Show PARIS FASHIONS lie first empire kage yew good for next just now everything is first empire as I 1 predicted it would bo several months ago but even I 1 did not foresee that it would become general a furor even the flower girls have enormous balloon sleeves and all sorts of cap elines I 1 think the fancy will endure anjil spring at least and while it does we will each and all imagine ourselves exact pictures of the beautiful but unfortunate josephine I 1 have told you what is now lot me say a word about what is to be there will be a revolution in favor of full and wide skirts before long and I 1 think we may soon enter into a formidable environment of steel in the way of hoops the first will bo in bell shape with no actual hoops above thy knee but later they will grow and swell and become overwhelm angly large as they were before in the way of new goods we are THE JOSEPHINE fortunate enough to have a renewal of several old favorites in the shape of brocaded woolens and the ever lovely empress cloth the unwieldy bedford cord has lived out its usefulness I 1 saw some next spring and summer silks a few day sinco under seal of secrecy and liko a dutiful chronicler I 1 tell you all in strict confidence there will be plaids in faint tones rather than colors and over all is a chameleon effect also in very delicate shades thero will be some superb styles of cheney silk with large but faint floral patterns with that hazy indistinct outline that seems to merge into the groundwork over all this will be thrown a lattice work of satin the patterns for the cainas chinas and pongees are to mostly geometrical with snowflakes and queer figures of every sort cubes parallelograms triangles linked and yet others show stars moons and cometa I 1 am looking for one with the canals ou tho planet mars and do not doubt one will yet be found representing it |