Show FASHIONS FANCIES The Latest Styles In Sleeves and Glove Fancy Ball Costumes Feathers make a ball dress airy Incandescent is a new color White bonnets try the complexion Da Vinci is an exquisite new violet tint The blouse bodice appears in corded cIvet t I o t 1 r t L 1 SLEEVES Ton EVENING WEAR The fleur do Us fad runs to dress goods Seventeenth century designs are In favor Dressing gowns are no longer wholly shapeless Ermine makes the foot of a dress look princely The military cape has the grip on feminine femi-nine fancy Pinegreen and swallowblue are new tints from Paris Elegant carriage costumes are seen a t afternoon teas A rich evening cloak is a combination of camels hair and velvet The Latest Bracelet When you see a nice girl wearing a bracelet from which hangs a jeweled heart you may know it means something as the old women say Some man surely has the little gold key that unlocks tho clasp some face not a womans is hidden insid the clasp locket and the girl doesnt take tho bracelot off at night It works beauti a Y vm fully usually unless the lovers quarrel and vow never to speak again Then if in tho interchange of letters and locks of hair that little key is forgotten what a picklo there Is One girl had to eo to all the jewelers jew-elers in town and couldnt get the bracelet unlocked Finally she shut her eyes and her teeth while a goldsmith broke the clasp In less than a week a young man was rushing rush-ing about with the broken links of that very bracelet to have it mended but it isnt known whether that particular girl or another an-other was to wear the treasure Marrying an Older Woman Whenever a young man marries a woman older than himself all tho gossips in the community begin to cackle Worshipers crane their necks when ho comes into church and he is stared out of countenance in the theatre His friends congratulate him in the usual way but look at him as though he were a freak Were it not for such ordeals as these the thing would happen hap-pen oftener than it does A Morgantown young man wants to know what the chief objections are to a man marrying a woman older than himself Aside from the notoriety it gives a man there are some rather forcible objections A woman matures earlier than a man reaches the prime of life earlier and becomes be-comes old earlier The difference is from five to ten years although some fix it at from three to seven However it depends very largely on the individual There would bo no sense of fitness in a I man of twenty marrying a woman of twentyfive nor would it be proper for a man of twenty to marry a girl of fifteen The average marrying age of men is from 1 twentyfive to thirty and of women from twenty to twentyfive These are generally gener-ally regarded as about the best ages at which to take such an important step I Some men are to all intents and purposes olaer at thirty than others are at forty I Such men may therefore marry women i of their own age or oven older without being outclassed Prematurely old or apparently ap-parently old men may marry really old womenand younglooking or young blooded men may marry really young women with comparative safety It is better however to allow the woman a few years margin because she will probably age faster than I the man The swagger young woman must have a shoulder chatelaine Straw embroidery on a silk ribbon is novel costly and perishable Raised stripes like cords appear on satin reps and peau de sole grounds v p r a SLEEVES row CLOTn DRESSES Lyons brocades for trains show gold or silver designs or merely outlines Violet ink is used by fashionables but black ink is never out of style A ropo of pearls looped on tho shoulder and falling on the arm enriches a dress Satinstriped taffeta is used in Paris for young ladies gowns and combinations All advices from Paris are of the same import that ribbons will be much used Among the novelties in shades are ripe wheat a pale straw and laiton brass color Black moire ribbon promises to betaken be-taken up by the fashionable modistes as a dress trimming Heavy bead fringe is often combined with fur for trimming velvet or plush robes also for street garments White tecks puffs and fourinhands in white or bright colors are worn for afternoon after-noon affairs or semidress A shot green and yellow gauze is beautifully beau-tifully combined with a train of green velvet vel-vet lined with yellow satin As the holiday season appears each year it is always noticed that in fancy work nothing can take the place of satin ribbons Rosettes of all sizes long bow and tiny ribbons run through lace heading are some of the fashionable trimmings appearing appear-ing abroad I The tiny animal heads used on boas have become so popular that they are pressed into service as buttons and hat decorations f16 t aYV f i t Tf D y r NEW DESIGNS IN GLOVJJ8 The boatshaped hat in black felt trimmed trim-med with a flat velvet bow and jet buckle in front and with three ostrich tips at the back is a popular stylo for young ladies Sloe vis are less high at tho shouldors but are made wider some sleeves have the fullness drawn down in plaits to tho elbow frum thence to the wrist being very close fitting fittingThe The richness and elegance of tho new dress material tends to make the plain styles still preferable as they show the material to better advantage than a more elaborate style would do The last gown made for Eugenie once the queen of fashions typifies the change in her position in life It is a dinner dress of plain blacK silk with only a slight trimming trim-ming of jet on tho corsage and skirt to relieve re-lieve its somber severity It is simplicity itself for an exEmpress who once spent 20000 a year on her costumes |