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Show j I Of Interest to Eadp Headers . - . . j '; EVENING DRESS OF FIGURED TAFFETA, WITH CHIFFON AND BLACK VELVET. . : Gser Tasbions t ELBOW SLEEVES "IN"" AGAIN. ; Little House Coats of Pique are "Worn ! Where the Dress is for the Street ; Pique Will beused for Tunes 1 Rose, Cinder, Khaki, Josephine and Wedgwood Elues Are Among the Best Colors Turkish Belt is Now the Thing. (Special Intermountain Catholic.) Paris. March 21. The house dress is to the French woman such an impor tant jiart of her wardrobe that she ' cheerfully devotes whole days of Lent to its i .'tanning. With all patience she stands erect while the soft fabrics are lilted to her. and draped upon her. and ' again she takes her place in front of 1 the designer while the ribbons are placed and the final touches added to the dress. The temptation to say that this year the dresses are prettier than ever before be-fore can hardly be resisted, specially as the voluble little French dressmaker declares de-clares that this is so. In a quick jabber of French, with a word of English thrown in which is considered very : Fmart in Paris she proves her words by holding up before your eyes whole J breadths of lace cloth, yards and yards of skillfullv embroidered Oriental silk. quantities of the most delicately tucked I poods, and. more than ail, and in j greater profusion, piece after piece of j i the figured stuffs, which are a revival ! of the Romney period. j I The Ions low shoulder is struggling yoke upon the ton of the sleeve to make the shoulder look low is still seen, but it is not quite as popular as it was. It was cabled over to the United States early in the season; and, as an item of positive fashion now comes back again, that there should be no yoke waists this season. Investigation, j however, proved this to be without I foundation. In ten gowns ordered by I Miss May Goelet. that heiress who must i make a brilliant match this season, j there was not one without a yoke. Several Sev-eral were of mousseline de chine, a j very s.ilky fabric of white through j which ran stripes of silk and satin in j different colors. The pastel shades hold "their own so well that women of pale types are in j despair. Your correspondent saw the i ambassador from one of the largest j nations in Europe seated at church last ! Sunday with, his three daughters rang-j rang-j intr in a row along-side him. All were supremely blonde and all were dressed I precisely alike in blue gray, with silk ; yoke and Robespierre cuffs of pastel I silk. How paJe and insipid those girls : looked and how interesting their blonde types would have appeared if. instead of those pale colors, they had chosen Vandyke brown or Wedgwood blue. All are wearinc khaki color now. and like absent-minded beegars some of them 'ook in that sickly dust color, unrelieved unreliev-ed by even a touch of black. France has no love for England just I now. as far as the courtiers go. for Ens-land is ordering black and khaki color and little else; while France runs riot In a revel of violet and blue, indigo and orange, vellow and trreen, and all lho other prismatic colors' and their variations. i :- ) THE II Of" EC OAT MATCHES THE SKIRT AND IS WORN OVER A VEST 1 OF PLAIN GOODS. A LITTLE SUMMER HOUSECOAT WITH TURKISH GIRDLE. into evidence as shown by the waists, which are cut so low upon the shoulder shoul-der as to almost bind the arm. The pessimist sees in this a return to the dayi of restricted dress, w hen a woman could neither lift ber arms, nor raise I her hand above her belt. But the mod istes laugh merrily at these fears and explain that the shoulder is cut in such a way that it will be as free as when ! the shoulder seam was placed near the I collar band. DEEP YOKES. The fashion of sewing a piece of the A NEW BLUE. Josephine blue is a new shade, so inamd in honor of that dearly beloved French oueen, whose graces are to be so fittingly commemorated during the now nearly approaching exposition. Josephine Jo-sephine blue is exactly the color of the darkest blue ;n a forget-me-not It is a plain, uncompromising blue such as ! thej wore in the days before the pri-r.iry pri-r.iry dye stuffs were tampered with. It is found in the new mousseline de chine, and in charmingly made up flounces of striped white and blue, each flounce laid over with lace put on in big curves. Yokes of the most brilliant contrast are worn. With the Josephine blue you will see a yoke of white silk striped with cherry satin: and. dividing the yoke from the waist, is a fctrngTrtnir Castellane fischu of line lace. The' fischu is half a yard wide and is draped; .' ' from shoulder to shoulder in such a way that it falls prettily from the yoke well over the bust. The Countess Castellane, who is one of the most discussed women in society so-ciety today, is said to have all her clothes selected for her by the count. During her recent visit to America the society papers dwelt upon her changed mien, her sprightly aspect, and her exquisitely ex-quisitely "fit" appearance. To the count, the modistes say, belongs all the credit, for he plans the gowns, for his little wife, sees them fitted upon her. rehearses her in them, and does not give the nod of approval from his blonde head until perfection is reached. The countess wears nearly always a little fischu of lace draped across her waist in such a way as to outline a yoke. If the dress be without a yoke or a necklace the lischu is still there. Bernhardt, who is the great leader of fashions, dresses just the other way. The Bernhardt fischu is quite different, though it is a new one of the season. Jt, too, is made of lace, but the lace is put on the bust line and falls in two long straight tabs to the hem of the gown. A small round knot at the bust, or a pin, holds it fast. A fischu of this kind expresses varying shades of emotion emo-tion with Bernhardt, from the minute she wraps her hands cordially in it to the time when, in disdain, she sweeps from the room with ends Hying, in one of those fine temipers of hers. HOUSE COATS. House coats are novel and varied. They come in all lengths and sizes, from the little coat no longer than the first rib to the long sweeping garment which trails the; floor. A handsome house coat worn by one of the leaders of the Foubourg St. Germain was of banana colored satinette cloth, which is a cashmere heavily plated with satin. It was open on each side, slashed from the hem to the arm pit,, and bordered j all the way round with a tuckling of shaded red ribbon. The shirt waists will be worn with tiny house cbats of pique trimmed with insertion, which is laid on in a very broad band around the entire coat. A Turkish girdle, which is no more than a very wide crush of silk, is brought around the waist and is fastened in-vicibly in-vicibly in such a way that the girdle reached from below the belt line to I a point where it disappears under the I house coat. The finish for a Turkish girdle is a very thick ribbon ornament, made by shirring ribbon on each edge, and fastening it in a long straight puff ; WE ARE GETTING SLOWLY BACJk TO THE RUFFLED SHOULDERS, SHOUL-DERS, j i. to the belt. The rilwbn ornament terminates ter-minates in two ends finished with gold fringe. They are already making gowns for Newport, and such quaintly pretty ones. Mrs. John Jacob Astor, who has been at a health resort with her little son, bought one not long ago made almost al-most entirely of tucking. The material j hoc mr,An onlnrorl Sllicco la in tllflru I no larger than a cord. The s'kirt, which was rather full, was made entirely of this tucking; narrow frilllngs of white mousseline extended down the skirt from the belt nearly to the hem, dividing di-viding it off into sections or panels. A ruffle of the mousseline finished the skirt, while another ruffle was set about three inches above it. Elbow sleeves are "in" again, and are seen in the summer models, both for the house and summer resort. Of course this means a bangle and bracelet summer, sum-mer, for where is there a woman who will neglect such an opportunity? Ghays are very popular. You see them in the street as well as in the handH of the coutureres. who are making mak-ing them up into charming little summer sum-mer gowns. Cinder, zinc and rose gray are three shades much noticed; then there is ahimine. which holds its own, and Quaker, which is hard to equal in any of the new tones. Pique wil ldo its share in summer fashions. Pique in full blown rose pink is made up in a tunic, pointed around the foot, while from under the tunic, lvinir all around the feet, comes a froth of tiny ruffles in cider gray taffeta and white lace. MOVE FORWARD WITH THE WORLD. BY ELLA WHEELER WILCOX. As we paas along through life we must learn to adapt ourselves to the changes which are always occurring in the world. The world will not adapt itself to us, no matter how important we may feel ourselves to be, and if we remain stationary sta-tionary in our ideas we will become useless fosilsi Religious forms, social conventions, political and domestic matters are .always .al-ways undergoing changes. Principles are endearing, but habits and manners are as variable as the fashions in dress; and the people who insist on one unvarying form of worship wor-ship or one unalterable method of recreation, rec-reation, and Occry all others as wicked or indecent, are making themselves as ridiculous as those who keep to the cut of Pkirt or trousers worn by our grandparents. grand-parents. There are always) a surprising number num-ber of inhabitants, in every village or town who set themselves against the march of progress. The railroad, the telegraph, the cable all were met by a protest from the people. In spite of the fact that they were invariably in-variably overruled, the same protes't arose and yet arisea against the trolley, trol-ley, the cable car and the bicycle. Had the fossil mind ruled the world, we would still travel by the stagecoach stage-coach and the sailing vessel. Originality of thought would be smothered at birth and the vehicle of reform would be wrecked in the ruts of prejudice, could these people dominate circumstances. But fortunately the world moves with resistless- force. The march of progress is onward. Nothing and no one can stay it. Science and Seership unite to broaden religion and free it from the narrow borders of orthodoxy. The human mind dares think for itself, dares discover new truths, and to make them known. Invention lifts the burdens of labor and broadens the avenues of pleasure. The man who will not adapt himself to all theses changes must expect to be left like aetr.anded boat, high and dry, on the shores of time, while the great ships come and go and the tides rise and fall. He will be even of less use in the world than the shrunken boat, for he cannot serve as drift-wood nor as a picturesque wreck. About the most unattractive being on MRS. GEORGE DEWEY IS ONE OF . THE FINEST NEEDLEWOMEN I OF WASHINGTON. earth is the aging man or woman, battling bat-tling against the resistless tide of change which is forever shaping new conditions, as the waters of the sea forever shape new shores. A DARK CORNER. And a Suggestion For Making it Light, Attractive and Ornamental. A home for woman, the owner of one of New York's tiniest Hats has a dark corner in her parlor. It is utterly and uncompromisingly dark, for the room has only one window, while the aides and back are without a ray except the light which - creeps along the narrow apartment, and is inadequate to the lighting of the room. Taking a tall, narro,w mirror, without with-out bevel or frame other than a rim of wood, she eat it across the darkest corner in such a way that it nearly reached the ceiling. Below the mirror She put in a curiously shaped piece of furniture, which could, if cushioned, answer for a couch. As its top lifted, it would do for storage. On each side of the mirror were set book shelves and small cabinets, and in front of it, in the middle of the floor, lay a square rug. A very neat Venetian lamp was hung from the ceiling, just in front of the mirror, and when the lamp was lighted reflected from the mirror a double ray oflicrht which swept over the room. The mirror is set in uch a way that whatever light comes from the window falls upon it, so that the room looks much lighter and pleasanter than it did before the clever woman put time, ingenuity, in-genuity, handiwork and a little money upon the ornamenting of it. FRANCES TAYLOR |