Show A Fresh Empire Craze There Is to be a fresh Empire craze this spring Mile Rejane at the Paris vaudeville is setting the fashion for poke bonnets and short walsted gowns I have just seen some charming new hats bonnets and toques models from Vlrot Bonnets are a trifle wider than last seasons shapes In the way of ornaments orna-ments there is nothing newer than spangled span-gled wings spangles Indeed seem likely to have as > long a run as the mock Rem trimming of a year or two ago The most striking or rather the most startling bonnet in the collection of models I have just inspected was the peacock bonnet It was flanked on either side with about half a dozen wings of varying sizes sprangled with green sequins and adorned In front with a let peacock Flowers are being worn Toques have perhaps been more popular than bonnets lately Those with TamoShanter crowns are the most chic A saucy black velvet TamoShanter with which 1 was smitten was trimmed on one side with a couple of black tips and a paste buckle One finds paste buckles and paste brooches on nearly everything which comes from Paris the French are rather apt to overdo their taste in this direction The smartest veils have white spots with narrow lace borders to match Let me tell you about a lovely gown for Monte Carlo made of cr am serge I with a tight fitting jacket ending at the waist and waistcoat of accordion pleated pale blue crepe de chine The jacket was double breasted adorned with silk lapels and the plain skirt had a pocket on each hip We seem to have made a set of draperies Skirts are plain and likely to be for some time to come Sleeves are becoming more elaborate instead in-stead of being allowed to droop they are i now caught up here and there with ribbons rib-bons The chief thing however that one notice about the new dresses is the extremely ex-tremely chokylooking collar with which they are adorned Several gowns I have seen lately had a stock sort of arrangement arrange-ment tied In a big bow under the chin By the way the very newest thing in they the-y of neckwear is a sash it cant be called a scarf of black moire antique about eight Inches In width and a yard and a half long trimmed at the edge with cream lace It is tied In T big careless care-less bow under the chin Another novelty for the neck Is a collarette formed of sable cream satin and lace This sash is very becoming to a stout figue it tones down embonpoint I have seen it In JMO fashion plates They knew something in isle The newest novelties in ladies smoking jackets are of Japanese silk lined with silk of a contrasting color and beautifully beauti-fully hand embroidered on the sleeves and down the front They arc of the same shape as those worn by the sterner sex and fasten with cord and buttons Pass Mall Budget |