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Show mesh -with a "bordered pattern in email raised dots or jet which runs around the edge of the veil. The most fashionable veiling is the fishnet!, fish-net!, with raised chenille dota either in single or grouped dots. Tho mesh is in many instances almost as fine as a cobweb, tj that it scarcely shows on the face. Fine tulle, with composition dots in imitation imita-tion of jet, are in vogue, and also net embroidered em-broidered with extremely tine jet beads. The jetted veilings are injurious to tha eyes. There is an infinite variety in colored veilings wich come in colors to match the suits. Fancy veiling's are in red, blue, etc., worked In tinsel figures or odds.' Chiffon veiling is new, and is usually seen in white and pale colors; it is softening and becoming to the face, and is superseding grenadine. ' After Old Shoes. "Have you any second-hand shoes?" inquired in-quired a young lady at a leading Louisville shoe store. - " "We don't eell second-hand shoes, miss," said the clerk, shortly. "No, of course not. I didn't want to buy them, but if you happened to have any that had been left here by persons buying new ones, you know," she suggested mysteriously. "Oh, certainly. Here are a pair of buttoned but-toned boots kid but quite worn out. Would they do?" "What number are they?" "Twos small twos at that. And here is one bronze slipper thirteen, missus size." "But thirteen is an unlucky number," she said anxiously. "Not in shoes, miss. And here is a No. 1 ; not badly worn." "I will take them all. Thank you so much," and she proffered the clerk payment for the refuse shoes. "There is no charge," he said, as lie handed them to her in a neat package. "I suppose you want them for a hanging basket?" "Mercy.no! My sister is to be married this evening, and we want them to thiow I after the carriage. Our own are all new and it must be an old shoe always to bring luck." "I see," said the clerk, and he gazed dreamily after her retreating form, muttering mutter-ing in a vivid monotone: "And the family shoes range from six to eight. I see." COSTUMES FOR THE THEATER. Various Styles Adopted by Fashionable Ladies. The theater costume should be like all other attire, selected with an eye to the needs of the occasion, and with a realizing ense of the appropriateness to the time and the place. Elaborately trimmed, fanciful kirts are neither iu good taste nor are they sensible for such places. Profuse decorations decora-tions of beads and lace are eminently un-suited un-suited for such wear. One scarcely feels comfortable to find herself, as did a lady ia , one of the leading theaters not long since, . o entangled by the strand of beads on her skirt-trimming that she was obliged to borrow bor-row a pocket-knife and be cut loose, to the detriment not only of her wearing apparel, but of her own temper and that of the many whose progress was delayed by her folly. Theater waists have come to be almost a distinct feature of dressmaking. The skirt may be almost any good material, plainly made and with just as littlo trimming as will make it handsomely stylish. From the waist up there may be any amount of dressiness, so the wearer does uot appear over-done or fussy. It cannot be too strongly impressed upon the minds of women that fussiuess is the most fatal of all mistakes in dress. Too much rigging and the quality which is known as style are wholly incompatible, and one must choose which of these two one is to prefer. The bonnet should be small and Inconspicuous. It may be very stylish and .. V . . v. . .... I iT . . . , 1. V. ...... dressy, but the general effect is much better when it is of dark rich colors. The theater wrap may be anything from a filain opera cloak to an ordinary ulster. The utter is, however, all things considered, much the more desirable article for theater purposes. In an opera box an elegant cloak is not out of place, but in the close, narrow seats of a theater it is really out of its element. ele-ment. The plain cloak has advantages in that it may, carefully folded, serve as a seat for a diminutive woman, and it covers all elaborate waist garniture, and with the handsome hand-some dark bonnet one can go through the street or in a car without occasional remark. For persons who do not own their own carriage car-riage costuming for the theater is the very worst thing imaginable, and indeed it has come to be a recognized usage among the wealthy that plain dressing for all out-of-door occasions is by far the most sensible. POPULAR TtlLING. The floods Used and the Form of Draping " " " ';-'( 1 Now In Vojrue. s Cron6tadt veiling has a wide diamond-' diamond-' shaped mesh strewn sparsely with medium sized dots. New soffie netts are embroidered with small jet cr steel beads. u Odessa nett is a rather coarse Russian style, rather too thick to be very becoming. Velours Russe is a grenadine veiling with rather wide apart stripes, simulating colors. Bordered veilings in black and colors with a fine real lace mesh strewn with small flowers or dots are not new, but will be extensively ex-tensively used. Columbian veiling shows a rather fine v. r |