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Show FOR THE WOMEN. Don't experiment on dress goods. Try nod make a cottou gown. Make it not to ;i,n, lit it like silk, and if von succeed in getting soiiiothing nice then try the good material. (live your little girl a big doll. Give her new, guy remnants of silk, cloth, gauze and wool, and you give her the oest menus ol becoming a nice sewer. A new fad nmong the truly exclusive is to have gloves tiie color of the gown stitched with tho shade of the trimmings. trim-mings. Tho frocks worn by infants after they leave oil' long robes become each season sea-son more beautiful and more elaborate. Tho loose shape which falls from the yoke to the feet without any indication at the waist, unless a sash is worn, it made not ouly iu muslin, but in heliotrope helio-trope silk, for iiothini would now seem j to bo considered too elaborate for our young people. Niiiely-nine per cent of all the brides ! "go away" in gray gowns, which gives them away (j nicker than their new trunks. Wear a hair line stripe if you wish to look tall and slender. The favorite low shoo it a French kid made on an Oxford last, with pointed toes of patent leather. New garters made of crinkled rubber in gtiiu colors are clasped with silver or Romau gold buckels, each set in a rosette of ribbon no bigger than a blinker. Silver jars for marmalade., coudensed milk, honey or chow chow represent thu water jars of Cleopatra's days, In plate they were $1., aud estimates are furnished to the buyers who want alerting aler-ting metal. r('lli. LKIitDinr l.fna ran u. i 1 1 Ka ... I K fluttering ribbons. The skirt must giro round the feet, hence the retirement of tho mohair braid. One of the Knglish hoisery lirms refolds re-folds nil stockings purchased of them. Riicliing. plaiting and milling on street dresses only extend across the front aud side gores. The fan plates in the back have become tiresome, and for variety modistes are trying gathers. Terhaps the most attractive capo on the promenade is nn innovation reaching reach-ing below the waist, made of black cloth, nailed with jetted tacks the size jf a silver dime and lined with silk ns red as the llag of anarchy. A collar well wired reaches half way up the head aud thu f routs are invisably hooked. The nail heads completely cover the cloth, and in tho sunlight or, gaslight tho effect is dazling. . ' (ieta bright plaid dress of silk or rough Scotch goods) put velvet yoke in the waist and a narrow bint velvet rullln atiout the skirt, and you wiil have a vert- stvllsh olittlt Now that everything is being trimmed it may bo stated by way of suggestion that the most artistic toilets are monotone. mono-tone. A darker shade will trim a light fabric, and hlack may be combined with any color nut brown. Green is nature's color, and there is nothing, not even forget-me-not blue, or trying violet, vio-let, that will not go with it. |