Home Fashions.

Otago Witness, Issue 2058, 3 August 1893, Page 47

Home Fashions.

By-the-bye, \yben talking of linen and holland dresses I forgot to tell yon that the knowing ones of the earth have discovered that

A PINE MAKE Of SAILQ&6TH

answers Jußt the same purpose, and Is free from the tendency to crushing and " tumbling," which is such a drawback to the former. You see these costumes are worn for picnics and river parties, so it is rather tiresome, if half vay through the day, some slight accident reduces one's toilet to untidy ruin.

ANOTHER DRESS NOTE

is that the " invisible *' neb is almost mdis T pensable with, the present style of coiffure. The hair ipill not keep tidy without eucq as&istanpe, and yet tidiness is a sine qua r\o t % at present. , Qnly, of cpursp, you n^'net e»e to }ts being properly fjsed, for if jt geis loose and Stands erect, as it certainly will do if it can, it « gives you away " completely.

I had no idea, till the opera the other night, how universal diamonds weye, and either a new Qfolponda mv.st have been discovered, on the Parisian Diamond Company must be well on the high road to wealth, Every > second, woman, indeed I may say two out of every three, wore these stones, and of the most wonderful size too. .

Yon oan judge of the effect 51 when I tell yon that, without exaggeration, when yos

looked round the house it seemed to be fairly a-glitter with the unmistakable radiance of these stones, whether real or first-class paste.

MILLINERY.

I am glad to see that the best-dressed women still consider indispensable the matching of their dress and headgear. For instance, a soft fawn beige dress will have with it an exactly matched fawn straw hat with satin bows, rosettes, lace, and (the indispensable) wings to match the trimming of the said beige. In fact, straws are made to match almost every known shade of material, and are very often of both shades, that jrf the ground colour and that of the trimming. The lace hats also are much liked, and very pretty they are.—" Blspbth," in the Glasgow Citizen.

Success Which Game Too Late.

When a penniless and hopeless actor feels lonely and depressed, his obvious course is to marry. So T. W. Eobertson, the author of " Caste," when his fortunes were at the lowest, wedded a young beauty in the profession, with a dowry equal to the settlements he could make on her. It would have been a happy love match in happier circumstances ; as It was, they paid the inevitable penalty. If the husband had been . imprudent he struggled manfully, and succeeded in placing many clever contributions with second-class periodicals and cheap journals. He did all that sort of thing as a pis aller, for managers in the meantime would have nothing to say to his original productions, and his young wife helped the household indefatigably, continuing to, play melodrama in the minor theatres. The d6nouement of that love match was strangely melanoholy. The sanguine husband, though still in penury, saw the fruition of -his wildest ambitions within his reach. Nor was he over sanguine ; bub yet in the meantime it was a race running a dead heat against time and disease. His faithful and dying wife would insist on fulfilling an engagement at Astley's— of all places. He said, half laughingly, that he would send his friends *4o hiss her. They actually went, but came back to say she looked so sweet and played, so well that, in spite of themselves, they could only applaud. -i She died, and three months afterward the startling success of " Society " had* lifted Robertson beyond the reach of anxiety. It is said that the anguish of his belated triumph was terrible to witness. He pursed the good fortune that had come too late. 11 It is thought that he was never in health from that grim hour, and it was surely with the great trouble on his mind that he was wont in bis later days to say, with a bitter satire of which he was a master, that he would like to have the world as a ball at his feet that he might kick it."— Blackwood's Magazine.