The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1879-07-04

sisters.
Small boys wear long, dark -colorsd
stockings. whether dressed in white or
colors.
American bridesmaids are begin
ming to adopt the English fashion Of
wearing hats or bonncts.
For very young ladies and for
misses, suits Of French bunting are
trimmed with polka-dotted satin.
Long mitts Of pale ecru tint are
fashionably worn with black and tinted
white a. well e. with ecru costumes.
Charming summer toilets are OF
white barege, trimmed with quantities
OF finely plated Breton lace and white
satin bows.
The drapcries of plain skirts are
made short, en- paDier and very bouf-
FAINT around the hips, with very short
apron or none at all.
"A new skirt-trimming consists OF
square slashed-up edges, under which
are placed ruflles Of plated lace show
ing between the slashes.
A pretty belt is formed by . wide
watered ribbon passed around the waist,
with one very long fat loop and two
longer ends !. ing directly down The
front.
-Gabrielles lstening in front with
double row buttons, and trimmed
with hounces the bottom, are worn
by both boys and girls under 8 years Of
-Changeable ribbons, blue with
gold, green with cream color, rose with
blue, and pale peacock and pink with
gendarme blue, are among late milf
merry novelties.
Grape roses with dew drops sprink-
led upon them are the prettiest flowers
imported this season. Clusters Of nine
of them in different shades Of red, are
worn on some OF the bonnets. This
makes woman perambulating gar
den Of roses while under one Of these
creative desings.
1t Is not the most fashionable lad,
who is the best dressed, but the one
who, wearing nothing onfre, Is dressed
quietly, her clothes Of well selected ,1cb
material, and every color harmoniEing.
and not as the Frenchman forcibly ex-
presses it, 'seach garment swearing 81
each other"
Old fashioned scarfs, like those
worn about Is years ago, are again In
use. They are now made of black satin,
trimmed with fringe or lace. Score
de-pigeon" silks are again in vogue.
Whole toilets have not yet been made Of
this colored silk, but the first step has
been taken by making out Of this ma
terial some very pretty bonnets- One
Of these consists OF q small capote COM
posed Of q diadem Of plated garnet
colored velvet, with the drapery Of
gore-de- pigeon" silk, and large bow
forming the crown Of the bonnet. The
ribbon Of this bow Is taken down to
form the strings. On the left side Is .
bunch Of flowers. and toward the middle
Is q small garland Of fine flowers In the
shades Of the taffetas.
lit Is . constant problem how to
make summer dressing pretty and
fresh. vet economical, repre-
sentative Of the newest ideas,
vet not too difficult for those
who can neither devote all their time
nor their energies TO the keeping 1t In
condition. The solution usually adopt
ed is to avoid al the delicate, light-col-
ored materials, and fall back on such
goods as will not need wash, or rather
will not " show" dirt. This IL why
black grenadine and summer silks have
been 30 popular; both are safe and du-
rable, and can be worn upon the ma
jority Of occasions. But the light mus
iins-the linen lawns, which used to Be
90 much worn in summer, are now
scarcely seen at all; and the new cot
ton goods, the soft finished cambrics,
the lovely chintz satines, the mummy
cloths, the real Scotch ginghams, the
fine batistes in delicate colorings, arc
only used BY the rich, and not at all BY
the class who ought 70 enjoy them.
The question may be asked, why are
not light fabrics used now as they were
20 or Is wears ago, and the answer Ii
simple: then there were few complica.
tons tn the making Of dresses, they
were much more easily laundried, and
among Tuiddle-class people they were
more apt to be done ut home, and BY
some member Of family rather than
! an ordinary domestic or washerwoman
Il is almost impossible to maze one
of these uncultivated specimens IN.
derstand that starch is undesirable; tha'
making . dress glossy in streaks BY
ironing IL on the upper, or what Is call
ed the " right" side, ruins It for wear
and that the perfection Of washing, o.
"doing up" dresses is to have them lool
As little stiff, IS little "done up" ant
as nearly like new as possible. Thi
can only be effected BY washing then
in strained brau water, and ironing
, them on the under side, the bran serving
the purpose Of both soap and starch
, This process Is neither complicated
difficult, nor disagreeable, and on
would think that young girls who hk
pretty dresses, and plenty Of thems an
Z TO whom it is matter Of Importance =