LADIES' GOSSIP.

Evening Star, Issue 3755, 6 March 1875, Page 3

LADIES' GOSSIP.

(From our own Correspondent. )

Pakis, January 10. Look at the toilettes of the pretty cherubin of this City ; up to four years of age they are dressed alike: Russian blouses, with flat aud pressed plaits, fitting to the figure by a large belt of cashmere or ribbon, knotting behind in a coquettish bow, with streaming ends. The stockings must be colored—blue, led, or maroon, but ever in keeping with the sash and cravat. The material of the dress vanes between velvet, Scotch plaid, and cheviot, ihe hat should be of grey felt, the form Punce of Wales, with a deep band of the same color, and a wing at the side. The Russian pelisse, or Hungarian paletot, in cloth velvet, and trimmed with fur, is a necessity for out-of-doors. After eight years of age, the fillettes are dressed as little ladies, observing, however, the greatest simplicity. No second jupe, few or no flounces, no pouff, or anything approaching to , military capate replaces the polonaise. It is an of dress neither elegant nor beautiful, but is most serviceable. Pendin" school days, keep out of the heads and hearts of both boys and girls all attempts to represent the vain pomps and vanities of this wicked world. For children of a larger growth, no political allusion, be it remembered—is the prevailing color, both for out-door and ball dresses ; the latter make up well in two shades of grey. All warm materials are fashionable, because a necessity, and your whole wardrobe of furs will not be too much, if you can cunningly find a place for them. Matelasse is a material in great request, and this beautiful stuff when set off by jet looks very elegant; it can also be bordered with fur or feathers. Don’t be uneasy about hats; provided you have black felt, you can shape it as you please, and baptise it as you wish. Hats are becoming the human countenance, no two alike. Jet is very much worn in hats' R nd feathers are grouped either as api ame or falhngly spread out like a weeping willow. As many birds as will nestle may be added as ornaments, and the love for ornithology is so great that a feathered friend is even employed as a fastener for the collar. The cravat is an essential bagatelle for the toilet: plain white, in cambric, muslin, or silk, with fine quipuseends. is to be preferred. Rule general: Let the toilet, like the furniture, be ever in harmonyadapting yourself to the fashion, not the fashion to you. Ladies are on pins aud needles in anticipation of the inauguration of the new opera, and Mme, Nilsson, for overcoming her scruples to sing in scrap scenes, will be, when she performs “ Ophelia,” drowned in bouquets instead of streamers and duckweed. New toilettes are concealed as vigorously as diplomatic correspondence formerly used to be. Madame MacMnhon’s two “White House” balls will create a stir,’ and life will be more intense after the holidays. For the moment the official and ambassadorial worlds are endeavoring to extinguish one another with bier dinners and weary and dreary receptions'* visitors now rest en garde since ’ambassadors act the partof the “ Chiel amang us tailin’ notes, and faith they 11 prent it, 55 The Aztecs are the only human phenomenon we have within our walls at present; these curious little people seem ever to “go in pairs, like rabbits and hares; they do not create much sensation. Then again, France has had a “Troupeof Pigmies - since the reign of Louis XVIII. J and she requires no more of them. She is already buruened with another king—His Majesty of Auracama, when he can reach his kingdom - but a plain attorney when outside it. There is cpiite an inundation of farces aud draw-ing-room proverbs,” at the expense of astro nomy in connection with the transit of Venus • the savants ought not to be disturbed in their calculations, since a “second” would make a terrible difference it appears between the closeness of our relations with the Sun. The members of the Church of France maintaiu the squaring attitude ” lespecting the differences that separate them; the Government halts over pronouncing a divorce, and the late lovers will not live together for the future. The laches have entered as volunteers into the battle, doing, it must be confessed, more harm than good. The opera balls continue to he well supported. A lady is not expected to say she has ever witnessed one, though there are Zoyes where she can obtain a peep at the pandemonium below. Did not Mrs Bh B. Stowe derlJrJnf objectionable in the Jaidtn Mabtlle, and another, and a more recent high authority, the Shah of Persia, found the place to be cnly a “feast of roses.” broken by laughs and light echoes of feet, recalling per haps, his young Nourmahal. But “ A Persian’s heaven is easily made, . ‘Tis but black eyes and lemonade.” It is, however, agreed that the costumes are hot at all a reflection of the light of other days • that gentlemen prefer the plain evening black dress to any “makeup.” Moralists and outfitters explain this degeneracy by the fact that the hiring of a costume costs as much as the price of a full dress suit to-day—viz,, twenty francs 1 Divine Villiams, you are right as ever—“the apparel oft proclaims the man.” Gentle reader, for the past, amities cordiahs.