Show TRf DESJJOJVEN AND THE VI ftR The Present Trouble Will AM Ours Wrjile It Will Injure the Business of the Londoners Lon-doners and Parisians Tho SpanlbhAmerlcan war will maki II L vast difference in the receipts of tin hop of Bond street and tho Hue d la Ialx Already the London and ru rllon tradmen and trndomen are mUng up their volc In complaint Iv r ummr n grrnt hlrn 1 IIfopr ous merlran tk plnco to Iuropo nhere they si pnd their hard earned dollars dol-lars decking themselves In the finery ot the foreign milliners modistes and ul lors Every er tho cmze rnr 10rlu modo clothing 110 been Incrlng nn evldono Ielng eon In the prott that the Dlneley tax brought out n tax which manl 01 Ih Amrlcon trod people Insisted shou1 < l not bo removed A most 01 the Amorlcon mllllar and dressmakers are women thy will be especially Interested In the trade aspect as-pect of the war Th fashion of going abroa < l ror tho on or < < he Va tllr hy that leIuro cia In Amr lea whose great aim Is I to ape old world moles of living Fashionable American men aro just as anxious that It shall be known that ther rlothl aro ordorcd rrom 10010 u Amrlcan omn aro to rror to WOlth or any 01 hi 111011 Frenchmen There are Indeed many Iondon on < l rarllan firm ho dn1 almost excluIly on the Amlcan trade A season without an American Invasion as In the Chicago exposition jear la I a serious thing for the two great capitals ot Furope Yet In the almost Inconceivable Itosslblllt of a blockade of New York harbor by a Spanish fIt Americans would only bo ablu to cross the Atlantic sailing und ° r the British Hag and by tho Canadian route Thr I no rcon howevr to up pose that on this account American women wo-men will he less I well dressed than usual usu-al Most ot tnj great foreign milliners tUo an < l dresmaker ha 0 rIr sentatlves In this country who are quite able to no as good work aa the Parisian or Ion < 1on hous II the cutomr ould only be Induced to believe It American Ameri-can tradesmen competing with these peoplo old by elde will have a bltr chance than ever to win the hearts of the fashionable world away from Worth Itedfern and Vlrot When a woman wo-man has a chance to compare the hats and bonnets of tho American milliner with those of his next door neighbor a Frenchman she con see that the Amer can Is I If anything a little more skillful than the rorgnr ond morp ro080nabl as to charges The competition between foreign and domestic trade then be om on II < Iuol on Th wnr ther loro 1 III mon more bUln tor Amer leon trodewomen aod more work aod etter prices for American 1I0rltwnmen The demand for patriotic garmnu Is one thnt no rorelgn work are IIkel to satisfactorily meet Political stress and warfar Iwoy Inflllnco the fashions of both mn on < l womn The Frnch rOolll tlon found ladles willing to drape them vea In tho scanty cluso clinging gar mnt of the aoddosa of Liberty A nlmllltory dress was often affected 101 women during tho wars of Napoleon Hussar jtckets and soldiers kepis were worn by English girls when Wellington Welling-ton was a popular hero au ribald I famous red shirt was adopted by admlr Ing omanklnd In lIome and St Ietr burg In Paris nnd New York In London Lon-don and In Melbourne Military frogs and braids alnas appear like an epidemic epi-demic In wartimes American womn aro warlng military mili-tary buttons from soldiers coats Bet Into their ptrnvol handles mounted as hatpins or dangling from bracelets The vllt 01 tho oun znr ood czarina to Paris with the cementing of a Franco Russian alliance has dressed the civ Illzed feminine world for the last two ears In a garment fashioned Ilk a mnujlka blouse Who knows If with the freedom of Cuba American women may not largely large-ly adopt those graceful Cuban fashions I tho manUlla th romh and the slnglo lose behlnl the ear A solitary llower laced at the back of tho ear used to be the trump card ut tho heroine In novcl No man waR ovr known to r I slst It r 0 t rc rt I t t u power The great fortunes may remain In the country In which they were made Instead ot being used to pay the bachelor bach-elor debts of Impecunious Trench Cng llsh and Italian noblemen The rich American girl mnj nrnke up her mln to marry tho Amrlcl1n young mn D pilved of her presentation at the court 01 fit Jam hcr < mdon oaon and I her English country house visits she may have lelsurA to make the acquaintance ac-quaintance at Newport and at Lenox of hr own mar Iglblo countrymn Tho Amrlcan woman Ialon lor I luxury lor Jewelr flowers dress pictures pic-tures spiclal trains horses jachn manlon In tnwn on1 country ond all that they entail Is not a desirable sign In so young a country Lea Amerlcalns Bald a pessimistic Russian as he Innet dover d-over the tuff rail of n homeward bound liner and gazed his last at the soft wooded shores of New Jersey C est un peuple qui se perdra par le I luxe I Ihla Irom the Ip 01 an rrt Curopean who had lived long enough In WashIngton Wash-Ington and New York to know what ho was talking about was a sufficiently startling ultimatum I |