Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-05-25
Fashion Items.

Red or green silk pompon trimmings
are fashionably worn on walking COS
TUNES of tweed or nuns gray ladies
cloth.
The new zephyr plaids make iaunty
lawn-tennis costumes, and the colors
Oftenest combined are olive, the new
shade of cranberry-red, and pale prim-
rose yellow.
Pale amber and gold beads, or those OF
pearl and gold, are used to outline silk
cmbroideries on Grecian house-robes
and matinees of white albatross cloth or
vigogne.
Long Jersey gloves, ten-button length,
in silk and linen, or finest cachemire,
are highly favored for spring wear.
These gloves can be found in every de-
sirable street shade.
Raw silks and pongees. in novel tints,
quite different from the old gray and
ecru shades, will be worn this summer,
as polOnaises or redingotes over short
underskirts of velvet or best brand of
Louis yelveteen.
Balbriggan stockings abound in the
new varied tints of strawberry, amber.
terra-cotta, drake 's-neck blue, laurel
green, bronze, elderberry, and deep rich
shade of violet. Each of these colors
is clocked with old gold or cream white.
Lilacs, crocus and arbutus blossoms.
laburnum snowdrops, and, above all,
dafodils and jonquils-pale harbingers
OF spring, "all sprinkled with dew, -
made of powdered crystals-are the
corsage and couture bouquets par er-
ceYence with dressy evening toilets.
Among other pretty dainties which
fashionable young ladies are preparing
Tor summer wear-works of their own
hands-are garden-party hats of ficelle
lace, lining the inside of crown and
brim with pale blue or rose-colored
surah or Canton Grape. Another fancy
is to run black velvet ribbon through
the meshes, finishing with a knot of
velvet on the top of the crown.
An heirloom of dress, wrinkled with
age and the weight of the clothes
press, lately brought to light to utilize
as costume for fancy dress party by
youthful butterfly of fashion, was
round to be of shade exactly CORE
spending with the modern one known
as terra-cotta. But the owner of the
dress-the grandmother of the girl
smiled knowingly and shook her head
when the shade was named, saving that
the color of her dress when she wore it
was just pickinini, and nothing else.
New coaching parasols are DISPLAYED.
showing gay hand-paintings and EN-
broideries of sporting and pastoral
scenes, humming birds, flights of swaI-
lows, besides coats-of-arms, and en-
blematic devices wrought in silk and
studded with half-precious gems set. in a
network of silver and gold threads. and
raised tufts of silk chenille. Sometimes
1t is the monogram only, embroidered
In mock jewels upon one division of the
parasol. and the design on the mother
of-pean handle is frequently inlaid to
correspond.
Applique is q very favorite method of
decorating the surface of unpatterned
materials. Beautiful designs in rich
Oriental colorings can now be purchased
by the dozen at the fancy stores for a
reasonable price. Flights of sparrows
and other tiny birds. gay butterflies,
roses. carnations, daisies, moss buds
and IVY leaves, and other represents
lions Of nature and art are obtainable.
A very pretty tablier recentlv worn over
dress Of dark green plush was covered
with the eyes of peacock 5 feathers man
ufactured in silk. -''-'--
A unique style of evening dress