The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-09-12

skin of all colors; There areLonis Quinze
heels and fiat heels, pointed toes and
broad toes. The Cunan ladies, and there are
hundreds of them, wear the most splend d
specimens Of Slippers | ever saw. They
are of French kid, and the beadwork on
them is intricate ana marvellously lovely.
And what pretty feet they put into them
Sensible young American girls wear the
shoes with broadcast soles and --LATEST heels
The last generation of girls. who are now
passe and threatened with with single
blessedness, indulge in Louis Qninze heels
andtoes pointed almost sharply enough
to write with. 1t is a Study to- see them
walk do not wonder that there are
three chiropodists in town and that they
are doing big business.
This young man had an eye for the
beautiful. The ordinary traveller who
goes over the groudd win see mass
meeting of the products of the Crispin
art, which for mingled splendor and
ugliness will dwarf the fair at negro
church into insigniticance
There is a freedom OF movement about
the American girl which has been remark
cd upon repeatedly Misunderstanding
these piazzas are built 80 peculiarly. and
that the jewellers onthem are conse quent-
| " brought iato public notice. the Amer
can maiden swings about her feet With
spirit. independence and what Oscar
Wilde would describe as pesrect joyous
ness. The Saratoga maiden. or rather
the maiden from Oshkosh, temporarily
resident OF Saratoga, has moreover a
most reprehensible fonduess for
the large cane rocking chairs which a
mandatory in Massachusetts sells here
by The thousand. She sits in ii for hours
at tine; she rocks backwards with force
and energy.
The fashionable stockings here are
black silk Some girls wear brown and
dark blue, but the real stylish damsels
wear them as black as night And it
cannot but be admitted that a prettily
turned ankle seems t6 win a dainty grace
fulness of moulding from this dark yet
delicate covering. In the matter of
stockings il is to be remarked that it is
the very youthful and blooming of the
gentle sex who wear the sombre tints. and
it is the Oldest specimens same who
wear Louis Quinze heels-who encase
their more ancient limbs in CANDY tints
and still tolerate the elaborate clockIng
that was So generally favored several
years ago. Fortunately for human
happiness, however, the numbers of the
passe young ladies and insipient old
maids are small and therefore the display
of stockings is not dazzling one In
81 no
after miles walk along the piazzas that
| the whole town was in mourning. And
! it would take another miles walk among
| the shops to rid them ofthe idea
Long Branch, Asbnry Park Cape May
and other favorite resorts along the New
Jersey coast are faithfully putting forth
the entire programme of their attractions
4 to lure summer wanderers 10 their sands
and in doing so particular emphasis is
| laid on the elegance, the varied color and
| the abbreviated nature of the bathing
dresses to be viewed at leisure on tile
beach. have read some few hundred
descriptions of these interesting garments
and have enjoyed some fascinating details
touching the 1.-THE and graceful figures
thus becomingly attired-how they stretch
themseRes on the sands and roll about in
playful curves; how they suddenly disap
pear beneath the neighboring waves
when wondrously lovely outlines are lost
and then revealed and then lost again OF
tenderly yelled beneath the shimmerins
and sunlit waters have never met with
one who has beheld these visions OF
female beauty, and it is believed that the
most substantial originals to be found foi
the descriptions so frequently printed are
the colored French ipictdres on bathing
subjects, which are displayed on the walls
of some up town ''sampleroom