Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1885-07-21
WE'VE AND NoTEs roR WonEr.


CCrsage bouquets are very large.
Coiffures grow higher and higher.
White pique has been revived again.
Pique dresses are made in tailor
fashion.
English tweed is used for travelling
dresses.
Velvet stripped limousine are used for
summer wear.
Belted waists are in great favor for
summer dresses.
White pongee dresses are trimmed
with silver braiding.
Jewelry is worn more now than be-
fore for many years.
The queen chain is now almost unani-
mously adopted by ladies.
/ The contrast of biscuit-coIor and
moss green is very fashionable.
/ Black mohair dresses are seen trimmed
with black mohair and silver braid.
Soft satins in bayadere stripes around
the skirt are used with plain surah for
the overdress.
The darning stitch, though less grace
ful than many others, is still used in art
embroidery
Nine. Nilsson says she is never tired
of hearing herself sing, but that others
sometimes tire her.
A philosopher says: Girls should be
accomplished, but not beautiful, If they
would escape marital troubles.
Fashions in dress are more various and
individualized in Washington than in
any fashionable city in the world.
Princess Beatrice is two inches taller
than the queen, with form so perfect
that it is said art can add no beauty to
its outline.
Sashes Of MORE, surah and all sorts of
soft, crapy, silken and wooden stuffs are
in high favor, and are worn in almost
every style preferred.
1t has been said that Philadelphia
women don't stop growing until they
reach the age of thirty. At that age
they begin to grow old.
Children's washing dresses are made
chiefly of cambria and zephyr, as these
two materials are better adapted for
washing than the finer goods.
Colored and white lawn collars. plat
ed and soft laundeted, not stiff with
starch, are taking the place Of white
linen bands for travelling and morning
wear.
Straw bonnets are trimmed with scarfs
of soft, light silk about eight inches in
width, in Indian or Persian designs,
deep plaids and old tapestry patterns
with or without gold.
Some statisticians says there are 2,473
female surgeons in this country, and is
led to remark that matrimony is not
sufficiently deadly for some women.
Such ineffable meanness
Dorothy Dene is the name of a new
London beauty who promises to become
a rival of Mary Anderson and Mrs. Lang
try. She is said to be very beautiful,
though still quite young.
The latest fancy in bead Ornamental
ton is to put pendant strands of copper
or lead beads or porcelain limitations of
the same on red serge and red flannel
jackets for seaside wear.
Mrs. Ellen Foster, a strong minded
temperance and woman's reform advU-
cate, is senior partner of the Dubuque
law firm Of Foster & Foster. Mr.. Fos-
ter, the junior partner, is her husband.
The beaded grenadine basque and
front breadths are preferred to the
velvet-fgured grenadines of last year for
black dresses, and these dresses usually
have a mantle of the same to go with
them.
Printed cambrics and plain and white
zephyrs and lawns make serviceable
morning dresses, while for afternoons
cambrics and muslins in light colors, and
printed with pretty designs of flowers,
are much worn.