St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-04-20
GRACE TO BARBARA.
Metropolitan Gossip and Fashions
Shopping in st. Paul.
ST.. PAUL, April 10, 1884.

81. IAUL, April ~, 1854.
DEAR COUSIN ARA:-Yeur letters are
so woman-Hke that they quite amuse me,
despite the long and funny questions that
you ask. You ask, for instance, ''what is
the most fashionable and becoming color this
SPRING." Now, my dear girl, you are quite
old enough to know that those two adjectives
rarely apply to the same womans gown or
bonnet l have not seen you tor several
months, you know, and so l cannot tell
VIII ether you have grown yellow or gray with
the long season of Lenten penance, or
whether you are stin your own dear, dimpled,
rosy self. l will do the best 1 can, however,
to tell you what is fashionable, and trust to
your own good taste to select the becoming.
have found but just one day this week
suitable for comfortable shopping. Now
comfortable shopping may be taken in two
ways-comfortable to get out and comfort
| able to look about in store. happened to
find one day when it was not too bad to get
around in a Macintosh and when the stores
| were not too crowded. 1 shall only be able
to tell you about our plan this week, and I
am sorry have no more time to spare in
writing about what saw.
OF course my objective point was the
| mammoth store of Manufacturer Bros. 1t is
perfectly wonderful to see their display Of
goods. But have little time to give you an
| idea of the elegant novelties they are show
| ing. How can / ever begin to give you
any impression of the beauty and variety Of
their goods! Here are the most superb glace
surahs, and such display of plain surahs for
IN full aF
| bnation novelties in velvet grenadines and
velvet and satins. / was entranced by the
India pongees and the granite, black and
check surahs. l wish l could describe the
shades; there are over twenty shades OF browns
and almost as many in grayl You must see
| them to gain any idea, and all of these deli
cious colors are found in all materials, silk,
wool, etc. They have given pretty names to
the new shades, the most novel and fashion
able belize, CUR, steel granite, tabac, ecru,
wood brown, feeble, reseda hunters green,
| hussar etc. You are sure TO find something
| just suited to your style of beauty-and you
have style-but don't ask me to select.
| BY the way, Mrs. Morley, who has charge
of the dressmal1ing department of the es-
Enlistment, has just returned from New York
| and she has some exquisite novelties in Pa
| risian and Berlin wraps and mantles. They
| are maze IN great variety OF sJyIeS anu Iud-
terial, running from the humble garment
costing SIS to the magnificent robe worth
$3.50 or more. Prices are considerably less
this year than formerly and it would be eco
nomical for youself and have your measure
taken. 1 find that Manheimer Brothers car
ry full line of gloves and hosiery TO match
dress goods. I wish had time to tell you
of the exquisite beaded fringe and beaded
lace which is made up over pretty, light silks,
also the elegant parasols and the thousand
other novelties, but must postpone it to
another week, when L viii give you a chapter
on millinery, house decorations, etc Do
| come soon. Your loving cousin, GRACE.