Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1881-08-24

As the season approaches It's hight.
ladies indulge moro and moro in u
variety OF costumes, whether they find
themselves inland among meadows and
tnrm-lands, or high up on hills in noun
tain regions. A number Of dainty and
becoming morning costumes are do
rigucur whore life presents anything
like variety, aud married ladies vie with
young ones in tho elaboration and ele-
garce Of their forenoon toilottes. Lace
trimmed white bGtiste, Swiss muslin,
percalc, null, and lawn arc sheer crisp
iayortcs for such wear aud made with
elbow sleeves or coat sleeves, with lace
insertion to tho hand, make dressy
styles for tho older people. Young
ladics' dresses have seldom, for morning,
the slashed or open sleeve, while this
constitutesa special feature OF tue morn
ing toilette OF q youthful matron or
stately dowagcr. Ono dress for this uso
which may be worn also to luncheon, is
made of the fnc batiatc edged with
beautiful batiste, or, as il is also called,
Paris embroidery. II has round skirt
of pleating OF double box folds across
the front From the left side five
diagonal stripes Of wide embroidery with
shirrs between, cover the front to the
waist. A wide trimmed rullle about q
foot deep terminates tho back below,
and panier loopings gather in above.
All the back runs on strings, and is
loosencd when it goes to be laundcred,
though where expensive laces and bands
of needle work are used in quantity,
washing and ironing are deferred as
long as possible. The waist Of this
batste costume presents straight
basque, cut V shape in the neck, with
rolling bands of needle.work turning
with square ends from tho throat, which
is well filled in with pleated frills Of
lace or ruching. The sleeves are cut
very short on the shoulders, fulled in at
the top, and have wide strip Of tho
batiste. work running down the outside
of the arm. Edging of the same ended
the sleeve short distance below tho
elbow, showing the arm half way up.
Jewelry is in bad taste for the first half
of the day, but narrow circlet of jet or
chased gold bracelet with double
finished heads that do not clasp, may
be Worn by married lady very appro-
priately. This dress is very simple in
effect where the Russian, Languedoc,
NIiracourt, Va!encicnnes, and other lace
is extensively used. so much dressiness
is evolved that it is almost impossible
to suppose that richer effect can be
secured for afternoon and evening.
Young ladies approach more demure
appearance by choosing ginghams, pom
gees, nuns yelling, biege, and grenadine,
made up in suits, also relieved by iabots
and falls of fleecy lace, but high.necked
and long.sleeved in the majority of
cases. The ginghams, where the pat
tern or stripe will allow, are frequently
self-trimmed. Porcelain blue with
slate.gray and pink makes up prettily,
with the dark lines fitted in bias for the
principal effect, wrought by concealing
the different shades in different portions
of the costume, alternately showing
gray and pink against bands of blue, or
vice versa. Irish guipure and Carrick-
macross lace are considered trifle heavy
for morning, but some ladies affect them,
and have the lines of the costume so
composed as to produce direct simplicity
and quiet. One example is found in a
heliotrope cashmere combined with
gross grain of the same hue. The skirt
is of the silk, entirely plain in front, and
completed by fine pleatings at the bot
tom. Basque of cashmere, and sleeves
of gross grain, short, with wide guipure
lace cuffs laid back to the elbow.
Around the neck, down the front of the
waist carried on to the skirt, and slant
ing from tho belt outward and down to
the edge, lies a wide robing of guipure
lace in unbroken line. II does not APP
pear again on the costume, and the
black is enriched by puffs and loops of
the cashmere in n soft mass. Another
fine foulard-blue ground and white
polka dot-has box-pleated founces
opening over inserted spaces of white
watercd silk with tunic of foulard knot
ted with white MORE bows A basque
with high collar and Carrickmacross
harmonizes with the tunic, which is
bordered with the same lace in circular
form in front In this costume lace lies
upon the white MORE. A large blue
satin pansol, faced with white satin, and
finished without fringe, with deep
band of the lace in snowy pattern, is
no mi al for cror1ap rrou anolnc with tbia