SMART FAE-LALS

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1514, 7 March 1901, Page 21

SMART FAE-LALS

’ "h,,*. Th.<mgjh..it is quite- true thjat the accessones^pfheiress ' cost the fashionablyattired ‘modern woman,' quite _ w as much ‘ as lierp complete wardrobe “did the one of ago’ ' the . thrifty ami clever, can provide themselves/With pretty ....dainties ,b particularly if this month of sales* they purchase, " with dis- " cYetibn,* lengths of lace,.’ribbon, and fur on which to exeriose their skill. -•* A "careful ransack should also be made '• of jewel boxes in which have been stored, the hoarded .treasures 1 of the pash fifty orpixty years;-"and l all cameos, quaint- amethyst and- topaz pendants, - brooches, such as our great-grandmothers wore on narrow : velvet -ribboii/upon the brow,- corals, and ‘Tong ? earrings should be commandeered 1 for use. f '■.£ The ’ earrings make splendid to.those; long so-called ‘‘‘barbaric” neck chains, * now -: “the completion of the ; smartest toilette, and often a pair of . quaint -treasures of another-kind will provide the aiguillette„,ends. "of ohe velvet,.and silk neckties so modish now. Madame , Sarah -Bernhardt has ere- ‘ ated ‘W furore for X’Ai'glon jewellery and ! fashionable wraps .of. Whe double cape, per sua sipn, * ‘appears,:- too, upon . the ' new umbrella handles and also'ai the^heads of sticks. ““ Sticks 1 are .being sold a "great deal now * fpi't fashionable women -to "“carry on »4^Qotihg , f excursions, as the French 1 call *jjgiedestrian‘ to co- /: ihoide‘ :r particularly^ ; well'lr a long ' coat costume'' such as^we*call a coverall or paddock coat, or with those beau- ~ tiful 'picture I "'frocks copied “ from the French ..Watteau period. " Suggestions will feapily occur to those who dike pretty.'little dress adjuncts, but find the purchase'of “ them an expensive matter. neckties,’.*a, flower rosette with velvet ends,, and a pelerine made of fur. and lace figure among the number.' The newest buckles, too, are novc.aii;j;by name, and very, charming they-* are withv their flower 'devices c*?.r----r-; ried out in natural colours. . %'■ 1 ’- ; -W ■& -.v; Railways, automobiles, and bicycles are safer 1, conveyances than, vehicles drawn by horses, according to statistics ' just'-’issue'd- by the French Government. * In a single' month. 967 accidents occurred for which horses were responsible, and 885 injured. There were 145 railway ac- > .•cidentSj injuries to _ grief, and s two deaths and 36 injured resuited*.. dll9 bad accidents, six died ahdJLl3 were wounded.A'- jsmglfr oyster will produce a million r , young ones in a season. * . '