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Show FIVE O'CLOCK TEA. (Questions as to what the spring color will be cannot yet be answered. Garnets are used extensively in Paris to trim dinner and ball gowns. The wise woman now buyeth her expensive ex-pensive furs cheap for next season. It is said tho fashionable spring bonnet bon-net will go back to tho small si.e. Rose-tinted kid gloves for women are the newest, iu Pans for evening wear. Colored linen shirts for men promise to add somewhat to summer brilliancy. Tho street skirt worn by women of tho day is exciting a deal of criticism. China, glass and silver have teen tho chief features of fashionable dinner parties. 'Tortoise shell brushes and other toilet articles ate crowding out the silver sil-ver ones. There is every indication that the pulled sleeves are boiug rapidly done to death. Jewel studded fans are seen among the newest imported. They are pretty and showy and a trille theatrical. With so many varieties of collars in tho market, some men are perplexed to know which is reallv the correct one. Tho girl of tho period now has her special cabinet tilled with cotillion favors fa-vors she accumulated the past senson. Tnrletans, India linens, and dotted Sis muslins will be conspicuous among the dress materials for summer. New and beautiful effects are seen in dimi ties, nainsooks and lawns, which will bo leading summer dress goods. Whatever some women may predict and say train skirts for the street will never be a popular or permanent fashion. fash-ion. Now on the eve of the tailors selling at auction their bad accounts, it is said the Prince Albert frock coat is to return. re-turn. Chinese and Japanese trinkets for cotillion favors were never so generally and lavishly used as during the past season. About the last of March the new derby hat will be due to appear. There will not bo auy marked change of shape. Creased trousers have about had their day. ll was a fashion to keep up with which men resorted to rediculous I methods No fashionable dining room is complete com-plete without a baiKuet lamp, or drawing draw-ing room or library without its tall ! piano lamp. The modern canary bird cage is j handsome and expensive enough, although al-though not 8u!lieiently largo, to contain a peacock. lllaek ties with evening dress appear to bo increasing in favor. Compared with white ties, the black is by far the most economical. |