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FASHION’S FOLLIES.
r THINGS WHICH ATT ACT
P j33 ATTENTION - F WOMEN.
, es B nl ' ats That are tne Styl>
J 0 --2 spring -v.b .t nrides Should
..-'.-rd Alsj Mothers of £ rides—A
. story or Two qathertd ;n ihe
v oridof Fashion.
s-.-ai novelties, says the New York
j- are now to the fore, and very
' jjrje of them are. Here are a num
L .; ;ae very latest:
, istt-shaped hat of brown straw, with
. ’ nr -a’h of rosebuds aud green leaves
jrk-d tte brim, and a great knot of rib-
aix-Ted with loops of golden braid.
i p ague parasol, on which nas been
wilfully painted by hand a flight of
t ,„ ; . swallows iharbingers of spring),
j.un !a:e and brown ritibons form a
l .;2 : this charming but rather conspicu
ta-articl , which, however, might be used
I r special occasions— as might also a pair
B f b oon suede gloves which have a crest
I monogram embroidered in gold. Gray
U s..it-r make a,so a pretty combination
i :r pjese - ancieut dame of jousts aud tour
,v" looking rand coverings.
A neat-looking patent leather tie has a
(--colored gaiter butt‘Ued over it. With
(t-rai gaiters, by the way, and two pairs
j-oxfo and ' one may effect a number of
tinges in one’s footgear.
Finally, to end the list, are some sheer
iJkerchiets, with delicate stripes or cross
es of pink or blue, wi.h white hem
uched or scalloped borders.
At one of the receptions of last week in
Sew York, says tne liecorder, a g ay
: wd was noted which pictured well the
ring ideal. It was a heavy corded silk,
iith jac.cet fronts to the bodice, which were
st off short at the waist, and with a demi
tain. Repeat and over and over again, as
[ten as space conld be found for it on the
ireadths, was the Prince of Wales device
if three feathers outlined in pearls. A full
rest of sheer white India muslin was
lasped at the ai-t by a bodice girdle
lewn with pearls, and at the thioat by the
Haulm three feathers, this time in pearls
nd g Id. A teq e of silver gray mull,
rimmed with ono large double w bite tulip,
arriedout the thoug t consistently.
When women meet for fes ive purpose
turqui is and poach pink are seen, bou
quets aro made with combinations of fl>w
ers and feathers and bodices have basques
that cme almost to the knees. The old
fasln med rosette of narrow ribbon comes
out in skirt and waist decorations, and
every other girl has a fringe or a frill of
1 ceor cniffou about her slim middle or a
girdle of drooping fl >wors. One of the new
ways cf treating a skirt is to have it open
t.v or three times in front and at the sides,
sho.iig a deep fliunce of lace,
the lace reappearing at the top of
li:h b dice and drooping in a gathered
ruffli aoout the shoulders, as if the
au or ilre-s conceded an even daintier inner
3 o. The train of a long skirt for street or
I : .-e is cut in one with the back breadths
r , be b dice, and this gives very graceful
[li ves to mender figures. The Alary Aa
t ■t silks that are being rewoveu from
hid scraps preserved in museums light up
s’ui.derfully under the twinkling ca dela
aii long pink and cream drawing rooms, _
r t which they are in gay and gracious
sc- rd with their garlands of tiny fl iwers
ini their true lovers’ knots on light biscuit
ffoa ds.
There are silks In old rose color with da
f -ns of doves supposed to be cooing. Gold
dower buds are strewn over marine blue.
Feather bunches iu white paper on laven
der, and bouquets in delicate tints on raw,
reddish backgrounds. Star flowers. Alp
lets, May bells aud eidelweiss are tied up
in wreaths with gold or steel threads, and
with lilac branches, hedge roses and clover
l ives are spread for admiration upon both
Siik- and wools. Ring designs in silver
threads are woven into pale blue cheviots,
t : within the rings hang vases with flowers
t. balance white-winged birds.
While looking over the latest arrivals in
i'jbios. sapphires had diamonds in an up
town jewelry store, in New York, the other
lay, a customer was somewhat startled to
notice a stylish blonde woman ask the clerk
t:the counter for a silver foot bath. The
h erer watched interestedly' the proceed
ings whicu followed, and saw the clerk
ecerge from the farther end of the store
'i'll a silver b il, rather oblong and psr
lisps ten inches iu depth. He placed it on
tie counter, and proceeded to explain the
beauties and comforts of it. “Of course,”
laid he. “they are quite new as yet. but all
the ladies who have purchased them speak
highly of their convenient uses. There,
ou see, the hot water faucet is (.ere on tho
right, and the cold on the leit, and this little
parasol arrangement is the shower bath,
vhich can be made as forcible as desired.”
‘Did you say you had sold many ?” in
quired the customer.
“We only received them a week or two
ego, but we have sold a goodly number for
that short space of time.”
“Have you any other kind?”
“Yes, the golden baths.”
“Well, I don’t like g Id plate for bath
purposes. I’ll take this one.”
Wi.ile her back was turned the observer
t ok a peep at the miniature tub. It was a
beauty, and no mistake; all carved with
lilies, ferns and leaves, and frosted all over.
The handies of the faucets were of pearl,
and it as not surprising to hear tho clerk
came the price at $lO ).
A Buffalo woman, says the New York
j iuies. tel.s this little incident illustrating
the peculiar conservatism of the British
provincial matron; “My brother married
a young Canadian girl last fall, the daugh
ter of a colonial family with whom the old
English formality has the sacrednes of
holy writ. They have been boarding at a
hotel all winter, but early this spring have
taken a house not far from my home. I
saw Caroline ad .y or two before they took
possessi n, and with friendly intent, said
to her, ‘Dine with us, Carrie, you and Jack,
the day you move. It will save you
trouble.’ She thauked me and said they
would. J
"So on that Thursday I had two extra
covers laid and expected these moving rela
tives of mine fr a hasty snatch between
van 1 ads. As I knew they were aware
that we di e l near midday, when 1 o’clock
and my husband came we only delayed the
me \1 five or ten minu es. Then, no one ap
pearing, we sat down. I supposed my sis
tar-in-law was too busy to come even so far
as my house, and thought no more of her
coming. We were eating our simple des
sert, for it was quite my ordinary home
dinner, when the bell rang and ‘Mr. and
’ were announced. I hastened to
tb“ parlor to find my sister-in-law and
brother, both in conventional dinner dress,
•he with gloves, and a pretty apology on
her lips for tardiness, because, forsooth, she
had to go back to the hotel to dress, as her
‘personal luggage' was still there. My
brother had been dragged from his business,
•nd here they both were.
“1 did the best I could, but Caroline of
•ours- saw that there was not much cere
mony about the engagemeut she had put
herself to such pains to suitably meet. To
“ er a dinner invitation is a solemn matter
lo all circumstances.”
Sue had one of those sweet angelio faces,
*ys the New York Times, with great
prayerful gray eyes, and no one would think
that there was anything of the joker about
her. She sat in a front pew in one of the
fashionable up-town churches at one of the
Denton services. Her pretiy head was
bowed over her prayer book. All was as
quiet as a tomb in church, and the silence
nee met to impress her. Suddenly she looked
up, and ber great gray eyes quickly sur
veyed the crowd of silent worshipers. Then
just the faintest suggestion of a laugh crept
the gray eyes, and she coughed two or
| three cute little coughs. Then the head went
; down over the prayer ho k again and ,be
smile on her fa o broadened as bor neighbor
1 coughed, ac l her neighbor 1 * freight* r
coughed, and the cough was taken up here
j and there and every where u til the once si-
.cut tabernacle had the sounds peculiar to
the consumption ward in a big h spi ai.
As the sweet young lady with the hie
j e T es came out of church s e was heard to
1 say to her escort.
“Now, you see that coughing in church is
largely a matter of habit. Oue persons
coughs and iherestof the congregation
follows suit. I know it was very wicked of
me, but when I locked up and noticed liow
silent everybody was, I had to try the ex
periment of seeing how many people would
cough if I did. It was such fun. ’
The Princessof Wale; is responsible, I am
afraid, for the dreßdful tra sposing of pho
tographs on cups, plates, saucers, aud so on,
says a hiondon letter in the Pittsburg Dis
patch. A terrible tea service has lately
been ador ed iu this manner for her royal
highness; a portrait of the queen is on oue
side of the teapot and that of ihe King of
Denmark on the other. The Prince of
W ales appears on the milk j jg, a..d Prince
Collars and Cuff* reposes o * t e bottom of
the slop basin. The three princesses, Vic
toria, Maud, and Louise of Fife, are grouped
around the sugar basin, and had the baby
Fife lived it would, doubtless, in due course,
have figured o:i the butter dish. Groups
composed of Prince George, the Tecks, and
other cousins, decorate the plates, and even
Prince Henry of Battenberg is allowed to
appear, with the Duke of Teek, Prince
Christian, the Marquis of Lome, Prince Ed
ward of Saxe-Weimar, and tne Duke of
Fife, on half a dozen egg-cups. The prin
cess herself adorns a cake plate. The awful
nes; of this photograpned-stained china can
hardly be described.
I suppose that to parents this photo
graphic oraze has its gratifications. One
lady has arranged a dozen of her rooms
with panel photographs, in six rows, all
around the walls. One ro im has only pho
tographs of herself, husband and children
on successive birthdays, and on many other
occasions. Ai other room—they are all
bedrooms, by the way—has cousins of the
family, uncles, aunts and relations gener
ally. There is yet another room for
intimate friends and acquaintance, the
next room celebrities of the day, the
next room actresses, then dogs and
other do i.estic animals used in the house
hold. The music room ha3 nothing but
singers and performers, whiie in the draw
ing-room only photographs of young women
are permitted. This lady calls her house
“The Shadows,” and, by the way, she has
one room only used by her housekeeper, in
which are the phot graph3 of the people
that she used to know, but who, for some
reason or othqr, have dropped out
of her cognizance or acquaintance
The most hideous things thao I have
ever seen, and, of course, in slavish
iinitat on of toe Princess of Wales’ tea cups,
were eight sets of toilet articles, intended
for the mansion now being furnished at
Clapham by a retired merchant. His name
is Hitchcock, and on the jugs which are to
adorn his own particular bed-room are
cabinet photographs of Mrs. Hitchcock at
22, and Mr. Hitchcock, taken from a
daguerreotype, at the age of 31. Little
Hitchcocks" are engraved on the other
things. All the sets are alike.
In the way of hats, says the Paris letter
of the Herald, there is something new
everyday. In the first place the large
round hats, which were ushered in at the
beginning of the season with such a flourish
oi trumpets, have, if not gone, been very
much reduced iu size. Once more the toque
has come to the fore, aud seems to beat in
favoritism ail other forms of headgear. I
have seen :everal charming toques of late,
b til of cloth and velvet, the color carna
tion, rose leaf, almond green and many
others of the softest and teuderest colors.
They have increased just a little in size.
One very neat little toque for a young girl
is with a foundat.on of three barrettes of
maize colored ribbon, black feather ends on
back, bouquets of black feathers—same
feathers in front and bow of maize velvet.
Another toque is of tobacco s raw, with
rolled edges with wavy ribbon, ot tobacco
faiile. which is studded with large spots of
mordure chenille surrounding the crown
and forming bowk Oa the front and at
the back bouquets of black feathers.
A hat for a young g .'l is of black straw,
with wavy borders, rolled backward. To
the left of the borders a bird is sitting with
yellow throat and green feathers; in front
aud above, bow of black leather ribbon.
A young married couple came to New
York from a western city, says Clara Beile
in the Enquirer, and took up their resi
dence in an aparttue it on a quiet ad very
respectable cross street up town. At a out
2 o’clock one moraine only a few days after
their arrival, the wife was taken suddenly
and dangerously ill. The young husband
rose at once and hastened out for a doctor.
He did not have the address of one, but he
remembered having seen several signs oil
houses in tee next street to his own
when ho had passed througn there a
few days before. He hurried around
to this street and rang the bell of
the first door w here a doctor’s sign was ex
posed. After awhile a servant came, and
the doctor was roused from his sleep. He
came down blinking, and quietly told the
young man that he had not been previously
engaged on the case, and it was the rule of
Ne York doctors not to answer calls in
strange cases of this nature. The young
husband implored the physician to make an
exception of the rule, as his wife migh t die,
but to no purpose. Almost crazy with ex
crement he rushed into the street ad rang
the led of another doctor’s house. Hera ho
met wit.i a similar reception, and was told
that no doctor iu the street would go out on
the case. The young man went
away in despair, cursing the
heartless doctor, and there is no
knowing how the affair would have turned
out if the lights in a drug store on the cor
ner diad not shone out to the frantic hus
band’s eyes like a beacon of hope. He ran
to the drug store aud hastily told hi3 story
to the man he found. The latter offered
him encouragement at once in a few words,
and then hurriedly wrote a note, which he
gave to the young man and told him to
a doctor living only a few steps away and
who would certaiuly go. This was done in
great haste, aud. the doctor consenting, the
suffering wife at home was soon rescued
from the danger she was in. The anecilHe
is wholly fact, aDd is related as a warning
to strangers to make a New York and ctor ac
quainted with a serious case of illness before
calling him in ou a peremptory summons.
An interesting symposium recently took
place in Boston, of which the esteemed
Herald of that city gives a sufficient ink
ling to make it a matter of regret that no
pa. er told more about it. A young woman
in a plum-oolored robe of Greek design ad
dressed the Woman’s Education'll and In
dustrial Union on "How to Express the
Feelings with App rent Unccnsci utness of
Physical Agents.” At the Cioe * f the ad
dress she criticised Boston women with
much candor, telling tnem plainly that
they were generally uuloTelv, but acknowl
edging that they had executive ability and
usually "got there.” Then she announced
that she would answer questions, where
upon one of the assem blea Boston women
spoke out: “I see your dress toucoes
the ground; do you consider that
proper?” In the face of this
p ser the lect irer hesitated and then con
fessed: “Well. I bav u’t got handsome
feet,” not without apparent consciousness
of the physical agents in question. Then
another woman arose and defended the
modes of the present day as compared with
those of ber graudm> ttiers of various de
grees—“even unto the first generation;”
and still another Boston woman introduced
the subject of garters, and spoke earnestly
of the superiority of the straight garter—
paradoxical as the term may seem—over
the round garter. Then to quote the es
teemed Herald “the afternoon ended in an
enthusiastic conference in which one-half
the audience told ‘what I wear,’ and the
other half told what it didn’t.” Not an
other word about this symposium which
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would have been so instructive to won eu
and so be* ilderiug to men reade: a.
Sorr.e of the bonnets are so small one is at
a loss to distinguish them from headdresses,
aud some new tuatddre-gee are so elaborate
one takes them for dress bonnets, -avs the
New York liecorder. There are several
pretty developments of the classic fillet for
spring eveniug coiffures, the double fillet
being, perhaps, most in favor. Even for
street wear tne hair is now done very high,
the crownle6s honnets fitting about the coil
and allowing it to show, surrounded w.th
flowers and bows. Bow knots com
posed of brilliants are shown for
hair ornaments, and many women
are falling into the way of cover
ing the back of the head with small stars
and even with glittering things that did
duty originally as brooches and earrings.
A dark woman in black net wore jingling
oats in silver tinsel a few evenings a;o.
The twinkling, tinkling stuff was bunched
at the waist and on her shoulders, and her
hair was full of it, from the Russian bang
in front to the short curls in ihe nape of the
neck behind. Wreaths of fine flowers in
great varitv and even thorny garlands of
r ees are oft n adopted, but drooping flow
ers have the preference, especially violets
and lilies.
I here is going to be occasion this spring
to study thejfiohu. Long, volant-like laces,
set in at the throat of the gown and con
tinued to the waist, are pretty decorations
for ebaliies and all light materials. One
such in cream color, with flower designs,
has a hip girdle of broad white cord and a
parasol of the same stuff, with decorations
to correspond. There are pretty, short
fichus in silk that are open in front aud
heart-shaped, and that turn back in shawl
rever3. These are embroidered or beaded and
tie with long ribbon loons that fall low over
the gown. Pretty little fichus aie in the
form of small collars with bead fringes that
ensnare the heart of woman, but will cause
her much threading of needles and vexation
of fingers. There are dresses, the fancy for
which seems to be growing, that are huug
from neck to heel with jet pendants. The
long strings of bead fringes rattle about the
sleeves and jingle about the bodice and jan
gle about the draperies, and to keep such a
clashing and banging costume in good noise
producing order costs about au hour’s time
for every hour it is worn.
“Miss Blank desires tne company of Miss
Dash at her consorsation matinee, in her
boudoir, No. Fifth avenue, at 3 o’clock
next Friday. Subject: “Tea Gowns.”
Neatly engraved cards, says Clara Belle,
bearing that inscription, are frequent at
the present moment on Murray hill. Lent
is responsible for a list of fads each year,
and the conversation matinee, lasting just
one hour, is among the latest. The young
lady giving the matinee chooses subjects
that she thinks will please the largest num
ber of her friends, and these subjects may
vary from dancing slippers to Br< wning's
poetry. Tea and tiny sandwiches are lerved
during the rhetorical display, aud
if the subject deals with millinery the
hostess is expected to use examples of her
wardrobe to emphasize her argument. The
best description of the proceeding- at a con
versation matinee yet heard wus giveu by a
youth at a club in Fifth avenue. He ex
plained that as he was passing ihe door of
his sister’s boud >ir during a seance be
stopped and heard the following brilliant
conversation, which he repeats in imitation
of the various feminine voices engaged it it:
“Trimmed with old point and ”
“Danced .-ix times with him, and then
wound up ”
“The loveliest feather fans at-—”
“Nonse se, Maude, I never, Why, he’s
married, didn’t you know ”
“Kelcey’s musia 'lie fs too "
“If she would only fix her hair so as to
look ”
“I’ve got on black this week, because my
pug died on——”
“They were reported engaged at Newport,
you know, but now tney •”
“Really, I cau’t promise. I have my
Japanese lesson at 11, and tuen I must ”
“She wears a dark red riding habit, and I
say it’s ”
“They say he was tipsy, and fell into old
Mrs. Fusser’s "
“Oh, I lovo baccarat. It’* so ”
“Do you like the way she has that cord
trimming fixed over ”
“Stop, Ethel, or I'll tell something muoh
w rse about ”
“If Mamie doesn’t serve the cocktails
pretty soon I don’t know what ”
“At that point,” savs the young man giv
ing the imitation, “there is a chorus of
‘Ah’s” Tnat means that the cocktails have
arrived. Now you know what a conversa
tion matinee is. I think the subjeot was
German opera that afternoon.”
Here, O, wretched, bedraggled women,
is something thut may serve you in bad
weather, and it is no harder to put on than
the average mackintosh, sa-s the New
York Sun. Make it of lightweight water
proof siuff t*e kind with silk or cloth
fi ish. It is a skirt. But it ou like any
skirt, only under your dress skirt and your
long petticoat. Having secured the band
under these skirts, the rubber skirt hangs
very much longer than anything else you
w ear. Turn the surplus up. The edge" is
finished with another band. Fasten
this band around your waist out
side all your other skirts. See? Your dress
skirts and long petticoats are, as it were, in
a bag, and a waterproof bag, too. I don’t
pretend that the arrangement is beautiful
or graceful, but what rainy-day get-up is?
Certaiuly not the usual get-up-past-your
ankle! I don’t say for it that it isn’t clumsy.
But what rainy-day rig isn’t? But O! my
sisters, it keeps your dresses dry, and by
having the rubber-bag skirt made a rainy
day length the skit ts are thereby shortened,
and shoes aud stoo ings are somewhat re
lieved from the swish-swash of Bloppv cloth.
I ought to have my name printed in letters
of gold, I know.
A gentleman who had been to Europe for
a year > r so returned to New York lately,
says Clara Belle in the Jlepvblic, and re
marked at once the grea transformation iu
the conduct of hts girl friends. He stood it
very well indeed, without making any c m
ment, u til ho came across a certain youug
lady of his acquaintance whom he had left a
pei ftctly complete woman of the world only
a few months before, end found that she
was attempting to make peopl > believe that
she could not think of drinking wine except,
perhaps, a single glass at her father’s table.
He humored the girl in her fraudulent in
genuousness for some time, but finally lost
patience when she informed him at a dance
that she would have to ask her mamma if
she might walk out alone to the conserva
tory with him.
“O, bosh!” he exclaimed. “Drop this in
nocent busi iess, old girl. do. Come out to
the cons3rvatory and help me smoke a
cigarette, the way you used to dc.”
The regenerate maiden was too timid to
get angry; so she merely permitted her lip
to tremble, her eyelids to flutter and mur
mured that she thought her compauion was
ve.-y unkind. He looked at her in astonish
ment. partially mixed with contempt, and
then said:
“Well, I’m going back to Europe in afew
weeks for another long stay. By the time
I get back you’ll be doing another style. Of
course, you wouldn't be willing to make a
bet now, the way you used to, otherwise I
would wager that within twelve months
vou would get provoked if I assumed that
I knew more about wickedness than you.”
The poor maligned creature shed a real
tear and went in search of her mamma.
It wai that sort of a girl who sat across
the table from me last evening at a preten
tious dinner. Alongside of her sat an old
beau who was saying things to ber with
double meanings. After maintaining an
oblivious air until patience ceased to be a
virtue, she ' aid;
“Mr. Brown, really, if I understood what
you mean 1 am afraid it would make me
blush.”
I must confess that my change of views,
says a Washington, I>. C., letter writer,
has greatly surprised even myself, and I
can only account for it on the principle of
fatality. Doubtless, as I have never formed
an ideal, I shall be ail the happier in the
man of my cho.oe, who, though d.tiering
la many ro pects from ihe picture I would
have drawn, is all, and even more than my
wildest dream* c uid have landed. Ibu
lievo it is Adelaide Proc or who sayi
“Whom first we love, we seldom w,d," lui
in my case lays the exception, ad i con
sider myself especially foriu. a: in having
drawn a prize in the great matrimonial lo;-
tery.
Miss Minnie Wanainnker is ons of the
most loved and universally adm red daugh
ters of the cabinet. She is a ta.l.g.a etui
blonde, with a sweet dignity cf manner ad
vivacity that wins tor ner friend* wherever
she may go. She has eojoyed superior ad
vantages ot seeing the world ami learning
to know its people while dwelling bentath
their own vine and fig tree. Uue wouid
therefore tbink that tne fair youug Ameri
can would have formed for herself some
beau ideal of mauhood iuto whose keeping
she would long ago have entrusted her
maiden heart.
Yet, stra ge to say, when I asked her to
give me a cand.d description of nor ineal
husband, she confided to me the fact that in
all sincerity she had never forme! one. “I
fear you will judge me very fickle,” she
added, “but to tell you the truth 1 fiud that
my fancy changes with every new acquaint
ance of tne masculiue gender. Th.s deplor
able fact goes to prove that iu my day
dreams of a future slate of matrimonial
happiness there has been no definite picture
formed, and, in fact. I believe that the ro
mantic quality that marked the days of
'The Children of the Abbey’ has entirely
died out in this mere humdrum age.”
How many ladies, says the New York
Sun, know that the sweet odors with which
they love to surround themselves are really
stimulating and refreshing—lavender aud
lemon that our grandinothoi s folded away
iu chests of linen, roses aud violets that
breathe in gentle fragrance from every fold
and frill of sweet woman’s habiliments to
day, even the homely scent* of sage and
benzine. There is an occasional grumbler
who, for want of something else to criticise,
professes an aversion to this perfume
habit among women and descauts
learnedly on the superat traction
cf well-bathed nature’s own fragrance
emanating from a cleanly person clothed iu
fresh linen. But the grumbler doesn't un
derstand that the faint, delicate fragrance
of perfume is the sign manual of pio. feet
cleanliness. Sweet orders, like fro h flowers,
fade swiftly when brought in proximity
with a person which, from disease or care
lessness, emits any poisonous vapors. So
the next time when you meet a lady with
that faiut, intoxicating fragrance linger
ing in her garments you may know for a
ce. tainty that the cieanliuoss that is next to
godliuess is the basis and beginning of the
fragrance that delights you.
The Carrie cape3 have bloomed this spring
in ailvanoe of the roses, says the New York
World. The heavy fur wraps, cloaks, and
capes, which were so much iu vogue all
winter, caused a reaction to cloth and
woolen go ds as soon ps the weather would
permit. The new Biyles of capes aie
similar to those worn in the 1 all. but
they are longer and fuller. A Venetian red
cape appeared one warm day iast week. It
was gathered to a yoke of black cloth,
heavily embroidered. The gathers were
full and evenly distributed, fi.a bottom
of the cape fell just bolow tho wearer’s
waist.
Another cape of tan similarly made was
gathered to a yoke of deep red cloth em
bellished with gold passementerie. A high
Medici collar was adorned with the passe
menterie, which extended downward to a
point front and back.
A carriage dress, w hich is designed for
the first appearance of warm weather, is a
dainty marvel iu yellow-brown and gold.
The material is yellow-brown silk. The
skirt is cut in scallops around the bottom,
and edged with a fall of yellow lace, which
nearly conceals a plaiting of the silk. The
back is a fau shaped deim train' A Louis
XV. coat of brown brocade, with long tabs
aud broad Jappcls. qpene oyer a vest of gold,
laoe. Gold lace fails over the hands. A
gold lace toque is held in place upon the
head by pale amber hat pins. Yellow
brown glove*, stitched with gold thread, are
to be worn with this gown.
The spring frock has a very long pointed
waist and sometimes it has a straight skirt
and sometimes it has paniers. it has a
queer fashion of letti g broad frills of lace
turn down In a straight line about its
shoulders, even upon high-necked gowns.
This fashion is a reminiscence of the days
when the beauty of the curve was hardly
thought of; when yews, box hedges, dre.ises
and garden beds were all characterized by
the same angularity. No woman with any
feeling for gi ace of line would eo spoil her
figure.
What wicked underskirts these new ones
arel For summer use, ot course. Tney are
ankle long, yes; but the lace on the edge is a
good half yard deep, and you can see right
through it. Especially if the skirt is black,
you know, and the lace is black; it looks so
modest, nice, and all that. But you can see
right through the lace just the Rame, and—
well—they are as you may imagine.
Many a girl who would taint if obliged to
wear tights might as w ell be clad in them on
a windy day, when the breeze sweeps aside
the drapery of her full, plain skirt, and ap
parently puts her in tight trousers. But,
then, the girl doesn’t know this happens, or
when it happens, and that makes a lot of
difference—to the girl.
Mrs. Cleveland was on Broadway, New
York, for a few minutei Thur-day morn
ing in a toque that ono might be pardoned
for looking at a second time. It was a
rough, black straw, with trimming! of rib
bon loop and a single, long stemmed rose
with three leaves standing nearly erect be
hind. This use of a single flower for garni
ture, much as onecarriesoue jonquil in one’s
hand, one orchid at one’s bosom or one violet
between one’s lips, is something character
istic of the seas ,n.
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For coughs aud colds, take Lemon Hot
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For sore throat and Bronchitis, take
Lemon Hot Drops.
For Pneumonia and Laryngitis, tak
Lemon Hot Drops.
For consumption and catarrh, take Lemon
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For all throat and lung diseases, take
Lemon Hot Drops.
An elegant and reliable preparation.
Sold by druggists. 25 cents Der bottle.
Prepared by H. Mozley, M. D., Atlanta,
Ga.
President National Bank,
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Ladles Please Note.
We fake pleasure in calling tbe attention
of tbe good ladies of Savannah that we
have receivod another large shipment of
nobby, neat Children’s Suits. Appel &
Schaul, 159 Broughton street.—.4d.
Appel & Schaul, One Price to all, 159
Broughton street.—Ati.
THE WOMEN OF FASHION.
A PARASOL, FLO WER AND R'DBON
DECKED TO M T.HKEBOOWN.
Langtry's Now Dresses Worn In "Lady
larter”—No L clc < f Variety It the
Choice of Sj r nj Gowna- Foundation
bkirts Are Made off Better Mat-rial
Thin the Do as Is If O idities in
Boots ad S toes—A French Fashion
Just Adopted H re.
{Copyright, 1*91.)
Nkw York, April 4.—Parasols hare
sj rung into prominence in the shop windows,
and the early spring sun even spies one here
and there upon the drives in the park. They
have wakened into life and activity like
mushrooms. A few hours ago they were
almost unthought of as part of the season’s
necessary accompaniments. Now, the win
dows are filled with them, and every ono is
either buying or uiakiug one of these light,
airy absurdities which shall be, neverthe
less. sufficient to act as a protection from
the mildness of April suns.
Buy ng or making! 80 runs the text,for
it is one of the easiest things iu the world
to produce a lace parasol of the style fa
vored in the shop windows.
All that is reeded is some figured black
net. a parasol frame and a little taste and
ingenuity. The prettiest and newest para
sols for spring use have no lining. The net
is gathered very full at the top and falls
hence to the edge iu a deep flounce. The
laco is secured to the sticks which hold it iu
place and a ribbon bow conceals the shir
ring at top*.
Around the edge there is a deep fall of
lace from three to eight inches ule, which
may, if fancy diotates, lie caught up at in
tervals with sprays of flowers, real or arti
ficial.
White lace parasols are dotted bore and
there with bunches of violets, or whatover
flower chances to be the favorite of the
owner. A lively creation seen at Kiverside
during the flrst warm smile of the sun was
of white net put ou very full. From the
top of the parasol bung low sprays of arbu
tus, which were fastened in place so os to
give a careless effect.
The toque accompanying this was of
white laco and arbutus sprays with pink si.k
pou-pons. Auot er pirasol, as yet held in
reserve from public view, is of blaok net
with deep lace rutiles. Bunches of lilacs
dec irate the top and the inside. The parasol
is small, and is not designed to be closed.
On catling expeditious it is left in the car
riage. At home it is preserved in a case de
signed specially for this purpose.
The long girdles have been modified for
shopping mid every day expeditions into
deep belts which are girdle shaped. They
are narrow at back, but with a deep point
in front extending several inches above aud
below the waist line. Very stylish ones are
of black leather trimmed with silver or
steel. Still more fashionable are the all
gold, or all steel ones. Heavily gorgeous
and glistening are the cut silver ones which
gleam and sparkle like ton thousand suns as
the wearer passes tiy.
These belts, varying ns they do In style
and material, aro suitable for wear with all
costumes, l’earl bolts are seen upon even
ing dresses, cloth belts trimmed with nail
heads or ‘‘jewels” are part of a street outfit
and passementerie is stitched upon the belts
of gowns for every day wear, should the
owner prefer borne manufacture rather
than tho brilliant effects to be found in the
shops.
Since the long dress skirts became popu
lar it has been necessary the lining of dress
skirts quite ornamental, since each lift of
the skirt left it plainly visible. At cross
ings, on muddy walks, aud iu passing down
stairs, tbe skirt had to be lifted < r a single
wearing would render it unsight y.
Of course no woman of taste was willing
to display underneath her fashionable gown
a muslin lining wrinkled and shapeless, with
a simple braid and a blank baud of facing
upon it. On consultation with the modistes
it was decided that sdk should be chosen
for these foundation skirts, and that the
skirts should be prettily trimmed with
braid, cord or passoinenterie.
This method of making the foundation
skirts pretty has long been a French style,
though it has been but recently adopted
here.
Where tho skirt draperies can be fastened
on the waist, the foundation skirt is made
separate and is put on like a petticoat.
Hhould the skirt draperies be unattached to
the waist, both skirts are gathered in on
the same band.
A pretty blue costume, trimmed with
red, showed, when the skirt was lifted, a
silk foundation of blue trimmed with bands
of red. On each side of the red bauds was
a slender gold c rd.
Boots, shoei and slippors continue to take
on shapes that are more unique. The Juliet
is made in all shades of pretty colors to t e
worn with house dresies. Stockings of a
c ntrasting hue peep out at eacu side of the
low cut scallops.
Sirs. Langt'-y is delighting the world of
women by a magnificent exhibition of nice
dresses in her play of “Lady Barter.” There
are five changes, each one of which seems
prettier than the last.
In tbe flrst act the Lily wears a riding
habit. The bodice is of tbe ragulation coat
sbaped, black m color. Underneath there
is a waistcoat of horsecloth with large blue
spots. The skirt is beautifully fitted.
The horsecloth referred to is a kind of
goods new the season. It comes in
many shades, and is diversified by large
hairy spots on the same, or a contrasting
color. The spots are ofttimes of ecru upon
a black ground, giving a leopard-skin effect.
Again they are of white and brown upon a
blue grou and, or yet black and white upon a
deep red foundation. Tbe effect is showy
and generally good.
In “Lady Barter,” Mrs. Langtry lays
claim to wearing tbe largest sleeves ever
seen in a dress. The gown which bea s them
is a polonaise dress with a petticoat of pearl
gray satin, with scroll work done in gold
and fawn color. The polonaise is of fawn
silk trimmed lightly with gold passemente
rie. The sleeves are fashioned on the ieg of
mutton pattern, and arc immense above the
elbow.
The prettiest dre-s of all is said to be a
light blus crepe-do-chioe tea gown. On one
side of the skirt is a cascade of pale yellow,
slightly draped. Tne bodice is sufficiently
tight-fitting to show the countour of the
waist. Zouave forms of gold embroidery
outline the armholes; and a gold embroid
ered collar stands smartly upright.
Two pairs of sleeves accompany this
gown, producing, as it will, an appearance
so different as to suggest a change of go wns.
One pair of sleeves is of yellow material to
match the cascade on tho side of the skirt.
Tbe other is of blue crepe-de-chine. Both
pairs of sleeves are full and flowing.
A peach colored afternoon receDtion dress
is trimmed with gold embroidery us to the
waist. The skirt hangs full and perfectly
tilain. All of the gowns are simple but the
ball dress, whichi> of white crepe-de-chine,
is simpler than any of those described. Mock
gems, jeweled girdles and brilliant passe
menterie are put upon the gowns at will,
thus varyi g ti e possible monotony of
many appearances in theßame costume.
Some idea of the perfection of Mrs. Lang
try’s dressmakers can be obtained from the
fact that the dresses were al! ordered by
telegram from Worth and Felix,who under
stand Mrs. Langtry’s taete so thoroughly
that they require no instructions as to
color, material or style. By means of a
dummv of the proper size aud shape an
exact fit is secured.
Here is a toilette worn by Sara, the di
vine, in “Frou-Frou.” The gown is a loose
one of white China crepe with elbow
sleeves. The sleeves, neck and skirt have a
gold embroidery. Around the bottom of
the skirt is a deep knotted fringe, against
which is placed a deep band of ostrich tips.
A Louis XV. jacket is of spring green vel
vet with gold embroidery and foather trim
ming.
Kayton’s Oil of Life, the greatest lini—
moot in tbe world for all aches and pains.
— Ad,
A TENNIS Df.ES
Designed by Rsdfern.
In the spring a maiden's fancy.
Turns to thoughts of dresses gav.
In the spring, a young man's fancy.
Is of love, the poets say
Man and mad-n, gay and steady.
Both play tennis, as they run
Catch.ng hall with racquet ready.
Love one! Love two—to * game is won.
- - TV ufoiifr ll'roflrr,
New YoitK, April 4.—A groat deal is con
tinually being aid and written ah mt
woman's drees and as to the necessity of
change and reform in several direc ions,
and so far have the discussions and argu
ments beon carried that a number of well
known people—painters and others—have
been appealed to. to give their ideas of be
coming and artistic feminine apparel.
Nearly all of them condemn corsets—the
unnaturally compresed figures which too
frequently result from their use should we
say, abuse? And the high heeled, pointed
toe shoe is universally pronounced an
abomination and a distorter of the foot,
hut apart from these features, the present
modes are considered to be as unobjec
tional os anythlug modern can tie. And
among them all, the tailor-made gown
Com ■ in for general commendation as being
practical, trim and becoming and in every
way admirable.
Hero is a model prepared for a lady who
is making a tour of tne southern states.
It is of Indian silk in the new shade called
Egyptian red, which is really a peculiar
dull pink. The sldrt is of the same shade,
figured with black. It is made with a foot
pleating across the front, over wbiph falls
tans braided with black and gold. The
bodice, cut to match. Is trimmed with hlaclt
lace, dotted with gold, and the hat has
black ostrich feathers and pink flowers for
its decoration. „
In the other illustrations we see a new
tennis g >wn for which there is as great a
demand as ever. The skirt is of white flan
i el, simply stitohed above the hem. The
skirt is of scarlet and white striped silk,
with sleeves of the flannel above deep silk
cuffs. A Cleopatra girdle is worn with this
costume.
The Sunday Morning News
Will be found regularly on sale at the fol
lowing places:
fistill’s News Depot.
Connor’s News Stand.
E. J. Kieffer’s Drug Store, corner West
Broad and Stewart streets.
T. A. Mullryne & Co.’s Drug Store, Weet
Broad and Waldburg streets.
St. J. K. Yonge’s Drug Store, corner
Whitaker and Duffy streets.
McCauley & Co.’s Drug Store, corner
New Houston and Dray Pm streets.
W. A- Bishop’s Drug Store, oorner Hall
and Price streets.— Adv.
Artists’ Materials, all kinds, at M. T. Tay
lo’r 135 York street.—Ad.
Wedding Present Guide.
Following useful and ornamental articles
are extremely appropriate for wedding gifts:
Diamond Jewelry,
Sterling Silverware,
Fine Plated Silverware,
Onyx Clocks,
Silver Tea Sets,
Silver Teaspoons,
Silver Tablespoons,
lilchly Finished Cutlery,
Onyx Stands, Onyx Tables,
Gold and Silver Toilet Articles,
Ladies’ Fine Watches,
Chains aud Charms,
Diamond Rings, Gold Rings,
And myriads of other objects of art and
value at prices uuapproaebahle-elsewhere.
Sternbkko’s
— Ad. Art and Jewelry Palace.
Receiver's Bale.
The closing out sale of Davis Bros.’ entire
stock, regardless of cost, for cash, will be
continued a few week’s longer. Some rare
bargains in line Pjnos and Organs.
—Ad. T. F. Johnson, Receiver. ,
SHOES.
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OUR S3 OO
GENTS’ SHOES
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Have become very popular.
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We have also the largest line
of better Shoes in the city at
moderate prices.
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CLOTHING.
Tip
You all know the man whose trousers
look as though they had been made for
somebody else. He isn’t altogether to
blame for it. The probabilities are
that he spent as muoh for them as
would have purohassd a perfeot fit. The
chancre are that he couldn’t tell you
just what’s the matter with them—all
he knows is that there is something
wrong. It’s all a question of cut, and if
the cutter doesn’t know his business it’s
a moral certainty that he will spoil the
best material that ever left a fact iry.
Nothing but good-flltlng Clothing is al
lowed to go out from "THE FAMOUS."
If a garment don’t fit our tailors soon
alter It. Nine times out of ten the
Clothing from "THE FAMOUS" fits
better than the majority of Clothing
made to order. As for price, you can
buy two suits from us for the price you
have to pay for one made to order.
Don’t buy Boys’ and Children’s Clothe
ing before you look at aur stock. You
can save money at
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