Show IMPERIAL DRESSES Lovely Gowns Ordered by Her Majesty the Czarina EEDFERXS DESCRIPTION OF THEM The Fascinating Style of tho Piquant Pail iana of Dressing Their Hair Including In-cluding the Love Lock NEW YOKE Juno 31S9L Special correspondence cor-respondence of Tnc HEKALD Those of us who read the newspapers and reflect upon tho happenings of tho world would naturally imagine that a woman who is represented as living in abject terror of murderous designs de-signs against her husband and sons as the Empress of Russia is said to do would be totally indifferent to her personal appearance appear-ance except for such observances as would be absolutely necessary But even under the depression of grief misfortune or illness ill-ness the Empress shows a laudable desire to be an ornament to the stern Muscovite court Besides if noblesse oblige surely royalty is under still greater obligations and THOUGH TUE HEART BE HEAVY as lead the kingly pomp and parade must bo kept up and it is part of the Czarinas duty to set the fashions to her court and the nobility So every season the head of the house of Rcdfern is sent for and he starts off to St Petersburg where his royal patron awaits to view his choicest patterns and designs Ho has just returned from one of these trips and forwards to his New York branch sketches of the gowns selected by the Empress and which will not bo in her possession until after the readers of THE HERALD havo seen and criticised them in our pages 4 4h IY PJ tJF pj i fG r 14 7 < cM Jr2 r rfJ fJf Jd l 11ft X ifrti t r I Co J c tt ft1 f W J IjgIIgD forTH tmfressiJic5Sa I The first is a very elegant house gown of silver grey Bengaline elaborately braided cross the front with large I SILVER UIIBAT EAR The design narrows at the back where the skirt rests the regulation four inches on the j ground The bodico has pleated skirts bor dered with a straight row of silver braid j and is braided on the sleeves and bust wih I smaller ears The shirred yoke and shoulder puffs are of Spanish yellow chif I fan a much admired combination which was introduced late in the winter and found instant favor I tf 1tib i drdW t 4t4fq q W1Wf hi 2m The other gown which may be used for summer drives is ono of Rcdferns fashionable fashion-able foulards It is of a lovely hyacinth blue figured with shell pink and is trimmed with rare Russian lace procured straight from tho peasantry of Littlo Russia who are adepts with their needles Redfern brought back with him a quantity of this with the intention of using it in somo of his very chic Parisian silk coats Have you seen any of tho Russian paint lug on wood it was discovered by a Russian Rus-sian peasant who with tho aid of his sense executes the most wonderful landscapes and figure scenes on polished wood Tho secret of his coloring be keeps A IROFOUXD SECUET and he is rapidly growing a richman for a Russian The poor of Russia are still In a deplorable state it is little wonder they join the Fatal Nino and becomo Nihilists I spent last June in a lovely village among ho Valdai hills and while there my hostess host-ess I suppress her name had some haystacks stacks set on fire As she could not find tho offender she sent to tho superintendent of the police and had every person In the vll lage flogged as a smart little way to lay hands on the real offender No wonder sho was afraid to walk out in her large garden tardusk Tho Parisian style of dressing the hair is VERT PASCIXATIXO First tho hair is very evenly and carefully waved from the nape of the neck upwards with the new instrument recently brought out for the purpose and then twisted in tho centre of tho back of the heaa in a coil scarcely bigger than a crown piece The fringe is also waved and turned backward i 1 o I with the exception of one curl which is brought down low l on the forehead Some I I times this love lock is worn on the temple 1 I and has 11 very piquant effect I |