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H -' THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS WRD.NKIHUY, MAHCII (, IMi. --the Sheers the Texture, the Exquisite De signs; Conquered and Held by these New’07 Cotton Weaves To say that we've the greatest stock in the cotton goods department that we’ve ever had—that any store in the South ever had, would be a truth. To say that looms had never produced their like before or weavers' fingers ever interpreted design ers’ conceptions more wonderfully would still be a fact That we have piece after piece, pattern after pattern, the like of which you never saw, and still the counters could verify to the utmost. Facts—all of them, but trite and commonplace facts when you place them Bide by side with the delicate bewitchingness of a flowered silk tissue or the soft folds of a mousseline. Catch up this bit of loveliness which the weaver has styled “Soie Imprime” an artistic effect you might expect in finely hand-painted Japanese floral designs upon tinted silk bolting cloth; thin as air; so delicate in texture. A fabric exquisitely soft and sheer with a lustre imparted by silk interwoven with fine cotton. And while it maintains this appearance, it is more durable and serviceable than chiffon or silk gauxes, which are not prettier and far more expensive and perishable. A great variety of delicate colors and pat terns are shown in floral designs of differ ent styles, in white blossoms with colored centers and pale shades of green foliage upon tinted grounds, or grounds showing stripes of color alternating with white. And another they’ve called “Cordele Marquise,” which shows not only a variety of striped effects woven in the fabrics, but is printed in a bewildering assortment of patterns—champagne and tan shadow stripes with tiny black figures scattered ver the surface, or two tones of blue with white. The most striking thing is a white ground woven to show a shadow stripe with black dots the sixe of a quarter. And silk tissues—but. how can the advertiser's pen hope to set down what the keenest brains have spent months upon? Who can describe the delicate blue of the hair bell, or coax into printing ink the subtle color ing that lies in the heart of a rose. The best ateliers of Paris are responsible for most of the exquisite designs which capti vate those who see these. Evening and dinner gowns made of this softly lustrous fabric attract by reason of the beauty of their sheer, fine texture as well as by the wonderful blending of colors which they exhibit in groups of fancy and ombre stripes now in vogue, and enriched by the artistic skill with which floral and foliage designs in pompadour effects are scattered over the surface. Entirely different, but as strikingly beautiful in its way, are the Swiss Appliques. The cloth is fine and sheer and is shown in white and colored grounds on which are firmly appliqued a great variety of colored fibre pin dots and figures, and without showing any under threads which are so objectionable in most “Swiss Dots.” They’ve the effect of chen ille, the dot effects so popular in the for eign marquisettes, at 3.50 or 4.00 a yard. And here another "Silk Tissue,” one of the daintiest and prettiest of all the new crea tions. A fine and soft finished mousseline in which silk dots and stripes are woven so as best to lend their lustre to the textile. One in particular with wide stripes of cop per and white in equal proportions with embroidered self-colored figures. “Paris Tissues” is another beautiful fabric which is especially adapted to the new fad, “pas tel plaids,” which will be the great rage for the coming summer. This line is ex clusively plaids over checks, and it is be yond human power to describe in word pic tures the exquisite beauty of these plaids, which are an innovation in the art of blend ing effects and colors. No wardrobe, this coming summer, will be complete without “pastel plaid” frocks. “Baronne Silk Mull” is one of the most fairy-like fabrics in '07 textiles. In some of the color schemes there is a soft glimmer resembling that in 1 radium silk, but how this faint silver glit ter comes to be introduced in the art of cotton and silk weaving is a secret known only to the scientific weaver. This attrac tive material greatly resembles chiffon and comes in many colors and styles, among which may be specially mentioned narrow lines upon a soft-tinted ground in ombre effects decorated with figures made of dots of solid color or small rings. There is also white with tiny rings of blue in clusters aud a white with hair lines and heavier lines that give the effect of fine mousseline in clustered tucks. And there are some wonderful things in cotton and silk voiles. Stripes, self stripes, Roman and Pekin stripes in peculiar effects of lavender, blue, rose and other colors. “Carreaux de Paris” shadow plaids, even in the sheerest of cotton weaves, half and quarter-inch stripes woven a little heavier than the background and then printed in delicately colored rings and figures. “Banzai Silks” must not be overlooked in this same group. Solid colors woven in jacquarded de signs and white or colored grounds with rings and dots, flowers and figures, stripes and hair lines, all in true Japanese motifs. And Effleures A veritable feast, masquerading under the French title, Effleures, and we wish * we could talk to you just as we feel about them. There are over forty patterns. They represent every combination of gar den and hot house flower, disposed with a' 1 grace and charm incomparable. They also suggest moonlight visions of beauty stroll ing under palms or sitting out dances amid music and laughter. “Effleures”—the ti tle is new, but you know the weave. An imported Chiffon-Voile. In this immense variety is a class whose floral designs are inimitable. Another takes up the stripes, cross-bars, oval and ringed spots, in colors' that are exquisitely soft, such as delicately pale ambers, blues, pinks, mauve and nile green. On white grounds do all of these show off delightfully and invitiflgly. Last ly, silk and cotton mixture of sheerest texture is the combination of the two classes; in shadow squares which all seem to admire, the most delicate sprigs of blos soms seem to hover over the surface, so light is the fascinating treatment given to these new designs. From sweetpeas, full sixe, in natural colors, to Pekin stripes is the scope of the Effleure family. And herein lies another great and attractive point in these new cotton weaves, They go from limit to limit. From the most modest to the most extreme of the ex treme. From those nice little silver grey stripes to floral patterns in which one motif covers nearly the width of the material. But we haven’t jumped from one extreme to another. Every step of the way has been most carefully covered. It takes a great stock to show in full every gradation. A great stock to carry them all—the neat, the intermediate and the extreme. But they're all here. Not extreme in prices— not 2.00 or 3.00—but 20c to 50c a yard.