The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1878-02-21

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such a language could be learned, and
how useful if practiced by civilized ma
tions amongst those who nave neither
the time nor ability to learn to speak a
foreign tongue. Cor. Chicago Tribune.
Spring Goods.
The earliest importations of spring
goods have been received, and, the
rough-threaded effects popularly known
during the winter are repeated in ma
terials for spring and summer dress
es. The taste for grave colors, such
as gray and brown, seems to have died
out, as these colors are found only in
the beiges that are made of the natu-
raj color of the fleece of which they
are woven. Ecru tints are not so
generally seen as they formerly were,
yet they have not disappeared; they
form occasionally the background for
displaying brilliant colors, and the
cream, ivory, tilleul, old gold and man.
DARN yellow combine with other snowy
hues in the mingling designs of the
new fabrics. Black is seen in abun-
dance as a solid color, as background
for high colors, and most frequently
in new combinations with white and
gray that are very effective, and eau
not fail to revive the taste for these
colors. The moss-green shades and
dark myrtle-gr green are abundantly used
again, and indeed find their way into
almost every mixture of colors. India
red-a dull, dark shade-and dark in
digo blue enter into a number of the
| combinations. There is also great
deal of ivory white mixed with the
darkest green and deep tints of other
colors; this ivory tint without yellow
ish hues, it is said, will be more stylish
than the deeper cream and tilleul
shades. The colors of India shawls and
of Persian rugs, with something of
their irregular underlined patterns, will
be found in the sheerest fabrics for sum-
mer dresses.
Woolen stuffs of light weight for
early spring wear are very soft and
flexible, though they have rough
threads raised above the surface in long
horizontal dashes, or as if tied in knots,
or else boucle in small round rings,
curls, or frizzed ends. Others have
Grape effects, and these are found
among the incest goods, upon which
are large downy-looking spots like the
polka dots formerly seen. Boucle noir
is fnely-woven black wool with thick
tufts of color all over it. Pale blue
grounds have rough threads of olive
green; cream-colored grounds have
knots of India red and of sky blue
Bourettes of two shades of moss green
have blue and rose threads, while pale
gray grounds are frightened with scar
let and olive green. There are also
many darker grounds with the rough
threads of brilliant hues forming small
cross-bars; in these two shades of blue
and of red are mostly used; seal brown
is barred with red; moss green and
brown are together, gray is with buff,
and buff with blue. The best shades
probably are two tints of blue together,
and black with white.
The silk and wool mixtures for over
dresses are what merchants consider
genuine bourettes, though the name
has become common to any material
with rough threads. One very rich
mixture Of silk and wool is called loph-
ophore velvet, as the silk cast upon the
surface has as long pile as velvet, and
the colors are as varied and rich as
those in the feathers of the lophophore.
Another, called Lyons plush, has
plush-like stripes Of silk on wooden
ground, such as pale blue alternating
with cream color, or myrtle green with
rose or gold. There are also many
damask-figured silk and wool goods to
be made up as over-dresses above plain
silk of the darkest shade in the MKT
ure.
Among the novelties are fringed
stripes of silk floss so firmly woven in
that it is impossible to pull them out,
alternating with narrow stripes of
wool of the same color or in marked
contrast. Another novelty is the
pointille stuffs with square dots of color
smaller than pinhead checks; indeed,
consisting of single thread of color
sunken between raised white threads.
These are largely imported, are fine,
and represent delicate combinations of
color. The tiny armure designs are
found in very fine goods of all qualities
those of pure wool as well as mixed
silk and wool.
For the million are mixtures of cot
ton and wool woven loosely to make
them soft, showing all the colors and
patterns of the nicer goods. Three or
four coiors are combined in each, and
there is an attempt to carry out more
marked designs of stripes and bars
than are found in rich fabrics. These
will be sold for fifty cents yard, and
are of single width. More useful than
these are the modest beiges, either
plainly woven or twilled; these are inn
ported in lighter shades of gray and
brown than have been used hitherto.
The fancy for rough-threaded mate
rials reaches its height in the new gren-
adines, as these knotted, twisted,
thickened threads are seen on grena-
dimes of every design-in the Mexi-
caine squares, in the plain canvas
meshes, in brocades, in stripes, and in
plaids. There are many black grena-
dimes with arrnure grounds and with
crape-like effects, but those with the
bourette patterns are most largely i'm
ported. The striped grenadines have
first moss stripe, then stripe of
open lace-like figures. The brocaded
designs are small. in diamond or loz-
enge shape, or else in flower sprays.
The colored grenadines show all the
rich India colors as quantity combined
as those already described for woolen
goods It is scarcely possible to find
any Of single colors, but there are to
be later importations of the rough
threaded grenadines in dark myrtle
green, indigo-blue, moss, seal-brown
and stcel-gray. These will be made up,
rs the Mexicaines of last year were,
over silks Of the same shade.
Cashmeres are staple goods, and are
largely imported. They come in the
stylish dark colors, and in pale tints for
children's dresses. There are also many
armure and basket-woven goods made
OF the finest cashmere woods; the quad
rille and honcy-comb cloths are also
among these.
softfnished percales, csmbrics and