St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-09-05

evening. OF course, it is not necessary for
my readers to be told that their finest
laceS, best jewelry. prettieSt ribbons, flow
erS and accessories of the toilet are to be
reserved for evening wear. Kid gloves
must not be worn at any time If the
weather is cool. If very warm. wear silk
or Isle thread gloves or mitts. For evening
1t Is now permitted to wear lace mitts
again or silk mittens matching the color of
the dress, or Suede or tan-colored or black.
For dreSSy frOcks foulard and China silks
are adopted by the majority of ladies this
summer. Lace combinations within these
silks are quite common. In fact, the
best foundation for lace dress,
whether white, cream, old gold, tan,
black or brown is silk foulard. These
lace toilets are not nearly so ex-
pensive as they look, and they are at once
the dreSSiest and most convenient evening
frock for a watering place. They come
out of trunk looking as fresh as if just
from the dressmakers, and require no
ironing during the entire season. More
simple but still dressy foulard toilets are
made of the checked, striped, plain and
small figured fOulardS, which come in all
the new shades OF new colOrS. Full plated
OverSkirtS. Slashed on one side and Topped
on the other, are adapted for these frockS.
The underSkirtS form panel plaitS on the
sides and back and have one, two three or
more narrow. fluffy. plated frills finishing
the bottom. Clusters of long loops of rib
bon and ribbon bows decorate divers parts
of such dresses.
MUST ADMIT
that the artists and reporters this season
have come nearer to doing justice to Asbury
Park and Ocean Grove than any other
place on the coast. You know the in-
preston their articles leave in your mind.
You imagine that the girls by the sea do
everything in their bathing dresses; that
they battle, eat and entertain in costumes
mostly made up of stockings; that they go
to church and get religion in bath clothes,
and go out carriage riding with their COM
pany in that guiSe. OF course the report
ers do not say so, but that is the impress
sion one gets from reading this summers
articles. 1t is all stockings, stockings,
stockings; and if it ever isn't stockings,
it's bare arms and short skirts sun
till you can't rest" as the little boy said
when he got in the watermelon patch.
Well, all this comes nearer to being the
truth down here than anywhere else along
the coast. The young girls here fairly live
in their bathing robes.
''I'll stick to this old blue flannel suit as
long as it'll stick to me-" l heard a young
woman say the other day.
Il met my beau and was introduced to
him when had it on; We did most all our
counting while l was dressed in it here on
the beach. l had the question popped to
ME i'll it and-who knows?-perhaps l
shall be married in it,
This young miss was one of party of
school marmS from Indiana who have hired
a tent and are spending the season here.
They invited lie to be their guest the other
day, and, just for the mischief of the thing,
resolved to spend the whole blessed day in
their bath clothes.
THEY ROLLED INTO BLUE FLANNELS
as soon as they left their beds, cooked and
ate breakfast ''in their stockings" as the
reporters would say, played and sang with
banjo and accordion, lounged in hammocks,
went shopping, prepared dinner, and finally
entertained some young gentlemen-all the
while in their bath clothes.
1t was highly impressive to me, but it
made no sensation with any one else, be-
cause it was only wee bit different from
what everyone else does while on this
beach. As rule, the young girls spend
all the afternoon in their bathing dresses,
cooking, housekeeping. walking, shopping,
flirting, bathing and lounging in them, and
getting home in time to dress up ''like
folks" for l o'clock dinner. 1t isn't very
pretty, but it is very comfortable, and l
suppose there is no harm in it at all. After
all, women are human, and it's great re-
lief not only to throw off the real stays
of steel and whalebone and cot
ton and lounge about in a
loose blue suit but it is equally re-
freShing to put aside the stays of artifciality
in etiquette and social manners generally,
which accounts for the flirtatiousness of so
many of our sex at the seaside. Even the
best girl gets little tired of straightlaced
conyentionaIity all the time, and being i'll
free-and-easy place, yields little to the
temptation to tiirt In spite of the open
eyed staring reporters, | assert that they
mean no harm by it. and little harm comes
of it. The original Adam in us all is like
high pressure of steam, and a safety-valve
like the seaside, where one may relieve
ones self Of the extra strain once a year,
prevents a good many moral explosions, L
think.
In fashions l saw only one notable de-
parture from the usual rule. There was
Baltimore lady at the hotel the other day
who had invented a new-fangled style in
decollete dressing. Her waist was cut
right down to about the second or third
button above the belt, and was then fitted
so that the edges of the opening left an
utter absence of attire about three inches
wide at the top and narrowing down to an
inch at the bottom. The edges were laced
loosely up to the edge of the low corset.
1t was rather startling, for it showed, or
rather suggested. an exposure of the whole
form of the bust, but she was very shapely
and her neck was simply loving.-Clara
Belle in Cincinnati Enquirer.
ADORATEON.
You ask me why 1 love my love,