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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3207, 8 October 1881, Page 4

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T",..- N 1;i j.!,■ [(jW'-'iOS , )" '"-h'jl'M i.V WUi-il vr ir.il Wot ot ftexvova-m pla.,.- .-.C r0,.-ihv ;"av .iu'.v w..>.'"« 'oil liidics shoes m i;':iii. j , (jloves *.¥& still very long, wif.h and without buttons, especially without for the sumxner, and wrinkling on the arms. Latest accounts from Paris afford ominous binta that the bustle is gradually creeping "back into favour.

Remember that the prevailing characteristic in these present fashions is the necessity that everything shall match. Sateen in all colours, from the darkest; to the lighest, seems destined to reign almost exclusively during the heated term. Funniest ©fall funny bonnets is one which has just appeared made of red crape, trimmed with red dahlias and a string of gilt coins. The little Earl of Arundel, heir to the premier ducli/ of England, that of Norfolk, is afflicted with permanent blindness. Worth recently made for an English lady a cloak of green velvet, bordered and trimmed with tails of Russian sable, at the moderate price of about £1700. Mrs J. W. Mackay's latest purchase in Paris was a mirror with a gold frame, s? id to have been originally owned by the Empress Josephine. Ten Thousand pounds is a little present the Duke of Portland will give his cousin, Miss Bentinck. on her marriage with Lord Glamis.

It is reqorted that if H.R.H. Prince Leopold had hud his own way in the mutter, he ■would have married 'Mr Gladstone's daughter. It is pointed out that on the 25tli of October next Queen Victoria will have reigned exactly the same length of time Queen Elizabeth.

The Prince of Naples, Crown Prince of Italy, is so sick and puny that it is feared he will never ascend the throne of his father. His father and mother were double first cousins.

Some of the plate-glass mirrors in the new Grand Opera House in Paris are 45ft by 52ft, equal to 2340 square feet of unbroken glass. Eighteen of them would cover an acre.

JonnMomfort married a widow at Buena Vista, Qα., and on the day after the wedding undertook to whip his stepson. The bride seized her husband and held him. fast ■while the boy killed him with a knife. The wife of an old colored man in the eastern part of Georgia recently presented him with the sixth pair of twins, the family having been previously endowed with two pairs of triplets. All flourishing. Che-'An, the Chinese Empress's mother, ■who lately died at Pekin, was an able ■woman, with a firm will and great decision of character. She conducted the Government with much prudence during her long administration as co-Kegent. Horrors accumulate. Young ladies have now taken to driving gigs, with the groom eeated by their side. What, asks a London writer, would the ladies say if Young England drove their gigs with a good looking lady's maid seated in close proximity ? It would have an odd look, yet where is the difference ?

A new waltz has made ita appearance this season in London which has quite taken the place of the old. It is merely a little pause in this otherwise simple movement, which puts the difficulty into it and gives it its charm.

False ears are the new ' fashionable adjunct 'in Paris, and hare already been noticed in the London drawing-rooms. They are described as ' pearly' and ' shell-like.' The hair 13 allowed to eover-the ugly things made by nature.

Mrs Millais, whose beautiful face haa become familiar through the picture of the 1 Huguenot Lovers,' was one of the Grey sister's of Perth, who were commonly called the ' fair maids of Perth.' She was a slender, blond-haired girl, but is now described as fat, fair, and forty, the mother of grown daughters.

The Queen of the Sandwich Islands has her gowns made all in one piece, in the native style. But they are of blue velvet striped ■with gold, of peach pink and white jet, and of blue satin with crimson crushed roses. Slippers for Her Majesty are made of the same material as the dresses.

'1 he prevailing style for the present season is to have the hair arranged in flat -wavy curls all over the head, the greatest mass or fulnese being on the top, and in the front; this suits the most fashionable French bonnets, and without doubt adds greatly to a youthful appearance. One of the sensational pictures in the Salon was Heil's 'Un Suicide par Amour,' in which a Parisian girl in pink silk, a profusion of lace, flesh-coloured stockings, and satin slippers, has placed herself across the track of an approaching locomotive. Her head is on the rail. A red umbrella and pair of gloves are thrown aside. Ex-Queen Isabella goes into the whirl of Parisian gaieties with a vengeance. At the Grand Prix, she sat by the side of President Grevy and his daughter. One night she will be at the house of the most conservative aristocrat in Paris, and the next will be at a party in the American quarter. She sometimes goes down to the office of Le ITigaro, and spends an afternoon in watching the paper made up. The English language has never been equal to finding a word to express oMo. The Americans havo now kindly supplied the deficiency by giving us the word 'snappy.' A dead-and-alive young man is said to have no ' snap,' whereas a band-box-turned out young girl, with white teeth, coral lips, pink, dimpled cheeks, sunny hair, and white, soft hands, is described as f a decidedly snappy maiden. . Eureka! ' Snappy.'

Spun silk id a late revival; it is soft and at the same time 3trong. For gathering and gaging, which is so much used for trimming, ifc is very suitable on account of its pliability. Those who prefer silk to linen underclothing "will find the spun silk very desirable, as it ■washes well. It is now as popular as Surah for garments of this description. At a late fete given in Paris the G-erman favours were brought into the ball room by a freight train. The doors near the orchestra flew open and the dancers saw a tunnel, inside of which, stood a miniature engine and train of cars, A track was suddenly thrown into the ball room, a locomotive's shrill whistle was heard, and a train of thirty tiny freight cars rushed in, filled with boquets and favours, which were distributed to the guests.

At a late reception in London, at Modjeska's house, she wore a flowing robe of ■white soft cashmere, opened widely from neck to waist, displaying underneath a tightly-fitting pale blue silk jersey, the knitted collar-band clasping her slender throat, with no trimming or fastening whatever. Pale pink roses were in her hands, but she wore no jewels, laces, or other accessories, thus proving the old law " that a woman unadorned is adorned the most."