Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-05-31

METROPOLITAN MYSTERIES.
The New York Fashions Cast upon the Plate for
the Benefit OF Fair Readers OF
The Herald.

ne herald.
Special Correspondence.
NEW YORK, May 22.-Immensely
popular are capotes; SO much 50 that
one is set thinking, wherefore this lease
of life prolonged?- this cat-like gift of
nine lives9 Firstly, the capote sets snug
on the low coil; secondly, it does not
catch the breeze as one walks or drives:
it is easily gotten up, and therefore one
may have three or four in place of a
single. large, elaborate bonnet There
is not little, too, in that mot catch
| ing the breeze, for when the bonnet
catches the breeze, the breeze is pretty
apt to catch the bonnet and send it
tumbling one knows not where, and
worse yet, exhibiting ones frizzes and
the like when not exactly gotten up for
exhibition, or possibly ones own dark
locks under ones blonde wig, and all
being arranged with view to having
ones hat on ones head The great
picturesqueness, however, of the large
hat is
A STRONG CARD
in its favor, and accounts for its pro-
longed fashionableness yet the incon-
venience of continual clutching to
keep in its place for windy day mill
tates seriously against it; causes one to
fall back on turban shapes and to look
fayorably on the inoffensiye little cap
ote, which if no protection, at least
remains quiet in its place and gives rise
tono anxieties or neutrality-suspicious..
In the matter of shade, too, where is
ones parsol? What better shade than
that, especially if with lace cover
dropping over the edge, or with fall
of lace giving the same refining effect.
Indeed l know of nothing more excellent
than that same fall of lace; tempering
the too ardent glare of summers sun
with peculiarly feminine effect, or
adroitly used, a
PECULIARLY FEMININE
weapon of defense, since what is easier
than by chance to lower ones parasol,
that ones Adolphus may not see one
walking with ones Theodore; Adolphus
however being closely scrUtinized
through those never-to-be sufficiently
praised loopings and open work mesh
es. Economical ladies buy lace covers to
put over last years parasol of plain
silk, or trim up plain silk of this year
with border of lace, black or white
| Make a thing difficult, give it a name,
and everybody wants it. Think of what
dark-haired women go through to be
made blondes. The difficulty half the
charm, the name of blonde the other.
So with crushed strawberry and crushed
raspberry. Who would care anything
about them but for the
ABSURD NAMES
| and the trouble of determining which is
which. The distinction is as puzzling
as to know how to get hold of a Louisi-
ana State Lottery ticket. Every body
wants one because it is hard to get one,
while thousands are taken in and paid
back in prizes to people who think the
names of Gems. Beauregard and Early
insure the fairness of the drawings.
Throughout the world of color, indeed,
there is pleasing sort of mystery.
hot hot DO 4,
be greys or greens; yellows that disdain
to be yellows and take in
PULLING MIXTURES
OF red, orange or pink, obtaining cur
ious names thereby and mounting high
the ladder of fame. Consider, too, the
position reached by color; lady walk
ing forth in red costume, red spotted
with blue and the like, nobody looking
at her a second time. These reds, how
ever, are no more genuine reds than
are most of the blues, greens or yell
lows-the rather brick dust or terra
Gotta reds or red having tinges of wine,
or mongrel reds bringing us back to
whence we started to crush raspberry
and strawberry. Green is extremely
fashionable this season, and while there
are hybrid greens, you see charming
outfits of clear, positive forest greens.
Necks are questionable, | should
Judge, from the fact that one never gets
the sight of one. Rather the folds of
swathing lace, the high upright collar.
the ruching, the anything, rather than
THE DIvINELY APPOINTED NECK.
Where then is the room for an earring
when the neck dressing is brought up to
the ears? There is none, SO we have
none None worth speaking of, unless
it may be handsome pair of pearls or
diamonds. Clearly they must be shown
yet chiefly soitaires and so close to the
ear that little room is taken up. Occa-
sionally one sees indeed an unpreten-
tious earring, but it is very small-a
minute leaf or fioweret, small balls, ETC.
not so stylish as none. Everything
runs to bracelets or lace pins; the for
mer jinglng over wrinkled gloves or
doing duty insteads of cuffs at the end
of sleeves which dressmakers will not
allow of the proper length; the latter
standing solitary in place of brooch,
or with abandon catching the scarf or
jabot.
FLOWERS ON THE CoRsAGE
are perhaps not quite SO often seen as
formerly, certainly not in such extrava-
gance, but they are still very fashion
able, from single flower up to quite
bouquet.
Arms seem to be us Objectionable as
necks. No chance at all for them, since
wherever your dress sleeve ends there
must your glove extend, unless perhaps
in case of an extremely short sleeve, but
even then the glove boldly.
TURNS THE ELBOW
and follows up, leaving only little of
the arm. The exquisitely fitting Harris
meusquetaire comes first, the more so
as it has been found in every way relia-
BILE, yet for morning wear, travelling, etc.
the Harris gauntlet is the favorite, since
it is closed to the wrist and joined to a
cuff small and Snuplv fittino tho ar,,,