Rensselaer Union, Volume 10, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 January 1878 — White Dresses. [ARTICLE]

White Dresses.

Scarcely anything will be more popular than white evening dresses during the present season. They are to be trimmed with bunches of drooping flowers and fruit, forming fringes. Each fruit will be accompanied by the flowers or blossoms of its tree before it became fruit. The idea is pretty, but the reality is ugly. These garlands of orange»,-*peara, apples, currants,-straw-berries, etc;,-are much too heavy for gauze and tulle dresses. For demitoilets high polonaises, or coats of whice muslin, are worn over white silk dresses. This polonaise or coat must not be as long as the under-dress. The under corsage is cut low-necked, the coat is high at the back and open in front to the waist like any coat, tight sleeves to the elbo»» where a bouquet of flowers now invariably accompanies an elbow sleeve for evening wear. Other white dresses are of silk, satin, poplin and Indian cashmere. White Indian cashmere costumes are ideal in beauty, richness and elegant simplicity*. With such a dress, well made, one may go into any society. It is equally adapted to low or lilghnecked dresses, and may be worn with full blouse or a tight fourreau. It requires no trimming, though it does not refuse trimming. Oriental trimmings are the best adapted to it When trimmings are used, but it looks equally rich untrimmed. New embroidered laces are a feature of this winter’s decorative wear, and form a very beautiful garniture, entirely novel as well as -arttstier— — A new and beautiful trimming consists of blackbirds 1 wings threaded with gold. If yon cannot obtain real birds’ wings they can be imitated in black velvet. These are employed instead of passementerie birds.— N. Y. Herald. Therk is something terribly suggestive In a bottle of ink with the cork sea unbroken. It may write immortal po ems that, shall live for unknown ages, or it may be touched upon the worn .edges of your frayed black coat to make it look less seedy.— Exchange. The Annuaire <PEconomic Politique states that the Russian debt was, in 1831, 220,000,000 roubles; in 1847, 315,000,000; in 1860, 515,000,000; in 1875, 700,000,000. In 1878 it will have reached 1,193,809,956 roubles, equal to *501,557,700. , A serious man may not be pro verbial for wisdom, though he be a solemaun. -