St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-07-31

very miserable so long as he had it on his
mind. But when l told him how l got my
bathing suit 1 was off my guard, and he
got in his work. 'Mathilde,' said he. will
you give me leave to buy the suit you wear
next summer?' Well said 1, L verify
declare! How long has it been, sir. since
had to ask my gentleman friends to buy my
clothes for me? l was very, very veXed,
for l really did think
HE WAS PRESUMING
just little too far. Oh. dear, how funny
it was! He was proposing marriage and l
had not even shifted the danger. oh,
Mathilde,' he said; I mean to ask you
If | may not be more than friend. /
want to be your husband and buy you
everything you need in the future.
Darling, 1 would buy this ocean
for you if had the means, and you and /
should share it all to ourselves Just as L
was going to answer him perfect Jumbo of
wave took me full in front, and, as had
my mouth open. l think [ swallowed half
of it. But managed to squeeze his hand
TO show him that L was his, and that he was
appreciated. There, Clara, what do you
think of that?"
Il think, my DEAR" said I, ''that if you
want to keep on as you have begun you had
better get married in your bathing suit, go
abroad for your honeymoon in your bathing
suit and wear a small life-preServer for a
wedding ring"
Lord, how men do lie when they under
take to write about bathing costumes.
They either eXaggerate OF belittle. Pos
sibly the subject dazes them. The plain
facts seem easy to set forth. There is very
little or no change in the form OF suits.
The best consist of blouse, waist and
trousers, made all in one piece, with row
of hut In ;oI,;
buttoned skirt reaching below the knees.
The legs Of the trousers reach point be-
low the knee, and are made to button
around the garter line of the ley, while
THE SURPLUS LENGTH
falls over like Turkish trousers. Long,
dark-blue or black stockings of heavy wool,
ribbed in vertical lines are the best covering
for the lower eXtremities. With these
bathing shoes are unnecessary. Navy blue
fiannels or serges that do not hold much
water are the favorite materials for bathing
suits White f1annels and serges are also
used, and there are combination suits that
have skirt. vest and revers collar of
striped flannel, especially pretty in pale
blue and white stripes, or else dark-blue
and red, but dark sea-blue flannel makes
the quiet suit in which the bather is least
disagreeably conspicuous. Rows of mohair
braid fourth of an inch wide are put on
for trimming in white, pale blue or red
-Four or six rows are around the collar caps,
belt, skirt and drawers. Some of the new
suits, with caps to match, are made of
waterproof goods, the same as is used for
the pretty stripped and plated rain cloaks.
For the latter use they are admirable: for
the former the question may be aptly asked:
What benefit can be derived from a plunge
in the briny in waterproof suit? A nov
city in bathing suits is the use of Jersey
wool webbing for the entire suit. The
waist and drawers are cut in one piece,
fitting the form just as any jersey BASQUE
fits the waist, and over this is a skirt made
quite wide-nearly three yards-because it
says when wet and is never as firm as the
more wiry serge or flannel. The skirt has
a belt in which is draw-String for making
it securely tight about the waist line This
suit usually has short sleeves and is yecy
pretty when made of blue webbing with a
high, standing white collar.
WHITE BONNETs
are worn to excess this season. Some are
OF pure white tulle on wire frame, and
look like cloud of whipped sylabub on
the head. When capped with panache of
pale roses or pale yellow ostrich tips, or the
two colors i'll the tuft, it does not take a
very lively imagination to fancy a pretty
woman's head crowned with white cloud
tipped with the rays Of the setting or rising
sun. One OF the principal phases of the
summer fashions in millinery is the plait-
ing or two or three materials together, such
as crinoine, narrow bands of felt and rib
bon with straw and straw rushes, or two
kinds of straw, For this purpose plaits
which have one side festocRed or Vandyked