Ladies' Column.

Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2033, 18 July 1885, Page 6 (Supplement)

Ladies' Column.

A suri'w: yet effective trimmin" 'or a <ht,uj sknt is found of alternative pUitinga and h,ndsof velvet or plusn in conirastiug colors. Tlid pkitiuga may b9 from tfrrea to .seven inches deep when tinidhed, and pre laid loosely in clusters of three plaita with intervening spucda. The bands between h^ad and rufilas bolow, ftre folded over orinolinf. and are L'oni two to three inches wide when finished.

Tnn " pink of perfection " in dinner table diaplay appears to have been reached at a feast described by the Neio York Mail : " A pretty fancy called ' a pink dinner ' waa recently given by a young married lady of Orange to eighteon gueats. The largo round difliny table waa lighted by candelabra holding pink candles. In the centre of the table was a lar/?G bed of pink roses, thvea feet in diameter, that dissolved at the close of the dinner into bouquets for the ludie3. At each plate was a knot of pink rodes. The menu oards were pink. Even the bread wa3 tied up in pink natin ribbons. The various coux-pea perforce did not change color, but the climax of this well appointed meal wa3 reached when the Koman punch was served in pink pond liiiea of enduring 3hape."