Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1885-08-02
WOMAN IN SUMMER

The Costumes She wears whsn Gut of
Town.
The constant introduction Of new eolors
and new fsbries calls for careful study m
the combipnion of tints and materials.
The woman of taste must understand her
strong and weak points in order to make
Ter costume in harmony with her own In
dividual style. She is certainly fortunate
If she be able to employ Q 6rst-class mod'ste
who can arrange her toilettss for her, but,
IL this be not the case, she can at any rate
arrange her own gowns if she give time
enough to this important part Of her duty.
It is impossible for woEsn to. dress well
unless she devotes thought to her wardrobe.
ks well may she hope TO excelin any branch
of domestic art or science without study and
abor as in this.
Hevery woman would learn what the true
beauty Of dress is there would be fewer OF
The monstrosities that so often offend the
eyes of those who love harmony. There
will always be those who are outre in their
attire. but the number may be diminished
if women of refinement will conscientiously
avoid the bizarre and exaggerated. The
really we'll dressed woman, as has often
been said, is she who conveys q feeling Of
repose to the beholder and whose raiment IS
so fitly chosen that one cannot specify any
detail, but simply feels the harmony OF the
toilette as . whole.
Many of the best nodistes now make the
corsage of q dress ia such way that it is
difficult to tell where it is fastened, and 1t
has almost the appearance OF growing on
its wearer.
Women have their clothes TOR the sum
mer by this time Now ID the season tor
tancy work. Among other new materials
for art embroidery comes a very narrow,
silky, tape-hke ribbon, Smelly crimped by
machinery 80 as to be slightly elastic, and
which some dealers call ribbosene, others
braidel e. The various uses to which
braider or ribbosene is applied are to
numert US to be named. 1t comes in all
shades of embroidery used for flowers, but
not fer leaves. Its use in embroidery Is
pripcit ally for the formation OF the petals OF
flowers, iuto which it works up easily and
rapidly, requiring less dexterity than many
would suppose from the effectiveness Of the
work when finished The stems, leaves and
Calves OF the flowers wrought in braiding
are done with floss in kensington stitch.
Patte ms and materials can be bought
from the dealers in ait embroidery goods,
The stamped pattern is commented in one
corner. showing how the work is done.
Outline embroidery on canvas and twllled
linen, on monte cloth, on pongee and
Indian silks and on boiling cloth, has been
growing in popularity for several years, but
seems to have reached its highest ware this
SUI mer. Any one who can do plain sewing
can exec, te pretty picture, etched as 1t IL
~irh the Leedle, on any of the fabrics named
,htve, or even on cotton or plain linen fol
piIow ii ans, splashers, bureau, washstand
able and buffet scaIts.
Artists of rare talent are employed in the
crealit of the designs sent out by the best
houses this summer. The cast OF the ma,
rerials for this kind of work is another cause
| If It's popularity. Then it can be AIKEN uE
at any moment and dropped without inter
ference with the design, and we have known
several members of large family Of girl'
keep but one piece of outline work at time
| in hand, each one putting in few stitches
when not otherwise engaged until that piece
was finished, and then taking up another
piete of the same sort, say dozen tea Of
| luncheon devices of fine table mats.
Novelties in key racks, which can bt
bought, finished or commenced with ma
terials to finish. A small rolling-pin of sof
or hard wood, white wood or maple Is thu
fayorte of the moment in these key racks
1t may be plain or decorated, with an etched
design or covered with plush or satin. The
plush is the prettier and more durable fabric
The pin is furnished with row of small
brass hooks, screwed on to it, on which
bang the keys, while the pin itself is hung
on the wall with loop Of ribbon tied to the
handles. The handles may be bronzed OF
.ilded, or left the color Of the wood, with G
line or two of black around them.
Some of the decorations placed upon these
key-rscks are suggestive. One has bal
Of music traced on the roller above the row
hooks, and along the staff run the limos
Lose but the key and very soon you're ou
of time and out Of tune This design snc
motto are also found sketched or painted on
wooden paddock -key-racks, and also littl'
parallelograms of white wood, also suspend
ed on the wall for key.racks along with othe
designs-one, a tiny Mother Hubbard at n
open cupboard door, before which rampan
or sereant is her little dog begging for tn
bone which cannot be found. The legen'
traced through the picture reads: 10 shut
the fate Of Mother Hubbard, lose not th
| Low tbat locka the cupboard