Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 August 1884 — Pretty Toilet Conceits. [ARTICLE]

Pretty Toilet Conceits.

Neglige caps are pointed in front. One is made of gold lace and trimmed with pink velvet ribbon; another of silver lace has bows of pale blue ribbon. The combinations “mufls-boas” aro made of seal-brown velvet, lined with buttercup-yellow satin, and trimmed with natural beaver. Diamonds are now mounted to represent various flowers, which can be worn either as bouquets on the bodice and in the hair, or can be detached as single blooms when required. A necklace of pansies in diamonds is very handsome. One of the new brocades has ground of pale buff satin, covered with an irregular lace-like pattern of lavender piuk, with bouquets of flowers in petunia and light blue tints and foliage of faded green. A new style muff is composed of rows of falling chenille, either in black, brown or any dark color, with loops of gold or silver braid sewn on at a distance beneath the falling fringe, but showing between. Black satin aprons sometimes have a large sunflower embroidered upon them in gold thread or jet; other* have braces to bibs, like one of black satin, finished with small plaited flounces, each edged with gold braid. To th s was attached a pointed side-piece, meeting at she hack and tied round the skirt with a bow of ribbon. Young ladies now wear one, two or three strings of pearls, fastened in front by a dainty little colored velvet bow; also a band of velvet or cream-colored lace, with a pompon as fastening, worn towards the leit ear. Some velvet bands are edged on each side with a string of small pearls, and others have tiny pearls dotted all over them. A Newport sash in the new red has the ends finished with a seif-colored mulberry fringe; it is worn with a dress of gray merino, and the ends are merely crossed behind and passed under a grouj of tiny gathers, placed just behind the waist at the back of the skirt. Ladies’ silk stockings are very handsome in texture and beautifully finished this season. Some have mitred clooks of delicate lace in exquisite designs, and others have the fronts adorned with perpendicular rows of lace insertings. The new lace-ribbed hose come in all the novel colors and odd shades. Small handkerchiefs have borders of small squares of colored cambric and Valenciennes, and others show gathered frllings of Watteau embroidery, small festoons of pink and blue flowers, edged with scollops of alternating colors. It «eems quite like the fairy tale of the fabric for a lady’s dress being concealed in a nutshell, when one reads of delightfully warm wraps for house or evening wear, made of the linest camel’s hair, woven and knitted in the Pyrenees, so light and soft and elastic that they can easily bo passed through an ordinary linger ring. —Philadelphia Times. —The International Sunday School Lesson Committee at its Recent session selected the lessons for 1885. The lirst. six months will be devoted to the study of the latter part of Acts and the Epistles; the second half of t lie year to the historical and prophetical portions of the Old Testament, beginning with the First Book of Kings. The next meeting will be held in Montreal, Can., February 21 and 22, 1881.— N. Y. Examiner