway jackets will be worn by
young women this spring.


There will be much costlier toilets
worn at the balls and receptions given
after Lent than were at those before the
penitential season.


Long, narrow trains, either perfectly
square at the end or rounded to de-
scribe lozenge pattern on the floor,
are de riguer at the moment.


Ball dresses are either long trained
fourreaux, or Princess or Empress
dresses or if made with basques they
simulate the dress in one piece.


Gauntlet gloves, with the monogram
on the back of the hand embroidered IL
silk and picked-out gold threads, are
among the novelties in gloves.


Fringes of raw silk chenille, with
strands of beads of the same color, ap-
pear on many of the handsomest ball
dresses intended to be worn after Lent.


Crepe batiste is one of the novelties
for summer dresses. It is a thin linen
fabric woven in Grape effects. It comes
in all delicate shades of pure bright
color for evening wear.


Opera mantles of raw silk bourette,
in delicate shades of color, are threaded
with lines of gold and silver, and
trimmed with chenille and gold and sill
yer fringes to match.


Wide galloops of silk ami velvet, and
plush mixture are seen on ball toilets
in delicate colors, shot with threads of
silver and old, or seeded with Roman
pearl or fine glass bead s.-Nea0 York
A Light Mulatto Changed to Jet Black
One of those unaccountable freaks of
nature which puzzle the brain of the
scientist has just come to notice in West
Baltimore, and furnishes the medical
fraternity in particular with food for
thought and theme for conversation.
The case is that of a colored woman
about As years of age, who died last
week in a house on West Lexington
street from complication of diseases.
Eight years ago this woman was light
mulatto, and at the time of her death,
according to the testimony of several
physicians and others who saw her, she
was as black as midnight. The change
during this period of eight years was SO
gradual, but 50 certain withal, that the
family with whom she lived could readi-
ly perceive the color as it deepencd from
light yellow into shining black.


The whole system of the woman un-
derwent a complete Transformation.
From stout, portly and unwieldy per
son, who used to attract the notice of
persons on account of her size, she
dwindled away into the thin, spare and
regular form of the typical spinster.
The physician who had been attending
her for the last four years said he could
not fathom the mysteries of the case,
and does not know to what cause he may
attribute the Transformation that was ap-
parent to the eyes of all who knew the
woman. She herself was very sensitive
about the matter, and before her death
she could not bear to hear any one pass
any remarks on the change that had been
made in her personal appearance. She
was a Virginian, owned at one time by
the family of u. Wade, of the firm of d.
Wade & Co., wholesale druggists on
South Howard street. Baltimore Nc1Us