El Paso Times. (El Paso, Tex.), Vol. NINTH YEAR, No. 103, Ed. 1 Friday, May 3, 1889 Page: 3 of 8
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CENTENNIAL DRESSES.
ALSO SOME GOWNS TO BE WORN
ON OTHER OCCASIONS.
Coatnnien with Truing Should Be ftttlegateti
to lt«<'«|itii>iiH and UiniwrH, Shjh Olive
Unrpur—:I)reiu», Slipper* anil Senimp-
tloiiK Hosiery for I>unciills-
(Special Corri«potHtence.l
Nitw Voijk, April 25.—The great cen-
tennial l>ull which is to take place here
so soon Las given the dressmakers no
little dillieulty to find something new for
every lady, and dilierent from anything
that could poShilily be worn by any other
lady who intends to go, The skirts of
bull dresses count for less than the cor-
sages, as it is the becomingness ()f the
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HANDSOME BAU. COSTL'MtW.
waist which determines the beauty of jf
dress. The shirts are usually of some
thin material w.hieh final.i out gracef ully
as the pretty dancer whirls around in
time to the cadences of the music, and
as Lent is over it i»now permissible for
all the girls who love dancing to dance
again. It has been whispered that there
have been many little dances un the sly
during Lent, but then folks will talk
often without reason.
One thing is noticeable now about all
the dancing dresses, and that is the slini-
nessof the skirts. There is no bustle not
any extra fullness in the back except
•that which conies from an underskirt
with starched ruffles up the back breadth
The skirts for all young ladies and young
matrons are just long enough to touch
the floor in the back, but some of the
moreelderly ladies who still find pleasure
in dancing wear very costly dresses of
velvet, brocade and silk with long trains,
to the great discomfort of everybody
else. 1 think a trained dress is more out
of place in a ball room than any other
place, and yet there will always be three
or four in every ball—just enough to
keep a pile of unfortunate men lying
around in spots on the floor. Arid when
the wearer wishes to dance she stoops
down with a sort of a sidewise and back
ward-motion, like a dog going after a
flea, and takes hold of her train and lifts
it up in her arm. a proceeding that al-
ways leaves more or less of her feet ex-
posed. and dances with that awkward
weight over her arm. The dignity and
grace of her movements are impeded and
she is ridiculous.
Trained dresses ought to bo strictly
relegated to receptions and dinners
There they are in place.
It iv ill now be but a short time until,
the watering place balls and hops will
begin, and 1 wish to tell all my dancing
friends what to wear and how to make
it. The figure No. 1 is a very taking lit-
tle dress for a young lady, of pale pink
silk tissue, the pink so pale that it is al-
most flesh color. The bottom of the
skirt has two ruffles four inches deep,
the top one having three tucks above it.
These ruffles are worked in pink floss
silk and with white silk with here and
there a silver thread, The rest of the
skirt is quite plain and is simply gath-
ered at the waist, very full in the back.
The waist can be understood at a glancc.
The ribbons are mat white satin, The
embroidery across the top is of tho same
pattern oh that around the skirt. Such a
dress, if made by the nimble fingers of
the wearer, would cost no^ more than
$12. If bought in one of our large ea
tablishrnents it would cost from to
$100.
No. 2 is the bodice of a dress in cream
white mull. The skirt has a deep hem,
above which is a series of ten narrow
tucks. A loose tunic of mull is caught
up on each side with a spray of tea roses
and foliage. Around the waist is a very
novel arrangement of applique of pearl
embroidery on escurial lace, with some
pretty pendants also in pearl The front
is filled across with a full pleating of
tulle. The whole cost of this exceeding
ly handsome dress, including the flow-
ers, would not be over $15, if made at
home. Perhaps not so much, certainly
not, if the heading cotiid also be done at
home.
Another very pretty dancing dress for
a young lady is shown in No. 8 It is of
silver gray silk warp Henrietta, with a
gauze brocaded ribbon sash of pale pink.
The top of the waist has a bertha of
pink tulle and horizontal stripes of the
brocaded ribbon. The skirt is plain,
with a very slightly draped tunic, held
by Hots of pink ribbon. The gloves are
pale ptnk, embroidered in silver. The
cost of this gown would be about 620,
made at home, but it would outlast four
of nny of the others. Vo I is a dress
made of pale blue surah, trimmed with
panels of dark blue velvet. The corsage
is exceedingly pretty, having a classical
effect with the metallic belt arid shoulder
piece. The fifth gown is for such young
lad'"* as do not care to wear a low cut
dress, and it is a very tasty pretty one.
It is of figured lietigaline silk, white and
pale green, with trimmings of mignon-
et'egrec.n velvet and a lace ruff. This
bodice is more difficult to make, but
any lady by a little care can easily
achieve it
Another dainty and attractive dress is
of delicate green muslin, with a. band of
silvery .white satin ribbon around the
Ixrttom of the tunic and a narrower one
around the neck just below a fall puff
of tulle.
A few years ago no young lady would
have considered herself sufficiently fine
In such simple costume as is fashionable
today, but now simplicity of attire in
ball rooms is regarded us the height of
refined elegance for young girls, and
\ery properly Whenever the girl feels
that the dress must be costly, she can go
to a big house, and pay a hundred dollars
for the same dress that would cost her
more industrious sister a quarter of that
sum.
One of the neatest and prettiest gowns
of the season is made of gray and white
checked silk in three shades of gray
Down each side of the front is a fold of
cherry velvet, and a narrow fold also
trims the side of the vest front, which is
of cream white in jersey cloth, with a
collar of the same. This is a very lady
like dress, and is one of the kind that
never goes out of fashion.
Ball slippers can be of satin, black of
white, or to match the color of the dress
Some have rose'tes on the toes and oth-
ers beaded ornaments, and others again
have the headings done directly on the
slipper. Dancing shoes have quite low
heels, and are adapted to the violent ex-
ercise better than tiiev used to be.
Hosiery for dancing is of the most
elaborate kind, and is of the finest qual-
ity of pure or mixed silk. Stockings'
should match hall dresses in color, though
the tint may be different. Some have
lace effects, or embroidery up the instep
or clocking. There are numberless fan-
cies in colors which are more remark-
able for eccentricity than beauty or re-
finement. 1 saw one pair recently which
represented a flight of butterflies, wind-
ing spirally around the stockings.
Underskirts for dancing dresses are
made of Lonsdale cambric, with one or
two ruffles around the bottom, and oth-
ers whi 'h overlap each other all the way
a
tnis way in tne
The boy reluctantly arose from his
vanquished antagonist and faced his in-
dignant sister. Then he explained:
"Well, 1 don't care. He said you
wasn't good looking. I don't think you
are either, but it ain't noneo* his funeral
So I licked him."—Minneapolis Journal
Fast Western Railroading.
Lon Dempson has perhaps the fastest
standing record of any engineer on the
Union Pacific as far as schedule time is
concerned. Lon was formerly known
as the "Flying Dutchman," but now
basks under that sublime but fictitious
cognomen, "White Wii Neverthe
k'-H, lie is a flyer in the broadest sense of
the term lie pulls a p -r between
Cvanston and Ogden. a distance of
seventy-live miles, and makes the trip in
the remarkable time of seventy dive
minutes, or at the rate ef one mile a
minuce. This is no display record, but
day in and day out he makes the trip at
that dare-devil rato of ppsod.—Omaha
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BAKDBOMK BJJA COSTUMES.
HOME AND BALL DRESSES.
up the back breadth. These arc for the
under one. When the dress hrmade of
thin material, the iu?rt which is to be
worn next it should be of thin muslin
sheer and not too fine. This gives a
transparent effect that is very desirable,
for a thick skirt next to the dress is too
abrupt a change. Some young ladies
have a skirt made of thin glace silk to
-tea;' under such dresses, but that makes
it necessary to have one for every gown
A very novel fancy in new spring
gowns, which also could be adapted to
ball dresses for those who like darker
colors, is to have fine black grenadine
luadju up over changeable glace silk
The changeable effects come in brown
and gold, purple and gold, blue and pink,
red and yellow and other very marked
contrasts. The colors thus are very brill
iant, and no lady would wear them, un
less toned down bv the outer film of
grenadine. This is cut exactly with the
silk so that it lays flat over it, and the
bright colors show faintly through the
meshes, and thus it liecomes very beauti
fid, the folds breaking out into rich
lights and shadows with every move
merit.
This fashion has really not reached
America yet. except in one or two im
portaut gowns, but before long will be
If anybody has an old fashioned glace
silk laid away since her great-grand
mother's time, now is her opportunity
The Priestly grenadine comes m single
mesh antf is thesuitRhle kind, and costs
about''seventy cents u yard. 1 -haven'i
got a frjuidmotlier to go to 4ir'one. I
wish 1 had. Ouvu Harper,
Too Much for Hi« Sinter Any way.
A Stevens avenue young lady was
much pained and shocked as she walked
down the street yesterday to see her
young brother sitting astride the pros-
trate body of another boy and raining
down blows upon his struggling victim.
"Johnny I" she almost screamed,"what
are you doing? Come here this minute.
Aren't you ashamed of yourself, fighting
A (jock! 'HUH? *•» • I'tauM
"Dear John," wrote 1 v. i: >,
sorry to say Willie f<' < < •' ;« >■
yerterday and disiibli 1.: '-If.
will not I." able U> I; I. i;
month—so tli * doctor r\ 1. • i-
ting id'rig a 11 '.".."lit. • -r. .
restless to stay in doc"
tutn from the city pi • I..'
se.m: th::";;; !i" e ui tsuiV- • ; -1" v.
"V. iilie." said the 1 :i r i'u «,
he patb'd ;he little L>. -c .- :
the head til:-1 next da.'. i ! ■ h
you that drum 1 promi ■ •! i.
two ago you should ha ve - >e '. i..i
Chicago Tribune.
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to Builders.
Sarcaslie.
ilusband (after s>m< words with hi
wife)—Well,, let us drop it 1 don't car,
to say any more about, k. Ami beside;.
I like to talk to a sensible person whei
I'm talking.
Wife (with a same :augh;~Vm,
don't always do it, then
Husband—I don't?
Wife—No. 1 Kometiiiii ; hear you tali:
ing to yourself.— Boston 'Count r.
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Grace (from a booming t.e.vn, con-
tinuing conversation)—And our n'.
cable line is, just simply inimi n Y< 1
should see it m operation, and especii" !!y
on the ine line—steep as a toboggan chute,
ye know.
Kate—Gracious! What would they do.
in case the rope would break on -a', down-
ward trip?
Grace (with enthusiasm)—Do? Why
they'd have a temporary track built for
them to run on by the time they reached
the bottom. Talk about enterprise!-*-
Harper's Ba/^r.
Tlie UmvariU of Literature.
Visitor—You speak of this author's
works as having become suddenly valu-
able. Why is that?
Publisher — He has /died. — Chicago
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i'iant Glaciers of Alaska.
The southwestern face of St. Elias, it
is safe to say, will never be climed: it
presents a mass of broken snow, beauti-
ful, yet forbidding. We estimated the
summit to be about 7,000 feet above us,
making its total height 18.500 feet. It
seemed to us that the coast survey in
giving it 19,500 feet was too liberal in its
figures, The day was cloudless; the
whole scene was one that baffles descrip-
tion. It surpassed in grandeur, though
not in picturesqtieness, the very best that
the Alps can offer. Roughly speaking,
the eye encountered for miles nothing
but snow and ice. 1 had never before
thoroughly realized the vastness of the
Alaskan glaciers, though during the past
fortnight we had spent many a weary
hour in crossing immense moraines.
One of the glaciers we looked down
upon was not less than sixty miles long,
while another attained a breadth of
twenty-five or thirty miles. From below
I had gained the impression that ice
covered with debris predominated over
white ice. t I now saw that this was not
the case, and that the ratio of debris to
clear ice was probably not greater than
that of ten to one. Wh^n standing at a
considerable height one appreciates for
the first time the beautiful curves
through which the glaciers alter their
course. We noticed this in particular in
looking down upon the Agassiz glacier
It appeared at one point to describe
three or four arcs of concentric circles
with rndii varying from eight to ten
miles, each arc being indicated by a
light coating of stones, the whole resein
bling un immense race course. Through
the middle of the Tyndall glacier, and
for a distance of several miles, two light
streaks of moraine ran parallel to each
other, presenting from aboyothe uppear-
anco of a huge serpent trawling the
length of the glacier.—Scriwner's Maga-
ftlna.
PROPOSALS FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A ONE STORY STONE BUILD
ING IN HIE TOWN OF NOG ALES, ARR1ZONA,
PROPOSALS will be received tit the <»ffiee of the undersigned until 5 o'clock p.
m., on Wednesday,May 115th,1889, for the ■ ons<rm tion of a one story stone building,
40 x 1.10, on Morley Avenue, in the town of Nogsles, Puna county, Arizona, in its
entirety or for any part tkere-of, as follows, to wit:
1. I or carpenter work, lumber, frtines, doors arid everything pernioing to car-
penter work.
2, For oofing. untterine, and all tinn< r's work.
il. For w ought and east iron, and the work.
4. For m sonry work including all material in that line.
Pr.-fi r i ce will he given to redal)le parties who propose to fnke the entire* ontract
Plans hi (1 specifications and general instructions are open to inspection.
Successful buhh rs must furnish good and sufficient bonds for.the faithful perform
niiinee'of their (»h!"i.'nt!ofis. , (
The privilege of rep < ting any and all bids is hereby reserved. Levy & Raa?,
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