St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-08-15

percale with natty tie to match, and studs
set down the front 1t Is quite the fashion
to have half the dress front trimmed in a
distinctive manner. For instance. a black
surah had the left side arranged in rows of
ribbon velvet, with drops of jet white and
gray beads Oh a lace foundation between each
row; on the other side were black velvet
bows lined with graysh green tint
Fancy tussores woven in cube-like stripes
of open-work are ntermiXed with red
threads and made over red silk. Dresses
of striped material have the stripes for the
skirt arrange horizontally, the bodice and
draperies being made with the stripes RIM
ming dagonally.@
THE WORSHIP OF WOMEN
is nothing new. They are worshiped every
bit of fuss about it. A pretty woman finds
no difficulty in being adored as divinity,
though she is sometimes modest about tell
ing the entire community how foolish
people are about her. Moreover, doesn't
she self-sacrifcingly distract admira-
ton from herself to her adornments? 1t is
now claimed that women who wear real
diamond ornaments keep on their bonnetS
to tempt Providence, though what Provi-
dence has to do with the fashions it is i'm
possible to see. But ever since the princess
of Wales took to wearing diamond dagger
in the back of her hair ladies have We'd
with each other in their efforts to secure
pin which would be equally chic and con-
spcuous for theirs. The establishments
now include these bogus hair-pins among
their diamond ornaments. very odd and
unique some of them. The real diamond
flashes its genuineness so that it cannot be
mistaken by whoever has the privilege of
sitting behind the bonneted elegante of the
present. The latest news from the source
of most fashion is that three changes have
come over the spirit of Mad. de PariSenne.
She has abandoned false hair; she has con-
tracted the tournure; she now wears corset
modelled on that infantile article of attire
which is made of flannel, and is about six
inches wide. 1t may not be borne in the
feminine mind, all at once, that there are
important changes to eventually affect the
style of every woman of fashion in the
civilized world. Without any false hair,
but with the natural coitfure, held in place
by few tortoise-shell hair-pins, woman
may have much easier time.
THE CORSET BUSINESS
is always debatabie point, but unless the
figure is a meal-sack the supporting waist
band is all-sufficient to preserve the
smoothness and the graceful tapern now con-
coded essential to the perfect fit of a
modern dress. Only enough hustle is
worn to throw out the fullness of the skirts
beyond the hens, and thus prevent slab
slded'' look to the flowing lines. AS the
Partisan elegante appears to-day, she gives
the impression of being constructed on the
very simplest plan since Eve began primi-
tive dress-making, though the initiated
understands that an art of the highest
stamps every thread of the bewitching fig
leaves of 1886.
But here at Cape May simplicity itself is
made elegant. White cambrics, nainsook
in cross-bars, lawns, aud clean-lookIng
prints are fashion for early indoor wear with
full skirt, which may be trimmed with
Torchon Cluny OF Medicis lace, tucks or
scalloped rufies. The basque is close fitting
in the back, with loose fronts or those hav-
ing but one dart. The sacque is trimmed
around the edge, sleeves and neck. Inser-
lions of labe and fine tucks trim the fronts.
running perpendicularly. Some lovely
toilets are made of printed delaines over
silk skirts. These are loaded with cream
or ecru lace and loops of MORE ribbon. A
toilet Of cream lace and pale-gree velvet
bows is veGY sGylish? Almond and brown
is handsome mixture. Figured French
W
French sateen of the tint of SEINE one of the
designs. In dresses of this sort the bodice
is lined with the sateen. Light toilets of
bayadere striped material have Overskirt
sleeves of figured material.
DoYOU NOTICE
that nowadays this is getting to be the
rule? The rich are marrying the rich and
the poor are making matches among the
poor. The sudden increase of wealth and
aping of English rules of caste are fright
ening young men out of the old chivalrous
spirit, when humble fellow claimed the
girl of his heart and defied the world to rob
him of her. Do you think the girls are
learning wisdom and won't look at poor
men any more? That shows how little you
know of femininity. Where the heart is
the brain is not, and girls are just as big
geese as ever in love matters. Of course
there are some wise ones, who coIdly de-
| termine to marry carriage, maid and
| thirty dresses year, but don't like wise
| girls; don't see any woods full of them
| anywhere, and would not wager a pound
of French mixed that their wisdom would
stand much of strain if the right young
man happened along and courted them
with the force and ardor of a
hurricane. as any right-minded girls like to
be courted,
There is one marked difference between
Cape May and New York. In the city if a
woman is seen in the street flushed with
wine and unable to maintain as much Of heI
equilibrium as spinning saucer in Its dy-
| ing evOlutiOnS. we say she is over the line
| of respectability, and our discriminating
policemen will bundle her off to the station
/ house if they see her. But here if a wo-
man gets in that horribly disgusting con-
dition it is taken as proof that she is a
lazy and is in the advance of the fashion.
For it is the very cream de la creamiest sort
of thing here for ladies to drink at all
times and in a score OF public places.
Mothers treat their daughters to liquor and
lovers ask their young ladies into cafes tC
drink. I on can see rooms full Of womcr
drinking at some of the best hotels.
and the rooms are ones that are
especially set apart for the purpose. The
first halliday was hereI saw a big room
full of women in such ticklish condition
that all their voices were raised to crescend(
pitch ard all were talking at once or laugh
ing as if they were delirious. l asked the
hotel proprietor whether it was French
opera troupe and he was scandaliZed an(
said that they were the finest ladies in the
country, and that none other stopped at hi
house. They have just come from the
bath, said he, land it is the custom amons
our ladies to take a little light stimulan
after leaving the water to restore the
tone" l found he was quite correct. The!
were mainly married women whom it would
be unjust to characterize as anything ey
cept respectable in other respects. But hi
did not go far enough. for [ found before
had been here four days that they not onl!
restore the tone" but the liquor affect
them so that they hurry to their bedrooms
and sleep off the effects of it. ready to dres
and reappear for dinner.-Clara Belle il
Cincinnati Enquirer.
| FUEEHG1LMENT.
He stood beneath her window
And beneath the lick shade
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