Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 9, 1887, Page 9

POOR EUGENIE'S PEARLS. 1 Vanderbilt Necklace of Royal History That Cost $130,000. TROUBLES OF TAILORS' PIPES | Axtors Afloat—How Lovely Woman Stoops to Folly in Deinking—An Invent for “Sly Nip Eeductive Rubher Grapes, o New Youk, Jan, 7 of the Brr.| and a new neck ple to see “Merlin, way orrespondence new opera for hionable peo this weck. The opera was ana it was well enongh in its something wondrons the eritics ~but concurrent with its first repre gentation the necklace competed for the admiration of the audicnee, and won the most extended regard, e tri umphant article was the famons string of pearls that 1 once belonged to the Fmpress b i been worn by her 0 th wys of the French monarchy. Lven an those times of royal glitter in Paris, this jeweled thing shone #0 brightly as to dazzle heholders accus ' to lavish adornment, Tt consisted 16 oriental e set in agolden it was valaed then at ab Nanoleon's widow put it into sate deposit vanlt in Paris, on her re- irement to Chisclhurst, and there it I mtl the recent sale of her useless effects, William K. Vanderbilt and his wife were in the Frencheapital, and they purchased it at £130.000. They bought other things from the Eugenic eolleetion, mostly hotsce. hold embellishments, and these will be disclosed at nest 'S reopening of But Mr. ot neekl: wis worn across the top of her head, thenee down the back neek, whicn it en- 1 of length left to »som Ihere 1% ce too, on the if vou remember which is so often the English aristoc on the stage, and | anded S0 m 1 the set reused of imitati Not a sing Hly a danscuse ses as did Mrs, VAGART could ¥ a more diversity in it than the Vande possess, Wiile William K n ardent devotee of fashion, Cornelius is inclined to religion and philanthropy, and George is a veritable recluse—studious, thought- ful and visionary. To G I the charge of his fathe and he spends a considerable that saered daty, ate he has made bleak 3 exumined the locked register, of which the detectives hourly ts. The tow of William H."Vanderbilt has so- licitously in mind the thett of Alex der T, Stewart's remains, and she urg npon G the utmost pre against a similar outrage. ‘The pri guardsmen are therefor the tomb, and will be for several years. Another desire of Mrs, Vanderhile, strangely, is that the inseription on the compartment holding her husband’s dust ghall not _be known by other than the family. Th peets it, and anderbilt ¢ Even the detect MIGHTY M There 18 a fare Z a wif desy) unknown to her husband, she had acted for fine apparel. The same pxperience is common among our ble women since men-dressmak- e into vogue. The fluctive tailor for femininity promises his cus- tomers all the time they want in which te Does hedo so? Oh, no. He waits until they have gotten all they want Then he puts them in o state of terror suchas Iam not cruel eaough to wis that any man may ever suff He = writes a little note ing that he unexpectedly himself in need of money. s is sorry, but he must bave the amount of her bill at once. Sukes alive! please nmagine that little bombshell falling in your house when you thought you 1two years to raise the money and have not told your husband—or, perhaps, have fibbed to him about how much yon had spent for clothes! What does she do? Why wha one of a thousand things is there that a weak woman can do? 1 say a weak woman because only a werk woman would let anybody play with her, & smpt her,” and and and he, ve gZnanimously for a4 promise of and half as soon as she can And she goes home ds lling to jump from the Brooklyn bridge if she ean do so quietly and setttle that tailor’s bill by domg it. If she spends many d; in thinking over it another reaches he: i nd business like note, saying t lor is reluctant to present the to her husband, but must do so unless she spares him the unpleasant task by mitting, ete NO TAILOR TODDIES, +0h, Pve read of other eccent men dressmakers, particularly a silly storv about ene who tempts my sex into his place by ans of a sideboard for free chumy . anfexquisite luneheon and faney drin t's fine fiddle sticks. Il wager a carload of cham- pagne that there is no such tailor, or that if there is, he doesn't a jacket by giving away intoxicants, Wonlen who want to drink in those days can do so any- where and without attracting attention. But this other business method there is no mistake about so tar of the men who ave doing » tler se © concerned, and I've hes somuch of it that I never see coat of cloth without wonderi the W note de- wanding instant pay,and whether she is ting suicide. I've no_doubt I'm a bit of a erank upon the subject, and in justice to a number of highly respectable men who think they are doing a noble by owding woman out of her principal field of employment, and “a highly scientific thing by sitting cross- legrged when they sew. What they thi i ained oman's estimation by i ngest Kind of pipes while Ldon’t know, but it is , when I penetrated the top stor; ot one of these establishments, 1 door open and three or four men on tables making dresses, ¢ r bad in his mouth—oh, phe: 1 stick to my dressmaker in skirts, if you pleas URE OF SOCIETY 'S QUL Society feels like a ehild that bas come Ly with its mother and got lost, » of helpless bewilderment is all unt of Mrs. Wilham Astor, who arted for Kurope to | sent ut A mouths. Mrs, Willlam Astor is tron of more swell entertainments 1y other three ladies in town. The s and the jun tibby-bob-royals to o sion of her pre iledin La B hambre over comprises down o3 of king whether atria will hardly *t without the condeseen- ence. Mr.and Mrs, Astor tagne. They oceupied de luxe,” This is a aflair, and tments rather none of your upper and lower berth plebianism about it. Thesleeping places are large, genuine beds of the niost substantial and elegant design. They are not suspended from ¢ ure they swung on wled, much traveled the line have learned that 1 road or by-way that cir | of rubber THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, JANUARY 9. 1887.~~TWELVE PAGES. FALCONER'S JANUARY SALE; | Of Linens and Housekeepi Our annual January Sales of Linens and Housekeeping our word that at this sale, is very lar done. In beginning e. The patterns are very careful owels we will show a stock, at rices that will surprise all. Huck Towels at 12%¢, deserve special men%on as being very cheap. BLEACHED DAMASK. 20 picees 64 inch Blence gant pa ed Damask, splendid qualities a h %5 a4 Damask, very heavy; a spler terns, at 55¢; wor 24 picces 65-inch Bleac sortment patterns; at 75¢; worth 90c. SPECIAL. 10 picces 72 inch Bleached Damask that we have never been able to sell at any of our special sales at less than $1. Our price, just this once is 87} worth 81.25, CREAM DAMASK. 40 picees extra quulity Cres Damask, soft finished and extra The as s in this T his lot heavy t of patter is v large an price is Y5¢. s never been offered at less t #1100, TOWELS. TOWELS. TOWELS. SPECIAL. SPECIAL. At 12%c. 1 Huck Towels, extra quality, soft finished, nt 12}¢ ca th 16jc. At 25c. 300 doze uality blea hed n fringes; also Ban extra ek Towels, kng usk and Momie Towcls, all at 25¢. ted and pl These are the best 25¢ 'Towels ever show At 35¢. At this price weoffer a big line of bleached Pamask Towels with fancy borders, knotted fringe, elegant quality; s that we have Honday the price will be 35¢. N. B. FALCONER. cumvents the rolling billows. Mr. Astor will feel just as sad while he gazes at his gilded bed posts as will the oceupant of the upper berth for'ard, or even the humble communist in the steerage. A libation of molten gold would not appease a fretful Neptune, but an offering of the mped coin will seeure the Ily oflices of old brandy, new lemons, and other things congeninl to a tired stomach, and having heard about these faets, Mr. Astor provided himsclf aceordingly. THE “CHAMBRE DE LUXE" is divided into two main rooms; one a sleeping room and the other a parlor. In these if the vessel were kept tied up to the dock, the traveler could be con- tent and comfortable for a week or tw. On the raging mam the richly uphol tered chairs will lose their. charn Mr. Astor is getting within zht of old age and he discussed with exeecd- ng thorougness all the possibilities of sicknes: sea and the means for pre ventui Some of the schemes for avoiding it did not recommend them- seives with mueh force, but one in par- ticular pleased him mightily, and led to lis taking into the chambre de luxe two or three baskets of very dry A minjat followed, in v the principal materials were bromid potassium and hydrochlorate of o These were accompanied by phys preseriptions for their use. ~As tin for departure drew he applied wrious substances compounded into vulgar looking pills to his system in order to get the liver into prime condition. And still it was not out dread that he awoke on the day iling, Taki of an ex- meal be- ands d with the ut- i fat all that been selling at from 50¢ to $1; on indeed a luscions appears “closely resembling that of & grape. cur: rant, cherry, or other like truit. The manner of using the capsule is obvious. Y re taken'into the month, and when mtly in compressed therein the will burst, the liberated allowed d the Isimilar to the eat- wpe.” The ludierous made just now introduce the society maids he adds, liquid rubber s i ing of an ordinar, attempt s in New York rubber grape, amd and matrons, who re supposed to be of modest and retiving dispos find 1n thewr mails alluring Sl ting forth the advantage of sceret tippling in puble. ample boxes haye been placed where they would do th good or evil, and fhe manufactn in their circular: *“We have alre ceived abundant testimony as to appro- bation of this novel and tast nu:lhm\ of putting up selected wines 1 liquors, as they can be most conveniently and pleas- ant i on all such occasions or ng to proper nora ueeessity. I fatiguea or exhausted “from journeying will find a ready means for a refreshing imuiant whenever needed, without ob? s tion, even in the most critical sur- roundings.” THE RUBBER NIP® seems to have been found an nmprove- ment upon the old plan of e into a corner of a _parlor car and fishing flask out of a gripsack. Supplied with box of whisky grapes, the most respect- )le- i i carload of s can get comfortably full in her seat, { cably go to sleep without att attention or losing her reputation. The cirenlar continues: sons who are apt to become prolonged and erowded asse find a ready restoration.” i means that, while mengo out of the the- aters hetween acts, the women, provided with four or five pony brandies, ean worry through a five act tragedy without disturbing the neighbors or aequiring an undeserved reputation for heing dissi- and’ sing- i ar, *‘they are invalu- ing to the unobserved many i prepar most care to eliminate all trom them, Then, having science and superstition conld except one thing, he stepped ac) gang plank and surrende the untamed mercies of waves, The one exception o suggestion that he wear next th of the abdomen a sheet of ordinar) ing paper. M people firmly believe in this preventive, but Mr, Astor they ean be util to shook his head dubtously and refused to wigue from exertion. The try it. He was also told by a friend who | rections for use are minute and particn- accompanicd n to the deck of the | lar: “When putting the gr ‘w into the steamer, that a y sure preyentive wa mouth, press the lips ti, y together, to avoid going below, to remain on deck | bend the head i izhtly, and look at the horizon, the zenith, then erush B between any other point except the the tecth, or msert a pin or tooth- bulwarks of the steamer, Mr, pick between the livs and penetrate the thought this a cruel j but being as- [ grape. After swallowing the contents sured of its ears drew, his chin t the sk When a r devotee in into his collar, and said “br-r-r-r-0-0-00!" h is seen to bow her head upon the and went below. back of the pew in front of l]lrr. :m]il 1' - x o 1 sume an erect position anc placid, FEMALE DIIA3 DRINERIA, happy expre L not be safe to I'wouldn't believe it. That any man | assume that she by should suppose that women, in order to | of ely r et sly nips of alcohol, would take the ay have derived spir fluid concenled in mock fruit, surpassed | from a rubber grape. he had ever encountered. | million in it for the in , the simple upshot of such a d vice would be that grapes and the like, real and unreal, would become suspicious and coulidn’t be eaten with propricty at all. But Lhave investigated. India rul ber small fruit is an_actoality, It patented November 17,1885, The num- ber of the patent is 830,491, and I have a copy of the specil ms on file in the patent oftice, *“The general nature of my invention,” s ‘the misguided inventor, *is a capsule formed of thin India rubber, or equivalent ma terial, filled with spirits or other liguid, imitating the appe of grapes, cur wide notoricty as g railroad rants, aud ~imi\m»,_ obular S fruit. Until ‘recently his jour- He explams hoew his mode o arrying uve been contined to the Housa out his invention is to make a very ‘thin | tonie and Connecticut Western oads, shect of India rubber and fold the same | but he lately, it i id, got on the New over the nozzle of a syrin or force- | ¥ nd road at Hawleyville, Conn pump, supphed with the liquor which the tling on the locomotive took a ple: capsules are intended to contun. The P to Boston, where he remained a liquid 1s then forced into the rubber dise, and then returned by the \\f.inh distends into a globular form tonie routes. When suflicient has Been injected, ) wis owned by th - mouth of what is now ti . who allowed the do, fillea capsule is permanently closed ¢ engine, and in this way by mesns of a fine and very d his fondness for r strong cord, tied around the ne e og wears a Housatonie and Connee- mediately in front of the nozzle of the | ticut Western railtoad button, w svringe, or force-pump, @ | postal ticket badge of introduction s eut oft wherever I'he dog was us way, ual consolation 0, N0; there's no ntor, Crara Bewn all t Wl zton (Mass.) Letter to The 1 intelligent dog called Railroad Mae, because of his fondness for riding on cars, is owned by Mvs, Wol- cott, of Falls Vill came to this village mamed over Sunday with Conductor Spencer, returning home on Monday. To-day the dog went up the Housatonic road again, and he has earned i Boston Globe Boston & run on he Iroad tray S he ing capsule presents here aguin to-day, wrriving at TOWELS. 100 dozen Turkish Towels at 1 100 dozen fine CRASH. cd Russia Crash, suitable for roller towe! ng Goods. | oods, are eagerly waited for by our customers, and we_pledge Monday, none will be disappointed. Our stock of Bleached and Cream Damask y selected, and we offer better value in these goods than we have ever The lot of Fine Damask Towels at 35¢, and the TOWELS. worth 16jc. worth 17 (¢, CRASH. vorth GLASS TOWELING. I8-inch Glass Toweling at Sje; 18-inch € 20-inch Glnss To oweling, cling COTTON 1 case 18 1 cns» 2040 1 ease 2210 ch Cotton Diaper, 10 yards in ton Diajer, 10 yards in picce, at 65 worth 11¢, nlity, at 10i¢; worth 12)¢, 1 worth 15¢. DIAPER. cce, nt 55 1¢ n picee. n picce, Cotton Diaper, 10 yards in picee, at 75¢ a picce. LINEN SHEETING 10-4 Linen Sheeting at 87i¢; worth 8 10-4 Linen Sheeting at 92¢; wa 10-1 Linen Sheeting at 81,1245 wort BED SPREADS. 1 case 10-4 €Crochet Bed Spreads at 871¢; wo 1 eane 1 Marscill Bed Speads at 8§15 wort 1 case 1123 Marseilles Bed Spreads at $2; worth $2.65. and returning at 2:30 p.m. On rain he appears to know the whistle of different trains, and has his preference among the railroad men, but they all treat and feed him well. The dog | blood, with the ma and has a large eire ances from Bridgeport to Pittstield, DON CARLOS' MIMIC COURT. A New York Girl's Dinner With Him at the Vienra Palace, LIFE IN THE CITY OF CANALS. she Spanish- Pretender's Ambition. Appeased by the Comte de Cham- bord’s Legacy—Noble Fami- lies Becoming Extinct, Tourists coming to Vemce, writes a correspondent of the New York World, simply to do the sights and to drift the saloons in gondols idea how much charming society there 18 here. W me to rest and improve our minds ically. We cer- taly succeeded in doing the latter, but y an evening when we are asked out to some sort of an enter- tainment, I fear, however, that the Yorker would vote these festivitie: The men r: unless for , and the gowns high at the' neck. T d with oceasionally a_faint sprinkling of marsala, are considered a most riotous form of refreshment, but the what makes Vehice nations are represented. Venetian society, buf, of it native. N patrician families ar friend of mine, who n New little d rage iple is d a noble- cars ago, told me me time fifteen of her friends d; not one of them has had a wems o restupon Venice During the Inst seventy years 100 of the old have died “ont. There han a dozen of them left, most poor and nearly all of the only know one young ‘enctian, Count Aloise Mocenigo, fne de- nt of six Doges, but jwhose family fur from well off. Heisin th VY, and a very charming fellow, so sincerely wish he could follow the e ple of some of his luckier compatriots and find a rich Ameriean wife! Among the most prosperous people is the Countess Marcello, who s ludy:- waiting to the queen, and who hs 50 much for the poor women by reviving the old lace manufacture nedar nere a Burano. Th another attractive woman, the Countess Pisani, a brilliant and beautifnl ereatur when in town at the Palazzo Barbaro, 1 went to a dinner there lately, given for the twenty-first birthday of a young Ameriean. It was a most fui scene. e grest halls were with trees and plants, and lights softly illummated the old by Titiun, of her Dogal ancestor, Ler is a chaming little widow here, the child, A cu “tilied colored port i Countess Moeengo (no ation to Count Aloise). She was born a Princess Wia- dischgratz, of Austria, and is related to half the reigning families of Europe. Several years ago she fell in love with Count Mocenigo, who was consumptive, and insisted upon marrying him, con- | trary to the wishes of her family. died soon afterwards, and although sh s out a great deal, she is still divoted | 1 his memory, and Speads most of her | time in good works, and will not hear of | marrying again, | THE ENGLISH SPEAKING COLONY | Of course there is a small colony of It seems ininos: | our some_re) | wry Layard, of Nineveh beautiful ~palace the i k‘:llLll.] which is filled with pictures and curiosi- | ties that be collected while smbassador e fame, | into his He | h HOSIERY. Special Prices Made to Close Odd Lots. Out s L) Boys and Misses’ Ho- 3 siery. Boys' Scoteh Mived Wonl Hose, double knees, all sizes, at 35¢. None of this lot has ever been ogered at less than 50c, @ pair. Misses® Fancy Cashimere Hose, roem S50c, to 6G5e. Misses® English Cashmere all sizes from s to 81, at 35¢. from 33¢to 5. Ribbed Worth Hosr, North Ladies’ Cashmere Hose 100 dozen Ladies' Cashimere Hose, all sizes, solid co'ors, at 20¢., worth 30¢, Ladics* Heavy Wool Hose in black and colors, at 35¢., worth 50¢. English Cashinere Nose, vino heel and toe, all sizes, black and colors, A9¢ . worth 5. Men's Half Hose, Men's Heavy Wonl Haly Hose, no 200, worlh $0¢. Camel’s Hair Haly Hose at cer sold at less thean 35¢ Me Solid _ Colored Cashnere Half Hose at 25¢., worth 35¢. Mens' Scoteh Miwed Wool Half Hose at 35¢., worth 65¢. Mens® English Ribbed Grey Mived Caslmerve Half Hose at 30¢., worth 850 Mens® Solid Colored Eng! merve Half Hose al 42 sh Cash- TS e - Embroideries. On Monday wemake special prices on all the embroideries we have in stock, and we make such special pri- cos that we expeet 1o close owt all we have in two days. We do thistomake room for the choiccst line of embroi=- ies that has cver been brought to g, wliich we will open on Wednesday morning. N. B. FALCONER at Madrid and Constantinople of the lu ages to find the g and Lady Layard Vi and entertain extensively, woman, rs. Arthur York,keeps open b rities o every d; the poet, and h the artist, are guests, E for she i He isone s who always man- He ry hospitable Our country Brouson, of New ts celeh- p Browning . “Pen.” Browning, among her most frequent body likes Mrs. Bronson 1 it interest with which e lost or won! Mos of the women, English as well as conti- nental, smoke, and they are ver: surprisedf you tell them t it has not yct become One of the leaders ¢ Metternich, of Austria, ing woman of fo C i Singularly fasc Y Y. & nating, both in manner and appear- and with her inevitable cigarette in mouth,makes a very tetching pi Prince bletternich looks much (DIIL- his wife. Of cou 3 4 many artists in Ven coming n the spring when the w re conducive to outdoor wor son itis apt to be raming, but sull several here now. Ralph Boston, who lives with his n a beautiful apy ment, is an enthusiast in his profession, and Paul Tilton, son of the famous il w in Kome but originally from ints charmingly. various svecimens of semi- ty m Venice. The princess of Mon- 0, whose husband, the last reigning rince, was murdered before her cycs $ cears ago and his nephew Wh now governs there in his stead, lives in a dingy old palace on a side ei daughter, Princess Olga, i intelligent girl of twenty She tells me that she1s very homesick for Monte negro, where they spend their simmers, I'should think she might be, tor their house is rathe athetie sight. The fur- niture is bby and the general aspect noor, but the princely brown of Montenc- gro does its best to_cover deficiencies by being profusely seattered about, and only mukes the contrast more striking. It is i melancholy faet t these poor women are trequently obliged to pawn they jew- els to Keep from starvin, The handso- mest man in Ven is Prince wor 1turbide, of Mexico. He is an exeellent simen of the southern type, with dark s and regular features,” His wife s o Hungarian. His cousin, Prince Agostina Iturbide, whose mother’ was Miss Green, of Geovgetown, has often been in Amer: ica. WHERE DON CARLOS HEIGNS, Decidedly the most interesting charae ter here is Don Carlos, the Spanish pre- tender. He is very tall, broad-shonldered, ikingly handsome man, with black es to perfection when fair se: fe has not aracter and may not nners are charming quer all who are et with him, He in the Loredan pal- anged delightfolly lately and was il Tsaw. e | court, his gentlemen-in waiting, who accompinied him every- where. One addresses him nor,” the ladics curtsey low wh. presence, and of course all stand untl he allows them to sit. | At dmner we ate off silver plates SCEVANLS wore the royal | and the royal crown available corner, He 1g-room, or rather tro , which is very curious c hung with Carlist bauners used duy ing the late rebellion in 8 ] chundelier is made ot swol svolvers, saddles d about in reckless profusion Zverything there has assoeintion for Don Carlos,and his voice grows graye and low when he tells of the battles in which he used or wore the various tro- | phies one sees. He showed us, oo, his | many orders and decorations, The most iuteresting was the “Ordey <f the Golden and his genial w thrown In clo has lived four year ace, wh Iwas at 1 sabres are S0 i | | The walls | | has d nded to him . One cannot help look- ing with some awe upon this ms has the blood of sixty kings in hi However democratic our tendencies may be, one eannot avoid a sort of veneration y one who embodies so many his- tions. Opening out of this quite adifferent character—a little Turk- ish boudoir, lined with di , and hghted only by a dim red lamp above, a nerfect tor a lover’s tete-n-tete, don Carol’s private apartment is tractive. Tt consists of a little entresol, with a study, bedroom and dressi room. His bedroom is hung in dan silk, walls, ceiling and Turniture all matching. "The color suits his dark com- plexion admirably, He is particularly proud of his large, square bath tub, with bath “above i, whi oft with mueh sat for the entertainment of s He is very fond of talking about paigns and points ou ) pictures with which the walls are lined, i ing his different en- gagements. Since inheriting the Comte de Chambord’s fortune he seems more contented not to have been successful, His wife, the Duchess of Madrid, who is a very ambitious woman, has concentrated her hopes on their son Don me. Iam sorry to say that Don Carlosis not a model husband, 'he duchess y comes here. s love for the fa such that he cannot concentrat fection on one example of it, There is another side to this Venetian picture i of thy chole room is one of ar with prid nd that is the lower classes. I id the consequent e 3 travell has left them in a sty g con- dition. My gondolicr, Vittorio, who is a strikingly handsome fellow, tells me the most mournful tules of the poverty The gondoliers think that th well Tf they cx day, hay tirying thing r gondolas begin to y have money as no on t their doom is ion stures them in the an cannot help thanking although we s ation, at y one of carning his daily bread! grow shabby, enough o ve will Bire a dilapi d and star chance The Ancient From “A Scientific Mission to Cam- bodia,” M. Maurel, in Popular Science Monthly for January: The conntries now known “as Chochin-China, Annam, Cam- bodia, Laos and Siz whole of Indo-( occupied primitive ; colored we, remnants of which are still found in the mountaing, on whom their con querors, all having the same feeling towards them, b imposed the names which in thewr se al langun savages, Ata period in the past which probably answered to the beginning of the christian ¢ WO econquering peo ples took possession of the rvicher parts of the country and drove these tribes baek into the moun| biished the kingdom of Thinmpa in the south, wnd that of Cambodin in the cental region ‘wmbodia, now small in extent and was formerly a powerful empire, under allegiance, eithe rectly or as tributary states, nore than half of the Idaho-Chinese Peninsula. Its { splendor is attested by its numerous moniments of grand | beautiful architector , which Camhodia, dimensions and Yot th has left su mirahic zution n We know very ardly move of the history 1508 0f strug s neighbors,China, Tonquin. It is sup. have & its highest state | in in the eleventh | eentury At the beginning of the eigh- | teenth contury it divided Phigmpa with Annam and Tonquin om thut time onat sufly SHe of 1o H‘.w it 1S Wi WS Six posed of splendor Khmer | L GOLD AND CAUZE GARMENTS, The Latest Siyle of Evening Dress Among Yonthful Parisiennes. ROBBING THE PAST OF ITS MODES Satin a Great Favorite Velyvet En tirely Tabooed—Panicr's a la Louis VIV, Day—The Proper Caper in Fancy Fans, Pants, Dec. 24.<[Correspondence of the Bek.]=This year young ladics and g auze worked with The effect by gas light ie very pretty. hese gauze drosses are made quite straight and worn over a sik skirt of the same color. Gauze, tulle of light crepons are the favorite materialg with young ladies. A very protty costume at a fashionable dressmaker's w s pine-apple colored satin. Onthe lett side was a straight band of tulle covered with flocks of silk velvet. A ganze skirt worked with silver threads was thrown over the dress, but in such a way as not to hide this band. The corsage was of pink satin trimmed with the same flocks of silk velvet, A bow of pink tutle and flowers should adorn the hair, when this costume is puton. Rose colored dresses are also worn a great deal by young ladies. Whiwe and eream tints are quite out of fashion, Blue is seen very little, whether dack o Ight. dresses PINK IS THE K\AGE A very pretty costime would be tuile skivt and an cmerald groen velvet corsage; but it must be very simple. T'he over-skirt should be very full and juuntily looped up here and there, showing a pink satin underskiet, The corsuge <honld asten in the back, be very tight iitting and without trimming ol any Kine For ladies, satin is a great favori velvet is literally Inid on the shelf trath is that a velvet dres: fortable, It is very heavy everything it touches is lighter, slips in gracetul fold smooth sunm; For evening or I»III\|II'.\!|' soft tints lue, and lavende pink e and The S Very uncoms and sticks to itin, on the con- out like o eat, nd changes color ke afternoon recentions pale vose, very light are much used, and make charming dresses. The corsage and train are of plush, while the skirt is heavy silk or satin trimimed with rich embroideries of silver or gold silk. One side of the train is artistically caught wp y acord made of gold throad and beads, Atiernoon costumes are also le of :8, but of dark tint and of Frenel The plush skirt is trimmed with a ow Hlounce of silk. SAGE 1S OF PLUSH, ilk vost of the same eolor, and under the cor [ paniers the 4 Ccostiume is v stylisn are in vogue to-day. are now all the Louis X1V, and yet very The richest fashions_ot ‘the pash Louis XV1 dresses rs some iden of what can produce and® what our finest ladies are wearing, | will deseribe one of the stunni; toilets that everybody w. the dress ro- hearsal of Patrie kirt wus white ench silk with a very long train. T'he breadths weie not joined but v : left open £o0 as to show a strip of white satin that was broad at the bottom and ran up to a pont at the w I'his in strip was set off with narrow gold embroidery and brown soutache. The bottom of the skirt was trimmed with sable. The cor- 1gze, which was V-shaped both before id ‘behind, and also mude of white Freneh silk in plaits, the pi 'TOSS in tront as in a corsage a la v Boe tween the vlaits, was embroidery likg ir sleev: e re « SILK wstened to the ents. The fair reaching to the wri corsage by di ress you parties take you o of ro; colored se at evening airyland. Some are al white satin worked with multi- esques of beads and tiny gold which glitter under the gas light with asatin or under-skirt, broidered with htt ut-glass sequins and with gold. Evening wraps are in bro- des, velvet, piushes, ete., and are trimmed with costly furs or lac iy ralskin jueket is all the go for the It is" hanason comfortable, and being expensive, becomes qui aristocratic garment. Any morning you can see our prefty Parisians waulking out to the Bois, sporting tailor- made dresses, sealskin s and English velvet or fur ¢ Their del little hands are hidden in tiny mufl bird—ph i, sea-gull or dove—i wound gracefully about the mufl’ with its sweet head tucked under its wing. This is much more stylish than the fur mufls worn by hody. At the theater one of the newest things ss case made out of WD VITEST who passcd a The stifl bro- eade forms th ind from this the a bottom, there rises a bag made of plush or satin, which holds all the varions trink- ets that a fashionable lady ] her—her powder- bottle, y i the rouge for the lips and the insep: fan. The opera-glass gz is a ¢ inginyention. It reminds you . litt our grandmaothe reticule, but 1t is v nseful and very stylish on acconnt of h beautiful - material employed in the making. But, any way, don't we always | 2o back into the past (o find our newdst fashions? ‘ans are bein 18 holiday Wlering a lady discover what use i If 1t is for the ' FAN SHOULD BE OF WHITE PLUMES, mounted on light colored tortoise: shell For evening parties, where there is no f 'the plumes shoula wnd grey ma priate for , and at parties ancient re mueh used, But the fan of th wson is the *Dons Sol,” made of trar rent erape fastened tovery long ribs of ht or brown tortc shietl and sprinklod with gold or silver dust. ‘T'he monogram is worked on one of the sticks in pearis or dinmonds I have just mentioned Kinds are linumeranle, The " Parabere made of Chinese erepe rinkled with nd silver dust, will divide the hon- ors of the mwith the Pompade Yalm,"” formwed of mar feathers of colors tic n bow other beautiful fu 1l ol fine white ostrich fe mt Lorto; or i ven a great deal this presents,” But, before an, you should'try and she intends to make of ll-room, ints of White neing, tl or blue would fun The new - 4| Al all have used D, ! Liniu withou nomy | Little hoys of thire Fan loni loose ¢ aver the ears a she forehead,