The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-02-10
FOR THE FAIR SEX.
Spring and summer aoods.

Spring and Summer GoOds,
The first importations of spring goods |
are not the light woolen fabrics that |
will he worn in the earliest spring days, |
bat rather the wash goods that are made |
into house and street dresses to be worn |
in the warmest weather. Two features |
are noticed in the new fabrics-6rst, that |
figured goods in artistic and, indeed,
decorative designs are most used, and |
are usually accompanied by plain fab |
ric for combining with them; and Sec
ondly, the absence of all dressing in the |
fine cottons, which should give laun- |
dresses to understand that all st rch |
must be omitted when doing them up
The cotton satteens are first shown
and rank highest IN price of these new ]
fabrics, as they are marked fifty cents a
yard. These have closely-twilled sur
faces with ulster like satin; the
grounds are dark, either plum, brown,
blue or the deepest garnet, and these are
strewn with rather large figures of some
graceful flower, such as heur. de. lis,
Iuchsias or lilies, with pale-green foli-
age; to go with this figured fabric,
which now makes the over dress, or at
least the Jacket waist, is plain satteen of
the color of the ground. The batistes
show great improvement over those of
previous seasons; they are as soft as
mull-muslin, and almost as transparent.
yet they are beautifully marked
with Japanese designs and quaint color
ing on the ralest cream, lavender, and
pink grounds. They are usually sup
piled with wide border of lar er figures
than those in the body of the fabric,
and this border may be stitched on
plainly for trimming down box plaits
and around the foot of the skirts, basque
and sleeves, or else it may edge wide
hounces, or of Itself form narrow ruff
ties for trimming the whole dress. Car
nation pinks, chrysanthemums, dwarfed
peonies, and other flowers Gear to the
Japanese are repeated in their intense
colors on the most delicate grounds of
these sheer soft batistes; the price is
forty cents yard; the border is near
one selvedge only instead of on both
sides, like those of last year.
Scotch ginghams have come to be
staple goods for summer dresses, as ex-
perience has shown that they are far
better for washing and wearing than
any other ginghams, either French or
American, and are worth the difference
in the price. They are now sold for
forty cents a yard exquisitely fine
qualities, and colors that are warranted
not to fade by washing, though some of
the dark shades are changed by per-
spiration. The newest patterns in these
have wide stripes made up of many
smaller stripes, and also large plaids,
or else perfectly plain colors. The ia
vorite com bination of colors seems to be
pink with blue, and there are three
times as many blue and white ging
hams as of any other color; besides
these are stripes in new contrasts of
color, such as olive, red, black, and
buff lines forming IN inch-wide stripe
beside a pale blue stripe two inches
broad, shading off into white; another
pattern has series of alternating pink
and pale blue and broad white line; a
third is made up of dark red, blue and
orange-yellow. These colors are also
shown in the large plaids which are to
take the place of the handkerchief
dresses of last year. Though made in
Scotland, these are altogether what
merchants call fancy plaids, the
clan tartans having disappeared
for the present. The solid-coor-
ed Scotch zephyr ginghams, espe-
cially in pink and blue-the lat
ter either dark or light-will make
charming summer dresses, trimmed
with the whi cotton embroideries that
at any previous season. The furnishing
houses are already making these dresses
with short skirt and very simple over
skirt, accompanied by the belted shoot
ing. jacket, with wide box -plaits in front
and back, or else with a yoke and full
basque, either shirred at the waist in
front and behind, with the belt on the
sides only, or it may be with the belt
passing all around the waist; the wide
round collar, like those worn by chill
dren, is edged with embroidery, or may
be made entirely of the French machine
embroidery on cambria that is now i'm
ported in half and three quarter-yard
widths; there are also square cuffs OF
this embroidery worn outside the
sleeves.
Ola China patterns are shown in per-
Gales, espe cially in the blue and white
patterns of old Nankin. The merchants
have shown their faith in these colCrs
and designs by importing them in great
quantities; these goods are said to wash
well, especially in these clear blue
shades. Plain grounds with n border
i'll contrasting color are also liked in this
SOFT finished percale, and dark grodnds s
promise to be particularly useful, such
as dark solid green with pale blue
arabesques for the border, seal brown
with French gray bJrder, or dark blue
or garnet with gray or cream color for
the trimming. These are thirty cents a
yard.
The new patterns of Valenciennes lace
with plain meshes and heavily wrought
points are imported tor trimming batiste
and lawn tresses. There are also new
Hamburg embroideries that COPY the
designs OF the braid trimmings that
ladies have been crocheting of late for
Gotten dresses Harper's Baaar.
Married After Ducking.
Opposite Maysville, KY, is a little
Ohio village where marriages are execu-
ted with such extraordinary neatness
and di.patch that the place is called the
Gretha Green of America The other
afternoon couple might have been
seen making their way into Maysville
from the wllds of Lewis county. Annie
f. SGamper, aged sixteen, a very pretty
blonde, was the lady, and Lean0er p.
Scraggs, aged eighteen, six feet three in
his slippers, was the gentleman. They
had eloped; they were pursued by Mr..
Stamper, and they had ridoen all day to
get TO the river. Now the river was
filled WITH ice, and to cross to Gretna
Green seemed impossible. Two hardy
bOatmeu, however, volunteer.
ed to row them to the
haven OF matrimonial bliss, and
| lust as the boat was m id WaV in the river