Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1886-07-17
cws and NOTES FOR WOMEN

son the more stylish it is.
Garnet passementcrie is worn with goot
effect on black silk costumes.
Ruchings of lace are used as panel
and as edging for the basques Of bodices
Plain colorcd bodices are worn will
suUmer plaids and checks by young per
sons.
Long, loose, black draperies and short,
full aprons are arranged over kilt-plaiteo
skirts.
Narrow douuces are still worn. Those
of lace are often lined with bright
colored taffetas.
Short jackets for children have full
plastrons. Long coats merely show the
bottom of the frock beneath them.
Deep lace founccs are employed fol
draping the backs of skirts. The fronts
Of these dresses usually are beaded.
Openwork striped tissues and trans.
parent canvas have corresponding taffe.
tas or faillc to complete the costume.
Bonnet crowns are a continual surprise
horse shoe, heart shape, indented;
pulled out, square. oblong and round.
Kilt-plaited summer dresses have plaits
wide and scant, thereby reducing the
weight and the amount of material used.
Pink and mauve are rival colors this
season. Pink is combined with variety
Of colors, as green, heliotrope, and blue.
Collars and cuffs for evening wear are
Of ribbon covered with net, gathered full
and finished in frill at neck and wrist.
A Michigan bride braided and made
enough straw hats recently to pay the
minister for his services on her wedding
day.
OF the forty-eight women lawyers in
The United States only two have con-
iucted cases in court during the past
year.
Cashmere of fine quality and nuns
yelling have overdresses of oriental lace.
These combinations are only suitable for
young persons.
One hundred and forty women are EN-.
oloyed in the annex of the Agricultural
Department building at Washington
supplying the Congressional demand fof
seed.
Mrs. Elizabeth Wade, of Madison, Mo-,
Is seventy years of age, and yet she has
recently completed bed quilt of 1909
pieces, using 1909 yards of thread in
Joining the pieces.
Riding-h habits of dark blue or brown
cloth are preferred to those of dark
mixed cloth, which have been lately in
reduced Dark green and garnet habits
ire occasionally seen.
Black lace dresses many be frightened
by colored ribbons. The present lati-
Jude in the arrangements of color per-
nits the use of black silk underdresses
ior lace of any color or texture.
Last years leaf-shaped basques at tho
back of bodices of wooden material are
IT'LL in favor. Where these are used the
bodice is trimmed with velvet or moire
antique, and two points of this fall below
he leaf points of the wooden material.
Skeleton parasols made entirely of ex-
,uisite lace in black, white, fawn. green
ind other tints are both costly and fash
enable. Those who have used them in
he hot sun, however, are inclined to be-
ieve that they were intended for moon
light parades.
The housewives of Norway make their
common flat bread largely of the pow
Tered branches of the young pine, not so
much to save flour as to secure a light
oaf. The bark proves to be not only in
nutritious but actually injurious, and is
,eing denounced by medical men.
Angel sleeves are seen on most of the
house dresses and wrappers, and are very
becoming to shapely arm, as well as
.ool during sultry weather. Morning
gowns of creamy white surah and Valen-
,iennes lace are exquisite. Those who
.annot afford them take ones of white
muslin and embroidery.
Black stockings are still the only proper
,olor for walking, but those of brown,
avn, pink, scarlet, green and other
Iints, deliberately embroidered on the
nstep, are worn with slippers and
ow ties for the house, carriage and ball
Dom. A pair of the oldest of these ex-
,ensive necessities are of pale pink silk
with little scarlet lions playing tas
round the ankles. Another in electric
blue is embroidered in seaweed and clam
,hells.
There are evidences of a revival of the
,ld-time harness that was in such favor
lmong young ladies twenty-five or thirty
gears ago. There is plain band of rib
bon around the throat, and from this
Ieveral perpendicular rows extend below
The waist and are finished by passemen-
.erie ornaments, bead balls or other fancy
drop trimmings. Intersecting these rows
lrc others that cross the bust and
shoulders, and there is belt with bow
md ends finished like the rows from the
aeck. Satin-faced velvet is the most de-
sirable for the purpose.
Skirts are draped in various ways over
plain or plated pctticoats. For instance.
skirt of plain yelling is draped behind
and plated on each side, opening in FROM
over petticoat embroidered in silks aud
beads. Another is of open-work beige
issue draped up with pretty passemen-
.erie fastenings, over plated petticoai
If brown silk. A skirt Of plain blush
gray Grape falls in full double plaits over
petticoat of bayadere striped yelling.
rhe Grape skirt opens in front to show
The petticoat, which also comes below
The edge Again. another skirt is Of