The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-01-25
SOLOMON. IN ALL HIS GLORY,
And All His Many Wives. Probably HAD No
Conception of the Possibilities Pertain
Ing to the Art Of Dress.
The Latest Gossip Concerning Gowns n Mat
tiers Of Like Interest to Readers Of
the Feminine Persuasion,

The Latest Gossip Concerning Gowns and Mat
tiers OF Lake Interest to Readers Of
the Feminine Persuasion.
New SoRK, Special Correspondence, Jan. Q.
The cold wave that came the week before
Christmas and the snow storm that followed
1t was q special providence to the fur dealers,
and helped them to get rid of a part of their
surplus stock of costly fur garments. 1t h
rather a curious fact that if it is not cold be-
fore Christmas the fur season TOR Dealers is
a failure, an arctic temperature afterward
falling to restore the market activity. This
leaves many fur garments In stock which it
Is a risk or certain loss to carry over, and
might prove disastrous in case of an over
supply of the ~presentlong and costly designs.
The recent importations in sealskin are very
long and simple forms, better adapted to driv-
ing than walking. They consist of Newman
ket coats, close-cut paletots and Russian pei
Uses, i'll place of the dollnans that ave been
worn so long. They enclose the body in fur,
with the aid of a seaiskin toque II mutt, and
are thoroughly protective against snow or
Wine Fashion is not allowed to be as Gu
PRECIOUS as it is commonly thought. When
it creates an industry it is obliged to sustain
It, Six millions OF skins have been obtained
from Behring's sea since 1871, and one New
iS:G firm alone contracts for 10000 skins
annually. The seal is a very interesting ami
NAL, and the ladies who fold the soft.
lovely fur about their bodies wousd do well
20 learn something of it's curious IN
stincts and habits, many of which ally it
very nearly to the primitive human Neither
the seal Newmarket nor the long plush cloak
are very convenient for walking, unless the
dresses worn with them are made short
enough to need no lifting in crossing muddy
street or in ascending and descending the
steps OF the elevated roads. Itis the custom
OF all women in walking, and it is o. necessity
In the streets of New York, to grasp the dress
from behind to lift it out of peril at frequent
intervals. The amountof strength expended
upon this performance alone would res
cue from want every needy woman
and child if it were put into,
remuneratiye work; but the feat
becomes difficult and almost impossible
when the fingers have 10 hold within their
grasp the thickness of q heavy coat or cloak
before reaching the folds of the dress.
Women who do not walk or ride on the ele-
waited roads have not this problem. to consid-
er, and are saved the anxiety; but they lose
the freedom, the fresh air, and the exercise
VI huoSAC 1uC guns udFe lle DGSU OF IL
with warm underwear, cloth tailor-made
suits, fur capes and mufis, and toques of
cloth trimmed with n band of fur and wing
TO match. Natural beaver or otter are the
furs generally preferred. Certain shades of
red-dark OF soft shades-are very much,
used, but not for the street, as. formerly.
Grays, or gray and brown tints,. are better
worn this season.
SOME STAGE DRESSES. r
1t seemed q great pity that the. new play,
Duty, should have been. removed SO soon
from the stage of the Madison Square thea
ter, for the costumes We're very handsome,
and some OF them worthy of study. Among
these was a princesse dress of gray plush,
with, mantle lined with satin and trimmed
with chinchilla; a walking dress of copper
brown velvet, with toque, muff, and. mantle
of plush; a short dress of pearly gray
silk, with longs cloak and Mother Hub
bard bonnie trimmed with seal brown plush.
and a white cashmere trimmed with white
plush and white satin ribbous, Miss Marie
Burroughs, who is distinguished not only for
her intelligent acting, but by her good taste
in dress, wears beside the gray plush dress
mentioned a very handsome black toilet with
black lace sleeves and square neck
and gaTniture of jet. Tn Madi-
son Square is one of those theaters
which can usually be relied upon for correct
dressing, and this is really one of the uses of
the modern stage-one that is understood
only by a few actresses in a few theaters
but is q most effective If indirect.
means of cultivating good ideas in regard
to what is suitable to wear at different times
and seasons, and also what is ALWAYS and
forever unsuitable. We have extravagnnt
dressing on the stage, the common idea
being merely fine clothes, without re-
gard to their expression of ideas or
%tltlless; but there is great room
this respect, and the stage is SO powerful an
influence in forming public opinion, or
rather in creating a public sentiment in re-
gard to matters social and artistic. thatits code
In dress, it established and known to be based
on right. principles, would be studied and ac-
cepted as unwitten law. AS an example of
its effect in satirizing ostentatious display
may be mentioned the gorgeous cos
tunes. worn by Mrs. Florence in
The Mighty Dollar, an exhibition. which
fixes indelibly in the mind of those who
witness the performance the idea of vuI-
garity with display. This it may be sup
posed is so patent a lesson that it does not
require learning; but rules which apply to
every other social question are disregarded
where dress is concerned, and if women
could see the follies and. outrages
upon good sense and taste as other
see them they would very quickly
drop them. In this same play of DUTY
a young wife wears a snowy red and yellow.
dress to please her vulgar and display-loying
mother, but takes it off and appears in a.
white dress to please her husband. But
fortunately the red and yellow mania has
subsidized; we are beginning to get a glimpse
OF the meaning of harmony of tone in cos
tune, and for aid to obtain this insight
women will be largely indebted to Nj.
Irving and Ellen Terry.
COMING INTO SOCIETY.
The first season in society, so eagerly antici-
pated by young girls, is "A matter frequently
of great anxiety to manma who are obliged
to preserve appearances on q limited allow
ance, or such occasional doles. as they can
succeed in extricating from the pockets of
their husbands; and afew hints as to methods
In such cases may not be out of place. The
great difficulty to be met is this: The
girl has left school, has passed. out
OF the old circumscribed conditions
and relations, and into new ones. She has
obtained her growth. She can no longer
! wear schoolgirl clothes. For years all her
natural desire for pretty things has been
she obtained her freedom from school duly
and an accorded place in her little social
world. So now she seems to want every
thing all at once-a state of affairs no man
as his 'w~omankind" had a gown OF any kind
to stand upright in. But the mother
realizes the situation-perhaps she re-
fmembers how it was herself
a%n1ation de of 3bs Germany many hours to the
sist it may be said. first, that the two most
| needful dresses a girl can be provided with
are a black and white. The white may bs
ivory surah and should be trimmed with
lace and ribbons: the black, a good satin de
Lyon or faille, with square front and sleeves
of handsome but not large patterned Spanish
lace. A third dress may be of
lined silk, trimmed with lace and ribbons,
the lace soft white, the ribbons matehing the
silk, n contrast-a contrast in color will only
lower the tone and yuEarize the whole effect
Then, for a theater dress, should be provided
a secondary skirt of gray or ecru-tfnted silk
| and q Jacket of ruby or amethyst. velvet with