Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1875 — Paris Fashions. [ARTICLE]

Paris Fashions.

The Paris correspondent of the Philadelphia Telegrwph says: “As regards the fashions, the usual changes which generally herald the inauguration of the summer season are gradually becoming manifest. The profusion of flowers wherewith bonnets were loaded at the beginning of the season is giving way to scarfs of white surah, held in place on the ricestraw bonnets by wings or stuffed birds with brilliant dark-green plumage. The fashionable color this summer is to be the yellow-tinged white, known as cream color—cream roses, cream surah, cream silks being all the rage. It is just not pure white—the softest, prettiest and most becoming white in the world. Plaid silks, in combination with plain, solid colors, are still much in vogue for costumes; navy-blue and white in the plaid, with solid navy-blues for sleeves and trimmings, being the favorite style. Black silk grenadines beaded all over with jet are shown now for overdresses. In jewelry a novelty is exhibited, being lockets, brooches, ear-rings, head ornaments, etc., made of the brilliant, tiny feathers of the hummingbird, the patterns being leaves or shells. The groundwork is the shining green velvety plumage of the back of the bird, flecked and striped with the dazzling ruby or golden-tinted feathers of the throat and breast. Butterflies formed of these feathers, to be worn in the hair, are very beautiful and effective ornaments. Parasols are shown, bordered with a drooping fringe of cock’s plumes; in pale blue and pink, the dark glossy feathers set oft the delicately-colored silk admirably. Gold and silver braid is much used for trimming cloth overdresses and jackets, and is even seen occasionally on bonnets. For instance, a black straw bonnet for slight mourning is decorated with three rows of narrow silver braid outside the brim, and the face trimming is composed of black ribbon with a single bow of wide silver braid in the center. The outside trimming is of black ribbon. In black and gold this style is peculiarly effective.”

A Vermont horse jockey, boasting the other day of the speed of his horse, gravely asserted that he could trot seventeen miles an hour. “ Seventeen miles an hour!” said a bystander; “ I guess as how that’s a thumper.” -“.My dear fellow,” replied he of the Green Mountain, “seventeen miles is not great for the creature now; for when he was but two years old the lightning killed the old mare, and chased the colt all around the pasture without getting within ten rods of him.”’ A Cass street boy of tender years yester day entered the house with a big pair of pincers in his hand, and when his amazed mother inquired the use he meant to make of them he replied: “ I’ve got a pin-dart, haven’t I?” “Yes.” “Well, if I shoot it into the baby we can draw it out with these pincers and not have to call a doctor,” he continued, wearing a smile of vie tory.— Detroit Free Press.