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Show Rome Circle j THE RIGHTS OF WOMEN. The rights of women what are thev? The right to labor, love and prav. The right to weep with those who weep, The light to wake while others sleep. The right to dry the falling far, The right 1o quell the rising fear, The right to smooth the brow of care And whisper comfort in despair. The right to watch the parting breath, To sooth and cheer the bed of death. The right, when earthly hopes all fail, To point to that within the veil. The right the wanderer to reclaim. And win the lost from paths of shame, The right to comfort and to bless The widow and the fatherless. The right the little ones to guide -In simple faith to Him who died. With earnest love and gentle praise. To bless and cheer their youthful days. The right to live for those we love. And suffer much that love to prove. The right to brighten earthly homes AVith pleasant smiles and gentle tones. Are these thy rights? Then use them W1L Thy holy influence none can tell. If these are thine, why ask for more? Thou hast enough to answer for. Are the.se thy rights'? Then murmurnot That woman's mission is thy lot. Improve the talents God has given. Life's duty done Thy rest in Heaven. New Century. NEW MODES, FABRICS AND FORMS. (From the Chicago Sunday Tribune.) New York, May 10. From the innumerable innu-merable and chaotic sugegstions of the season, from the offerings of a multitude multi-tude of manufacturers, designers and dressmakers there always come a decision de-cision and election of just the right thing, which is most valuable and important im-portant to know. The right thing in dress is invariably a simple form an artistic, perfect, orderly, or-derly, refined, yet novel, simplicity., it is this that is shown on the fashion plate plate today, and is just as important im-portant to the economical woman as it is to her who has unlimited means to expend. . From the outlines, from the forms from the variations of trimming, the additions, the adjuncts, the acessories even the smaller pocketbook can determine deter-mine just what is newest, what is best and wise to buy in order to produce a fashionable, and, consequently, well-dressed well-dressed effect. . . Today to be fashionable is to be tasteruly attired. It does not man some unnecessary extreme of cut,' a blazoning of material, or an emphasis on expense, but it does mean a correct dainty, classic effect with just a touch of individuality or idiosyncrasy which makes it worth while to wear the gown from a picture standpoint. So the privilege to look at gowns that cost into the thousands would be worth a great deal to the average woman to be able to examine them, to handle them, to know them, to understand under-stand that every development is a fortune for-tune to the manufacturer. The privilege privi-lege of putting these artistic creations of Paquin, Doucet, Deulillet, Francis and Collot before our readers is uniique only because Paris has not yet become familiar with these gowns. America gets the best of everything, and gets it before other people. Even the French gowns are seen in America before Paris gets a view of them. The new things are made and sent over o : us because we are ready o pay for them j whenever they are good. French women have to wait or usually do wiat until their necessities require a new gown. Even the wealthiest do not have a new gown for every occasion, j AYe are more extravagant, and the ; French designer and style master is : particularly infatuated with extrava- gant people. Now let us see what all this story is about. It says, first, laces and embroideries, and, by the way, embroideries more than laces. The embroidered effects, the handiwork effects on silk, cotton, linen and even on wool, are presumably the most desirable ideas. If we study these new dresses we find that the new laces are embroidered j laces, and not mere thread work, j In the Paquin dress the material is of I an exquisite silk grenadine, heavily embroidered in roses and leaves in the Louis XA1 style, these embroideries rising ris-ing above the surface in heavy incrustation incrus-tation in rich and glosy surfaces. Here is a new th.ng for you to understand. It is the coming of embroidered and brocaded fabrics. The Collot dress", with its drawn ribbon rib-bon through worked eyelets in the skirt, has similar lacings on the sleeve, al-w-ays ribbons in rose color on a beautiful beau-tiful white gown. The embroidered openwork and lace collar and sleeve trimming is antique that brownish cast which gives an added richness to the body of the gown. The gown itself is of pineapple embroidered heavy silk chiffon. It is embroidery dotted here and there, and has thistles strewn over it in antique yet en nouveau pattern. The AATallenstein model is a linen gown, and has superb fine embroidered garnitures in most tasteful, yet effective effec-tive design. The black, red and wellow of this renaissance style on the linen ! gown give a wonderfully neat and rich effect. The Deuillet model has a coat Louis XA of striped taffeta silk. The collar col-lar Is of moss-green velvet, as is also the sash waist. The skirt is of greenish green-ish tan etamine and is made by the embroiderers, who fasten the forms with garlands of richly incrusted rose patterns in raised white or ecru embroidery. em-broidery. Yet how carefully and beau-, tifully the pattern is carried out in -s The great growth in popularity of linen fabrics is particularly to be commented com-mented upon, and altogether the entire effect and idea of the new gowns is diaphanous, tender, delicate, soft, and feminine. The introduction of embroideries, laces, insertions, and fine needlework is the most beautiful idea connected with the new mode. It shows a return to those principles of handicraft which are educative and which are productive product-ive of the really artistic effects in dress. You know there are those people peo-ple who carp at the idea of real art in costuming, and yet these same people will maunder over bad paintings, poor engravings, and worse literature. - The really artistic ' world understands that laces and embroideries are pictures in themselves. Don't believe, dear madame or carping carp-ing reader, that fashion is a matter of chance. No longer is that so. It's a matter of a combination of decision by the association of the best thought, study, taste and criticism that can be put into the subject by men of .mind and men of talent. A new thing is not put out just because it is new. It must be at once practical, tasteful, beautiful, beauti-ful, becoming and have intrinsic merit as an article of wear. In the old day. many trashy, worth- less, so-called fashionable forms were follawed blindly because there was a leadership which commanded that such things be worn irrespective of their utility. When today we hear of the reintroduction of hoopskirts. bustles, crinolines and other unnecessary adjuncts ad-juncts and materials, we are immediately immedi-ately ready to say that such things will never be worn again. AA'e live in an era of common sense even though it be seemingly an era of extravagance. The freakish, the bizarre, the unnecessary, unnec-essary, the grotesque will never have a hearing again so far as womankind is concerned. In the first place, they would never again be urged because the men who make the fashions are too wise and too sensible, as well as too intelligent and broad, to ever think "unthinkable" styles. But again our fairy story of ribbons, and mousselines, and laces, and chiffons, chif-fons, and butcher linens, and piques, and batistes, ad the other things which go to make up the summer season. sea-son. There will be more and more laces for whole dresses, whole lace robes, whole lace wraps, waists, skirts, and a multitude of new affairs, lace trimmed trim-med and lace appliqued, which will command the attention of the French-ily French-ily dressed woman who particularly delights in rich, artistic, and expensive materials. Her sister of the slimmer pocketbook will see fit to confine her' attention to less extravagant fabrics: sometimes the fine French black laces are found to be inexpensive, though high in price. Inexpensive because they wear so well and give such an amount of use. , Economy is, after all. a great factor, and the delicate lawns, chiffons, linens and batistes with printed figures are decidedly inexpensive, inexpen-sive, because they wear so well, are so beautiful, satisfactory for so many purposes, and give such excellent long service with even the average careful wear. MARIE TOURS. |